Reviewers

Lily Karras has spent the last seven years writing about consumer apps. She is interested in the apps that quietly stay on your phone for years, not the ones that go viral and get deleted in a month. She does her own testing, uses the apps daily for at least a few weeks before writing, and has no interest in the affiliate-link races that dominate this corner of the internet.

James Hoang reviews apps from the perspective of "would I actually keep using this in three months?" His background is software product — he spent four years as a PM at a small startup before turning to writing. He brings a builder's skepticism to feature lists and a long memory for promised-but-undelivered roadmaps.