📱 Share your favorite apps! 📱 (non-gaming)

SunsetSnugglesSunsetSnuggles
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Wuzzup! 🐧

I'm verrrry behind on the app scene, okay...I didn't get my first SmartPhone until 2017! So I'd like to know, and I imagine others might enjoy/benefit, from peeps sharing their favorite apps of awesome saucery!

So what are some of the most impactful, coolest, or most-used apps in your back pocket? Let's share!

Please no game apps; I think that would be such a massive category that it deserves its own thread, should anyone care to post one. 🎮🕹

~ Sunset Snuggles

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  • BearBear

    When I get bored I use Tik ToK a lot and Friended.

  • CharlieBearCharlieBear Mod

    A friend from here introduced me to the webtoon app which is an app that features webcomics from independent artists. It’s really cool!

  • SunsetSnugglesSunsetSnuggles
    edited February 2023

    All free - I've never paid for an app in my life! 😄

    ✔️ Trello (organization / tasks)

    I am obsessed with lists and organization, and all I can say is Trello makes me very, very happy. 🤓

    📱 Google Voice (anonymous phone number)

    You can get a phone number for free, and receive calls, texts, and voicemails basically forwarded through your real number, without giving out such sensitive data. I love this for cuddling, as I am not usually comfortable giving out my number to anyone online. Now, I have a safe method to do so. 😊

    🌳 Habit Forest (habit tracker)

    If you're a visual person who likes cute things, try this simple little app where each habit grows a leaf into a tree, as you progress! 🍃

    ✉️ Slowly (global friends)

    Harkening back to old-fashioned letters, Slowly allows you to get in contact with people from all across the world, and your letters take the same amount of time to digitally arrive, as they would in the mail. Anticipation! I've met some lovely people from overseas, through here.

    🤟🏻 ASL Bloom (sign language instruction)

    I went through a college-level sign language course as a teenager, and obviously need to brush up on it, after so long. This app has been an excellent tool to do so, and I especially appreciate that it's silent and you learn strictly by visuals.

    ~ Sunset Snuggles

  • [Deleted User]Briceo0o (deleted user)

    Try Vezbi. Really cool communities with all real people. Very easy to make friends on there. You can download it in the App Store.

  • JohnR1972JohnR1972

    I use several health apps to help me maintain optimal health / performance. 3 of my favorites include…
    1) AutoSleep - sleep tracking
    2) Headspace - meditation
    3) Inside tracker - custom tailored health coaching (habits, exercise, nutrition, etc.) based on a panel of blood tests that you have performed prior to using the app. When I started using this app nearly 2 years ago I had a number of biomarkers in the red zone (including low HDL, high LDL, high triglycerides, and dangerously high HsCRP). Today all 42 blood biomarkers are in a healthy range according to my most recent blood panels.

  • GreatHornedOwlGreatHornedOwl

    CoPilotGPS is a navigation app that stores your selected map set (up to all of North America) internally, so it works even when yo have no cell phone signal.

    AllstaysLists virtually every campground in North America, described their facilities, and allows for reviews. It will place a call for you so you can ask questions and/or make a reservation. It will also send the precise co-ordinates to Google Maps, to help you get there.

    IBird Pro Is the best of the three birding apps on my phone. The other two are Sibley Birds and Audubon. It has roughly 10x the amount of information about each bird, and includes recordings of their songs and call. It has paintings of each species (male, female, and juvenile when there are differences), and also several photos of each species. PUniverse is a planetarium plus much more, for star gazing.

    Gas Buddy Lists fuel prices at all of the gas stations in your vicinity.

    There are really far too many to list. I have utilities that turn the phone into a magnifier, flashlight, compass, altimeter, level, or db meter. I have both simple and scientific calculators. Translate and Google Translate can translate either text or audible speech between almost any pair of languages. With the proper attachments. I can scan the OBD2 information from my vehicle, and track the temperature of what's cooking on my grill. When traveling, I can get a list of every TV and AM or FM station within range, as well as the type of programming that each radio station has. In addition to birds, have field guides to reptiles, insects, wildflowers, trees, and animal tracks.I have guides to selected state parks around the country, and several National Parks, forests, and recreation areas. I can see a map and other info for any NPS administered location. I can locate hiking trails in any particular location, and download trail maps that will use GPS to show me where on the trail I am.

    Essentially, there are apps for whatever it is that you might want to do. Just do a search.

  • Mike403Mike403

    Anyone who doesn't say "YouTube" is a liar. Btw, I already have a video game thread going.

  • ohnonotagainohnonotagain

    Ynab is easily one of my most used apps, it's expensive though, but really worth the price.

  • GreatHornedOwlGreatHornedOwl

    @Mike403 - I do have two web browsers, but I **absolutely **do not have YouTube on my phone.

  • mimtheplantmommimtheplantmom

    tictok and i love canva and instories i use them to make flyers and cute content

  • SunsetSnugglesSunsetSnuggles

    @GreatHornedOwl CoPilotGPS sounds awesome, thanks!

    @Mike403 I second @GreatHornedOwl - I don't have the YouTube app, either! :p

    @ohnonotagain I was on YNAB for the free trial and loved it! Then I switched over to Dave Ramsey's similar free app, EveryDollar, and it was just a somewhat simplified version. It did the job for me, though there were definitely some bugs and issues they hadn't thought of that I had to message them about, to no avail. I just couldn't justify spending money on YNAB. I say it's fundamentally against budgeting, to buy apps! snarky smirk

    ~ Sunset Snuggles

  • ohnonotagainohnonotagain

    @SunsetSnuggles I am one of the cheapest/most frugal people I know. No subscriptions (you can just find everything you want if you know where to look and have the know how), except for ynab. Started out with physical envelopes, went to a free app that offered the minimum, then met ynab4 8 years ago or so. Since then my net worth has gone up so much that the yearly subscription is well worth the price. I'm just looking for the next step right now, and unfortunately, I don't think I'll ever find what I'm looking for unless I program it myself. Though personalcapital (if that's what it is still called) might be worth using as well as ynab if it hasn't gone all to ads at this point.

  • SunsetSnugglesSunsetSnuggles

    @ohnonotagain That's awesome, congrats!! Are you doing investing, or just saving at this point (feel free to PM, if you'd rather)? I also checked out Mint, but was not a fan.

    ~ Sunset Snuggles

  • JoyfulHeartJoyfulHeart

    My favorite apps:

    • Appalachia
    • Apple Pie
    • Applause
    • Appetizers
    • Appreciation
  • SunsetSnugglesSunsetSnuggles

    @JoyfulHeart 😄

    ~ Sunset Snuggles

  • GreatHornedOwlGreatHornedOwl

    @SunsetSnuggles - I didn't mention that CoPilotGPS also sends out free map updates several times a year. Additionally, their maps even include unpaved roads, some of which are little more than a two track.

  • SunsetSnugglesSunsetSnuggles

    @GreatHornedOwl That's awesome. I've recently downloaded the Wyoming 511 app, which can tell you your exact latitude and longitude, even offline. I was able to send highway patrol and a tow truck to pull a van out of the mountains using it, on my way to Utah, a week or two ago. I believe there is a similar app for every state. It shows up-to-date road closures during winter, which is a big issue, here.

    ~ Sunset Snuggles

  • GreatHornedOwlGreatHornedOwl

    I just looked to make sure, but CoPilot can be set to display latitude and longitude for anyplace in North America. For an extra fee, it will also show current traffic conditions, if you have a cell phone signal. That's great in many metro areas, but I doubt if it would do anything for you.

    If I remember, it was priced at around $50, which is a whole lot less than buying a Garmin, or Rand McNally GPS.

    Now, if you will excuse me, while I was making sure that my memory was correct, and that it can display co-ordinates, it notified that there's a new map update to be downloaded.

  • stormydaycuddlestormydaycuddle Mod

    Spotify, Pandora, Audible, Masterclass, Speechify, Headspace and (I'm ashamed to admit) Insta.

  • TNNativeTNNative

    Oh, @SunsetSnuggles ASLBloom .... My foreign language in college was ASL. I need to look that app up.

  • wigglehugswigglehugs

    Shazam! It listens to a song and tells you who sings it & what its called! Super helpful if you don't have a pen & paper to write down a new song you like, and it keeps a list of the songs!

  • [Deleted User]ClubSamwiches (deleted user)
    edited February 2023

    Headspace for meditation
    Downdog for yoga
    AllTrails for hiking
    Instagram for memes
    DoorDash for food
    Target for shopping
    Bandsintown for concerts
    Reddit for everything else

    Edit for WAZE!! Best GPS app

  • android3665android3665

    @SunsetSnuggles Google Voice is a good trick that will allow me not to leave my real number to a pro for example

    Anyone should use that

  • SunsetSnugglesSunsetSnuggles

    Okay I know I am so behind getting on this bandwagon, but...

    🔍 Google Lens (object identifier)

    I'm sure there are many capabilities of this app that I don't even know about, but I used it extensively for identifying unknown objects while going through heirlooms, recently. You just point your camera at whatever you want to identify, and it finds those same objects on the internet so you can find out exactly what it is. I even identified a payphone token from a specific city from over 60 years ago! I didn't even know payphone tokens were a thing. 🫨

    ~ Sunset Snuggles

    🦄 Enthusiast 🏞 Travel Fiend 🐘 Animal Lover

    🎄 Merry Christmas to my homies! ☃️

  • interalia626interalia626
    edited December 2023

    @SunsetSnuggles cool story with the token 🪙

    I'm an Android user and would like to shout out the following apps:

    Before Launcher - Sleek, organized homescreen and filters non-urgent notifications so you can look them over at your convenience.

    YouTube Music - About the same music library as Spotify and the rest, but what's nice is if something isn't there you can hear the song off of a YouTube video if it's around in that form, or upload the mp3's to your personal library if you have them, and in both cases place them on playlists and everything just like you would songs in the platform's regular music library. *

    Pano Scrobbler - I'm a last.fm user and this app works for scrobbling my YouTube Music listening, and the "random" button is a fun silly thing to play with for a minute that isn't social media.

    Keep Notes - Just an outstandingly competent notes app. I'm still on Pixel 6 so don't know whether they've finally started shipping this with the phones like I presume iPhone does with their notes app.

    Dashlane - Password manager that gets the job done *

    Prana Breath - Guided breathing app. I just stick to the "Clear Mind" program because the others are more complicated than I care for. But it helps.

    Atmosphere: Binaural Therapy - I run the deep sleep when I go to bed and it helps, even though I'm hearing it from my phone speaker and not headphones as recommended.

    Kindle - It's heretical as a bibliophile, I know, but it's so nice to add "always having a book handy" to the list of things my smartphone is good for.

    Pocket - Save and read, tag, archive, etc. articles from around the web. I've been with this one since the old days when it was just Read it Later extension on Firefox.

    Whiteboard - I barely touch this one but it's nice on principle that an Android app comparable to Microsoft Paint is a thing.

    YouMail - Filters nuisance calls and transcribes voice mails to text so I don't have to listen to them. *

    Also +1 on Lens, Waze, Shazam, Google Voice

    Starred items above indicate apps I pay for. I read the above and know not everyone agrees with this, but sometimes the premium version functionality is worth a few bucks a month to me.

  • [Deleted User]YabYumist (deleted user)

    Libby

    Sign in with your library card and you can listen to their collection of audiobooks for free.

  • KariMeiSnugglesKariMeiSnuggles

    My favorite app on my phone is The Pattern! It’s so wonderful!

  • LadyVelLadyVel
    edited December 2023

    AnyList - You can create grocery lists, categorized lists, or basic lists for anything (packing, Christmas shopping, drinks/foods I like, etc). You can also store Recipes and make a Meal plan. It's free but if you subscribe you can add photos to recipes, import recipes, access the app from PC/Mac, use recipe scaling, location reminders, prices of items to budget, etc. It's pretty nifty (I have the free version).

    Cash book- Handy for keeping track of monthly bills, how much someone owes, fundraising, splitting costs, vacation spending, etc.

    Planner Pro - make to do lists, record tasks, make notes about a day, add pics, list events. Easy search function. Can also use a widget on your screen for your to do list. If you don't finish a task by its due date, it keeps bumping it to the next day. I paid for the subscription to get extra features as I use it daily.

  • BearBear

    Friended I use a lot when I want to chat or connect.

  • [Deleted User]FriendlyFemale (deleted user)
    edited June 2024

    There is an app called Too Good To Go aimed at eliminating food waste. You basically buy a "grab bag" earlier in the day and pick up at closing time. Contents are not guaranteed, but the food you get would have otherwise been thrown out. I only downloaded it two weeks ago, but have used it twice. Phoenix has a large homeless population, so even if I end up with food I can't eat, or don't want to, I can always find someone around to give it to. My local grab bags only run about $5 each.

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