10 iPhone Apps for August

I love my iPhone. It is a great device, especially for its size. The immense processing power in the SoC is so incredible that developers can’t seem to be keeping up with them. Still… We need great apps, and more often than not, we get many of them.

Unfortunately, we can’t easily find them. That is why I write these stories and I hope you get some value from them in your life.

These are 10 iPhone apps for the month of August. I hope you enjoy reading this story, and get some value from the apps introduced here.

You can see the stories for the previous months at the end of this read.

The apps introduced here are in the categories of privacy, utility, finance, news, photos and videos, and reference.

Authenticator

Many people use a variety of methods to protect their online security. It usually consists of creating complex passwords and adding your phone number. One of the most secure methods to further improve your account security is using two-step verification.

Many use Google or Microsoft solutions for their authentication apps as they are advertised on their websites, but they lack many critical features that would make an Authenticator app legit.

Some features that make this app unique are:

• Creating a backup of your two-step verifications, so you won’t have to worry about another phone if you upgrade or lose a device.
• Use your two-step verification codes on almost all your apple devices.
• The app even works offline.
• Comes with iOS and iPadOS features like home screen widgets and dark mode.

Overall, for the cheap yearly subscription, it is a good deal.

🔐 Privacy: No personal data collection

💳 Price: Subscription $9.99 per year

☑️ Compatibility: ⌚️Apple Watch, 📱iPhone,📱iPad, 💻 Mac

🧩 Design: Decent looking

⭐️ Rating: 4.3 out of 5 (61 ratings)

🔗 Download: AppStore

🌐 Research: Website

Codriver

Managing your car shouldn’t be all cluttered with physical documentations. It shouldn’t waste your time and induce anxiety. Living in this day and age has made our life much easier to manage; therefore, your car management should be easy too.

Using the app Codriver, you can keep track of your car-related purchases, and more importantly, the amount of fuel you consume to commute. Logging your mileage is easy, and the app gives you great information on how much money you’ve spent on your car.

It is a relatively new app, but I think it has a bright future, seeing how thoughtful it is designed. If you own an electric or a gas car, give this app a try.

🔐 Privacy: No personal data collection

💳 Price: Subscription $9.99 per year

☑️ Compatibility: 📱iPhone, 📱iPad

🧩 Design: Decent looking

⭐️ Rating: Insufficient data

🔗 Download: AppStore

🌐 Research: Website

Buddywatch

I love my Apple Watch. If I didn’t have to charge it every day, I wouldn’t have really noticed it on my wrist. It only alarms me when necessary and gives me a great deal of information about my health.

As a person dealing with anxiety disorder, I need to check the information on the Apple Watch. It is a fantastic health companion.

What would make a fantastic health companion a better-looking tool? This app: The Buddywatch.

The Buddywatch is a watch-face app that brings tons of beautiful faces to your devices. It consists of exceptional images with minimal text to make your Apple Watch look more fun to use.

If you are looking for a unique way to customize your Apple Watch, give this app a try.

🔐 Privacy: Some personal data collection

💳 Price: Subscription with different plans

☑️ Compatibility: ⌚️Apple Watch, 📱iPhone

🧩 Design: Decent looking

⭐️ Rating: 4.8 out of 5 (4.1K ratings)

🔗 Download: AppStore

🌐 Research: Website

Cloud Battery

One of the most useful widgets on iOS and iPadOS is the battery widget. It can display the battery life on your Bluetooth devices. It is accurate and super minimal.

For a long time, many customers have asked Apple to include the battery status of all their Apple devices in the widget. Unfortunately, we still haven’t received any update on that, but that doesn’t mean a smart developer wouldn’t use the features and implement a solution.

The Cloud Battery is the start of a solution for what we have asked for so long. You simply install the app on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, then register your device. Then, using iCloud and some other technologies, it will show the battery status of all your devices in its widget on your home screen.

The app not only shows the battery status of your devices but also offers visual customizability options for the app and its widget.

If you want to get a glimpse of the future of continuity for your Apple devices, then give Cloud Battery a chance.

🔐 Privacy: Collects personal data

💳 Price: $2.99

☑️ Compatibility: ⌚️Apple Watch, 📱iPhone,📱iPad, 💻 Mac

🧩 Design: Displeasing

⭐️ Rating: 4.3 out of 5 (390 ratings)

🔗 Download: AppStore

🌐 Research: Website

Expense Diary

Logging your expenses is essential to manage your finances and a necessity for living in today’s world. Moreover, having a place to look for your expenses can come in handy, especially when doing your taxes.

There are many expense management apps on the App Store. Funny enough, I think I have used 80 percent of them, but the ones that caught my eyes were those that didn’t ask a lot of money before offering any value.

Expense Diary is a simple to use app that allows you to get some value from the app before subscribing to their plan.

The app is minimal and offers lots of statistical information about your expenditure. So, if you are looking for a simple way to manage your expenses, give this app a try.

🔐 Privacy: Some personal data collection

💳 Price: Subscription $1.99 per month

☑️ Compatibility: 📱iPhone, 📱iPad

🧩 Design: Decent looking

⭐️ Rating: Insufficient data

🔗 Download: AppStore

🌐 Research: Website

Google News

Google News, as its name tells, is an all-in-one solution for your news reading. Despite the questionable privacy of Google products, I still believe their user experience is what makes most of their products worth trying.

Google News offers news in multiple categories sorted by touchable tabs on the top of your screen. In addition, it can learn from your reading interests and show you news you might be interested in reading.

The app doesn’t use lots of colors or customization and sticks to simply bringing you the news, which is a plus for the experience of using it.

If you are looking for a free app that brings the latest news, install Google News on your iPhone and see how much you will enjoy using it.

🔐 Privacy: Collects personal data

💳 Price: Free!

☑️ Compatibility: 📱iPhone, 📱iPad

🧩 Design: Decent looking

⭐️ Rating: 4.6 out of 5 (207.1K ratings)

🔗 Download: AppStore

🌐 Research: Website

Morpho

I used the iOS and iPadOS spotlight search to convert units, but that is a cumbersome task as your use-case will sometimes extend the simple unit conversion.

That is why I am introducing Morpho. It is a super simple, straight-to-the-point app that brings up the keypad and asks you to enter the value you would like to convert.

I love this aspect of the app as it is straightforward and doesn’t want to clutter your experience. The developer of Morpho has definitely done outstanding research for their app.

The app supports many units for conversion and offers multiple valuable settings for your needs.

It is a subscription-based app; however, it is really cheap and deserves the cost.

🔐 Privacy: Some personal data collection

💳 Price: Multiple In-App Purchases

☑️ Compatibility: ⌚️Apple Watch, 📱iPhone,📱iPad, 💻 Mac

🧩 Design: Displeasing

⭐️ Rating: Insufficient data

🔗 Download: AppStore

🌐 Research: Website

Opera GX

A gaming browser — I don’t know about you, but I didn’t know of such a term until a while ago. As if my Safari is not suitable for gaming. I might need to run a couple of benchmarks to figure it out, but I guess the advantage of a browser made explicitly for gaming is how it is customized to prevent ads and to track bloatware — stuff that makes your device eat up your RAM.

If you know what constitutes a gaming browser, please enlighten me in the response section. I will appreciate it.

Opera GX is great for those who like to receive their gaming news on the home screen of their browser. It allows you to customize your navigation, change the themes, and prevent any kind of ads to pop up in your browser.

I think with the advancement of gaming with streaming in the cloud, there is a market for browsers like Opera GX, and this app would be great for you if you use Cloud Gaming services.

🔐 Privacy: No personal data collection

💳 Price: Free!

☑️ Compatibility: 📱iPhone, 📱iPad

🧩 Design: Decent looking

⭐️ Rating: 4.9 out of 5 (2.8K ratings)

🔗 Download: AppStore

🌐 Research: Website

Safety P+V

Many have photos and videos that would like to stay hidden from prying eyes. Hence, the unfortunate situations when you give your iPhone to someone to look at a picture, then they start scrolling through other images and videos. Not only is that an invasion of privacy, but it is preventable. At least something that is reasonably in our control.

The problem with the hiding feature of Apple Photos is that everyone knows of such a feature. If you genuinely want to sandbox your images and videos, then install Safety Photo + Video. It is a great app that offers a safe place for your media and facilitates the way you would transfer them to your device.

The app offers multiple protection steps for your images and videos, including decoy protection and biometric authentication. In addition, it provides many useful features that keep getting better with each update.

If you are looking for a way to protect your sensitive, important photos and videos, give this app a chance.

🔐 Privacy: No data collection

💳 Price: $3.99

☑️ Compatibility: 📱iPhone, 📱iPad

🧩 Design: Displeasing

⭐️ Rating: 4.7 out of 5 (407 ratings)

🔗 Download: AppStore

🌐 Research: Website

Spontaneous — Random quotes

I don’t know about you, but my tomorrow is always different. Why? Because my mood keeps altering many days throughout the year. I’ll need a push to reach certain productivity. That is why I keep going back to inspirational messages from philosophers and people I adore.

One of the solutions that have helped me inspire doing my best is the Spontaneous app. Its design is not really good, but it brings some features I haven’t seen in many apps doing the same. Features such as:

• Working offline
• Text to speech for each quote
• Ability to bookmark specific quotes
• Share quotes you enjoyed
• A notification system in the form of reminders

🔐 Privacy: No data collection

💳 Price: $0.99

☑️ Compatibility: ⌚️Apple Watch, 📱iPhone, 📱iPad

🧩 Design: Displeasing

⭐️ Rating: Insufficient data

🔗 Download: AppStore

🌐 Research: Website

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