What's on my iPhone?

I've had my iPhone 5 for little over a year now and it's never out of my sight. I quite possibly have an addiction, I never leave home without out it. But whilst I have had it tightly grasped in my hands I've managed to find the perfect apps for almost everything. So I thought I'd share. I've also listed my preferred lightning cable at the bottom for people who are struggling with finding decent replacements for the apple ones...

These are my two home screens. I have most of the basic apps on here and then a couple extra, then most of my other apps are managed into folders. I'll give you a quick run down, on the left hand side:

• I'm on the three network and their handy 'THREE' app lets me check my bills, allowance and also has a game built in. 

• The 'BANKING' app allows me to make transfers, payments and use online banking from my phone because I am with barclays. It's such a life saver to be able to check your balance from your phone.

On the right hand side of my home screen: 

• 'THETRAINLINE' app allows me to check train departure and arrival times as well as platforms, and means I can buy all my train tickets from my phone. 

• 'PINGIT' is a barclay's app which allows you to send money to people only using their mobile number, which is really useful, I've spoken about it before. 

• 'COUNTDOWN+' is an app which gives you the days, minutes, seconds, etc. left until an event, such as your birthday or holiday, and you can sync it with facebook which is pretty cool.

• 'CHARADES!KIDS' takes the game of charades and makes it even more exciting. You hold your phone on your head and a word comes up on the screen that everyone else must then act out to you. It's great for when you're waiting for something, or car journeys, etc. 

• The 'GOPRO' app is a must have if you own a GoPro camera, or use one, if not it's probably pretty useless to you. It lets you control your GoPro over wifi (providing it's compatible). 

• 'DREAMY' is a dream journal. I've started writing my dreams down and they're pretty hilarious to look back on. 

• 'SHOEBOX' backs up all of my photos on my phone and laptop. It also shows me which photos I took on this day however many years ago, which is always very embarrassing, but funny. 

• And then my trusty 'BIBLE' app! No theology student should be without this, it had the bible in tons of versions and you can skip to the book and chapter that you need.

Utilities just contains all of the default apps which apple gives you. They're pretty boring. Find iPhone has been useful in the past though - I'd recommend downloading and setting it up, just in case!

Being able to shop from my bed/the sofa/the kitchen has really taken it's toll on my budget... lazy girl problems. 

• The 'EBAY' app notifies me when my watched items auction's have nearly finished, lets me browse ebay for whatever I'm looking for and means I buy so many things I definitely don't need.

• 'AMAZON' is much the same as ebay. I add things to my wishlist daily and purchase things from it all the time too. If you don't have amazon prime for students get it! Free six month trial!

• The 'PAYPAL' app allows me to check my PayPal balance wherever I am. It notifies me when payments have been taken and also allows me to purchase some things using the app and paying on PayPal... a bit like contactless payments. Only works in some places but it's pretty cool. If you're at UoB it works at most places on campus!

These are the apps I turn to when I'm bored or need to kill time. You've probably heard of them all before but I'll briefly run over what I use them for:

• If you have a netflix account the 'NETFLIX' app is a must have. It allows you to do most of the things you can whilst viewing on the web, just on a smaller screen. Pretty useful.

• 'YOUTUBE' allows me to search for videos, watch videos, catch up on my subscriptions, etc. all from my phone.

• 'VINE' I use less often but check every now and then. If you follow the right people you can find some pretty funny videos on there.

• 'BBC IPLAYER' lets you watch BBC programmes on your phone. Basically exactly like the website, I can catch up on programmes I missed.

All my social networking apps go in this folder, you've probably heard of most of them before so I won't go through them, apart from the 'THREE INTOUCH' app. If you are on the three network this app's a life saver. Basically it allows you to make/receive texts or phonecalls over a wifi network. Which is really great for if you don't have signal.

These are the apps I use to edit/crop photos for instagram. They all have their own benefits and downsides so I won't go through those but even after cutting down my apps these were the ones I was left with, so I'd recommend them all.

These are the apps I use for music. 

• On the left the 'KISS KUBE' app allows me to listen to Kiss radio on the go, over my internet connection. Kisstory is probably the best thing ever, I love it. 

• Then, 'SHAZAM' allows me to figure out the name and artist of a song just by playing it and getting the app to 'listen', which is pretty cool and useful too.

Finally, if you own an iphone 5, or later, you'll know that lightning phone chargers are the flimsiest pieces of technology in the world. Not only are they almost 90% likely to break, but they also cost an arm and a leg to replace, just look at the reviews on the apple website. I heard on the grapevine that if you take your cable to an apple store within a year of purchase they'll replace it - so clearly they know there's a problem. I gave up buying the £15-faulty-but-still-apple-genuine cable in favour of the amazon charger, I have the 6 foot one. I also stuck some Sugru on mine to make sure that it cannot physically break. #studentproblems