What Is Your Favourite or Most Useful App

For those who love looking for the Northern Lights, I thoroughly recommend the Glendale App:
aurora-alerts.uk/
There's a lot of heavy science about the state of the sun given in graphs which I do not look at as I've no idea what it all means. However once logged in, the first thing you see is a map of the UK which shows where the aurora is visible in real time. This info is provided by others using the app and as a user you can also post if you have a sighting. The app can also send alerts when activity on the sun's surface is going to result in a visible aurora display.
I am logged in every night but always switch off alerts before sleeping. I've been fortunate to have seen some amazing aurora displays during my life so I'm not overly keen to be woken in the early hours with an alert notification.

For example ...

Lidl Plus app. I scan each time I shop there. I no longer get a paper receipt as they go straight to my activity in my account. I get lots of rewards from it, today I had a free cake and 15% off a few items.

Toby Carvery app. Collect stamps and get rewarded.

Scan & Go app. You can your mobile phone at ASDA as a scanner, instead of the hand held scanner in store.
Also the ASDA Rewards app. Scan each time you shop to get rewards.

My bank app. I just use my finger print to sign in to see my balance or pay someone etc. If you ever receive cheques you can take photos with your phone and pay them in.

GPay Wallet (Google Pay) app. I can add gift cards to it. My bank card is added to it, so I can use my phone at the check out to pay.

PayPal app I use often to pay someone, usually my children.

These are just some examples. They are just more convenient, when out and about.

Apologies Cabbie.

Cabby I like the apps I use because they are faster to access, no logging in for instance. Faster to use one in, and don’t need an internet connection.
I’m thinking especially about the bank that I use several times a day, and Waitrose.
The bank literally takes 3 seconds with facial recognition.

Cabbie, I was thinking the same thing. I do most of my online shopping on my IPad.

Apologies if this is a stupid question, but where there is an equally good equivalent website, what are the advantages of using an App instead?
I don’t mean why might it be easier to use a phone, as the advantages of that are self evident, but what about on an ipad?

I do use some Apps, but in many instances I think I access the same information and online facilities via a website, no?

Thanks . I will give it a go.

Greenfinch

I don’t think all libraries subscribe to Borrowbox . I couldn’t find my local library on the list and on the council website it mentions Libby. Is this the same sort of thing?

Libby is the same .

There are so many apps that I use eg
WhatsApp
Guardian online - I subscribe
Google maps - when driving
Email on iPad and iPhone
Ring Go
Banking apps
BorrowBox
Facebook
Messenger - occasionally
Wallet - for store cards
Notes
NHS
Photo library
Calculator
Nectar BBC iPlayer and similar
Spydus library(book index)
Canon printer app
Kindle
There are probably others too..

Oh and I forgot a really important one NHS.

Facebook
WhatsApp
TikTok
Gmail & Hotmail
Eventbrite
Sheets
MeetUp
YouTube
Sainsburys/Tesco/
Iceland - deliveries

Welshy

Menopauselbitch

My favourite app is Yuka. I can see all the crap they put in our food.

Oh I'll take a look at that. Never heard of it.

I say hurrah for Yuka too, shows all the crap in cosmetics as well as food. I just use the free version of the app; I’m too pennypinching to pay for membership privileges.
Also Helps me find ready meals which aren’t UPF.

Duolingo is my favourite. I get hours of educational fun on it every day.

I never have cash so parking apps for me and Vinted!

I use Whats App the most. The Merlin bird app is my favourite. So easy to use and so responsive. I check the birds in my garden and on my walk every day.

Many already mentioned.
Worth a mention that you can use ancestry in many libraries

So many…huge BorrowBox fan.
Apart from those already mentioned
I have fun games apps. Word, patience, bridge and many others
Also folders headed Hotels/travel/Overseas travel/TV programmes/Sport/Finance/Stores/
Health/Fitness/Food etc each loaded with several apps.
Pinterest/Translate and those are the only ones I can recall right now
(I think I need therapy!)

I use quite a lot of Apps particularly these

Duolingo
My Sports/health club
WhatsApp
M&S
Next Door
Waitrose
Pizza Express
Banking app
Ancestry
Boots
Nectar
Audible
GN
Spotify
Cote Brasserie
Wallet
Library
Notebook
Calendar
Clock
Borrow Box
easyjet
Flight Tracker
Good Food
Sainsburys

Menopauselbitch

My favourite app is Yuka. I can see all the crap they put in our food.

Oh I'll take a look at that. Never heard of it.

Whats App for keeping in touch with friends and family,Trust Pilot,Trip Advisor,Banking App

LivingEarth app - weather, with astonishingly good graphics of the earth and locations you input yourself

Flightradar 24 - monitoring aircraft overhead, all declared emergencies worldwide, also where military aircraft are heading …

Shipfinder - similar

Lightning app - alerts when lightning happens close by, can monitor strikes and see if they are moving closer or away

Weather satellite / rainfall radar….can see what’s approaching on the horizon a few days away (when the BBC don’t mention what’s coming)

What3Words app for locations and great satellite images

Premium Bond Prize Checker

Whats App

Facebook

Zara - Spain

Tom Kings Kennel - French Bulldogs - PDFs

Amazon for our 2 French Bulldogs from time to time

INTERZOO - Pet Retailer ( Madrid, Spain )

El Corte Ingles Department Store

El Corte Ingles Travel Agency

Booking.com ( travel agency )

InterRías.com ( cultural circuit trips )

borrowbox
bbc sounds
Spotify
WhatsApp
vinted
rightmove
monsterbusters
instagram

My favourite app is Yuka. I can see all the crap they put in our food.

Siptree

Pressreader, free with my library membership. Nearly all UK daily papers, plus others from around the world. Tons of magazines on all the usual hobby subjects. I used to subscribe to a few magazines so I'm saving a fortune.

Looks good, another one I hadn't heard of. Thank you.