What Simple App Would You Like to Have

You don’t need an app for that. Just create a bookmark to the radio station, then put a bookmark widget on one of your home screens.

What I would like is an alarm clock that is location aware, and wakes me up one stop before my station on the subway or the bus. Okay, it probably wouldn’t work on an underground subway, but most of our “subways” are elevated and it should work just fine.

Since you can access the internet, I’d like to make you aware of a wonderful website called “Google.” If you don’t know something, you can type your question into the little box, click the magnifying glass icon, and it will find answers for you.

For example, you can type in “what is an app.”

Here is a link for you: https://www.google.com. Try it!

I want a Plant ID app that actually works, and doesn’t rely on asking people what they think the plant is.

This is, I am told, one of those “simple but not easy” things. There are lots of apps that claim to do it, but do it very very badly. I haven’t found one yet that can reliably, accurately, identify Dandelion and Plantain. No way I’m trusting them with Apiaceae family!

That defeats the purpose of asking the question though.

I want an app that will silence the phone for an hour with a single tap. After the hour, it should return ring, vibrate, alerts etc. to their former settings. If it were me, I’d call it “Tapout”. The only feature should be that additional taps will increment the hours of silence, and a 1-sec hold will disable it.
Am I the only one who forgets to turn the ringer back on after meetings?

That reminds me of the suggestion I have for the OP. I want a general-purpose dichotomous key app, that can load key sets, as well as create them from scratch and save them - so people can use it to create plant or fungus ID guides, or diagnostic guides of any kind, etc.

I’ve loved these things ever since I first saw the ‘Pangolins’ example program for my ZX Spectrum (this implementation is just a ‘20 questions’ type quiz, but it is extensible so if it guesses wrong, you can teach it.

An autocorrect on my PC that only fixes the words I have regular trouble with, such as mistyping “teh” instead of “the”.

The last time I tried to find some, there were several good programs for inserting whatever material you want when you enter a certain word-like shortcut. So, for example, I can make it so that typing just sig [with a space after] will automatically type out my fancy email signature, and typing letr [space] pastes a copy of my form letter for me to fill out.

OK, that’s nice… but with such a program it’s quite easy to cause teh [space] to be interpreted as a shortcut for inserting the word “the”. :slight_smile:

The Transit app has a “Go” mode where it alerts you when your stop is coming up soon (or when it’s time to leave to catch your bus). It uses real-time bus location data when it can get it, otherwise published schedules. (I use the app frequently, but can’t vouch for the utility of that particular mode, which I don’t use.)

I’m not going to download it just to check, but I’m betting that the much-touted Tasker would easily do this.

Thanks; I do use that app, but never noticed that feature. I’ll check it out.

Slightly more work, but not much, is android app Silent Mode+
When I turn the volume of my phone off, it pops up a window that lets me pick when I want it to return to my default volume, either by time (1PM) or by length of time (45 minutes)
You can white list numbers and black list other apps (so muting them won’t trigger SM+).
If you want to buy the upgraded version, you can schedule mute times (like for a weekly Monday morning meeting.)

I’d like a sound recording app that has a looping mode similar to a dashcam, but audio-only. I’d like to specify how long the time window it records and/or a max memory size it’s allowed to use on my SD-card and then set it to continuously record an audio loop, erasing the oldest segments as needed to make room for the latest within the limit. And of course, once after-the-fact when I realize my recorder has bagged something important I want it to have a quick way to make that recording permanent, just like a dashcam.

I live in a one-party recording state, by the way.

Yes. They need a “random niche need” app suggestion generator.

I can guarantee you all significant needs have been covered already.

This is simple to make (at least for a book or audio file), and I would do it if only I knew there was a demand for it.

Also simple to make, but who are the user base that find this useful? I have a 128GB sd card, so I can record for 100s of hours non stop no problem. And that is with a cheap old phone.

By the way, there is no need to buy Tasker, what many of you are looking for and more is available in the free IFTTT app.

A simple gas and mileage app.

Keep up with my fill ups, automatically compute my mileage. I’d enter the miles on speedometer, gallons, cost. App should date stamp.

Track miles driven each day. Can GPS do it accurately without any manual entry?

Nothing fancy. Just an easy to read App.

So I could get a monthly report.
I drove 340 miles this month.
Filled up twice, cost $62

Then, end of the year. Give me the total miles, and cost.