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Apps and tools I use every day v4

big list of apps and other stuff i use on the daily

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iOS/iPadOS Apps

  • 2FAS - 2FA OTP manager I like. Has a browser extension that makes it fast to confirm and fill codes.
  • Amperfy - Navidrome client
  • Bitwarden - Password manager with autofill, 2FA, lots of power user features. Also desktop app and Firefox extension.
  • BookPlayer - Audiobook player for non-DRM files. Can AirDrop a folder of mp3s to your phone and import quickly.
  • Delta - Nintendo emulator. Roms source.
  • LinkThing - Read-it-later for linkding
  • Obsidian - Current markdown notetaking program I use (cross-platform).
  • Infuse - Jellyfin client. Also on Apple TV.
  • Moonlight ZWM - Fork of Moonlight for streaming from Sunshine on my iPad.
  • Overcast - Podcast app. Since for some godforsaken reason there are no good podcast apps with filtering, you can use siftrss to filter podcast feeds when the titles include “Bonus” or “Preview” or whatever to just completely ignore previews of premium episodes in free feeds. Adding the filtered siftrss feed to Overcast works perfectly. Bonus - here’s a source of a bunch of pirate feeds: jumble.top
  • Plappa - Pre-release iOS audiobookshelf client. Works for me and dev is responsive to breaking iOS changes. I like that you can download the audiobook for offline listening and it’ll still sync progress when it reaches Audiobookshelf again.
  • Pushover - Notification platform. $5 one-time fee per-device; I only have it activated for iOS.
  • Reeder 5 - RSS reader that plugs into my FreshRSS instance. I like the pull navigation between articles.
  • SportsAlerts - Sports scores with live activities on lock screen
  • Voyager - Lemmy client
  • WebSSH - SSH client
  • Zenti Meditation Timer - Meditation timer app I like

macOS Apps

Commandline stuff

  • Homebrew - macOS command line application manager. Can install many regular GUI apps with --cask. All the cli programs in this section can be installed like brew install iterm2
  • iTerm2 - Terminal replacement. I use the Aurora color scheme from here and oh-my-zsh.
  • mpv - Video player that can be run with mpv /path/to/file or mpv <url>
  • yt-dlp - Verstaile video downloader. My config contains -S vcodec:h264,res,acodec:m4a to prioritize getting videos in iOS/macOS compatible formats (otherwise you’ll get a lot of webms).

Firefox extensions

Selfhosted apps

  • Actual Budget - Budgeting software. Using the SimpleFIN bridge to connect to my bank accounts.
  • Audiobookshelf - Audiobook manager and streaming server.
  • Docker - I run everything containerized through Docker on my Debian 12 homeserver.
  • FreshRSS - Self-hosted RSS reader, more of a server the way I use it since so many apps like Reeder, NetNewsWire, and newsboat support it. Supports direct xpath scraping for non-RSS websites. If you cannot figure out xpath like me, you can use the great PolitePol to pick elements and then copy the xpath schemes it generates. I also run a RSS bridge instance to complement FreshRSS.
  • Homebridge - How I get non-Homekit devices on my Homekit; less powerful but less complicated than Home Assistant.
  • Homepage - Dashboard I like
  • Jellyfin for watching pirated movies & TV. I use VidHub for iOS/tvOS and jellyfin-mpv-shim on desktop, but watching in browser usually works fine.
  • Linkding - Read-it-later. LinkThing on iOS but Safari works fine too.
  • Navidrome - Music server; I pay for Apple Music and could just upload everything there but then I’d exceed 200 GB iCloud storage and have to pay for more 😼
  • Paperless-ngx - PDF file system with smart tagging and stuff. Not perfect but cool. iOS client with scanning built-in.
  • Pihole - I run it on a Raspberry Pi to block ads through DNS
  • Send2ereader - I run an instance of this for getting epubs onto my Kobo. There’s a public instance: https://send.djazz.se/
  • Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Lidarr, Readarr - Automated piracy stuff. I use nzbgeek and sabnzbd for nzbs and qBittorrent for torrents. Configure Radarr and Sonarr with TRaSH Guides using recyclarr.
  • Wallos - Overkill application for getting Pushover notifications when a subscription is renewing.

Windows apps

  • Playnite - Like Steam library but open source, offline, lots of integrations.
  • Ludusavi - PC game save backups
  • Duplicati - Encrypted backups, I like the smart scheduling compared to Task Scheduler
  • Obsidian - Current markdown notetaking program I use (cross-platform)
  • WinSCP - FTP client
  • TeraCopy - For file copying
  • Snapdrop - Because no AirDrop on Windows
  • Sunshine - Server for streaming games to handheld devices. Essential to use Nonary’s scripts.

Calendar tools

A couple tips about getting stuff into your calendar app with calendar subscriptions to avoid notifications or having to check apps. I only want calendar alerts for subscribed calendars on my phone, so I’m currently using BusyCal on iOS ($10 one-time payment) to access the calendars saved to my iCloud account and Calendar.app on macOS. BusyCal lets you add arbitrary alerts to subscribed calendars.

Sports calendars through Yahoo sports

Yahoo Sports publishes calendar schedule feeds for every team they have a page for. You just add /ical.ics to the end of the team page url. For example:
https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/por/ical.ics
Add that url as a calendar subscription to get all games as calendar events without any signup or ads like Stanza.

Media releases

See Sonarr, Radarr etc. section in selfhosted apps. All of those apps provide a calendar you can subscribe to to get movie releases, TV airings, book releases, and album releases in your calendar.

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