What apps would you recommend ?

Google Earth is amazing and very useful too.

Saving this thread!! Thank you lovely GNetters!

Did anyone see Russell Kane on the Michael McIntyre show last night? He summed up smart phones perfectly. ...did we need to take encyclopedias, maps, torches, record and book collections with us when we went out in the past?
PS I love my step counter and the app to pay for local car parks.

This is an excellent thread!
I love the word games, bbc sport and weather apps too.
I love banking on line now find much easier so have two of those. TripAdvisor, Spotify and mail online. Also Twitter, instagram and FB.
I do have tech savvy offspring that help me initially or I’d have had trouble I’m sure.

The only app I pay for is the Guardian which I read in bed, although we also have it delivered! I'm also trying the independent for a months trial, though think that will prove too much regularly.
Loads of free games apps, which I have splurges on. At the moment I'm enjoying Draw Something, Words with Friends, escape games, and the dreaded Candy Crush.
Smile bank, Ocado for our food, Zooplus for catfood, and the whole range of BBC apps.

Although I am online on my laptop for hours when at home, I have absolutely no interest in having a smart phone when out and about and feel I only need a basic phone for calling and texting. What's wrong with actually engaging with real people and asking them where to find certain things if you need to know anything when out and about or looking in a guide book if you are on holiday or planning things in advance!
I hate to see people constantly head down on their phone all the time. It seems they are losing the skills of how to engage in the real world. Yes, I'm sure it's nice for an app to be able to identify a bird's call, if that's what it does, but my friend can mimic and recognise any birdsong so I just ask him! My other friend has an amazing memory for dates (he's a very good member of our quiz team) and I really don't care where the nearest Lidl etc. is.

I bought myself an ipad Pro, (ios11) last month and several of the apps I had (and loved) on my old ipad won't run on it, so am feeling a bit miffed!
The Pro is brill though, I love it, but wish the app producers would catch up!

UK Weather,IMdB (full details of all TV series/films), Banking apps, Weight Watchers, BBC news, Lottery, Calendar, Which?

As a complete novice for the smart gadgets and apps I'm loving this thread.

Can you download all these apps to any smart gadget eg phone, pad or TV. What make of gadget do you all use and how do they fair too.

I'm sure I'll be sold to smart by the time this thread fills up.

Have Rightmove, bbciplayer, ITV hub, Waitrose cooking magazines. Calm for relaxation and breathing. Facebook too. Looking for a few more.

BBC News, BBC Weather, NW Storm Radar which actually shows where the rain is!, Facebook, Twitter, Plane Finder ( we have a lot over!), then the games - Word with Friends, Ruzzle ( through which we skype with new friends in the US!), Hay Day and Bakery Story (blame my granddaughters).

The First bus app is also very useful because it let's you check in real time when the next bus is coming. Re word games I use Word Brain.

BBC player app is great because it means I can catch up with The Archers on my phone! The cbeebies game app is very good and has very good fun and educational games for little ones. My favourite and most used app is WhatsApp though because it let's you share photos and videos.

Pinterest !

Great suggestions. I have a few of those mentioned but haven't downloaded BBC iPlayer radio. Am off to do it right now! Thanks

Shazam on iPhone and iPad. It’s magic! If you’re listening to any music on say, the radio, and desperately need to know what the piece is and who’s performing it, just switch on Shazam, let it listen for a few seconds and it tells you all you want to know. Brilliant.

I have a lovely Magic Puzzle app. You can download free jigsaw puzzles for every day of each month and the more puzzles you do the more points you get to download further puzzles.

Spotify Lidl Aldi also patient access to quickly book appointments order repeat prescription my shopi brilliant to remind me what I need at the supermarket and pinterest oh and calm when I need it

I have Word Battle and Word Champs, two weather apps, one sport, Pinterest and a couple others on my iPad.

Thanks. I think I will try 4 pics one word and Birds of Britain. I am sure I can't resist downloading Rightmove, what about Zoopla wonder if they do an app ?

What particular word games do you use Kitty ?

Me and my grandson love the birds of Britain app. He plays the birdsong like you would a game.
I love Google maps too as you can find anything you want wherever you are.
Last week while in our caravan we found a quality chip shop .today we found a specialised bike shop just by looking at my phone . No more driving round streets looking as if you are on the pull for a quickie.

I have the Lidl and Aldi apps so I can look at the coming deals and also find the nearest Aldi or Lidl to us when we are gadding about

Minephin on my android phone

Mine are on m6 iPhone and iPad

Are these apps for phone or computer?