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Jul 27, 2026 55 min

Open Minis Turns iOS into an Agent Playground

from AppStories Hosted by Federico Viticci, John Voorhees

This week on AppStories, John and Federico discuss the changing face of the AI-fueled App Store and questionable changes made to TestFlight before going into the nerdiest details of Open Minis, an iOS app that brings desktop-class agents onto the iPhone and iPad. Then on AppStories+, Federico and John explore Cmux, a Mac terminal app with an iPhone and iPad beta that makes it easier than ever to sync coding projects across devices. Also available on YouTube here. Subscribe here. We deliver AppStories+ to subscribers with bonus content, ad-free, and at a high bitrate early every week. To learn more about an AppStories+ subscription, visit our Plans page, or read the AppStories+ FAQ. This episode is sponsored by: Inoreader – Build Your Own Newsfeed and Cut Through the Noise Claude – For problems worth solving — get started with Claude today. Scribe – AI-powered workflow documentation. Get your first month free. Links and Show Notes App Store Chaos App Store Chaos See also: A.I. ‘Vibecoded’ Apps Are Flooding Apple’s App Store TestFlight Woes TestFlight: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back See also: Apple just improved TestFlight for users with a lot of beta apps Open Minis Open Minis Is the iOS Agent I Wish Siri AI Could Be AppStories+ Post-Show: Cmux Founder’s Edition ($30) includes iOS beta CLIProxyAPI Leave Feedback for John and Federico AppStories Feedback Form Follow us on Mastodon AppStories Federico Viticci John Voorhees Follow us on Bluesky AppStories MacStories Federico Viticci John Voorhees Join Annual $50/yearJoin Monthly $5/month

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Open Minis Turns iOS into an Agent Playground

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  1. 0:00 App Store Chaos
  2. 8:12 Sponsor: Inoreader
  3. 10:01 TestFlight's Very Bad Update
  4. 18:55 Sponsor: Claude
  5. 21:51 Open Minis
  6. 40:49 Sponsor: Scribe
  7. 43:31 The Power of the Mac, Brought to the iPhone

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