What Are the Top Three Must-have Apps on Your Phone?

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📱 If your phone could only have three apps (excluding essentials like calls and messages), which apps would you keep, and how do they keep you entertained or organized?

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Top comments (17)

Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Jul 26 '23

There are only two categories of apps I really love

direct human 2 human communication like WhatsApp
tools I use for a very specific goal and close when that goal is reached like Google Maps or SimpleNote or Contacts
music(*)

What I avoid

social media / doom scrolling
being overwhelmed by automatic notificaitons, aka an external todo lsit

(*) 0-based indexing

Ryan Brown • Jul 26 '23

Not the most used, but very important:

KeePassDroid - I try hard to know as few passwords as possible.
AndFTP - Keeps the db for the above synced to my secure ftp.
Firefox - where I use the passwords I don't know.

Honourable mentions:

Glympse - for keeping the S.O. up to date on arrival times :D
A Mastodon Client * TOOTs! 💨
Destiny 2 - handy for the vice

Prakhar Yadav • Jul 29 '23

I've never tried mastodon. How is it?

Ryan Brown • Jul 29 '23

I'm getting more value out of it than I did twitter (though I never used the twitter app.) I find there is better community content for the things I'm interested in. I like how moderation works and the local (the instance you're on), and the wider inter-instance moderation.
I've seen pretty much no bad actors unlike on FB or Twitter. (I think they get filtered out very quickly)