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Tom’s Guide
Technology
Tom Pritchard

It took me having a baby to figure out that not everything needs an app — here's the free tool I use instead

Baby and mother in front of laptop holding a smartphone.

There is an app for pretty much everything these days, no matter what it is or what you actually want to do. There are your standard apps like navigation or fitness, productivity services, and even apps that can identify birds by the sound of their call. That's right, Shazam for birds exists, and in my experience, it works really well. Even if it is a monumental battery hog if you're not careful.

There are hundreds of thousands of apps out there, across multiple devices and platforms. Some of them are great and genuinely useful. Others are a complete waste of bandwidth and deserve to be delisted as quickly as possible. Yeah, I'm looking at you, premium wallpaper subscription apps.

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