There are more than two million apps on the Apple App Store of which, around 95% are free to use. However, there’s a negligible chance that you will ever reach a considerable amount of apps you ever came across. Statistically, you will only come across only a fraction of those in your lifetimes.
The thing is, most of the iOS apps that you might never have heard about are truly useful. Some for productivity and others for functionalities, these apps are forever in the mist amidst a couple of high-octane, and many have apps like FaceTime, Uber, Instagram, WhatsApp, and so on. Simply cutting the crap, let’s find those treasures from the depths of the App Store. Check out the 5 best iOS apps you must try in October 2023.
Bear
Rating:4.7/5-starts (6.2K ratings)
Sometimes, it is better to jot down ideas and pointers as they pop up but you can’t always find a paper and a pen handy, right? Bear is a simple note-taking app that offers you the capabilities of writing down ideas, spiraling them into in-depth notes, organizing them, and finding using triggers and beyond. You can write or draw, and link different pages to bring various points to life. Plus, you don’t need an account to get started.
Bear lets you create notes using Siri too. Add tags based on ideas, categories, or simply the people jotting them down so they never miss. You can transform the notes using formatting using tables, italics, bold, strikethrough, and beyond. It just gets better every time you use it. A premium plan lets you sync the notes with iCloud, lock the app with Face or Touch ID, and discover app themes among others.
Download: Bear
CityMapper
Ratings: 4.9/5-stars (57.1K ratings)
Let’s say you are visiting a new place, city, or country and don’t know about its transit system yet. CityMapper is an all-inclusive tool that rivals Google Maps giving you details on the travel options available in real-time from point A to B. The app covers everything from bus, subway, ferry, car share, bike share, walking, train, and so on. It gives you turn-by-turn navigation (which you need dearly in a new place) taking care of all your logistical efforts so that you can simply travel.
CityMapper is available across major cities worldwide. It has partnered with transit agencies as well as mobility options including Skip, Indigo, Lyft, etc, to get an all-inclusive featurette in a single app. The app alerts you of any interruptions, tells you how much time each mode of transport would take, lets access offline maps, and much,
Download: CityMapper
iNaturalist
Ratings: 4.6/5-stars (3.9K ratings)
Nature is packed with tens of thousands of species of plants and animals and knowing all of them is a challenge unless you have decades of experience. No doubt you might get curious when seeing something interesting but don’t know what is it. iNaturalist is an app for you. It uses inputs from the photo and matches them with the database consisting of everything from as little as fungi to as big as a Humpback Whale using its features for species-level identification.
iNaturalist belongs to a not-for-profit organization working towards identifying wild plants and animals making it easier for people to check out details on what they might come across. The app sees thousands of data points regularly with a hustling and bustling iNaturalist community that is growing at a rapid pace.
Download: iNaturalist
Apollo for Reddit
Ratings: 4.8/5-stars (178.8K ratings)
Reddit is huge in many countries around the world but there’s mixed response when it comes to the UI and functionalities. With Apollo for Reddit, you get to use Reddit as much as you live but in a no-frills and clean interface. All your subreddits and stuff remain unimaginably the same except now you have a fantastic photos and videos view, gesture-based interface, comments view with easy-to-follow flow, and more stuff on the way.
There’s dark mode, filtering and blocking, a rather organized inbox, powerful search, the ability to add multiple accounts, and so on. All this makes Apollo one of the best Reddit clients out there.
Download: Apollo for Reddit
PDF Scanner & Editor
Ratings: 4.5/5-stars (190 ratings)
As we are already in the digital age, digital documents and paperwork have become the norm. You no longer need physical printouts of documents in many places as it has been replaced by digital copies. You can digitize these documents on your phone as well allowing it for seamless edits, sharing, and more. With PDF Scanner & Editor, your iPhone becomes the center and takes care of all the scanning for you. The app uses OCR technology to scan through receipts, business cards, contracts, books, invoices, and beyond. You can take a camera snap or upload it from the Photo Library to get the scanning done and export it in PDF or JPG format.
The app supports electronic signature making it much easier to sign any digital documents. The app comes with a smart algorithm to detect edges accurately along with low-light scanning, and so on. A subscription gets you some paywalled features so that all your scanning and editing documents are available right at your fingertip.
Download: PDF Scanner & Editor
Wrapping Up
And with that, we conclude our take on the five best apps you must try in October 2023. As time never stops, neither does our discovery. Thus, stay tuned as we pen the next edition of the Best iOS Apps you must try in November 2023 and cherish these hidden treasures. Let us know if you know some apps that can be reckoned with for others.
Also Read: 5 Best Android Apps You Must Try in October 2023
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