Those are two great apps. I don’t know how I forgot to include Fantastical on my list.
Soulver looks like a great app. I am going to try it out. Thanks for sharing your list.
Thanks for sharing yours. I will be trying out Sofa.
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My list:
- Tidal
- Overcast
- LastPass
- Due
- Drafts (free tier)
- PCalc
I have never tried Tidal. Is Tidal really worth paying extra? Thanks for sharing your list.
I personally prefer Apple Music, but earlier I posted about Tidal’s current offer of 5 months for $5 (even for a 5-person Family plan), so it’s a cheap way to try for yourself (aside from the usual 30-day free trial)
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Overall a really interesting list. Especially interesting to me since my most-used, most-relied-upon apps are largely quite a bit different:
- Hello Weather (with $6.99 subscription)
- Yahoo Mail
- Nuzzel
- AAA (All About Apple), unlocked
- NewsBlur/Unread/Reeder (never picked an RSS winner)
- Ulysses (subscription)
- IA Writer
- Drafts (free)
- Cardhop
- Google Voice
- Day One
- 1Password
- Pocket Casts
- Starbucks
- Camera+
- Todoist (Pro subscription)
- Anylist (subscription)
- Readdle Calendars 5 (Pro version)
- Firefox Focus (I use its Content Blocker to supplement Safari privacy)
- Brave (has its own content blocker built in)
- Pocket (subscription)
- Pedometer++
- Jumbo (clears out old Facebook searches, archives old messages/tweets)
- WeCroak (Pro)
- CheapCharts
- TimeShutter
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This is interesting to me mostly because I have many apps that I like to use but I don’t consider must haves.
So, must haves:
- lire (using Inoreader for sync)
- Apollo for reddit
- 1Password
- overcast
- Libby by Overdrive
- ExpressVPN (more generically, an app which manages my vpn)
Nice to haves but think I’d be ok if I used system version :
- Bear
- Things 3
- Dark Sky
- Fantastical
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Must haves:
- Lose It
- Fiery Feeds
- Twitterrific
- Carrot Weather
- Strava
- Overcast
- Slack
- Fitbod
- OneDrive
- Slopes
Nice to haves:
- Messenger
- Apollo
- AutoSleep
- YouTube
- Spark
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Thanks for the tip. I will check out thee 5-month plan and see how it goes!!
Nice list. There are several new apps for me to check out.
Good call. I forgot to mention this! It might even be the single most expensive one-time IAP I ever made ($24) to get the full unlock, including notifications. I’d used a couple of Reddit clients before this one but it’s head and shoulders the best and most iOS-like Reddit client I found. Dev used to work for Apple if I remember right.
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Drafts
GoodTask
Reeder 4
Readdle Calendar 5
Readdle Documents
Shortcuts
1Password
Trello
Pocket Casts
Musi
Soundy
Dynalist
Paperlogix
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Ignoring platform first party apps, current must haves:
Clear Outside
Star Walk 2
PS Align Pro Watch version
Duolingo
Feedly
Dark Sky
Google Translate
DiscourseHub
Today (weather app still works but is no longer maintained and you can’t add more cities)
Aeon Timeline
iThoughts
Scrivener
Ulysses (pre subscription version)
Apps that I occasionally must use despite how frustrating they are
High-Def Radar
Overcast - currently in the doghouse after burning through about 30GB of data in a day when I let it use wireless data
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For iPhone (as opposed to iPad):
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1Password
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Mail
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Messages
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Safari
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Pocket Casts
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Audible
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Yarra Plenty Library / Overdrive/Borrow box
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Omnifocus
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Notes
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Scanner Pro
1Password
I spend more time on my iPad in apps than I do on my phone. The iPhone gets used for more things when I am mobile and don’t have the iPad with me. I also use a number of built in apps extensively. As example I use Apple Maps for navigation because of the way it works with the watch, announcing turns. I’m also retired so not much work related.
Overcast
Financial calc (HP 12c emulator)
Carrot weather
Wikipedia
1Password
Buy me a pie
Yelp
@appsntips The reason I use Tidal is that it offers lossless audio in CD quality. It was my only option for a long time, but now it seems Deezer is adding the “hifi” tier as well. I have not tested Deezer yet, and it is a hassle to change streaming providers… Maybe later.
Most people don’t listen that carefully to music (much of the time, I don’t either) but for focused headphone listening sessions, the added detail and clarity of high quality audio is worth it to me.
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Ok, I know you mentioned in your blog that you didn’t include social media - but I have Twitterrific, a 3rd party Twitter client in my dock, as well as WhatsApp, testament of how much I launch them in a day.
My list:
- Twitterrific
- Things 3
- Unread - RSS reader
- Lastpass + Authy
- Fantastical
- Evernote
- Spotify (for podcast, I am experimenting just using Spotify for a few months and see how viable it is for podcast vs Overcast and Castro)
- Camcard
- Scanner Pro
- Calcbot
Nothing spectacular, mostly well loved and solid apps.
My must-have apps are …
Getting organized:
- Things 3
- Reminders (for location based reminders created via Shortcuts)
- Calendar 366 II (because it has calendar sets private/work etc.)
- Tyme2 (Time tracking for certain projects)
- GoodNotes 5 (note taking, research)
- Stopwatch of the stock clock app (I challenge myself to finish tasks as quickly as possible by simply working against the stopwatch)
Listening/Reading:
- Overcast
- BookPlayer (I hate the audible app)
- VoiceDream (helps me listen to ebooks/pdfs, that don’t have an audiobook version)
- Apple Books (daily morning reading on the iPad)
- Day One (daily morning journaling + private “Instagram”-like photo diary)
Health/Exercise:
- iConnectHue (controls my Philips Hue lights, incl. fade to dark orange at night)
- Sleep Cycle (wakes me up using my Philips Hue lights)
- DeeDay (good looking countdown/deadline tracker)
- Zero (fasting tracker I do intermittent fasting)
- Strong (workout tracker)
- MyFitnessPal (food logger)
- Apple Activity (I’m trying to close all rings daily for at least January)
- Oura (companion app to the pricey Oura ring, which tracks sleep and HRV very well)
- HRV4Training (HRV analysis and recovery level helper. I exercise a lot and heavy and need to pay attention how well rested I am and how hard I can exercise again)
- HeartAnalzyer (the monthly heart report as PDFs are great. It forces me to examine my workouts every month)
Shortcuts
- Data Jar (beta, helps me build trackers/counters and store images that I use in my Shortcuts)
- Toolbox Pro
- Pushbullet (I send a lot of links to Chrome on my Mac to read/work on later, when I’m out and about)
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Must have iPhone apps
Phone, Messages and Camera after all that’s why I carry the thing
Omnifocus
DEVONThink
1Password
Square App (to take credit cards in our store)
PhotoSync
Joule
SplashShopper whose desktop version won’t run on Catalina and there is no good replacement :sigh:
Date&Time Calculator critical for calculating lambing dates, slaughter withdrawals etc.
Safari
Calculator
Google Maps
SpeedTest
Pocketpedia
other Apple apps I use include Calendar, Photos, Maps, Clock, Contacts & Health
Sidekick
Measure
ASI news to get current hay and auction prices on sheep.
Twitter during lambing
Slack occasionally
Apps I will be testing this coming summer include
Plant Snap.
Pasture Map
Canopeo
References available to me I use very rarely
First Aid
Pet First Aid
Know your Sheep
Google Earth
Google Drive
The rest are things like the app for the car, podcasts and other stuff that I’m considering deleting but since I have plenty of space I’ve just left on there for now.
Ipad Apps
Kindle
GoodReader
Omnifocus
DEVONThink
1Password
Scrivener
GoodNotes
Dropbox
AeonTimeline
Square App
Safari
Paper
Procreate
Google Drive
Google Docs
Google Sheets
Story Skeleton
Planimeter
Craftsy
SkyView Lite
ReunionTouch
My iPad is nearly out of space, in fact Ic an’t upgrade it to the latest 12 rev as no space so I limit what I keep on it. Biggest user of space is kindle.
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