About appsmore

Remember Ninite, before it had an installer? A plain page with the handful of Windows programs worth having, in a few columns. You ticked what you wanted and got on with your day. No charts, no "trending", no ads dressed up as recommendations.

appsmore is that for the iPhone. One person's list, kept short on purpose.

Who picks

Shashank Dixit, @protosphinx, the same person behind BOMwiki. This is a personal list, built with Proto. Nothing on it is paid for, and the reasons next to each app are mine.

How it works

Tick the apps you want. If you are already on the iPhone, tap Get next to each one in your list: it opens the App Store page, you install, swipe back, next one. What you have done is remembered on the phone. To set up a different phone, send it the link or scan the code; the whole list is in the link.

Why the iPhone Duo

A new kind of iPhone is a good moment to start from a clean home screen. This page is laid out for both of the Duo's screens: closed, it is a tight two-column list; open, your picks sit on one half and the catalog on the other, with nothing across the fold. Once the Duo is out, apps that make proper use of the inner display will be marked here. Only ones a person has actually tried.

How the list is chosen

By hand. An app is on here because it is good at its job, respects you, and has stayed that way. It comes off the list when that stops being true. Nothing is paid for, nothing is generated.

Privacy

The whole list lives in the link itself. There is no account, no database, and no tracking. Icons are loaded from Apple's servers.

A useful browser companion

For quick calculations without installing another app, try OpenCalculator's browser calculators.

Disagree with a pick?

Good. Open an issue on GitHub.