What's the strangest app you've downloaded to date?

What app have you downloaded, and later made you pause, wondering "why did I get this, again?"

Mine would probably be a stunningly-rendered 3D tour of Silla...that I can't read. I figure I can still learn about South Korea from the pictures, though.

Bump. Because I'm interested. :D

I downloaded several apps that were supposed to be interactive walkthroughs on how to perform different surgeries, I assume for med students. They weren't super interactive, but they were fairly interesting. I have since deleted them because they took up a lot of memory.

Particle Flow. It's this weird game, idk it's hard to play?

A Dalek voice synthesizer.

The Bible.

Yeah, really.

I can't find Particle Flow in the App Store :(

That isn't weird. Parent of Mine has an app for that.

Ah, good. I don't like being the weird guy downloading weird apps anyway.

One of those catapult games, starring Jay and Silent Bob. It wasn't particularly very good, if I remember.

This topic keeps reminding me of that stupid [insertcity]helpwanted.com radio ad where the guy's all "I downloaded an ape instead of an app..." Now, if they made some kind of ape app based on that, that might be awesome.

Dumb Ways to Die. Entertaining for about five minutes, then it's just stupid.

That app is ridiculously addictive.

I haven't downloaded any especially strange apps (I think my sister tried to convince me to download some app called Bacon Farts once, though) other than one of those surgery walkthrough things Mobile Leprechaun mentioned, but I do have an app that plays my music backwards. Some of the results are funny, others are truly scary.

edited 23rd Nov '13 8:30:44 PM by Explosivo25

Soundboard for the Merchant from Resident Evil 4

I fucking love soundboards. I think there's one for the king in the Phillips cdi Zelda games. As a fan of youtube poop, I approve, but don't want to spend my money just to hear him say "mah boi" and "dinner" repeatedly.

Lemme see, I'll look back through my history (since I deleted a lot of apps I had to free up space on my phone):

• "Binaural beats therapy - beta": Something that basically was supposed to give you a brain massage when you listened to it, using tones and bassiness and stuff and blag. I never actually used it.
• "Tango Messenger": My friend and I tried using this once when we couldn't get Skype to work. After about 5 minutes, we both decided it sucked horribly and deleted it
• "Sleep as An Droid" (sic) (later renamed to "Sleep As Android"): Apparently supposed to track your sleep cycles. My friend kept telling me to download it since he was using it, so I did and promptly never used it.
• "Assistant" from Speaktoit: I was jealous of iPhone users who had Siri, so I looked to see if there was any equivalent for Droid users. Sadly, this one did not suffice and had a creepy avatar as its background to boot.
• A whole mess 'o screenshot-taking apps that didn't work because my phone wasn't rooted and I didn't feel like making a complicated setup with my computer. (My old phone didn't take screenshots, weirdly.)
• One of those apps that makes mosquito sounds that you use to annoy everyone else in class. *trollface.jpg*
• Curiosity. Screw you, Molyneux.
• A speedometer app that I tried using to see how fast I walked. I don't think it worked.
• "Outlook.com", purportedly an official app from "Microsoft + SEVEN": It sucked and didn't work.
• Sonic Jump: Why would you make a Sonic game a glorified Doodle Jump ripoff. (That being said, it was still fun, but the music sucked, which was very uncharacteristic of a Sonic game).
• "Plasma Sound HD": What? I wanted a theremin app. And I still have it, dammit!
• "Tambourine Christmas": Oh God, I forgot about this one I wanted to find a tambourine app, and this was the only really slightly decent and simple one I could find. Unfortunately, the delay was too much for me to adjust to. (I also downloaded a few apps that sought to replicate a drumset, but the delay between tapping a piece of the drumset and the sound coming out of it was always too much for me to take.)
• MeetMe: A really stupid social networking site.
• "Brightness Level": Because apparently I forgot my phone already lets me adjust that.
• Urban Dictionary, Cracked: Don't use the apps of websites that already have their own mobile versions, kids.
• "Police light LED": This one's the funniest and stupidest. The app does basically what you'd expect—allows you to have police lights on your phone...but after about a minute, a popup comes on the screen begging you to buy the app. If you say no, it quits out of the app! What a jerk! (For the record, I downloaded it for a video my friend was making, but we decided against using it in the end, for obvious reasons.)

Where's My Perry? is probably the weirdest app Charles has downloaded to the android tablet. yeah, not really weird at all.

This is because my sis and I use our mom's account for Itunes, so anything my sis downloads I also get. Anyways, one of the weirdest apps I've had was some sort of makeover game that crashed every time it was opened.

One of my friends was one of the people scammed by 27 in 1.

What it was was, it was this paid app that showed on the store page twenty seven old NES games, including Yo Noid! The store page was sketchy about it, but it suggested that you would be able to play these games. So he bought it.

It turns out, the app played a ten second sound clip from each of those games. Not the actual games themselves.

Eventually an App Store moderator caught on to it and he gave full refunds to everybody involved, and puleld it from the app store.

Oh that's good, I would hate to be burned like that.

Your post has inspired me to download one of these myself. Considering my playlist mostly consists of Vocaloid songs and Nightcore mixes, some of them actually sound pretty good, if not downright funny.

I once had a manga-reading app that, for one, didn't have Death Note. For two, it catergorises its titles quite poorly, putting manga starting with M into L and sometimes sorting it into the wrong genre. On top of that, some if the manga it DID have required you to read it on a manga-reading website rather than the app itself.

One of the puzzle apps currently on my phone is a series of spot-the-differences puzzles - using famous paintings that have been subtly photoshopped.

It's actually really good.

I downloaded a Virtual Girlfriend app. It was kinda creepy and the girls fell into the Uncanny Valley.

I downloaded a penis enlargement app just because I saw it existed. Also, I'm a girl.

Did it work?

Trust a fellow Brit to ask a girl who was just curious about HOW it could work, whether it worked.

EDIT: Been on r/shitredditsays lately, people who use "female" tend to have an attitude that belongs on Ferengar.

edited 13th Sep '15 10:41:17 AM by TheOneWhoTropes