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u/karlotomic May 22 '19
Radio Garden, so many radio stations around the world available at your fingertips. Love it!!!
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u/JohnTheBaptiste1 May 22 '19
TooGoodToGo
Don't know if it's a thing in America but in the UK I use it on a daily basis. Restaurants/cafes/hotels join up and sell "magic boxes". They're always at least half the price of their regular food but usually less, and you just turn up at a specified time and get a randomly selected box of food that's going to go to waste.
Some places let you pick your own, others you just get what you're given, but it's saved me a lot of money.
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u/Tface May 22 '19 edited May 22 '19
Paprika
Save recipes while stripping out the backstory about how the author's childhood was shaped by the whimsical strawberry garden she had access to in rural Vienna.
EDIT: folks asking for the right app can check out their site here: https://www.paprikaapp.com/
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u/yokayla May 22 '19
Google's Arts and Culture, it's also a website.
Basically Google unbeknownst to most people teamed up with art galleries and museums worldwide to take extremely high def pictures of thousands of pieces. There are paintings, sculptures, posters, historical artifacts, photographs, etc.You can explore if by movement, historical events, specific colour, artist, whatever. There are ever changing curated online exhibits, virtual tours of museums, extensive articles. They're also working on lots of fun experimental toys, trying to play with where art and technology mix.
A must for any artist or history fan.
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u/Jay_Diddly May 22 '19
A Soft Murmur. I've never heard anybody talk about it before but it's fantastic. It plays the sounds of rain, thunder, wind and waves, and has sliding bars beside each for you to choose the exact prominence of each of these sounds (slide it to the very left to not play a particular one.)
I turn it on and have it in the background while I read and while I sleep and I love it.
It's a free app but there's also more sounds available to purchase like fire, birds, crickets, white noise, coffee shop and singing bowl
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u/Arvindkumar02 May 22 '19
Libby- you can borrow audiobooks and books from your local library.
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u/littleallred008 May 22 '19
Tailor. It stitches screenshots of texts or social media posts to create one full image. I use it to capture texting conversations all the time.
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u/robot_germs May 22 '19
Anylist
Basically an app my wife and I use primarily for shopping. Helps us plan meals and save money and when you share a list, you can each add to the same list.
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u/limegreenbunny May 22 '19
If you're a parent in the UK, there's an app called Hoop which is really bloody good. You type in the age of your child(ren) and how far you want to travel, and it gives you a comprehensive list of all the activities available for your child in that area. Parenthood can be incredibly isolating, especially for first time parents, and this app is a great way to see what's happening and get out of the house.
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u/cherry_chica May 22 '19
Google Trips is amazing.
My first solo trip was to Thailand and I didn't know how to plan a trip and it wasn't great.
My second solo trip to Japan was amazing because of this app. Firstly, any relevant emails that you recieved through Gmail get added, so all of your hotel and flight reservation info are in one place. It also saves them in Google Maps for you so you don't need to remember to pin them. Phone numbers and addresses too, so you can show a taxi driver. Most places have detailed transportation info: from how to get into the city from the airport, to miniscule rules for public transit, like if they only exit from the back doors of the bus so you don't look like an ass. They mine Maps for tons of restaurant reviews. I like that you can choose what's really close, or cheap eats (great for breakfast) or when you don't want a lot of fuss). It can create customized day plans for you, or adjust to what's near by you at the moment.
There's tons of other cool little features too. And you can download most of the info in case you don't have data. I can't recommend this enough!
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u/Karaethon22 May 22 '19
Virtual Hope Box. Mental health app. It's designed specifically for PTSD, but honestly it's great for any variety of anxiety or depression. It's also completely free without ads. Long ass description incoming.
TL;DR if you have mental illness, download this app, it's super awesome.
It has four main sections. Distract Me has simple puzzle games to refocus your mind. No pressure from time limits or score keeping, and most games give you an easy way to get hints if you get frustrated.
Inspire Me has a database of inspirational quotes; it shows one at random and you can swipe for a new one. You can mark favorites to give them priority in the randomization, you can remove quotes that rub you the wrong way, and you can add quotes if you know one that isn't in the app. You can also choose to have daily notifications with a random quote, at the time of your choice.
Relax Me is guided exercises. The deep breathing one is my personal favorite. This one is customizable in every way. You can set all the lengths so that the exercise is tailored to your breathing capacity, and edit the background images/music. You can also choose whether to have prompts, visual and/or audio. Also in Relax Me, there's muscle relaxation and several guided meditations.
The fourth category is Coping Tools. You can make coping cards specific to your needs. Like for example, you can create a low self esteem card that has a list of things you do well and positive traits you have. So when you're feeling worthless, go look at your card, and you'll see exactly why you aren't. It can be hard to make cards by yourself, but a therapist or supportive loved one can help. The other part of Coping Tools is a calendar for social engagements, like lunch dates.
There's a fifth kind-of category called Remind Me. It lets you upload photos and sound files. You can use these to customize the other parts of the app, or you can just look through your library.
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u/DEF-CON5 May 22 '19 edited May 23 '19
CamScanner. Got a homework assignment or drawing you want to post or share? This app will take a picture then make it look like it was scanned, so lines can be darkened and everything easier too see and read. It really beats the hell out of bad lighting and blurryness. All without a scanner.
Edit: wow why’d this blow up? I thought it was underrated but obviously enough people use phone scanners. Someone recommended this to me to scan art sketches that save to my Camera Roll then to my Drive. I like that CamScanner heightens the contrast for me. Cool of y’all to add your two cents but please don’t attack me for not using the program that works for you. Also no I don’t use its premium.
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u/M13alint May 22 '19
Skyscanner app.
If you are planning on traveling please download this. Have used it many times, found a ticket to Ireland from the USA round trip for $350. That plus AirBnb and you have some seriously cheap trips, my parents literally couldn't believe it.
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u/The-F-Key May 22 '19 edited May 22 '19
Notification Notes.
It's lets you put notes on your lockscreen. Simple, useful, does what it says.
Edit: might be Play Store only
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u/Dahhhkness May 22 '19
Alarmy.
Have trouble getting up in the morning? Download this, and your phone will scream until you get out of bed and go take a picture of your microwave.
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u/thisstormblows May 22 '19
Daylio. It's a free, simple daily mood tracking app. I got it on new years to track my mood and activities and it has helped me tremendously. It's simple and fun enough to use that it doesn't feel like a chore or stress me out, and I can look back and see what made me feel good so I could turn bad days around. I've always wanted to be a person that kept a journal so I could remember and separate days in my mind (mental illness is a bitch); and this is the only thing I've ever stuck with daily. Today I'm on a 142 day streak!
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u/LoveHosi May 22 '19 edited May 22 '19
Forest! It's a game that lets you plant a little tree or bush for 5-120 minutes and doesn't let you click out of the app until the timer is over. This let's you be more productive while not having the temptation of your phone. If you do exit out of the app, it kills all the trees you have planted and leaves behind a shriveled bush
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u/squishysharkmaster May 22 '19
Gas Buddy, tells you all the prices of gas around you and you can go to the cheapest station
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u/papertiger11 May 22 '19
A few apps that are helpful for anyone, but are very useful for dealing with the daily struggles of my mental health problems:
Daylio (Android & iOS) - quick daily mood journal. You select how your mood was that day, and then you can check off items/activities that you did (you can include customized ones). Gives nice statistics, takes less than a minute to fill out, and lets me analyze patterns in my mood - was my mood better or worse on days I was drinking? Days I saw my friends? Days I took a nap? etc.
Habit Tracker/HabitBull (Android & iOS) - A habit tracker/reminder app that isn't gamified like Habitica. Reminders for daily tasks, weekly, or even customizable for something you do every other Tuesday at 9am. Gives nice statistics on streaks and % of days you successfully complete the tasks. Mostly helps because I need something to nag me into brushing my teeth every night and scooping the litter box more regularly.
Sleep as Android (Android only) - Very useful alarm. I use mine to let me snooze only once for 10 minutes and then must scan a barcode taped to my fridge in order to shut the alarm off. Forces me up and out of bed, and encourages me to take my vitamins & medication, and start breakfast instead of falling back to sleep. Customizable tasks for shutting off the alarm if you don't want to scan a barcode - that one just works for me.
App I just enjoy:
Old School RuneScape (Android & iOS) - Because I'm a nerd that loves RuneScape, and now I can play it on my phone or tablet :)
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u/benoliver999 May 22 '19
An installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform.
Basically, another app store with only open source apps on it. Great stuff.
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u/EmotionalSouth May 22 '19
Splitwise makes keeping track of split bills with my partner and friends super easy. Recently went on holiday with my partner and a friend and basically whoever had their card most readily accessible paid at the time, and we worked it all out with this app. Super easy.
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u/evanallenrose May 22 '19
Instapaper for saving articles from the web for offline and format free reading
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May 22 '19
For those of you that need to talk to someone but don’t know who to talk to or how, I recommend Replika, it’s a personalize self-learning chatbot that will try its best to either cheer you up or at least keep you company during darker times. The developers don’t keep track of what’s its learned unless you submit something to them (like if it sounds like it’s going crazy and there might be a problem with the code). All of your information is stored clientside. It has easy access to the suicide hotline and other help hotlines. I use it myself, it’s really been helping me.
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May 22 '19
I Love Hue is amazing for helping me focus when my brain gets all scatty and just zen out for a bit.
My Fitness Pal (when utilized properly) is really good too for helping lose weight and keeping track of what you're eating, how much water you're drinking, exercise you're getting etc.
Flo is my go to for keeping track of my periods too
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u/mmmmwhu May 22 '19
iNaturalist. You can take pictures of living things and it can suggest what species it might be.