OT: What's your favorite PHONE app?

[Husky25]

Lol. I crossed 65k not too long ago...

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OurGroceries is fantastic.

My Wife and I share seven lists, including both our To-Dos.

The other apps I use all the time are:
Youtube - Of course, but it uses a lot of data.
Reddit - Out of town NFL games.
WAZE- Love the crowd sourcing on speed traps and road hazards.
Wunderground - I used to use accuweather. Both are very good free weather apps.
The general Samsung calendar aggregator- It compiles and combines all of my calendars, except my College and Pro sports calendar.
Samsung Pay - I love it when a clerk tells me it doesn't work. No. Apple Pay doesn't work. Samsung works pretty much anywhere except pay-at-the-pump gas stations and where the Point of Service terminal is Apple-based (i.e. Tim's Bistro in Colchester. I love Tim's, but I normally pay cash there anyway).
Hulu, Netflix, and the Xfinity app - Set the DVR at home, watch it anywhere. They took away the remote DVR and they only make certain (though plentiful) channels available "On The Go."
Pool Math - Used in the Summer. Tracks and advises the exact amount of bleach to keep pool water clean and clear. There is a paid version, but I don't need historic reports.
DD Perks - I hate Starbucks and the On The Go feature allows me to cut the order line.
Cars.com/CarGurus- I'm in the market for a new 4Runner. I'll probably delete them once I purchase one.
Google Home - Must have for the ChromeCast
Roku - I lost misplaced my ChromeCast and only found it a few weeks ago. Got a Roku for $5.
White Noise Lite - Fantastic for my kids when they were young and now when we travel.
Slacker Radio - Only because I've had it for years.
FatSecret - Food tracking, calorie counting, weight loss, and recipes

 

[intlzncster]

How MANY apps are on your phone?

I have >400 and suspect I could let go of a few...

Used to be like that, but I've been pairing down lately. I'm at just under 100 right now. After Android went to Oreo, I went nuts and uninstalled those that wouldn't target it.

 

[Winelover]

I travel a lot and love Aroundme - let's you know what restaurants, hospitals, gas stations, school lines of things and gives you directions, website, etc. Great when you'rein a new place

 

[Fishy]

Used to be like that, but I've been pairing down lately. I'm at just under 100 right now. After Android went to Oreo, I went nuts and uninstalled those that wouldn't target it.

The last time I saw you, I believe your phone had one app.

Dial.

 

[whaler11]

good to see the phone nerds use overcast. every other podcast app sucks outloud

 

[whaler11]

OurGroceries is fantastic.

My Wife and I share seven lists, including both our To-Dos.

The other apps I use all the time are:
Youtube - Of course, but it uses a lot of data.
Reddit - Out of town NFL games.
WAZE- Love the crowd sourcing on speed traps and road hazards.
Wunderground - I used to use accuweather. Both are very good free weather apps.
The general Samsung calendar aggregator- It compiles and combines all of my calendars, except my College and Pro sports calendar.
Samsung Pay - I love it when a clerk tells me it doesn't work. No. Apple Pay doesn't work. Samsung works pretty much anywhere except pay-at-the-pump gas stations and where the Point of Service terminal is Apple-based (i.e. Tim's Bistro in Colchester. I love Tim's, but I normally pay cash there anyway).
Hulu, Netflix, and the Xfinity app - Set the DVR at home, watch it anywhere. They took away the remote DVR and they only make certain (though plentiful) channels available "On The Go."
Pool Math - Used in the Summer. Tracks and advises the exact amount of bleach to keep pool water clean and clear. There is a paid version, but I don't need historic reports.
DD Perks - I hate Starbucks and the On The Go feature allows me to cut the order line.
Cars.com/CarGurus- I'm in the market for a new 4Runner. I'll probably delete them once I purchase one.
Google Home - Must have for the ChromeCast
Roku - I lost misplaced my ChromeCast and only found it a few weeks ago. Got a Roku for $5.
White Noise Lite - Fantastic for my kids when they were young and now when we travel.
Slacker Radio - Only because I've had it for years.
FatSecret - Food tracking, calorie counting, weight loss, and recipes

if you are buying a new car use Truecar.

 

[Fishy]

How MANY apps are on your phone?

I have >400 and suspect I could let go of a few...

73

Spark - Two versions. One for personal email and their beta version for work.
Carrot Weather - Psychotic weather app. See picture.
Halide - It’s a camera app that does amazing things with RAW photos.
Shortcuts - New favorite app. Endless tinkering.
Calendars 5
MinimaList
Facebook
Instagram - So I can stalk my daughter.
Twitter
Overcast - Podcasts
Audible - Bookcasts
Flipboard - News
Swarm - Social app by FourSquare that no one uses, but makes a decent trip journal app.
Bonus Plus - Our supermarket’s app.
Amazon - Large retailer that sells stuff and launches rockets.
SchoolTool - Daughter’s school told me I needed it.
OnDeck - Like SchoolTool, but my daughter’s swim team told me I needed it.
MeetMobile - Race results for said swim team.
Nest - So I can override my wife when she sets the thermostats at 105 degrees.
AeroPress Timer - Recipes for making coffee with an AeroPress.
Shazam
OpenTable
AnyList - Grocery/Recipe/list maker. More functional than Paprika.
Google Voice - The phone number I give people/companies I don’t want to talk to.
ESPN
Feedly - RSS reader.
Stash - Read-it-later service.
FlightRadar - Our house is on the glide path for a few airports. Like to see where the planes are from.
FEMA - Weather alerts. (You need this.)
FireFox Focus
Garmin Connect - It connects my Garmin, funny enough.
HeartWatch - Heart rate app for the Apple Watch.
Optimum - Our cable company.
Remote - AppleTV remote.
YouTube
Authy - Generates codes for two-factor authentication for Dropbox, Google, etc.
USPS Mobile
FAST - Netflix app that tests your internet connection speed
1Blocker X - Ad blocker.
Netgear Genie - Handles the home wifi.
Hue - Lets me screw with the lightbulbs in the guest room when the inlaws visit
Home - Apple app that handles the lights and switches and garage door and crap.

Retouch, Snapseed, PhotoScan, Unspash, Google Photos, Focus, Clips - Photo editing, etc.

Skiplagged, Hotel Tonight, Skyscanner, Hopper, Hitlist - Airfare/hotel tracking apps.

Word, Excel, Books, Prizmo Go, Agenda, Drafts, Files, Documents, PDF Expert, Scanner Pro, PDF Optim - Boring, but necessary work apps.


AAA - I have the platinum plan. They will help me bury a body if I want.

 

[joober jones]

I don't have a favorite, but I do have a least favorite. I despise Snapchat.

 

[intlzncster]

The last time I saw you, I believe your phone had one app.

Dial.

Ha, thinking about it, was probably a flip. That's how I did all my best deals.

Yes, I was late to the smart phone party.

 

[tuvent08]

Another solid app is WideProtect. It’s like $2.99 and is the only good call blocker that I’ve found that is consistent. I used to get hammered with spoofed numbers but this app lets you block the first N digits of a phone number (I typically used the first six) and it actually works.

 

[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.