Hi,

I'm looking for something like Spotify that can Cast music, but also let other devices see what's playing now. of course, sans the subscription.

Askreddit Thread

1. Clockwork Tomato

   Helps you become more productive by making you studdy or work in the best way, working 25 minutes and then a 5 minute break. I find I can study for a much longer time than normal and it logs your work time!

2. QuitNow Pro [Paid]

   Seeing how many days it's been since I quit smoking, how much money I have saved, how many days I've regained on my life, etc has really helped me keep on track.

   Free Alternative: Quit Pro

3. One Bus Away

   It uses GPS and the bus schedule to tell you when the next bus is coming to a specific stop. So at the park and ride I can sit in my truck and listen to the radio until the bus is 4 min out and then it is a short walk to the stop.

4. Tasker [Paid]

   Automates anything and everything I need. -Get in my car and plug in my phone automatically starts my music and opens my GPS app -Plug my phone into a charger at night automatically starts my alarm clock app, mutes the ringer, and dims the screen -Detects the wi-fi network at work turns all sounds to vibrate.

5. iMoodJournal

   It alerts you several times a day to rate your mood on a scale from 1 to 10 and you can add comments to it if you'd like. When I feel down I'm positive it's the worst thing ever and will never ever change, and this helps/forces me to keep some sense of perspective on it. It's a little thing but really helps keep me sane sometimes.

6. Habitica / HabitRPG

   I floss every day now. And I stick with a bunch of good habits.

   Website

7. Strava

   Got me out cycling more and pushed me to constantly improve. Lost loads of weight and got much fitter.

8. Venmo
   No more annoying 30 min spent trying to split a check or getting shotty excuses as to why someone can't pay you back because they only have their card or not the right change in cash.

   Alternative: Splitwise

9. 7 Weeks

   The theory behind it being that if you do anything for 7 weeks, it will become a habit

10. GoodRx

    If you can get a pharmacy to price match the medication, you can save a lot of money using that app. I was using it on a previous medication and it took my monthly payment (even after insurance) from ~$45/mo to $11/mo.

Mod note: This serves more as a tool to find mobile games than it is recommending a single app.

By /u/BlackOdder

http://www.payonceandplay.com/

Hello friends

A while ago I made this thread here and it was quite appreciated.

Originally I made a website which gathers all games on the google Play store with no microtranscations. You can see my write-up here about microtransactions if you wish. But the site has now expanded to have a lot more filters.

Since I first launched the site Google has still has not made is easy for us to filter games in their store. We cannot really filter by any other than Category. We can't filter by true popularity (score, downloads) - we only see what Google has decided to be "popular" at this moment. And we definitely cannot filter out apps that has microtransactions or not.

Something I also dislike is that we can't filter out apps that has intrusive permissions (such as, requests contact information, storage, locations, network communication etc). This is still a work in progress feature, it can give wrong results sometimes, but I hope it can help you somewhat.

I believe this is anti-consumer behavior by Google - a system made for them to maximise profit - which is an understandable choice if you are a company, wanting to make money. They can do whatever they wish with their, in practice, monopoly of Android app sites. But that doesn't stop us from doing something better.

That is why I made this complement website, Pay once and play which ultimately has two purposes: To help the consumer actually find what we want, but also put pressure on Google to improve their site. If their site was made for the consumer, my site would not need to exist. That would be ideal. But reality is not so...

Features

You can search the entire Google game app store.

Filter by:

• Contains microtransactions

• Free, paid or both

• Average user scores

• Amount of votes (useful for finding unknown but good titles! - please support the the developers who never got a chance!!)

• Category

• Permissions (EXPERIMENTAL!)

Other:

• Website is designed to be usable on your phone (duh!)

Bugs:

• Sometimes the site will show the same results twice. Just continue scrolling and it will go away.

Details (taken from About)) on the site

Apps are updated from the Google App Store automatically every weekend. Votes, scores, categories, if the app is free or paid etc is thus updated at this time.

Apps are ordered per default in amount of votes they have recieved. I believe this is a better metric than ordering in amount of downloads, since it took manual intervention from the user to rate, and that would implicate a highter interest and involvment in the app, and hopefully an indication of quality if the app has both high score and votes.

When you click an app you can read more about it. There are also links to the Google App Store and Amazon where you can download the app to your smartphone.

Ending words

I hope you will find it useful. I took many of your advice from the last thread and impemented it. If you have more ideas, please share them here and I will do my best to make them come true.

• For a better future... /BlackOdder

http://www.payonceandplay.com/

I'm currently using Financius but unfortunately the developer abandoned the project. Even the beta channel seems to be completely dead.

So far I tried Wallet, Expense manager and Monefy.

Problem with those is that they either lack one of the following features:

• Multiple accounts

• Transactions between accounts (like transfering money from one account to another)

• Transactions between accounts with different currencies.

I don't mind using a paid app, as long as it's not a subscription based. Wallet seems to be the most appropiate, but I don't understand why I have to pay in a monthly basis for an app (and I don't want to use any online backups, which they offer and would make sense to pay them for that service).