What are your must have/most useful smartphone applications that you recommend?

[jesusshuttlesworth34]

Whether you have an Iphone or an Android smartphone (or even a Blackberry still) there are tons and tons of useful apps. Some are already prevalent and well known and others are diamonds in the rough.


Share some or provide feedback on some as well.




A few that I use:



Waze: living in the DC metro area and commuting, this is pretty accurate and a useful way to drive to places during congestion and traffic.

Around Me: good for traveling to new places and provides a list of stores/things around your current location.

Zillow: I'm interested in property value/prices for real estate and this shows you what the prices of real estate are for a specific location or your current location. I just came back from the beach and this was cool to see what some of the ocean front properties were worth/selling for.

Whats App: Cool way to text/chat internationally for free.

 

[jackieboy]

Flashlight for iPhone

 

[odog24]

ebay

netflix

weatherbug elite

elixir 2

chrome

zillow

evernote

 

[Smorgasbordgie]

Poynt
SB Nation
Flashlight
Mr. Number
Google Translate
Square
Wi-Fi Finder

 

[iYen]

Reminders:remind myself of tasks that need to be completed

soundhound: What is the name this song I'm hearing? Oh, it's such and such.

Rowmote:control your mac with your iphone

Dropbox: it makes having a usb almost obsolete.

pdf reader: reads pdfs

av player: plays a variety of media formats such as avi, mp3, mp4, etc

navigon:best gps app that I've ever used. It kills my battery though.

video stream: the most simple way to stream videos from your comp to your iphone

tapatalk: makes nt mobile almost useable

remote:control your itunes with your iphone

 

[qtnettles]

Stocks(Hidden Videos and Pictures App)

True Caller

Imdb

DropBox

 

[NCtwin]

Reminders:remind myself of tasks that need to be completed
soundhound: What is the name this song I'm hearing? Oh, it's such and such.
Rowmote:control your mac with your iphone
Dropbox: it makes having a usb almost obsolete.
pdf reader: reads pdfs
av player: plays a variety of media formats such as avi, mp3, mp4, etc
navigon:best gps app that I've ever used. It kills my battery though.
video stream: the most simple way to stream videos from your comp to your iphone
tapatalk: makes nt mobile almost useable
remote:control your itunes with your iphone

Can you post with that app¿ Sometimes I can, but then I'll get that "unable to connect" message.

Some apps I use often are(I'm Android btw):

Soundhound Infinity
Bank of America(or whatever your bank is)
Urbanspoon
Nike+ Running
LinkedIn
Krispy Kreme Hot Light: It lets you know when the Fresh Light is on. It's pretty accurate too!!
ASTRO: Allows you to look and edit system files/folders of your phone.
Songkick: Searches your music library and will notify you if they have a concert coming up in your area as well as links for tickets. Just this morning it notified me of Lupe Fiasco performing at a show next month.
Pulse: A nice one stop reader app where I can put all the sites I look at the most and browse through at one time.
Widget Locker: Change up the lockscreen to your phone with different widgets and sliders.

 

[carver]

I use Gosms all the time I think it allows free texting too..

And like you said Waze.. Those two are the ones I use pretty much every day

 

[jesusshuttlesworth34]

Good looks so far, there truly is almost an App for everything.

An app for the Krispy Kreme light? Who knew!?

 

[Smorgasbordgie]

I forgot about Dropbox. That's a must-have app also.

 

[dipsetgeneral]

This thread is

Please also include descriptions of each app, as well.

 

[leannsupreme]

Dropbox and Evernote is what comes to mind first

 

[maddog345]

Alarm Clock - Wake up to any song on your iPhone

Paperless - Simple checklist app

Remote - Control your iTunes from your iPhone

 

[jesusshuttlesworth34]

Had no idea DropBox had an app. Use it at work on all our laptops. Wow.

 

[yeahitsrust]

Had no idea DropBox had an app. Use it at work on all our laptops. Wow.

Same here I use it all the time for work but never knew my phone had that capability... Thanks for the suggestions, keep them coming! Also describe what the app does and if its for iphone users or android users.

 

[tecca nena]

get a craigslist app... throw random stuff up on the selling section throughout your day and see if people bite!

 

[iYen]

Can you post with that app¿ Sometimes I can, but then I'll get that "unable to connect" message.

Most of the time I can, but I get that sometimes as well.

 

[yeahitsrust]

Can you post with that app¿ Sometimes I can, but then I'll get that "unable to connect" message.

Most of the time I can, but I get that sometimes as well.

I've never had a problem posting with tapatalk. I just wish we could view embedded(sp?) vids

 

[dbyrd501]

i be playing this game app called major mayhem. help me pass some time when i'm at the laundromat. it aint bad at all

 

[JayDean03]

Dropbox
Snes9x (no longer available) best SNES emulator
ADW EX Launcher- an Android launcher that let's you customize anyway you'd like.
Widget Locker- customize your Android lock screen
MiLocker- A custom lockscreen app with built in themes. Great for iPhone esque lock screens.
mSpot- music on the cloud which syncs great/flawlessly with iTunes.
Fancy weather- custom weather widget for android
Scrollable news widget- read NT on your home screen.
Flipboard-Like Pulse but a little better. Great interface.
Google ears- listens to music playing anywhere and identifies it instantly.
Volume+ - increases your phone's speaker volume.
DSP Manager- internal equalizer for your phone.

More later.

 

[3am scholar]

AwesomeNote
iTrans NYC
ScoreCenter
WhatsApp
Lose It!

 

[NCtwin]

Dropbox
Snes9x (no longer available) best SNES emulator
ADW EX Launcher- an Android launcher that let's you customize anyway you'd like.
Widget Locker- customize your Android lock screen
MiLocker- A custom lockscreen app with built in themes. Great for iPhone esque lock screens.
mSpot- music on the cloud which syncs great/flawlessly with iTunes.
Fancy weather- custom weather widget for android
Scrollable news widget- read NT on your home screen.
Flipboard-Like Pulse but a little better. Great interface.
Google ears- listens to music playing anywhere and identifies it instantly.
Volume+ - increases your phone's speaker volume.
DSP Manager- internal equalizer for your phone.

More later.

I'm mad I missed out on Snes9x. You wouldn't happen to have the .apk¿

I still haven't tried Flipboard either. What makes you like it more than Pulse¿
Google Ears > Shazaam or Soundhound¿

For apps, you can't forget Gmail.
Cover Art Downloader(donate) automatically downloads the cover art to whatever tracks/albums that need it. I also use it to update some of my old art to HD ones.

 

[trilluminated]

dropbox

wikipanion

dictionary

BofA

imdb

instagram

the weather channel

 

[AiRMEXONE]

I have a Galaxy Nexus, unlocked bootloader, stock, unrooted, on AT&T.

- AirDroid
- Pulse
- Spotify
- Songza
- Amex
- Chase
- Catch Notes
- Defender II (fun, addictive tower defense - free)
- Red Cross First Aid
- My Xbox LIVE
- myAT&T
- Light Flow Light
- Ol File Manager
- PayPal
- PCM Recorder
- Plume (Twitter client, themes)
- SeekDroid
- Scanner Radio
- Super Stickman Golf
- SwiftKey
- Google Translate
- Torch
- Power Toggles
- Google Drive

 

[JayDean03]

I'm mad I missed out on Snes9x. You wouldn't happen to have the .apk¿
I still haven't tried Flipboard either. What makes you like it more than Pulse¿
Google Ears > Shazaam or Soundhound¿
For apps, you can't forget Gmail.
Cover Art Downloader(donate) automatically downloads the cover art to whatever tracks/albums that need it. I also use it to update some of my old art to HD ones.

You should try Flipboard out. I love it. But I still use pulse too.
I do have the APK but it may not work for you tho.
I need that cover art downloader tho.