Indie App Spotlight: Sofa keeps you organized during your downtime
Welcome toIndie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If youre a developer and would like your app featured, getin contact.Sofa is an easy-to-use app that helps keep you organized when you dont have something to do. Everyone has some level of downtime, but often dont plan things out. Social media doomscrolling is often an option, but Sofa helps you plan out other leisure activities. In its new update, it also added a built-in podcast player.Top featuresSofa lets you organize apps, books, audiobooks, movies, TV shows, podcasts, music albums, video games, and more. Its a one stop shop. The app has a very large catalog, so when you search for something more than likely it knows what it is. Once you search it, you can either add it to the pile, which is a general place for anything youd like to go through or add it to a tailored list that you curate.You can add your own custom categories for things beyond what I named prior. If you want an articles list, for example, you can choose to make one.Theres also a logbook, allowing you to keep track of every game, podcast, or show youve explored thus far. It serves as a great activity tracker.And, as mentioned earlier, the new Sofa 4.2 update now has a podcast player, so you dont even need to exit the app if youre a huge podcast enjoyer. The podcast player has show notes, and also supports CarPlay.Sofa is available for free on the App Store with all of the features mentioned above. Itll require an iPhone or iPad running iOS 17.6 or later, a Mac running macOS 14.6 Sonoma or later, or an Apple Vision Pro running visionOS 2.4 or later.For even more features, you can check out Super Sofa. Its their premium offering, which adds features like smart lists, deeper customization, enhanced podcast controls, pinned lists, sticky notes, and more. Its available for $3.99/month or $29.99/year. Smart lists are automatically populating lists based on filter criteria you can set up while creating a list.Sofa is plenty capable even if you never subscribe. It offers unlimited groups/lists, the ability to add virtually anything to the app, iCloud syncing, custom categories, and the brand-new podcast player even on the free tier.My favorite Apple accessories on Amazon:Follow Michael:X/Twitter,Bluesky,InstagramAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel