New favourite apps

While moving my blog posts to Ghost, I felt inspired to update the apps I recommended to Dan a few months ago.

My two favourite and most used apps at the moment are Play, and HiCoffee.

Play is a paid app by Marcos Tanaka for saving and playing YouTube videos. It has a Channels Inbox ($) for subscriptions, and the ability to play videos embedded, so you get an ad-free experience, with minimal algorithmically suggested videos. It’s practically as good as the original YouTube app for iPhone OS.

HiCoffee is a caffeine tracker by Gong Zhang. It’s designed with fun device physics, while also providing helpful graphs and data, all for free. Calculating the metabolic rate and half-life of caffeine can be challenging, but HiCoffee makes it feel easy, with data you can trust.

Honourable mentions:

• Debit & Credit, by Ivan Pavlov for continuing to be the simplest powerhouse for managing our financial future.
• Callsheet, by Casey Liss, for being a movie data stronghold. It loads faster than Letterboxd, and doesn’t have distracting social aspects; it has more data than TV Forecast, and doesn’t demand attention with release dates.
• Les Mills, for recently updating their app, complete with launch-day cupcakes iced with QR codes to update the app.
• Goodlinks by Ngoc Luu for being a better way to read The New Yorker. Reeder makes me check too much.

July 2024