How to choose, not what to install
Collections tell you which apps are worth a look. Guides tell you how to judge one yourself, so the next time you are in a store page without us you already know what to check.
How to tell a subscription trap from a fair price
Four questions that separate a tool worth paying for every month from one that should have been a single purchase.
Read →What a good sleep timer actually does
The single feature that decides whether you finish an audiobook, and why most implementations get it wrong.
Read →Why your streak app is making you quit
The mechanic that gets you through week one is usually the reason you stop in week nine.
Read →Reading an app's permissions before you install
Three minutes on the store page that will stop you handing your contacts to a torch.
Read →The four-thousand-note test
Every note app is pleasant at forty notes. The ones worth choosing are the ones that are still usable at four thousand.
Read →Streaming rights in Canada, and why your tracker is wrong
Most where-to-watch tools quietly assume American availability. Here is how to tell, and what to use instead.
Read →Why these and not app reviews
A review of a specific app is out of date in a year and useless the moment that app changes hands. The things that do not go out of date are the questions: what a sleep timer should do at the end, what a permission list is actually telling you, what happens to your data on the day you stop paying.
Learn those once and you can evaluate anything, including the apps we have never heard of.
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