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

11 points| _xivi | 2 years ago

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[+] softwaredoug|2 years ago|reply
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)

[+] damascus|2 years ago|reply
The iOS Weather app from Apple does tell you if its going to rain in the next hour. Even down to the minute and for how long.
[+] Raed667|2 years ago|reply
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|2 years ago|reply
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|2 years ago|reply
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|2 years ago|reply
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|2 years ago|reply
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|2 years ago|reply
The Timely clock app. It was bought by Google and then never updated so it doesn't work on newer Android versions. Sad.
[+] pawelduda|2 years ago|reply
anki + ankidroid maybe? UI feels old but I haven't found anything else that just works for my spaced repetition needs.
[+] cpach|2 years ago|reply
Evernote.

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