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I Fixed My Mac App With Fable 5 Before It Got Banned
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This week, I tested Fable 5 vs. Codex 5.5 on a real app feature. Now Fable 5 is banned by the US Government. I didn't expect this... Here's a sneak peak of my upcoming model comparison video with Fable 5 and GPT 5.5. Watch: I Fixed My Mac App With Fable 5 Before It Got Banned Fable 5 isn't perfect, but it's the best Claude model I have used.
I would say try it out, but you can't. Sorry! Which model created each screen?Model A Model B Watch my sneak peak to find out. What app are you working on this weekend? I'll have a new TestFlight beta of Super Easy Timer with the new onboarding experience tomorrow. Talk soon, Paul Solt P.S. Need help? Book an App Strategy Session and I'll help you plan how to market your iPhone app (and focus on what matters first). |
Super Easy Apps Weekly - Paul Solt
Join 6,727+ iOS/macOS developers using Codex and Claude to build and ship apps. Expect practical tutorials, repeatable workflows, and hard-earned lessons from 7 shipped apps and time at Apple, Microsoft, and GoPro.
Hey Reader,This week, I started a manager agent before bed, and it worked all night. When I woke up, it had broken a working feature, added weird workarounds for a problem that wasn't real, and dropped the feature. The feature? Distinguishing between a PiP video close vs. pause in my timer app on iPhone. We had a random 250ms delay to differentiate the two, and removing it broke some behavior. Except the delay wasn't necessary, and the feature was fine before the agents touched it. This kept...
Hey Reader,You can now use Super Easy Timer on iPhone. I had my agents use the Mac app as a reference and extracted a shared library of code using the Swift Package Manager (SPM). This is the brains of my timer app, and it's shared across iOS and macOS. The MVP worked last week, but it wasn't reliable until I added AlarmKit. That allows timers to persist even if the app is force-quit or the iPhone is locked (just like Apple's system alarms). That was my biggest blocker, and now that it's in,...
Hey Reader,My Mac app made $7,900+ over 8 years as a paid app. It made $0 in the three months I gave it away for free. Learn why I made it free, what happened, and what I'm charging next. Read the entire article here. I overhauled the UI this year, localized the App Store Page to 46 languages, and then Apple began featuring it on the front page. Super Easy Timer on the front page (Best New Apps and Updates) Did you know? You can nominate your app to Apple for feature consideration. The Free...