HACKER Q&A
📣 imadj

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


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


  👤 mtmail Accepted Answer ✓
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...


👤 softwaredoug
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)


👤 Raed667
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.


👤 gemanor
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.)

👤 dholm
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.

👤 mikewarot
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
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.

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

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

👤 cpach
Evernote.

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