Introduction
Whether you wish to homestead or you are simply a hobbyist gardener looking to become more efficient, it is important to have a stable, up-to-date, and personal almanac on which you can rely completely. American Almanac is one such almanac in the handy form of an iPhone and iPad history app.
Receive complete, up-to-date information on everything from tide predictions, frost dates, weather wisdom, to the lunar phase, zodiacal phase, and much, much more on a simple, smooth, and easy-to-use interface.
Available in the app store for a mere $1.99, this iPhone history app includes everything you could possibly want in an almanac at a fraction of the price. Furthermore, it's an auto-updating almanac, which means after buying it once, you can use it forever.
For more details about this good history app for iPhone and iPad, check out our American Almanac app review below.
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All-manac
Get rid of your clumsy old almanacs and grab a copy of American Almanac on your iOS device. Although it's jam-packed with awesome features, this app takes up only 8 MB of space, making it a very lightweight tool.
You can pick out your home town or grant access to the location services and this app will display the seven-day weather forecast along with the time of sunrise & sunset, moonrise & moonset, and the length of the day and night. These will be calculated based on the location you input, customizing the information to match your requirements.
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Fun Features
Using this app, you can also see the current lunar phase, the current zodiacal sign, tide predictions, visible planets, frost dates, weather wisdom, church holidays, the Chinese calendar, and more.
You'll be pleased to know that the above features are segregated into various categories such as Amusement, Astronomy, Date & Time, Garden, Weather, and others. There is also a fantastic “On This Day In History” feature that will leave you a little bit wiser each day.
The developers claim that there are new features being added every week, covering more than 12,000 cities across the United States.
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Pros & Cons
Pros
- Far cheaper and lighter than a regular paper almanac
- Constantly updated with new features as well as with information
- Features a smooth as well as sleek user interface for easy navigation
- Brings advice from colonial times on when to plant, frost dates, pest-repelling plants, and much more
- Buy once and enjoy forever
Cons
- There is nothing negative to say about this app
Final Words
It doesn't matter if you live in the city and have a little garden or in the suburbs with a huge farm, American Almanac is sure to become one of your most trusted sources of information, all available in the convenient little package of your iPhone or iPad. This app is definitely a must-have!