Paid calculator apps.

Not only are many of them paid - but they are subscription as well. Imagine paying a monthly fee for your goddamn calculator.

90% of b2b software. They literally charge thousands of dollars while giving the worse piece of shit software you've ever used.

it's not an entire app but, discord profile decorations.

The fact it costs money isn't surprising, but the amount of money charged is hilarious.

17$ for some graphics that some look like they took about 20 minutes to make. Just to make your profile look different than everyone elses. Then the "discount" given for having nitro for it is even more laughable.

Whats equally insane is that people fall for it. I know some people that have easily spent 60$ on profile decorations. Spending equal or greater than the cost of discord nitro is insane to me, even if the decoration doesn't expire.

Not useless as such but a wallpaper app or something that expects you to pay £5.99 a month to use. Fuck all the way off with that

I recently tried out an "LED banner" (called LED scroller in the google play store) app that lets you scroll text on your screen. Pretty cool, I would totally pay $5 or maybe even $10 for it. In the free version, I don't think I've ever seen that many ads in such a short period of time. The paid version was $15 PER WEEK. That's $780 per year. To scroll some text. It's the only app I've ever bothered to post a review for.

There used to be apps in the iOS app store that were nothing but a big "I'm rich" symbol. They would be listed for some shit like $10,000 in the app store and all they did was,at best, have a button that played a sound to indicate that you were in fact rich lol.

Teams

Full price EA games with F2P-style microtransactions and ads

And this isn't useless, but I can't believe that to rent Photoshop for $20/mo, your creative projects are not your IP...

I remember when the iPhone was new and my friend paid money for an app that simulates a mug of beer on the screen so you can pretend to drink it.

That, but the entire genre of those fucking things cuz there are assloads of them now.

Windows

There used to be an app that was a Dragon Ball Z scouter. You could point it at anything with a face and it would tell you a random power level. Apparently mine is 10,550 (I can barely lift a jug of milk).

Workout timer that wants a subscription

The “pro” versions of common social media apps that remove ads or give you a useless check mark.

The German Dreckstool website (meaning shit tool) hosts a hitlist of shitty tools/software. I don't think it's that popular, but the top/high-scored of the list may be indicative of some of the worst.

Crab Rangoon's. I just don't like them. I mean it's just fried cream cheese.

Microsoft Sharepoint has a Wiki. The Wiki can not generate a table of content.

Our shit setup at work, where I am now using two browsers and two email programs because our Jira and Confluence can't be arsed to decently support web standards/Firefox and because Outlook is shit but Exchange has stuff I need Outlook for.

Today was the first time, after yet again something not working - issues on confluence and Jira ticket can't be closed, endless load on Firefox - where I genuinely felt relieved that a very different website for file transfer simply worked. I could open it, click download, and download the file.

It's absurd that I feel this way.

Atlassian is shit for forcing us into the expensive cloud for a shit product. Our Jira and Confluence have plugins, and we pay admin company to integrate more customizations, and it just makes everything worse. The "changes only happen at night" I read from Atlassian is pointless because without notice or announcement stuff breaks anyway, and I have no idea who makes changes and when and what, because nothing is being communicated. Today was the third time we weren't able to add work time to tickets. Let's see when the next time will be.

It's a constant annoyance and stumbling over shit tools.

I have various CSS hacks in place to make Jira and Confluence more usable, but it's still shit. And man their HTML DOM is absolutely horrendous with only generated classes. Most of my CSS hacks use test ID attributes.

Shit Atlassian, shit Jira and Confluence, shit customizations. Annoying Outlook and Exchange.

Man this became a long text and rant lol

Unfortunately, they're not useless but apparently necessary. I don't see us ever moving away from them.

For me, any office apps. Never worked in an office, never wanted to. None of that stuff. Even if it's free, if it gets installed with the distro, it's the first thing that gets tossed.