Occasionally I'll stumble upon an app that makes me wish I had known about it sooner. Which are your favorites?

Android? iOS? Windows? Linux?

I like Gas Buddy. Free and tells me where the cheap gas is.

"Heavens Above" is cool if you like to look at the sky. It's Andriod only, or at least it was.

If you're a guitar player, iStroboSoft for tuning is great.

If you are a skier or a snowboarder, “Slopes” is a fun app to track your vertical, number of runs taken and speed, along with some other parameters.

It’s a battery hog though.

“SkyView” is another app to identify stars, planets, constellations and other features of the sky and space.

Open the app and hold it up to the sky and it pretty much identifies everything that is in and out of view.

Fuelly (detailed tracking of MPG etc. )

New York Times Crossword Puzzle Subscription. You get many years worth of archives, plus the new puzzle every day. I love crosswords, but only hard ones. I can’t find anyone else’s that are close to as good. Cheap for many hours of entertainment.

Upside - fuel and grocery discounts.

Goodrx
- Prescription discounts
Singlerx

Storm Radar

ERG 2020 - App version of the Emergency Response Guide used by FD/Police/EMS for fire & CBRN incidents

USPS - Informed delivery

NASA

ISS Spotter

I like the language learning app, Duolingo. I also like Google Translate, not just for use with Duolingo, but for translating from or into, many different languages.

MyChart – linked to my health care provider. Shows my upcoming appointments in chronological order. Allows me to send and receive messages with my physicians. Provides a convenient bill notification/payment mechanism. And more. Smart phone. Free.

mSecure – my password manager. Smart phone & laptop (synchronized). $15 annual fee.

I have MANY other handy apps, but I consider those two to be absolutely essential.

My daughter turned me on to Wordle and we are having a small contest every morning as to which of us can find the word in the fewest tries. She usually wins (she is a tehnical writer) but once in a while Ol' Dad comes out first.

I use a good majority of the apps suggested here and have found them very useful.

Maybe not what was intended by the OP, but on the PC side I've found the "everything" search app very useful and much faster and thorough than the built in search program. This is for searching for files on your system, not the internet. Searches are instantaneous.

This comes from voidtools which is easy to find so I won't post a link.

If you travel on commercial airlines, Flighty, Tripit and Tripcase are very good, mostly better than the Airlines' own apps.

Triplist is also very good for creating a list of what to take and what tasks that need to be performed prior to leaving.

Paprika 3. It's a godsend if you like to cook. Manage and sync recipes across devices, and my favorite feature allows you to skip all the bs in every single food blog. Copy the url and paste into the paprika browser, hit download, and it rips the ingredients and directions out and lets you save them in an easy to access format.

“Alarmed”. It’s a reminder app (“change furnace filter”, “return library books”, etc.). It is pretty basic, and there is probably a better version out there, but I use this app daily.

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Originally posted by Perception:
Paprika 3. It's a godsend if you like to cook. Manage and sync recipes across devices, and my favorite feature allows you to skip all the bs in every single food blog. Copy the url and paste into the paprika browser, hit download, and it rips the ingredients and directions out and lets you save them in an easy to access format.

+1 for Paprika3.

Plus 2 for Paprika! Love it!

My most used android apps:

Signal
Earthmate (connects to my inreach)
Drive/Connect/Smartphone Link (Garmin apps for my Garmin GPS in the coach and my watch)
Logos Bible (Gives me access to my whole Logos Library and some useful tools for study on the fly or impromptu sermons/services)
Audible (audio books)
onX Hunt (helpful for private property ownership information on the fly)
Tapatalk (most of my online forums that I frequent are available on this app, sigforum is not)
VoiceRecorder - automatically record all calls and backup to a secured cloud

Then I have various social media apps... of course I also have apps for my credit cards, and airline travel memberships

Fendertune was a free guitar tuning app

I have like 3 Godox apps, because every light seems to need its own app. Grr.

Hornady has a decent reference app.

PC Builder is useful when researching parts and components for compatibility.

I used Paprika for a long while but went back to the 3x5 cards in a recipe box. Didn't want to lose any of my recipes should an electronic catastrophe happen.