How are things in your apartment going?

If you're anything like us, you usually live in a state of near-disaster. Sometimes you're able to get your stuff together, sometimes you finally do the laundry, clean your apartment, and keep your keys in a very track-able location, but sometimes that's just not the case.

Sometimes you lose your keys, your sweaty laundry piles up, and your apartment stinks like unwashed dishes.

Sometimes you wreck your bank account going out to dinner every night because you can't be bothered to go to the grocery store, your party ends early because you ran out of alcohol, and your roommates never pay you back for cable because they "don't have cash."

What if we told you all these problems could be solved by just downloading a couple apps? Would you believe us?

Well, it's true. Read on to find which apps will make your New York City apartment life exponentially easier, and exponentially more pleasant. Then, download them. It's that simple.

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1. Handy

Do you have an insane job and a dirty apartment? Does the idea of getting down on your hands and knees to scrub your floors when you're home from your job at 2 a.m. make you want to die?

Yeah, well, you don't have to. All you have to do is get Handy, and you'll have expert home cleaners and handymen at a moment's notice. You just have to pick a time and breathe with ease. Someone who knows what they're doing is on the way.

You can get your cleaning scheduled as early as tomorrow, and it'll be executed by a professional who's experienced, friendly, background-checked, and insured. Awesome, right?

Do this regularly, or just do it after a particularly devastating bender. The point is, having a clean apartment is great, and Handy can make it happen. Get it here.

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2. KeyMe

How terrible is losing your keys? What's worse than the helplessness of staring down an impenetrable building inside which all your possessions reside?

Yeah, we all know the terror. We're digging in our bag, and our keys just are not there. Panic stricken, we mentally replay all our steps. Likely, we do some sprinting around the city to see if we left them on the ground or behind the counter at Duane Reade. 

Eventually, we're forced to conclude that we've lost our keys. Heads hanging in shame, we call our landlord and ask for a replacement.

With KeyMe, that scenario will never play out again. KeyMe is a secure and convenient way to copy, share and personalize keys, and solve lockouts. 

Scan your keys in the app, choose a design, and they'll mail you a perfect copy. Or, duplicate your keys using their automated KeyMe kiosks, five of which are located around the city (or you can get them through the mail). A fingerprint scan is required. Get it here.

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3. Cleanly

Not a whole lot of NYC apartments have washers and dryers. If you do, that is decadent and you should thank your lucky stars. If you don't, you know the soul crushing drudgery of spending your whole day at a laundromat all too well.

Or, you know the plan crushing heartache of watching your clothes pile up in your hamper, putting off your terrible trip to the laundromat, gradually watching your underwear supply dwindle.

With Cleanly, you'll never have to step foot in a laundromat again. You'll have your laundry washed and dried and then delivered back to your apartment at the tap of a button. Oh, you have fancy clothes you need dry cleaned? 

They do that, too. All you have to do is enter the time and day that work best for you, hand off your clothes to the valet that arrives at your door, and then start wearing your spankin' clean clothes when they're returned the next day.

Yes, it is every bit as dope as it sounds. They're in Manhattan, and they've just recently come to Brooklyn. Get it here.

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4. Venmo

We hope you already know about Venmo. We really, really hope it.

How did people ever pay their apartment bills without Venmo? Did they write checks, like cave people? Take money out of ATMs like prehistoric neanderthals?

Well, Venmo makes everything easier. It makes everything so much pleasantly easier. Now you can seamlessly transfer money from your bank account to your friends' with the tap of a button. Now, you can pay your friends'  to pay them back for things like the electricity and the cable.

Splitting cabs, pizza, plane tickets, and, well, expenses of any kind just became so much easier. Like, absurdly easier. Get Venmo here.

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5. Drizly

What is an NYC apartment without alcohol? If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?

While we're pondering these existential questions, you should download Drizly. Why do you need Drizly? Well, who likes wandering out into the street, especially since it's about to be a winter vortex out there.

Plus, Drizly's been known to save the day in a multitude of scenarios. You've got a party bumping in your apartment, and the alcohol runs out. Instead of this conundrum ending the party, you could just deliver more bottles. They'll be at your door within an hour.

Your date is going super well, you're predicting it'll end at your apartment, but you're out of liquor. Never fear. With a couple taps, you'll once again have alcohol at your door, once again delivered within the hour, once again courtesy of Drizly.

Yeah, we're endeared too. Get it here.

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6. FreshDirect

Everyone wants a well-stocked apartment, but no one wants to put themselves through the snore of walking through a grocery store, the monotony of peering down aisle after aisle looking for tomato sauce, the yawn of finding yogurt.

Plus, busy New Yorkers don't have time for that whole "going to the grocery store" thing. Call us overworkers, call us undersleepers, we don't care. We're too busy for it. Our couch time is far too valuable.

Which is exactly where FreshDirect comes in. It makes grocery shopping fast and easy. With a couple clicks, you'll have a shopping cart full of food. As soon as the next day, someone very pleasant will ring your door, with all your groceries.

Yes, you choose your own time slot. So no, they won't come when you're not home. Get FreshDirect here.

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7. Yummly

Heard of that whole "cooking" thing? No? How about the concept of actually "using your kitchen"? Oh, no? You haven't heard of that either?

Well, we've got to break it to you. Cooking, actually utilizing your stove, oven, and pots and pans, will literally save you hundreds of dollars a month.

Oh, but do you not actually know how to cook? That's fine. That's why there's Yummly.

Yummly is this dope app that provides recipe recommendations based on your tastes, that lets your store recipes digitally, and also lets you compile a shopping list and one-hour grocery delivery. You can also ask cooking questions to experts.

Cooking just became so much more simple, and so much more delicious. Get Yummly here.

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8. Postmates

Do you ever get frustrated that Chipotle doesn't deliver? Do you ever wish you could get a chicken shack sandwich from Shakeshack brought to your door?

Yeah, we know. It's a consistent devastation that some of the best restaurants in NYC aren't on Seamless. It's also a constant exasperation that we have to wait several days for Amazon deliveries. Plus, let's face it. Leaving our apartments is sort of lame.

So that's why Postmates totally rocks. Like, completely rocks. With Postmates, you can order anything from any restaurant or store, and a Postmate courier heads to the restaurant or store, makes the purchase, then makes the delivery.

This all happens in less than an hour. So, dry up those tears. You never have to be sad that your favorite restaurant doesn't deliver again. Get Postmate here.

Check out 5 Apps Every New Yorker Should Download in November. 

[Feature Image Courtesy The Tiny Life]