The 20 most essential iPhone apps - 2021
There are apps for adventure, sleep, education, sleep, health, food, sleeeep.
Check out our compilation of the best free iPhone apps.
1. AllTrails
AllTrails is a handy guide for adventurers looking for running, hiking, and biking trails. It offers details about the trails — more than 100,000 all over the world! — including difficulty level, elevation, and length. App users can also post pictures of trails and leave comments and reviews for other users. And, yes, it tells you if the trails are dog or kid-friendly, too.
AllTrails Credit: App Store
2. Khan Academy
Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization that provides free online educational tools to help students learn. Being a “student” doesn’t mean you have to be in school, however. In this case, being a student just means you have something you’d like to learn more about. The app, has information and learning tools on a variety of subjects, from art history to astronomy, at multiple learning levels.
Khan Academy Credit: App Store
3. Mealime
Mealime is a recipe app that, lets the user enter information about their tastes and diet goals before recommending recipes that correspond to said information. Thanks to its ability to streamline recipes to a user’s preferences, the app should save plenty of time on deciding what to eat.
Mealime Credit: App Store
4. Tunity
How many times have you been trying to watch something on TV but the sound is either muted, or background noise makes it impossible to hear? Tunity allows users to simply scan the TV screen, and the app streams the TV audio straight to your device so you can listen with headphones.
Tunity Credit: App Store
5. Libby
Essentially functions as an e-library. As long as you have a library card, you can access and borrow your library’s collection of ebooks and audio books for free. The app allows you to link your library card and then browse your local library's collection. Simply download a book if you want to read it. All of your "loans" are automatically returned on their due dates. No late fees! It’s the library without having to actually get up and go there. Perfect for global-pandemic-like conditions.
Libby Credit: App Store
6. AirDroid
It’s file sharing made easy with AirDroid, which allows users to “share photos, videos, audios, or any files with your friends and across screens."
Let's say you want to share photos from your phone to your computer. As long as the devices are on same Wi-Fi network, your AirDroid account on your computer should be able to recognize the account on your phone. From there, your computer will recognize your phone's photos/videos, and you can pick and choose which files to transfer. No USBs necessary, no wires, and no data cost. You can check out more specifics on the app here.
AirDroid Credit: App Store
7. Insight Timer
For meditators everywhere, Insight Timer provides guided meditations at various lengths instructed by “the world's top meditation and mindfulness experts, neuroscientists, psychologists, and teachers from Stanford, Harvard, the University of Oxford, and more,” according to the app description.
Insight Timer Credit: App Store
8. Clue Period & Cycle Tracker
Clue allows users to track their menstrual cycles and log information about their symptoms to learn more about their menstrual health. Clue also uses that information to make predictions about the user’s period cycle — when it will hit, along with likely symptoms and their severity. .
Clue Credit: App Store
9. Shazam
Shazam is pretty popular and has been for some time now, but it’s always worth a mention when we’re talking about useful free apps. Shazam users can open the app while a song is playing on the radio, in a store, or pretty much anywhere, and Shazam will provide the name of the song as well as the artist who sings it. It’s essentially the answer to the age-old question: “The hell is the name of this song playing?” for the assist.
Shazam Credit: App Store
10. Photomath
Listen, math is really freaking hard, okay? Sometimes you’ll be stuck on a single problem for an hour with no idea what to do. Photomath is a study tool that allows the user to take a picture of that problem. The app will scan it, and the problem then gets put into the app's algorithm, which provides step-by-step instructions on how to solve it. And, boy, would I love to have known this existed before today.
Photomath Credit: App Store
11. DuoLingo
Another handy educational app, DuoLingo offers free quick lessons to help users learn new languages. Choose from more than 35 languages, from Spanish to Japanese, to learn. You'll get an array of mini games and small lessons to further your vocabulary and understanding. The app gives you the space to learn a new language without the added pressure of grades and the dreaded threat of failure!
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