Today is day 22 of Gizmodo’s March Madness Challenge to determine the greatest apps of all time, and we’re getting closer to the top eight! Swiftkey was eliminated by Duolingo in yesterday’s head-to-head competition. Today we have the showdown between the beloved Flashlight and Evernote.
If you’re just tuning in, you can read all of our selection criteria for this historic match right here. Check out the full list of contestants embedded below. As always, if you think we’ve missed your personal favorite app, give us a shout in the comments. Now, let’s get into today’s contestants.
Here’s what we said about Swiftkey in the first round:
For many people, a flashlight app is not an app at all. Today, it is a built-in utility on most smartphones. But this is not always the case. In 2010, a full two years after the App Store launched, Apple finally allowed apps to use the camera flash on the iPhone 4 as a continuous flashlight. Many developers have jumped on the gold rush.
By 2013, there were over a thousand flashlight apps in the App Store, but the good times fell apart when Apple added native flashlight functionality. Whoever is still making money in this crowded field is going bankrupt, and many brick-and-mortar flashlight manufacturers may be feeling the pain.
A flashlight app does one thing, and what it does is useful. This is something countless apps cannot do.
This is what we last wrote about Evernote:
I think the best note-taking app is the one you use. I know there’s a huge ecosystem of feature-rich note-taking apps, but I still use Apple’s boring old Notes because that’s where my notes are and I don’t want to take action.But the fact is, people get Very Passionate about their favorite note-taker, there was a time when Evernote inspired fierce loyalty among its users.
Evernote dominates with its ability to sync notes across devices and its openness to all forms of media, including photos, videos, and web content. These things are commonplace today, but when Evernote launched in 2008, its organizational capabilities and flexibility were unparalleled.It was so popular that the company even launched Special moleskin notebook It uses a custom tagging system to upload and organize your IRL notes.
Evernote fans are hard to find these days.A quick Google search will show hundreds forum post Declare the app dead. In 2023, it imposed Strict restrictions Free users and lose more customers. But it’s still growing slowly because of the hassle of moving elsewhere.
So, reader, what would it be? Do you want to give Flashlight a chance, or does Evernote have more good days than bad?
The voting has ended and the flashlights are on to the next round!
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