Open Minis Turns iOS into an Agent Playground

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 (youtube.com/watch?v=inBmVMJR3DM&list=PLDSp…).

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Links and Show Notes
App Store Chaos
• App Store Chaos (macstories.net/linked/app-store-chaos)

• See also: A.I. ‘Vibecoded’ Apps Are Flooding Apple’s App Store (nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/apple-app-st…)

TestFlight Woes
• TestFlight: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (macstories.net/stories/testflight-one-step-for…)

• See also: Apple just improved TestFlight for users with a lot of beta apps (9to5mac.com/2026/07/21/apple-just-improved-tes…)

Open Minis
• Open Minis Is the iOS Agent I Wish Siri AI Could Be (macstories.net/reviews/open-minis-is-the-ios-a…)

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• Cmux (cmux.com)
• Founder’s Edition ($30) includes iOS beta (github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux#founders-edition)

• github.com/router-for-me/CLIProxyAPI

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