Reddit is one of the world's most popular resources for perusing the internet, but doing so on your phone can be a bit of a chore. But Apollo uses iOS design guidelines to create a Reddit reading experience that feels tailor-made for your device. Simply put, there's nothing better. Some default apps on iPhone get the job done, but Apple's calculator is woefully deficient if you need to something more advanced that your most basic calculations.
Calzy 3 is the one-stop app for all budding mathematicians that should even hold up to the most impressive calculators from Texas Instruments. Its best feature is a memory area that stores previous calculations for quick reference when you're working out a problem.
Apple's come a long way with its photo app, but it still lags behind the one built by its biggest competitor. Google Photos is a super-smart photo assistant that can store all your images in the Cloud a very less frustrating version of iCloud , and also intelligently organize photos using machine vision so all your snaps are searchable.
Also, it creates mini-films when it notices a lot of photos from the same day or location. It's simply the best out there. Learning a new language doesn't have to just occur in high school, and it doesn't have to be as expensive as Rosetta Stone. Duolingo is a free language-learning app that helps you learn to speak a new language through science-backed modules that are actually fun.
To understand your place in the universe—and not just the world—Star Guide is an indispensable app. It shows you the locations of stars, planets, and constellations through an AR-like interface. Simply point the phone in any direction, and your display will show you the names of the stars and planets that you can see. If you want to try a free version, you can also check out SkyView. Reading on the internet can be an overwhelming experience with social networks, messaging, email, and personal assistants all serving up possible reads.
Instapaper and Pocket help tame that information deluge. Pocket tends to be best with multimedia while Instapaper guns for the perfect reading experience no matter what. It's not raining now, but should you bring your umbrella with you for a quick coffee run across the street? Dark Sky knows. The app is able to predict weather for your exact location, not just your city, down to the minute.
The app also features stunningly beautiful maps bound to bring out everyone's inner weather nerd. If you're looking for a cheaper alternative, Weather Underground is also a solid choice. Buy I t. These apps are for pros but can make your smartphone experience one of a kind.
The app creates, well, workflows with a series of "actions" that can do all sorts of things. Essentially, you create mini-apps that you can then run in an app, home screen, or share extension.
We're in the middle of a podcast renaissance, and you need the right tools to listen effectively. Overcast and Pocket Casts are your best options for iOS. Either way, you'll be a happy listener. Not everything you do on your phone is going to make you feel great. In general, our digital lives are overwhelming, so all the more reason to use 21st-century tools to decompress. With Headspace, you can learn meditation and mindfulness skills from the pros, which should ultimately help to quell your anxiety, give you more restful sleep, and generally ease your mind.
End-to-end encryption is what you should be looking for in any messenger you use. Although popular options like WhatsApp and Allo offer the feature, it's Signal from Open Whisper Systems that really gets the tech right. WhatsApp owned by Facebook and Allo made by Google are companies with an incentive to gather data on its users they also store data , but Signal has no business model and exists just through donations and grants.
If the government comes knocking for your information, Signal has absolutely nothing to give them, which is exactly the kind of chat protection you want. Splitting a bar tab with friends can be a huge pain, especially when no one thought to bring cash with them. Cash is an app by Square that instantly transfers money between friends, for free, even between different banks. Using the app requires everyone involved sign up and connect their debit card—afterward you can pay your friends back instantly with just a few taps on your phone.
In most cases, the money automatically deposits in your buddy's bank account and is instantly accessible. At most, they'll have to wait one to two business days for the deposit to clear. Of course, you could always try Venmo as well.
Need to save money for an upcoming trip, pay down a loan, or figure out how you overspent so much last month? We recommend Mint, a much-loved app that pulls all your accounts credit cards, loans, banks, investments, and more into one place. It gives you insight into how you're spending, giving you tools to set budgets, break down spending by category, and create reminders for upcoming bills. Who has time to edit their own videos? Magisto makes your smartphone videos look like they were edited by a pro with just a few seconds of work.
But the free tier is also impressive, giving you access to less personal but still useful training plans for the water and dry land. The app will sync up with Apple or Garmin devices, so you can track your swimming sessions down to the last meter. Playlists and immersive stories keep you entertained throughout the day, and when it comes to bedtime, the Sleepscapes will guide you into a deep slumber.
Fitness can be hard to get into, as keeping up a regular schedule can be hard when life and dipping energy levels intervene. However, setting yourself a short-term goal can be one of the best ways to make sure you stick to a manageable schedule.
How long do you need to start getting fit? Well, it can be as much time as you want, really, but 7 minutes will do just fine.
Seven — 7 Minute Workout aims to give you the most benefit possible in just 7 minutes through a series of quick exercises that target specific areas of your body.
GymBook is an excellent tool for weightlifters. It allows you to find different exercises based on muscle group, and has a series of guidance GIFs for 50 preset exercises. The default music app on iPhones and iPads is Apple Music , which has its own subscription service and plenty to recommend it. Spotify is changing the game for the entire music industry. You can listen to full albums and create playlists. With 70 million songs available for subscribers, Amazon Music is one of the best alternatives to Spotify or Apple Music.
SoundCloud is the audio player that has become a favorite of musicians, talk shows, and podcasts alike. The iOS app gives access to favorites, playlists, and trending audio, and lets you follow and listen with friends.
It has multiple tracks for recording, editing, and remixing music, and it lets you add a whole bunch of different effects, beats, loops, or otherwise.
There are options for every popular genre you can think of, and you can easily share your creations with friends. Drawing from news sources from around the world, Google News is one of the best ways to keep up to date with the matters you care about most.
Bored of rigid editorial pieces from newspapers? Medium allows you to get a completely different spin on the latest news and events by opening the floor up to pretty much anyone. It offers more than just the usual breaking news, and also includes morning briefings from New York Times journalists and the ability to save articles for offline access. It gives you breaking news alerts, market data, podcasts, live TV, and more.
Tortoise specializes in slower, deep dives on news subjects that attempt to find all the facts and lay them in front of you. No more knee-jerk reactions; Tortoise is here to make sure you have a calm, considered view of the world. Investing is one of the cheat codes of growing capital, but it used to be that you needed a big nest egg to get started.
Rather than investing large sums of money, Acorn rounds up your purchases to the nearest dollar, investing the difference. While it may not seem like much, from tiny acorns do massive oak trees grow, and this passive saving method could be key to helping you to build up a significant nest egg. You can even use it to set up an IRA pension fund as well. Use PayPal to check up on the transactions in your account, send or request money, and photograph checks or credit cards to add them to your account without messing with the details.
Venmo is the payment app for the people. Connecting directly with your debit card, Venmo offers free person-to-person money transfers. Credit transfers require a percentage fee. It asks you to put every dollar to work and can connect with your bank account to track your expenditure automatically. Designed with college students in mind, Splitwise helps you keep track of debts owed between friends and connects seamlessly with PayPal and Venmo so you can settle up at any time.
It has all the tools, from the simplest crop to the finest detail changes, and it also comes bundled with a professional-quality camera app as well.
Focos lets you change your point of focus and alter the level of background blur after your shot has been taken and allows for multiple light points in your image, giving you extra style to play with. If you own an iPhone 7 or 7 Plus or later, the app takes advantage of the wide color gamut of the displays in those phones, and features an extensive roster of customizable filters and special effects, allowing you to create even more amazing things with your already capable camera.
An iPhone camera is generally excellent, but it does lack some tools more advanced users would deem essential. If you want to take light-trail photography, pictures of the stars, or anything that needs a longer exposure time, Slow Shutter Cam should be your first stop. This app gives your phone an unlimited shutter speed — so you can take long star trail pictures, or pictures of car lights zooming past, and it can even take a batch of photos with its intervalometer mode. Sounds like a lot? Well, it can be — but if you understood all that, or want to test it out, this is a great app.
It offers a lot in its free app, with a tool that allows you to retouch your face to remove blemishes or quickly apply a background or filter — but it goes even further, too, allowing you to use simple tools to change the positioning and even the size of parts of your face.
Amazon rules the e-book world, and a big part of that is because the Kindle app is available pretty much everywhere. Any notes taken while reading will automatically sync to your Google Drive, which you can share with a group to collaborate on. With the addition of audiobooks, you can also listen to books on-the-go instead — with no subscription required.
Participate in the reading challenge to read a specific number of books in a year, recommend books to friends, and keep a list for reading later. Prefer listening to books over reading them? Audible has you covered with more than , titles that you can download for offline play.
One of the major benefits is that you can speed up or slow down narration speed to fit your preferred listening experience. A haven for self-publishers, Wattpad is a place to read and write, with a community of over 90 million readers and writers. Dive in and start reading, building your personal library, and — if the muse strikes — maybe pen a story of your own too.
Amazon is the No. Plus, you can enable notifications for daily Amazon Gold Box deals so you never miss out on a discount. The app is full-featured and much easier to use than the website. Bid on items, track your orders, and sell all of your unwanted stuff right here. Ibotta is your one-stop shop for cashback from thousands of retailers, and it works both in-person and online.
When you create calendar entries, Fantastical is contextually aware of things like date, time, location, and even people you're meeting with, and automatically adds them to the event.
That makes it much easier to add things to your calendar without having to tap through menus and options. It also has handy features like one-tap links for Zoom and Microsoft Teams calls, making it easy to join your video meetings. To be fair, Things isn't an app that requires an iPhone Still, if you need a beautifully designed app to help you stay organized, this is that.
Things 3 is a to-do-list app that gets out of the way and makes it easy to capture tasks, schedule them, and stay on top of everything you need to do. As a result, it makes almost every list of the top iPhone apps because it's just that useful.
Even better, it doesn't get clogged with features that don't actually help you get things done. Carrot Weather is a weather app, but with personality. And, it has a lot of personality. Beyond the fact that you can decide how friendly or not you want your forecast to be, Carrot Weather is just a really great app. It's well-designed and makes it very easy to see how the weather is going to change throughout the day.
It also has a great widget that adjusts its content based on upcoming weather and time of day. To be fair, the stock iOS weather app got a great update this year, but Carrot Weather is still the best, in my opinion.
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