Apps

Everything the APKCombo editors have written about apps. Each piece answers a situation you are actually in rather than a category, and every app links through to its own page, with the current release and every earlier one.

The twenty minutes that pay for themselves once

On the day, nobody installs anything. Whatever is already on the phone is what you have.

2026-10-02 · 10 min read
A diary that stays yours

The lock screen on a diary app stops a flatmate. It does not stop much else.

2026-10-02 · 9 min read
The charger is there, and that is not the question

A charger on a map is a claim. The last four check-ins are the evidence.

2026-10-02 · 10 min read
Help with the homework, not the answers

An app that gives the answer and an app that teaches the method look identical from the sofa.

2026-10-02 · 10 min read
The car costs more than the fuel

The warning light is not the problem. It is a question, and a cheap adapter turns it into a sentence.

2026-10-02 · 10 min read
The paperwork nobody started a business to do

Nobody goes self employed for the bookkeeping, and nobody gets out of it either.

2026-10-02 · 10 min read
Same room, three prices, two cancellation policies

The room is the same room. What differs is the fee, the cancellation date and who answers when it goes wrong.

2026-10-01 · 9 min read
Measure it yourself, in five minutes

A coverage map is a prediction. The number your own phone reports is a measurement.

2026-10-01 · 9 min read
Reservations, passes and the apps that hold them

The pass is the easy part. The reservations are what catch people out, and they sell out quietly.

2026-10-01 · 10 min read
The log you will still be keeping in a month

A tracker that demands a weight for every ingredient gets abandoned by Thursday.

2026-10-01 · 10 min read
Nine weeks, three runs a week

The plan matters more than the app, and the plan is nine weeks of walking less and running more.

2026-10-01 · 9 min read
Ten minutes of chess, spent well

Most people who want to get better at chess play more games. That is the one thing that does the least.

2026-10-01 · 10 min read
Twenty-eight drops and a phone on the dashboard

The platform app tells you where to go. It is usually the worst thing on the phone at telling you how to get there.

2026-09-30 · 10 min read
Forty minutes a night and a Saturday morning

The phone is a poor place to study and an excellent place to review. Those are not the same activity.

2026-09-30 · 10 min read
The calendar on the fridge, but on four phones

Most household arguments about logistics are about information, not effort. One of you knew and the other did not.

2026-09-30 · 10 min read
The list that is currently four lists

The point of a reading tracker is not the statistics. It is never buying the same book twice.

2026-09-30 · 9 min read
Reading the label before it goes in the trolley

A scanner is a shortcut to reading the label. It is not a substitute for reading the label.

2026-09-30 · 10 min read
The camera roll nobody can search

Most of a camera roll is not photographs. It is receipts, screenshots and eleven versions of the same picture.

2026-09-30 · 10 min read
Not a sleep app, a working day app

Ten minutes at a desk is a different exercise from forty minutes at bedtime, and most apps are built for the second one.

2026-09-29 · 10 min read
Start with the people who are still here

The most valuable hour in genealogy is the one spent recording an eighty year old talking, and it costs nothing.

2026-09-29 · 10 min read
Eighteen months, mostly in ten minute gaps

The wedding app is good at the checklist. Everything that actually goes wrong is a contract and a phone number.

2026-09-29 · 10 min read
The screen locks at the worst moment

Everybody chooses a recipe app for its recipes and then fights it for the twenty minutes that actually matter.

2026-09-29 · 10 min read
The forecast that decides whether today is bearable

Knowing it is a high pollen day at nine in the morning is worth more than any antihistamine taken at four in the afternoon.

2026-09-29 · 10 min read
The files are on a machine in the other room

The phone is not storing anything. It is asking a machine in the other room, and that machine does most of the work.

2026-09-29 · 10 min read