OT: What's your favorite PHONE app?

[ScottBonz]

I like the look of 'Dark Sky' that was listed above. I currently use 'MyRadar'...and end up obsessing over exactly when it's going to rain, snow or otherwise.

I use carrot. It’s a fun app and you can pull data from Dark Sky. You can turn up the sarcasm and the app swears at you and what not. Good integraation for the watch.

 

[ScottBonz]

Spotify - music - far superior to pandora, if you stream music, like to create and share playlists, and would prefer downloading albums/songs/playlists, then it's worth it. You can get new music, although some artists won't allow their new albums to be on spotify. it's about $10/month and they might still throw in Hulu for an extra $3/month.

I use amazon music because of the web player restrictions at work but it’s playlsits and stations are lacking. Might switch back to Spotify if it works at work again

 

[tuvent08]

I just wish that Spotify would release a watch app that allowed for offline listening. It’s apparently much easier to do with the new watch OS (Audible just added offline capabilities), so hopefully it will happen. I just like to run without my phone and right now it’s Overcast/Audible/Apple Music offline, but I’d prefer to switch to Spotify.

 

[Walker11]

Outside of email (Bluemail) and largely unimportant work conversations (Slack), I basically use my phone for navigating in my car and listening to things in my car. I listen to audiobooks through the library with Libby and Hoopla. I use Pocket Casts for podcasts and Pandora for music. I always liked Spotify but recently a bug would tell me I was offline and couldn't play music, while connected to WiFi and with a premium membership which allows offline play. I am actually really liking Pandora now that you can download individual albums and songs as with Spotify.

 

[AtlHusky]

A bit OT for this OT, but I used to use CarTunes for playing locally stored music in my car. I have a ton of live shows I like to cycle through (as I've recently learned, @August_West played a large role years ago in making much of what I have publicly available), especially when I have an upcoming show I've landed tix to.

Anyway, it was by far the easiest music app to safely use while driving as you could call up songs/artists/albums by a gestures and/or voice command, as well as FF, RW, Play/Pause via gestures. As of a few months ago, it disappeared and I had to find another app. I settled on Pulsar, but really miss the ease of CarTunes. Does anyone know of something similar, or even close?

Big Time EDIT: I checked on a whim after posting this, and it's back! Highly recommended if you don't rely on streaming as your music source.

 

[8893]

I've been meaning to thank those who recommended Carrot, which I have been enjoying and think is considerably better than the free weather apps I had been using; now I am wondering whether Fishy provides content for them:

By the way, Carrot users, which voice do you prefer? I have tried them all and don't love any of them, but I have settled on Jeeves of late because it seems to be the best match for delivery of the content.

Of course, I have the personality set to Overkill.

 

[FriarJ]

Follow up question: Are the apps/devices that connect to your car's computer worth the money?

Apple Carplay is fantastic and with all the new rules regarding touching your phone this just fits the bill.

 

[intlzncster]

Is Carrot for android just a much worse version of the Apple app? It's rated pretty poorly to others.

 

[Mokum]

Natural news. Herbal medicine is kind of a hobby of mine and this aap has daily articles on herbs as well as food and diet.