Ask HN: What mobile apps can't you live without?

kalagan 11 years ago |

Google maps. I live in Japan and I don't read Japanese so it's extremelly helpful. Even when I was living in London 2 years ago, I was quite upset during the two months Google maps was not on iOS.

johnatwork 11 years ago |

Even though I don't FB a lot, the App is quite handy to message someone that's not as tech savvy (or don't have a smartphone), especially in groups, and keep track of the convo history.

ankitml 11 years ago |

Ola cabs / Uber for India - I dont own a car so these apps were pretty much indispensable for me, but now they have been banned pretty much in many Indian cities.

rayalez 11 years ago |

- Good audiobook player

- Good ebook reader

- Good text editor

- Video player

- Torrents downloader

- Mindmapping app

- IRC app

- Wikipedia app

- Game of Go.

- Pomodoro(productivity)

If you're considering tablet apps - then also something for painting, like procreate.

kornakiewicz 11 years ago | |

Do you really use torrents on mobile phone?

rayalez 11 years ago | | |

Yes, and it is surprisingly convenient.

kornakiewicz 11 years ago | | |

For what usage, if you have time to answer? Only things I need from torrents are TV series unavailable in my country, sometimes Linux distro.

motyar 11 years ago |

On iOS its green-white icon named "Phone"