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Best iPhone Apps: Sports, streaming video, and travel

ESPN

ESPN has a monopoly on this sports stuff. It’s official app is the best place to keep up to date with sports scores from all your favorite professional or college teams on the go. The ESPN app also now allows mobile streaming of WatchESPN and ESPN3.

MLB.com At Bat

For baseball fans, there’s still no better app than the official one. MLB.com At Bat features scores and news, as you’d expect. But the app goes a step further for MLB.TV subscribers with live feeds for every game, as well as Gameday Audio for those who enjoy tuning in to their favorite hometown radio announcer. You can cast games to a supported device, like an Apple TV or Chromecast, easily purchase tickets, and even set the app icon to your favorite club.

Yahoo Fantasy Sports

For those who can’t get enough of fantasy sports, Yahoo’s app is the best in the business. Track stats for baseball, football, hockey, and basketball here, as well as participating in mock drafts and reading expert opinions.

Coach’s Eye

More athlete than a fan? This app lets you record your golf swing, tennis serve, or anything else you would want to analyze in slow motion. You can provide commentary, make annotations, and compare two videos.

Twenty Four

Twenty Four is the sports app for the metrics-obsessed basketball fanatic. Twenty Four provides daily and weekly stats to help individuals more aptly predict both player and team performance going into a game or series. Twenty Four also offers the latest and dankest NBA memes for individuals so inclined

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Best iPhone Apps: Streaming video

Netflix

The ubiquitous, super-popular Netflix app nearly made our list of essentials. If you don’t know what Netflix is, we’re surprised you found our website. Stream movies and television shows for a monthly fee. Get started with our list of the best shows on Netflix right now.

Hulu

If you want to keep up with TV shows, but can’t stand cable, Hulu is the best place to go. It has most of the major network and cable channel shows. A Hulu Plus subscription costs $8 per month.

HBO Go

Need your Game of Thrones fix? HBO finally caved and created a subscription-based streaming app, no cable subscription required. It now works with Chromecast, too, so you can stream it on the big screen. Be prepared to spend $15 a month for it, though.

Crunchyroll

For $7 per month, Crunchyroll is like the holy grail of streaming for anime fans. Featuring over 25,000 episodes in its database, the app adds new episodes just one hour after their live premiere in Japan.

Best iPhone Apps: Travel and transportation

Uber

If you need to get somewhere and don’t have wheels of your own, hop on someone else’s ride. Uber’s ‘private taxi’ service offers the privacy and safety of a stranger’s car as an alternative to public transportation.

Lyft

Lyft offers a slightly less expensive, slightly less professional version of Uber’s private cab service, allowing you to get from Point A to Point B — even if you’re not in a state to drive (or walk). Lyft offers ride discount credits upon registration.

Via

Via is currently available in NYC, Washington D.C., and Chicago. The ride sharing app promises low fares and picks up riders going in the same direction. It’s meant to only cost a little more than taking the subway or the bus, and can reduce carbon emissions by reducing the congestion during rush hour.

Viator Tours

Looking to explore a new city or country? Viator Tours’ mobile app includes over 20,000 selectable activities in over 1,500 locations worldwide and features stuff like ‘skip-the-line’ passes and coupons for popular tours.

Waze

Why waste time in traffic or pay more than you have to for gas? Waze solves both of these problems by supplying you with access to community-generated real-time traffic info and gas prices.

CityMaps2Go

Being lost in a new city is one of the worst parts of traveling. Thankfully, CityMaps2Go allows you to navigate thousands of cities without looking like a tourist. If you’re traveling to a part of the world with spotty service or limited internet access, you can download maps and guides from the app beforehand. This handy feature keeps you from unnecessarily burning through data.

Citymapper

With Citymapper, getting around your favorite town has never been easier. The app boasts built-in downloadable transit maps for a number of big cities around the world, from New York to São Paulo to Tokyo. Simply let it know where you are and where you want to be, and Citymapper will return with a variety of options, from ride sharing, to biking, to hopping the subway. Whether you live and die at the mercy of public transportation or you’re a tourist out of your element, it won’t let you down.

Best iPhone Apps: Utilities, customization, blogging, and word processing

Translate Website Extension for Safari

Apple’s Safari browser, although still very good, hasn’t quite caught up to Google’s Chrome in a few key areas. Translating web pages is one of them. Fortunately, Safari now accepts third-party extensions, so other apps can share some of the heavy lifting. Translate Website Extension is a free download that pretty much does exactly what it says through a button in the Share panel — just press it and read. The app works through Google Translate and currently supports 104 languages.

Better by Ind.ie

There are plenty of ad blockers on the App Store that aim to streamline your web browsing experience, but Better goes a step further with encyclopedia-like entries educating users on how unscrupulous advertisers and sites compromise your privacy.  The app also encourages and permits responsible advertising practices — meaning you can still support the sites you love that play fair, while shutting out the rest. And Better doesn’t just block ads, but even ad blocker blockers, too.

TapeACall

It’s 2018, so you’d expect it would have gotten easier by now to record phone calls. While a wide majority of devices lack a built-in solution, there are fortunately apps like TapeACall to help. TapeACall streamlines the process, so all you need to do is open the app or dial the associated number before or during a call. The app creates a second line, which records your conversation once you go to conference mode. Afterwards, you’re provided a visual voicemail-type list that’s easy to navigate through. If you pay a little extra, the app will even transcribe the audio for you.

WLPPR

Who doesn’t need to switch up the wallpaper every once in a while? While there are an abundance of apps to customize your iPhone’s home and lock screen backgrounds, our favorite is WLPPR for its expertly curated library and elegant interface. You can browse high-quality photography sourced from all over the world, and even outer space. A couple stock collections are available with the free download, but you can unlock the rest, and all future additions, with a $3 in-app purchase.

Files

With Files, you can keep all your documents easily access all your devices whether you’re on your iPhone, iPad, or MacBook. The app includes a variety of features that allow you to clearly organize all of your different files and photos. It’s also compatible with third-party cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, and Box.

Best iPhone Apps: Blogging and word processing

Weebly

The app version of Weebly is just as easy to use as its web-based counterpart. You can post content to your blog or website, monitor activity, and save all your work offline which will then sync across all devices on desktop or mobile.

WordPress

While not an exact mirror of its web-based version, this app instead chooses to focus on quickness. It lets you quickly publish posts while also giving you the ability to moderate comments, view stats, and upload media on the go.

Bumpers

So you want to record a podcast. Rather than spending hundreds on the proper equipment and desktop software, why not start with an app like Bumpers? Bumpers has been called “Soundcloud for podcasts” precisely because it makes the process of recording and hosting remarkably simple. The app provides editing tools, allows you to publish on iTunes, and supports linking up with other users to produce shows with multiple hosts. If you’re new to the trade, it’s worth a try — especially because it’s completely free.

Pages

New iPhone owners can download it for free, but even at $10, Apple’s flagship word processor is tough to beat. Packed with templates, editing tools, and change tracking, there isn’t much it can’t do.

Nine

Not everyone takes notes the same way. For those of us that tend to remember images better than words, there’s Nine. A visual note-taking app, Nine allows you to create entries simply by snapping photos and applying tags. Everything is searchable, and despite the stripped down nature of the interface, you can still apply filters and import photos taken with your iPhone’s camera app.