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Tasker. Basically an interface for writing scripts for your phone. Even if you don't have a use case in the beginning you'll start finding things to do with it.
I used it to identify the cell towers near my home and turn wifi off when I was out of their range and back on when I was in range. It seemed to help save battery by not constantly looking for wifi networks and I didn't have to remember to turn it off and on manually.
I migrated to Macrodroid. Much more intuitive and straightforward.
What are some things you use it for if you don't mind my asking?
Lots of things
I've got some that pulls the picture from Bing and the picture from NASA and set them to my wall paper and lock screen back grounds.
I've got another one that silences my phone when I'm at work or church and not connected to my car blue tooth. I used something similar in college to silence my phone when a calendar event was happening. My phone never made a peep during a lecture! It resets volumes to normal levels after the silent period is done.
The main thing is a script to stop any media playing and turn off the screen after x minutes, so I can fall asleep watching YouTube or listening to something. There's probably already an app for that but this is pretty customizable.
Another stupid use is putting the phone on silent while using the camera app because Samsung won't let you turn off the camera shutter sound.
I used tasker to display an icon on my status bar to tell me whether auto rotate is enabled or not. I kept lying down on my side forgetting that I had auto rotate on and my display would rotate when I didn't want it to.
It's an incredibly specific and minor thing that was annoying me, but tasker let me fix it. It's a great tool, but can be complicated if you aren't familiar with scripting. Luckily it's got some presets and a "basic" mode.