Topic 5 lists · 24 apps

Collections

Sourdough starters, bonsai, record shelves, watchlists — kept and added to, year after year.

The lists

• 7 apps to romanticize your everyday lifeLetterboxd · OOTD Pal · Beli · StoryGraph · Photo Calendar · Locket Widget · Daylio
• 5 apps for a year of trying new thingsAllTrails · BucketPal · Meetup · ClassPass · Simply Piano
• 5 apps for the things you'll hand downFamilySearch Tree · Bonsai · StoryCorps · Recipe Keeper · Qeepsake
• 5 apps for hobbies you measure in yearsLoaflo · Bonsai · CellarTracker · Discogs · WristTrack
• 5 apps for the things you keep saying you'll doLetterboxd · BucketPal · Margins · Visited · Listful

Every collections app on these lists

24 apps in total. Each line is what that app does differently from the others here — the reason it made a list rather than being a second copy of something already on it.

• AllTrailsFind a trail by location and skill level, with turn-by-turn navigation.
• BeliRanked lists of everywhere you've eaten, plus where your friends ate.
• BonsaiEach tree gets a profile and a photo timeline that runs for years.
• BucketPalGoals across 10 areas of life, so you can spot the ones you've neglected.
• CellarTrackerCellarTracker knows the bottle you laid down five years ago, and whether it's ready yet: your cellar underneath a database of community tasting notes.
• ClassPassTry cycling, boxing, yoga and more at studios near you, class by class.
• DaylioPick a mood and a few activities, no typing; a year shows up in pixels.
• DiscogsDiscogs catalogues the records you own down to the pressing. Scan a barcode, check what it goes for, and find the one missing from the run.
• FamilySearch TreeBuild your branch of a shared family tree, with the photos and stories.
• LetterboxdLog every film you watch and rate it; your history becomes a diary.
• ListfulListful puts everything you want, from any store, in one place — arranged how you like and shareable as a single link.
• LoafloA starter is something you feed twice a day for years, and Loaflo is where that record lives: the feedings, the hydration, and a photo of the crumb it produced.
• Locket WidgetYour best friends' photos land right on your Home Screen.
• MarginsMargins logs books, series and authors into lists you actually keep — plus a search that works by mood or setting instead of title.
• MeetupFind a group for the thing you want to try, and people to try it with.
• OOTD PalSnap today's look; it's filed by date, mood and where you wore it.
• Photo CalendarYour camera roll, one photo a month, on your Lock Screen or your wall.
• QeepsakeAnswer a text a day about your kid; it becomes a printed book later.
• Recipe KeeperType the family recipes in once; they're kept on all your devices.
• Simply PianoLearn piano from zero with songs you know, on any piano or keyboard.
• StoryCorpsRecord a conversation with someone you love, in the app, and keep it.
• StoryGraphLogs what you read and charts your reading habits and moods.
• VisitedVisited colours in the countries, states and regions you've been to, and the ones you still say you're going to.
• WristTrackWristTrack holds reference numbers, movements and purchase dates — plus which watch you actually wore each day, which turns out not to be the same list.