
Homescreen heroes
This is part of a regular series of articles exploring the apps that we couldn't live without. Read them all here.
I’ve long had an all-or-nothing relationship with my smartphone. When I was a teenager with an alphanumeric Nokia brick phone, I had the habit of switching it off and leaving it in a drawer for several days, so as not to waste any time on it – something that was awkward in 2008 but feels outright unthinkable now.