What Are the Top Three Must-have Apps on Your Phone?

📱 If your phone could only have three apps (excluding essentials like calls and messages), which apps would you keep, and how do they keep you entertained or organized?

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[Jon Randy 🎖️]

Sorting my installed apps by most frequently used, the answer would appear to be:

• Firefox Nightly
• Twitter
• Line

[Soumyadeep Dey]

The Difference between nightly and normal firefox?

[Imam Ali Mustofa]

1. Discord
2. Firefox + DuckDuckGo
3. Termux

[Vladas Saulis]

1. Google
2. Google
3. Google

[Rachel Fazio]

True

[Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard]

There are only two categories of apps I really love

• direct human 2 human communication like WhatsApp
• tools I use for a very specific goal and close when that goal is reached like Google Maps or SimpleNote or Contacts
• music(*)

What I avoid

• social media / doom scrolling
• being overwhelmed by automatic notificaitons, aka an external todo lsit

(*) 0-based indexing

[Oscar]

By most frequently used, Discord, YouTube, and Spotify.

[Vincent A. Cicirello]

GitHub, LinkedIn, 2FA app (just not indicating which specific one I use)

[Ryan Brown]

Not the most used, but very important:

• KeePassDroid - I try hard to know as few passwords as possible.
• AndFTP - Keeps the db for the above synced to my secure ftp.
• Firefox - where I use the passwords I don't know.

Honourable mentions:

• Glympse - for keeping the S.O. up to date on arrival times :D
• A Mastodon Client * TOOTs! 💨
• Destiny 2 - handy for the vice

[Prakhar Yadav]

I've never tried mastodon. How is it?

[Ryan Brown]

I'm getting more value out of it than I did twitter (though I never used the twitter app.) I find there is better community content for the things I'm interested in. I like how moderation works and the local (the instance you're on), and the wider inter-instance moderation.
I've seen pretty much no bad actors unlike on FB or Twitter. (I think they get filtered out very quickly)

[DR]

1. Opera
2. Duolingo
3. Messages

But honestly, I use Spotify so much that it would probably show up in the top three if I had the app.

[Soumyadeep Dey]

Facts We Cant Disagree

For Browsing & Downloading Chrome (i prefer brave)

For Sharing And Chatting Telegram

Twitter For Knowing Trends

[Caleb (pxlmastr)]

Freetime:

1. Google
2. Spotify
3. Chrome (for dev.to)

Programming:

1. Termux
2. Acode
3. Chrome