Before the new week starts, let’s take a look back at the past few days. The iPhonededitors have rounded up this week’s best iPhone apps and updates for you.
Last week’s best iPhone apps
The App Store is working overtime every week. New apps, updates to existing programs and all kinds of games are popping up all the time. You will probably not notice this much, because most of it is not worth downloading. Every Sunday separates iPhoned therefore the wheat chaff. Here are the best iPhone apps and updates from last week.
1. Listed
Listed is a new minimalistic app for keeping to-do lists and notes. Its strength lies in its simplicity. When creating a task, you can indicate whether the task should take place today, soon or at a later moment. You don’t have any more options.
Thanks to this simple approach, Listed ensures that you get thoughts out of your head as quickly as possible and put them on ‘paper’. That is why the minimalist app also has a widget for the home screen of your iPhone. Furthermore, Listed has a few cool controls. If you have erroneously deleted a note, you can retrieve it, for example, by shaking your phone.
2. Quik
GoPro rolled out a major update to its iPhone camera app last week. The app is now called Quik and has not only been given a fresh design, but also a lot of new functions. For example, the photo and video editor can automatically put music under videos, a bit in the style of TikTok.
Quik also has the option to save your favorite photos and videos. The app then presents this to you every now and then to make memories, just like Google Photos. Furthermore, Quik can import almost all kinds of photos and videos, whether you took them with your iPhone, digital camera, DSLR or GoPro. To unlock all features you need to take out a paid subscription.
3. Souvenir
Are you familiar with bullet journals? These kinds of diaries combine thoughts, notes and concrete goals and tasks. Souvenir is a new app for creating such a bullet journal on your iPhone. The idea behind this is simple: write down three things every day that you are grateful for that day.
This can be a small gesture or a big event. The idea behind souvenir is that you make a memento of every day. The app therefore saves your answers so that you can scroll back. Souvenir is a paid app but does not store any usage data from you.
4. Swell
Audio seems to be the new battleground of social media apps. After Twitter’s Clubhouse and Spaces, where you can chat in virtual spaces, there’s now a different kind of audio app: Swell. However, in this app you can’t chat with each other live, but you are supposed to record voice messages.
So Swell is actually a kind of large-scale WhatsApp chat in which you only communicate with each other via voice messages. You provide this with a matching picture and possibly some links. Then others can respond to your contribution by recording something themselves. You can have both personal and group conversations in Swell.
5. Channel
Channel is an app against smartphone addiction. The program does this by making your favorite apps less attractive. For example, auto-playing videos are blocked, as well as the timeline in Facebook or Instagram. Channel can also ensure that advertisers in these apps do not receive your personal information.
Currently, the app works in Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn, among others. Channel says it continues to add new apps. In addition to making apps less attractive, Channel can also mute intrusive notifications and, for example, delete your search history.