If you are like me and you like to make the most out of your steemit experience, you'll need to use apps that people have built on top of the STEEM blockchain to help you.
People who share an app that I don't know of will get extra good upvote from me in the comment section.
A World of Apps on Steem
One of the reason why I believe STEEM will be at $10 one day is because of the incredible talent that this technology has been able to attract. Apps that people actually use on a day to day basis! You would do well by following the authors of those apps and give them your upvotes.
With that being said, let's get started!
STEEMDATA by 
for Charts
Do you like to take the pulse of what's happening on the network? Well, there isn't a better place that I have found to get some good cold data on active users, # of comments, # of authors, future powerdown, etc.
STEEMDATA is also a very powerful tool to run your own apps on, make sure to check it out.
UPVOTERS by 
for Basic Personal Stats
Upvoters combines cool graphic design with very good information to run your account such as knowing who are you biggest and most valuable followers. Thanks to
STEEMVIZ by 
for Pending Payouts
You would like to know how much you made by commenting versus how much you made with posts? Look no further than steemviz for that. I use it all the time to keep track of how much rewards is coming down the pipe. You would be crazy not to use it
STEEMWHALES by 
This cool app give A LOT of information that you cannot find anywhere else easily. I really like the personal historic progression for rewards and followers. It's also nice to see where you rank as a whale in becoming also.
STEEMSTATS by 
for Spying
You want to know how the big boy curate and make $? Steemstats allow you to know how other people so that you can follow their pattern. It's also a complete dashboard of helpful stats that can be mined for your benefit.
Conclusion
These are the apps that I use on a consistent basis. Share below the most helpful apps that you use on a consistent basis. If you make me discover one that I've didn't know about that is useful, you'll receive a big fat upvote from me. Apps that are platform like DTUBE, DSOUND, ZAPPL and other are excluded from that list in this context.