What are your list of essential iOS apps?
I would love to know what other people consider essential apps. What are some cool apps that not many people are using? 
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I would love to know what other people consider essential apps. What are some cool apps that not many people are using? 
the fact that super agent required a subscription now really ruined it...
I switched to Consent-O-Matic, it works even better for many sites (there is even an option to minimize the popup so you can start using the site while it's doing it's thing).
It sadly stuggles with google, which I use a lot.
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/consent-o-matic/id1606897889
I’m still using the Super Agent extension, but the constant nagging to subscribe is really starting to annoy me!
If Safari extensions worked in 3rd party iOS browsers that would be great. I’m using Vivaldi (in beta) and like it a lot.
Well, that answers my question. StopTheMadness sounds great, but I use Firefox.
Thanks, just installed Vinegar, Baking Soda, Banish, and Hush at your recommendation and I am loving the difference!
you pay so much just to block a bunch of ads. You could achieve the same for free with a Raspberry Pi in your home and PiHole.
In the end it doesn’t matter, the result is the same
Apologies, indeed, I didn’t go through all the apps, just quickly skimmed them.
6€ is a reasonable price to pay in that case 🙌
Does Vinegar and Baking Soda still work well? I noticed the apps haven’t been updated for almost a year.
Thanks for the response! Yeah, I am aware it is an extension for the website through safari, I appreciate you pointing that out though. I’ve been eyeing those two forever, I’ll pick them up.
Besides the big ones:
Used Strong, but I actually found Hevy to be much better. It syncs really well with Apple Watch and is getting consistently updated with new features.
Thanks! I got Poe and artifact installed now. I like them a lot!
I like that Poe gives you free uses of GPT4
that's what got me on it! i ended up paying for unlimited. it was also really neat when Claude-100k (large context) dropped we got access right away.
Haven’t heard of any of these, great! I use HACK for Hackernews, I’ll see which one I like the best.
Poe, is that Quora embracing AI, and is it trained on their own data? Very interesting.
Poe has options for their own AI (Sage), as well as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. If you use the premium versions of either of those (GPT4 and Claude+), you have to pay.
1 per day for free though
Bitwarden for password management.
Anki for learning anything that can be made into a flashcard.
Infuse for connecting to my Plex server or for watching local content I loaded myself.
Sleep Cycle for tracking my sleep and being my alarm clock.
Trakt for tracking movies and TV shows.
MyAniList for tracking specifically anime and manga.
AppRaven for setting up price/updates/release alerts for apps in the App Store.
Sentinel 2FA Authenticator is my 2FA choice since it syncs with iCloud and I’m well into the Apple ecosystem.
AdGuard for adblocking and DNS filtering.
DeepL is my my choice of translator app.
GoodNotes 5 for taking notes on my iPad.
Overcast for listening to podcasts. I also use it to listen to audiobooks so that I have the same features for speeding up and removing quiet portions, but this requires uploading mp3 files through a web portal and requires the subscription to have more space available.
Paprika 3 for managing cooking recipes.
TechniCalc for my calculator.
Zotero is my reference manager since I’m in academia.
StopTheMadness is such a powerful safari extension.
Logseq (my everything app)
Ulysses (for all my writing)
Procreate (for drawing)
Raindrop.io (for links)
Bend (stretching app, great for creating my own routines based on health status)
Antistress (app with all sorts of low stress games for when anxiety goes through the roof)
wefwef, vernissage and mona (fediverse)
There are two apps named antistress in the AppStore, do you mind linking the one you use?
Certainly! It’s this one: https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/antistress-relaxing-games/id1207565651?l=en
Much appreciated!
Is Logseq a desktop app? How does it compare to Obsidian?
It’s cross platform, for desktop and mobile. I run it on my Linux box, my Mac and my iPhone.
To synchronise you have to pay 5 dollars a month, but it’s worth it, as it’s the first time I found something that just fit with how my brain works.
You can run it stand alone for free on either platform to try it out, that’s how I started. if you would like to know more, don’t hesitate to ask
Two of my favourite apps are
Here are the apps I used that I'm not seeing.
And I'll second some others.
Sofa and Up Ahead are my two favourites. Neither of them fulfill an essential “function” and they both have subscriptions but they bring a ton of joy to my life.
I often use the built in Files.app for connectivity to SMB shares. Is there additional functionality that FE File Explorer offers?
more file compatibility for previewing, verbose transfers, a web server, to name a few. but I mostly just like how it handles shares.
Thanks for the info, I’ll check it out.
Not iOS-only but, great on iOS:
Telegram: fav messenger
TickTick: best reminders app imo
Bitwarden: great password manager
Marvis: cool 3rd party app for Apple Music, connects with Last.fm too
I have answered so many of these posts with just one app: Apollo. Mighty sad it’s gone. Therefore I’d pick Reeder, I think.
Obsidian (Notes) Twobird (My mail app) Cron (Calendar)
Most of the apps I use for my personal life exist for both iOS and macOS
On smartphone only
Does the save function work for you in wefwef?
Wefwef looks great but has been buggy for me. Can’t save anything, comments often don’t load, and I’ll see errors loading my feeds.
I've had the same issue, and I'm hosting mine.
Meta for iPhone, the best network utility tool you can get
What’s the link for this? I couldn’t find it with all the metaverse references
Same here, so many different apps with Meta in the name but none appeared to match this description.
Is this like Fing?
I too would love the link to this.
Since all big service are killing them selfs I lost may of my favourite app.
But Watcht for tracking movies and TV shows is still my favourite. Seems development stopped 3 years ago, but as all good apps still works great
I know this is sort of the opposite of the answer you’re looking for , but I think it’s interesting there’s all of these apps listed and my app usage is 99% Apple’s includes apps and YouTube with a tiny bit of Instagram tossed in.
I’ll say one of my all time favourite apps that I do use quite often is Konvert.
Overcast - https://overcast.fm/
Reeder - https://reederapp.com/
TechniCalc - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/technicalc-calculator/id1504965415
As the developer of this, I can confirm it’s fantastic
Since I’m so into photography, pixelmator photo, and affinity photo are amazing for me. Those 2, and luma fusion are all great creativity apps.
1Password - password and vital secret mgmt
Quicken- finance apps with all banking apps
Signal - private messaging
Telegram - messaging plus Ukraine war news
Todoist - task manager
Hey! On FARK - replacing Apollo
wefwef - replacing Apollo
Octal - replacing Apollo
Hack - replacing Apollo
Dystopia - replacing Apollo
Inoreader - rss aggregator
Libby - library books and audiobooks
Kindle - books
Goodreads - books
Downcast - podcasts
Zillow - buying a home
HOMES - buying a home, most like MLS
realtor.com - buying a home but has flood and noise maps
MyFitnessPal - food tracking
Minecraft - fun with the kiddos
Ps as for obsidian:
it is said to be comparable, but Obsidian was too confusing and limited for me. Logseq is intuitive for me and that’s what I need for my addled brain 😊
I use song shift to easily transfer other people's playlists on Spotify/Deezer to my Amazon music account.
Weawow for weather OTP Auth CheapCharts Cryptomator Fakespot Infuse Hoopla Libby Noir (safari extension) QuakeFeed Wefwef
Hevy is my go to workout app. Previously used Strong but decided to give Hevy a go and I am now converted.
Music Tracker is a good app for scanning your Apple Music library and telling you when songs have been added, deleted, or upgraded to Spatial Audio.
Some apps not mentioned yet if I’m correct:
ssh terminal
messenger signal
app for navidrome play:sub
homeassistant
rss reader
Bitwarden, Firefox, Proton Mail, Proton Calendar, Maps. I try not to over-app myself -- if I can use the website in Firefox comfortably, I default to that.
Apple bots made it to Lemmy real quick
Those are my most commonly used apps that aren't "big names".
Photosync is phenomenal. I use it to sync my photos to my self hosted photo gallery nightly.
It's the only thing I trust with getting photos of my kids from my phone to my server for storage and backup. It's very reliable and easy to configure for any backup target you can think of.
Very much Tailor. Been using it for over a year, maybe two, use it regularly, it’s a great utility app.