App Store Pearls: IFTTT makes sure you don’t forget anything on your iPhone

Every day we do a tour of the internet for you to find the best apps in the App Store for your iPhone, iPad or Apple TV. Today OMT editor Dunke van Boekel introduces you to ‘If This Then That’ (IFTTT). The app to automate your iPhone.

Is the start of your day filled with turning certain settings on and off, or do you have to post on both Twitter and Instagram every now and then? For that and more, you’ve come to the right place at IFTTT.

I do this, the iPhone does that

This App Store Pearl brings a certain degree of automation to your iPhone with the help of so-called applets. These applets actually “link” two events together.

Suppose you often forget to turn off your mobile data when you are connected to your Wi-Fi network at home. There is an applet on IFTTT that allows the app to automatically send you a notification when you connect to the network. So you know that the mobile data can be turned off.

Everyone makes applets on IFTTT

The usefulness of these kinds of features has certainly not flown under the radar of large companies. Many have created their own applets (including Philips Hue, for example). Think of Instagram, which has created an applet that immediately places the photo you post on the platform on Twitter, instead of just a link to the post.

You can even create your own applets in your iPhone as well. At the bottom of the app is the ‘Create’ button. When you press that, you can select a trigger (take your battery at fifteen percent, for example) and what happens next (a message to a Discord channel or just a notification).

What do you get with a subscription?

Of course, IFTTT also has a subscription service that gives you extra options. You can still add an unlimited number of published applets, but the number you can create yourself is limited to 2. With a Pro subscription you can make twenty, but with Pro+ there is no limit anymore.

Furthermore, the Pro version of the app works faster, with exclusive triggers and responses from the apps on your iPhone. With Pro you can also add multiple steps to the applets you create yourself.

IFTTT Pro will cost you about 2.50 euros per month, where Pro + knocks double out of your bank account. It’s worth noting that besides screwing together endless applets, the Pro+ subscription offers more benefits for serious developers.

So do you feel like making your digital life easier? With the App Store Pearl IFTTT you can go a long way by letting your iPhone do your work for you.