Guess what: Sentry acquired @emergetools.bsky.social! 🔥 This is a major win for mobile developers: we're integrating their tools and expertise to help devs build amazing mobile experiences with smaller apps, fewer bugs, and happier users. See more 👉 blog.sentry.io/emerge-tools...

Emerge Tools is joining @sentry.io @jshchnz.bsky.social and @sond813.bsky.social's thoughts below👇

Ok, time for a bit of a rabbit hole ...or should we say... Deere hole 🤦 🧵 Looking through the @johndeeretractor.bsky.social apps. (Pepe Silvia warning...iykyk) p.s. l10n = localization

Spring has sprung! 🌸 Our Bits & Bytes newsletter this month features @deepdishswift.com, our new Reaper and Size Analysis insights, Custom Precision for Android, @wired.com , and more 👇

Only T-2 days until @DeepDishSwift! Let's take a look at the unofficial deep dish app by @mortengregersen 😎🍕

We heard that Meta released a new editing app yesterday 👀 Compared to other top editing apps, Edits is actually much smaller in size

🚨 Attention RN apps!! We recently dropped a new Insight for size analysis that tells you how much size you could save by stripping Hermes bytecode files 🤩 This is our first RN-specific insight, now available for both Android & iOS 🎉

@albertheijn.bsky.social cut a new release of their iOS app and this bundle duplication looks all too familiar 🥲

Let's talk about how there's almost 100 MB of bloat in the @aboutKP iOS app that does absolutely nothing for the user 🫣

Here's what the past 60 days of top charts looks like from the app store 👀 @DairyQueen and @jimmyjohns being top 5 though?? absolutely unprecedented

🚨 An exciting update for React Native apps! We improved our jsbundle parsing and now show you more detail in our size analysis treemap for RN apps 🤩

Couldn't make it to Tokyo last week for Try! Swift Conference? That's okay, because we have co-founder Noah's talk for you right here 😎👇 youtube.com/watch?v=WIckr3HKtSU

ask and you shall receive 🫡 🧵 figuring out why @telepass is almost half a GB

Another day, another thread about Eufy's app size 🤐 It just keeps getting bigger!

For the past few years, Emerge has tracked thousands of mobile apps to understand their size changes. We were curious about trends in .mlmodel files, so we pulled some data and this is what we found 🧵

Which app has 101 MB of bloat from duplicating the same 20 MB bundle 5 different times?

If there's code in your app that hasn't been used in the previous 10 versions, then it's probably safe to delete ❌

ET CON 2026 - Mobile is among us 👽 More details to come 🛰️

Speaking of OpenAI and generating images... 👇

In today's breaking news! It seems that Deep Clean went through a deep clean 🤪🧹🧼 (sorry I had to)

What app has added the most number of dynamic frameworks in the last 3 months? Hint: it's an old friend of ours 🤖

When we tweet about RN apps that have room for improvement, we often used the General Motor apps as an example WELL NO MORE 👏👏👏 🧵 How General Motors shrunk app size by ~70%

Everyone say hello to our new Web Tracker! 🌐

Want a FREE ticket to Deep Dish Swift 2025? 🍕🍕🍕 We're giving one away! Here's how to enter: 1️⃣ follow us on bluesky 2️⃣ repost this 3️⃣ reply with a 🍕 emoji

TikTok has been using Lynx in their iOS & Android app since at least 2022 1st pic is iOS v23.2 (Feb ‘22) w/ `lynx_core.js` & `fe_{feature}_lynx.zip` 2nd pic is Android v23.5.3 (Mar ‘22) that also has lynx_core + lynx packages. 3rd pic shows lynx .so libs

Let's break down another banking app! This time it'll be the UCO mBanking Plus iOS app

We recently saw @BleacherReport released a new app version that went down in size by 79.4 MB 👀🏀

Doesn't look like anyone got the answer right— the app is Local by @toasttab.bsky.social! 🍞 The app has an app clip that you may have used before if you were able to pay the bill directly from your phone, which I personally love bsky.app/profile/emer...

Today we're bringing back our Guess the App series!! Let's see if you can guess this one 🕵️

Here's another banking app analysis, this time for @n26 at 488 MB 😗

Reaper update 👀

New case study alert! 🚨 Read about how @Tinder cut their iOS app's localization size by 95% using Emerge SmallStrings 👇 medium.com/tinder/how-t...

Our February newsletter is out! Featuring our Emerge CLI, Hacker News in the App Store, and blog posts from @brycebostwick.bsky.social, Scott Knight, and our very own Trevor Elkins 🎉

How to integrate Emerge's iOS Snapshots with Github Actions 👇

Let's find out if @Raiffeisen_Ru is a few steps ahead of other banking apps! 🔍

Anyone remember defragging a hard drive? Did you know there’s a (conceptually) similar optimization you can do to iOS apps?

Another bloated banking app? In this economy? Let's take a look at why the Weyay iOS app is 448 MB 👇

my boss told me to post something related to valentine's day so I uploaded a build and found this video in the Duet dating app

Snapshots update! iOS snapshots now supports overriding `NSDate` and `Date` to a constant value to avoid flaky snapshots 📸

We noticed something verrrrryyyy interesting today 👀 @ouraring cut a new release of their app, and it decreased by 202 MB since the previous version

How to integrate Emerge's Android Snapshots with Github Actions 👇

What a way to end the week— our Hacker News app is now available on the app store! 🎉

Got a few requests for this! Let's break down the @binance crypto app 💰

New case study alert 🚨 Read about how our friends at Lightricks / Facetune continuously manage and optimize their iOS app size using Emerge Size Analysis and Reaper 👀

The Amazon fireTV iOS app went from native → React Native 👀 App size decreased from 65 MB → 45 MB + it could easily cut another 15 MB ✂️

Happy Tuesday! How does OpenAI think about testing their mobile apps? 🤔 We sat down with them to chat about previews, snapshot testing, and best practices for catching UI bugs early

Introducing: build distribution PR comments 🛰️ You can now enable comments for all of your PRs!

This January felt like 8 years, but it's finally over 😅 Our bits & bytes newsletter this month features some new product improvements, free build distribution, and blog posts from @duolingoverde.bsky.social , @arxiv, and more!

We cut a new release for Android Snapshots 1.3 🤖🥳 Here's what's 🆕!

Analysis: Including SF-Pro (system font) 20x in your iOS app is not optimal - cc cvspharmacy 🧐 There’s got to be a good CVS receipt joke somewhere here, but we don't have it yet 🤔