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OK. Spill. What are the apps that get tapped the most on your phone or tablet other than the usual suspects (e-mail and tapatalk don't count, LOL).

I'm talking cool apps that you tried out and found you love.

Or maybe it's a nifty app that doesn't get much use, but may be a gem to the rest of us.

I recently started using Cozi (thanks you, Laura), mainly because it syncs with my g-mail calendar. Full disclosure, I don't use an online calendar much but my DH does and it drives him nuts that I don't. And since he doesn't look through my paper agenda often, I'm trying REALLY hard to at least put the BIG things on the gmail calendar... via Cozi.

I have found I like the grocery list on it also and have used it in the store with my ipad a couple of times with success. I still have the free version so the ads drive me nuts but I don't want to commit to the paid version until I know I'll actually use it.

The other app I use almost daily is Audible. Yep, I "read" as I cook/clean/drive, etc...

So what you you have. I love new techie things and want to hear what is tried and true.
 
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I use VSCO almost every day.
I just got done playing Nancy Drew: Ghost of Thornton Hall with my teenager and I must admit that it was one of the best games I've played on my iPad. Looking forward to them coming out with more.
I use the weather channel app almost daily.
My favorite is the olive tree bible app. I have study bibles and books in there and I love being able to browse through all of them so easily when studying.
Dropbox app gets lots of use. I keep my photography classes on there and I like being able to browse through them whenever I have some free time.
Photo transfer is another I use often. It syncs with my iMac and makes it so simple getting my photos off my phone.
I'm also a Hay Day junkie.
 
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I mostly use FB, the weather app, MyFitnessPal and Garmin Connect. lol
 
I'm boring. I use PicTapGo nearly every day, plus Facebook, Cozi, The Weather Channel app (Ella *needs* to know the high and low each morning to get dressed) and the silly games I play (Candy Crush, Cookie Jam, Pyramid Solitaire). And Pandora for my drive home.
 
I am pretty boring too. Facebook, Calendar 5, Weather Channel, and I have become some sort of weird sports news junkie with Bleacher Report.
I am going to have to check out Photo Transfer, Amanda. I would love to have my photos synced to my computer.
 
2048 and Malnificent (I know ,-but like it) Food network and PicsArt ,and I use rad.io because it can take Danish stations, and music downloader WP for my play list ( but it is not the best I think )and a new one I just started using called notebooks, you can make a new notebook for every subject.!
 
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Spotify... Dropbox... VSCO... Collect.... Pinterest.... Instagram. Those are the ones I use on a daily basis other than the gmail app for email and Facebook.
 
We are a cozi family. I use it to help plan my dad's calendar and can easily include him in reminders for family things that he might be interested in.

My favorite app aside form the 2 dozen photo apps on my phone is by far dragon dictation. I am lazy about remembering to journal, so I dictate notes to myself at the end of the day and the app converts it to text and then I email it to myself for my pocket scrapping.
 
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I'm looking at Cozi and it says I can do a "one-time import" of my google calendar. Jen, how do you get it to sync??
 
Oh, nevermind. This shared family password thing just makes no sense. Why would I want to share a password with my child? :dizzy I'll stick with the regular google calendar.
 
Hay Day is sadly my most used app lately. Otherwise it's boring stuff like email, calendar and my local weather app.

Oh! I have been using Pic Stitch a lot for my summer PL Snap album. I use only journal cards and then collages of photos for the big events this summer until I get around to scrapping them for real:

 
I'm all about Instagram, Instafollow, Facebook... and I literally cannot function without Wunderlist! It's got lists of everything... all my scrap commitments, shopping lists, important dates. It syncs across my mac, my ipad, my phone etc.
 
I use VSCO for all my instragram pics. I also am addicted to the pinterest app.
 
My personal phone is an iPhone.

I use Sunrise for my Google calendars (mine, DH's, and the separate one I keep for DD's scouts). I tried Cozi, but didn't like it. I use Mailbox for my email.

Amazon Music -- music player; I have a playlist just for the kids in it.
Audible -- for the drive home from work
Downcast -- for the drive to work
Gas Buddy -- compare prices of gas near home and work so I don't drive away from whichever one is cheaper.
OnStar -- remote start; I use it a lot in the wintertime!
Camera Awesome! --automatically uploads to my SmugMug account
Frozen -- game
Tiny Tower -- game

My work phone is an Android, and while I use it mainly for calendar and email, I also use MoonReader+ to read ebooks. It has a bigger screen and makes a better ebook reader than my iPhone. I use Marvin for reading ebooks on my iPad. I use SugarSync to backup my phone photos, to retrieve my ebooks, and anything else that I want to access from everything.
 
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We are a cozi family. I use it to help plan my dad's calendar and can easily include him in reminders for family things that he might be interested in.

My favorite app aside form the 2 dozen photo apps on my phone is by far dragon dictation. I am lazy about remembering to journal, so I dictate notes to myself at the end of the day and the app converts it to text and then I email it to myself for my pocket scrapping.
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Trista, I will definitely try your app dragon dictation!!! :heartslub
It's telepathy, I am thinking for some days now tu dictate things in my phone, like things the children said, some little things that happened during the day...
 
What I use mostly are Whatsapp (instant messaging), Pinterest (who doesn't know that, lol), Aldiko (ereader), Dropbox (to set my photos to my laptop), Facebook messenger, Flash Light...
Rather boring too. I used to have ots of apps and never used them, so I deleted them.
 
Trista said:
We are a cozi family. I use it to help plan my dad's calendar and can easily include him in reminders for family things that he might be interested in.

My favorite app aside form the 2 dozen photo apps on my phone is by far dragon dictation. I am lazy about remembering to journal, so I dictate notes to myself at the end of the day and the app converts it to text and then I email it to myself for my pocket scrapping.
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Trista, I'm finally getting to download the dragon app. How do you use it exactly?
 
I use VSCO Cam for photos, though right now I might go back to Camera+ as my go to app.

Then there's social media: Pinterest, Instagram, and Twitter. (Sometimes Facebook, but I go through phases with it.)

Feedly for reading blogs, iaWriter for my million notes, Wunderlist for to-dos, and Memento for the (rare) journaling for project life.

Stitchr for podcasts.

And Cartwheel and the Starbucks app for deals.

I've been playing with the Project Life app a little, but I don't think I'll end up using it.

Yeah, I spend too much time on my phone.
 
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