Ask HN: Is there an app you use that have no clear successor?

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by _xivi • 3 years ago

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gemanor• 3 years ago

If the IP is not the app, yes many. - Regional content (foreign language books) - DJI Fly - Uber in some particular locations - Phone hardware camera (iPhone, Google pixel, etc.)

mtmail• 3 years ago

Captio by boonbits. It sends email using the user's own SMTP credentials. It's been way more useful than the $0.99 I paid.

https://www.engadget.com/2010-09-30-captio-the-simple-app-th...

Jaxkr• 3 years ago

I searched the App Store and found this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quick-notes-email-me/id1090744...

softwaredoug2• 3 years ago

DarkSky

The Apple weather app is janky, slow, and doesn’t do the one thing Dark Sky did well (is it going to rain in the next hour)

damascus• 3 years ago

The iOS Weather app from Apple does tell you if its going to rain in the next hour. Even down to the minute and for how long.

softwaredoug2• 3 years ago

It does. Mixed in with a million other things. Not to mention the stability and performance issues the app has had.

pawelduda• 3 years ago

anki + ankidroid maybe? UI feels old but I haven't found anything else that just works for my spaced repetition needs.

cpach• 3 years ago

Evernote.

I’m migrating to Simplenote, but it has much much less features.

Raed667• 3 years ago

I want an app on Android to record phone conversations as MP3 files in the background. My old OnePlus 3 dialer used to handle this perfectly, not anymore.

Unfortunately it seems the Android APIs are getting locked down for this kind of usage.

juvvel• 3 years ago

The Timely clock app. It was bought by Google and then never updated so it doesn't work on newer Android versions. Sad.

mikewarot• 3 years ago

Picassa was the best facial recognition / photo organizer I'd ever used... but the last version before Google killed it has a bug that sometimes swaps face tags, making it useless. 8(

DigiKam is a very poor substitute.

sizz88• 3 years ago

Barrier KVM, I have been on x11 forever because of this app. Wayland is still fumbling around with copy and paste ill be on x11 for the next decade.

dholm• 3 years ago

CodeNavigator for iOS was a great app for cloning repos and reading the code offline. It had support for bookmarking and making annotations as well as syntax highlighting for many different languages.

Ask HN: Is there an app you use that have no clear successor?

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