Time to audit my iPhone apps – Manila Bulletin

Another year has gone and new year has started. Now is the perfect time to review the applications installed on your devices. If you are like me, I tend to collect

applications - when there is a new one that I think I might need, boom! I download and play with it. I keep it because maybe some time in the near future, I’d need it. Yeah,

I’m an app hoarder like that. I just ran through the list of applications on my iPhone and managed to delete quite a number of third-party applications, including three (3)

applications from Apple - GarageBand, Podcast, iMovie. Here is a rundown of the others that I have culled: DataJar - a data store for ShortcutsIf you use Shortcuts, DataJar

is one heck of an application. You can store any type of data locally (and have it sync via iCloud). At the moment, I have nothing stored on DataJar, so I figured that it is time

to go. Element Messenger - a secure group messenger and video chatElement Messenger is the primary application for the secure, decentralized communications platform, Matrix

<“https://matrix.org”>. Unfortunately, this application is rarely used as I do not follow chat rooms that are active. The local Linux community used to have a bridge

between Matrix and IRC, but it isn’t as active as well (maybe it is the bridge that is the problem). Matter - a better reading appA good friend of mine (Hi, Ate Mitch!)

introduced me to this GetMatter.com application. I have been using it for quite sometime, along with NetNewsWire, Apple News+ and reFind.com, but since they introduced their

subscription plans (and I was reducing my subscriptions), I decided to let go of the service. Don’t get me wrong, they still offer a free tier, but I figured that most of the

content I read on the application is available on other apps, so I left. Pixelmator PhotoI am such a huge fan of Pixelmator and when they have released Pixelmator Photo, I

immediately downloaded it. Pixelmator Photo is one powerful photo editor, something that is overkill for me. I have yet to master photo editing beyond the usual cropping and color

adjustments, so I figured that the built-in editing tools of Apple’s Photos application is enough for me. PixelmatorThe one and only original image application that I fell in

love with! Similar to Pixelmator Photo, this is simply overkill for me, at least on the iPhone. I still have them on the iPad and Mac, where it makes more sense considering that I

get a bigger screen. So sorry, but I deleted it from the iPhone. Speedtest by OoklaI used to be obsessed with the internet speed that I am getting, but these days I simply rely on