I would love to know what other people consider essential apps. What are some cool apps that not many people are using? 
TechniCalc - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/technicalc-calculator/id1504965415
As the developer of this, I can confirm it’s fantastic
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.
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.
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Thanks, just installed Vinegar, Baking Soda, Banish, and Hush at your recommendation and I am loving the difference!
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If Safari extensions worked in 3rd party iOS browsers that would be great. I’m using Vivaldi (in beta) and like it a lot.
I’m still using the Super Agent extension, but the constant nagging to subscribe is really starting to annoy me!
Does Vinegar and Baking Soda still work well? I noticed the apps haven’t been updated for almost a year.
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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.
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
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Apologies, indeed, I didn’t go through all the apps, just quickly skimmed them.
6€ is a reasonable price to pay in that case 🙌
the fact that super agent required a subscription now really ruined it…
Try Hush instead. Very similar without the subscription
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.
Obsidian (Notes) Twobird (My mail app) Cron (Calendar)
Some apps not mentioned yet if I’m correct:
ssh terminal
messenger signal
app for navidrome play:sub
homeassistant
rss readerPs 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 😊
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
- Reeder for RSS (connected to FreshRSS)
- Overcast for podcasts
- Linkthing for reading list/saved links (connected to linkding)
- Bookplayer for audiobooks (can airdrop a folder of audio files to ingest)
- MyNetDiary for diet tracking
- WebSSH for ssh client
- Infuse for all things video (connected to Jellyfin)
- FE File Explorer for connecting to SMB shares
- Bitwarden for passwords
- DailyArt widget for nice art on home screen
- Shockwave to kill Google amp
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.
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.
Apple bots made it to Lemmy real quick
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.
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
Besides the big ones:
- Octal - App for Hacker News
- Poe - Quora’s implementation of ChatGPT
- Artifact - News app that lets you mark headlines as clickbait and then uses AI to rewrite them with helpful info
- LunaSea - Interface for my home instances of Sonarr and Radars
- Strong - Weightlifting app
- Diarium - Low-cost and straightforward journal app
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.
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
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.
