What's the iPhone or any smartphone for that matter without the apps?
But also, what are the apps out there that really suit this new iPhone?
Once you've downloaded your social apps, your favourite games, and some productivity apps,
what else should you be installing on your brand new iPhone?
This is not the first apps video I make,
it's more like a refresh and follow-up from previous videos in this series.
I've been looking for the most useful apps out
there and testing a few of these and I hope you find one or two of them useful.
These are not exclusive to the new iPhone and some will work
really well across the Apple ecosystem too.
Just Press Record And the perfect example of this
multi device experience, is Just Press record. It's such a simple app, but extremely powerful.
It is an app for many different usages, but for me is for taking notes.
How is this different to the voice recording app? Well,
it transcribes it into text and it's easy to export that text then to other apps.
It integrates with apple Watch really nicely.
Plenty of times I am out an about when suddenly an idea pops-up.
Rather than stopping what you're doing, just press record. Carry on with your walk, with your run,
with your drive. Then go back into the app to listen or read the recordings and organise them,
move them into your note taking app like Evernote, Notion, etc.
Forest I love this little
app for how simple yet how very efficient it is. For doing focused work or studying,
this will encourage you to remove any distractions and reward you by making your trees grow.
The more you do, the more trees you unlock and before
you know it you will have a beautiful forest.
I use this a lot when I want to focus on writing my scripting or recording my videos, super useful.
Maekersuite Something else
that is super useful, especially if you are trying to get used to being
in front of the camera is this great app by today's sponsors, called Maekersuite.
It's not news right, that video has become a really powerful way of getting your message
across, be it in the education space, marketing or building your personal brand.
But if like me, you are not a natural in front of the camera...
Then this app will really help you. It lets you add your script but here's
the thing with scripts, sometimes they make you sound like a robot.
So Maekersuite solves that by letting you record in blocks. So you can have natural
pauses and convey your message, convey your ideas in a nice and structured way.
As you get more comfortable in front of the camera, the blocks can get bigger
as you won't need to pause as much.
And something I found recently with YouTube is that the script is great but the more confident
you get the less word by word you need. You start to get by with just bullet points and
that will help you sound even more natural as you're not reading everything verbatim.
But that will come with time and experience. So the blocks and the way each block is recorded
separately will really help you with the editing as well.
Basically there is only a little bit of trimming that you need to do for each recording,
because you only keep the takes that you like as you are recording. It's really neat.
The app has these really useful guides too and templates to get you started.
I was talking to Makersuite and they really liked the idea of having creators put their
own templates up there so we could have a Tech review template by Alex Gear & Tech.
But you can see here, they already have lots of templates ready to go
and you can see how easy it is to follow their guides to create those script blocks.
So you can imagine that people could create these templates for any type of video,
taking that stress out of the creation process and letting you get on with the important bits.
Vertical videos for TikTok, Instagram reels, LinkedIn, YouTube, whatever social media
platform you want your content in, this app will help you record in that format.
They are still growing and the app is not available everywhere
yet and they are continuing to add more features
and I will leave some links in the description if you want to download it and start playing with it.
When you are recording your video,
the text appears on the screen very close to the lens as well which is super important.
Looking at the lens, will help you build that strong connection with your audience
and will help you come across nice and confident as well,
without those awkward pauses where you are trying to remember your talking points.
Telegram The next app in today's video is Telegram. I
love how fun it is to use and if you're not happy about the Terms and conditions of WhatsApp and
their encryption levels, or you never know when Facebook servers might be down again!
Telegram is still quite strong in encryption - I am always sceptical with these things but they do
seem to be a bit more secure - They're growing in popularity and it is just quite fun to use really.
These stickers always make me laugh.
MS Math Solver The next app is Microsoft Math Solver. There are
other apps that do the same thing but I quite like how straightforward this one is. And it's free!
If you are a student or a parent helping out with homework, this app is a must. Algebra,
Trigonometry, Calculus, this thing can solve pretty much any problem you throw at it.
Really quite handy. Obviously don't use for cheating, this is more to maybe... validate
your work. And practice areas that need attention, they have tutorials built in so great for that!
Duolingo This next app
is great for learning new languages. You can go at your pace of course but it's really fun
to use. As part of my son's weekly tasks he has to practice on this app for a number of hours a week.
And it really works, it's not just an app that you listen to,
some of the exercises make you speak into the phone for the correct pronunciation.
1Password One of the most frustrating things in our
lives is having to remember passwords. And I know you can just create easier passwords right? Wrong!
The bad guys are out there, constantly trying to break into our digital lives.
So to protect your identity, your banking your emails
there are a number of things that will really help. Firstly,
enable two factor authentication for all the things that you care about.
And two factor is great but it's a right pain when you don't remember your password and you
have to reset it. Now you are being asked by a robot to confirm that you are not a robot,
click on the tiles that show a traffic light. It's a nightmare!
By the time you managed to reset your password, you forgot why you needed it in the first place.
1Password is awesome and will synch across your devices and browsers so
you can now set really complex passwords, and never have to remember them.
I have a family plan actually so we share a vault in the family
which made a lot more sense, so if you have a few family members that would benefit from this
the family plan will work out best for you.
They always have some sort of freebie going on so I will leave the links down below
for you for the various options they have.
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Carrot weather This is Carrot weather. It's
not just a weather app! This one comes with a... bit of an attitude, shall we say. My YouTube buddy
loves this app too, so that's at least one more nutter out there that I know likes this.
It's really fun!
You can set its personality
for different levels of aggressiveness and it goes with the Apple watch too.
Some of it its not safe for kids so be careful how you set her personality up.
I was delivering a bit of bad news once at work and I crossed my arms which
accidentally opened the weather app and she blurted out some abuse at the worst possible time.
I can laugh about it now, but it wasn't funny at the time. So yeah, just be careful.
Top Clock This is Top Clock,
a very useful little app that lets you have a floating c.. clock, whether its a timer,
a countdown or interval. It's really useful. A little bit like Forest, you can set it to focus
for 25 minutes, aka the "Pomodoro technique" to encourage you to work with the time you have.
Just battery This one is Just battery,
a neat little widget that has a much better way of visualising your battery usage. You can
make it very personalised and since Apple are not giving us that at a glance percentage at the top,
this can be a nicer visualisation, rather than jus the circles that Apple gives us.
Double take This is probably one of
my favourites for video recording. It is beyond me why Apple didn't enable this by default but hey,
it's only a couple of dollars and its well worth it.
In my S21 Ultra I get something called Director's view which is
a really nice feature, that allows you to record from multiple cameras.
Double take allows you to do just that,
extremely useful to add a different perspective to your videos.
Frame grabber And this is Frame grabber.
If you are trying to capture a frame from a video you took, there really isn't an easy
and native way of doing this. You can screenshot it but the quality will be horrible so if you
recorded a 4K video, you might want to preserve that level of quality when you export your frame.
With Frame grabber you can do just that.
I will be reviewing the iPhone 13 Pro Max fully very soon
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And I will see you and your smiling faces on the next one!