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What are your favorite iOS/iPadOS/macOS apps?

I’m looking for new apps to try out. I have a soft spot for apps that are written in Swift or at least follow Apple’s HIG. I’m also curious to know what you use these apps for!

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  • Parcel (all platforms): the best shipment tracker you’ll ever use

    Solves (all platforms): it’s basically identical to the built in calculator but is 1,000,000x better

    Music Library Tracker (iOS, iPadOS): keeps track of the change in your Apple Music library and can automatically make a spatial audio playlist for you

    Mlem (iOS, iPadOS): the best Lemmy client

    Vinegar (all platforms): a Safari extension that makes YouTube use the native video player, adds PiP for free and removes ads!

    Baking Soda (all platforms): replaces custom video players in other sites with the native one

    Crouton (all platforms): a natively built recipe manager. I don’t use it much but it’s really well made

    MacWhisper (macOS): uses openAI’s whisper model to create super accurate transcriptions of audio and video files

    Monitor Control (macOS): allows you to control the brightness of external monitors (other than Apple’s)

    Calipers Tape Measure (iOS): a super accurate set of Calipers for your iPhone

    Cric Pulse (iOS): the only cricket app with live activities

  • YNAB (Financial, subscription required)
    Lost It! (Calorie counting)
    AdGuard Pro (Ad blocker)
    mSecure (Password manager)
    Pixelmator (Image editor)
    Smart Photo (Photo widgets)
    Night Sky & SkySafari (Astronomy apps)

  • macOS: iTerm is just superior and so configurable. Magnet is great for moving and snapping windows. Last recommendation: column mode in Finder. It's perfect and should be the default everywhere!

  • For_ me it will be: Organic maps for finding new tracks for walks plus Merlin Birds. Kindle - books, Mammoth and Voyager - mastodon and Lemmy, I love hue/I love hue too - simple games to kill the time.

  • Notion- notes, todos, project management Libby and Hoopla- ebooks, eaudioBooks, comics Goodnotes- more note taking (but a lot of people use this for digital bullet journaling) Procreate- art Things- honestly amazing task management, but I felt like I needed something available on pc or web for work, goes great with Bear which I saw someone else suggest. Ice cubes- mastodon Avelon- lemmy

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