3AW Afternoons: useless apps

There’s an app for everything these days, so how is easy is it to make an app? Pickr joins 3AW to explain.

There’s an app for everything these days, so how is easy is it to make an app? Pickr joins 3AW to explain.

Open up your phone and glance at the apps found on it. While some are likely very useful, there’s a good chance you have a bunch you’re not sure about.

Apps for restaurant menus. Apps for different websites. Apps that feel like you downloaded them once and never used them again. There sure are a lot of apps out there.

The reason might be that an app maker has suddenly discovered that an app hasn’t ever been created before, or it could even be because it’s easier than ever to make an app.

How does it work, and is AI helping developers craft and built and release an app much more quickly these days? Pickr’s editor Leigh Stark joins 3AW Afternoons with Tony Moclair on July 14, 2026 to explain. Hear it without an app in the segment below.