A month or so ago I published a feature highlighting the very best third party apps running on Windows Phone/Windows 10 Mobile. Running to many hundred recommendations, this feature is hopefully a useful and bookmarkable resource, especially when used directly on the phone. But... what about all the applications that AREN'T available on the platform?

Numerous people have requested that I compile a list of these 'missing' apps, a to-do list, if you like, for Microsoft, for third parties, or - more usually - both. So here we go.

Some notes:

• Thanks to the AAWP and Twitter communities for suggestions as always, this is a crowd-sourced project! I'll update this feature as more suggestions come in.
• Not included (obviously) are games. I'll come back to them in due course. 
• Implemented as a table, I've kept the width right down and left everything on automatic - if viewing on a phone, you may need to turn your device to landscape mode, but it will work. Well, maybe not Internet Explorer under Windows Phone 8.1, which is pretty useless. Use something else!

I've broken down the missing applications into (roughly) the same categories as the original 'recommended' list, to be helpful.

General Quizlet	Productivity Google Drive MobileIron Trello (official)	Navigation and Travel Google Maps iGo Lyft OpenStreetMaps OS Mapfinder Ryanair SNCF (France) Taxify (full) Vianavigo (Paris) Viewranger Waze
Communications, News and Web Feedly (official) Financial Times Firefox Gmail Signal The Times	Imaging/Graphics Flickr	Music Amazon Prime Music Last.FM PowerAmp Saavn SiriusXM Player Sonos SoundCloud (official)
Reference Plane Finder	Shopping Argos Costa Coffee Gumtree John Lewis Shpock boot sale  Square Starbucks Tesco groceries MyVodafone	Social Google+ Grindr Instagram (without beta!) Peach Periscope Pinterest Snapchat Tinder
Finance/banking Amex (global) ANZ (Australia) Bank of America Banque Populaire France Barclaycard Blockchain Chase Bank Coop DiscoverBank (USA) First Direct HSBC Mint Nationwide PNC Santander Smile SwedBank (Sweden)	Settings/Internals/Utilities Fing F.lux (or similar)	Sports/Exercise/Health SparkPeople Withings Health Mate
Media (Video) Amazon Prime Video BT Sports Sky TV Youtube (official) Youview	Podcast related/Audio-book BeyondPod	Privacy/Secrecy 1Password Keypass 2
Reading suggestions?	Video editing/sharing suggestions?	Weather-related Weather HD

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In some cases, it's not completely clear cut as to who should develop/finance particular applications - in the past Microsoft has stepped in - for example with the Facebook client, and I'm sure there are other examples, including instances where a developer has been paid to include a Windows Phone version. Given Microsoft's bank balance (i.e. they're loaded) I really don't see why more of this sort of thing shouldn't happen.

Compared to the huge negative press each month for Windows 10 lacking popular applications, surely a few million dollars invested in the right developers is a no-brainer? (Ditto investing in people to curate the Store and improve its current fiasco-like state...)

PS. Of course, apps aren't everything on a smartphone, as I mused yesterday!