A weather app with startling accuracy, its interface tells you things like: “Light rain starting in 22 minutes.” It also shows you beautiful weather maps that let you play local-news weather expert.
b.Sunrise
It offers shortcuts for adding events, and also bakes things like weather reports and Facebook birthday reminders into the mix of your daily calendar.
c.KeyMe
You scan your keys by taking a photo of them and then you have ‘digital copies.’” With the copy, you can get a key made for you at a KeyMe kiosk.
d.*Think Dirty
This app tells you exactly what’s in the personal care product you’re about to buy. You scan the barcode, and it shares information about potentially harmful ingredients (and gives alternatives, if you want them). It’s useful for fact-checking label claims like “all-natural” and “organic.
e.Pocket
This apps lets you save blog posts and articles to read when you’re offline.
f.VSCO Cam
It doesn’t have a name that rolls of the tongue, but this app is great for helping turn ho-hum snapshots into arty photographs.
g.Camera360
This app has more than 200 photo filters and 10 modes.
h.For staying organized.
i.Wunderlist
An app that lets you create shareable lists of favorites—be they restaurants, sites in a city, or movies. But it’s better known for its shareable to-do lists.
j.MeMail
This app does one thing really well—you can send yourself an email in two taps, for quick reminders or ideas you don’t want to forget.
k.Trello
This app allows you to create boards for different projects and separate sharable lists within them. Each task goes on a separate card.
l.Todoist
Like both Wunderlist and Trello, this to-do list helper has both an app and a web client that communicate.
m.*Check
This app keeps track of all your bills and when they are due, and also monitors your bank and credit card accounts. Most importantly, it tells you when there’s a mismatch between the two — i.e. when you’re about to get charged an overdraft fee — so you can fix the problem.
n.*Evernote
Evernote is an organizational tool that you can use as a storing place for short notes, or as a place to collect all your thoughts—links, photos, notes, checklists—for larger projects.
o.For getting around.
p.CityMaps2Go Pro
This app downloads offline, zoomable, searchable maps of major cities.
q.Word Lens
Another great app for travelers, Word Lens visually translates printed text into your language in real time. When you snap a photo of a sign or document, it shows the image to you in English.
r.Moves
Moves tracks every step you take, which sounds creepy, but is actually useful. “It quantifies how many miles you’ve walked, cycled and run.
s.Waze
An app to help you get stuck in traffic as infrequently as possible. Drivers share real-time traffic delays—accidents, traffic jams, and the like—so that you can avoid them.
t.Embark
it works underground, without connection.
u.*Couch to 5k
“This app trains you to run a 5k. It gives you audio alerts when to start running/walking.
v.For computer and email ease
w.*Boomerang
This is app for Gmail that is majorly handy. It lets you set a notification to pop up if you haven’t gotten a reply on an email within a specified amount of time. It also lets you boomerang messages back to the top of your inbox, closer to when you actually need to pay attention.”
x.*Mailbox
This app helps you archive and trash email—or put off emails you don’t have to respond to immediately until a later date—with a left or right swipe. It also shows whole conversations with a cool interface that looks a lot like a chat.
y.*Authy
This app disconnects 2-step authentication from text messaging, and does it in a way that’s a little more secure, should your phone fall into the wrong hands. “This is especially handy for when I’m in areas with no reception or am international and don’t have a texting plan.
z.*Quicksilver
“It lets you search, find and open applications and files on your Mac quickly using shortcut keys. It has really sped up finding and opening files that might be buried deep in folders.”