Apps That Caught My Attention

Apps that catch my attention, both that I end up using, and those that I don’t

January 2, 2024

Last Updated: February 11, 2025

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2024

Pile for reflective journalling
Desktop only 😞

Research for AI enabled zotero
Local only 😞

Funnel for routing notes to different apps
iOS only 😞

Clop for image/pdf/video optimization
I use this ❤️

Voicenotes.com for their lifetime plan of voice based content capturing and morphing system. Read more here

2023

Morgen calendar

Superlist

Under appreciated iOS apps

I switched back from iOS to android and this was a series of under appreciated iOS apps.

Structured for planning

Sorted for hyperscheduling

Journalistic for journalling with insights and entities

Journal4U for journalling that connects with Apple health

Moodcast for mood recording with levels and tags

Actions to make the shortcuts app bearable

Data Jar to maintain variable state between shortcut runs

Charty for creating charts using iOS shortcuts

Scriptable for automating iphone tasks using javascript

aShell for running any python script you’d want

Lock Launcher for launching anything from a notification or dynamic island

Mela for recipe tracking - my favorite ♥️

Crouton for recipes again but works with thermometers too!

Spark Mail 2 for a cross-platform email version

GoodTask for better reminders

Busycal for task scheduling

Bears Countdown for synced and cute event countdowns

Countdown for image based countdowns

Shorts or Pants for cute weather

Flighty for flight tracking (but only the paid version is useful)

App in the Air for flight and hotel tracking and the free version is semi useful

Autosleep for recording naps on apple health

Guava Health for health tracking with health app integration and all lab results

Flow App for synced timer across devices

Quick Draft for synced notes

Stickies Pro for stickies that float and sync

Hi Sticky for stickies with widgets

Cue It for stacked timers

Pass4Wallet for adding anything to apple wallet for free

Expenses for really good manual money tracking

Anybox for better bookmarks

Collections for a simpler and possibly better Notion

Listy for list tracking with auto-fill for details

Sofa for downtime (videos, movies etc) organizer and tracker

Water Tracker - Drink Reminder for beverage tracking, works with watch and is reasonably priced

Habits for cheap and feature-rich tracking

Awesome Habits for apple like experience of habit tracking

Chronicling for tracking any number and habit

JustTrack for tracking any number you want in any form

QTally for tracking numbers with pre-decided value increments

Daytum for really nice and customizable number and text tracking