I’m looking for new apps to try out. I have a soft spot for apps that are written in Swift or at least follow Apple’s HIG. I’m also curious to know what you use these apps for!

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    macOS: iTerm - terminal emulator Alfred - application launcher (and a lot more) Spark - email client DevonThink - finder replacement FuzzyTime - show time in menu bar rounded by 5 minutes Bartender - organize menu bar LosslessSwitcher - automatically switch sample rate and but depth based on music playing SoundSource - easily control sound input/output and levels PDFExpert - PDF editor Reeder - RSS reader Affinity Creative Suite - Rastor/Vector/Photo/Print enditor

    iOS: Timepage/Actions - Calendar and task manager Marvis Pro - Apple Music client Authenticator - FOSS authentication app MusicSmart - lists details of songs and albums not otherwise mentioned or credited Aftership - simple and free shipment tracker Carrot Weather - A great weather app PCalc - a customizable calculator Overcast - a better podcast player

    iPadOS: Mela - Recipe browser and ingredient checklist maker Procreate - iPad 2D art at its best Affinity Photo - Great port of a really powerful photo editor PDFExpert - Edit PDFs but with the addition of an Apple Pencil and little niceties as well as good for note taking all in one space.

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        If you use an iPad Pro, the overcast layout is just stilly looking. I switched back to the Podcasts app. I heard he’s working on updating the UI, and I’ll try it again when it’s redone.

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        I bought it when it was a one time purchase. I love it a lot. Apparently it’s subscription now? It’s good but I wouldn’t rent it. I’m pretty much a hard no on anything with a subscription.

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          Right. The free version is good, it just shows ads for other podcasts… but I love the app and want Marco to keep developing it. So I paid.

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      What would you say makes Marvis Pro superior to the built in app? For $10 I want to make sure it’s worth it.

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        The first and foremost thing for me is aesthetics. I love being able to customize all of the colors and blur effects and button layout. Additionally, I like the gesture support within the UI. Lastly, I love how it integrates with Last.fm so all of my scrobbles are synced up without needing to scan.

        I would not consider it a must have, but it makes so many quality of life improvements for apple music listeners.

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    Parcel (all platforms): the best shipment tracker you’ll ever use

    Solves (all platforms): it’s basically identical to the built in calculator but is 1,000,000x better

    Music Library Tracker (iOS, iPadOS): keeps track of the change in your Apple Music library and can automatically make a spatial audio playlist for you

    Mlem (iOS, iPadOS): the best Lemmy client

    Vinegar (all platforms): a Safari extension that makes YouTube use the native video player, adds PiP for free and removes ads!

    Baking Soda (all platforms): replaces custom video players in other sites with the native one

    Crouton (all platforms): a natively built recipe manager. I don’t use it much but it’s really well made

    MacWhisper (macOS): uses openAI’s whisper model to create super accurate transcriptions of audio and video files

    Monitor Control (macOS): allows you to control the brightness of external monitors (other than Apple’s)

    Calipers Tape Measure (iOS): a super accurate set of Calipers for your iPhone

    Cric Pulse (iOS): the only cricket app with live activities

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    Loving this thread!

    Here’s mine:

    • 1Writer - lovely little markdown app
    • IceCubes - for Mastodon (Havn’t seen a better mastodon client yet, not even Ivory)
    • Element X - A swift rewrite of element, the matrix client (though not yet feature complete but on a great way)
    • Amperfy - A subsonic client to stream music from any subsonic server (like navidrome)
    • Voyager - The sexiest lemmy client I’ve found so far
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    • Bear - Markdown Notes
    • Lemma - Lemmy client (very influenced by Apollo)
    • Parcel - Track packages
    • Craftbound - Idle Game
    • 1Password - Password Manager
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    Here are my most-used apps:

    • Libby
    • Todoist
    • Pocket Casts
    • The Google and Office suite of apps are each pretty good, and I use them a good bit.
    • Voyager (for Lemmy)
    • Dropbox, AnyList, Acrobat for everyday stuff
    • Volume Pro gives you much finer control of the volume
    • Sleep Cycle helps with tracking sleep hygiene
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      Libby is awesome. I’d add Hoopla and Kanopy to that list as well.

      For casual gaming:

      • Threes
      • Dots
      • Wordament
      • Sage Solitare

      For news and reading:

      • NPR one in the car
      • NetNewsWire for RSS feeds
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    YNAB (Financial, subscription required)
    Lost It! (Calorie counting)
    AdGuard Pro (Ad blocker)
    mSecure (Password manager)
    Pixelmator (Image editor)
    Smart Photo (Photo widgets)
    Night Sky & SkySafari (Astronomy apps)

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    macOS: iTerm is just superior and so configurable. Magnet is great for moving and snapping windows. Last recommendation: column mode in Finder. It’s perfect and should be the default everywhere!

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    For_ me it will be: Organic maps for finding new tracks for walks plus Merlin Birds. Kindle - books, Mammoth and Voyager - mastodon and Lemmy, I love hue/I love hue too - simple games to kill the time.

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    Notion- notes, todos, project management Libby and Hoopla- ebooks, eaudioBooks, comics Goodnotes- more note taking (but a lot of people use this for digital bullet journaling) Procreate- art Things- honestly amazing task management, but I felt like I needed something available on pc or web for work, goes great with Bear which I saw someone else suggest. Ice cubes- mastodon Avelon- lemmy

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    Remind Me Faster - a little tool that helps you to quickly add reminders to the native Reminders app. Very useful for power users of the reminders app.