Syncing Apps - wha??

I'm not sure when this happened but I just noticed on my iphone that when I connect it to itunes it isn't syncing anything - music or apps.
I tried to tell it to sync apps because I purchased a new app I wanted on another device -it told me if I synced I would lose all my apps and data that were on my phone.
I'm not exactly sure how many apps are on the phone but not on the library.
And oddly enough an app I purchased more recently is in the itunes library.
I now have no clue what is going on. I've had an iphone for years and synced it to my itunes w/o probs -I have no clue what changed.

The phone had to have been synced with another iTunes library. That or the sync records are corrupt. First, File>Transfer Purchases, in iTunes. That will pull all of the purchased apps from the phone to iTunes.
Are you signed into iTunes using the same account the phone is using?
After you transfer the purchases, you will have to let iTunes erase the apps from the phone and re-install them.

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