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
ShareWaste. You can sign up that you have a compost pile or chicken to feed, etc, and people with food scraps can find places to “donate” to! I have 3 or 4 regular contributers to my compost pile!
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
If you travel a lot, Toilet finder.
Edit: and not an app, but a website: Pairdrop - really useful for cross-platform file sharing, especially when you just need to email to colleagues something you snapped with your personal phone, but yoe have overly tight IT systems in place at work that stop you from connecting your personal phone to your email or OneDrive.
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Yidio to find movies and shows and where they are cheapest.
Transit to take public transit to get somewhere. It’s not designed like a typical map app.
Db meter to see if the audio around you is too loud. I use this a lot when at bars.
Onx/gaia for mapping/nav when off-roading and other recreational activities where youll be off network.
Could you explain more about transit?
It’s designed specifically to take public transit. It also uses your location data when on a bus/train to let other people know if there are delays.
During route planning you see the type of transit and what your connections look like. It also tells you when the next bus/train is arriving. Knowing the next bus is 10mins away vs 45mins is important.
I’ve been using Transit to get around the DC Metro area for a few years now. It’s pretty damn helpful and reliable. Sometimes they’re not accurate (buses don’t show up in their system, or are in the system, but never show at the stop) but I expect that with public transit.
Either way, it’s the best app I’ve found (for this area at least).
Sounds ace, thanks
Pocket Bard is great for setting adaptive music in D&D sessions. Pick a setting (town, cave, woods, dungeon, etc.), choose the activity the party is doing (exploration or battle), choose an intensity. The music will automatically adapt and fluidly change to match the situation.
Do you know of an alternative that allows custom music and sounds? I haven’t found anything that works well.
Web Video Caster is probably my most used app. It casts just about anything to just about anything. It’s worked better than anything else on my Chromecast and when I’ve needed to connect to Roku.
It supports IPTV, playlist creation, bookmarks, watch history, recent played, resume from last position, and a ton more.
The dev has been great whenever I’ve reported bugs and has added a few requests over the years.
Too Good To Go has been awesome since I heard about it on How I Built This. It’s designed to reduce food waste, but I think that makes it sound less appealing than it is.
Participating eateries estimate how much product they will have to throw out at the end of the day. It’s not bad stuff, but stuff they made too much of. Instead of tossing it, they set it aside, and you come take it for pennies on the dollar. No extra work for them, cheap mystery box of eats for you.
We’ve tried many fancy local bakeries we couldn’t really afford, tried new local pizza places, got some great frozen treats and an ice cream cake from the premium ice cream place, and some great Jamaican takeout from a place near my work that’d normally be out of the way.
We also stock up on bagels from the Manhattan Bagel. They’re normally around a dollar each, but we get 15-18 for $5 and then we freeze them. Been doing that for months now, saving a ton of money. Sometimes we get misshapen ones, it flavors we don’t really like, but we still come out way ahead, or we learn different ways to use things, like the salt bagels we didn’t originally like.
I wish Too Good To Go was in use in my city. My friend lives in Oakland and she uses it all the time. She said it’s a bit hit-or-miss, though. She’s shown up at some places and they’re like, “here’s a bag, fit it up with whatever and we’ll charge you $n for it.” Once it was a shelf of stuff and they said she could as much stuff as she wanted from the shelf for the same price. Once when I was visiting her, we got a huge bag of baked goods. If nothing else, it can help familiarize you with areas and businesses you may not have come across otherwise.
The bagel place is like that sometimes where they haven’t made the buzz yet and they let us pick. The Jamaican place has seemed the same every time, but it’s a great portion of assorted items. We also got good stuff from a vegan, non-every allergen place. The prices were premium, but the stuff was really tasty, and even though we didn’t have special diet restrictions, other family members do, do we could promote it to them. We’ve also gotten to try different things we don’t normally order, like we get a big bag of pepperoni rolls from a pizza place, and the other place is the sausage food truck thing outside Home Depot which was actually really tasty.
Only once did we feel a place was a little less generous, but it still wasn’t a bad deal for the price, just in comparison to other grab bags.
It’s got us to try both local stuff we’ve never gotten to check out, and also things a little further away than we’d normally go to because it’s a cheap adventure with really nothing to lose.
+1 for too good to go. It depends on where you go, but I have had good experiences.
It does vary by day and location, but the surprise is part of the fun. I’m between suburb and rural and there’s a decent number of choices, and new things get added with some regularity. It also makes it fun to use while traveling.
I thought this is also a nice one to recommend here as it actually started as a European app, so it’s nice that it’s not US only, so non-Americans may actually have better luck for a change.
Too good to go sounds like a wonderful idea that will shortly get ruined by businesses trying to cheat the system
In my rural area’s 50 mile radius, there are just gas stations with to-go bags. The gas stations are, at best, convenience stores.
I uninstalled the app after seeing it was just an advertising opportunity for those gas stations.
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
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
Grainstorm
It’s a ridiculously versatile granular sampler synthesizer. Obviously not for everyone, but it’s super fun to just make weird soundscapes with. Even with just your phone mic.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
I geocache and some people don’t know about c:geo. It’s a really good app for geocaching because it has so many tools.
c:geo is great! The official app won’t show you caches over a certain difficulty (don’t remember the exact number) unless you’re premium. They’re not actually premium only, you can see them on the website, it’s just a bullshit restriction on the app.
c:geo is a lifesaver for that reason alone, imo.
Indeed! I geocache and didn’t know about it! Downloaded! I’ll be running it to try!
It’s open source and on F-Droid too!
where though? All I found was: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/menion.android.whereyougo/
Ah it’s because I’ve added the izzyonfdroid repo
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