In partnership with
THE USEFUL TECH
🔍 THE USEFUL FIND · MONDAY APP DISCOVERY · ISSUE #002
👋 HEY, IT'S RAJA
Usually I bring you one app worth installing. This week two small ones caught me, each quietly fixing a gap Apple never got around to.
200+ Claude Prompts Top Professionals Actually Use at Work
Claude can be your analyst, editor, and strategist.
But most professionals are using it to fix grammar.
These 200+ Claude prompts take it from grammar tool to your most powerful AI work assistant.
Sign up for Superhuman AI and get:
200+ ready-to-use Claude prompts to get real work done in minutes — researched, tested, and used by professionals at Google, Microsoft, and NASA
Superhuman AI newsletter (4 min daily) so you keep learning new AI tools and skills to stay ahead in your career — the prompts are just the beginning
🔍 Find one: Widget Cast
Put a looping video on your Home Screen, no jailbreak required.
What it does
iOS still will not let a video live on your Home Screen, so Widget Cast fakes it beautifully. Feed it a short clip and it turns the frames into an animated widget, a little flipbook that loops right there among your icons. The whole thing is wrapped in a charming retro tape deck interface, which makes setting it up feel like playing with a toy in the best way. What it does better than anything else is put genuine motion on your Home Screen with no jailbreak and no hacks.
Pro tip: keep your clip to two or three seconds so the loop stays smooth instead of choppy.
📱 Platform: iPhone (iOS)
💰 Price: FREE with IAP
🔄 Alternative to: static photo and Live Photo widgets
🔍 Find two: calmshows
A genuinely free, ad free way to track what you watch.
What it does
A movie and TV tracker that is genuinely free, with no ads and no upsell waiting to ambush you. Discover something to watch, add it to your list, and check things off, all in a clean, quiet interface. It comes from an indie developer building a whole suite of these calm, no catch apps, so if you like this one there is more in the same spirit. What it does better than anything else is stay a no strings tracker in a category full of subscriptions.
Pro tip: it pairs nicely with the rest of the developer's calm suite if you want your other small tools to feel this unbothered.
📱 Platform: iPhone (iOS)
💰 Price: Free
🔄 Alternative to: paid watchlist and TV tracking apps
Two installs, five minutes. Reply and tell me which one sticks, and I'll see you Wednesday with a deep dive.
Keep it useful,
Raja · The Useful Tech
P.S. Enjoyed this? Forward it to a friend who loves their Apple gear a little too much.