Facebook has its own official app — plus about 17 other official apps, including the standalone Messenger app — but it might not be the best Facebook app for you. Alternative Facebook apps such as Friendly and Swipe ($99 at Amazon) for Facebook can give you the experience you’ve always wanted — they use less …

Waking up with an alarm is the worst — but you gotta do what you gotta do. If you’re becoming immune to your phone’s standard alarm clock app, it might be time to try something new to help you get out of bed in the morning. Like an app that analyzes your sleep patterns and wakes you up gently … …

I know, I know — you’d love to donate to charity, but you’re short on both time and money. Well, today’s your lucky day, because you don’t need either of those things to start giving back! Here are seven free apps that make giving to charity ridiculously easy — and free. Donate a Photo Donate a Photo (Android and iOS) …

Paying an extra $5 to $11 per month for month-to-month phone insurance might sound tempting — especially now that the big wireless carriers have ditched contracts and subsidized phones, and you’re paying upfront for a new iPhone 7. But it’s not that simple. First of all, month-to-month phone insurance isn’t the great deal it sounds like — that relatively low …

You still have a couple more days to do your gift shopping, even if you’re shopping online — those shipping deadlines haven’t all passed yet. But you may still be scrambling for time. It’s hard to find the perfect gift and get it purchased, wrapped and sent while trying to juggle the stress of the holidays. If that’s the case, …

Now playing: Watch this: Free up space on Android phones 1:03 Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET It doesn’t matter if your Android phone has expandable storage via a microSD card — you fill up whatever space you’re given, whether it’s 32GB or 200GB. Here are some easy ways to free up storage on your Android device — both the internal storage and …

Many Android phones are a bit more durable than iPhones, but that doesn’t mean they’re immune to damage. Phone screens are made of glass, after all, and glass breaks when you drop it. So. You dropped your Android phone for the 60th time and you now have a beautiful spider web pattern blooming across your home screen. If you don’t …

Oops, you did it again — you dropped your iPhone 7 ($190 at eBay) on the sidewalk and now the screen is a mess. Good news: Apple‘s (sort of) got your back. Broken iPhone screens are so ridiculously common that the company has apparently decided they don’t even need to charge that much for the repair — because, you know, …

Who doesn’t love the gift of food? We’ve rounded up nine food-oriented subscription boxes that make awesome, delicious gifts for cooks, bakers, foodies, and regular snackers. There’s a box for every taste, from sweet to savory to spicy, and there are plenty of allergy- and diet-friendly options. We didn’t include any of meal planning food subscriptions, like Blue Apron and …

You may have noticed a handful of suspicious push notifications on your iPhone over the weekend — calendar invites for deals and sales from users with obviously real names like “kcmgweqeq” and “nfbtz.” These invites are exactly what they look like: spam! Your iCloud calendar app is set up to automatically notify you (via in-app notification) of calendar invites, and, …