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What are your iOS hidden gem apps
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Apollo 🥲
Oh well.
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
I thought Craig was just being weird, but the Fizzy Water bundle includes Vinegar and Baking Soda, a companion app that makes a similar change to (allegedly all) other sites that have custom video players.
EDIT: I’m now realizing Craig said that, like, four times. What the fuck, Craig.
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sponsor block is a great addition to vinegar as well
Just downloaded thanks!
Omg! I’m downloading this now. I already use YouTube via safari instead of the YouTube app.
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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.
Whoa! This sounds rad.
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
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.
Sounds like a recipe for a genius and useful app
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.
Ooh I dug through recipe apps a while back, I ended up using Pestle. It’s pricier than Paprika but I prefer the Pestle UI. Both good apps with similar feature sets, just providing another option.
Paprika - $5 Pestle - $20/yr or $40 lifetime
As a student of life I have to mention Anki. At its core it’s a flashcard app out of the box but it’s almost infinitely more powerful than that if you dig deep.
I paid 35 CAD for it in 2019 and I’ve used it every single day since. The amount of knowledge I’ve committed to memory is truly priceless, and I’ve even gifted this app to several friends.
NB: AnkiMobile, not the free knockoff AnkiApp. It’s open-source and actually free for computers and android devices, and iOS/iPadOS app purchases are the only way the developer makes money.
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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?
Papi jump!!!
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?
One person needs to subscribe (I thought it was like 3 bucks a year) for all the premium sharing features.
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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.
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.
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Dice by PCalc - For when you need to roll some dice
Blackbox - It got some hype when it released but if anyone still hasn’t tried it, it is highly recommended. You will need to learn everything your iPhone can do and think outside the box to solve these puzzles.
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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.
I started hunting for the news app, until figuring out that Apple still hasn’t launched it in Germany. 🤷♂️
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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.
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