I’m curious to discover more stuff that exists in the App realm, there must be some small indie apps we don’t know about everywhere
If you travel a lot, Toilet finder.
drivvo if you do your own car maintenance or want to track mileage.
PianOli: A little toy piano for your kids to play without being able to swipe out and mess with your other apps.
Flashlight: Flashlight from the Simple suite, that allows you to pulse or strobe your phone’s torch. It can even pulse SOS messages.
Moonlight: Stream your entire desktop (e.g. gaming PC) to your phone using the sunshine (previously nvidia gamestream) protocol. Works fantastic.
Easily Converter Now. So darn handy.
I got a couple of apps I’d recommend in a heartbeat.
Spectdroid is a spectrogram app. Its unreasonable how often I’m using this app. I got some mild tinnitus that comes and goes and this app allows me to find out if I got some actual weird buzzing I’m the house or if it’s just in my head.
And LocalSend is an amazing app for sending files between various devices and OSes over a local network. I no longer need to set up file shares, plug in my phone to a computer, or use cloud storage just to transfer over some files.
LocalSend
I’ve been using TrebleShot for that for a years now, but maybe I’ll try LocalSend
LocalSend is amazing. So easy to use! Impressed that google haven’t been able to make a product as simple as localsend for Android.
I honestly feel silly for not having looked up a solution like it earlier.
Spectroid is great! I use it to tune my 3d printer.
Oh, that sounds cool! What is it you tune? I imagine some coil whine from heating elements maybe?
Trail Sense, it’s all the “survival” tools in one great package. Do I use it often? No. Does it feel like unwrapping my favourite toy every time I open it? Absolutely.
Walkscape. It’s like Pokémon go and runescape but without the emptional manipulation.
Or
Streetcomplete - gamify openstreetmap and help fill out the map.
I just got accepted into the beta for walkscapes. It’s such a relaxing game and using steps vs distance is super nice to have as a tracking system.
I’ve just finished making my Streetcomplete account! And I’ve got some work around me it’s gonna be fun
For me it’s StreetComplete. It’s like Pokémon Go, but you’re doing actual map quests that help verify or correct information in Open Street Maps.
And if you do enough per month, you get free map downloads without a subscription if you use OSM the app.
I think it’s only on Android though.
This is the most addictive thing I’ve done in a while. It’s rare to find something where just two clicks can help in a bigger project, and at least where I live there are thousands on tiny dots to check
I wish they’d get people to verify transit schedules literally the only reason Google maps finds itself on my phone
There’s also a more powerful version of it called SCEE
Wooow! Now that’s a fun and useful game like I’ve been searching for a while! Downloaded count me in!!!
Same I use it so much. Really fun to fill in info
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Not an app, a site:
Free Photoshop clone. For my needs, it’s over the top perfect.
It works really well and has been my go too for studies last year
Replying to save for later
Syncthing, its not a recent discovery.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid/
(written by one of our own!)
A daily use of me, it’s perfect as it is
Traffick Cam: Help combat sex trafficking by uploading photos of hotel rooms from your travels
Traffickers regularly post photographs of their victims posed in hotel rooms for online advertisements. These photographs are evidence that can be used to find and prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes. In order to use these photos, however, investigators must be able to determine where the photos were taken.
This apps seems to be poorly rated. What has your experience been?
There seems to be little information online about the organization who runs it, Exchange Initiative. They have an inactive Facebook account and an abandoned website. I don’t see my self using this without having more assurance on its efficacy and privacy policies
Wow, I am, impressed to see something like this exists
For anyone looking to play Super Mario Sunshine and wants to consider 100%, there’s “Blue Coin Tracker”.
Not only can you check off what you’ve found, but it’s got screenshots, descriptions, and strategies to help you find it. Even links to YouTube clips if you’re still stuck!
It’s invaluable. The blue coins are pretty evil in that game.
This reminds me of tinyapps.org . I loved this resource in the early aughts.
I make an email app called Port87. It’s better than any other email apps (imo), because it organizes all your email for you.
It’s still behind a waitlist, because I’m working out the kinks (damn kinky software).
How is the labeling feature different from plus sub addressing (ex: johndoe+spam@email.com) and what platform(s) is the app for? If it says on your site, I missed it
Well, it is subaddressing, but has more related features on top of that. It automatically labels emails based on the address, and allows you to set some settings for that label, like mark as read, send push notifications, show in the “Aggbox” (the equivalent of the inbox), and screen new senders. That last one is important, because it means you can use labels for communicating with real people, and labels for getting email from automated senders (like your account email).
Right now, it’s a progressive web app. I’m working on a mobile app and IMAP support (so it will work with any email client). I’m also working on custom domain support, so you can bring your own domain and if you end up wanting to move somewhere else, you can keep all the same addresses you set up.
