Alright, so I think we have talked about apps in several posts but I have decided to unite them all into one, not an easy task. But I am looking for apps for simple things to more complex ones. Specifically, a stopwatch app. It turns out that whatever came with my Samsung that is now running android 9, which is a clock I have, works alright with setting alarms, and a count down timer. But the stopwatch is something I will never understand. When you hit start, it reads cryptic values to me. It normally starts going in random incremenats to what seems that is up to 100, then just resets and counts back, and then all of the sudden you get stuff like:
1, 75
and then it keeps going like 1, 90, then resets and reads 1, 42 and so on and then all of the sudden you get this:
46, 13, 46, 82 and so on
When you pause it to see what time you have, its like 1:10:15
so its just the weird est thing to use. Any tips or hints or clock alternatives you use would be greatly appreciated. Or any timers you use when cooking I would love to know about them too.
As for what apps I use, and have actually bought, I like eye-D a lot. it has several location based things, including where am I, places nearby, and a travel mode. has an image recognition engine (very useful for trying to identify those screenshots that get sent to you via whats app as it describes both pic and text if any), you can actually use the share feature to share them with the app for processing, and some pdf reader I have not tried, also OCR and an accessible camera that tries to give you instructions for a decent selfie or shot. I am sure more features are on the way, but its just a very nice thing to have around.
For live exercise tracking with a heart rate monitor that you wear, I really vouch for CardioMez as the developer has implemented some very simple, but nice accessibility goodies based on my feedback alone. I have paid for this app and its totally worth it, though I suppose the free edition is just as good. Google fit is keen when you want to follow your goals more closely and they can work in tandem.
I also bought music speed changer because I do work with slowing or speeding tracks a lot, also transposition. The nice thing about pro is that you can export these and then send them to your friends instantly.
Ditch your default mail app and use aquaMail instead. I paid for it, having used free version for a couple of years but if you only use a couple of e-mails free should be enough.
Also, ditch androids clipboard and use clipper . useful, particularly when you repeat stuff a lot. I would not store data that is too personal though... but it saves tons of time for sure. I also bought it after a while.
Now for the free stuff
There is also a new kid on the block and I have installed, but not tried it called sm music reader which reads music scores based off the open xml format, apparently you can draw and also collaborate too.
As for a music player? I am still sticking to MortPlayer music
it has tons of remote headset controlling possibilities, is totally accessible and usable, and a very nice player over all. I said still sticking to it because it appears that its only compatible up to android 7. So android 9 makes no guarantees but it just opens and works fine.
For a file explorer that will not disappoint in all terms is total commander
also for assistance there is be my eyes
There is another one that can give you periodic alerts based on battery level, plus accurate time estimations and its just called battery hd mostly accessible.
The stock stuff that is good to use:
here i use maps, the google assistant, gboard, the gallery app, google drive and docs, youtube, phone and chrome.
so, any other stuff you recommend and why?
I realize not everyone would be amazed at the music reader app because that is not their profession, but who knows. So post away here. I will update this first post if I come across anything interesting.
