16 apps for your iPhone that are better than the ones Apple made (AAPL)

Steven Tweedie

Apple preloads every iPhone with a slew of its own first-party apps — but thankfully, the App Store is overflowing with alternative apps, many of which are better than Apple's.

Whether you're looking to organize your photos, get some work done, or get around town, we've scoured the App Store for the best apps that are better than the default ones on your iPhone.

Instead of Mail, use Microsoft Outlook.

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In December 2014, Microsoft bought one of my favorite email apps, Acompli. Outlook is essentially that app with a new skin on it. Still, this is the most robust and most refined email app out there — you can create quick filters for your flagged and unread emails and check out all the attachments and files that have been emailed to you in one dedicated folder. It also gives you tabs for your calendar and contacts, which are nice additions that improve productivity.

(Microsoft Outlook, free)

Also: Instead of Mail, use Email (from EasilyDo).

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I try new email apps all the time, but after using Outlook for a while, I've fallen in love with another app, Email from EasilyDo. It's free on iOS, and coming soon to Android.

It's incredibly fast, highly customizable, and, most importantly, it's both smarter and more proactive than any other email app I've used. It automatically scans your emails for purchases, receipts, attachments, calendar dates, and more, and it'll automatically put those emails into separate, appropriately labeled folders that appear on your sidebar. It's super nifty — you can read my review of it here.

(Email from EasilyDo, free)

Instead of Calendar, use Google Calendar.

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I've used Google's calendar app on the desktop for years — but even if you haven't, you'll feel right at home on Google Calendar, which is beautiful to look at and easy to use.

Like Apple's Calendar, it can pull in data from Google, Facebook, and iCloud, but it presents all the information in a much more useful way than Apple's default app does. The top half of the screen shows you the whole month, and the lower half of the screen shows you what's up next. You can scroll down to see what's coming up, and you can tap the top right corner of the screen to jump back to the present day. It's all incredibly intuitive.

(Google Calendar, free)

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