Our Top Apps Of All Time

All right, welcome back. We’ve got to settle something here. Uh, last week on the pod, I mentioned, and it may or may not have been the title, that Flighty was a top five app of all time. Unbelievably useful, super good. If you use it, you know, and turned out to be kind of a hot take. There’s a lot of people who like a lot of other apps. I decided it would be fun if we all, actually, Andrew decided this, if we all brought our top five apps to the table.

Calling your bluff. I want to see if you’re really going to put it in your top five apps when we make you list your top five. Yeah, I actually I actually thought about it now for a while. I went through both I went through both my iPhone and my Android phone and I did I really thought about this and I’ve got my top five apps and my honorable mentions.

If it’s not in the top five flight is going to be really sad cuz they tweeted about it last week. Really good point. Um I can start it off if you want. We all I asked everyone to do this. So that’s what we’re going to do. We’re all going to do our top five.

So there’s one question I had about this cuz you you specified mobile apps, not desktop apps. Right. Does that include tablet apps? Cuz that Yes, cuz that alters my my list. My question on desktop apps is is that not just software? It is. I guess it’s just like but there’s so many like web apps. I hear app. I think top five progressive web apps of all time. I also think there’s not that many good apps. The spirit of it in my eyes are really good. Okay, then I’m going to do only I’m going to do only phone. So no staff app, no Procreate. Yeah, I was. Okay. Yeah, let’s go. Just mobile phone.

Okay. Top five mobile phone apps. I have my top five. I’m going to give my honorable mentions first that just barely missed my top five. Uh Copilot finance app. There’s a lot of There’s a lot of apps like it. Not not Microsoft Copilot. Damn it. Uh there’s a lot of apps like it, but it’s just the it’s the best one. What is it? It’s uh it helps you you log into your accounts, your bank accounts. You can see all of your transactions and sort sort through things, budget through things, keep keep an eye on it. There’s lots of apps like it, but this is one of the best ones in my opinion. It’s the best one subscription. Uh I think there’s a subscription tier. I don’t want to commit. Let me see. Uh there is a subscription tier. I pay for it. It’s um Is it worth it? It’s $9. It was worth it. Mine broke recently and I’ve been going back and forth with their support for about 3 months trying to get it fixed and they just sort of were like, “Yeah, it doesn’t work.” And I was just sort of like, “Neither does my credit card. It’s not my credit card. It’s It’s stopped syncing with my Venmo and so my my Venmo transactions don’t show up in my co-pilot anymore, which is like not like I can still keep track of my finances. But it’s really annoying that it worked for years stopped working and they’re just sort of like no, it’s a backend issue. We just can’t fix it. This that’s one of those things where like if the whole point of the app is to do everything and then it loses one of them, it I will say I’m still a big fan of co-pilot. It’s just not the Microsoft in finance. There is a lot of extra work in the backend sync stuff. I happen to know like people who work for these companies and it is a lot of work. So yes, stuff does periodically break with it, but it is super useful to me. So it’s in my honorable mentions.

Athletic also makes my honorable mentions. It essentially takes all of the data my Apple Watch is collecting and formats them and displays them in in different ways. Kind of like Whoop. like it shows me a lot of the same scores and like calculates like how much exertion I can do today, when I should work out, all these other things, how much sleep is factoring in. Uh really useful for anyone who’s an athlete and wants to keep track of a whole bunch of stuff. That’s $2 a month versus $239 a month. Yeah, this is going to be a theme. A lot of these are subscriptions.

I’m going to yell about Whoop after the $239 a month. No, sorry. A year. Oh, thank God. Yeah, that’s still Wait, I’ll talk. Trust me, I’m going to yell about it at the end of this episode. I have a whole Whoop section.

Yeah. So, Athletic’s good. It’s also iPhone only like co-pilot. Um, Blip. Blip uh I discovered this year already. It’s in my honorable mentions. We’ve been airdropping things to each other in the studio for so long and it’s kind of a running joke of of how maybe it’s just the environment we’re in. Like there’s like 20 airdrop devices within range of any one of these. So, you open AirDrop and suddenly things start popping up and you try to click one and it moves and you actually get the one you want and then it doesn’t work or it declines even though they never saw the notification. Airdrop is just it’s supposed to be great, but it’s kind of fidgety in the studio. And Blip is just it’s money every single time. File transfer app. Super useful. So, Blips’s honorable mention.

Incredible. Geekbench. Uh I I use it enough and it’s been good for long enough. I’m on Geekbench 6. I paid for Geekbench Pro. I regularly use Geekbench in videos. You guys are familiar with this already. Geekbench honorable mention. Uh YouTube where YouTube my last honorable mention last honorable mention. Honorable mention. Wait, so you’re going to do like 10 apps? Just these are just ones that are close and I thought, you know, they have like slight downsides, didn’t make it, but YouTube is is obviously great.

Uh, my top five in no particular order. What? No, it it literally has to be in an order. It’s not in order. This has to be in order. I can’t put these in order. Yes, you can. Does that mean start at five and go up to one? I can try, but I might I might regret my top five. All right, number five. Don’t edit that. Oh Um, okay. Number five, Relay for Reddit, dude. It’s an Android app. Yeah. Uh, it’s the best Android Reddit app by a mile. It’s so good. It’s awesome. It has a paid tier. It’s worth it. If you use Reddit, if you sort through things, it’s just it’s super useful. It’s a no question top five Android app ever, and it’s in my top five.

Ways. Ways is kind of not the prettiest app, but it is one of the most functional. It’s crowdsourced. It has all of your potholes and all of your closed roads and all of your routing and everything. Every most of the reason people want CarPlay is so they can put ways instead of Google Maps on their car screen. Ways is goated. Wait, wait. I almost put Google Maps in. Google Maps has everything from ways now. It’s like all officially in it almost. What doesn’t it have? a lot of the smaller like granular like what it’s alerting you about things like Google will say things like I don’t think it does potholes there’s like object and road it does object on road it does I’m not 100% sure about potholes but I would assume it comes in I’ve never been in Google map to be fair I haven’t used maps as much lately but fog bad weather flooding on the road visibility closed roads do you know the one I don’t notice which I’m fine with is the like vehicle stopped on side of road which on ways is every three miles it feels like. And it does get annoying and I wish I could be even more granular with like what it notifies me about, but I still think ways is goated.

Um, number three, Flighty. Flighty. It’s We talked about it last week. If you fly enough, flighty is unquest. It’s like a ne it’s almost a utility. Even if you don’t fly enough, like I just like looking back at passport and looking at the different places and trips and stuff. Yeah, the rewind the whole thing. I need someone to convince me that it’s worth it. Flighty. Yeah. Oh my god. Next time you fly get on a trial. You could probably get like a trial version of it. Used the trial and I was like, did it not blow your mind? This. But I don’t I mean it’s a great it’s great looking. You’re going to be on a flight that gets delayed and you know from flighty 45 minutes before everyone sitting at the gate knows and you get to rebook your flight before everyone else does and you’re going to go, “Wow, I’m glad I had flight.” Are you speaking from experience? Yes. Literally, that’s happened to me.

All right. Two more. Um, number two, tick tick. My task. Saw that one coming. You know, there’s a lot of task apps like this. There’s a lot of planning apps. There’s a lot of calendar apps. This is just the one I keep coming back to. And I I do constantly try to switch to other ones. Super list almost made my uh my honorable mentions, but Tick Tick is just that goat. It’s just that goat. So, I’m putting that in my top five. Number one, Carrot Weather. Number one. I and I I’m not like I’m not locking in the order of my top five, but Carrot Weather is by such a margin my most often used weather app that it’s not even it’s not even really close. Yeah. Um it has essentially stolen the layout from Dark Sky, which no one else has really cloned. I don’t know if it’s like not allowed to clone it or if they’re just the only ones bold enough to do it, but they’ve one to one cloned the layout from Dark Sky, which is incredibly intuitive. The data is super accurate. The radar is really good. A lot of these apps are really good. And then the radar sucks. Has good radar, good multiple sources. It’s just a default app on my phone. It’s also unfortunately iPhone only. But that’s my top five. It’s a bunch of iPhone apps and one Android app. Top five apps of all time. Tear my list apart. Anybody have any objections?

All right. No YouTube. No YouTube Studio. YouTube is honorable me. YouTube honorable mention. Honorable mention. YouTube Studios pretty good. It’s not It is. It kind of does feel like utility to me, but yeah, it is. It’s good, but it’s not like amazing. I don’t know. It’s fine. It does what I want it to. I never really I I actually don’t like editing descriptions and metadata in the studio app because I’ve had to truncate my input before. So, I’ll have a long description and then I’ll edit it from the app and I’ll hit submit and then I’ll view it on the desktop and it cuts off like after however many characters. So, I’ve had issues with the app before.

Yeah. There’s also some things you can only do in the YouTube Studio app on your phone. Like you don’t you can only add thumbnails to shorts in the YouTube Studio app, right? No, I can only do that in the YouTube app. The YouTube app. The YouTube Studio app. I can change the thumbnail, but when I go into the YouTube app and go into my videos and then go to edit, that’s where I can change the thumbnail of a short. Isn’t that weird? You think for Google? Oh, I guess they do. I swear it sometimes feels like YouTube doesn’t have that many actual creators on their platform cuz the amount of things that are just broken for Yeah. Well, they have different teams for YouTube Studio and YouTube. Where’s the chapters? Probably different buildings. Yeah, probably different building chapters.

I know you’re out. I know there’s creators out there. We know one of them very well, but like Yeah, if they add chapters, I’d add this to my If you justice for chapters UI. Yeah. Actually, just add a UI for chapters, please. Yeah. Like a real one. Yeah. Like why why wouldn’t you do that? I I I found out recently that it really really helps to add chapters because then Google search can index the chapters so that when you some someone ask a question on Google search it’ll bring you to the exact spot because it knows what the chapter was about. Huge. It’s helpful. And yet you still have to just put timestamps in the description and then it breaks 85% of the time.

Talk about breaks a lot. We do it every week. Every week on this podcast. Every week. And what is the number one tweak getting sent to us? chapters. Why are there no chapters? Our comment section backs us up now at least. Usually now it’s like this is great. Chapters working as of time. If if you see somebody and they’re complaining about us not having chapters, please tell them what’s going on. Please inform them, educate them. So there it is. That’s my list.

Okay. I have two honorable mentions. Number one of the honorable mentions, Google Opinion Rewards. Oh, okay. That’s a good one. deep all time. Really awesome. Um, if you don’t know what Google Penny Rewards is, it’s been around since like 2010. It’s freaking amazing. It came out very soon after Android came out. Um, it will periodically based on your search data, based on other things, location data, whatever, send you a little survey and it’s usually one to sometimes it can be up to like 12 questions. Weirdly enough, it so it pays you money, which is cool. Uh, weirdly enough, it pays you based on the amount of questions you answered. So, if you just lie to it, it’ll keep giving you more questions. Don’t do that.

I don’t do that. Um, but the only app that I have a subscription for on my phone that isn’t part of like a family bundle or something is the Pokemon Trading Card Game app. Um, and Google Pen Rewards pays for my subscription for that, which is pretty awesome. That’s the only app you have a subscription for? Uh, that isn’t part of like a family plan. Oh, so like I have a Google family plan, YouTube that has YouTube premium in it. Spotify I don’t I don’t have Spotify YouTube music which is part of the family plan. And then I have the Apple one family plan which also comes with Apple Music that kind of stuff but I don’t we talked about this in the car at Southby or something. I only have like one subscription that isn’t part of other stuff. Yeah, I’m I’m terrified of subscriptions.

Anyway, honorable mention. If you’re not using Go Open Rewards, you should be using it because it gives you at least one like every couple of days. Sometimes it gives you like five. Yeah, most people forgot it was still around. Other thing, if you have multiple phones, you can set it up on the same account with multiple phones and it’ll serve you like multiple. It’s crazy. I mean, I don’t do that. Bitcoin farming. I know. I don’t do that. But anyway, it’s it’s great.

Okay, honorable mention number two. Mhm. Telegram. I know. Okay. The stickers and the the emoji are all animated. It’s so awesome. It’s so amazing. Telegram is crossplatform. It’s got a desktop app. It’s got bots anywhere. It’s amazing. Well, I I pay Oh, I Oh, we didn’t even make it one app further. No, I realize I do have another subscription. It’s Telegram Premium. Wow. cuz it’s like $20 a year, but it completely removes the porn apps, porn bots. It makes it usable basically. Yeah. It makes it usable because there is a feature in Telegram Premium where you can charge people to message you if they’re not in your contacts already. Wow. Yeah. So, it’s like you can spam me, but you got to pay. Wow. You know, which is pretty cool. No one has ever paid.

Uh, okay. Now, we’re on to the actual apps. And this might be a a top five like in order of you made you made me pick a five. I didn’t. Andrew did. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That’s right.

Number five. Libby. Libby. I had that on mine, too. You can use it. No, I took it off. It’s fine. Uh, Libby is great. It is a library app. It’s so good in New York City. It’s amazing because we have three public libraries and you can get a library card for all three of them. And Libby will let you rent ebooks. It will let you rent audiobooks. Um, it just has so many resources. I think you might get like a free New York Times subscription if you part of the Brooklyn Public Library or something. It’s pretty awesome. So, it’s a great app and I can’t believe it’s free. Very cool.

Number four, Relay for Reddit. Uh, also I used Relay for so so so long and eventually they did go subscription because of the Reddit apocalypse. Yep. Um, my honorable mention for Reddit would be obviously Christian Seligap, Apollo, rest in pieces.

Uh, number three, Nova Launcher. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that is an app. Yeah. Yeah. I think, uh, RP, I was looking at cuz I was just trying to rack my brain this morning for like what are the most popular apps? You know, Nova Launcher is one of the most downloaded apps of all time with over 5 million downloads. I could see that because of all time there was such a long period of like the last 15 years where everyone who didn’t have a Google phone but wanted a better launcher like all the TouchWiz phones that’s the first thing I installed on all those phones. Yeah, totally. And a lot of people did the same thing.

Totally so good. Uh number two, Viewfinder Preview. This is an app that I use to frame my film photos for when my cameras don’t have viewfinders, uh like my 3D printed cameras. It’s really really good. You can do various different aspect ratios. You can test things. You can take sample pictures with it. It’s super basic, but I use it literally every week and I’ve been using it every week for like six years. So, I think it’s worth being in my top five.

Number one for me, Pocketcasts. I think uh I think PocketCast is probably the greatest app ever made. Wow. It’s really really old. Multiplatform. It’s multiplatform. It has a web app. Uh it has been passed around. It used to be owned by NPR for a while. Now it’s owned by uh what are they called? The people that do make WordPress automatic automatic. Uh but it is a really insanely good UI. You don’t pay for plus. So the thing about it and No, I don’t. I bought it for $7 in 2012 or whenever cuz they had a one time cuz subscriptions were not very popular back then. Mhm. So, I bought it for $7 and then when I switched to subscription, anyone who had bought it for $7 got the pro version for free for life. Nice. So, I’m grandfathered in. So, I actually don’t know what the free version of Podcast is like. So, I’m sorry if it sucks, but uh I just think it’s just It’s pretty good. You just can’t do like folders and stuff. Good podcast app. Why would you need that? That’s the best. That’s a good app though is when like the subscription thing is really for a power user, but the free version gives you like 90% of what it is already. Totally. That’s a good app.

So, not as exciting as Marquez’s weather apps, but agreed. Yeah. What do you got, Andrew?

All right, let’s go. Number five. No honorable mentions here. If it is not in this list, it’s a dog water app. Um, wow. Number five, Taco Bell. What? Okay. I don’t actually use it that much. Is that good? The app is actually pretty solid. You’re not jaded by the restaurant. I usually I’m totally jaded by the restaurant. But why are you jaded by the restaurant? Or I’m uh shilling for the restaurant. I don’t know. Like I like this app because of the restaurant, of course. But Taco Bell has the most times that I want to add things onto like different items. And I am way too embarrassed to say that in the drive-thru. Therefore, this is the app that I use out of all of them. I’m a plus potatoes, plus jalapenos, plus this, minus that, whatever. I ain’t saying all that in the drive-thru because there’s no way it gets it right app. Dude, it’s it’s the only fast food app that works 100% of the time. There’s no upsell, pop out. Like all other fast food restaurants, their apps are like so brutally just unusable. And I mean I say unusable from like the I’m spoiled like it just things are kind of slow and choppy, but still it’s like or they send you like 8,000 push notifications every single day. They all do. I’m sure Taco Bells does. It sends you notifications. I disable notifications on every single app that I have. Yeah. Yeah. I did that too.

The McDonald’s app, dude. Like a fifth of the time it’ll just only show you the breakfast menu and it’s not breakfast time so you just can’t order it. And it’s like this should be the easiest thing to figure out as an what time is it not breakfast. McDonald’s only do breakfast between certain times. I don’t know. I’m sorry. You really struck a cord here. No. No. Well, Taco Bells has got to be easy because there’s only essentially seven ingredients on the entire menu and it’s just a different version of that.

Number four. I don’t use, but I’m gonna hype it up anyways. Interesting. Old school Runescape app. This is a game that has been around for so long that is the most simple web browser game from like 2007. They relaunched it years ago. They are still updating this game. It has a huge user base and because it’s so simple, it makes sense on an iPad or a phone. The other thing about it is it is the most grind intensive time consuming afkable like game possible that being able to go on your computer and do different like boss battles or quests or stuff that are more intensive and then just wood cut to 99 on your phone without paying attention is perfect. Now you don’t It’s like having an extra job. It basically is. But this lets Runescape people go outside because now you can still grind XP and touch this touch grass. Yeah, although I was also looking this has like 5 million plus downloads on the Play Store. Oh, great rating except apparently like within the last month is the login’s completely broken on Android. So, uh, Jagex, if you’re listening, fixed that for the homies out there. I still don’t even play the game. I just watch a lot of content about it.

But the the app seems awesome. Number three, Blip. Blip has changed everything we’ve done here. The amount of times I’ve had to pull stuff off of phones to then send to Marquez’s Mac Pro to be like in a video or something. Blip has helped that so much. Everyone’s so hype on Blip, but nobody’s ever blipped me anything. So, why is this better than AirDrop again? Can you explain? Cross platform. Cross platform. Yeah, but there’s all different works every time. You can blip someone something from across the country. Oh, really? It’s all it’s not Wi-Fi dependent. It’s just it checks to see if you’re on the same network as someone and if you are it just does like local you know but if you’re not it goes P2P over the internet so it’s not it’s just dependent on your actual connections like you don’t like it’s not like oh Dropbox has a really slow server so I’m no it’s just 50 to 60 megabytes per second across the country. Is there a file size limit? Not that I’ve found. That’s crazy. I blip I blip myself the 10 gigabyte uh pod audio after every session. No file size limit. That’s crazy. Blip is awesome. I’m a Blip uh evangelist. Yeah, I’m full on Blip. If there’s Blip merch, I’ll buy Blip. No joke. Rufus really put us on that one. That’s crazy.

Number two, Google Tasks. Y’all changed me. Wow. Google Tasks may have like legitimately changed my life. I I will also argue that the simplicity of it has maybe helped me because I remember David Pierce, which we should bring back on again. I know he mentioned that recently on like threads to come back. Um it sounds like he just wants to talk about productivity apps. That episode did great. So come join us, David. Uh but like being I just have to type it in every time. H at this point, a third of the time, like I just do the the task before it even pops up because I typed it in, which like in my brain had me remember it. Um, it works great with that. It works great with just uh Android Auto being able to like remind me do it in one hour when I get to work with all voice, not hands off the wheel at all. Like, yeah, it’s changed my life.

You saying that is going to end up at Google IO this year. No one at IO Andrew Manganelli has changed my life. Next quote 128 gigabytes I will ruin you.

Um and then my number one is the most niche one possible but as a disc golf player UDIS is exactly what I was talking about before of the free version of this app gives you 90% of the things to either find a disc golf course, record your score, do pretty much anything disc golf related. It is a super cheap sport anyone can do. If you want to find a course near you, it’s on there. Um, my favorite thing about it is every year they release this giant post about how many people are playing in how many different countries and it’s essentially just so people can use that data to give to their local townships to build more disc golf courses. Um, and if at any point you want to request the data, you can just reach out to them and do it to try and build more community building things. So, the people who run that app are great. The app itself is great. There there’s a $30 a year subscription if you want some like really premium things like getting it on my Garmin watch. Other than that, it’s free. Great app. Cool. Nice. Very nice. Play disc golf.

I’ll go next. So, first two uh honorable mentions. Okay. Specifically because I’m on Android now, so they’re iOS only. One of them being Flighty like RZ mentioned. All right, I’ll download it. All right, I’ll download it. Flight is great. There’s a crossplatform one by air that’s also really good, but it doesn’t have the new airport intelligence feature that Flighty just dropped. That is fire. Yeah. So, Flight is Flight is goated. Uh the other one is Gentler Streak, which was the fitness app that I was using on Apple with my Apple Watch Ultra. It was awesome. Miss it, but now I’m on Android, so it is what it is.

But number five for me is KWGT, which is like a widget app on Android. Oh, it’s been around for a minute. That’s a good one. And that thing I’ve customized so many home screens. It lets you do basically what is it called? Powerful. KWGT. What does it stand for? Great question. No idea. It’s It’s K widget. Custom widget maker but with a K. Custom with a K. I’ve never heard of that. Yeah, it’s awesome. Uh if you Well, whenever you get back on Android, David, Mr. iPhone only over there. Uh download it. It’s It’s really cool. It’s a little confusing. There’s like a little learning curve, but there’s such a good community behind it where you could just like import widgets that other people made and it’s awesome.

That’s most of what I did. Like there’s some incredibly complex widgets where I’d import it and I’d be like, “What if I just tweak this other?” And then I break it. I’m like, “You know what? I’m just going to fine. It was fine.”

Uh number four is Dualingo. Just because even though I still suck at speaking other languages, it’s just it changed everything. Like gamifying apps started I think because of Dualingo. The widget is awesome. What happened? Andrew, you look like you’re about to I thought you said dual like du lingo or no no du lingo and I was like do they have like a battle royale version of this? Can’t speak English. It’s funny speaking about language absence. No, but if you’re gifying languages, they should make a a foreign language battle royale game where dual lingo. Dualingo dual lingo. It’s time to duel. You just have to like curse at other people.

I know that Green Owl is listening. Send it. Yeah, their their whole team is killing it with the marketing. So, uh, number three is an app that I just found and it’s already in like my top all time. It’s called Stellarium. It’s having like a moment on TikTok basically, but it is a, you know, those old apps that uses like the accelerometer on the phone and stuff to like see the stars and stuff like that. It lets you zoom in and I immediately paid for the pro version because you get high version high res images of planets and stars and stuff. So, as you look around, you can zoom in on planets and see actual like images. It’s It’s super dope.

Did you download this like two weeks ago when we were talking about it at getting water? Oh, no, no, no. I downloaded it like two weeks ago because I was seeing someone on it was going viral like on TikTok or something and someone was like zooming into a picture and I was like, “What the hell?” And then I checked the comments and they were like, “Yeah, this isn’t a telescope. This is an app.” And I immediately downloaded it. Their I just Googled it and their web app is unbelievable. Oh, I didn’t even know they had a web app. They have a web app. Do I lift my computer up into the sky? No, he just But I found a Starlink. That would be crazy. That’s wild. Okay, that’s good.

My number two app is an app called Story Graph, which is basically Goodreads from Amazon, but by an independent maker. Super awesome app. They have a lot of good features that uh Goodreads doesn’t have because Goodreads got purchased by Amazon and Amazon forgot it existed and just hasn’t done anything with it for a decade. So classic good readads I think is the one that everyone uses just because of like the social graph effect and everything but highly recommend getting on story graph. Jess my fiance has found so many great books because like their recommendation algorithm is just amazing.

Uh and my number one app is Obsidian because I’m a big noteaker guy and Obsidian is super complex and super like you can do a lot with it. It is like a local first only note-taking app for desktop and Android and iOS and all this stuff. But I’m surprised at how much I get on my phone for things that I thought would like not look right or like not format correctly or something like that. Um because I used to be an Android I mean Android Apple Notes or Samsung Notes guy, but obviously they’re locked into an ecosystem. I’m trying to like pick apps that go between everything. Uh, and I use the I think it’s called Forever Notes, which is like an Apple notes taking system that lets you link between notes to make Apple notes way more powerful. It’s a whole thing, but I replicated that in Obsidian. So, now basically everything that I need in my life is in Obsidian. So, I use Obsidian all the time, and I’m always surprised at how much I’m actually able to do on it, especially in Dex mode, you know.

And now, the moments you’ve all been waiting for. Top apps from a one Mr. Ellis Rowan. All right. So guys, as you know, for a long time, iPhone 12 mini, I couldn’t install apps on it. December 2025, I get a new phone. So, I’ve been using apps now for 3 months. This is huge. Okay.

Huge. I have a few honorable mentions because I have very fond memories of apps I used in my childhood on the iPod touch. Uh just cuz I feel like that was like a really golden era of like weird dinky apps like Yeah. Um the beer app when we were backstage. Yeah. Well, I was Yeah. So the beer app because I was going to bring up back being backstage at uh at South by Southwest. I installed the beer app on the office iPad and chugged giant beers in front of all you guys and you laughed.

Um, another another honorable mention for me that I don’t think is still in the app store and if it is, it’s like a shell of its former self. Do you guys remember Urban Spoon? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I loved Urban Spoon. That was a restaurant I went to once. Erdo Urban Spoon was a restaurant slot machine where you entered in how much money you wanted to spend. It would go what? And then it would give you a restaurant near you and you’d be like, “That’s where eat I guess.” My nightmare.

That reminds me, do do you know the app too good to go? Yeah. Yeah. Too good to go is kind of like that too. It just tells you the restaurants that are closing and they’ll get rid of they’ll just be getting rid of stuff and you can get like really big meals for $7 or you can get miso soup for $7. It’s they you don’t know what they’re going to give you. It’s very random.

Okay. But Ellis’s top five. Are you ready? I’m ready. Yep. Number five. Blip. No, I did not include Blip on here even though it’s just phenomenal. Um, but number five, Disoggs. It’s number five because please integrate the blog posts with the app. I hate that when I click on a blog post, it opens my browser. Wait, what is it? Discogs is like Goodreads/letterbox but for music. So like you can keep track, but it’s a few other things like so you can like log your record collection and then also there’s like an eBay style buying and selling platform built into it. So like you can see someone’s collection if they and then they can list something as like you know I’m okay getting rid of this and then you mention message them like I’ll buy this or I’ll trade this and then you can do it all in the app. It’s very cool. Mhm.

Um, and then there’s also like an actual like publication side where they have anyone can upload a blog post and then they have like staff writers that write about music and articles are very good. They’re very fun to read. They’re very interesting.

I just remember one time you came up to me. This is the only time I’ve ever heard of it. You’re like, I’m so amped right now. I was like, why? Like I uploaded an album and it was the first one ever uploaded on that was a big day for me when when when I bought an album that was so rare. No one had had logged it on discs before, so I got to scan everything and like upload the track listing and spend like an hour of my day being the guy.

All right, number four. This is another app that I don’t know if it’s still in the app store and if it is, you absolutely should not buy it because it is the biggest biggest privacy boo of all time. It’s called Fog of World, and it was this early iOS app that would just destroy your phone’s battery by leaving location on all the time. This is so early in iOS that location was not like on all the time. And essentially, it was like a big map and it would just like that would be blank like or like whited out and then as you would go around like an RTS. Yeah. And then so you could see every single place you’ve ever been and if you travel a lot like I for some reason was doing as a teenager, you could like you would zoom out to see the whole world and you see all these stripes cuz you could cuz if you were like me and you you said I I don’t care about your rules. You would leave your phone off of air like not on airplane mode on flights and you’d get these big stripes. Oh my god. across the country. And then there was like there was achievements for like all the states and countries you visited and like it would keep track of the total like square mileage that you’ve covered and like percent of the world that you’ve seen. This is a goated idea, but the app cannot be top five if you’re just leaving your location. Goed aspirationally in practice like nightmare. Utter utter nightmare. How would this work on your iPhone 12 mini? Don’t don’t get this app. Don’t get this app unless you want the Chinese government to know every single thing about you.

Okay. Number three. Number three. Seesaw. Seesaw. Number three is Seessaw. Seesaw is like a It’s for galleries in New York City. I don’t know. You can see all the art that’s on display in New York. That’s it. What is it called? Seesaw. Like you see it and then after you see it, you saw it. Got it. Like Reddit. I get it. Yeah, I read it on Reddit. I’m quite fond. You check off things you’ve seen. No, it doesn’t do that much. It shows you galleries in a map and it shows you galleries in a list. I like the logo and that’s all it needs to do. Like I like apps that that that do one thing and do it really well.

Number two, I’m have to reopen my list because I I can’t remember. Oh, number two, the Moment Pro camera. Yeah, which I am legally required to disclose. They gave me for free. I didn’t pay for it. That’s true. So, if I don’t know if I’d feel differently about it if I did pay for it, but this was not something that I just happened to stumble upon. This was Moment saying, “Ellis, here’s a code. You have the app for free.” Um, I like the Mo I didn’t like the Moment Pro camera. In fact, when I first downloaded, I said, “Ew, stinky.” To be clear, this is our second. This is Moment Pro Gamer 2. Yeah, the F this is much better. But then, but then yeah, they launched an update where you could save profiles, which is like it like saves literally every single setting in the um the the thing. David, I’m airdropping you a photo I took with blipping it because I can’t find you on Blit. I I could tell you my Is this onetime payment? Yeah, it’s a onetime payment. $10 onetime payment. Listen, if you do the Google Rewards thing, what’s it called again? Opinion, you could pay for this.

Let me tell you the reason I like Moment Pro Wait before you describe the photograph. Is this straight out camera? Yeah. Yeah. I love Moment Pro camera because I think the iPhone camera, the iPhone 17 Pro camera forced to be between 640 and 800 ISO is one of the most pleasing things in the world. It like flattens everything. There’s very little dynamic range. There’s a nice amount of grain. Almost gives it like a half te effect. Yes.

So, David, is the picture I sent you dope as hell? Yeah. And the number one app in the app store, the one app I think every single person on planet Earth should download onto their phone yesterday. Ready? Universal universally appellable to all human beings. I hope it’s Taco Bell. Be iMessage or something. The Brooklyn Public Library app dude. It just works. It just works. Nothing takes any time at all. If you live in Timbuktu, get a Brooklyn library card. Really? Can you do that? Can you get a library card online or something for Yeah, right. That’s the my lazy part of Libby is I haven’t gone to the library to actually get the Well, I I at least with the Brooklyn Public Library, you need to go to the library, but I other libraries. Anyway, this is all to say, dude, the other day I was like, “Oh my god, I think I need to give my library book back.” And I opened the app and within 10 seconds I saw and hold I have three more days. I hit the renew button. In zero seconds after hitting the renew, I had 30 more days. Why are all apps not as good as the thing that cost zero money? The library. I just don’t Anyway, Brooklyn Public Library uh backend and front-end app team. Boy, you’re just crushing it.

Why do they call it BKL YN? It’s like not it’s not saving that many letters. It’s like WFR say less. It’s literally saving five. Yeah, it’s not that many. That’s a lot. It’s more than half for an app icon. That’s actually a lot of real estate. They should call it Brooklyn Public Library or just book. Yeah, just book. Yeah, but how would you know it’s a public? What if it was a private library? It says book. Oh, cuz you can download. You could call it booklyn public library. Brooklyn. Or just put the R in parenthesis.

Anyway, that’s Ellis’s as someone who is brand new to the world of apps. Nice. Um, also let me know what LUTs I should be getting for Moment Pro Cam cuz I’m starting to play around with LUTs. Nice, I guess. Then without any further ado, hey, thanks for watching this clip. Uh, if this clip gets 10,000 likes, I will order a Cyborg Rat 7 mouse for the next episode of the podcast. I might do it anyway, but if this clip gets 10,000 likes, I will definitely do it. Just saying. Rat seven. Rat seven. Oh, okay.