Top Applets on IFTTT: our yearly review

With tens of millions of enabled and created Applets, IFTTTers have a lot of options when it comes to choosing automations that help everything work better together. Beyond that, if you don't find a solution that fits just right, you can build your own Applet in just a few minutes.

Rather than dump every popular Applet into one long, unsorted list, we've grouped the most-used ones by what they actually do: weather, phone settings, social cross-posting, productivity, smart home, and a few we couldn't resist calling out on their own. Skip to whichever category matches what you're trying to fix in your day, or scroll through the whole thing and see what interests you.

We also have a list of the most popular services of the year here!

A quick refresher on IFTTT principles

IFTTT is our free web-based automation platform and mobile app designed to boost your productivity by automating tasks. IFTTT works by creating connections between popular apps and services (even those you'd never imagine working together), allowing them to work together seamlessly.

The idea behind IFTTT is to create "Applets," which are sets of instructions that trigger when certain conditions are met, like the ones in this list. Founded in 2011, IFTTT has been used by over 32 million individuals to automate both business and home tasks, saving time and increasing efficiency. Best of all, it's free and only takes a couple of minutes to set up.

Smart weather updates

Weather Applets are some of the most-used on IFTTT for a simple reason: nobody wants to check five different apps just to know if they need a jacket. These Applets run quietly in the background and are designed to only let you know when the forecast actually changes something about your day.

Phone & notification automation

Manually switching your ringer on and off around your schedule is one of those small chores that's easy to forget, and you'll for sure be reminded of it when your phone suddenly goes off in a meeting. These Applets read your location or the time of day and adjust your ringer before you have to think about it.

Social media cross-posting

If you're a social media manager or even just a one-person powerhouse, you know how tedious it can get. Instead of posting the same content across multiple platforms, these Applets cut out the manual re-uploading. Post once on Instagram or Facebook, and let it show up natively on X without you touching a second app. The same goes for all sorts of combinations of apps, and IFTTT can even change the wording of the post or the caption to make it unique across all of your socials.

Productivity & logging data

A lot of useful information passes through your phone and never gets saved anywhere: contacts, work hours, photos worth keeping. These Applets log or back it up the moment it happens, so there's nothing to remember to do later.

Smart home & entertainment

Sometimes the best automation is the one that helps boost the mood instead of solving a technical problem. These Applets connect your lights and music to a button tap or a trigger you're already using, with no extra app required.

Stay in the loop on what's new

A handful of IFTTT-native Applets that don't connect to a third-party service at all, they just keep you posted on IFTTT itself, or handle a small recurring task with zero setup.

Everyday novelty

Not every good Applet solves a serious problem. Some are just genuinely fun, or solve a problem so specific you didn't know it had a name until you saw the fix. Check some of these out:

IFTTT AI

IFTTT's AI services can summarize, write, and brainstorm on a schedule you set, no prompting required after the Applet is turned on. These pull from AI Summarizer, Claude, ChatGPT, and more to turn just basic content into something you can actually use.

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