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Paprika app. Helps us meal plan and be prepared for the week. Cloud sync with my spouse, shared grocery list, calendar, pantry tracking, recipe scaling, and many more features. The best feature however, is that the screen does not go off while you are cooking.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hindsightlabs.paprika.android.v3
Motioncam is an must have if your phone is powerful enough
Aio launcher... Slick and I just like what it provides.
And before it became the next great yt sponsor... Ground.news . I've had it for like 4 years and it's refreshing ... I do miss the comments section but I also understand it was becoming a mess to moderate with their tiny team
Windy. The best weather forecast app. You can have a free account, but with premium you get more often updated data from various models.
FX as an explorer replacement when Xiaomi put pubs in theirs.
You have a free version too, I don't even use the "pro" stuff just wanted to contribute.
Torque Pro. Extra gauges for your car, like oil temp, timing, fuel trim, air-to-fuel ratio, tire pressures, MPG, and so much more. Also you can use it to see if you'll pass emissions before you even go in for testing. (Requires OBD-II Bluetooth dongle.)
Also if you're willing to answer a couple of surveys a month, you can get paid apps for free forever using the Google Opinion Rewards app.
Google Opinion Rewards app.
Unless Google Googles you. I used to use this, but I have apparently been permanently silently banned from it with no explanation and no recourse. I did nothing wrong or disingenuous as far as I can tell; It simply kept asking me -- presumably based on my location -- how my experience was with retailer X, Y, or Z was. Always stores which I had not visited but simply gone near, and I truthfully answered that I did not go to those places and it'd give me thirty cents or whatever, but then one day it just stopped offering me surveys at all, apparently forever.
So I guess this flags the magic Google algorithm that I am worthless as a consumer and the app no just longer does anything on any of my devices anymore. It loads, it displays, but it never presents me any surveys. It squatted there on my phone completely silent for six months, so I uninstalled it. What a crock.
Also, I'm sure they're spying on you all the time through that app. Obviously it tracks your location, and Satan himself only knows what else it reports back to them. I think I'd give it a miss at this point. I'd rather pay $2 of real money for some app versus having Google snooping around behind me all the time just to get something for "free."
But yeah, Torque Pro is worth it. I use it all the time. So is Alpine Quest. Those are the only two paid apps I ever use on my phone.
Google don't need an app if they want to spy on you.
Unless you've switched to a rom without google play services, they can essentially do anything they want on your phone without you knowing.
First time I heard of Google Opinion Rewards. Skimmed through the Terms of Service, and they indeed tell you that they use your location and gather information tied to your Google account.
But hey, at least this time they are paying for selling your privacy!
Unified remote. WiFi or Bluetooth control over any win/Linux/Mac machine with many remotes and incredible functionality.
F-Droid image gallery. So many useful features, but I use it mostly for automatic galleries and metadata tagging
RadarScope Pro is the first that came to my mind. I don't live in tornado country anymore, but got plenty of use out of it when I did
Sd maid Se . worth paying
Smart Audio Book Player. I listen to a lot of audio books and this one was more than worth the €2.39 I paid. So many features I love it.
ISS detector pro
The only paid app I've got is Sound Profile. Puts the phone on quiet (except for family) at night, or silent (with auto resume to normal) in meetings. It's on my & spouse's phones.
The Royal Spanish Academy's dictionary, most likely. While I can easily have conversations in Spanish, the similarities with my mother language every once in a while make me get words confused, specially in conjugation (why does B and V need to sound so similar...). I've had it for a while, and although it was a bit pricey, it has saved me quite a few times from awkward mix ups. Also bonus points for working completely offline (looking at you, Yomiwa dictionary...), and having no problems being sideloaded into vanilla Android systems.
Sirin audiobook reader.
Is there any Lemmy android client with the push notifications?
Thunder has local notifications and is completely free.
I bought blackplayer EX a while ago because it was a great music player but now it seems to be abandonded with the last update being a year ago and I have started encountering some issues.