my favorite iphone apps

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Devin and I got our iPhones about a year ago, and we've been in love ever since. These phones are attached to us! Sometimes that's a good thing, and other times, it can be a distraction, but I like to think we mainly use them for good. ;)

I wanted to share my favorite apps because a) there aren't very many and suggestions are very welcome, b) most of them are photography apps, and i get asked a lot which apps i use on instagram, so... here! and c) because maybe you needed a cool new app? i know i do!

first of all, though: i didn't include facebook, instagram, twitter, pinterest or vine, because everyone has those and they're a given.

secondly: half of these are photography apps. you're welcome, maybe. maybe bear with me...?

1. UCCU - pretty sure every bank has an app now. this is the easiest and fastest way to keep track of our money. i feel like that's pretty self explanatory. we just discovered it has mobile deposit, which has come in handy a few times, and it helps with budgeting to constantly have access to your accounts.

2. Etsy - as an etsy shop owner, this app is vital. it is so easy to use, and even makes adorable sounds when i make a sale. i love it. if you don't have an etsy shop, i would still recommend this app. i use it like pinterest, and it's an awesome, easy app to use if you need quick gift ideas. i can find a million things for everyone i know on etsy that i'm sure they'd love.

3. Couple - okay, this app is sort of really cheesy and we don't use it very much anymore, but it's the coolest idea. you and your significant other can download the app and connect on it and it's like facebook, but just for the two of you. you can send each other pictures, videos, audio files, you can draw pictures, you can "kiss" (hahaha. it's cute, i swear!) and it keeps track of all kinds of dates and anniversaries. we used to have a lot of fun with it, and we still send each other little notes every once in awhile!

4. Do! - hands down the easiest and most efficient and simple to-do list app i've found. i love the way it looks, and i love the way it works. i just wish i could have more than 1 list at a time, but other than that, i love it and mainly use it for grocery shopping.

5. KSL Weather - sometimes i want to know more than just what temperature it is outside, so the weather app that comes with iphones isn't a huge help. i don't feel like this app is super user-friendly, but it gives me the information i want and i think it's pretty accurate.

6. Ensign - guilt-free phone using during sacrament meeting. i also peruse this app when i'm waiting in a long line, or waiting on someone, or waiting to be seated at a restaurant. plus it's going to be awesome to have once the conference talks are printed.

7. IMDB - am i the only person who refers to this app ten million times a day when i am trying to remember what other movies that person is in, or how old they are in real life when they play a 16 year old on tv, or who is he married to? it's just constant. imdb has settled many an argument, and has satisfied many a mind-boggling entertainment question. it's necessary.

8. Myxer - okay. coolest app ever. this app allows you to choose any song you have on your phone (or whatever device you're using) and you can select any part of the song to make it your ringtone. you have to email it to yourself and then install it through itunes on your computer, but it's worth it to have awesome ringtones! (i'm so sick of marimba! haha)

9. VSCo Cam - i love this photography app. i mostly just use it for the filters, which i love, but it has other awesome photo-editing abilities that i'm usually just too lazy to use. i think this is the only photography app i've paid money for.

10. Diptic - best for making photo collages. this app was at it's best about 2 or 3 updates ago, and i think it's gotten too complicated and less user-friendly since, but i still use it every time i want to combine multiple pictures into 1 image.

11. Bokehful - this photo app just does bokeh effects, which i don't use that often, because i usually forget about it, but how cool are the little sun flare bokeh things you see on photos? so cute. worth it.

12. Instasize - this app is silly to me. all it does it resizes your photo so you don't have to crop it in instagram. it does both landscape and portrait and you can choose to leave the dead space black or white. that's all it does. haha!

13. Timercam - i'm still really confused as to why my iphone doesn't just have a timer already? i guess it's because it has the camera that flips both ways, but on my 4s, when i have the camera flipped to face me, it's pretty grainy and i hate it. so timercam it is! i'm pretty sure this app is japanese, but it does the job. i like that it lets you pick how long the timer will go. i think it goes anywhere from 3 to 30 seconds, so that's nice.

14. Over - my favorite. this app just allows you to add text to photos, but the fonts are really cute and it's super easy to use. plus the home screen for the app always has tons of cute ideas on it.

15. Fisheye Pro -  i don't use this app too often, but i've held onto it because i love the fisheye effect! it's not always a good option for photos, but it can be really cool sometimes! the app is a little complicated and hard to use, but i still like it.

16. Afterlight - i love love love this app. tons and tons of cute filters (too many, i think, though), and i love the film effects you can add, too. i think that's a genius idea! this app also allows you to crop photos into popular shapes like hearts, starts, hexagons, triangles and circles. i get a lot of use out of this one.