What’s the most useful app on your phone?

ottolwinner

Apart from calls and messaging. What is the most useful app on your phone and why?

yagan

Any weather app with a decent rainfall radar.

Oink

revolut. I can’t believe mainstream banks haven’t pulled the finger out yet.

Sigma101

Stellarium - for when I need to find Jupiter in a hurry.

Easily the best app on my phone.

Strumms

Instagram …. love photography and the version of that app now is excellent.

Tiktok… don’t upload stuff but it’s good for a laugh / entertainment and killing about 30 minutes a day scrolling etc…

Guitar tuner…. Don’t have to go searching for tuners and buying batteries for tuners. They eat batteries…app is super accurate too… my ear just isn’t.

Spotify… for tunes 😎

freshpopcorn

I like my Google wallet for my cards.

However it would have to be TikTok(I know). I mainly see stuff I enjoy, music, comedy, bit of TV programs from past and present, the odd cooking video, Nostalgia Videos. It's all stuff I enjoy and no current affairs, negativity, etc.

One eyed Jack

Google Maps, although sometimes I like to switch it up a bit and remind myself how awful Apple Maps is by comparison, just for the craic, then back to Google.

Reason? I’d be lost without it 😬

Akrasia

Ultimate guitar for when I want guitar tabs to songs I'm not able to play

i124Q

Waze. It has saved me countless times on the road. Not just for penalty points. But also standstill traffic that has come out of nowhere and random objects on the road or roadworks.

SoapMcTavish

Google translate - brilliant for travelling - does voice, text and photos of text .. eg menu's

ottolwinner

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122033150#Comment_122033150

im going to give this one a go. Never heard of it before. Thanks.

taxAHcruel

Don't use my phone much. But find myself sometimes using some hiking apps like AllTrails and Komoot and a couple of others for finding places to go alone or with the kids that I might not otherwise have discovered. Especially when outside Ireland or in parts of Ireland I do not normally go.

Other than that I generally just use apps for tracking my running or to listen to podcasts while I am running. So Strava and Spotify mostly.

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122032701#Comment_122032701

Living in the west of Ireland, I had to turn off the predictive weather notifications on my iPhone. I used to get about 20 of these a day:

CuriousCucumber

Strava - Use it so much, that I'm happy to pay €60 a year for the Premium version, despite barely using these features

X - Amazing for following sports and breaking news

Spotify - Use it in the car, when working, and when out walking

Google Maps - use it for travelling, planning, general nosey-ness

Alonzo Mosley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122033218#Comment_122033218

Brilliant app …..

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122033218#Comment_122033218

I only heard of it recently when folk were discussing boycotting Israeli goods.

FunGoose

Pushbullet is a great app for instantly sending photos, videos, music, screenshots, links etc. from desktop to mobile, and vice versa. The free version is limited to 100 messages a month which is more than enough, for me anyway.

I.am.Putins.raging.bile.duct

Radio Garden. Tune in to any radio station in the world. No need to suffer the crap on Irish radio. It's available on desktop too.

tayto lover

LiveScore to keep me up to date with what's happening in the football and to watch the highlights.

Montage of Feck

The only app I pay for is Strava, so I can see how crap my athletic abilities are! But the most useful one has got to be Google maps.

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drury..

Live guide , comprehensive sports guide

Maps

i124Q

It's the best!

BaywatchHQ

The RTE player app is useful for me as it allows me to cast to the TV, my Northern Ireland TV won't allow me to download the RTE app. When I search for it there is no sign of it, although the TG4 app works. Also it allows you to watch things in HD as we don't have access to RTE HD.

hoodie6029

Tidal - high quality audio for music

Duolingo

Borrowbox for free ebooks and audiobooks

Local library app for reservations etc

ChatGPT

bladespin

Waze

MyFitnessPal

GuitarTuna

Revolut

Audible

igCorcaigh

A lot of the above, but I'd also like to add Shazam, and BirdNET (like Shazam but for birds).

Oh, and Transit for busses (on Android for me). WAY better than the TFI app, and is international and multi-modal AFAIK.

Sheedy234

GOOGLE MAPS best thing invented 😃

SuperBowserWorld

Android Digital Wellbeing app, can put daily time limits on apps and websites.

igCorcaigh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122050614#Comment_122050614

I just wish that businesses would keep their opening hours updated on it! But yes, an amazing piece of tech. 👍️

O'Neill

City Mapper- not perfect but amazing given it’s free.

ottolwinner

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122050599#Comment_122050599

I like that bird app you mentioned. I use one called Merlín. Free also and great info.

iamstop

Maps

Chrome/Firefox/Ad Block Browser - Surfing da web.

Whatsapp/Signal/Instagram/Snapchat for messaging

AIMP/Black Player/Spotify - For music

Microsoft Swiftkey - For fast enter of text

Wiz - To control my smart bulbs

Bank app to check balances, pay bills, send and accept etransfers.

Google rewards - earn a little coin to use for in app purchases.

Weather Underground

Speedtest - Check network speeds

Adobe Acrobat - Viewing PDFs

Camera app - Allows some more control that just point and shoot.

Oscar_Madison

Dunnes Stores- use it weekly for my money off vouchers 😀

But seriously just posting to follow the thread to keep a watch out - already learned about some interesting apps -I’ve Chat GPT downloaded and has already helped with work stuff so really looking forward to exploring that more - totally recommend if you haven’t taken the leap into this area yet

padd b1975

Road Lords.

It's basically Google maps with all the restrictions trucks have to follow.

Low bridges, unsuitable roads etc

tom23

Spotify. The best there is at what it does.

tom23

using chatgpt a lot in work. brilliant.