Top 5 useful apps that you need to have in your smartphone

By | August 21, 2017

This is the era of smartphone technology and with the advent of 3g and 4g technology, Pakistan has entered it. As new technologies are coming forth day by day, smartphones and their apps are becoming an integral part of life and as the year of 2016 saw the launch of many new and unique applications, Pakistani’s have now gained access to many facilities that were a near impossibility sometime ago. We have compiled a list of cooking recipes, taxi, Home remedies , expense management etc apps that everyone should have on their phones to make their lives easier.

Top 5 useful apps that you need to have in your smartphone [howpk.com]

Top 5 useful apps that you need to have in your smartphone [howpk.com]

1. Taxi Apps (Uber, Careem, Call My Cab etc)







Mobilizing in Pakistan has become really comfortable, safer and easier than ever as the year of 2016 saw the advent of the trendy taxi applications Uber and Careem.

Currently, these services have become an integral part of our lives since they are a comfortable and safe transport alternative to anywhere you want to go.

Uber and Careem both provide services in form of cars that will pick you and drop you from anywhere to wherever you want to go.

The drivers and vehicles are all well recorded and registered with the company to ensure extra safety of the passengers, plus we can rate our ride so the next commuter knows how the experience was.

In recent times, Careem launched the “Female Captains” service in Lahore which made it even safer for women to move across two destinations. With the rise of these ride-hailing apps, another ride-sharing service known as ‘Limofied’ has made its way into Pakistan which gives you access to luxurious limousine rides.

2. Home Remedies and Tips

People of Pakistan are in love with desi health tips locally known as “Desi totkas”. Regardless of what kind of sickness you are dealing with, there is always a totka available.

Home Remedies+ : Natural Cures is an app that provides you with a platform to surf through hundreds of desi remedies and totkas for any kind of ailment. Whether you are stricken by anemia, acne, allergies, or just looking for weight loss tips, a home based desi cure is available in the app.

With this app, you also possess the ability to store your own homemade remedies, add new remedies to your favorites or share your favorite Desi totkas on your Facebook profile with your friends and family. Users can even ask questions concerning any remedy at the queries forum and the community answers it for you.

3. Cooking apps

For housewives and aspiring chefs, cooking is quite literally a matter of life and death as they are tirelessly surfing the internet for new and improved cooking recipes. One of the apps that have made a name for its quality food content is SooperChef which providing Continental as well as Pakistani Recipes in Urdu & English. This cooking app allows its users to go through a variety of cooking recipes in Urdu and English language with a 4K step by step by step video guide. New recipes are published daily and the app runs perfectly when in offline mode. With sooperchef.pk you can gain access to more than 200 video cooking recipes and download all your desired cooking content for free.

4. Food ordering apps

It is a universal fact that food is an indispensable part of our lives, Especially for Pakistani foodies, who have a reputation for their love of food.

The foodpanda app offers an outstanding and easy way to order your meal from your desired restaurants. What the app does is detects all the close by restaurants in your surrounding area and displays their food menus for you. From there, you can choose the stuff you want to order and the delivery is made to your doorstep.

FoodPanda also allows its users to pay for the ordered food through cash on delivery and debit/credit card on supported eateries.

In addition, the app also displays some sort of food deals going on at all times which allows the users to avail massive discount offers on the food you love.

5. Expense manager

Those who like to keep their expenditures in check, the Expense Manager App is the green-light for you. The app helps you track your expenses in a magnificent and easy to use navigational menu. Expense Manager tracks your spent money and builds an expense report. After that, the application analyzes your expenditure behavior and notifies you how you can cut down on your expenses.

Author: Tanvir Zafar

Tanvir Zafar is a internet Entrepreneur and owner of this site and many others as well. He is student in GCUF doing BS Software Engineering. :)