Apps & Services
Apps, app stores, music and cloud services: what’s free, what closed and what replaced it.
- How to stop junk mailUse two official opt-outs first. OptOutPrescreen.com stops prescreened credit card and insurance offers for five years or permanently, with no fee listed in the FTC's guide, and DMAchoice.org…
- Best apps to reduce your carbon footprintStart with the free EPA Household Carbon Footprint Calculator and your electric utility's own app or usage download, because they show where your own emissions come from before…
- Who founded The Verge?The Verge was founded in 2011 by Joshua Topolsky, then editor-in-chief of Engadget, with a group of Engadget colleagues including Nilay Patel, Paul Miller, Ross Miller, Joanna Stern…
- What happened to Amazon’s Free App of the Day?Amazon's Free App of the Day is gone. Amazon replaced it with Amazon Underground in August 2015, wound that program down between 2017 and 2019, and then shut…
- Where can you upload your own music library in 2026?YouTube Music is the best free place to upload your own music library in 2026: it takes up to 100,000 songs, including FLAC files, and plays them ad-free…