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
For iOS/mac, I love the Vinegar extension. It’s great for stripping YouTube down to just the video, provided you use Safari instead of the YouTube app. It also regularly updates. Yes, I know there are free ways to do this (it’s $1.99), but this is more about convenience and supporting a dev.
FYI you can get ad-free youtube in safari for free with AdGuard
It’s been absolutely fantastic for me, I keep recommending it to friends but they don’t like the $1.99 price and yet keep getting upset when ads play. I’ve started replacing apps with safari links on my home page and YouTube is one of them thanks to vinegar.
Not an app, a site:
Free Photoshop clone. For my needs, it’s over the top perfect.
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It works really well and has been my go too for studies last year
kinder world, it’s a plant-watering emotions-thinking about game that’s a cover for a mindfulness app. really effective because cute animal characters.
Léon URL Cleaner
It’s a simple app that strips extra unnecessary details like tracking tags from copied URL links. Highly recommended for sake of privacy, plus the cleaned links are shorter and tidier.
I wanted so badly for the app icon to be a potted plant.
ChildIDFile. Creates a secure file of your kid’s information that lives only on your personal device but can be shared with police quickly. Hopefully you never need it
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
I’ve been using Daylio for years.
It’s designed to track moods and the activities associated with them, but it’s adaptable, so I use it to track my headaches. It’s very easy to use and it doesn’t feel onerous to record the information.
I used to use it a few years ago! Then I forgot about it, and now I’m just using Obsidian, but it’s a fun way to think about our days
Daylio has 10M+ downloads on Google Play
Daylio is great.
URL Check It acts like an intermediary to open in browser when you click on a URL. Its useful to kinda look at the URL before it opens and choose browser.
Audio Share Relays audio from PC to mobile through network
PCAPDroid Packet capture for Android
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starred this comment, great recommendations
I’d also like to add:
WiFiAnalyzer: Find empty channels to put your network into, and also scan hotel rooms for hidden wifi cameras
GPSTest: Debug your GPS signal to see why its taking so long to lock on.
That sounds interesting, do wifi cameras show up differently compared to normal networks?
They tend to have hidden SSIDs. Just a network without a name that your phone doesn’t see
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.
I use the AR tool for sun positions every time I’m finding a tent spot or to watch a sunrise/set, and the bubble level is perfect for finding a tent spot that isn’t tilted 2 degrees towards your head so you wake up with a headache.
That is a great use of this tool that I have not thought about!
If sunrise and sunset is your thing then the website suncalc.net works great to find what places will have the best views for different times of year.
I go watch the sunset as part of my solstice and equinox adventures so finding new places with nice views is fun.
It may have to start being my thing, I moved to a place on ground floor with no sunrise or sunset view. I never thought about it when moving, so now I’ll have to supplement my sunset intake
sshuttle, the poor man’s VPN. It creates an SSH tunnel to a remote host, and routes all traffic to a specific address or subnet through it.Brain Waves for binaural beats
Lemmy Boost
I’m recently enjoying walkscape, which is an RPG where you have to walk in real life to progress in game activities, such as crafting or fighting.
It’s in closed beta, but you can sign up for the next wave of beta invites and I got in pretty fast
Also, I downloaded streetcomplete but haven’t really gotten around to it. It’s an app where you map out your surroundings for open source maps with Infos, like opening times at a bank or the width of the street or the type of road, etc. A cool concept, but I always forget about it
Haha I was gonna suggest it too, it’s been a lot of fun! Helps get me walking and the community are nice :-)
I have been using walkscape as well. My walks with the dogs have almost doubled in length, just because I have a little incentive to achieve a goal in the game.
I’ve been eyeing walkspace since I discovered it on lemmy, it’s just that because it’s in Beta waves, I know when I’ll get access to it, my hype to try it out will be gone. And I won’t use it :/ so I’m waiting
I use YouCut to condense short porn vids into very short highlight loops
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 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.
Knowing Google, they will probably kill it after months of neglect.
I’m not sure what you mean; Google doesn’t have anything to do with LocalSend, do they?
LocalSend
I’ve been using TrebleShot for that for a years now, but maybe I’ll try LocalSend
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?
Motors?
It’s for the belt tension actually! Like a guitar tuner. It’s just one tool in the process though as it is not just the frequency of the belts that matter. Instead the frequency/resonance helps get the belts into similar tension before doing more adjustment.
