5 must-have iPhone apps
From mapping to photography and beyond
· TechRadarFeatures By James Rogerson published 6 November 2024
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There’s an almost overwhelming number of apps available on the App Store, and a huge number of them are high-quality options that could genuinely benefit you. This is great, but it also makes it tricky to decide which apps to actually get.
Ultimately, there’s no one-size-fits-all answer to this, but below we’ve listed five apps that we consider must haves.
These cover a range of categories, from podcasts to maps and beyond, and for our money they’re among the very best in their fields.
1. Pocket Casts
While Apple Podcasts is quite possibly the most popular way to consume podcasts on an iPhone, it’s arguably not the best, with some third-party apps having features or designs that might appeal to you more, and Pocket Casts is a prime example of this.
This app has been available for many years, and it has got better and better over that time, pairing a bright, attractive interface with a wealth of features, like the ability to trim silence, change the playback speed, boost the volume of voice relative to background noise, use a sleep timer, and much more.
You can also use it with AirPlay, Chromecast, Sonos, and CarPlay, so you’re not limited to listening on your iPhone, and there’s an Android app too, so you can easily keep listening if you ever ditch Apple – which isn’t true of all the best podcast players on the iPhone.
2. Halide Mark II
Halide Mark II isn’t a must-have app for everyone, but it is a must-have for those who want to go beyond just pointing and shooting with their smartphone camera.
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