Animal Crossing: New Horizons!

Review of Animal Crossing New Horizons Apps available on Google Play.

May 23^rd, 2020

I started playing ACNH in April and now I am addicted in all the different ways. I am in a bunch of Facebook Groups, Discord Channels, and of course I downloaded Apps. Tons of apps have been developed since the game has come out and I really applaud those developers!! In this review I will be reviewing what I consider the 32 most relevant apps for the game. I have divided them into five different categories.

The Categories are:

1.    Designs- Sharing and creating designs

2.    Turnip Sales and Calculators

3.    Guides- Straight out great info and tips

4.    Daily/Checklist Apps- Help with daily tasks or just help you keep track of all your items outside game

5.    Connections- Meet to trade, sell, visit, etc in game

**Note if a App has the same name as another app then I have listed what the app icons look like.

 

Designs

The following apps serve the primary purpose to either create or share designs to help make your game look more amazing.

1.Nooks Pattern Designer

This app offers the ability to draw your own designs, convert photos straight from your phone into designs, save them to your own personal library and share them into a larger online library. You can get tons of custom made designs from the online library. Simple app the serves a basic creative purpose.

2.Animal Xing Designer

This app offers very basic drawing tools and you have to create your own outside QR code or designer tag to save your work. To me it seems like a lot more hassle.

3.ACNH ACNL Guides Custom Design Codes

This is actually a wallpaper app that a developer has converted into a source for players to find QR codes for custom outfits and designs. You save your preferred design to your phone to scan later.

4.Nookpedia

This app is a data base for players to store and share their custom designs. Easy to use. This also offers a Market place for items. Then it also offers a Insect and Fish checklist guide you can use as well.

Turnip Sales and Calculators

5.AC Turnip Broker

To be honest I could not figure out how to record several weeks of information so that it would give me a prediction for best day to sell the turnips. If anyone else has input on this they are welcome to add in.

6.AC:TC

This helps you determine if you have possibly met your best sale day for your turnips and tells you the amount of profit. Has nice written instructions.

7.Turnips

This one is pretty good for recording and tracking your prices. But I sat forever waiting for it to actually give me a prediction for the best sale day, which in the end it did not.

Guides

This section of apps are for the most part 100% guides on how to play the game, with helpful tips and tricks.

8.ACNH Companion

This app will give you any basic information you need to locate bugs and fish, and then basic info for all the possible villagers. It also has a search option. The main page also keeps you up to date on villagers current birthdays.

9.ACNH Animal Crossing New Fish Guide 2020

A little ad heavy, but opens with a list of various articles on the who, what, when and where for fish! Very detailed and a easy read and reference. So if you are a big fisher this has any info you may need.

10.Animal CRO

This is a super simple app for beginners. It has a list of basic topics a player can review.

11.Tips for Animal-crossing : New horizon new tricks

This app is also great for beginners as it has a great variety of topics that you can browse through to get your game started. The information is very detailed. It walks your through almost any topic you may need help with and has great pictures to go along with it.

12.Guide for Animal Crossing New Horizons

This offers a small variety of tips for the game, but the menu is kinda all over the place. Worth a read at least.

13.ACNH Helper

This app offers a small list of various short articles on how to play and improve your gaming.

Daily/Checklist Apps

These are apps you would use on a daily basis for reference or to keep track of collections and progress.

14.Animal Guide

This app offers you a daily checklist of things to do every single day, a list of current insects and fish, what you have turned in to the museum, lists of diy’s, furniture, apparel, works of art, song list, and fossils! It offers a basic list of villagers and you can mark if you want them or have them. Very last under tips it has a flower breeding guide. This is a pretty thorough app.

15.Animal Companion

This is a cute basic checklist app for fish and bugs! Easy to use and navigate with cute pictures.

16.Planner for AC:NH

This app has a neat feature where you can track other peoples islands as well. So keep record of your friends islands and help celebrate their birthdays! It also has information on other non playable characters in the game. It does offer a basic checklist for bugs and fish. It offers you a place to take notes as well.

17.ACNH Guide

***This App has a yellow Icon with a black fish and white butterfly***

This app offers a checklist for fish, bugs and bones. Super simple and easy, also lists what fish and bugs leave that month.

18.ACNH Life

This app you customize to your island. You list your villagers and then track bugs, fish, bones, and art. The cool part about this app is you can track what you own and your DIY’s as well! It also offers a small list of guides to help a player understand various things on the island. One neat feature is it has a villager compatibility chart.

19.ACNH Guide

***This App has a yellow Icon with a black fish, white butterfly, AND a fossil.***

This app has a checklist for fish, bugs, bones, and music. Then it offers a flower breeding guide. You can also track which villagers you want and have.

20.Completionist Animal Crossing: New Horizon

This app offerings a checklist of fish, bugs, bones and art. One neat thing is under more guides it offers short guides on balloons, tool durability, and flowers. Simple yet complete checklist.

21.ACNH Guide

***This App has a light green Icon with a brown book***

This app is pretty detailed. It has a checklist for: talking to residents, daily fossils, money tree, recipe bottle, hitting rocks. It also helps you track weekly visitors, villager birthdays, DIY collections, fish, bone, and bug collections. Has a flower breeding guide and turnip calculator. It is a detailed app.

22.Animal Crossing Companion Guide

This is a easy to use checklist app. The icons are large and simple and easy to understand. It tracks bones, bugs, art, fish and villagers.

23.Crosspedia

This app lets you input your turnip prices to predict future prices. It also has a checklist for bugs, fish, bones, and art. The great thing about this app is it has checklists for everything in game! It even lists what you can spend your nook miles on.

24.Horizonpedia

A simple checklist app. It tracks fish, bugs, bones, art, flowers and villagers. It also has a discord channel you can follow.

25.New Horizons Travel Companion

This app is a customizable checklist app. You can add and remove custom tasks you want to accomplish every day in your game and it tracks how many days you have accomplished them. It also lists current active wildlife and you can mark off what you own. You can also track your all your museum items and songs. Then it has a short flower breeding guide.

26.New Horizons Companion

This app offers a checklist for bugs and fish once you have donated them. Then it will tell you on the mail page what bugs and fish are leaving soon. It has a direct link to the Turnip Exchange website and the AC Fandom Wiki.

27.AC: NH

This app is a simple checklist for bones, bugs and art. It also comes with a flower breeding guide. The final page has a nice overview of what you have caught, donated and gave to make models.

28.My ACNH

This is a app you personalize by listing all your island info, your villagers, then it lists the events of the month, your collections progress, and turnip helper. Currently the collection part of the app is not functional, but I assume in the future it will be.

29.Island Time

This app lists the monthly events going on and then has one long list for fish and bugs on the main page. Then the second tab lists fish, bugs, villagers and artwork.

30.ACNH Companion

This app is a nice one you can personalize with your friend code, designer ID and Island info. Then if tracks daily tasks, who you should speak to, send gifts, and mail to. It offers checklist for fish, bugs, bones, art, and songs. I love it has a complete guide to the mystery islands! It comes with a turnip calculator and a list of a the Nook Milestone missions. This app also comes with its own discord channel. I personally like this app myself, if it had a list of all the items in the game it would complete!

Connections

There are only two apps under this category. But they are pretty good ones.

31.ACNH Tools

This app has four main functions. The first leaf tab is Nookazon. You basically can completely use the website from this app. The second leaf tab is Turnip Exchange and you can basically use that website completely from there. The third tab is the ACNH: Turnip Calculator, which I have not tested. The fourth tab is a invite to their discord channel. I accepted the invite but it didn’t change the status in app, so I still have to go to discord to view the channel.

32.ACNH Exchange

Now I won’t lie, I love this app. I use it DAILY. This app is primarily a events app with a little bit of sales. You can host events for free or for fees, like having Celeste or Kicks on your island. You can also host for Turnip sales. It helps you track who is coming and going from your island. You rate people and they rate you, so can deny someone from coming to your island if they have a bad rating. It also has a nice side thing to track your fish, bugs, bones, art, DIY’s and songs.

 

30 Things I want my kids to know about me Part 3

Here is the third installment of my 30 things list.
Number 5:
What are the 5 things that make you most happy right now?
1. Justin. He makes me smile everyday and is the light of my life.
2. My pets. I love my dogs Coco, Cami, and Furby. Even though Quinn isn't living with me currently, it makes me really happy to see him.
3. My crafts. Being creative and making something always makes me happy.
4. Being Pregnant. It may not be the actual pregnancy itself, because I am sick as hell, but I am finally going to have my own baby and be a mom. I feel like a real woman.
5. Sleeping, honestly. Being pregnant has given me such super real and weird dreams that sleeping is actually more enjoyable then usual.

Number 6:
If you could have three wishes, what would you wish for?
1. Wealth. Pay off my debt, buy a nice house, buy a nice car(my dream mommy van), and have money to send my kid to college and go to Disney World.
2. Perfect health for me and my family.
3. World Peace? I really don't know because the first two make my life perfect.

Number 7:
What is your dream job, and why?
This is an easy answer. I want to own and run my own thrift store. I worked for a year at a GoodWill store and LOVED what I did. But being there made me realize there are so many things they could do to help out the environment or the community. They could have donated broken ceramic dishes to the local high school to make mosaics with or we had a teacher come in asking for wire hangers, paying out of his pocket, so his students could do a project. Our store didn't sell them, they threw them out, BUT we weren't allowed to give anything away, not even trash. I want to run the kind of store that builds community value, helping where it can. A place that recycles more, and throws away less, and makes the world a better place. That's my dream job.

Number 8:
What are 5 passions you have?
1. Art. That is my biggest one. I love to paint, draw, scrapbook, and just plain create.
2. Being Eco Friendly/Frugal. I like to save money and do good for the environment. I know I could do more, but I try to save on my trash output, reuse when ever I can, and recycle.
3.Reading and Writing. I love a good book, and I love to write when ever I can.
Since I condensed my passions I only have three.

Number 9:
List 10 people who have influenced you and describe how.
1. My Mom. She was a super strict parent, and although she made a lot of my life hell she taught me important things like proper cleaning, and the importance of being organized.
2. Helen Keller. Never met her obviously, but I learned about her in elementary school and her will to learn and survive was and is very inspiring to me.
3. Maya Gaskins-Hickman. This girl taught me that being weird is ok, and she taught me how to shop, and trust me, that is more important then you would think.
4. Justin Moran. He taught me what true happiness is, and that everything is worth working through.
5. My first high school love. I would rather not name. He taught me that there was love out there, before him I had never been happy with a guy and didn't know I could be.
6. Mr. Stone. He was my 6th grade teacher and he was the first teacher to really open my eyes to my love of education and learning. He made learning cool.
7. Mr. Hurt. He was my middle school art teacher. He changed my perspective on art and let me run loose with the art supplies. I thank him for opening those doors.
8. My Grandma 'Mamaw'. She showed me not all love is the same. She taught me how to knit and do plastic canvas work, and never discouraged my creative side.
9. My Dogs. Oddly yes. You come home every day to them and they are happy to see you and love you. I try to remember that, because no matter what everyone deserves to be loved, your dog thinks so.
10.Jeremy Malone. Yes that dork. He has taught me it is okay to be goofy, to love weird things, and to have a passion for games. His influence has taught me to enjoy life more.
 

Gaming Addictions

I am super addicted to certain games. My favorite computer game is Sims3.

First off with the Sims. I have been playing sims since nearly the beginning of their creation. The first one I ever played was for the PS2, and totally started my addiction. I purchased the entire collection of Sims2 for the PC. I absolutely loved the entire set. Something about being able to start a relationship, have a dream wedding, and run your own business is just fun and amazing. Plus all the tools the game provides you with you can design your own home any way you want.
Then EA came out with the Sim3, which I of course preordered! It enabled you to fully interact with your entire town and not be trapped at a certain location. It also installed a continuous time line, this way as your life changed, the world around you actually changed too. So for the first time, your neighbor could have a baby, or die in a fire. Did I mention that Sims is a great way to relieve stress? Make a Sim that looks like some one you hate, then lock them in a room you set on fire! Sadistic?

 Maybe, but if you own Sims long enough, you find yourself doing all kinds of weird things. Like I once had a black widow Sim, she would marry a man, which added his money to the house, then have a kid with him and then kill him. Which turned out really interesting at night, because I had her keep the graves at home, and the ghosts of all her ex's haunted her!  Also other gamers have come up with challenges for other players. These challenges have certain sets of rules that the player must follow, and get a certain amount of points for each goal they accomplish. Some gamers have even set up sites where you can compare your score and story with others! While some Simmers blog their story line, telling about their sims unique lives through daily or weekly blog posts with pictures, almost like children's story books. So when it comes to Sims there is such a variety of things you can do once you start playing.

Gamers

Yay! I found a app for my phone so I may blog from my phone! What can't android do?
So anyways, I have become a pretty big gamer lately. I have been playing xbox360 with Jeremy a lot and simming on my laptop.
First off I recently defeated Fable Three for xbox360. That's a great game that u can play at any pace. Its also pretty enjoyable since you are constintly presented with options to be good or evil. I played co-op with Jeremy, which didn't go well since he decided to dart in my husbands face, it nearly killed him!
Then on a regular basis I have been playing Rock Band 3 with Jeremy. I usually play as the singer and Jeremy does drums or guitar. I often get so into the game I sing until I go horse!
Finally I am getting back into my Sims3 game. After reviewing some different player challenges online I have found even more ways to enjoy my game. Im currently trying out a male sim that has knocked up just about every woman in town. I'm curious of the effects this will have on the next generation since they will mostly be related!
That's it for now, more to come later!