Do you have an app that you use for a unique or uncommon purpose?
2026-05-11 16:53 UTC
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@dragonlover@lemmy.zip 2026-05-12 21:21
I use audiobookshelf to manage my TTRPG pdfs. It can correlate multiple files under one “Title” which makes organizing ttrpg stuff simple and it’s a nice interface. Plus it’s self host able so I can share it with the other people at my table. I just wish the PDF reader was a little more robust but it mostly does the job.
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@laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-13 00:28
Not what you were asking, but delta chat is an app that turns email into chat. Same premise. I use the f droid store as a launcher almost more than I use my launcher’s native feature when I have to use an app thats not on the home screen. I can’t remember the weird names people give their projects so I just search for what I need and open whatever is already installed. I use bitwarden password manager to keep notes about websites because it loads in the sidebar according to URL automatically. (More useful on desktop than mobile.)
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@deranger@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-11 18:33
Merlin Bird ID - it’s Shazam for bird calls with a Pokédex for tracking what you’ve discovered.
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@_g_be@lemmy.world 2026-05-13 02:07
I used a Color Picker app (an app that generates color palettes of complimentary colors from one or more color inputs or a picture) to find good paint combinations for d&d miniature painting. That’s not that far off from it’s intended use, but I bet it’s not the audience they imagined lol
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@Athena5898@lemmy.ml 2026-05-13 15:52
Me and my wife use element classic for RP with our ff14 characters.
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@Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2026-05-12 01:22
I have home assistant running on my home server. It’s default use is managing your smart home but my house is too poor to be smart so I use it to push notifications about chores to my kid.
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@zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 2026-05-11 17:44
I use Signal as my camera and as a note-taking app.
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@lucg@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 20:46
GSam Battery Monitor, I use to check things like until what time I was up or how cold it was in the bedroom overnight. The graphs show when my phone screen was on (when I set my alarm) and log the battery temperature which I've found matches room temperature after a few hours (with WiFi/data off so it's not doing whatever background tasks if people are conversing in a group chat or so) One time I was absolutely certain my alarms hadn't gone off but you could see a little blip on the screen graph, once every minute, matching precisely the (turned off) alarms. Either Sam is in on it or I just slept really soundly that day :D Apparently it has ads though. Wouldn't recommend, I always had it firewalled because I didn't think it needed internet access to display some offline data from my phone in the first place and apparently that also works as an ad blocker? Fun side effect. But so I'm very interested in any open source alternatives people know of!
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@monovergent@lemmy.ml 2026-05-11 17:26
There is a particular camera app that a few of my close friends and I have used for group photos since over a decade ago. It's proprietary and tracker-infested, but there's a certain humor and nostalgia to the filters and effects that I've never found a good way to replicate without the app. It's sort of an in-joke that we insist on using it whenever we do get together. So I have it on my secondary device and painstakingly patched the apk so it can run without any unnecessary permissions.
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@NONE_dc@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 18:42
The DeepL app as a "Syntax corrector". English is not my main language. I translate what I write in English to Spanish to see if it's correct.
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@SomGye@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-11 23:30
I have used Telegram, for over 12 years, to send messages and important notes to myself, and to very quickly send files between devices. It supports fast and smart search and pinning, and it acts as an archive for certain dates and events, but with the ability to have file attachments or screenshots on those dates (unlike a normal calendar). Everything else I have tried has some of these features, kind of, but nothing else has all of them and in the way that I need. Plus it’s free and fast and fully cross-platform.
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@Eggyhead@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 19:38
I’m not sure if this counts, but I use Readdle Documents, which is a file browser from before the files app on iOS, on my iPad as kind of a siloed collection of files and folders exclusively for work. I can still access those folders from my desktop finder at home through iCloud Drive just like anything else, but accessing all my personal files from the app on iPad (which is what I take to work) is a bit trickier, so it just keeps all my work things organized, focused, and away from my personal life.