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App collection inventory app?
Are there any collection apps where you can keep track of apps you have, ones you might want to get, and where you can add your own comment fields?
I can find a lot of collection apps for books, yarn, household items, etc. None that I’ve found for apps though.
Could you even imagine being able to pull up a listing of your synths, effects, groove boxes or whatever and tag certain ones as study priorities? Even better if it could link to the App Store detail page and developer page so you could refresh your memory on app features or see what else the developer has available.
I wonder if this would decrease gear acquisition syndrome for me or just push me to collect the full set. 🤣
I doubt Apple App Store rules allow for presenting their app pages or attaching affiliate links to App Store pages. But who knows, if they did, could an iOS Musician inventory app with shopping links be profitable?
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Just use the Notes app in iOS and you can make long, detailed lists (with links) or just a checklist which you can update as often as you like. I really like the Notes app.
That’s a fallback option, as is Numbers and Freeform.
I’d really benefit from a database structure. AirTable is nice but pricey, and it’s hard to find iOS database apps with ratings to indicate reasonable quality and support.
Index card apps or something like Trello are also pretty close. Or Numbers or Notes and then lay stuff out spatially in FreeForm.
The big thing I’m trying to get a better handle on is that the way I mentally group my apps changes from week to week as I focus on different aspects of music making. So being able to filter out subsets of apps according to different features or qualities is useful. A good spreadsheet in Numbers could do that but it’s clunky.
This might actually be a job for a big stack of paper index cards.
Yea air table is cool, goes on sale once in awhile, I got it free awhile back.
There’s an app called, don’t buy, that lets you list things you do and don’t like for repeat purchases.
They have lots of note cards, index card apps too.
Formbook is a personal database free
iDatabase Covers a lot of things didn’t see apps but you can create custom categories only $.99
Stack by is free
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Thank you! I think the free version would actually be plenty for keeping track of my music stuff. Last time I used it was for a much more involved project and I forgot that the free version had a good, basic capability.
And actually, you prompted me to revisit my old garden plants database and make some changes so that it also fits under the free plan. 😀 This has turned into a very good day!
I use iDatabase to keep track of my serial numbers for software licenses and sync with desktop. Not perfect but good enough. Replaced Bento, which was better. I mostly use Notes and Appsliced to keep track of apps. It's simple and cross-platform. Some data makes it into numbers.
Ninox, which I have long ago licensed on mobile & desktop, and don't nearly use to its full potential, is showing all versions are free since early December!
Company appears to be trying to pivot to a subscription cloud collaboration tool, like Trello ... hard to say what happened, why their prices went to zero. Desktop was $35 at one time. I don't need a team. If you can sync still between desktop and mobile without paying their cloud fees, then it's certainly worth free. Not simple, but powerful. I never liked their janky UI on the desktop, but haven't found anything better.
Airtable seems like another simple version of trello, or the replacement for Bento ... many years too late. So how do they monetize it? With a website? I don't see any iAPs listed.
They have pro tiers for bigger datasets, more file attachment size, and a variety of front end use tools suitable for business environments. https://airtable.com/wspZtTz7SvtU1UNvs/workspace/plans?ref=bp.skp2021hpub
You might take a look at Ninox now that apparently it's free. Seems like overkill for what you are trying to do, but it is a full-fledged relational database with all the sorting and filtering you could imagine. The key is to make sure you have all the proper fields configured in your db. To me it sort of competes with Filemaker Pro or complex spreadsheets.
https://www.macworld.com/article/615337/ninox-review.html
So it seems like Ninox is competing in the same space with Airtable and Trello. Afaict, as long as you are using the newly free Ninox app to sync for personal use and not trying to use their cloud environment, it is free as in beer. But I sent a support request to them asking what changed and when am I going to have to start paying rent. What I like most about it is that it allows easy import export using CSV.
Airtable has CSV export from web or laptop. Also has CSV import using a free extension, but limits each database to one extension. (Of course, you can load and unload extensions as much as you want.)
Ninox looks really good, but I do like AirTable’s cute factor. 🤣
A synthyfrog app would be pretty cool if it included a personal app inventory with notes/tags/ratings. That site seems to have a complete inventory of the music category. Better still if it could query your purchased items in the App Store, but I bet that data is off-limits to 3rd party apps.
I use Mystuff2 Pro to keep track of different things I collect, including apps.
data jar
It is far from complete! Seems not to have been updated in months
AirTable visually looks a lot cleaner than Ninox, so it does have that going for it.
Is it overly ambitious to dream about an app that is able to read in a list of all the apps I have currently installed on the iPad and create a list that I can then tag?
Especially with FX apps, I admit I don't know how many and which apps of a given FX type I have installed, so it would be great help to see a tailored list of them when I'm trying to apply some FX to a sound etc.
And read the list of your purchased apps and cross-reference what is on your device, what is offloaded and what is just on the cloud
I would be happy with that in V2. 🙂👍 My immediate need would be answered by just covering what's installed (and therefore can be used) right now.
Besides, I think it's a more achievable goal than getting access to the user's purchased app list which might require a lot of luck with Apple...
So true. You got a point
Personally I keep almost 'everything' there and just search wen I need something
...see no point in sorting apps into folders as it feels like a total waste of time.
(Not a single host can browse apps or plug-ins based on the order which they are sorted in on the home-screens anyway).
I keep some of my most used apps on the home-screen and a few others in a folders and rest is tucked away in the AppLibrary.
...this really does help me to focus when I'm using the iPad or iPhone.
Cheers!
Don't know if it's possible for developers to 'tag' what capabilities their AUv3's have?
If that was the case each AUv3 could be 'tagged' with category words (Delay, Reverb, Modulation etc.) and those tags could then be used by AUv3 host to search and filter per category.
(Think of it like 'smart folders', you define a search criteria that has to be met and the folder is only populated by items that match, somewhat similar to what the Finder already has).
I've also done some big time cleanup when it comes to which apps and effects I have installed...
...this again makes it easier to focus.
I've got a grand total of 206 apps installed on my M1 iPadPro and don't miss anything.
Guess I could even remove more as there are some duplicates and apps not used so often...
Practically Spotlight & Search in AppLibrary do the same thing but AppLibrary limits the search to installed apps.
I like to keep things and simple and uncluttered as possible.
Sure I'd love to be able to set 'default apps' for file-types for starters...
...maybe in iPadOS17 LOL
Cheers!
My horrible work around for that at the moment is to go to the music section of my App Library page, screenshot it a page at a time, then go to Photos and OCR the text.
Then paste that into Numbers and do a load of corrections. Kind of sad when this is the state of my most efficient work around. 🤪
I just did the big Home Screen clean out a few weeks ago and have two minimal pages now. One is a music page with Ableton Note widget, Apple Music widget and just a couple of “first grab” apps that I use several times a day. Those get changed out a bit as focus changes over time.
The second page is a stripped down “rest of my life” page with weather and Kindle widgets, a couple of folders for key productivity, financial and art apps and similar.
Definitely relying on App Library search for most stuff. I’m so glad to be rid of my million page homepages endless mess.
That is one of the reasons I've stopped 'hoarding & collecting apps', done the app cleanup and only kept those I actually use.
Of the total 205 apps (including all system apps) I've got installed I have a pretty good idea what every single one of them does.
This also helps me to better learn and use the apps I already have instead of collecting new 'toys'.
Yes, the cleanup took many months but it was worth it.
(Ie. launching every single app, check what it does and if I still find it 'usable' and 'inspiring').
Still got a bunch I've not used in the past 3 months so there's some potential for even more cleanup.
I could not imagine going back to the days with >800 apps installed, total mess and they were sorted in folders by developer, category etc. etc. It got the the point where 'less really is more'. It's easier to have a few good plug-ins instead of having to choose between 10 different ones doing practically the same thing with a slightly different UI.
But that's just me, we're all free to do what ever we want
Cheers!
That’s why I’m leaning toward AirTable. I want my rapid overview to remind me of stuff like effect type, randomization abilities, what I find ideal or limiting, and what I need to study up on to use the app better. (Which is often things like particular developers’ menu or gesture styles.)
Hadn't noticed, that's too bad. But an application like this might offer Synthyfrog (or something like it) a way to monetize the work they've done and fund a more up-to-date database. Hard to imagine it's a profitable venture with just web ads and affiliate links. But again, my guess is that extracting the necessary data from a) the App Store, and b) people's App Store accounts is probably much easier said than done.