Seeing as a lot of the apps available on the Steem App Center are either in development or abandoned, I've decided it might be a good idea to curate it a bit. (This is mainly an experiment, to see if people enjoy this and find value in it. In any case I'll probably be back to doing sciency posts soon enough XP)

This idea was inspired by @mark-waser, who posted the idea of @papa-pepper doing a tool curation series in the future, on @papa-pepper s 500 SBD gig tool to make an easy to use Steemit search engine that would allow one to filter results based on user AND/OR tags. Said 500 SBD gig was won by @kasperfred for his Steemit Tag Search tool

So, without further ado, let's get to it !

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The Mad Scientist's list of useful Steemit tools

I've decided to separate these tools into a few categories:

• Data manipulation and visualisation. Tools dedicated to gathering info on the blockchain, and presenting it to the user.
• Writing Tools dedicated to making your life as an author easier on Steemit.
• Curation/Discovery Tools dedicated to discovering posts,
• Alternative access Other ways to interact with the Steem blockchain. Alternatives/add-ons to the original steemit.

Let's start in order:

Data

• Steemchart by @elyaque
  
  Nice view of the current price of Steem, SBD and Bitcoins in the IRL currency of your choice.
  

• SteemStory by @roelandp
  
  
  SteemStory is just fun to watch from time to time. It tells a little story about your progress on the platform.
  

• Dead Followers by @mynameisbrian
  
  
  Allows you to see which of your followers are still active, based either on their last post or last vote.
  

Writing

• SteemWriter by @unipsycho

Steemwriter allows drafting multiple posts, though it lacks some features for now, once those get implemented (upload image by drag-n-drop being the only one keeping me from making my posts directly from Steemwriter) it'll be awesome. Oh, and look, it's my current post ideas. Spoilers

• SteemImg by @blueorgy

Image hosting for Steemit. could be useful for high-quality images that the Steemit would otherwise downgrade when uploading directly to Steemit.

Curation/Discovery

• AutoSteem by @unipsycho
  
  
  AutoSteem is a voting automation tool. With the wide variety of options (see picture), and the only cost being auto upvoting @unipsycho posts automatically, it seems like it would be very useful for curators.
  

• SteemShare by @originate
  

  
  
  SteemShare is based around creating lists of Steem posts. I personally believe it could be built upon to create a system where each user can have a "wall" with a few select posts they recommend to their followers. But even as it is now, it has great potential for curators!
  
  
  

• Steemit Tag Search by @kasperfred

Other ways to access Steemit content

• eSteem by @good-karma

Currently the Steemit mobile App. It works great (a crash every now and again, but the features, like notifications for posts, votes, mentions, reblogs and follows, make it totally worth it !). I use it everyday ! (and some nights too !)

• chainBB by @jesta
  
  
  Nice way or organizing content by topic.
  

I've also got some ideas for tools that could be interesting to have in the future. Be it to make your Steemit experience better or just to have fun with some of the data. Here's one (if some Dev feels up for it, have fun !):

• Tool that extracts the "location" data given by all user's, compares it to countries, states, towns/cities of the world, then places a Pin locating the user on an open-source map or Google map. We'd then have a big map showing the geographic distribution of
  Steemit users.

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Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to try and solve this Cryptic Science Crossword puzzle by @rycharde