My name is Philipp and you are reading Creativerly, the internet corner where I unpack my musings, curate and write about noteworthy apps and software, and explore the latest trends in design and tech.

Hey and welcome to Creativerly 333 👋

Well, I want to say thank you to everyone who took their time and sent me some heartwarming messages after last week's issue of Creativerly. I deeply appreciate it, and I am incredibly thankful. I am still having a hard time dealing with everything, but I returned to my routine which feels already great. As I am still feeling super slow at the moment, it felt great finishing up this newsletter, as well as continuing with a bunch of posts which I have in my backlog and are almost ready to publish.

I have a lot of stuff in the pipeline, and while working on that helps me getting distracted from the personal stuff I am dealing with, I do not want to fully disregard those issues but rather tackle them one step after the other.

upload in progress, 0
The best new app for newsletter reading.

Meco is a distraction-free space for reading newsletters outside the inbox. The app is completely free and packed with features designed to supercharge your learnings from your favourite writers. Become a more productive reader and cut out the noise with Meco - try the app today!
Get started for free

This is an affiliate link to support Creativerly. If you are interested in putting your tool, product, or resource in front of over 2000 creative minds, consider advertising in Creativerly and book a sponsor or classified ad spot. Find all the important information at creativerly.com/advertise.

Fresh Updates & News

Perplexity launches its AI-powered web browser →

Back in February 2025, I wrote about that Perplexity is working on its own AI-powered web browser called Comet, and how it is planning to reinvent the broweser as well as how we are interacting with the world wide web. Fast-forward to today, and it has been launched. For now, Comet is only available to subscribers of Perplexity's $200-per-month Max plan. The headline feature of Comet is Perplexity's AI search engine, putting its core product, which is AI generated summaries of search results, front and center. Besides that, users can access Comet Assistant, an AI agent from Perplexity living in the web browser, and aims to automate routine tasks.

Comet is entering a competitive and crowded area, since most of browser market is split between Google Chrome and Safari, and on top of that, The Browser Company recently launched its new AI-powered browser Dia (after abandoning its beloved Arc browser), and OpenAI is also about to release a new web browser in the coming weeks.

The founding team of June is joining Amplitude →

June, the popular solution for product analytics for customer success and account management, just announced that after five years of building its app to understand how people use products, they will wind down operations, as the founding team of June will be joining Amplitude (a leading digital analytics platform). As part of this, June's standalone product will shut down on August 8, 2025. This means, June users have 30 days (from the day of the announcement) to export their data and migrate to Amplitude, as June provides an export tool to download the data, as well as a migration guide.

Mastodon readies its app for long-awaited Quote Posts feature →

It seems like one of the most anticipated features for Mastodon is coming soon, as the non-profit is readying an update that will ship this feature. This has been an ongoing discussion, since for example on Twitter this kind of feature led to a culture of "dunking", where users would deride another person by quoting a post and responding with snark or insulting humor as Sarah Perez states in her TechCrunch piece about this Mastodon update. This is also the reason why Mastodon has been hesitant with the implementation of this feature. Users of third party clients like Ivory have access to this feature for a while already, though.

Therefore, Mastodon is planning to implement the feature in a way that will limit its ability to be used for hate and harassment.

Mental Wealth

❯ I Deleted My Second Brain – “Two nights ago, I deleted everything. Every note in Obsidian. Every half-baked atomic thought, every Zettelkasten slip, every carefully linked concept map. I deleted every Apple Note I’d synced since 2015. Every quote I’d ever highlighted. Every to-do list from every productivity system I’d ever borrowed, broken, or bastardized. Gone. Erased in seconds.”

❯ YAMA: You’re Always Missing Out (And That’s A-Okay) – “Our ancestors faced relatively few choices in their daily lives, especially when it comes to entertainment options. Today, we have access to an endless buffet of content and social events. Each year, over 50,000 concerts take place in the United States. More than 140 artists performed at Coachella alone. Netflix offers more than 5,000 films and 2,500 series. Meanwhile, U.S. publishers release approximately 275,000 new titles annually.”

❯ AI Killed My Job: Tech workers – ““What will AI mean for jobs?” may be the single most-asked question about the technology category that dominates Silicon Valley, pop culture, and our politics. Fears that AI will put us out of work routinely top opinion polls. Bosses are citing AI as the reason they’re slashing human staff. Firms like Duolingo and Klarna have laid off workers in loudly touted shifts to AI, and DOGE used its “AI-first” strategy to justify firing federal workers.”

❯ You’re still you when everything changes – “Sometimes, life presses pause on the things we thought defined us. Maybe it’s a job that ends, a role that shifts, or a routine that disappears. Suddenly, the labels we’ve worn—worker, manager, creator—don’t fit quite the same way. It’s easy to wonder: what’s left when those things are gone?”

Do not miss out on this ...

❉ Experience the ultimate vector editor for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. Get started with Amadine*.

❉ Think tasks, not apps. Setapp* is you one-stop subscription to solving every task on Mac and iPhone.

❉ Fathom is cookie-free, GDPR compliant, privacy-first website analytics software. Get $10 off your first invoice and a 7-day free trial when you use this link*.

These are paid promotions or affiliate links to support Creativerly. If you are interested in putting your tool, product, or resource in front of over 2000 creative minds, consider advertising in Creativerly and book a sponsor or classified ad spot. Find all the important information at creativerly.com/advertise.

Appendix

❯ ICYMI

Are you on the hunt for simple, lightweight, and easy-to-use apps to quickly edit, convert, resize, or optimize your images? Then you should check out Part 5 of my Tiny macOS utility apps I love series, in which I gathered three apps that specifically focus on letting users edit and convert images with ease.

❯ Quick Bits

Till next time! 👋‌‌‌‌

Support: Do you have a friend who is looking for inspiration, news about design, and useful tools and apps? Forward this newsletter to a friend or simply share this issue and show some support. You can also show some love by simply clicking the button down below and keep this newsletter a sustainable side-project by buying me a coffee. ☕️ 🥰

Some of the links in my newsletter and my blog posts are affiliate links. Those links are marked by an asterisk. If you buy something through the link, the product will not cost you anything more, but I will receive a small commission which not only supports Creativerly and my work but also helps me to keep this publication a sustainable side-project.

Creativerly is proudly published with Ghost*.