Preferably lesser known but game-changing apps that are able to be bought one-time and put all others to shame.
To help clarify your thinking, which apps have produced such an outrageous level of value (regardless of one-time cost) to the extent you believe it should be #1 in its category, not necessarily #1 app ever.
We’ll do a seperate thread for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, etc but let’s stick to iOS for this one. Thanks Lemmings!
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Bruh…too soon 😭
For real. At least we have Voyager!
Memmy has more than filled the gap pour moi
Vinegar. It’s a safari extension that changes the YT player into the stock iPhone one and skips ads. Well worth the one time purchase!
Omg! I’m downloading this now. I already use YouTube via safari instead of the YouTube app.
Just bought it too! Thanks for the recommendation! I got the bundle with baking soda, have you used that as well?
What the fuck craig
My app glitched. Kept saying my comment failed to post
sponsor block is a great addition to vinegar as well
Omg! I’m downloading this now. I already use YouTube via safari instead of the YouTube app.
Just bought it too! Thanks for the recommendation! I got the bundle with baking soda, have you used that as well?
Yeah I’ve tried baking soda out. It’s handy but I seem to just stick to YT so use vinegar more. Absolutely brilliant apps
Just bought it too! Thanks for the recommendation! I got the bundle with baking soda, have you used that as well?
Just bought it too! Thanks for the recommendation! I got the bundle with baking soda, have you used that as well?
Paprika. It downloads saves and organizes recipes from just about any website, bypassing annoying ad floaters and, magically, paywalls. I use it constantly. It’s a one time purchase for all your devices. Does shopping lists too, if that’s your thing.
Another recipe app I recommend is Mela.
RecipeBox is another good one that has a recipe search function and a grocery list function that connects to your recipes and populates what you need directly from the recipe itself.
Sounds like a recipe for a genius and useful app
Seek by iNaturalist
The app uses AI to identify the species of plants, animals, insects and fungi. In video mode you scan around something you want to ID as the AI narrows it down to the species. Then you can take a pic. The app keeps track of each unique species you’ve found (along with your photo of it). There’s also badges and achievements for identifying different numbers of species, if you want to gamify your nature sightseeing.
It’s basically real life Pokémon. Oh and it’s completely free.
Sounds great, have just downloaded. Does it outperform the recognition of iPhone photos for plants etc?
Iirc the only main downside to all these apps is that you get a single answer, when it’s usually more complex than that.
Seek/iNaturalist are great. I prefer the report style of iNaturalist and how it gives me a list of options, which I can use to try and narrow it down.
E.g. if I take a pic of a flower that looks like a dandelion, it could be a common dandelion, or hawkweed, or burnweed… and of those there are a dozen sub species. Knowing which one is native is really important.
Tldr yes
The original Angry Birds still holds up perfectly imo
I bought the original on my iPhone 4 and still have it in my purchase history, but when I download it on my iPad today it’s full if ads and limited lives….
What am I doing wrong?
Edit: it’s called Angry Birds Classic now if that makes a difference
Such a classic. 'Member Papi-ball or whatever?
My wife and I have subscribed for years now because it literally never fails to sync and is easy to use. We have a ton of lists including grocery, hardware, trips, camping, and so on. It’s also our meal planner and recipe library.
Gotta subscribe though, don’t you?
No idea. I don’t remember what you get without their sub.
Kiwix: Download Wikipedia for offline reading.
Glorious, love this app. All of Wikipedia on ur phone
VoiceDream and SpeechCentral are amazing text to speech apps that turn your documents (PDF, txt, ePub, Mobi, AZW3 into audiobooks that let you read by highlighting and adjusting the speed etc.
I don’t know if VoiceDream can still be bought on iOS but I know SpeechCentral is almost as good and it can be bought one-time.
This community might be a better place for this question.
This is a broader audience tho. And I’d like to do a series going through the respective categories so I must respectfully disagree although I appreciate your effort to help find a more granular audience. I think this is right where the post needs to be but I thank you for your efforts.
Unfortunately, that community is filled with anything but Apple enthusiasts…
I think if you really are someone who really uses Apple stuff to the extent its basically your ecosystem, you should be able to see some of the absurdities or sometimes the anti-user-friendly quirks that should be corrected.
For example, HomePod should have bluetooth in a addition to AirPlay. Fight me ;)
I will not, sir. I agree with you. Although I get why they don’t, at least on the big HomePods. Bluetooth audio quality sucks for such a nice speaker array.
They broke my fucking heart, lol. I was so ready to kick my Echo Dot to the curb but now I just use it as a glorified bluetooth speaker (What HomePod was supposed to be). There goes $150 I’m never getting back :(
I only bought HomePods but I’m fully Apple as far as devices and any non-Apple devices have apps that allow them to Airplay so the only use case where Bluetooth would be helpful is for guests. I haven’t had a single one that needed to do that, though, that also didn’t have an iPhone.
If the next revision adds BT, it would be perfect.
Agreed. I believe they will see the light. Just like MagSafe
Mmmm… MagSafe ❤️
I am so glad it exists for phones now too.
I agree with you.
YNAB - it’s subscription based but is the best budgeting app I’ve found. Keeps me honest with my money, and when I was married was amazing for keeping us synced on our shared spending budgets.
Also check out MoneyStats, its like a one-time payment complete forecasting app like Kualto/Dollarbird but way better. No subscription and it syncs using your iCloud but you can also manually export all the data.
I’ve got three.
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For those that like reading articles the built in news app is actually quite good and even has daily crosswords with more puzzles to follow. I used up the free trial and went to paid because I liked the app so much.
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Less of an unknown, but if you like OSRS the mobile app is actually pretty great and since OSRS could run on a potato it doesn’t lag at all.
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For people wanting to learn Asian languages the hello apps are really good. I’ve been using HelloChinese for awhile now and it’s built and populated with native speakers. Duolingo is weird with its syntax for Asian languages so this one is much better imo.
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Memmy
The one I wrote myself to automate tasks at work. It has saved me hundreds of hours of tedium and makes my job so much easier. It only cost me a few weeks of learning (I am not a developer, just a tinkerer) to get it done. It lives happily on my phone and iPad and I use it every day.
You wanna tell us more? Kinda hard to act on this :/
Edit: I might do one on Shortcuts although that might be trickier given the lack of anonymity in “sharing” them since its iCloud and tied to your Apple account :/
Oops, I’m sorry - I should have mentioned that it’s not on the App Store. It is chock full of company proprietary documents, photos and sales formulae. I wrote it just for myself.
If you could elaborate maybe on some (if any) of the novel functioning or interesting bits about it that give folks a better jumping-off point to independantly investigate, that would be coo
I wrote it to automate my workflow - I’m in sales. I enter site details at the customer location and my app crunches the numbers to pre-fill all relevant documents (contract, financing, etc) in PDF form. I also use it as a presentation device to explain service and product details/specs using pictures, videos and PDF documents.
No more paper, no more fiddling around with calculator and rate-cards. I do a little data entry and basically my job is done.
- Pythonista. Great Python editor, REPL, and platform-specific libraries.
- Editorial. Same author, Markdown editor which can be scripted in Python. I routinely write al new features for it, like dice rollers, list renumbering, etc.
- Documents by Readdle. PDF & epub reading, file management, bunch of optional features.
- iCabMobile. Browser with a ton of ad-blocking, filters, good file management, I routinely use it as a private browser.
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