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# My Home Screen: March 2015
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/homescreen-mar15/
- Published: 2015-03-02T15:53:34.000Z
- Updated: 2015-03-02T15:53:34.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

![](http://birchtree.s3.amazonaws.com/homescreen-mar15.png)Another month, another home screen! If you remember, I had a jailbroken phone [last month](http://static1.squarespace.com/static/558e2322e4b0f74ef3e717b7/558ea28be4b08a526530b76c/558ea2a4e4b08a526530c23c/1435411108558/homescreen-feb15?format=original&ref=birchtree.me), but I have since restored my phone to stock iOS. Life is good, but I do miss some of the tweaks that I had from jailbreaking. That said, I am getting insane battery life on iOS 8.2, which is not a bad trade off.

Restoring my phone did allow me to start fresh and rethink what I had on my home screen. 

My wallpaper is once again my own creation. If you want it, [just $3 supports this site](http://static1.squarespace.com/static/558e2322e4b0f74ef3e717b7/558ea28be4b08a526530b76c/558ea2a4e4b08a526530c23f/1435411108575/support?format=original&ref=birchtree.me) and gets you access to 5 wallpapers for your phone.

## What’s New?

[MyFitnessPal - free](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/calorie-counter-diet-tracker/id341232718?uo=4&at=10l8rH&ct=fnd&mt=8&ref=birchtree.me): I think everyone knows about this app already, but I started using it 3 weeks ago to track my eating. I’ve logged every single day, and it’s actually helped me lose some weight. Simply knowing how much I’m eating has gone a long way to being healthier (which isn’t easy in the dead of winter).

[Pocket - free](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pocket-save-articles-videos/id309601447?uo=4&at=10l8rH&ct=fnd&mt=8&ref=birchtree.me): After years, and years using Instapaper and Pinboard to save links for later, I’m trying to use Pocket as a replacement for both services[\[1\]](#fn-1 "see footnote"). I like the app a lot so far!

[Mail Pilot 2 - $9.99](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mail-pilot-2-email-inbox-simplified/id616785421?uo=4&at=10l8rH&ct=fnd&mt=8&ref=birchtree.me): I gushed about this app in [my review](http://static1.squarespace.com/static/558e2322e4b0f74ef3e717b7/558ea28be4b08a526530b76c/558ea2a4e4b08a526530c239/1435411108377/mail-pilot-2-review?format=original&ref=birchtree.me), and it’s still my email app of choice on iOS. [Microsoft Outlook](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-outlook/id951937596?uo=4&at=10l8rH&ct=fnd&mt=8&ref=birchtree.me) is a close second, but its lack of a desktop app makes it less useful to me.

[Pocket Casts - $3.99](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pocket-casts/id414834813?uo=4&at=10l8rH&ct=fnd&mt=8&ref=birchtree.me): I think Overcast is built for people who don’t subscribe to as many podcasts as I do. I kept losing shows that were released but were added to the bottom of my queue, so I couldn’t figure out what was new and what was old. Pocket Casts’ timeline view works well for me.

[Spotify - free](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music/id324684580?uo=4&at=10l8rH&ct=fnd&mt=8&ref=birchtree.me): Beats was a nice vacation last month, but Spotify is just a better app.

[Tweetbot - $4.99](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tweetbot-3-for-twitter.-elegant/id722294701?uo=4&at=10l8rH&ct=fnd&mt=8&ref=birchtree.me): I’m back to Tweetbot after a month with Twitterrific. The Tapbots crew must have a better relationship with Twitter, because their more advanced Twitter integrations seem to always work better and have to be fixed less often that Twitterrific.

[Google - free](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google/id284815942?uo=4&at=10l8rH&ct=fnd&mt=8&ref=birchtree.me): I do so many searches on my phone that it just makes sense that Google gets easier access.

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1. Although I do have an [IFTTT action](https://ifttt.com/recipes/265142-backup-pocket-items-to-pinboard?ref=birchtree.me) set up to add everything I save to Pocket into my Pinboard account in case I go back. [ ↩](#fnref-1 "return to article")