My Apps of 2013

There are lots of lists out there and ideas for the future. But by now I am old enough to know that I am as clueless as the next guy to know the future. What I do know is what I used the last year and that might actually prove interesting for some of you.

So here we go. While I did buy a Nexus 5 to play with Android, iPhone is still my main platform. I left out special iPad software for now but this will give you enough information and maybe some apps that will not have been on your horizon up till now.

So what did I use?

[Audible](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/audiobooks-from-audible/id379693831) — I love audio books and listened to a lot of them in 2012.

[Instacast](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instacast-4-podcast-client/id577056377) — The other thing I love is podcasts, what better to listen to in the car then a bit of Entrepreneurial thought leader series from Standford, or Geekstammtisch, or TWiT.

[Spotify](https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/spotify/id324684580) — I finally ditched my entire music collection. I am still not warming up to the fact that I should share my car, or not own a car (or several), but I did understand that “owning” my music is stupid. I listen to so much more new and different stuff like this it is scary. Mind you, I did backup my music collection ;)

[Instapaper](https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/instapaper/id288545208) — It is part of my remember all.

Kindle — Reading books, I’d say 80% on the Kindle. And more and more of my “normal” friends now use a Kindle too. Actually one friend already said that she uses the Apple iBook Store… because she likes turning pages. It’s the small things that matter :)

reeder using Feedly — I used Google reader before, and now I use Feedly and am back where I was. I still absolutely need RSS for consuming my news.

Simplenote — I am using different text editors from time to time but I always end up with Simplenote because it just makes working with texts and finding old ones so much easier.

Circa — This is the first news app that I end up opening again and again. Simply brilliant concept.

Dropbox — I tried Google Drive, Bitcasa, Copy, lots of them… but Dropbox ends up being the one that I use most.

Wordpress — Still blogging here even though we moved Catalyst Zero to Ghost. I will probably move there some time too, or maybe not, who knows about the future.

Evernote — By now, this is a big part of the rememberall.

Amazon — The app is actually great. Makes me buy more from Amazon … wait … is that really good? ;)

[Vivino](http://www.vivino.com/) — The first wine app I am really using. Scanning wines by taking pictures is great and it is wonderful to have a list of all the wines you own with more information. Buy the pro version.

Google maps — Still not warmed up with Apple Maps.

[Moves](http://www.moves-app.com/) — Yes, this is really the one and only quantified self app I am using again and again. Everything else I stopped using up will now.

Withings — Yes I have the scale. And I love it. Period. Might be getting other stuff from them simply because it is a great company.

Asana — We are using it as a task management system at CØ and I am starting to really grow fond of it.

Coinbase — My bitcoin wallet of choice.

That completes my list of most used apps for 2013 and I hope you found something to look at.