About

First things first,
AppsAware is a blog about creating awareness about apps that are unexplored, that are feature-worthy and deserve recognition be it on whatever front - features, design, problem-solvers, etc.
This does not mean that I am marketing those apps, the reviews are totally my personal views and judgements meaning that they could be biased.

 Why this blog?
Sunday, 15 March 2020: That morning it suddenly struck me, why not start a blog on apps!
Since, I was and am, anyway very fond of trying out, giving feedback, opposing, applauding design languages, functionality, features, implementations, highlighting bugs, underlying concepts,etc  of different apps, I was pretty confident that I can very much be good at it!

Another thought that struck my mind, was that it is I who is aware of this (becaause I love spending time with tech and apps) while others are not and perhaps don't even want to; people do not have time for it!

So why not spread some awareness! - and make people react - "Oooohh!!!" or "Woahh!!!!" or "Even such thing exists??

You see now? the name of the blog now seems pretty obvious too!

In brief, what I intend to cover through AppsAware?
- Unexplored apps, underrated apps
- Apps which are real-life problem-solvers
- Nifty software features
- Also, apps which get the design game perfect!
- Ugh...Games? (well...probably, but again not the mainstream ones!)

(I am not done yet)

The blog has tags assigned to posts? Why?
Tags such as #Productivity #Features #Design #Games help in easy categorization of posts for both me as well as someone who is looking for something specific.

I guess I am out of words, so lets end it here!

Stay Aware, Stay Apply!

Posts you loved!

SMS Organizer - Pitch Perfect!

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So, 2nd April 2019, saw the last day of Inbox by Gmail, perhaps Google's most ambitious project yet (of course, after Google Photos!). I (in fact, everyone who used it), loved the concept of email bundling (and how well Google's algorithms handled it!), high priority notifications, pinning and snoozing e-mails, saving articles, reminders, and a very colourful and playful UI! (Seriously, I miss the app every single day, there hasn't been a single app in the market until now which gets close to Inbox....) Anyways, the reason I gave this background of Inbox is because I've found this new 'Inbox' of SMS apps, right away coming from Microsoft's garage (No, seriously! The developers name themselves literally as Microsoft Garage!) This is how it looks normally So, coming straight to the point, this is perhaps my best ever SMS experience ever since I've stepped into the smartphone world. The features? - Long list, but lets b...
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Taskito - A refreshing take on ToDo, Planning and Journalling

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Another week...another app... I am sure (pretty sure) that many people need and in fact be using ToDo lists no matter in what manner...PC, mobile apps, notepad, emails, etc. I don't say any method is wrong or should not be preferred (everyone has their comfort zone!). Speaking of the apps, (you very well knew this was coming, Hehe!) there are tons and tons of apps available to use, and we have a recent addition over here - Taskito (seems like a magic spell right?). Launched just a year back, let's dive-in for what this has on offer! The Premise Open the app and you will be greeted with the dashboard in the form of a timeline and a calendar sheet which is expandable from the bottom...that's it, the app completely wants the tasks to be shown in the form a timeline...all of your past, present, and future tasks just some scrolls away! (of course, Taskito offers a day-wise view as an alternative, but again the timeline is the default and I pr...
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[Opinion] The Amazon app - Why does this thing even exist?

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These kinds of articles require disclaimers, so continuing this trend, I totally respect and admire Amazon as a company [and all its services ;)]. I even have an Echo Dot! (3rd Gen) and regularly order stuff through Amazon.in. It is just that I really, really cannot ignore that fact (refer the title) and I wish people become aware about it! Let me start with screenshots... Just in case y'all are wondering...the first 2 screenshots are of the app while the next 2 are of the mobile website. Apart from the gradient, I can't see any difference really there. Getting the point? Amazon has, in my opinion, technically done no value-add as such by creating this app in the first place (apart from whopping app install numbers) As per App Store  (Left),  As per Google Play  (Right) Btw...this app just has an average rating of  just 3.2/5 on the App store! I mean seriously, at-least here in India, in the app I can only see 2 visible...
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