I would love to know what other people consider essential apps. What are some cool apps that not many people are using? 

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      I’m still using the Super Agent extension, but the constant nagging to subscribe is really starting to annoy me!

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      Thanks, just installed Vinegar, Baking Soda, Banish, and Hush at your recommendation and I am loving the difference!

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      If Safari extensions worked in 3rd party iOS browsers that would be great. I’m using Vivaldi (in beta) and like it a lot.

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      you pay so much just to block a bunch of ads. You could achieve the same for free with a Raspberry Pi in your home and PiHole.

      In the end it doesn’t matter, the result is the same

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      Does Vinegar and Baking Soda still work well? I noticed the apps haven’t been updated for almost a year.

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          Thanks for the response! Yeah, I am aware it is an extension for the website through safari, I appreciate you pointing that out though. I’ve been eyeing those two forever, I’ll pick them up.

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    Besides the big ones:

    • Octal - App for Hacker News
    • Poe - Quora’s implementation of ChatGPT
    • Artifact - News app that lets you mark headlines as clickbait and then uses AI to rewrite them with helpful info
    • LunaSea - Interface for my home instances of Sonarr and Radars
    • Strong - Weightlifting app
    • Diarium - Low-cost and straightforward journal app
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          that’s what got me on it! i ended up paying for unlimited. it was also really neat when Claude-100k (large context) dropped we got access right away.

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      Haven’t heard of any of these, great! I use HACK for Hackernews, I’ll see which one I like the best.

      Poe, is that Quora embracing AI, and is it trained on their own data? Very interesting.

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        Poe has options for their own AI (Sage), as well as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. If you use the premium versions of either of those (GPT4 and Claude+), you have to pay.

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    Bitwarden for password management.

    Anki for learning anything that can be made into a flashcard.

    Infuse for connecting to my Plex server or for watching local content I loaded myself.

    Sleep Cycle for tracking my sleep and being my alarm clock.

    Trakt for tracking movies and TV shows.

    MyAniList for tracking specifically anime and manga.

    AppRaven for setting up price/updates/release alerts for apps in the App Store.

    Sentinel 2FA Authenticator is my 2FA choice since it syncs with iCloud and I’m well into the Apple ecosystem.

    AdGuard for adblocking and DNS filtering.

    DeepL is my my choice of translator app.

    GoodNotes 5 for taking notes on my iPad.

    Overcast for listening to podcasts. I also use it to listen to audiobooks so that I have the same features for speeding up and removing quiet portions, but this requires uploading mp3 files through a web portal and requires the subscription to have more space available.

    Paprika 3 for managing cooking recipes.

    TechniCalc for my calculator.

    Zotero is my reference manager since I’m in academia.

    StopTheMadness is such a powerful safari extension.

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    Logseq (my everything app)
    Ulysses (for all my writing)
    Procreate (for drawing)
    Raindrop.io (for links)
    Bend (stretching app, great for creating my own routines based on health status)
    Antistress (app with all sorts of low stress games for when anxiety goes through the roof)
    wefwef, vernissage and mona (fediverse)

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    Here are the apps I used that I’m not seeing.

    • FoodNoms for calorie counting
    • Waking Up for guided meditation
    • Finch for gamified general mental health
    • Future for asynchronous virtual training
    • Tripsy for travel tracking
    • Organic Maps for offline mapping
    • Transit for navigating most US cities via public transit
    • Fastmail for personal email (Apple Mail for work email)
    • 1Password for password management
    • Elaho for browsing Gemini
    • Tidal for music
    • Vellum for cool backgrounds
    • SwiftScan for scanning documents
    • iPlum for a cheap business phone number
    • Kagi Search to set the Kagi search engine as the default in Safari
    • Parcel for package tracking
    • Mona for Mastodon

    And I’ll second some others.

    • Overcast
    • Bookplayer
    • Reeder
    • AnyList
    • Sleep Cycle
    • Signal
    • Obsidian
    • Vinegar
    • Noir
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    Sofa and Up Ahead are my two favourites. Neither of them fulfill an essential “function” and they both have subscriptions but they bring a ton of joy to my life.

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    Wipr : No fuss ad blocker, one time payment. StopTheMadness : Native video player on the web (+YT) and many general web improvements. Sequel : Media tracking app (Movies, Shows, Games, Books) with a nice UI. It has a subscription, but the free version has worked well enough for me.

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    • Reeder for RSS (connected to FreshRSS)
    • Overcast for podcasts
    • Linkthing for reading list/saved links (connected to linkding)
    • Bookplayer for audiobooks (can airdrop a folder of audio files to ingest)
    • MyNetDiary for diet tracking
    • WebSSH for ssh client
    • Infuse for all things video (connected to Jellyfin)
    • FE File Explorer for connecting to SMB shares
    • Bitwarden for passwords
    • DailyArt widget for nice art on home screen
    • Shockwave to kill Google amp
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      I often use the built in Files.app for connectivity to SMB shares. Is there additional functionality that FE File Explorer offers?

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    Most of the apps I use for my personal life exist for both iOS and macOS

    • Ghostery as an AdBlocker
    • Reeder 5 RSS client syncing over iCloud
    • DayOne journaling app
    • Omnifocus GTD app

    On smartphone only

    • Wikipedia, because most of the search I make on iPhone are knowledge related
    • WefWef! Because you know why
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    Not iOS-only but, great on iOS:

    Telegram: fav messenger

    TickTick: best reminders app imo

    Bitwarden: great password manager

    Marvis: cool 3rd party app for Apple Music, connects with Last.fm too

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    I have answered so many of these posts with just one app: Apollo. Mighty sad it’s gone. Therefore I’d pick Reeder, I think.

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    Meta for iPhone, the best network utility tool you can get

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    Since all big service are killing them selfs I lost may of my favourite app.

    But Watcht for tracking movies and TV shows is still my favourite. Seems development stopped 3 years ago, but as all good apps still works great