We’ve seen some incredible resources for designers and developers throughout 2022.
The third roundup for “What’s New for Designers & Developers from 2022” will be what were some of the coolest and helpful mobile apps for both Android and iOS that either got released or been updated. From productivity timer, powerful creativity apps, to-do lists, collaboration tools.
I’m excited to look forward to what the web will bring in 2023, but in the meantime, take a look back at the best Mobile Apps of 2022. Enjoy!
January
Remmo – iOS App
Remmo is an app that turns your iPhone or iPad into a remote control for your computer. Whether you have a Macbook or an iMac, this app has your back!
Price: Free
Twelve O’Clock – Android App
Twelve O’clock is an app that helps track your watch accuracy easily in a realistic way. It is as simple as adding one checkpoint everyday to know how your mechanical watches are performing. This is a freemium no-ads app.
Price: $1.00
February
Timer4Life – iOS App
Timer4Life offers you a high-level productivity timer and exciting videos with the set of smartly chosen activities that promote your focus during working hours and help you get maximum pleasure from your daily routine!
Price: Free
Urly – iOS App
URLy is a beautiful iOS app that lets you modify any part of a given URL that you pass in or create from. It also helps you protect your privacy by giving you the opportunity to removing all query items which are usually used for tracking from a URL
Price: Free
March
TaskFox – iOS App
TaskFox is a daily planner app for iOS. Get into the healthy habit of recording your day, events and to-dos. Daily reminders will keep you in the habit and on the path towards a more mindful and organised self. Organise your day into tasks so that you can focus on completing them one at a time.
Price: Free
Thrive – iOS App
Thrive helps you plan your life and make informed decisions. It helps you break down your plans into small, actionable and achievable steps.
Price: Free
WebflowCMS – iOS & Android App
WebflowCMS is a powerful tool to take your creativity on the go. Edit site content, post blogs, or upload photos to your website from you phone.
Price: Free
April
Hints – iOS App
Valuable info is quickly captured and self-organisd in one app. So take notes, links, screenshots, tasks, files, reminders, and voice memos. All of these are self-organized in the Hints app.
Price: Free
Flexishift – iOS App
A hassle-free way to take control of your hours and earnings – with overtime calculation, smart reminders, location tracking, and support for multiple jobs.
Price: Free
Traction – Android App
Creating a habit is hard, it’s even harder is to know if we are doing it correctly without measuring its evolution in some way. Using traction you’ll be able to track daily when you do a habit and so you will be able to check how it evolves over time.
Price: Free
May
Doneit – iOS App
Meet Doneit, a feature packed daily planner that focuses on simplicity and organization. With Doneit, you don’t need to worry about your tasks lists ever being messy because it was designed to help you better organize all of your daily to-do’s.
Price: Free
Today – iOS App
Today is a personal Dashboard and the most complete app with lot of features (42 to be exact).
Price: Free
June
HyperPhoto – iOS App
HyperPhoto is a photo editor, which allows, using CoreML, to automatically cut out the main object of the photo, to make photo montages in order to achieve a profile photo , highlight products before selling them, or simply make montages for fun.
Price: Free
MagicPip – iOS App
Magic Pip is an app that can let you view all kinds of stuff in the PiP window. If you opened multiple images or a multi-page PDF, you can turn pages directly in the PiP window! You can use this app to see references or read while you chat with friends.
Price: 99c
Paste Keyboard – iOS App
Paste Keyboard supercharges the default iOS keyboard to give you instant access to everything you’ve copied on any of your devices. With seamless integration, it brings the smooth, effortless flow of Paste’s desktop experience to your mobile devices.
Price: Free with Subscriptions
July
Ephemera – iOS App
Unlike other apps that save bookmarks that stay unread forever, Ephemera sets a deadline that the bookmark must be read by. Miss the deadline, and that bookmark is gone. It wasn’t important anyway, right? Ephemera is available for iOS and iPadOS.
Price: Free
Activity Tracker – iOS App
A Real-time tracking app for tracking time spend on day-to-day activities. Keep tracking of progress and monitor time spent on each activity daily.
Price: Free
August
Crew for Exchange – iOS App
Crew 2.0 was rebuilt entirely from the ground up, and today’s update is a crazy one. A completely revamped user interface, powerful markdown rendering, and new app customisations. And it now supports authenticated users from all the Stack Exchange channels.
Price: Free for App but then for Monthly Subscription it’s $1.00 per month
Potential – iOS App
Potential is designed to make your phone 10x better at helping you be intentional and build new habits.
Price: Free
September
Highlighted – iOS App
Make powerful book highlights, and stop forgetting what you read. Highlighted makes it easy to capture, organize, revisit, and export important parts of your books.
Price: Free
Gratified – iOS App
Gratified combines AI-powered customer chat with powerful team collaboration tools. It allows teams to engage customers in ongoing text-based conversations to provide prompt and excellent customer service and build long-lasting client-brand relationships.
Price: Free
October
Infos – iOS App
Ever got some short info you didn’t know where to store, so you can easily find it again? This is what Infos is all about: a short notes manager for quickly capturing and looking up pieces of information (“infos”) with a simple, search-focused user interface.
Price: Free
Play – iOS App
Play is a new approach to mobile product design that lets you design, prototype, and collaborate directly from your iPhone and iPad. Experience your design as you create it, while taking full advantage of native iOS features to bring your product to life.
Price: Free
November
Ramp – iOS App
Spend via Apple Pay, upload receipts, add memos and custom accounting fields, submit reimbursements, view & lock cards, and request new spend, right on your phone. Everything you know & love about Ramp, but mobile.
Price: Free
Sticky Timers – iOS App
Keep track of multiple timers at the same time from the dynamic island or your lock screen with Sticky Timers. If you’re keeping track of multiple things at the same time it’s useful to have your timers available at a glance at all times.
Price: Free
December
Kapsule – iOS App
Kapsule (short for time capsule) is a future messaging app that allows users to record and share video messages with anyone in the future. Not in hours, days, or weeks – but in months, years, or even decades.
Price: Free
Clocking – iOS App
Clocking protects your spare time. Receive notifications when it is time to stop working, automatically clock in and out by location, and keep track of your over hours at ease.
Price: Free
