Apps & services

One of his favourites: different from Pixel style, clean and practical, with fast access to everything.

A free Pixel-inspired launcher with the important features and an optional Google feed plug-in.

Clean and colourful with a handy wallpaper shuffle, but spammy recommendations and sponsored posts.

Turns your notch or punch hole into a battery indicator, with heavy customisation and wide phone coverage.

A pastel icon pack with a subtle glow that balances material design with a fresh look.

Lets you draw on photos and turns them into looping animations, good for Instagram stories.

A beautiful sleep and meditation app whose meditations impressed him, though some parts are gimmicky and much is paid.

Lets you wake to any song from YouTube without needing a premium membership.

A smart photo editor that separates foreground and background so you can edit them independently.

A polished, ad-free 4K wallpaper app from the artist behind the OnePlus default wallpapers.

An ordinary voice recorder made great by how quickly you can start recording from a status bar toggle.

A file sharing app with no ads, expiring links, and no software needed for the recipient.

Lets you skip songs with the volume keys while the screen is off, without losing volume control.

A paid app that finds duplicates, corrupted files and empty folders to tidy up phone storage.

Used for manual filming, with a focus assist that highlights in-focus areas in green.

He lays out Spotify's case against Apple but points out where its complaints are weak, without taking a firm side.

Not strictly a phone gadget, but turns portrait mode photos into 3D lenticular prints.

One of the best customisations he has used lately, as it fixes the problem of reaching the top of big-screen phones.

Brilliant notification pop-up bubbles that let you read and act on alerts without leaving your app.

Looks cool and gives screenshots a unique touch with enough tweaking, but the benefits are limited and the default colours are tacky.

Used to build a pastel home screen setup on his S10 Plus.

Used alongside the icon pack in his pastel home screen setup.

Learns to recognise his face even when it is tiny and obscured in the background of a photo.

Shows how specific Google's data on him is, which he finds scary, though he still thinks most people can reasonably trust Google.