Reeder. Pocket Casts, but I got it pre-subscription. Wipr.

Carrot Weather. Homicidal weather forecasts.

Tweetbot for sure. Best twitter client I’ve ever used.

Apollo for reddit. And Yomu for ebook reading

Things 3

Overcast

Also Amplosion from the same creator as Apollo. It bypasses amp from Google search results. One of the best purchases I’ve ever made, costs $2 I believe.

Soo:

1. CARROT Weather
2. Spark mail
3. Fenix (Twitter client without subscription)
4. TickTick (Tasks)
5. 1Password
6. Apollo Reddit
7. Duolingo/DeepL/Quizlet (My fav anguage learning apps)
8. Gemini (Photo management)
9. Photoleap/Videoleap/InShot/Darkroom (Photo edit)
10. Halide camera
11. Otter - meeting bot
12. Fantastical 2 (Calendar + meeting planner)
13. AdGuard (ad blocker)
14. CalcBot (Calculator)
15. Telegram (Messenger)

Nightsky+

Without a doubt r/Widgy

Would you say Carrot is still worth it with Apple improving their weather app?

Not sure if links are allowed but if not in a rush to buy apps, this might help you save a few bucks on them. Or at least see what prices they have been. https://appsliced.co/

I’ve been disappointed a few times at how much I paid to find it was a lot cheaper.

On that note, Monopoly and that devs games are great! Marmalade I believe.

Rarevision VHS & kirakira+

I just like spicing up my photos and videos.

RNI Flashback

I got burned by VSCO removing the free tools, so I went with this one.

You pay for apollo?

What do you like about it? Never bothered to use it as the twitter app seems..fine?

Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic is $5. I don't play it often but it's nice to have on a flight. Used to spend hours playing RCT2 as a kid and Classic is about as perfect of a port of 1 & 2 as you can get

I moved away from it, i mostly like the mystery location game

GoodNotes 5. Awesome app for taking notes and it auto saves into you’re favorite cloud service. If anyone has experience with any other note taking apps that work similarly let me know.

For me it’s Procreate Pocket

I don’t use many paid apps but my favourites are Pixelmator Photo, Tweetbot and Macro which is a camera app and Calcbot.

Monefy Pro. Very easy to track spendings

I use notability. Also auto backups to iCloud or one drive or wherever

Apollo, the best Reddit client

Apollo puts the basic and free corner stone feature of reddit, which is posting threads, behind a paywall.

I imagine that the vast majority of Apollo users paid for the app just to use reddit like it's intended.

Photopills

• Apollo Reddit (1-time payment, not subscription)
• Water Minder (1-time payment, hydration tracker)
• Auto Sleep (1-time payment, better with Apple Watch though)
• PanecalPlus (1-time payment, scientific calculator)
• PicSew (1-time payment, scrolling screen capture)
• Evernote (adhoc basis)
• Dropbox, OneDrive, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Spotify, Windscribe VPN (not really an app)

Calendars 5

I seem to be one of the few people that actually prefers the regular Reddit but the ads kill it. Not gonna pay like a tenner a month for no ads. That's why I am "stuck" with Apollo. Paying for Ultra though.

Ad guard, it’s a dollar a month

DayCount

My all time killer application is Due. I never miss anything I need to do and frees my mind of clutter

GTA Vice City

Please eli5 what this means

Kind of wanna move to Carrot weather just cause of their live activity that can show up on the dynamic island. Still not sure if Apple weather is better tho.

Noir - one-time paymant, dark mode for safari

Their apple watch app is very good

Spark stores your emails on their servers like many other email apps.

JustPressRecord

One time Payment

Quick Lock Screen widget tap and record with pause feature

use GPG encryption then

Mela

LoseIt for calorie tracking and weight loss tracking.

GoodTask

You should read their privacy policy

Do you mean posting to subreddits in general or leaving comments is blocked on Apollo's free tier? I only started paying premium for the notifications and hadn't noticed anything missing from free Apollo.

I tried Things 3 but the Widget Update issues and iPad + Mac Pricing and the fact that Things 4 may come in the next months made me refund it. I‘ll try Things 4 when it comes out. Also, you can‘t use it on Linux/Windows or non iPhone/iPad/Mac devices.

Apollo has free, premium and ultra, premium is a one time fee for additional features, ultra is a subscription for even more features. If you use Reddit Apollo Premium is excellent.

KeePassium

What is the best e-mail client then on iOS?

Procreate because it's a great app to draw on

You're forcing links to open the right url and not the amp link from Google

Apollo and Infuse

Also Goodnotes for the iPad users

Outlook

Did you actually read their privacy policy? They will hold on to your email only temporarily when you use “send later” feature - for obvious reasons.

Never heard of email client using own servers to hold users emails, it doesn’t make sense, server space is not free and they already have access to all your emails.

c25k

I don't get the Apollo hype. They layout is actually worse than the regular Reddit app imo

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No it's not. It's awful lol, use AccuWeather

BaconReader pro for Reddit - something I used to use on Android that I bought for my iPhone when I switched over as I’m used to it.

Unified Remote (iAP purchase to full) - another Android app I used to use to remote control computers with my phones touchscreen using the unified remote server. Great for HTPC setups.

Vinegar extension for Safari - found out about this on this subreddit. Used to use NewPipe on Android for listening to YouTube videos in the background and after seeing all the praise that Vinegar got on this sub, bought it for my iPhone and iPad to do exactly that with it. Blocks ads, enables seamless background playback so it’s a perfect replacement for my old NewPipe usage.

FL Studio Mobile - GarageBand is great but I simply prefer the way Fruity Loops Studio Mobole works on iOS and iPad Os. The fact that Image Line let you use any sound packs bought on Windows and Android across all devices is great too.

/r/MarvisApp. Pro mode for Apple Music. Customize metadata in lists (playlist, album list) and mini player/full screen player; also, smart rules to whittle down lists. So basically what you do is, you make a section for all the songs in your library (boring) and then you use rules to make a smart playlist that changes dynamically.

$8 USD, one time fee (also has a $5 Last.fm add-on, but I don't need/use it).

Genuinely asking: why is Apollo app considered better? I thought it was a wrapper around Reddit

How does Adguard work and where am does it work?

> I thought it was a wrapper around Reddit

Oh not at all. I don't know what it's called, the standard UI/UX for iOS apps like WhatsApp, Settings, and others, but Apollo uses the same UI/UX principles to make browsing reddit seem very very famliar on a mobile interface. Think of it like if Apple ever made a reddit client, it would look almost exactly like Apollo.

You were downvoted but all those are valid criticisms. It’s already $10 for the iPhone version then you gotta pay an extra $70 to have it on all your other devices. Also, exclusive to the Apple ecosystem but many of us still use Windows/Linux for work. It’s a great app but it does have its downsides.

Commenting is included in the free tier. It’s posting new topics that’s behind the paid version.

Pocketcast, although they turned subscription based for new users.

Not the person you were responding to, but thought I would chip in, if it’s alright.

Been using Tweetbot for the past few years, for a few reasons.

No ads. Less tracking from the app itself. And I’ve noticed way less battery drain compared to the official app.

Now, I much prefer the look of the official app. Tweetbot isn’t the slickest looking app. But I can look past that for a simple, clean user experience that doesn’t bombard me with ads or suck my battery dry.

Plus, it’s $6 a year to support the devs, so that’s not too bad, IMHO.

I’ve been using Tweetbot for years. It doesn’t have ads or promoted / suggested tweets in your timeline. It just shows the tweets of who you follow in chronological order, which is what I want, whereas I just opened the Twitter app and the first tweet is from 17 hours ago followed by a COD ad a tweet from 5 minutes ago and then a tweet from Elon musk, who I don’t follow, then tweet from someone I follow and then another ad. https://imgur.com/a/dBem1xd

Exactly, thanks for commenting.

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Lightroom mobile

Off topic question, but are itune gift cards still a thing? I just returned to the wall garden and assumed that apple's "Apple gift card" encompassed everything.

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ProCam offers sliders for exposure/shutter/focus that bring shots to a new level. The burst mode rules, you can choose a variety of output formats. Take shots with all lenses at once.

Pay once and it gets out of your way.

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Yeah Apple gift card can be used in App Store

Slow Shutter - for long exposure shots

That’s up to personal preference for sure, I found the official Reddit app to get more and more worse when it comes to layout as time went on. Not to mention viewing media (as in videos) is really wonky in the official app as of my experiences, especially as someone who commonly saves posts a lot. I like the gesture based upvotes and replying too, reduced a lot of screen clutter. Also it hides comments of people you blocked instead of it showing “[Blocked User]” all the time allowing you to see their text anyway, kind of defeating the purpose of the block feature. Especially when you use it to block nasty bigots.

Only thing I wish Apollo had which it doesn’t, is Drafts. I have not replied to some people because I typed a whole comment only for the app to close or something else and while it can recover the text.. sometimes it hard to ever find posts again.

I've used Edison mail since forever. On IOS it's called Email - Edison Mail. I use it for 5 different emails and love it. Never had any problems.

They're pretty serious about privacy and specifically state that all emails are fetched from your phone and stored on your device directly.

> Adguard

Firefox Focus seems to do the job for me.

Paprika 3 for managing recipes. It can automatically download from most websites, and with scan to text features in newer iPhones it’s easy to get text from books in. One license for iPhone and iPad, separate for MacOS.

I still dont understand but i think Ill buy it

1Password.

Calzy as a permanent replacement for the default calculator

Sometimes it is stuck on loading for me

I use GoodNotes for college and it’s great. There are some downsides but it’s pretty good.

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A privacy nightmare.

Money Manager. Budget/Expenses tracking (Has a free version).

Paprika. Recipe manager

Fantastical. Calendar app. I don’t use the subscription model. Paid for it when it was a purchase model.

And as many have said, Apollo. I don’t know if it’s still offered but I did the lifetime purchase. Think it was around $20-30.

Infuse

Lightroom Mobile

I’d be lost without it. One of the most useful apps on my phone for sure.

Procreate

•	BookBuddy
•	Budgito
•	GoodLinks
•	Apollo
•	Hevy
•	iA Writer
•	Tweetbot
•	Bobby
•	Tydlig
•	Split! your receipts
•	Collections Database
•	Noir - Dark mode for Safari
•	JustPressRecord
•	Crouton

Contacts+ - great contact app, allows continuous exchange between various other contact apps: iOS/google/outlook, etc. Next is My Radar Pro: best comprehensive app for showing storms, etc. Next is Fantastical - best I’ve found for a better calendar than each iOS/Google native apps.

When you open a link through google, it loads the page through their servers.

It’s supposed to speed up the experience, but what it actually does is fill the page with google ads, and google tracking.

Amplosion prevents safari from opening the google served page and instead opens the original.

It uses platform native UI. Instead of whatever that shit Reddit threw together.

It’s also got a much better text editor for adding formatting to comments.

It’s also much faster.

The only thing the official app does better is they have a few exclusive features that developers don’t have access to.

Like the instant messaging, Sign in with Apple, etc…

But it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.

Parcel. Cheap yearly subscription (like $3 per year if I recall), and you get an all in one parcel tracking app.

It supports pretty much every shipping company imaginable.

It even has Amazon integration and auto adds all your Amazon packages.

MacroFactor. The best macros app on the market. Much better than My Fitness Pal.

It also doesn't have that stupid button that takes you to the bottom of the post. Sometimes for some reason it's way too high and I end up being dragged to the bottom.. lol

I have Sky Guide which is similar and also paid and by far my favorite paid app ever

Does it actually work well?

I prefer Notability. Being able to record while taking notes is a huge feature for me.

Flighty

I’m a Linux user so I use three apps that I must have to interact with my computers. Flacbox, SimpleNote, and Enpass.

I have it but for some reason it doesn’t update Amazon tracking. Like I have to go into the app and refresh and it’ll eventually notify me about updates long after my package has arrived

It takes a few hours for me after I place an order. But it eventually shows up.

I'll give you the video portion. That's awful on the default Reddit app. I still paid for Apollo so I can support small devs

I suppose for someone who uses Reddit a lot, it probably makes the experience better. I personally can't stand scrolling on my phone and seeing all these repetitive ads, and I know Apollo would get rid of the ads, but like you, I'm not a fan of the layout, so I stick with the regular app and deal with stupid ads.

accuweather isn't anything special either.

How is it better than Apple notes?

Lumafusion, worth every penny but I might have to upgrade it once Davinci Resolve comes out for iPad

Calm. It keeps me sane.

4biddenknowledge

Apollo obviously.

Halide

1blocker

BitWarden is the best Password Manager as well but it’s free.

You can personalize the layout.

Personally, the only thing the Official Reddit app is good for is Chat or opening reddit links from outside Apollo when I'm way down the queue and don't want to lose my place.

And if Apollo gets chat functionally, the only time I'll be opening the official app is from external apps when this shit site refuses to let me see more comments it in browser

Why pay for it though? The free version of Apollo works great. The only thing I'm missing is notifications, but I keep the regular Reddit app installed for those.

Because of the notifications. Kinda liking the idea of using both apps like that, I will do that haha

I paid for the app because it's the cheapest, best looking alternative to get rid of ads. Also, I didn't want this new reddit UX, it's absolute shit (old.reddit.com redirect browser extension is second after ublock Origins on any new computer), but sometimes, I need to see the profile bio to get the information I need and Apollo doesn't support that (yet?).

In fact, if I didn't absolutely need the new features on occasion, I wouldn't have even downloaded the app, but people keep messaging me on the chat or the aforementioned profile bio (which, to remind you, are both, effectively, products of the new UX (chat may be a little older)).

No ads and a better media viewer

There's too many customizable features to say it looks as if it was made by Apple

Procreate: Perfect for drawing

CPU-X

https://apps.apple.com/lk/app/cpu-x-dasher-z-battery-life/id1359763765

YNAB

Apollo and CARROT

if you care more about weather than the average person, 100%. the iOS 16 weather app gives more than enough information for most people. CARROT has a lot more customization and personality, and if you don't want to pay for Ultra you can use a nice free radar app like MyRadar for your radar needs (if you live in the US or Australia)

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Is Things 4 due out soon?

Fitbod. Been good at tracking exercise

You know you Can open straight from browser to Apollo right?

Reeder 5 (RSS Reader)

PCalc/Calcbot (Calculator)

Ventusky (Weather)

Kiwix (offline Wikipedia)

Mactracker (Apple products wiki)

Butleroy,WeekCal (Calender)

Yoink (Clipboard Manager)

Mela,Paprika (Cooking)

AppRaven (discover new apps)

Strongbox,Keepassium (Keepass Password Manager)

1Blocker,AdGuard Pro (Adblocker,rules)

Mimir Podcast (Podcast Player)

lmaoo

Isn’t it infinitely faster to type in notes on a keyboard, though?

Athlytic is my go-to for fitness recovery (think of Whoop for Apple Watch)

That’s crazy man I can’t stand that garbage Reddit app. Apollo beats it by miles with an engaged developer consistently and constantly trying to enhance it.

Paprika 3

You know when you go to find a recipe, and the website is littered with ads, as you scroll the page jumps around, so annoying! With Paprika you use the share button to import the recipe into a much easier to read and use format! Plus it allows you to store and rate the recipes, as well as have a inventory of your pantry, and even make shopping lists!

It’s hands down my favourite app I have ever spent money on!

My all time favourite app everrrrr!!!

Procreate is it for me. Amazing app to draw or scribble on. Got many hours just drawing and keeping myself preoccupied while working at home. It’s just one those many jewels I’m glad I have found.

I know. But I don't want to potentially lose my place where ever I am. Most times, I just leave Apollo open, but sometimes I need an answer to a question and I don't always expect it to be on reddit.

I don’t recommend to anyone to subscribe to anything, Why? Because is a waste of money supporting greedy companies which made $T of money from fee’s.

If you really want to support devs by the product or service directly avoiding the middle man who take 30 percentages just by being clever to addict the user in his golden cage. Think yourself what you own when you pay for subscriptions?

Shame they moved to a subscription model.

Sure but I don’t always have a desk to sit at for using a keyboard. Also, you can upload a pdf into GoodNotes and write on it where a keyboard isn’t useful there. I am an engineer so I am always redlining drawings or reports or making sketches or just making extra comments to clear things up as parts get built. My drawings get uploaded in real time and my team gets them instantly. For personal notes, I make a lot of sketches so being able to draw with the Apple Pencil is great.

You can sketch and draw over any pdf you upload into it. If you’re a student you can upload a book or a professors slides and take notes over it with an Apple Pencil. I upload drawings or reports and redline them using my iPad and I get the notes back at my desk instantly or I can share them to my team using any cloud service. I’ve only used the basic apple notes app for quick notes here and there where I just need to type.

I haven’t used that one but I’ll check it out. Although I wouldn’t use recording very much.

You can just swipe backwards and it will return you.

Does money manager export data from credit cards too or just debit

Carmageddon

Idle Acorns, I think I paid $3 for it. It’s a fun little incremental idle game that I like to check up on a couple of times per day.

I’m not sure if Google still does this but when you do a Google search and open one of the results it’ll open a different version of the page that says amp on top and messes up the layout of the page.

Those ad free 3rd party apps of my most used social media apps such as twitter and Reddit

Yeah I couldn’t get into it, Narwhal is much more natural for me

I know and ok with that. Couldn’t find anything visually better and simpler except superhuman (30$\month).

I’m using Safari browser. It works like an extension

Speech Central. It’s a text-to-speech app. And it’s actually free, but has a £6.99 one-time upgrade.

I’m someone who uses the accessibility screen reader a lot so that I can “read” things while I’m walking. But this app just makes the whole experience so much better.

My primary use case for it is reading webnovels. They’re published online, usually one chapter per webpage. So what I do is write my own web scraper to extract the novel into a text document that I convert into an .epub and import it into this app. Suddenly I’ve got a full audiobook, and the best thing is I don’t have to tap next page and restart the screen reader every chapter.

This never work for me. It always opens in the default app. What am I missing? I follow the instruction video located in Apollo settings.

Retro bowl

Miles ahead of the stock app

Do you get annoying alarms that keep on ringing until you disable them? Standard iPhone notifications app just beeps once and I never pay any attention to it. And does it have location based alarms?

I'm a student so I use the recording function to record lectures. It's a legitimately useful feature for me.

apple have dark sky now and its gonna be in the default weather app for free, also, paying for widgets 😹😹

Timepage by Moleskine

The bundle with Actions and Flow, which I have, is really nice. Everything links together really well.

Soro - customised shortcuts for Sonos speakers. Essential if you want to create macro commands for your speakers, or automate them.

Microsoft Wordament…wasn’t sure if it was mentioned. Great word dame worth the $10 a year!

Actually I don’t, but I’m a bit fastidious. I own the desktop application too which helps organize and remind me when to leave and what to take kind of thing. Lots of different applications out there, but I’ve found this one to be the brain dump stuff so I can enjoy life and not have to keep all the little details in my head.

Accounts Tracker Pro. Fab money management tool. Even syncs across users.

The problems with the twitter app:

• It shows ads between your tweets.
• Sometimes it reverts back to showing you tweets selected by the algorithm instead of showing tweets from people you follow, in chronological order. And you have to change that setting again.
• It doesn't remember the last tweet you saw!!!

Totally fine that’s your choice. I put that there in case someone didn’t know.

Spotify premium. It’s my music center.

Mimir is such an amazing app!

I can't go into every other website in the world and force them to send me GPG-encrypted emails. The emails are going to arrive unencrypted.

You could use a provider that stores your emails encrypted. But when the app requests the emails using IMAP, they're coming unencrypted, otherwise the email app wouldn't be able to read it and show it to you.

If the email app gets them unencrypted... it was all for nothing. So how does it solve the problem mentioned?

> I imagine that the vast majority of Apollo users paid for the app just to use reddit like it's intended.

Most users of freemium apps NEVER pay a cent for the app, even after using it for years.

It's rare to see a majority of paying users. So... vast majority? I think it's easier for me to be crowned the next UK emperor, or czar, or whatever it's called.