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What's your favourite/most useful app?

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baubles Wed 30-Apr-14 21:15:00

Yes purpledaffodil I'm another fan of Touchnote. It's such an easy way to send a photo.

Purpledaffodil Wed 30-Apr-14 21:11:50

Have found the Touchnote app very useful. You can use photos from your iPhone to make cards and postcards which are printed and posted for you in several different countries, depending on address of recipient. Price is reasonable considering cost of overseas postage, although useful for thank you cards in UK too.

Agus Wed 30-Apr-14 20:43:19

Has to be Google Apps for me followed by Freecell and Boggle to help me zone out grin

annodomini Wed 30-Apr-14 20:31:43

The app I like best is Google Skymap which identifies the stars, planets, constellations etc. If only the sky was always clear enough to use it!

yogagran Wed 30-Apr-14 20:14:10

Thanks for the recommendation for "My Recipe Book" Versavisa, that's really good and it's so easy to add online recipes to it.

glassortwo Wed 30-Apr-14 20:11:12

My favourite at the moment is white noise baby app, does the trick when 12 week DGS wont settle, a little Doppler Ultrasound sends him over everytime.

www.tmsoft.com/iphone-whitenoisebaby.html

Versavisa Wed 30-Apr-14 19:37:25

Runkeeper tracks my walks and gives me extra motivation if I should need it.

YNAB tracks all my budgeting and spending beautifully. I can't praise it enough. From a very supportive and educational organisation too.

KnitCompanion has relieved me of paper knitting patterns and notes. It is an eye opener and so useful throughout my knitting projects. Can be used in depth or on a more superficial level.

Find My Friends is extremely useful when meeting family and friends.

My Recipe Book holds an ever growing collection of recipes, and is easy to add to electronically or manually.

There are lots more on my list as I'm a bit of an app junkie these days. They make organising my life so simple.

DebnCreme Wed 30-Apr-14 19:20:45

Favourite App: Scrabble. Most useful: the one which keeps an eye on my 'phone useage.

Pittcity Wed 30-Apr-14 18:24:50

Pity there isn't an app to stop you pressing the wrong button on your phone when posting on this forum.

Grannyknot Wed 30-Apr-14 18:24:21

I'm not much of an "appy" person grin but my (adult) kids both use this one for cooking and shopping:

www.nhs.uk/change4life/pages/meal-planner-recipe-finder-app.aspx

Pittcity Wed 30-Apr-14 18:18:52

My latest favourite is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mipermit.android Mipermit] which lets me pay for local car parks without scrabbling for change or fighting with a machine. You can add hours without having to go back to the car park.

jinglbellsfrocks Wed 30-Apr-14 18:11:10

Alistair Sawdays pubs app

Because wherever you are in England or Wales, you are never far away from a good dinner. smile

chloe1984 Wed 30-Apr-14 18:07:20

I love the iplayer radio app all I ever need to access any radio programmes I may have missed.

baubles Wed 30-Apr-14 17:53:45

I've always been a bit scatterbrained when it comes to finances.

I find it difficult for some reason to keep figures in my head and despite trying several ways of keeping track of my spending there always seemed to be something I forgot to mark up in my wee book with the result that I never had as much money as I thought. sad

One day I realised there must be an app for that and lo and behold thanks to this marvellous invention I know exactly where I am.

I know I could do exactly the same thing on paper but perhaps because I'm so used to using technology I don't forget to update it every day. smile

JanePGransnet (GNHQ) Wed 30-Apr-14 16:19:40

We all spend so much time on our tablets/smartphones etc, that we at GNHQ have decided to start rounding up our pick of the most useful/entertaining or even downright silly apps.

This will be a regular thing, and to get things started, we'd like to hear from you about which ones have benefited you in some way.

So, which apps make your life easier? Which ones make you laugh? Which ones do you find helpful? Which is your overall favourite? Serious or silly, we'd like to hear about it. Thanks all cupcake