I would love to know what other people consider essential apps. What are some cool apps that not many people are using? 
Besides the big ones:
- Octal - App for Hacker News
- Poe - Quora’s implementation of ChatGPT
- Artifact - News app that lets you mark headlines as clickbait and then uses AI to rewrite them with helpful info
- LunaSea - Interface for my home instances of Sonarr and Radars
- Strong - Weightlifting app
- Diarium - Low-cost and straightforward journal app
- Vinegar - Replaces Youtube video player with custom HTML video (no ads)
- Baking Soda - Does the same job as Vinegar with all websites except Youtube (developed by the same person)
- Super Agent for Safari - Automatic cookie consent
- Hush - Blocks cookies and privacy invasive tracking
- Keyword Search - Setting up keywords to search on Safari (eg. you type mc super mario = it goes on metacritic.com and search for Super Mario)
- Banish - Blocks ‘open in app’ popups
- Pennies - Tracking your expenses
- Stock Events - Stocks / Dividends tracker
- AutoPilot - Check expert trader’s portfolios
- SongShift - Transfer music / playlists between apps (Apple Music, Spotify, YT Music etc)
- TVtime - Track movies and TV shows
- HealthFit - Advanced activity tracking (better than Apple Health / Workouts)
- Streaks - Track your habits progress
you pay so much just to block a bunch of ads. You could achieve the same for free with a Raspberry Pi in your home and PiHole.
In the end it doesn’t matter, the result is the same
- Vinegar and Baking Soda - €3 bundle (one time fee)
- SuperAgent - Free (Now I’m using Consent-O-Matic which is also free)
- Hush - Free
- Keyword Search - Free
- Banish - €3 (one time fee)
- AdGuard - Free
So I paid around €6 to block ads, cookies, pop-ups, and make my browsing experience more private. I doubt you even read my post and checked the apps I mentioned. But good for you that you are using Raspberry Pi.
Apologies, indeed, I didn’t go through all the apps, just quickly skimmed them.
6€ is a reasonable price to pay in that case 🙌
- Photosync - Handles transfers of photos and videos from the phone to any platform you can think of with ease, can automatically convert HEIC and HEVC files to jpg and mp4, can rename in multiple formats or make your own (I name mine as YYMMDD-HHMMSS). Probably my favorite app ever. A total media swiss army knife.
- Goodreader - For reading any kind of document or consuming media files. Supports using extra AES file encryption on top of regular Apple encryption.
- Layout - Good for making small photo layouts for posting to social media
- Tailor - Stitches screenshots together into a single large photo
- Censor (App store link is down, probably because they haven’t updated their privacy policy yet). Allows you to obscure faces or any other information you want to redact from photos.
- Signal, because it’s an awesome and secure messaging app for people without iPhones.
Those are my most commonly used apps that aren’t “big names”.
Photosync is phenomenal. I use it to sync my photos to my self hosted photo gallery nightly.
It’s the only thing I trust with getting photos of my kids from my phone to my server for storage and backup. It’s very reliable and easy to configure for any backup target you can think of.