Mobile & Apple blogs

John Gruber writes about Apple, technology, and design, and created the Markdown format.

Top post: How to write a README file for GitHub (Markdown tips)

The WebKit project's blog from Apple and contributors covers the browser engine behind Safari, including features, tracking prevention, and JIT work.

Top post: WebKit Feature Status

Andy Hertzfeld and collaborators tell first-person stories from the development of the original Apple Macintosh in the early 1980s.

Top post: -2000 Lines of Code

Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper and Overcast, writes about Apple, app stores, laptops, and software development.

Top post: The best laptop ever made

Google's Project Zero security team publishes detailed write-ups of vulnerabilities and exploits, mainly in iOS, Android, and browsers.

Top post: A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution

Horace Dediu analyzes technology markets, Apple, mobile, and disruption theory, using data on company performance and industry shifts.

Top post: Apple now strives to design and build products that last as long as possible

Google's Android team announces platform changes, developer policies, and security features, including developer verification and sideloading rules.

Top post: Google adds 24-hour wait and mandatory reboot to Android sideloading flow

The official blog of the Swift programming language project, covering releases, open-source work, platform support and language interoperability.

Top post: Swift 3.0 Preview 1 Snapshots

Howard Oakley writes about how macOS works, covering Apple Silicon, virtualisation, security checks, Time Machine and system behaviour.

Top post: Virtualisation on Apple Silicon

Monday Note is Jean-Louis Gassée's weekly commentary on technology and business, especially Apple, with experience from Apple and BeOS.

Top post: The ARPUs of the Big Four Dwarf Everybody Else

Google's official blog for Android developers, covering Android Studio releases, API changes, security guidance, and platform features.

Top post: Android Developers Blog: Exercising Our Remote Application Removal Feature

The Asahi Linux project, which ports Linux to Apple Silicon Macs, posts progress reports, GPU reverse engineering notes, and install information.

Top post: About

Apple's machine learning team publishes research papers and technical write-ups on on-device models, foundation models, speech, and reasoning.

Top post: Deploying Transformers on the Apple Neural Engine

News and how-to site with tips, tweaks, and troubleshooting guides for Mac, iPhone, and iPad users.

Top post: Enable key repeat mac os x lion

Michael Tsai is a Mac and iOS developer who collects and comments on news and developer opinion about Apple platforms.

Top post: Mail Data Loss in macOS 10.15

Jason Snell and Dan Moren's site covering Apple, with tips, analysis, and charts of Apple's financial results.

Top post: Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for Sudo (2020)

Brent Simmons, developer of NetNewsWire, writes about Mac and iOS development, indie apps, and Swift.

Top post: Why NetNewsWire Is Fast

Official WhatsApp company blog with product announcements, engineering notes on server scaling, and statements on ads and encryption.

Top post: Why we don't sell ads (2012)

Dustin Curtis, a designer and founder of the Svbtle blogging network, writes about design, Apple, and tech culture.

Top post: Apple Card Disabled My iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID Accounts

Apple's security team publishes technical write-ups on Private Cloud Compute, iMessage encryption, memory safety, and its security research program.

Top post: Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud

Blog of the iA design studio, which makes the iA Writer and iA Presenter apps, writing on typography, writing tools, and app business.

Top post: IA Writer: The Benchmark of Markdown Writing Apps

Mike Ash writes technical posts on Apple platforms, covering Objective-C internals, ARM64, and low-level performance.

Top post: ARM64 and You

Jeff Johnson is a Mac developer who writes about macOS behavior, Apple's privacy and security decisions, and software bugs.

Top post: Catalina is checking notarization of unsigned executables

The Loop is an Apple news and commentary site founded by Jim Dalrymple, covering Apple products, apps, and company decisions.

Top post: Apple responds to EPEAT concerns

VMware's official blogs, covering virtualization products such as Workstation and Fusion, along with announcements and technical guidance.

Top post: VMware Fusion and Workstation Are Now Free for All Users

Paul Stamatiou, a designer and startup founder, writes about technology, design, photography, and gadgets.

Top post: Crash Course: Design for Startups

Matt Gemmell, a Scottish former Mac and iOS developer turned novelist, writes about writing, API design, and app development.

Top post: What have you tried? (2008)

Prototypr is a Medium publication where designers and developers write about UI design, product design, and interface history.

Top post: Rediscovering Apple's Human Interface Guidelines from 1987

Brett Terpstra writes about Mac productivity tools, command line utilities, keyboard tricks, and note-taking, including the nvALT app.

Top post: nvAlt: fork of Notational Velocity with MutliMarkdown

NSHipster, started by Mattt, is a journal of lesser-known details of Objective-C, Swift and Cocoa development on Apple platforms.

Top post: Network Link Conditioner

Spotify's official newsroom publishes company announcements on products, policies, AI features, and its disputes with Apple.

Top post: Spotify introduce personalised AI DJ

Google's official blog for Maps, Earth, and Street View, announcing new features, data updates, and mapping projects.

Top post: Google Lat Long: Never ass-ume

The official Skype blog, which posted product announcements, Linux and web client releases, outage notes and architecture updates.

Top post: Skype for Linux Alpha and Calling on Chrome and Chromebooks

Microsoft's official Windows team blog, with announcements about Windows 8, Windows Phone, Internet Explorer and the Windows logo.

Top post: Redesigning the Windows Logo

The blog of Simple, a US online bank that launched as BankSimple, with product announcements for apps, goals and analytics.

Top post: Faq

The official Instagram blog announces product features such as Stories, Direct, Hyperlapse and feed changes, as well as policy updates.

Top post: Instagram's official response

Bjango is a Mac and iOS design studio whose site has articles on colour management, external displays and design tool memory use.

Top post: IStat Menus 4

The postmarketOS project blog covers releases and progress on a Linux distribution for phones and other devices, based on Alpine Linux.

Top post: Tiny Steps Towards Liberating Bootloaders and Modem Firmware of MediaTek Phones

Lukas Mathis writes about user interface design, software usability, and occasionally game companies like Nintendo.

Top post: Oberon (2009)

MG Siegler, a tech writer and investor, posts opinionated commentary on Apple, Google, Android and startups.

Top post: Chrome For Android: The Browser For The 1%

Engineering and product blog of Parse, a mobile backend platform acquired by Facebook and later shut down, with open-sourced Parse Server.

Top post: How We Moved Our API from Ruby to Go and Saved Our Sanity

512 Pixels is Stephen Hackett's blog on Apple history, Mac design, macOS wallpapers and Apple news.

Top post: Every default macOS wallpaper

The Thunderbird team announces updates on the open source email client, its Android app, finances and annual reports.

Top post: Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report

Drew Crawford writes long technical essays on mobile performance, self-hosted email, software practice and other programming topics.

Top post: Why mobile web apps are slow

Justin O'Beirne, a cartographer, writes detailed visual comparisons of Google Maps and Apple Maps and tracks Apple's new map rollout.

Top post: Google Maps' Moat

Fritz AI's Heartbeat publication covers deep learning, mobile machine learning, and Apple hardware, written by a mix of contributors.

Top post: The New iPad Pro’s Lidar Sensor Changes the Augmented Reality Game

iFixit's blog publishes teardowns and repairability analyses of consumer electronics, especially Apple products.

Top post: Inside Apple’s New Audio Adapter

Jonathan Zdziarski, an iOS forensics and security researcher, writes about Apple device backdoors, surveillance mechanisms, privacy, and jailbreaking.

Top post: Apple, FBI, and the Burden of Forensic Methodology

The CyanogenMod blog covered the community Android operating system and its related company, with release news, security features and domain issues.

Top post: A fork in the road

Nick Heer writes Pixel Envy, covering web bloat, software quality, Apple and Google design, privacy, and user interface changes.

Top post: The Window Chrome of Our Discontent

Square's engineering team writes about mobile development, open source tools, databases and hiring practices at the payments company.

Top post: Shift – Safe and easy online MySQL migrations (a new Square open source project)

David Smith, an independent iOS developer behind many apps including Widgetsmith, writes about app development, Apple Watch and iOS adoption statistics.

Top post: iOS Version Stats

Big Nerd Ranch, a development consultancy and training company, blogs on iOS, Android, Elixir, Ruby and other programming topics.

Top post: Building an iOS App in Rust

Daniel Eran Dilger writes long analyses of Apple, its competitors, and platform strategy, including Flash, Cocoa, and mobile markets.

Top post: Cocoa and the Death of Yellow Box and Rhapsody (1997)

Nokia's official blog covering its phones, Lumia and Symbian, Windows Phone, maps, and corporate announcements.

Top post: Nokia: An apology is due [for faked Lumia PureView ad]

Publication and book publisher for iOS and macOS developers, covering Objective-C, Swift, and SwiftUI.

Top post: Show HN: Advanced Swift

Craig Hockenberry, a Mac and iOS developer at Iconfactory, writes about Apple platforms, Twitter's history, and server traffic problems.

Top post: What happens when DNS in China is poisoned and pointed at your server

Duolingo's company blog covers its language-learning product, AI features, engineering migrations, cloud costs, and company culture.

Top post: Rewriting Duolingo's engine in Scala

Xamarin's company blog announces products and news for building mobile apps in C# and .NET, including its Microsoft partnership.

Top post: Android Ported to C# (2012)

Flurry's company blog published mobile app analytics data on app usage, revenue, and platform trends until its analytics service shut down.

Top post: 96% iOS 14.5 App Tracking Opt-Out Rate