Welcome back everyone to Journey of Ace! I know a lot of you are at home or chilling at a sports bar watching Game 4 of the NBA Finals, so I won’t take up too much of your time. But before I head off to enjoy what may be the last NBA game we see until October, I wanted to share with y’all a cool new site I found today which has some pretty awesome and very innovative Steemit apps, all of which have been developed by our fellow Steemians! Special thanks for this post goes out to @pbock who expressed a desire for a Steemit app which could track the activity of Steemit users across timezones in order to decide the best time to make a Steemit post. An excellent question which led me to find SteemTools.com! Although SteemTools.com has a TON of awesome apps you can check out and play around with on your own time, let me share with you five Steemit apps that especially impressed me:

Steem Supply

This nifty little Steemit app shows you when you’ll be receiving your author rewards and shows you a breakdown of your author rewards in STEEM and SBD. Simply navigate to steem.supply, type in your username and within an instant, you will presented with a bar graph that shows your expected author payout in STEEM and SBD over the next week as well as a table showing your author rewards for each of your blog posts and approximate pay date for each reward.

Steem.cool

This next one is essentially an answer to my earlier request (https://steemit.com/steemit/@cerebralace/my-suggestions-for-making-steemit-even-more-awesome) for a feature within Steemit that could allow you to see how many upvotes or points are needed to get to the next Reputation level. To access Steem.Cool, simply navigate to steem.cool and type in your username to see your current reputation level and approximately how many reputation points are needed to level up.

By the way, this Steemit app uses the following equation to calculate the necessary number of reputation points: Reputation points = ((log10(abs(reputation#))-9)9) + 25. It also displays your vested power as well as your current voting power.

While the app is pretty cool, it would be even more badass if it could show you the exact number of upvotes needed to get to the next level as well as show your current reputation number as a decimal.

SteemWhales.com

This Steemit site ranks all users on Steemit according to reputation level, number of posts, followers, STEEM Power and estimated value of their account. Here you can see the reputation level of each user as a number and see where you are ranked in the community according to your own Steemit stats. Also, if you need any added motivation to create more Steemit content, SteemWhales also allows you to see the estimated account value of each user, including the Steemit Whales, some of whom have already accumulated millions of dollars since last year!

Steemification

This one is less of an app and more of a browser extension for Google Chrome which sends you notifications whenever anyone comments, upvotes or downvotes your posts. So you don’t have to keep refreshing your comments or replies to see if someone is responding to your posts and comments! Simply go to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blnmejicejbkcdebiobgfpjhopoahmen and install the Google Chrome extension. Once the notification icon pops up, enter your username and also set the timer to indicate how frequently you would like to be notified. For any fans of Firefox or Safari, stay tuned for future updates to the Steemification extension to allow support for Firefox and Safari browsers.

Steem Speak

Now this is the only Steemit app on this list that I haven’t played with too extensively since it requires you to turn on your microphone in order to communicate with your fellow Steemians via voice chat; I’m afraid if I turn on my mic, I’ll probably subject all the poor souls on Steem Speak to a cacophony of wild boisterous and booming sounds only indigenous to my house. Nevertheless Steem Speak is a fantastic app launchable from the Discord web or desktop interface (go to steemspeak.com) that provides a voice community as well as a 24/7 radio station for all Steemians. Can you say Steemit podcast? Oodles of potential with this app for sure as this community is just getting more and more vocal!

Keep in mind that these are my favorite Steemit apps from just browsing SteemTools.com today. I’m sure I’ll update and expand on this list the more I play with SteemTools and I highly recommend that you all check out this awesome app smorgasbord for yourself. When you do, let me know what you think of SteemTools.com and if you found any apps that particularly tickled your fancy!

Until next time, keep acing life!