From sex to sleep: eight apps to hack your life

Want to know where the nearest playground is or when to take a toilet break in movies? There's an app for that

Smartphone apps can broadly be divided into the useful and the pointless curios doomed to be forgotten, such as that gender-swap image-manipulation thing that exists solely to make me look like an uncomfortably sexualised foetus. Look closely, however, and you will find a middle ground: apps that sound stupid, but are useful enough to improve your life meaningfully. Here are my eight favourites.