February 20, 2024
Discover the best apps for seniors. Some make life easier or are fun. Find out how to manage your apps.
Apps downloaded which sounded great at the time and then were hardly ever used, get rid of them. They may still be working in the background and thus draining battery life.
If you want to extend battery life, close Apps you may have opened (using close all) because they will still drain battery life even if you are not currently using the App. You can have too many apps open which will prevent some apps from loading.
Many free apps will try to upsell you to a subscription, so before committing just see how useful and how often you use it.
There are so many Apps and to find the one suited to your requirements, use Google. Here are some recommendations.
Google Maps is a useful travel and navigation tool, What3Words is a more precise way of describing locations. The team behind this unique app has blocked out the entire world into 3m squares with each square given a unique three-word tag. The idea is to offer users a more accurate, specific way of finding locations.
For example, you want to meet someone in the Park. You choose a location on their map which tells you the three words, send those words to the person you are meeting and they get directions to where you are meeting.
You may be on holiday with a group of people. Set up the group in the App and then you can send locations to the group or use the tracker to find out where friends are.
Whilst this App targets fitness, you can use it to create walking/running routes based on what suits you. Save routes or create a route with friends and then discover the distance covered/duration/calories burnt.
This is very simple. You want to know what a plant is, just take a picture and it tells you. It has an added function which is that all the plants you photograph are collected and analysed by scientists around the world to better understand the evolution of plant biodiversity and to better preserve it. Their ambition is to identify the 360,000 species living on earth. It’s a free App.
Based on Google’s Chromium codebase, DuckDuckGo is a minimalistic browser designed to keep your online activities private. DuckDuckGo defaults to the highest encryption available for whatever site you visit and lets you wipe your browsing history with a button tap. If you’re tired of trackers hounding you for advertisement purposes and want to browse the web with a bit of freedom, give DuckDuckGo a download.
If you’re looking to learn another language, Duolingo gamifies language learning with bite-sized lessons and a friendly interface. Starting with simple vocabulary and building from there, Duolingo is your guide to learning a new language or brushing up on one you already know. The more you use the app, the more you unlock and—with practice—the more you learn. This free app currently supports Danish, Dutch, French, German, Irish, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
In a world rife with messenger apps, WhatsApp is among the most successful, boasting an enormous and dedicated user base. Add to that an integrated web version that lets users take their chats to the desktop. This Facebook-owned app is bolstered by encrypted messaging provided by the minds behind Signal. It can become overpowering if you join or set up a number of groups with a constant stream of notifications. You can leave a group but others will know.
Using your just your smartphone (assuming you meet the minimum hardware requirements), this fitness app can count steps and log activities to help you achieve daily goals.
If you like to keep your life organized with various to-do lists, then you definitely need to download Todoist. This app lets you keep track of the tasks you need to get done; you can assign them different priorities based on their overall importance or organize them across different projects. It also has a functional, clean design and works across many different platforms.
Flipboard is one of the best apps for reading the news. With it, you browse the articles, videos, podcasts, and other media that matter most to you. The app’s signature magazine-style interface lets you explore the day’s headlines in a gorgeous environment. The Daily Edition feature gives you the most important news along with themed stories for each day of the week.
Although a weather app’s primary function is to give an accurate forecast, the presentation of that data is also important. Overdrop manages to accomplish both feats. The app includes helpful timeline-based graphs of temperature, wind, and rain predictions. Furthermore, you can change the units of measurement that the app displays as well as the weather provider.
An impressive keyboard replacement, SwiftKey Keyboard suggests what it thinks is the most like the next word as you type. A pioneer of this technology, SwiftKey can speed up your typing by inserting whole words with a tap. The app also supports Swype-like input, over 100 languages, and 80 colourful themes.
A leading brain training program, available on the web and on mobile devices. Lumosity’s scientists take neuropsychological and cognitive research tasks, or design new ones, and work with game designers to transform them into 50+ cognitive games.
Designed to be both fun and adaptively challenging, Lumosity’s training program is accessible to people of all ages — helping them stay challenged to the full extent of their abilities.
Google has given the Best App of 2023 award to Imprint: Learn Visually, an education software that strives to teach you new skills and the world around you in bite-sized lessons. It offers a personalized experience where you can learn about topics that interest you from human history to psychology. And Imprint does this via eye-catching visual storytelling.
Was the Users Choice App of the Year 2023. One of the premiere generative AI platforms and whose technology fuels Microsoft’s Bing Chat. Simply submit a question or subject and instantly get an answer. You can also feed in some background or data, perhaps for a letter, speech or complaint and it will write it for you. Copy and past into a notepad if you don’t want the formatting in your final version.
We’ve selected just a few and I’m sure you will have recommendations, so do please let us know.
In support of ActNow this app’s purpose is to teach people how to counteract climate change by calculating their carbon footprint and learn how they can change their lifestyle to reduce the impact they may have on the environment. The software will recommend basic activities like planting trees to lessen carbon emissions or use natural products among other things. AWorld will also encourage you to join group challenges by completing a set number of environmentally-friendly actions.
Not all these apps are restricted to Android phones, some may well be available to iPhones just as some of the apps below are available in the Google Play Store.
You will probably find an equivalent App on Apple.
It is quite likely that Apps listed below are also available for Android
Does exactly what you would expect it to do namely a comprehensive solution for managing medications with ease and precision. There are several Apps with the same functionality.
There are times, I have parked my car in a location for the first time and then struggled to find it.. With this App all you have to do is press a button to save your car’s location and forget about it. In case you get lost, launch the app and hit “Locate car” button. You’ll get directed towards your car. The app also lets you take the picture of your parked car, to better help you locate your car.
This lets you rapidly make custom stickers for Messages. You can drag and drop selected parts of images into Sticker Drop, or import entire snaps. Stickers can then be edited (border; drop shadow; corner curl), named, and organized into packs. Edits are non-destructive and can be adjusted later.
Once you’re done, stickers can be plastered all over Messages, brightening up posts.
You can improve photos with a single tap, by way of a machine learning system trained on millions of pro-grade pics. And if you wanted more control, you could endlessly fiddle with a selection of sliders and filters. There’s nothing else like it on iPhone, whether you want lighting-fast one-tap fixes or to dig deeper into fine-tuning your snaps.
This is just one of many iPhone apps designed for the camera, others include Inkwork that turns photos into sketches, Touchretouch gets rid of unwanted parts of a photo either by removing or filling in, Snapspeed (one of the few that is free) allows you to make instant adjustments .
Spark sports a slick interface and organizes your email into logical categories like Personal, Newsletters, and Notifications, though you can switch to a more standard full inbox view if you like. It handles multiple accounts, but doesn’t combine categories for them as Outlook does. The app is configurable, with customizable swipe actions. It also lets you pin important stuff and snooze emails to tackle later.
Is there an App you couldn’t do without? Let us know what it is.
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