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Preferably lesser known but game-changing apps that are able to be bought one-time and put all others to shame.

To help clarify your thinking, which apps have produced such an outrageous level of value (regardless of one-time cost) to the extent you believe it should be #1 in its category, not necessarily #1 app ever.

We'll do a seperate thread for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, etc but let's stick to iOS for this one. Thanks Lemmings!

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[โ€“] rouxdoo 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The one I wrote myself to automate tasks at work. It has saved me hundreds of hours of tedium and makes my job so much easier. It only cost me a few weeks of learning (I am not a developer, just a tinkerer) to get it done. It lives happily on my phone and iPad and I use it every day.

[โ€“] cheese_greater 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You wanna tell us more? Kinda hard to act on this :/

Edit: I might do one on Shortcuts although that might be trickier given the lack of anonymity in "sharing" them since its iCloud and tied to your Apple account :/

[โ€“] rouxdoo 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oops, I'm sorry - I should have mentioned that it's not on the App Store. It is chock full of company proprietary documents, photos and sales formulae. I wrote it just for myself.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

All these comments recommending paid subscription software... weird world. Not that this is not a healthy model for the Devs, but how can you trust them?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
  1. Pythonista. Great Python editor, REPL, and platform-specific libraries.
  2. Editorial. Same author, Markdown editor which can be scripted in Python. I routinely write al new features for it, like dice rollers, list renumbering, etc.
  3. Documents by Readdle. PDF & epub reading, file management, bunch of optional features.
  4. iCabMobile. Browser with a ton of ad-blocking, filters, good file management, I routinely use it as a private browser.
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