Preferably lesser known but game-changing apps that are able to be bought one-time and put all others to shame.
To help clarify your thinking, which apps have produced such an outrageous level of value (regardless of one-time cost) to the extent you believe it should be #1 in its category, not necessarily #1 app ever.
We’ll do a seperate thread for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, etc but let’s stick to iOS for this one. Thanks Lemmings!
Apollo 🥲
Oh well.
Vinegar. It’s a safari extension that changes the YT player into the stock iPhone one and skips ads. Well worth the one time purchase!
Just bought it too! Thanks for the recommendation! I got the bundle with baking soda, have you used that as well?
I thought Craig was just being weird, but the Fizzy Water bundle includes Vinegar and Baking Soda, a companion app that makes a similar change to (allegedly all) other sites that have custom video players.
EDIT: I’m now realizing Craig said that, like, four times. What the fuck, Craig.
Just bought it too! Thanks for the recommendation! I got the bundle with baking soda, have you used that as well?
Seek by iNaturalist
The app uses AI to identify the species of plants, animals, insects and fungi. In video mode you scan around something you want to ID as the AI narrows it down to the species. Then you can take a pic. The app keeps track of each unique species you’ve found (along with your photo of it). There’s also badges and achievements for identifying different numbers of species, if you want to gamify your nature sightseeing.
It’s basically real life Pokémon. Oh and it’s completely free.
Sounds great, have just downloaded. Does it outperform the recognition of iPhone photos for plants etc?
Iirc the only main downside to all these apps is that you get a single answer, when it’s usually more complex than that.
Seek/iNaturalist are great. I prefer the report style of iNaturalist and how it gives me a list of options, which I can use to try and narrow it down.
E.g. if I take a pic of a flower that looks like a dandelion, it could be a common dandelion, or hawkweed, or burnweed… and of those there are a dozen sub species. Knowing which one is native is really important.
Tldr yes
Paprika. It downloads saves and organizes recipes from just about any website, bypassing annoying ad floaters and, magically, paywalls. I use it constantly. It’s a one time purchase for all your devices. Does shopping lists too, if that’s your thing.
Just wanted to give a shout-out to QuickScan as its better than Abbyy FineReader/Scanner, private, and technically free although I support it by tipping
