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5 iOS App Replacements
Mar 15, 2025
The iPhone comes preloaded with many stock applications, but not all are as powerful as you wish they'd be. Luckily there are tons of developers pushing new apps into the App Store, and many of their creations upstage the stock iOS applications. In today's video we take a look at five iOS apps that can easily replace and enhance your iPhone experience. Look at weather in more detail, refresh your music player and more with these powerful apps. Subscribe to Cult of Mac TV to catch all our latest videos.
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your iPhone has many uses and most of
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them deriving from applications but
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though iOS stock apps come pre-loaded to
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help you out with checking the weather
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remembering important dates receiving
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and sending emails reminders and playing
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your favorite music you'll find that
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these five powerful apps make the ones
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on your phone look well weak so if
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you're wanting a little more from your
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weather app dark sky just may be the
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perfect one for you now while the iOS
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weather app mainly shows you the high
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and the lows for the day dark sky gets
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down to the nitty gritty with a clean
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interface though users can not only get
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the same information from before but
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also can find out exactly when it will
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rain or snow up to an hour in advance
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there's really no more worrying if
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you're going to get rained on check
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Radars and even get notifications ahead
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before the precipitation starts it's
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really like having the weather forecast
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for each and every moment for the day
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right in your pocket it's really useful
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simple and not watered
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down I have a busy schedule you have a
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busy schedule and Fantastical too is
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perfect if the iOS calendar app isn't
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doing it for you personally I'm just not
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a fan of the stock calendar apps design
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and that's where Fantastical comes in an
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intuitive layout makes toggling between
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specific days and months a breeze and
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with each movement events for that
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moment and ahead are displayed on the
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bottom add specific events with alarm
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types and other familiar settings enjoy
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a dark or a light theme and really
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configure your settings for the look and
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feel you want all while still getting
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what you want out of the app and
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more next up emailing and the app
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mailbox takes managing all of your mail
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to the next level see unlike the stock
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mail app mailbox aims to make going
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through your emails a breeze without
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having to toggle back and forth between
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tabs enjoy swiping the archive or trash
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and snooze emails to even check out
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later and the app is pretty smart too
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see with auto swipe the app
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automatically swipes and snoozes emails
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based upon your previous action
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so now getting the emails important to
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you are always in the
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Forefront next up you might just want to
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remind yourself to go and check out the
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App clear I've been using this app for
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years because it's awesome design and
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gestures make creating lists and
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reminders easy you can swipe to delete
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and even hold to reorder your task By
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Priority the color represents how
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important it is and you can even make
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multiple pages of list for all of your
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test with clear it seems like there's no
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extra tapping to get to what's important
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and it's good look too and that doesn't
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hurt and finally enjoy a new music
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experience on your iPhone with the app
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ecal now the catch is that the app
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automatically Imports the music on your
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phone straight into the app so your
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playlist album artwork songs everything
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it's already there but what makes this
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app better than the stock music app is
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its different look and gesture controls
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your main focuses are really the only
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thing ever shown sometimes you just get
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tired of the basic music app and with
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the c it feels like a whole new
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experience but my favorite part is you
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can queue up songs as you please play
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next and then add another by adding up
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next and if the stock music app is well
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just a little too bright for you under
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ecou settings you can even turn on a
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dark design everything you may love
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about the iOS music app is still present
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but in a whole new fashion to uncover
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and enjoy and if you check out these
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five apps you're sure to start getting
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more out of your iPhone and you can
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check out more cool apps and more right
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here on col tac.com
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well there you have it there's a look at
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five powerful apps that can replace your
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iOS stock apps but what do you think
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about these apps or which apps do you
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