Useful Phone Apps

Below is a list of 100s of mostly free of charge phone apps I came across over the years, some of which may also be useful to you.

The apps run on Windows phones and can also be found via Windows computers and Windows tablets at:

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/featured-apps

You can find similar phone apps for Apple's iphones (for some you may have to pay however) at

https://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/ios/id36?mt=8

and Android phones at

https://play.google.com/store/apps

Hint: What can one do with unused old phones:

http://www.consumerreports.org/smartphones/what-to-do-with-your-used-smartphone

Here is the list of Phone Applications (in alphabetical order):

50,000 Quotes of Wisdom: By keyword, category, author.

911 Scanner: By country, near me, favorites, codes, hot feeds.

AAA: Road service, auto repair, discounts, ebooks, offices, guides to hotels, dining, camping, events, attractions.

Accurate Tuner: For over 100 different music instruments.

Activity Tracker: Tracks running activity, with location tracking, charting, schedules.

Adobe Reader: Reads pdf files.

Advanced English dictionary: Defines any word, pronounces words, explains origin of word.

Advanced Wireless Forms: Password protected customized forms to fill in.

Air Quality: Index for reporting air quality. It tells you how clean or polluted your outdoor air is and what associated health effects might concern you. There are 5 major air pollutants being measured: ground level ozone, particle pollution (particulate matter), carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide.

All Recipes: 1000s of food recipes, with list of ingredients, directions, nutrition list, reviews, food selection spinner by desired cooking time.

Amazing Diary: Diary with settings for daily entries, bookmarks, and passwords.

Amazon Kindle: Allows to read books via phone.

Amazon Mobile: Shop online with special deals, gift cards, and wish list.

Anatomy: Human anatomy overview.

Angle-O-Tron: Measuring the angle of where you put the phone on.

Anti Theft Alarm: Activates phone alarm if phone is touched.

APP Folder: Establishes phone app folders on main phone screen.

App Social: Lists the most popular apps and ranks them by popularity.

Archiver: Archives files on the phone, the cloud and zips them down in size.

Attendance: Records attendance by date by name.

Audio Books: Free books that read thousands of books to you.

Aupeo! Radio: Personal radio playing any music any time.

Auto Assistant: Vehicle log concerning fuel consumption, trip cost estimates, maintenance schedules, with backup to the cloud.

Baby Monitor: Uses the phone as camera and sound recorder which can be rendered on remote computer or phone.

Badminton: History, rules, equipment, strokes, strategy, and best world players.

Badminton Scorer: Keeping track of scoring during Badminton games.

Balance Book: Manages small business sales and expenses, balance sheets, profit charts.

Basic Physics: Interactive automated physics formulator.

Battery Adviser Tile: Shows how much phone battery charge is left.

Battery Doctor+ : Shows how fast the phone battery is charging and by when it will finish charging

Battery Meter: Identifies phone battery type and provides statistics about its performance

Battery Status: Shows stats on battery usage during each day by the hour / minute and graphs such

Beamer: Uses the phone camera to beam what’s on the phone screen (e.g. pictures) to any internet connected monitor/screen/TV.

Beatphonic: Create music by dragging and dropping visual objects on the phone screen.

Best Tip Calculator: Calculates the tip on restaurant bills and the resulting total, split by payee.

Big Algebra: Mathematical equation solver.

Bing Translator: Translates any of about 40+ languages, using text, voice, camera via phone.

Blink: Blink captures a burst of images to provide the best suitable picture.

Blood Pressure Monitor: Records blood pressure measures by date and time and graphs historic entries.

Bloomberg: Worldwide financial news indexes, companies, commodities, currencies, market alerts.

BMI check Free: Calculates the BMI and charts it and categorizes.

Body Monitor: Check your weight loss, track your body, manages your training plan and tracks your blood pressure, body fat and daily calories.

Buddy Tracker: It tracks the phone’s position and the position of other friends every two yards, shows G-force readings on a map and notifies in a set time interval.

BuddyTV Guide: TV program with watch lists, reminders, and TV provider specific to any phone location.

Burglar Alarm Sentry Bot: Phone alarm based on movement and sound dynamics, with sensitivity dial.

Business phrases: Teaches and helps understanding common meetings and everyday business conversations.

Business Reference Library: Many business terms.

C# Keywords: For learning C# computer programming.

C# Programming: Learning how to program using C# (C sharp).

C_Sharp_Tutorial: Teaches how to program in C#.

Calculator Smart: Binary calculator, conversion pad, graphs, derivatives, integrals.

Calorie Meter: Tracks history and calculates requirements.

Calorie Watch: Tracks how much is consumed, measures weight, graphs progress, and manages food list.

Calorie_Check: Graphs calories, proteins, and carb content of food items you specify.

Camera Timer: Makes the phone camera automatically record for a set amount of time.

CameraKaze: Connects remote cameras with sound, video, pictures and controls cameras via phone, computer, tablet via Wifi.

CamScanner: Scans with text recognition, and stores any paper documents to the cloud on OneNote or OneDrive.

Car Bloke: Tracks vehicle oil changes and cost, vehicle maintenance cost, and fuel cost over time intervals.

Carbon Trip: Estimates the carbon consumption of the person traveling with the phone.

Carbon_Footprint: Calculates CO2 emission of your car, shelter, travel activities.

Car Locator: Logs where the car is parked with picture and notes to find it later via map.

Carpenter’s Friend: Plumb bob, spirit level, surface level, protractor converter with sensitivity settings and calibration.

Cartoon Me: Takes pictures and transforms them into cartoons with customized text box to email and or save.

Catholic’s Companion: Prayers, Mass readings, journal, rosary, reminders, bible, breviary, fine charges.

Character Map: Currency symbols, Greek, Latin, Phonetic extensions, mathematical operators, block elements.

Charge Finder: Locates any electric charging station for electrical vehicles nearest to you.

Chemical Laws: Explains 15 core chemical laws in plain English.

Chemistry Aid: Molar Mass Calculator, and reference sheets on Ions, Constants, Atomic Structure, Equilibrium, Thermo/Kinetics, Gas/Liquids/Solids, Oxi-Red/Electrons

Chemistry Companion: Properties of organic solvent, solvent miscibility, NIST periodic table, thermodynamic data, relative strength acid /base, NMR solvent shifts.

Chemistry: Periodic table of elements, their properties and descriptions

Chemistry x8: Elements, balancing chemicals.

Chord Codex: For guitar chords.

ChordDictionary: Shows any guitar cord visually

Chore Tracker: To track chores by person.

Cifra Club Tuner: String instrument tuner.

Compass: Visual compass tool indicating each pole direction.

Constitution of the United States: Bill of Rights, amendments, and bookmarks.

Cooking Unites: Converting any value of measurement used for cooking.

Cooking Alarm: Sets sound alarm to avoid burning food, a max of 60 minutes per setting.

CookingBook: Recipes by ingredient.

Cooking Units: Converts any cooking unit combination.

Creative Studio: Edits phone pictures.

Crime Stats: Shows historic crime rate by map location.

Currency Converter: Converts 100s of country currencies on a daily basis.

DC Metro: Tells the nearest metro station with route finder, and metro map.

Death Timerz: Calculates how much years, months, days, hours, and minutes one has left to live.

Decibel Meter: Measures noise level.

DEV center: Measures popularity of windows phone applications you have created.

Diary: Daily diary.

Diary+: For quick daily diary notes.

Dictionary: Comprehensive English dictionary with definitions in English and voice US pronunciation.

Diet Tracker Food Scanner: Calculates fat, protein, calories, carbs, fibers in food, and scans pictures of the food with weekly schedule.

Disco Light: Flashes disco light in the dark.

Dog Tracker: Logs dog's attributes, including weight, length, age, and activity schedule, with phone calendar appointments.

Dogs First Aid: Explains dog's first aid by health symptom.

Doodle Tools: Provides egg timer, stop watch, a counter, a seismograph, caliper.

Dream Interpretations: Journals your dreams by date via writing or voice recording.

Driving Test: By state and country, road signs, speed limits, intersections, right off way, turns, traffic lights, vehicle safety, passing, following distances, traffic lanes, and videos, and driver license practice tests.

E6B Gizmo: Indicates speed and time of travel, altitude, wind, temperature when flying.

eAlerts: Alerts and forecasts hazardous weather conditions based on phone location; includes gusts, surface winds by the minute.

Earth Time Free: Shows the time of every city and country worldwide.

Earthquake Monitor: Updates about quakes worldwide by country and city; updated every 2 minutes with magnitude.

Easy Measure: Provides a tape measure based on distance of the camera lens, level, compass, speedometer, timer, stop watch, noise meter in DB, metal detector, shake meter, pieto meter, protractor, ruler, diameter.

Ebay: Watching, buying, selling anything within Ebay's policy any time.

Edible Garden Planner: Journal for crop planting by season, rotation plans, with plotting.

ElectroDude: Electrician knowledge guide and scientific calculators: charge, voltage, current, resistance, capacitance, inductance, ohm's law.

Emergency Alerts Free: Alerts and informs about flood, earthquake, wildfire, hazardous materials, extreme heat, hurricane, landslide, nuclear emergency, thunderstorm, tornado, tsunami, volcanic eruption, winter storm.

Emergency Anywhere: By continent, country, dial numbers for police, fire department, and ambulance.

Emergency Kit: Your Medical emergency information and emergency contacts, sharing location, hazard light and siren alarm SOS morse code, global emergency phone numbers for over 100 countries, first aid manual, emergency supply kid guide.

Emergency Manager: Allows to send email to police, fire services or medical services and posts alert on Facebook and Twitter.

Eng-Japanese Dictionary: Translates in Japanese characters, words and phrases.

Epicurious: 100s of cooking recipes with pictures, ingredients, preparation instructions, reviews.

Equations: Mathematics solver for quadratic equations, cubic systems, 2,3,4 unknown systems; constants, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, physics, chemistry formulas

ESPN U. S. Sports Channel: Personalized score tracker and latest news with videos.

Exercises at Home or Gym: Various no-equipment exercise videos to stay in shape.

Exercise Calculator: Calculates calories burned based on weight and minutes exercised and sports type.

Exoplant: Lists and informs about potentially habitable earth-like planets found continuously.

Face Reader: Takes picture of somebody and analyzes the face. Goes by age and gender.

Facebook: Global social website hub.

Family Medicine Free: Answers questions to many medical categories, and tests one’s knowledge.

FDA Updates: US food and drug recalls, food allergies, consumer updates, MedWatch safety alerts, health frauds, enforcement reports, tainted products, drug shortages, approvals of medical technology, pet heath, and more.

Fhotoroom: Creates special picture effects.

Finance: Learning hub related to financial planning, financial statements, time value of money, stocks and bonds, debentures and dividends, risk and returns, capital structure and budgeting, financial ratios, treasury.

Financial Calculators: Contains time value money calculator, currency converter, long calculator, compound interest calculator, credit card payoff calculator, retirement calculator, tip calculator, average percentage return calculator, return on investment calculator, auto loan calculator, credit card minimum payment, discount and tax calculator, and IRR (internal rate of return) NPV (net present value) calculator.

FinancialCalculators: Provides calculators related to the return on investment, loans, currencies conversion, depreciation, credit card payments, discounts, taxes, tips.

Find It: Take a camera picture of anything, word it, and the phone locates it automatically.

First Aid: Worldwide advice on CPR, suffocation, recovery position, and defibrillator.

First Aid Guide: Health symptoms, their causes, treatments, and prevention.

First Aid Manual: Advice on burns, heatstroke, bleeding, broken bones, cramps, strain and sprains, diabetic emergencies, stroke, heart attack, hypothermia, shock, head injuries, allergies, animal bites, poison, asthma, choking, panic attack, resuscitation.

Flashlight XT: Using the phone's flash as flashlight.

Flight instruments: Provides flight instrument panel using the phone's location and motion.

Flightaware: Lists and maps any flights at any airport, delays, schedules; tracking by flight number, flight route, with alert functionality.

Flixster: Find any movie description running at theaters.

FM Radio: FM radio tuner using phone location and geographic signal research in English and Spanish; logs and records radio listening, and saves to the cloud.

Food Nutrition Look up: By food category, lists over forty different nutrient elements like proteins, fat, carbohydrates, water, calcium, iron, magnesium, vitamins, and many more.

Food Recalls: Shows most recent recalls, and allows for key word searches.

Food Reporter: Allows users to share food photos and comments worldwide.

Food Safety Alerts: Daily food safety alerts in the US with detailed background information.

Fotor: Photo editor for collages, enhancements, FX effects, re-sizing, sparks, frames, blurring backgrounds.

Fraction Calc: Calculator for prime factorization, least common denominator and least common multiples determination.

FREE GPS Speedometer: Measures the speed of phone motion, the altitude, distance, top speed when waking, running, biking, driving, air traveling.

Free Medical Knowledge: Medical knowledge by any key word.

Free Talking Alarm Clock: Sets phone alarm to customized text (that is spoken automatically), or your preferred music, with optional visual animations like a large clock and other.

Free Wifi locator: Indicates any free Wifi location on a map with address and distances in miles from current phone location.

Fridge Monitor: Allows to track the fridge inventory in terms of quantities, and expiration dates by grocery descriptor.

Fuelizer: Measures car millage, gallons bought, price per gallon, and transaction date per fill up.

Function Plotter: Anti- derivatives, saddle points, asymptotes, intersection, integrals, and curves.

Fuse: Collects news and internet articles from many sources according to user’s interest.

Games: Chess, IQ test, music wand, Xbox, and more.

Garage Door Opener: Opens garage doors using proper security credentials.

Gardening Care: Gardening guide concerning landscaping, watering, composting, pest management, mulching, pruning, planting, fertilizing, seeding, and other.

GasTraxx: Shows all fuel stations and prices and distance from user’s location.

Getthemall: Finds and downloads and organizes all multimedia and text files available on internet from hundreds of websites. Files downloaded can be uploaded to any computer

Gift Card Plus: Store information of your gift card to cell phone for anytime anywhere retrieval.

GiftCard: Create personalized credit/debit gift cards and pay for them instantly via credit card.

Global Flight Tracker: Informs about arrival and departure and location of any flight by flight number.

Global TV: Watch various TV channels for free, from almost 50 different countries.

GoToMeeting: Organizing and attending (free) online meetings and webinars, chatting, raising hand, participating in polls and questions, viewing the presenter screen, connect to audio; organizer can schedule, send invitations, grant presenter controls to attendees, view attendee list.

GPS Alarms: Alerts phone user automatically depending on the phone location, using phone GPS.

GPS Tracker by FollowMee: Records and stores phone location and movement to the cloud for a set group of people to access; data and maps can be fed automatically onto your website.

GPS-Tracker Free: Tracks the geographic routes, travel speed and location of the phone.

Graph-Touch: Graphs equations.

Gym Pocket Guide: Muscle building, fat loss, programs and workouts, upper and lower body stretches, pictures and descriptions.

GyroRemote: Controlling the computer mouse, and household appliances, lights, and other electronics via cell phone.

Handyscan Free: Scans documents and saves pictures to phone or cloud.

Hardware Tests: Tests all hardware of the phone including speaker, microphone, speech, GPS, vibration, accelerometer, orientation sensor, inclinometer, compass, camera, internal storage, FN radio, and NFC.

Health Chart: Lists calories per food item.

Health Guide: Symptoms explanations.

Health Care: How to prevent diseases.

Healthy Livings: Information about health, remedies, skin care, treatments, brain health, mental health.

Heart Rate: Measures the heart weight beats per minute through the finger on the screen.

HERE Drive+: GPS navigation system with live map, destination setting and storage, find my car functionality, commute info.

HERE Maps: Indicates and maps current phone location and any surrounding traffic, satellite map, LiveSight, shops, eateries, and more.

Home Cleaner: Home cleaning checklists.

Home Improvements: How to do repairs, home gardening, remodeling, directory, tips and ideas.

Homebusinesses: Works with email to suggest various home business opportunities.

Homeinventory: Inventory list for physical home assets, by serial #, brand, purchase date and location.

HomeMaintenance: Home maintenance list, sorted by time interval, interior versus exterior.

Homework Planner: To-do list by date, subject (up to 10 daily) and description.

Hospital Locator Gulf: Indicates nearest hospital based on phone location.

Hot emojicons emoji keys en: Provides many different mood emoji for texting.

Hotel Tonight: Provides a list of hotels and prices based on phone location, with map, for immediate booking.

HTML Pro: Tutorial to learn HTML webpage scripting, with editor and viewing.

Hurricane Monitor: Live updates about any storms/hurricanes in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Ocean.

ICE Alert: Contacts automatically any emergency service nearby the phone location; issues medical history / pre-conditions, medication, allergies, picture portrait, and any notes for emergency staff automatically; notifies preset emergency contacts.

Idioms & Phrases: Explains 1000s of English idioms and phrases; full text searchable; list also sorted alphabetically.

iDraw: Drawing pad which allows to save colored drawing as picture to phone, cloud; can be forwarded via texting and email.

iHeartRadio: Listen to 1000s of radio stations live, find local radio stations with background info on radio performers; records history of past listenings; lets you compile radio performances by music performer.

Informed American: Shows names, pictures, contacts, websites of US government officials and committees on federal, state, and regional level by zip code, legislation being debated, lobbying, and donations.

Instagram: For online picture sharing; lets others indicate whether they like your pictures.

InstructorApp: Logs attendance per course by name, absences, amount of students, number of sessions.

Inventory: Records physical asset inventory by location (room in home, or other), price, amount of units, category, loaner, with pictures, notes, reminders to each asset, with info backup to the cloud.

Investalent: Allows to track your investment portfolio with alerts, stock and bond markets, live information about overall financial markets.

Ip Cam Manager: Provides remote camera viewing via phone from anywhere in the world (up to 16 cameras per screen).

IP Camera Pro: Connects many different MJPEC cameras via Wifi for remote viewing via phone.

IP Locator: Indicates and maps geographic location of any specified IP/Hostname address.

Japanese English Dictionary: Translates between English and Japanese; provides pronunciation, word combinations, connotations, Japanese writing.

Japanese Hub Free: Lessons to learn Japanese language and writing, with reviews, quizzes, and vocabulary.

Joel Osteen: Free listening to Joel - he has the potential to change your thinking about your surroundings in life.

Kanji Book: Translates English words into Japanese, showing Japanese Kanji characters, along with pronunciation.

Khan Academy: Many free educational videos by subject from the global Khan Academy.

Know Your Representatives: Lists all US representatives by phone location, along with how to contact them, and public news.

Know_your_character: Analyzes one's character based on answers to a few simple questions.

Law Dictionary: Law dictionary sorted alphabetically.

Learn Chemistry: Introduction to the world of chemistry.

Learn Japanese Deluxe: English to Japanese vocabulary learning, with Japanese writing and pronunciation.

Learn JavaScript: Videos teaching how to program using JavaScript.

Learn php: Teaches how to program using PHP to connect databases to websites and manage data flows.

Learn PHP: Videos teaching how to program using PHP.

Lessons of life: List of some 50+ general life lessons.

Lets Learn Japanese Beginner: Teaches the 3 different Japanese writing systems.

Life Goals Free: Lets you create your own life goals list by title, category, manage them by status, and color codes them: you need to work harder, or, you are not succeeding, or, failing, or, you are succeeding.

Life Quotes: List of over 700 life quotes.

Life360 Family Locator: Locates and maps any agreed upon group (e.g. family, friends, etc) member geographically via phone GPS; also indicates hospitals, fire stations, police stations, and provides and maps automated past and current crime alerts; stores history of whereabouts which can be accessed on the website; several groups can be created with many members each, and one person can belong to more than one group.

LinkedIn: Professional global people networking hub, with profiles, connections and skills background information.

Live Camera Viewer: Public global live camera hub with global map selection; shows over 10000 live public recordings; can add own cameras privately if needed.

Loan Calculator: Calculates payments and loan amounts, graphs automatically, and generates amortization tables with payment, principal, interest, and balance per period.

Location Sender+: Pinpoints and maps GPS location of the phone geographically, stores its history, and lets coordinates being forwarded via text or email.

Lock Screen Text: Lets phone user set any customized text appearing on the phone's lock screen (for instance: "If you find this phone, please call ...").

Lomogram+: Establishes geotags and picture resolution automatically when taking pictures with the phone, posting pictures automatically to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and other social websites.

Loyalty Cards: Store your discount loyalty store cards on your cell phone to present at store cashiers when shopping.

Lumia Cinemagraph: Puts animation and geotags into camera pictures.

Lumia Creative Studio: Versatile picture editor, allowing to highlight or blur specific picture areas.

Lumia Storyteller: Allows to add stories and maps to camera pictures and videos selected, and create timeline logs of such.

Magic Ruler: Measures the distance between the phone camera and objects in camera pictures.

Magnifier: Magnifying glass using the phone camera.

Marketing: Collection of marketing blogs.

Martial Arts Defense Skills: Basic techniques, styles, moves for self defense, using Ninjutsu, Kave Maga, Tea Kwon Do, Karate, Judo.

Mathemateria Eq: Coaches how to solve mathematical equations and provides timed testing with subsequent ranking by person.

Mathematicus: Comprehensive mathematics tutorial comprising powers, radicals, quadratic equations, polynomials, vectors, complex numbers, progression, logarithm, probability, geometry, trigonometry, calculus including limits, derivatives, differential equations.

mathHelper: Automated mathematical solvers using templates for geometry, fractions, linear equations, logarithm, quadratic equations, percentages

Measure Me: Measures the distance between the phone camera and very specific objects in camera pictures.

Media Center Remote: Remote controls computers via cell phone.

Medical NEWS: Collects news about new medical findings.

MedicineRemainder: Sets automatic phone alarm reminders for specific medications to take at specific days and times during the day.

Medical Wallet: To keep track of own clinical and medical data, medications, prescriptions, chronic conditions stored in one place (Microsoft's HealthVault service) and prepare for medical emergencies.

Messenger: Texting system as part of Facebook.

Metronomy: Music metronome with flexible tempo settings.

Mind Mapping: Connecting your own topics in visual maps.

Mini Recorder Free: Records sound even under locked cell phone screen, with description and notes, and upload to cloud (e.g. to OneDrive, Dropbox)

Mirror Cam: Creates various artistic mirror effects when taking camera pictures.

MixRadio: Create your own music radio collections based on your song preferences.

Mobile First Aid: First aid manual with visual illustrations and if-then scenarios, along with medical protocols.

MobileFax: Sends faxes via cell phone.

Modern Speech Pro: Speaks any text written into the 'Text to Speech' box and sends it via email if needed.

MoodDiary: Records mood (happy/neutral/sad) by person, day/time, along with description and global geographic location, automated timeline charting and percentage pie ratio.

Mosquito Repellent: Emits mosquito repellent sound.

Motion Alarm: Rings alarm sound if phone is moved 5 seconds after motion alarm activation.

Motion Cam: Uses phone camera as surveillance camera which activates automatically based on motion; system can automatically send pictures via email when motion is detected.

MUSIC+: Music player with user playlist creation, public top chart listings, searchable by artist, song title, album title.

My Car: Logs automobile millage, fuel consumption, servicing, sets automatic service reminders, and measures progression over time, and charts such accordingly.

My Life My Health: Health information hub on various subjects, and medical advances.

My Location Free: Pinpoints gps coordinates of cell phone on map, which can then be sent via email and/or texting.

My_Language: Link hub to comprehensive computer language tutorials, tests, and learn projects, related to C, C++, Java, ASP, and C#.

myMoneyBook free: Balances instantly personal income and expenses, logs transactions by category: salary, gifts, returns, overheads, food, fuel, entertainment, telephone, movie, clothing.

NASA Space Station Report: Reports daily international space station activities, like research projects conducted, space station technology status, and other.

National Car Rental: Locates nearest local car rental location, along with special discounts offered, lets you log trip details, see rewards earned, visually choose vehicles available, obtain roadside help, reporting issues, and more.

Need2Buy: Establish lists of items you want to purchase, which can then be emailed and stored on your phone.

Netflix: Online streaming movie provider subscription service.

Network Speed Test: Measures the upload and download speed of any network the cell phone is currently connected to, and tracks past test outcomes.

Neurons: Intellectual lectures and presentations on various recent topics related to the TED and RSA forums as well as FORA.TV.

New York City Guide: Lists almost 60 points of interest in New York City and the relative position of the cell phone to such.

New York City Subway Map: Shows New York City subway map in detail, along with indicators for planned work, delays, service status.

News: Constantly collects latest news from various public news sources automatically based on topics you are interested in.

NightVision: Use phone camera to see contours in green in the dark.

Note Learner Pro: Learn music notations with virtual keyboard, different cleffs, with quizzes by difficulty and length, with sound.

ODB Auto Doctor: For troubleshooting vehicles - identify vehicle engine codes, readiness monitors, sensors, dashboards, with dtc database by manufacturer, code, description.

Office Lens: Cleans up documents and whiteboards on the phone, and saves them to the cloud.

Office+: Converts files so they can be used in MS Office applications.

Old Film Lens: Adds color effects to pictures to be taken.

One Transit USA: Shows the nearest US transit connection point and all related US destinations and their distances from there on.

OPTICUS: To identify objects in your surroundings, for visually impaired, kids, tourists, people who forget.

OverDrive Media Console: To borrow online ebooks from libraries.

Pain Tracker Plus: Records body pain location visually, pain type, and intensity, creating a time log.

Parking Aid: Location based parking aid by distance, rating, number of results, and relevance, to find free parking, park n'ride, valet parking, and metered parking.

Parking Spot: GPS enabled parking spot finder with parking timeout notification, and availability scale and visual map navigation.

Parkmobile: Allows phone user to pay for parking via cell phone app.

PC Remote: Provides remote control to PCs, servers via cell phone.

Pdf reader: To display pdf documents.

Pedometer Master Free: Pedometer for walking and running, measuring distances, acceleration, GPS trail, with age, weight, and height log; provides diary logging and charting duration, workouts, steps, calories burned.

Pencil Sketch Collage-Photo: Modifies any picture creating automatic pencil sketches after cropping and sizing portraits.

PennDOT Webcams: Displays webcam pictures of major interstates and routes in Pennsylvania (mainly Philadelphia, central PA, and Pittsburgh areas).

Personal Tracker: Creates automatic time log of cell phone GPS locations/movements by date/time.

Personality Test: Tests personality automatically, using 2 different tests in the psychology field (each with between 40 and 90 questions) to determine different main behaviors and dominant ones: Test 1: Enneagram; test 2: Big Five.

Phone Explorer: File management application to manage folders and files, and manage phone storage.

Phone Tracker: Create an automated log of the cell phone's location for up to 14 days in the row, and uploads log automatically to the cloud as backup for anytime anywhere retrieval.

Photo Search: Find pictures saved to your phone.

PhotoMath: Take a picture of a math problem and let the app solve it for you and let the app explain the interim steps to the solution.

Photostream: Create a photo stream for your phone start screen.

Physics: Provides a brief general high level overview about the field of Physics.

Physics Calculators: Use various interactive scientific physics calculators, related to heat, atoms, mechanics, energy, matter, and waves.

Physics_formulas: Use various interactive scientific physics calculators, related to circular, rotational, and other kinds of motion.

Piano Companion: Provides piano detailed lookups for chords, scales, and the circle of fifths.

Piano Melody Free: Assists in learning to play many piano tunes , showing the keys and notes.

PicSketch Free: Modify any picture using various sketch, paper, and vignette options.

Picture Info: Shows the picture file name, file type, the pixel width, height, the effective pixels in megapixels, the file size, orientation, and whether a flash was used.

Pin Notes: Pins and organizes any customized (with title, size, color) note you write to your phone home screen.

Pitch Perfect: Helps finding the perfect pitch to musical notes, keys, songs, and pinpoints the Hertz frequency.

Pittsburgh-PA: A guide to finding local (in the Pittsburgh, USA area) ATMs, agencies, apartments, banks, bars, car rentals, churches, cleaning, driving centers, dealerships, dentists, doctors, fast food, gas pumps, grocery, gym, hospitals, hotels, house supplies, insurances, malls, museums, parks, pet supplies, pharmacies, police offices, post offices, railways, repairs, restaurants, salons, spas, supermarkets, theaters, universities.

Plant Guide: Identify 1000s of plants, including trees, poisonous plants.

Plottron Free: Graphs/charts statistical parametric and polar functions automatically.

Popular Ringtones: Provides 120 popular phone ringtones.

Population Clock: Displays the world population growth each second and the ratio between births and deaths, and how much time it will take to reach the next 10th of a billion people, along with a low, medium, and high variant curve from 1950 till 2100.

Podcasts: Find, downloads and organize audio and video podcasts.

Positive Quotes: Provides positive quotes randomly and let you copy / share them.

Prevent Snoring Tips: Various info about snoring while sleeping.

Priceline - Hotels: Finds hotels based on your current phone location, and sorts them by popularity, price, stars, name, and special deals.

Projecto: Connects to remote servers you specify and have access to, and shows projects, and task status.

ProntoForms: Create online controlled interactive input/output forms for various phone operating systems.

Public Camping USA – Canada: Find close-by campgrounds in the US and Canada

Quick note free: Organizes, synchronizes your notes and pictures, and converts data into a different format.

Quotes Corner: Find a quote by category, related to art, birthday, business, dream, education, freedom, friendship, happiness, home, leadership, life, love, money, motivation, philosophy, politics, religion, success, technology, wisdom, work.

Radios Deutschland: Provides multiple local German radio stations in German language.

Radios France: Provides multiple local French radio stations in French language.

Reading Lens: Use the phone as reading magnifying glass with auto vs manual focus, grayscale filters, light option, and inversion, and saves what your read..

Real Microphone: Lets you record using your phone microphone or an amplifier hooked up to your phone, with the option to run under locked screen, and setting the audio threshold.

RealCalc Plus: Scientific calculator with the option to see past calculations performed.

Recorder: Basic phone recorder with saving option.

Remember Things: Make notes (title and description) of things you want to remember and take a picture attribute to such (e.g. where something can be found)

rGov Congress: Displays the votes, committee hearings, floor updates, and public documents of your local US congress representatives by zip code.

Ringtone Maker: Make your own phone ringtones.

Runmaster Pedometer Free: Pedometer for outdoor, indoor, and hybrid workout tracking, with course folder and diary options; uses your age, gender, weight, and height info, pinpoints your GPS location per your chosen accuracy level, and runs under lock screen

Safety Meter: Provides public safety meter (1 - very safe, to 10 - very high danger) related to your current phone location, concerning past rate of murders, rapes, violent crimes, robberies, burglaries, and car theft.

Satellite Observer: Uses your phone GPS to advise on over 1000 passing satellites, indicating their range, look angle, position, velocity, and flare brightness.

Save Me: Gets you instant brief generic advice on what to do concerning major disasters related to home safety, earthquakes, fire, tsunamis, severe storms and floods, and other.

Scan2.pdf: Converts documents into pdf format.

Scanner: Scans products when shopping and provides instantly the webpage related to such (usually via the manufacturer's website)

Science Glossary: Brief generic descriptions to 100s of various scientific terms (mostly astronomy).

Screen Capture: Explains how to capture whatever is displayed on your phone's screen, through a picture screen snapshot that gets saved to your phone.

Seasonal Cleaning Helper: Brief guide to how to clean the household, by spring, summer, fall, versus winter season.

SecurityStrobe: Uses your phone screen to flash an emergency status using different colors and shapes (including a large stop sign).

Sense the Color (Free): Converts pictures into black and white ones and applies and deletes color to chosen elements, using various brush, eraser pixel sizes and color tolerance levels.

Sensor Emitter: Measures values of your cell phone's sensors concerning accelerometer (3 axis forces), compass (3 orthogonally aligned micro-electro-mechanical magnetometers measuring a 3 dimensional field strength), gyroscope (angular rates in 3 dimensions - pitch, roll and yaw = axis rotation speed around each), compound sensor (= virtual combination of all 3 other sensors)

Shared Shopping List: Establish your named categorized shopping list with quantities, units, and share it with others if you deem necessary.

ShopSavvy: Scans product barcodes and indicates whether there are better special price deals nearby, based on your phone's location.

Sight Reader - Piano: Displays a note at a time and lets you find and hit the corresponding key on a virtual piano keyboard within a set time frame, and vice versa, for learning piano sight reading.

Signature Verifier: Verifies digital signatures of digital documents in various formats.

Simple Learning Free: Manage your own learning content library by subject and category, and let the app quiz you for your test or exam preparation, and help you with memorizing by interval repeat quizzing over a set amount of days.

Simple OCR: Uses pictured text to convert it to digital text via automatic optical character recognition.

Simple Text To Speech: Converts text you input or paste (on your phone) to speech and lets you listen to it.

Simple Timesheet: Create a text and chart timesheet with activities, categories, default start and end times, breaks, timepicker accuracy; save and/or export specified timesheet parameters as csv report file via your email; with reminders and FTP feature to send automatically to a networked computer server.

Six Sigma Tools: Evaluates quality parameters automatically concerning process capability index (CPK), reliability test design (RDT), Weibull distribution, probabilities associated to independent and mutually exclusive events, Normal distribution, Sampling (AQL - size, acceptance, rejection), and provides formulas applied so such.

Skin_Cancer: Basic Info hub about skin cancer, including how to prevent it.

SkyMap Free: Maps current planets, star constellations over you based on your phone location, along with their current distances from earth.

Skype: Make and receive video calls using your Skype contact list.

Sleep: Provides soothing sounds to fall asleep.

Sleep Recorder: Records (even with locked screen) your sleep sound (skips silence), and keeps historic sound records and maps recording geographically with password protection.

Social Alert: Provides alert button which (when you click it) triggers your customized help text to be sent out automatically via texting and/or Facebook and/or Twitter.

Solar-App: Measures the light and determines when your solar charge is complete.

SophieLens: Applies a cinematic lens to your phone camera.

Sound Sleep: Plays various soothing sounds to relax and/or fall asleep.

SoundBook: Records any sound for your own sound board.

SoundHound: Listens to song tunes and identifies such.

Soundtracker: Finds gigs, concerts, and radio station at places near your phone location.

Speed Test: Tests the wifi network for latency, download and upload speed, based on your access and current phone location, and keeps a test history log.

Sports Rule Book: Explains the rules of soccer, tennis, baseball, volleyball, basketball, badminton, rugby, golf, cricket, and hockey.

Spy Earphone: Amplifies your phone microphone so you can hear it better, while using your phone headset.

Spy Hunter: Takes pictures and records sounds in the background, with or beyond your phone's screen lock on.

SpyPhone: Takes video and pictures discretely, masking your phone screen, during a time interval of your choice.

SQL: A quick guide through the basics of the SQL programming language.

SQL Guide: A basic first SQL programming language overview with examples

St John CPR: A visual picture and textual step by step guide on how to apply CPR and AED in emergency situations (techniques by adult, child, infant) with video illustrations.

Start Designer: Customize your phone start screen using various gradient colors, photos, shapes, blur, and patterns.

Statistics: Detailed statistics theory guide and calculators, including matrix calculator.

Steelers Scoop: Latest public news articles about the Pittsburgh football Steelers team with RSS (rich site summary) feeds.

StopWatch: Stopwatch with lap interval settings; output can be emailed directly.

Storage Cleaner: Forces the Windows operating system to clean out files categorized as 'Other' in the phone storage settings (make sure the app won't delete files you want to keep beforestarting the file cleaning process).

Study Faster: Lets you create answer and question sets to let you learn/memorize any topic of your choice.

Success Quotes: Over 600 free random walk sequenced success quotes that can be forwarded via email or texting; displays one quote at a time without table of content.

Super Calculator: Standard scientific calculator.

Superphoto: Very elaborate picture editor with a wide range of modification features: smoothing, film strips, TVs stack, cross puzzle, building puzzle, entanglement, stroke sketch, science background, painting, cartoonize, array, tiled border, black and white paint, softening, fading, circles, night sky, mondrian, lake, fire, nightclub lights, creeper, sharp pencil, small waves, opaque bubbles, crystal ball, t-shirt, 2 pieces, sketchbook, sketch pamphlet, holding silhouette, banksy, reflection, neon frame, stained glass, warhol, striations, warp, grey-scale and light, squared pencil, framed cube, wrinkled, stars, sparkle, street art, grassland, burning, violet shadows, ringlets, dragonflies, dotify, cubism, mosquito net, dollar, balloon, tukyako's mind, ice cube, bubble, glowing galaxy, shattered spiral, chalkboard, emboss, monochrome, color reflections, mirrorize, 3D reflection, recursion, dots, circles, very old photo, pixelate, mosaic displacement, and many more.

Survival Manual: Detailed survival guide related to the psychology of survival, survival planning and kits, medicine, shelter, water procurement, firecraft, food procurement, use of plants, poisonous plants, dangerous animals, tools, equipment, desert, tropical, cold weather, sea, water crossings, direction, signaling techniques, movement in hostile areas, camouflage, contact with people, man-made hazards, insects, snakes, lizards, fish, mollusks, ropes, knots, clouds, evasion planning.

Talk2me: Converts any typed / pasted text to speech using native US, German and Spanish speech.

Tango Master – Japanese: Sophisticated language tutorial including detailed study lists, dictionary, alphabet lookups, quizzes, memorization tiles and games, learning progress chart meters, time log, learning history, learning retention, learning interval and study (romaji, furigana, kanji, english) mode settings, addressing meaning, reading, pronunciation, animated character stroke order; use of that app can be backed up to the cloud.

Taxi Locator: Finds any cap service closest to your phone's location.

TeamViewer: Provides access and control portal to remote computers.

Test English Grammar II: 1300 English grammar matching questions to foster the use of correct grammar.

Test Your Ears: Plays frequencies up to 20000 Hertz to test your hearing range, which decreases as you age.

Test Your Eyes: Provides 3 eye tests (Snellen, Amster Grid, and Ishihara Color Vision), but should not be used as a substitute for regular medical eye checks.

Text-To-Speech: A bi-directional text to speech app that writes what you speak into your phone microphone, and vice versa. Forwards the text via texting or email.

The Measuring App: Measures the distance the phone travels per a preset movement threshold between 1 and 30, from a start to stop point you set in meters, centimeters, feet, inches, kilometers, miles.

Thunder and Lighnting: Calculates your distance (kilometers or miles) from a lightning or thunder event, based on the time you see the event and when you hear it.

Tiles Toolbox: Create and customize (color, shape) your own phone start screen tiles for settings and apps, including login portals.

Time of My Life: Tracks location through time and graphs / visualizes locations to show phone owner where time is spent most.

Time Zone: Determines the time of the time zone your phone is in.

TimePunch Mobile: Records time spent during projects, common tasks, and analyzes and shares the data in a controlled group remotely allowing you to send and receive..

Tokyo Guide: 40 points of interest on a detailed Tokyo map with description and pictures.

Tokyo Travel Guide: Elaborate tourist guide for Tokyo in Japan related to museums, parks, and city guides by district in central Tokyo, suburbs, and old Tokyo, along with utilities for tourism checklists, compass, currency conversion, emergency contacts, events, phone locator, hotel booking, offline maps, photo album, postcards, reminders, travel log, unit converter, and world clock.

Top Task List: Create and manage tasks among people / family with notes, priorities, assigning, due dates, folder, parent task, spent time, attributed picture, reporting, automatic reminders, and sharing/forwarding (email) functionalities; deleted tasks can be viewed too.

TouchDevelop: Visual touch and drop phone app development tool (without textual programming).

Track My Life: Keeps track of the phone location and distances traveled during time, with geographic mapping, reporting, and sharing (Twitter / Facebook with message and picture) capabilities.

Track My Vehicle: Keeps track of phone locations in vehicles (e.g. for households and fleet management), you indicate.

Traffic: Displays the extent of traffic jams (color coded from slow to fast in 4 intervals) around your phone location on a zoomable map, which can be saved as a favorite map location.

Traffic Cameras – Pittsburgh: Shows real life public camera snapshots of road and highway locations you indicate; you can monitor various travel routes in customized folders, while using customized automated time updates by second

Train Your Dog: How to train your dog including how to make it sit, down, stay, come, heel, leave, give, wait, go to bed, be gentle, enforce name recognition, and clicker touch; situational training entails crate, house, baby gate, ring bell, door behavior, jumping up, potty training, car safety, rewards, come important, and leadership training; provides additional info on play toys, food toys, having fun.

Transfer my Data: Transfers your data from your old phone to your new phone.

Transit Maps USA: Simple public transit maps of several major US cities.

Translator: Translates text (with spell checker), voice, camera pictures between multiple languages of your choice; your translations are kept in a history log; for offline use also: 17 offline translation pack languages available.

Translator ++ Lite: Translates your text input in a language into another using the output language's alphabet and provides voice output in addition.

Trees Explorer: Identifies trees of interest through the shape of their fruits, with subsequent tree description, picture, leaf shape.

Trip Expenses: Simple trip expense logbook with trip name, start and end dates and details about the expenses incurred (value and your customized expense category and details) during the trip, with total summation per trip; data can be password protected and backed up to the cloud.

Truecaller: Helps identifying spam callers, even if they are not in your phone contact list.

Tube - HD: Finds latest movies and music and connects to such or lets you download them to your phone for off-line viewing / listening; requires Google login.

TuneIn Radio: Find radio broadcast by local radio (uses the location of your phone; local FM, AM, internet-only), music, talk (categories: comedy, conservative, arts & culture, business, children's topics & stories; entertainment, film, health, home & life, ideas, language learning, music, news, progressive, public religion & spirituality, science, sci-fi, technology, television, video games, world), sports, location, language, podcast, last played; can continue playing even when phone locks.

Tuner: Music instrument tuner for cello, guitar, bass, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, violin, viola.

Twitter: Messaging app for short messages.

Uber: Request or offer vehicle rides for a predetermined driving service fee structure, at times you specify.

Unit Converter: Converts units concerning area, length, liquids, speed, temperature, time, and weight / mass.

Unknown Tricks: A few tricks concerning computer use, math, interview, and other.

UPS: Tracks your shipment and indicates nearby UPS locations based on your phone location.

UV Index Alert: Indicates the sunlight UV intensity (5 levels: low, moderate, high, very high, extremely high) based on your phone's current location and local time, and provides advice on how protect yourself accordingly.

Video Diary: Take (with delayed start and Cortana voice command options) videos with your phone, which you can modify while and / or after recording, save them, and assign an e-motion to, with history automatic recording reminders, password lock feature, usage charts with analytics; videos can be saved to the cloud, or be shared with your customized phone app choice list.

Virtual Keyboard: Basic virtual keyboard simulating instruments (piano and guitar) with voice, volume, drum-beat options.

Visual Anatomy Lite: Many visual maps of human body with concise descriptions to each category: muscles, skeleton, circulation, respiratory, digestive, urinary, nervous system, ear, nasal, eye, along with Gray's Anatomy sections (Osteology, Syndesmology, Myology, and Angiology)

Voice Effects: Records a voice and lets you change its pitch and add echo and loop to it, before saving.

Voice Memos: Records a voice at various quality levels (low, medium, high; stereo vs mono, 64 / 128 320 kilobytes per second), and saves it to your phone and /or cloud in mp3 or wave file format; you can set it to skip silence and record in background and under the lock screen; the file also records the phone location at the time of the recording.

Voice Translator: Records a voice in one of a few languages, and translates it into another language via phone speaker.

VoiceTranslator: Records a voice (also while taking videos with your phone camera) in one of many languages, and translates it into another language via phone speaker along with text output and saves it, along with preset sound effects and volume level; with auto pause feature.

Voicy: Lets you set and execute phone events by voice command.

Voxer: Uses your smartphone as a PTT (push to talk) real-time walkie talkie via 3/4G or WiFI networks, and records your communication for access later; lets you send text, pictures, and shares location.

Water Level: Use your phone as a water level measure carpenter tool.

WebMD app: Medical info hub providing healthy recipes, symptom checker, health forecasts in your geographic area, info about medications, vitamins, supplements, health care reform; lists doctors and hospitals based on your phone location or address you specify.

Weight Challenge: Tracks your food, exercise, weight and waist measures, and provides statistics of such over time, related to actual versus target, along with BMI calculations; charts weight changes.

What I Eat: Lets you create a simple text logbook of what you eat every day, and generates monthly summaries by day, and exports such as Excel compatible csv file to the cloud.

Who’s Calling?: Finds the person behind associated with a phone number, worldwide.

Wiki Talking Tours: Provides Wikipedia info about tourist location visited, via phone's speaker.

Wikipedia: Accesses Wikipedia info on millions of topics in various languages.

Win8 Store Apps Dev Center: Links to the Windows Developer Center information hub's most recent information (also beyond Windows 8 version).

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