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For me it's StreetComplete. It's like PokΓ©mon Go, but you're doing actual map quests that help verify or correct information in Open Street Maps.
And if you do enough per month, you get free map downloads without a subscription if you use OSM the app.
I think it's only on Android though.
Wooow! Now that's a fun and useful game like I've been searching for a while! Downloaded count me in!!!
Walkscape. It's like PokΓ©mon go and runescape but without the emptional manipulation.
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Streetcomplete - gamify openstreetmap and help fill out the map.
I just got accepted into the beta for walkscapes. It's such a relaxing game and using steps vs distance is super nice to have as a tracking system.
I've just finished making my Streetcomplete account! And I've got some work around me it's gonna be fun
If you travel a lot, Toilet finder.
Edit: and not an app, but a website: Pairdrop - really useful for cross-platform file sharing, especially when you just need to email to colleagues something you snapped with your personal phone, but yoe have overly tight IT systems in place at work that stop you from connecting your personal phone to your email or OneDrive.
I'm recently enjoying walkscape, which is an RPG where you have to walk in real life to progress in game activities, such as crafting or fighting.
It's in closed beta, but you can sign up for the next wave of beta invites and I got in pretty fast
Also, I downloaded streetcomplete but haven't really gotten around to it. It's an app where you map out your surroundings for open source maps with Infos, like opening times at a bank or the width of the street or the type of road, etc. A cool concept, but I always forget about it
I've been eyeing walkspace since I discovered it on lemmy, it's just that because it's in Beta waves, I know when I'll get access to it, my hype to try it out will be gone. And I won't use it :/ so I'm waiting
Haha I was gonna suggest it too, it's been a lot of fun! Helps get me walking and the community are nice :-)
Pocket Bard is great for setting adaptive music in D&D sessions. Pick a setting (town, cave, woods, dungeon, etc.), choose the activity the party is doing (exploration or battle), choose an intensity. The music will automatically adapt and fluidly change to match the situation.
Do you know of an alternative that allows custom music and sounds? I haven't found anything that works well.
I geocache and some people don't know about c:geo. It's a really good app for geocaching because it has so many tools.
Indeed! I geocache and didn't know about it! Downloaded! I'll be running it to try!
URL Check It acts like an intermediary to open in browser when you click on a URL. Its useful to kinda look at the URL before it opens and choose browser.
Audio Share Relays audio from PC to mobile through network
PCAPDroid Packet capture for Android
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starred this comment, great recommendations
I'd also like to add:
WiFiAnalyzer: Find empty channels to put your network into, and also scan hotel rooms for hidden wifi cameras
GPSTest: Debug your GPS signal to see why its taking so long to lock on.
That sounds interesting, do wifi cameras show up differently compared to normal networks?
Trail Sense, it's all the "survival" tools in one great package. Do I use it often? No. Does it feel like unwrapping my favourite toy every time I open it? Absolutely.
I use the AR tool for sun positions every time I'm finding a tent spot or to watch a sunrise/set, and the bubble level is perfect for finding a tent spot that isn't tilted 2 degrees towards your head so you wake up with a headache.
I've been using Daylio for years.
It's designed to track moods and the activities associated with them, but it's adaptable, so I use it to track my headaches. It's very easy to use and it doesn't feel onerous to record the information.
I used to use it a few years ago! Then I forgot about it, and now I'm just using Obsidian, but it's a fun way to think about our days
Daylio is great.
Yidio to find movies and shows and where they are cheapest.
Transit to take public transit to get somewhere. Itβs not designed like a typical map app.
Db meter to see if the audio around you is too loud. I use this a lot when at bars.
Onx/gaia for mapping/nav when off-roading and other recreational activities where youll be off network.
kinder world, it's a plant-watering emotions-thinking about game that's a cover for a mindfulness app. really effective because cute animal characters.
Grainstorm
It's a ridiculously versatile granular sampler synthesizer. Obviously not for everyone, but it's super fun to just make weird soundscapes with. Even with just your phone mic.
Insight Timer is a meditation timer with the features I like:
itβs also got a huge marketplace of guided meditations, though I donβt use them
On Google Play, Insight Timer has 5M+ downloads and is Editors' Choice. It is not a small app, and it's constantly trying to get you to pay for premium. I have never cared about or noticed low quality audio until trying to use this app. It's been a very weird experience trying to relax and noticing how poor the recordings sound. I assume this is another upsell thing
Data Jar: When you use iOS Shortcuts this is a great way to store persistent simple data with iCloud Sync
These have been around for quite a while, but I recently learned about clipboard managers. I haven't met someone who uses one, perhaps because it is an inconspicuous tool. Regardless, I love being able to quickly paste text that I use frequently!
I'm still testing them, so I can't really say "this one's the best", but here's one: https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/
Web Video Caster is probably my most used app. It casts just about anything to just about anything. It's worked better than anything else on my Chromecast and when I've needed to connect to Roku.
It supports IPTV, playlist creation, bookmarks, watch history, recent played, resume from last position, and a ton more.
The dev has been great whenever I've reported bugs and has added a few requests over the years.
Too Good To Go has been awesome since I heard about it on How I Built This. It's designed to reduce food waste, but I think that makes it sound less appealing than it is.
Participating eateries estimate how much product they will have to throw out at the end of the day. It's not bad stuff, but stuff they made too much of. Instead of tossing it, they set it aside, and you come take it for pennies on the dollar. No extra work for them, cheap mystery box of eats for you.
We've tried many fancy local bakeries we couldn't really afford, tried new local pizza places, got some great frozen treats and an ice cream cake from the premium ice cream place, and some great Jamaican takeout from a place near my work that'd normally be out of the way.
We also stock up on bagels from the Manhattan Bagel. They're normally around a dollar each, but we get 15-18 for $5 and then we freeze them. Been doing that for months now, saving a ton of money. Sometimes we get misshapen ones, it flavors we don't really like, but we still come out way ahead, or we learn different ways to use things, like the salt bagels we didn't originally like.
+1 for too good to go. It depends on where you go, but I have had good experiences.
Too good to go sounds like a wonderful idea that will shortly get ruined by businesses trying to cheat the system
I wish Too Good To Go was in use in my city. My friend lives in Oakland and she uses it all the time. She said it's a bit hit-or-miss, though. She's shown up at some places and they're like, "here's a bag, fit it up with whatever and we'll charge you $n for it." Once it was a shelf of stuff and they said she could as much stuff as she wanted from the shelf for the same price. Once when I was visiting her, we got a huge bag of baked goods. If nothing else, it can help familiarize you with areas and businesses you may not have come across otherwise.
The bagel place is like that sometimes where they haven't made the buzz yet and they let us pick. The Jamaican place has seemed the same every time, but it's a great portion of assorted items. We also got good stuff from a vegan, non-every allergen place. The prices were premium, but the stuff was really tasty, and even though we didn't have special diet restrictions, other family members do, do we could promote it to them. We've also gotten to try different things we don't normally order, like we get a big bag of pepperoni rolls from a pizza place, and the other place is the sausage food truck thing outside Home Depot which was actually really tasty.
Only once did we feel a place was a little less generous, but it still wasn't a bad deal for the price, just in comparison to other grab bags.
It's got us to try both local stuff we've never gotten to check out, and also things a little further away than we'd normally go to because it's a cheap adventure with really nothing to lose.
Traffick Cam: Help combat sex trafficking by uploading photos of hotel rooms from your travels
Traffickers regularly post photographs of their victims posed in hotel rooms for online advertisements. These photographs are evidence that can be used to find and prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes. In order to use these photos, however, investigators must be able to determine where the photos were taken.
Wow, I am, impressed to see something like this exists