10 Awesome iOS Apps You've Never Heard Of!

I'm known for finding good Mac apps—but when it comes to the iPhone, I've been mighty boring. Let's fix that with 10 excellent apps you told me about!

There are a lot of really great iOS apps out there, but the magic of the App Store has died off since its 2008 launch and many of us just use the same social media, email, and productivity apps as everybody else. Let's broaden our horizons and talk about some cool apps for the iPhone and iPad that are not commonly used/known!

0:00 I’m only good at the Mac
0:28 MusicBox
3:32 Find: A Modern Photo Manager
7:27 Setapp
8:10 Launcher
10:10 PDF Search
13:10 Sequel
15:32 Opener
17:57 RunPee
19:51 Up Ahead
21:56 When Did I…?

[aheze]

Developer of Find here. Sorry about the crashes - I will get to them :) My internship at apple ends in 2 months, so until then I'm not allowed to push updates, but I should be able to get away with critical fixes. Also, great video. You introduced everything great about Find way better than I could have. Really appreciate it!

[lenn]

I prefer to pay for apps once and not a yearly subscription.

[VTFarmCam]

I miss star ratings in Music/iTunes. I had so many smart playlists based on YEARS of meticulously rating songs.

[orionx]

I don't even try to look for iOS apps, they're all subscription based and it's so annoying. I love my MacBook because it has tons of free and open source software for it, I will take a slightly worse app that I can just buy and not have to worry about paying for it forever, on iOS that often isn't possible. Serious buyers regret almost a year after I bought this iPhone 14 Pro Max

[mrketanprajapati]

Remember adding magnifier markup while editing photos back in ios 16?
Its back we have much better alternative app name "Photo editor with magnifier"
You must cover this app in your upcoming video

[edacenarc]

This video was great! I would love if you could do some more iOS/iPadOS videos as it would broaden your content a bit and connect with more people. Thanks for your amazing work!

[charliebrown]

For Opener you can set the default app! Slide towards the left on the open dialog and set Apollo as default and you’ll never see that screen again:)

[boyscout]

Dang, watching you make this kind of video again reminds me of the days of "ThatSnazzyiPhoneGuy" when I was looking for good apps for my iPod Touch

[melvinsoto]

Have you used Reelgood? Would love to see a comparison between that and Sequel!

[orionzspark]

That launcher app feels like the kind of thing that would have only been possible with a jailbreak many years ago, awesome!

[andy_warb]

I’m looking forward to trying Find! My wife and Ai have a shared library with over 20 years of pictures with over a hundred thousand pics!

[f_yeevy]

Thanks for making me discover MusicBox! I've been spending hours trying to build a satisfactory system within an Excel spreadsheet (which might still work better for youtube videos, maybe), but that app is SO much better!

[PossibleJothamChin]

Thank you for those Mac videos! Now many of them like hot keys and menu bar x are a vital part of my work flow:)

[ViPRMiX]

Although I didn't download anything today, I really enjoy these videos and glad to see your making an IOS version now!

[caliniabandito]

Just a heads up, but Apollo has the functionality to recognize and open Reddit links opened in Safari in Apollo natively. The native option even has an “auto-launch when detected” option, which Opener was missing!

[eleventhvolume]

Another great video, many thanks Quinn. Please consider covering Marvis Pro in a future video, it's such a brilliant, incredibly adaptable alternative to the default Apple Music iOS app. I'm not affiliated in any way with it, just a very happy user.

[Neon_SilverFox]

You just cleared about 80% of my bookmarks in Safari on my iPhone with MusicBox.

Thanks.

[Deury._mota]

Hello I’m a iOS user I downloaded many apps I keep trying to try out many I hope I can watch as many informative and educative videos to know the amount of apps I should have downloaded on my phone

[BLKMGK]

Was skeptical but glad I clicked, I've now installed a few of these including Finder and was impressed the author posted. Sadly for Apollo Reddit has screwed the pooch - bummer. Good video, appreciate the suggestions and feedback about the various apps :)

[feelckins]

I recommend you to give TV Time a try, it’s just like Sequel but better because of its social network format.