So many of us are downloading apps all the time but it's fairly rare of us to actually adopt a new app. What I mean by adopting an app is putting it on your homescreen and using it fairly consistently at least once a day or every few days.

This conversation is all about the latest app that you've put on your homescreen and are using a lot.

You don't adopt an app unless it provides real value.

For me, it's Checkmark (builtbysnowman.com) - an app that does both location based to-dos as well as time based to-dos. It's a great replacement for Apple's reminders and it works extremely well. It's the perfect app for throwing all your daily tasks into.

What is the latest app you've adopted and why?

I've switched to Chrome from mobile Safari but its still just a web browser. I like Chrome for the shared history, bookmarks and tabs.

I've been using the Campfire app a ton recently but it's not a great app and its more for the function of dropping messages into my company's Campfire.

The only app that qualifies in the spirit that you mention is Captio. It's not a new app and I've tried it many times but it has finally stuck. Captio is a very simple note-taking app that only presents you with a text box and a send button, which sends the note as an email to yourself. It's much faster than any other note-taking app and I use it on the go to send myself notes which I file appropriately (evernote, pivotal, whatever) later.

Very few things survive that hurdle with me. Any.DO is the latest app to make the leap to the home page. I keep trying new todo apps, which I suspect says more about me than the quality of any particular solution. The best app experience I had recently was Uber, when I was in San Francisco. The usability could improve but the overall experience was fantastic. However, it's just not as urgent a problem/solution in New York.

@giff - what is it about Any.Do that got you to put in on your home screen?

Good ones.

I've adopted Any.DO as well. It surprised me how much I like the Chrome extension. My todo list is in my face much more because of it, which is helpful. Their iOS app is nice and their Android app (and widgets) are great.

I'm a very promiscuous app user, so a lot of apps make it to my home screen while I try them out for a month or two. My home screen is all folders, except for my camera.

If I had to choose just one of the apps to spotlight for this conversation, I'd say Cue is the most interesting in that it could win me over on a daily basis. They need to really improve their load time. Once they do, they offer a great and smarter daily itinerary to refer to.

I have a huge amount of apps on my phone, test out new ones daily, yet I could probably count the number of apps I have truly adopted in my lifetime on one hand. This is crazy considering how 'into' apps I am.

For an app to make it to that adoption stage for me, it must become completely associated with a problem, situation, emotion, action or interaction I have in real life - not just one I have on occasion, one I encounter on a regular basis. That may sound obvious but I think very few apps satisfy this requirement. The app should also speak to my personality either through visual design or messaging or both.

I've adopted Clear - there are better list apps out there but this one is just cooler. Remember something IRL = Clear iOS.

@ozlubling re: Any.DO simple but elegant design, mobile + on browser. Enough "in the way" to be noticeable but not too much so. Have tried checkmark, cheddar, wunderlist, trello (like for projects, not so much for my own todos)...

Over the last six months, Pocket is the app which has made the biggest difference for me. I don't recall why "read later" services never hit my radar before - I knew of them but didn't use - but Pocket has made Twitter & Google Reader much more useful for me.

@Hunter I've moved all my saved reading to Pocket, too, and I use it consistently.

Aside: is there no way to @reply or mention users on Branch?

@zeb as far as I can tell there is no official way to do it.

There are three third-party apps that made it both onto my home screen and into my daily routine:

Reeder is my news hub. I have one folder that I keep up-to-date on daily, and others that I browse when on the subway or bored.

Tweetbot is an obvious choice, for obvious reasons.

Dark Sky is the latest one to make it into the club. True to the name, if the sky is dark, I open it to see if I need to bring an umbrella with me.

I have started using Cheddar as my goto todo list app. With markdown support, realtime updates, a web app, mac app, and open source iOS app you really can't beat it.

SimpleNote on iOS syncing to Notational Velocity on the desktop is also a doing wonders for me in the area of note taking.

Interestingly my home screen is not a good judge of app usage anymore. Mostly stuff on my homescreen is administrative (calendar, todo, 1password, etc).

My most used apps, like Reeder, Pocket, Twitter are all on my second screen (which is dedicated to media).

Probably my most important screen is one to the left of the homescreen where I can search. I find it easier to remember the name of the app I'm looking for than trying to find its blue icon in a sea of blue icons.

@ccarella that's an interesting observation. I think search is actually how a lot of people use their iphone. Google has taught us that searching can often be faster than browsing or even remembering. I think that future interfaces will only go more in this direction.

For me it's Kippt, a new way to collect and discover bookmarks. It's a great solo experience or you can follow and collaborate on lists with other users.

I use Kippt to organize research and to save content for future reading. Their search functionality searches within articles as well as titles and descriptions, making it an incredible research tool. kippt.com

Other apps I use on a daily or weekly basis:
bestvendor.com

@ccarella @ozlubing My iPhone setup is the same - utility/admin apps on the homepage, with the next screen being apps I use weekly. I've started to use the search to the left as well for quickly finding an app. It would be great if we could search the App Store within the same native search bar.

A while back I started to foce myself to navigate to all my apps from the ¨left side search box¨. The intention was to brake my visual habit for accessing apps. I think the market will move more and more in this direction and away from visual app icons as the doorway.

My favorite latest app I adopted was ¨reader¨ but its not a ¨new¨ app. Chrome is making more and more of a presence as well.

@jonslimak which reader are you referring to - reeder, the RSS reader?

@ozlubling yes I meant ¨reeder¨ reederapp.com

@jonslimak yes, that's what I thought. I've been using that app for years now and it's still one of my favorites. As soon as I started using it, it has never left my homescreen since then.

I do wish there was a way to consolidate the news consumption experience between RSS & Twitter. I wish I could get rid of one or the other, but they're useful in different ways.

Beyond the default apps, few have made the cut over the long run. Just a few:

Skala View - for seeing my app designs on my phone instantly: bjango.com
Tweetbot: tapbots.com
Facebook: facebook.com
iSilo - the app is terrible but there is a study bible on there that I like: isilo.com
Yelp (for date night): yelp.com

There are a few that I am *trying* to adopt. They would make my life better if I used them more consistently but I often neglect them:

Reeder - to find great articles: reederapp.com
Pair - to share to-dos and moments with my wife: trypair.com
Pocket - to read stuff later: getpocket.com

Agree that Reeder is fantastic

Oz had recommended I try Agenda for calendaring & i do like it more than Calvetica

Folks should also try out:
// Glympse: send time-limited URLs that display your current location
// Prismatic: personalized news aggregation (the first one I actually like)

@ozlubling RSS + Twitter (etc) = flipboard no?

I've adopted Prismatic (iOS) as my main "news" app. It's come a long way since the first build, but I think they are really onto something.

Like @Hunter and @Zeb, I'm also a fan of Pocket, though their email link updating is very slow. Despite that, its the first read it later app that I've gotten into, and its made me start really reading on mobile for the first time.

I use Spotify mobile and Iawriter everyday as well, though there seem to be a lot of reliability issues with the latter lately.