The 3 Best Apps for Windows Phone 8.1 in the Live Store!
One of my most favourite apps for Windows Phone 8.1 is a third-party Discord client MetroCord (by NLogDEV).
It builds upon the Unicord Legacy codebase, adding features such as support for threads, DMs, group chat and reactions (partial), while streamlining the UX. And, personally, the UI looks pretty neat.
(As you can see on the screenshots, the client uses system fonts. Emoji issues can be fixed system-wide for example by installing the Noto Color Emoji font.)
Some features are missing, such as calls, password login (token or QR code is used instead), background notifications (except pings), .gifs, stickers, or polls (except viewing), but their absence didn’t annoy me much (I mean, no background notifications is a feature to me lol).
I think this app is the best way back into Discord on WP8.1, and it single-handedly makes using my Lumia as my main phone possible.
Another one is a beautiful and minimalistic weather app called Haru (by FriendsNone).
It provides a sleek overview of Open-Meteo data with plenty of cool things on top, such as an actual live tile showing the current conditions and sending system notifications when the weather changes. It also blends in really nicely with other system apps and feels incredibly pleasant to use.
It also updates automatically, provides a set of monochrome icons, a list of favourite locations and it can even use GPS for geolocation (which on my phone seems to be broken for all apps for some reason).
This is probably the smoothest weather app experience I’ve ever had on WP, as silly as it sounds. It feels like it was meant to be a part of the system from the very beginning.
And last, but not least, the experience my autistic brain was yearning for!! /hj
It’s Wikipedia 8.1 (by ThenonFun), serving as a great replacement for the older app based on IE WebView (which… doesn’t really render correctly anymore). It supports all of the basic features (such as the homepage, article search, random articles or a reading list), while delivering them in the WP8.1 design language.
As all the previous apps, it works great with a poor internet connection and looks pretty clean. It also provides a live tile with the Wikipedia homepage feed.
It quickly became my main place for finding information on Windows Phone, just because of how fast and reliable it is. As someone who daily drives WP8.1 and gets nerdsniped easily, this is one of the very few apps I couldn’t imagine using my Lumia without.
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It builds upon the Unicord Legacy codebase, adding features such as support for threads, DMs, group chat and reactions (partial), while streamlining the UX. And, personally, the UI looks pretty neat.
(As you can see on the screenshots, the client uses system fonts. Emoji issues can be fixed system-wide for example by installing the Noto Color Emoji font.)
Some features are missing, such as calls, password login (token or QR code is used instead), background notifications (except pings), .gifs, stickers, or polls (except viewing), but their absence didn’t annoy me much (I mean, no background notifications is a feature to me lol).
I think this app is the best way back into Discord on WP8.1, and it single-handedly makes using my Lumia as my main phone possible.
Another one is a beautiful and minimalistic weather app called Haru (by FriendsNone).
It provides a sleek overview of Open-Meteo data with plenty of cool things on top, such as an actual live tile showing the current conditions and sending system notifications when the weather changes. It also blends in really nicely with other system apps and feels incredibly pleasant to use.
It also updates automatically, provides a set of monochrome icons, a list of favourite locations and it can even use GPS for geolocation (which on my phone seems to be broken for all apps for some reason).
This is probably the smoothest weather app experience I’ve ever had on WP, as silly as it sounds. It feels like it was meant to be a part of the system from the very beginning.
And last, but not least, the experience my autistic brain was yearning for!! /hj
It’s Wikipedia 8.1 (by ThenonFun), serving as a great replacement for the older app based on IE WebView (which… doesn’t really render correctly anymore). It supports all of the basic features (such as the homepage, article search, random articles or a reading list), while delivering them in the WP8.1 design language.
As all the previous apps, it works great with a poor internet connection and looks pretty clean. It also provides a live tile with the Wikipedia homepage feed.
It quickly became my main place for finding information on Windows Phone, just because of how fast and reliable it is. As someone who daily drives WP8.1 and gets nerdsniped easily, this is one of the very few apps I couldn’t imagine using my Lumia without.
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