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 Welcome to
iPhone 6s
App Directory
Apple’s iPhone is the pioneering smartphone that revolutionised
the technology market, and much of its success is down to the
sheer number of third-party applications available to enhance it.
While the apps that come pre-loaded on the iPhone are indeed
impressive, it’s the ones you can download from the App Store
that supercharge your phone. We’ve scoured the Store for the best
offerings for every possible requirement, and given each a handy
star rating. If you’re new to the App Store, don’t worry: we’ve also
set apart the essential apps that you need to download right
now, so you can start making the most of your device in no time.
Whether you’re looking to game on the go, pass the time with a
great film, or improve your productivity, there are over 200 apps
here to help you achieve your goals.
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Contents
Your guide to the best apps for the iPhone

8
Essential
iPhone
apps
The apps you need

24
Entertainment
Load your iPhone up with the
App Store’s best offerings and
never be bored again

48
Lifestyle
Make everyday tasks a pleasure
with everything from to do lists
to recipe apps
74
Work
Turn your iPhone into your
most dedicated personal
assistant, managing everything
from workflow to learning

96
Games
Take advantage of the iPhone’s
unique controls and hardware
to enhance your mobile
gaming experience

120
Creative
Use your iPhone to create your
next masterpiece using these
original and exciting apps
 Essential apps

Essential
iPhone
apps Make your iPhone do anything
you want it to with this collection
of premium apps

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Y
our iPhone is an incredibly
versatile device that can do
many things out of the box. From
waking you up in the morning
to navigating you to work to
entertaining you on the way, you will be in
possession of a complete solution that will
help you get through each day.
However, this is nothing in comparison to
what you will be able to achieve if you take
some time to search out the best third-party
apps, because the choice is plentiful to say the
least. As it happens, you do not even need to
do that because we have already curated a
selection of the most essential apps for you
which we hope will help you to get more
out of your device. Some of these apps offer
improvements over the built-in software and
others are alternatives to official solutions, but
no matter what they are designed to do, they
are all highly regarded in the iOS world. We will
cover professional navigation solutions, video
players, eBook readers, photo editors and
much more, and are confident that each and
every one offers many benefits.
Although the operating system of your
iPhone is pretty rigid, you need never feel that
you have limited choices; if there is a particular
task you want to complete, it is likely that there
will be an app that is designed to help you no
matter how specialist your requirements. With
many thousands of options available in the
Essential apps
App Store, it can be difficult to know where
to start and the sheer volume of alternatives
can get confusing. To help navigate, take
some time to read the customer reviews for
any negative feedback that may hamper your
own enjoyment and always check the system
requirements (such as what version of iOS
is required to run the app), the age rating (if
applicable) and whether any in-app purchases
are required for what you intend to use the
app for.
With a selection of carefully selected apps
and games, your iPhone can be a much
more powerful device than you ever thought
possible. It really is incredible to think how
much can be done in such a small device.
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 Essential apps

Set reminders
Due
Price: £3.99/$5.99

Due is designed to be persistent in its reminding, so

if you find that Apple’s Reminders app is too easy to
shoo away and forget about, Due won’t be silenced
so easily. In fact, even if you’re on the other side of
the world then the time zone will shift accordingly to
keep you reminded no matter where you are. Setting
reminders is made easy thanks to a really simple grid
system that seems to contain all of the options you
01: Set a new 02: Manage 03: Swipe to
could need to create a reminder with as little effort as reminder reminders complete task
possible. You are given four times to which you can Tap the ‘Remind me to…’ Your reminders will then When you have completed
add or subtract ten minutes, one hour, three hours or field on the reminder be added to the main app the task, swipe left on the
creation screen to add a screen. Tap on one of these entry for it on the main
one day. With such a simple interface and agenda, it reminder and then use the to make adjustments to the screen. This will remove
works surprisingly well. grid system to set it. details of the reminder. the entry.

Improve data input 01: Set it up

Once you have downloaded the app onto your iPhone, launch
your Settings app and then go to General>Keyboard and tap
on Keyboards to add Swype. Tap on Swype once it has been
added to allow full access and then launch an app where you
are required to type.

02: Time to Swype

Swype
Price: £0.79/$0.99
Data input on any touch screen device
is never as easy as it could be, but with
Swype you have many different tools
open to you, in addition to an innovate
input mechanism that makes typing a
thing of the past.
There is much advanced recognition
built directly into the app, alongside a
variety of themes to suit your particular
device and you can also integrate it fully
into the way you work with your phone
You can now tap and hold the ‘123’ or ‘space’ key to enable
Swype, at which point you will be able to glide your finger over
the keys and let the software do the hard work for you. It takes
or tablet every single day. It is so good a bit of getting used to, but once you become familiar, it saves
that the swiping mechanism is now lots of time.
built in by default on many devices and
once you start using it, you will wonder
how you ever managed without it in
the past. Imagine swiping your finger
over the screen and the words magically
appearing in an instant. Well, you don’t
need to imagine anymore, because
Swype is already here and it really does
work beautifully.

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 Essential apps

Take notes and projects with you Catch up on

Evernote Find everything you need
TV shows
Price: Free
The included search feature lets
you locate any note that you have BBC iPlayer
created by tag, keyword or any Price: Free
Create new notes
parameter that is related
New notes can be created in seconds by
tapping one of these icons. Voice recordings,
photos, clips and text are available

BBC iPlayer is the perfect way to catch

up with TV shows that you missed. You
can stream any show immediately or
even download some to watch offline,
but there are time limits for certain
programmes which means you need
to watch them within a week of airing.
Keep it in sync Save complex notes The service is very reliable, extremely
All of your notes will be You can create notes from PDF files, quick and easy to use.
synchronised with the Evernote word documents and almost any
cloud servers to ensure that they are other commonly-used file format.
always backed up securely It’s highly versatile
Get all of the
hot gossip
Keep your finances in order BuzzFeed
Pennies Price: Free

Price: £2.99/$3.99
Managing money is often
best done when you are
on the move. If you can jot
down transactions as they
happen, you will be able to
keep a timely record of your
expenses which will give you
more control over all of your
finances. Pennies allows all of You will probably already be aware
this and more in a beautifully of the BuzzFeed service. Chances are
clean interface that focuses you will have seen someone post a
your mind on the data you link to it on social media platforms
need, and it offers some 01: A new account 02: Add new such as Facebook. Well, this app allows
extremely handy reporting Set the type of budget you transactions you to peruse content at source and,
want, name it and then issue Tap ‘+’ at the bottom of the
features. It is one of the very should you encounter anything worth
a start date. Next, select the screen to add a transaction. You
best and most useful IPhone currency and the budget can also swipe down to check shouting about, this app lets you share
finance apps available today. amount and you’re set. your daily budget. it quickly and easily.

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 Essential apps

Edit your images with style

Improve and fix any photo you take with some very clever apps
It wasn’t long ago that mobile devices were has more than enough power to cope with in real-time so that you do not have to apply
not capable of sophisticated photo editing, your requirements. We will highlight three them later on. From clever filters that can
but we have now reached the point where popular photo-editing apps which essentially age a photo by decades to sophisticated
there are many options to choose from. You cover the full range of the type of effects pixel-level fixes, you now have no excuse not
can make quick and simple edits to photos you may wish to use on your snaps. You can to be carrying around a brilliant portfolio of
or add special effects, but no matter what make edits after a snap has been taken and homemade photos. Let’s see what photo-
you want to do it is likely that your iOS device in some apps you can actually see the effects editing apps are available.

Add instant effects

Photo Editor
Price: Free
This app provides a wide range of
filters, effects and embellishments
to help you make your photos eye-
catching. Although your standard
Photos app can help make quick
adjustments, there is much more on
offer here, including overlays, stickers
and frames to set your images off
nicely. You can also go to town
adjusting colour levels, sharpness,
focus and lighting. There are further
effects that you can purchase in-app,
but what’s here for free is enough to
make your pictures plenty better.

Perfect your photos

Snapseed
Price: Free
At first glance Snapseed does not
appear to offer many unique features,
but if you want a photo editor that
can transform your snaps quickly,
this could be the solution for you. It is
incredibly easy to create impressive
results that look very unusual, but with
enough realism to add some depth
to the finished article. For the vast
majority of iOS users, Snapseed is an
excellent choice and many still rate it
as the best out there.

Real-time editing
Paper Camera
Price: Free
Paper Camera is an unusual app
in that it lets you view photos in
a variety of styles. You can create
photos and videos using sketch,
cartoon and comic book effects, and
the end results are impressive. As it
happens, the software still captures
what you are looking at in highly
accurate detail and so you will be
left with snaps that look unlike any
others in your library. This is photo
editing in real-time and in an app
environment that feels just right for
the task at hand.

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View the entire world
Google Earth
Price: Free
Just as captivating now as when it was first
released, Google Earth lets you spin our planet
on its axis and zoom right into any location to
explore areas of interest. You can also turn on
Keep track of the weather
Met Office Weather Application
Price: Free
There are countless weather apps available for
your iPhone, but few are as feature-packed as
the official Met Office app – especially for free.
The stylish interface provides options to get
five-day forecasts for over 5,000 UK locations,
push notifications on severe weather warnings
and forecasts updated on the hour. You can
“Few apps are as feature-packed as the
free official Met Office app”
Essential apps
different layers such as Businesses, Panoramio
Photos and Wikipedia to add further visual
insight to the locations that you decide to
virtually visit.
Chat face-to-face Find yourself a
with friends new job
Skype LinkedIn
Price: Free
Job Search
You probably already know the Skype name, Price: £13.99/$19.99
but did you know that you can use all of the
main features of the service on your phone or 01: Enter
keywords
tablet? If you want to hold video or voice calls Start the
with friends who are online while you are, these process off by
calls will be completely free and held in perfect entering some
keywords that
quality. Alternatively, you can also pay to call
relate to the job role that you are on the
landlines around the world. The overall cost lookout for.
represents exceptional value and it could easily
replace all of your voice calling on a mobile
02: Apply or
track jobs
device or your desktop computer. Once you When you find a
have an account set up, you will be able to job that you like
use Skype whenever and wherever you want the look of you
can apply easily
to with an internet connection, and it works in-app, track the role and application or set
particularly well on an iOS device. filters to mine further.
also save up to ten favourite locations – ideal if
you commute to and from a particular location
regularly. If the weather particularly affects your
profession or regular lifestyle then this app is
rammed with more information than most
weather apps and, more importantly, conveys it
to you quickly and effectively.
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 Essential apps

Watch the latest shows and movies

Netflix
Price: Free

Your personal choices A huge library

The software will work out what There is a huge library of movies
you like to watch and offer and TV shows to choose from and a
recommendations. It also remembers simple search will bring up a myriad
where you left off for next time of options to view

Enjoy amazing
streaming quality Extra Netflix settings
The speed at which the Netflix You can choose if you want to
app can stream shows and the stream the shows over mobile or
resulting quality will impress just Wi-Fi. If you have limited mobile
you every single time you use it data, choose only Wi-Fi

Stream music
Spotify
Price: Free
Spotify offers you the ability to stream millions
of music tracks any time you like and the library
is now so large that it is unlikely that you will
not find any track you want. The software is very
slick and the reliability and speed of the service
are mesmerising, with the ability to play tracks 01: See what’s new 02: Play tracks offline
offline if you subscribe to the monthly service. A quick tap on the New Releases option on the To play tracks offline on your device, you will need
main screen will show you all of the music that has to subscribe to the monthly subscription plan.
This software could completely change the way just been released and is now available on Spotify. This means that you can play the music you have
you consume music and open up your music You may be surprised to find that very recent selected without an internet connection. With this
preferences greatly. albums are available – most are available from the option, you will also be able to listen without the
day they are released. interruption of ads.

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Read in style
Kindle
Price: Free

Amazon’s Kindle app offers a raft of advantages

over competing services. For a start, the eBook
library is gargantuan and you will be able to
find any title you are interested in. Also, the sync
service ensures that when you stop reading
a book at any point, you can carry on using
another device seamlessly. Pricing is on the
whole very competitive and the software offers
a clean reading experience, clear enough to 01: Your book library
make the experience as enjoyable as possible. If You can view your entire eBook collection using
the top-left icon. It will show you all of the eBooks
you want to start reading eBooks, this is a great that have been downloaded and also those stored
app and online service to start with. in the cloud.

02: Set up the experience 03: It’s time to read

The ‘Aa’ icon option lets you choose the text size, You will now be able to sit back and relax while
font, brightness and line widths in seconds, plus enjoying a good book whenever and wherever
you can also choose which exact theme you prefer you want to. The portability of a phone or tablet
to read with. adds much convenience.

Turn your device into an e-reader

Audible Wattpad Ebook Reader
Price: Free Price: Free Price: Free

If you aren’t physically able to read a book, Wattpad offers lots of free titles and a different With perhaps the most traditional book
then how about listening to one? Through take on eBook reading which you may prefer interface of all eBook readers, this app could
Audible you can purchase and download a to apps that try to mimic the traditional paper be the one for you if you are struggling to
wide range of audio books for your device. format. It is unique. make the move away from paper books.

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 Essential apps

Manage podcasts
Pocket Casts
Price: £2.99/$4.99
Podcasts are proving to be a constantly popular
form of new entertainment and Pocket Casts is an
excellent way to manage your library and to also
discover which new and existing programmes are
available. It is visually very appealing but does not
scrimp on features and everything from playlists to
downloading shows to play offline is built in from
the start.
Once you start using podcasts, you may find
them very useful to pass the time on the daily
01: Discover new 02: Make them 03: Time to play
commute or whenever you have some spare podcasts available offline While you are listening to a
time available because every possible subject is Tap ‘+’ to be shown a grid of If you wish, you can now podcast you can skip forwards
already covered in detail. Pocket Casts gives you an popular podcasts that you download multiple podcasts and backwards by 30 seconds
can listen to. Choose the ones at any one time by tapping the by simply tapping left or
extensive and very useable personal radio station that you want to hear and circle next to each. They will right. The simple interface has
that you have absolute control over. then tap Subscribe. then be available offline. everything you need.

Find your perfect car 01: Use the clever filters

It is likely that you have very specific requirements for your next
vehicle and this app includes a clever filtering mechanism which
lets you enter as much information as possible. Try to complete
every box and you will be rewarded with a precise selection of
vehicles to choose from.

02: Take your pick

Auto Trader
Price: Free
Finding a new car is never an easy task
and unless you are fortunate enough
of vehicles available from both private
sellers and dealers, and the filtering
You will see cars listed with full information including a gallery
of photos. The information in most listings is so detailed that
you will likely be able to make an initial judgement in seconds.
It is worth scrolling through all of the options, however, to see
them all.

to purchase a new one, you will likely
need to spend your weekends scouring
around for a second-hand model. This
can mean a lot of travel and lots of
negotiation but there is an alternative;
simply install the Auto Trader app and
have most of the work done for you.
The popularity of the brand means
that there is always a wide selection
mechanism is simply sublime. You can
choose the age of the vehicle, the fuel
type, mileage, transmission and the
distance away from you, at which point
you can then decide what merits further
investigation. If you are in the market for
a new vehicle of any type, there is not
much point in you looking further than
the official Auto Trader app.

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Save long articles to read later
Pocket
Price: Free
Not just text
You can also capture images and
videos in Pocket to give yourself
a huge repository of media to
enjoy when you have the time
Know your personal list
Your list of articles can be captured
by browser add-ons and clever
tools that work in iOS browsers. It
takes a matter of seconds
Take notes easier
Letterspace
Price: £3.99/$5.99
When a third-party app boasts a
genuine, bona fide brilliant ideal it isn’t
unusual to see it creep into an iOS
update somewhere down the line. Let
us pray, then, that Letterspace’s swipe-
to-move cursor bar system is snapped
up because it allows you to effortlessly
reposition your cursor by swiping a
bar instead of painstakingly trying
to position it by touch-and-holding
on the screen. It certainly makes the
correcting of typos much less arduous
and as a result you end up with notes
that actually make sense six weeks
down the line. Until iOS picks up the
feature, though, this app is a must.
Read how you want to
The Display Settings give you lots
of control over font selection and
the way that each text article is
displayed within Pocket
Cut out the clutter
By default Pocket will strip down
any adverts and extras in web
articles and make them much easier
to read on mobile devices
01: Take notes 02: View your notes
Tap the ‘+’ icon on the Swipe down on the screen
main screen to create a and tap the back arrow to
new note. From there, exit your note and return
you can easily start typing to the main menu where
and if you need to make all of your create notes will
adjustments to the text, be displayed. You can open
use the blue swipe pad to them to read and edit
move the cursor around. again at any point.
Essential apps
Keep control of
music and TV
Radiolab
Price: £2.29/$3.99
The Radiolab podcast is an epic creation
which offers stimulating content in every
single episode alongside some of the best
sound production you will experience
on your mobile device. This app adds to
the audio brilliance by making it visually
enchanting as well and it complements
the entire ethos of Radiolab perfectly. A
wonderfully presented app.
Manage
your task list
Todoist
Price: Free
Todoist is a simple but very effective task
management app that lets you create
new tasks quickly and easily. You can add
as much detail as you like to the tasks in
question and a simple menu system lets
you keep track of your inbox and view all
of the upcoming tasks you have over the
next seven days. The app will also notify
you when you have a task pending, which
is a very useful feature.
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 Essential apps

Watch the latest shows and movies

TomTom UK & Ireland
Price: Free

Perfectly readable maps When will you get there?

The map and route views in At all points, you will know
TomTom are very simple, but more exactly when you will get to
than clear enough to help guide your destination. The system is
you to your ultimate destination. incredibly accurate throughout

Benefit from visual and

Clever audible instructions audible guidance
Different voices can be chosen to You will be able to use visual and
give you directions as you travel and audible cues when travelling to
the instructions are always timely understand which turning you
and understandable will be required to take next

Easy travel
Waze Social
Price: Free
Waze takes traditional navigation and
completely turns it on its head. You can use
the notifications of friends and strangers to
see what is happening on your route; traffic
jams, roadworks and many other factors that
can affect a journey are noted on the updated
01: You need to sign up 02: Innovative traffic view
moving map and this community-based To make the most of the Waze Social app you will The map and driving views that appear when
solution actually makes for a deadly accurate need to sign up to the service, which is of course in the app will be populated with comments
routing system. It is a wonderfully unique free, and complete a profile so that any friends and instructions from other drivers who have
who also use the app know who the updates are encountered issues and without doubt, the screens
service and works in a friendly, social and coming from. Once this is complete, you’ll be able are as friendly as they could possibly be. You’ll
accurate manner. to check updates in the app. definitely benefit from the advice of other drivers!

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Watch videos anywhere

YouTube
Price: Free

The mobile YouTube app is now as fully featured

and versatile as the desktop version and with
a good internet connection you will be able to
enjoy all of the richness on offer.
You can choose whether to use Wi-Fi or
mobile data to stream the videos and all of your
preferences will be available including your
viewing history, subscriptions and personal 01: Use your Google account
uploads. It will likely become one of the most- When you sign in to YouTube with your Google
account, every preference from your viewing history
used apps on your device with the ability to share
will travel with you. The viewing history is very useful
amusing and interesting clips being much more for repeat viewing and helps YouTube determine new
convenient when on the move than at home. things you might enjoy.

02: View your purchases 03: Choose your preferences

Films and TV shows that you have purchased from The settings let you limit the data usage on a mobile
Google Play are also available in the official YouTube connection, choose which channels to prioritise and
app. Once purchased, you can watch them any time deal with how mobile notifications are delivered to
you like. your iPhone.

Improve your iOS experience

eBay TuneIn Radio SwiftKey
Price: Free Price: Free Price: Free

If you like to buy or sell items through eBay This free app gives you access to more than Using this replacement keyboard makes for
then this brilliant mobile app lets you do 100,000 radio stations from all over the world a more dynamic typing experience as it uses
everything on the move and track your and lets you stream them direct to your advanced AI to learn your writing style and
purchases to your doorstep. mobile device. Essential listening. make intelligent suggestions.

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 Essential apps

Work with Microsoft Office

Take the office with you when you are away from your workplace
It has taken a long time for mobile devices versions of their desktop counterparts. Even to work in a similar fashion to the way you
to be able to handle Office documents in Microsoft has joined the party with a solution work in the office, but for making quick
a fashion that makes the process worth that works with Word, Excel and PowerPoint amendments when travelling to a meeting,
the effort. The natural limitations of smaller documents, but there is still a range of an iOS device will make a huge difference. It
screens and slower networks have largely alternatives that offer distinct advantages is a strength for iOS and one that highlights
been overcome and we are now seeing in specific areas so you have many options how well placed the system is for work as
apps appear that feel exactly like cut-down to choose from. Potentially, you will be able well as entertainment.

Manage your files

OfficeSuite
Price: Free
OfficeSuite is a professional app
which mimics the standard Microsoft
presentation very well indeed. With
support for all major file formats and
an advanced organisational structure
which means that you can deal with
files locally and in the cloud, there
really is nothing missing. Dictionaries
are also available and the templates
will make the creation of documents
much more efficient. It is one of the
very best solutions for dealing with
Office documents when on the
move and has almost no negatives.

Edit any document

Docs To Go Premium
Price: £12.99/$16.99
Documents To Go offers one
major advantage over much of the
competition in the way it presents
complex documents. The app has
been running for many years and
we are now at a point where the
presentation is deadly accurate every
time and it really does feel as though
you are working on the original files.
If you care about working in a familiar
environment, this could be the perfect
solution for your needs.

Mobile office solution

Microsoft Word
Price: Free
The introduction of an official
Microsoft app to this genre is big
news and the company has worked
hard to bring the modernised
experience to the smaller screen.
With Excel and PowerPoint apps
also available, you are able to
carry on working with documents
when mobile, and there are very
few negative points about the
experience. The most impressive
part is the way the screens have
been designed to work so cleanly on
phones and tablets.

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Take amazing photos on the iPad
Modern Combat 5: Blackout
Price: Free
You really can enjoy console-quality gaming
on your mobile device with Modern Combat.
The graphics are amazingly sharp and so
is the realism, but it is the effective control
Run and run and run
Temple Run 2
Price: Free
There are many reasons why Temple Run was
one of the most successful mobile games of
all time; the graphics and endless game play
are just two of them. This sequel builds on the
success of the first game by ramping up the
graphics, tossing in more obstacles and power-
ups and providing different powers for different
“It requires great skill and incredibly
quick thinking to progress”
Essential apps
mechanism that will drag you in for hours
on end as you battle your enemies. The fact
that the deep storyline goes on forever is yet
another addictive bonus.
Enjoy classic Solve crimes
game formats CSI: Hidden
Lane Splitter Crimes
Price: Free
Price: £0.79/$0.99
Some game styles seem to live forever and 01: Learn the basics
Before you get
the classic single road racer is one of the most started with the
popular. In Lane Splitter, you have to guide game, it will help a
your motorbike along a road that gets more lot if you take the
time to read all of
crowded as you progress and which passes
the instructions
by even quicker. You gain points by collecting and understand how the whole system works.
coins and narrowly avoiding other vehicles, With the right information, it will all make sense
and the preciseness of the tilting control and you will be a better player for it.
mechanism makes it a joy to play over and over 02: Don’t rush to find clues
again. The fact that a game can be over in 30 It is natural when
playing a mobile
seconds or five minutes means that you will
game to try
keep coming back for more as you naturally rushing through
improve over time. Not all games get the each screen to
progressive elements right, but this one surely find all of the clues
that are there, but if you take your time and
does which creates a highly addictive gaming concentrate on each screen you will be far more
experience every single time. likely to gain success.
playable characters. It requires great skill and
incredibly quick thinking to progress, but also
mental endurance as your mind has to battle
with different movements which are required
to be acted upon in under a second every time.
Are you strong enough to face the challenge?
Download this for free and find out!
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 Essential apps

Collate articles
Flipboard
Price: Free
Flipboard takes all of the web resources you find the
most interesting and brings them together in an
environment which feels like a real digital magazine.
Images and text are cleaned up for easier reading,
but each source is also kept separate in order to
avoid confusion.
You can also make your own magazine of articles
you find useful and share them with friends, at
01: Make account 02: Set sources 03: The result
which point the app will tidy it all up to look very You will want to first create Choose your content sources The end result of your hard
professional. This app is far more than a mere RSS an account with Flipboard so from the list available wisely, work will be a selection of
reader because it makes the entire experience feel that your sources are saved but don’t be afraid to select articles on your subjects
and you can read articles and multiple ones. Even with the of interest, held in an
more immersive and much easier to read. Every iOS pick up where you left off on many options, the app never environment that is both
user should try this app. multiple devices. feels confusing. enjoyable and easy to read.

Visually plan everything 01: Set up the categories

Take time at first to set up a series of categories to cover the
events that you often need to work with. Make sure that they
are visually obvious using the selection of icons and colours
available as this will make glancing and retrieving information
much easier when you use the planner in the future. You can
add more anytime.

iPlanner UK 02: Build a useful planner

Price: £0.79/$0.99
A calendar app is always an essential
addition for reminding you of the
many events that are taking place, but
very simple and you can easily lengthen
them to show over a period of days. You
can also see an entire year view which
The end result will be a set of events that make perfect sense
and which will be highly visually intuitive. If you have used
the icons and colours with care, you should be able to find the
busiest times and work schedules with just a simple glance. It
is an app you will certainly come to use often if its functions are
something you need.

there will be lots of times when you
need more of an overview of what is
happening over a longer period of time.
This is particularly true for people who
work shift patterns or for anyone else
who wants to keep track of their annual
leave, birthdays or other scheduled
events. For these situations, iPlanner is
the ideal solution. Adding new events is
can cover multiple people at the same
time. This makes the app perfect for
busy families.
There are many calendar and task
manager apps that attempt to help shift
workers and offer overviews, but few are
as efficient and logical to understand
as iPlanner. All of these feature make it
incredibly useful.

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Watch all of your videos
MX Video Player
Price: Free
Perfect quality movies
MX Player Pro is capable of repro-
ducing videos in near perfect qual-
ity on any device. The full screen
mode is very useful
Hardware or software
Hardware and software decoding
is supported which means that you
can run all of your movies on the
least powerful of devices
Manage a busy schedule
Google Calendar
Price: Free
Calendar apps are very common
in the App Store and, indeed, the
one built into the iOS system is
pretty impressive itself. However, the
Google Calendar app is something
else entirely. The stunning interface
makes it incredibly easy to keep
track of upcoming events, birthdays,
holidays and more thanks to a
colour-coded system that makes
it easy to see, at-a-glance, what’s
fast approaching on your schedule.
Adding new events is an easy
process and you can invite other
people to attend them quickly and
easily. For most it will be the perfect
personal organiser.
Adjust the settings
You can adjust the settings so that
they fit your exact preferences and
you may be surprised at how much
can be changed
Very handy subtitles
Subtitles can be presented to your
preference if the video includes
them. Care has been taken to make
sure they are subtle
01: Swipe down 02: Create new
Scroll down the screen to see events quickly
all of your upcoming events Tap on the ‘+’ icon to create a
and key dates all colour new event and add in details,
coded to make them easy to locations, etc and invite
differentiate from the norm. other people to attend.
Essential apps
Pay with your
iPhone
PayPal
Price: Free
PayPal is the safest way to make
transactions online, as any eBay member
will attest. However, this app takes
things further by allowing you to make
payments at local stores, cafes and
restaurants using your iPhone. It allows
easy money transfers and ensures you
can travel light without a wallet.
Read comics
Marvel
Comics
Price: Free
Reading comics on a phone or tablet
may seem a bizarre notion, but the way
this app presents each page and panel
makes the entire experience as seamless
as you could wish for. The available library
is huge, the pricing is competitive and the
presentation is the best we have seen in
any comic app. A perfect digital comic
app solution.
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Entertainment
Take charge of your free time with these iPhone apps
Periscope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Tidal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Cute or Not. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Turn Taker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Solar Walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Disney Gif . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Star Walk 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Russ Bray Darts Scorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Tumblr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Infant Faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Learn How To Crochet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Hype Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Stopcast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Castro – High Fidelity Podcasts . . . . . . . . . 31
Squawka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Snapchat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Roald Dahl Audiobooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Hole19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Clip Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Forza Football . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Rhymeo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
ArtStack - discover artVideo. . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
GifLab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Meerkat - Tweet Live Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
The FIFA Weekly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Mixcloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
The EDIT by NET-A-PORTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Acast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

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 Stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
RA Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Overcast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Vine Kids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
BuzzFeed News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Bloglovin’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Noon Pacific. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
AppZilla 4: 200 in 1! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
A Hollow Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
MixRadio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
My Idol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Machinima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Ginger Emoji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Festvl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Brain+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Juilliard Open Studios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Alexi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
2000 AD Featuring Judge Dredd . . . . . . . 46
Groovemaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
John Lennon: The Bermuda Tapes . . . . . . 47
Mezzo Music Player. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

“With these apps, you’ll

never be bored again,
whether you’re on long
journeys or just filling time”
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 Entertainment
 Price Free

Periscope
Broadcast your world with twitter’s new live stream video app
Periscope is the latest app by Twitter, enabling
PROS/CONS
▲ You can start users to stream live broadcasts via a
broadcasting quickly smartphone. It integrates well with the social
▲ It has a healthy media service, not only requiring Twitter to log in but
social media
userbase using it to flag up new rolling footage to followers,
▼ It can eat up data – ensuring a good numbers of broadcasts have the
watch those plans
chance of gaining decent audience figures.
▼ You can’t schedule
your broadcasts Broadcasting takes mere seconds to set up. You tap
the camera icon, give the broadcast a name and tailor
the live stream to best suit your current needs. You
can decide to share or hide your location or enable
potential viewers to chat and leave comments. You can
also opt out of tweeting about your video and you can
make it a private showing.
The broadcast begins as soon you as hit the red
button and continues until you swipe down to end it.
Keep in mind that the video has to be made instantly
available (you can’t schedule them for a later time
and date like with its main rival, Meerkat) but when
you have finished, you get the option to save what
you have filmed and make it available for viewing via
Periscope for 24 hours.
In the first two weeks of release Periscope attracted
120,000 users and many more have signed up since.
That means there is also a lot of footage to watch and
interact with. Just tap on a stream to open it up, ‘heart’
videos you like and send messages to the person
filming in real-time.
This immediacy makes Periscope a winner. Other
live video streaming apps have been made available
in the past but Periscope makes the process more
intuitive and straightforward. That said, there are some
copyright and privacy concerns. It also eats up a lot of
data and battery. But for budding citizen journalists or
those who just want to share the moment, it is perfect.
Periscope has cracked the process of recording
live video and getting it straight out to the masses
to enjoy.

“In the first two weeks of release

Periscope attracted 120,000 users
and many more signed up since”

■ When people broadcast on ■ You are prompted to follow people

Periscope, others can add comments so you never miss their next broadcast

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■ The main menu has new music and playlists ■ You can mark a track as a favourite, add it to
compiled by music writers a playlist or share it

 Price Free

Tidal
The audiophile’s superior music streaming service
As music streaming services go, Tidal’s credentials
PROS/CONS
▲ Absolutely rammed seem very favourable. It is the first service of its
with content for kind to offer high fidelity sound quality on over 25
users to explore
million instantly accessible tracks and boasts a selection of
▲ Packed with cool
features to help take 75,000 HD music videos. It is also curated and contributed to
your music further
by experienced music journalists – people who should be
▼ The service itself
is quite expensive able to balance the mainstream with the offbeat when it and sections, such as the latest playlists and tracks, can be
compared to similar
music services
comes to recommendations and in-app playlists to open accessed by scrolling down and a menu provides easy
▼ The app could be your ears to exciting new sounds. But, before your ears start access to some of the other key features, such as Genres,
designed better to pulsing at the prospect of superior sound and expertly Offline Content and Audio Search. Using the keyword search
make it easier to
find new content sourced content though, it is worth pointing out that the will also hook you up with all related content applicable to
service comes at a hefty subscription cost of £19.99 a month the entered artist or track, including videos.
– although you can try it free for seven days – and you will When you weigh up the fact that, for the price of two
need an account in place (go to www.tidalhifi.com). CDs a month, you have access to a sprawling sonic highway
When you are logged in, the interface that binds and with the added bonus of insightful articles and hand-
projects the service is devoid of pizzazz but easy enough to picked playlists, the price becomes less of an issue. Sure the
navigate. New stuff is flagged up at the top of the screen monthly subscription fee trumps that of Spotify, but there is
a chasmic gulf between the two in terms of what you get.

“It is curated and contributed to by A must for music-lovers, Tidal has the quality,
content and innovation to become the world’s
experienced music journalists – it premier streaming service.
will open your ears to new sounds”
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 Entertainment

 Price Free

■ Turns out there is no shortage of cute pet photos on
the internet. Who knew?
Cute Or Not
Swipe through corgis, kittens and cockatoos
BuzzFeed’s first spin-off app is a
distillation of what many would
say that the viral news site does
best – that is, adorable pictures of animals.
Simple in concept and slick in execution,
Cute Or Not is an image-sharing app
enabling people to post pictures of their
cats, dogs, bunnies, and birds for the world
to see… and judge. The app presents you
with an endless stream of animal photos,
and you can either swipe right to deem
them Cute, or consign them to the Not
Cute pile with a swipe to the left.
It’s essentially Tinder for pets, but
without the chat aspect (for obvious
reasons). Other than cooing and swiping
one way or the other, however, your
options are fairly limited. Cute Or Not lets
you take photos or upload them directly
from your camera roll, and you can track
how many ‘cutes’ your pictures have
accumulated so far, but that’s about it.
A Trending tab shows you the most
popular pets of the moment at a glance,
but there is no additional info aside from
a name caption to go along with each
image, and there are no filter options when
swiping, either. It’s not a major issue, but
sometimes we’re in the mood for puppies,
and sometimes we’re in the mood for
kittens, and it would be nice to be able
specify which we get to see rather than just
lumping them all together.
Cute Or Not is perfect if you’re after a
quick fix of ‘aww’-inducing photos, but
not an awful lot besides.

 Price £1.99/$2.99

Turn Taker
Cute graphics rule the roost with this simple learning package
Aimed at children with an autism
spectrum disorder, Down
Syndrome, special needs or those
who are very young, Turn Taker aims to teach
the basics of sharing.
A large hand points in the direction of
the person whose turn it is and then, after
a certain period of time, the app will state
‘Finished’ and displays another
hand in the opposite direction
to signify it’s the other person’s
turn. Pretty simple really.
With two participants, this
makes it clear whose turn it is,
which teaches children that
turn-taking is the fairly rapid
handover from one person to
another. The time limits can be
adjusted so that the app can
be tailored to suit whatever physical game is
being played at the time.
But there are some misgivings. Although
the presentation is bright and colourful and
a lovely story explains why turn-taking is
important as a social skill, there are spelling
mistakes (‘your’ instead of ‘you’re’ being a
notable one), and it only allows two people
to take part at any one time. Additionally,
the app doesn’t seem overly complicated to
develop, so we question the price tag. But for
children with learning disabilities and those
having trouble understanding the concept
of taking turns, it will be an invaluable help.
Parents and carers who look after
children with disabilities will find this
app a useful learning tool.

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 Price £1.99/$2.99

Solar Walk
There’s no need for a space suit, but you may want 3D glasses…
The vast, black expanse of space
never ceases to fascinate us, but
the majority of us will never get a
chance to fly around it. It is up to apps like
Solar Walk to bring the universe to the palm
of your hand, allowing you to interact with
planets, stars and moons.
Solar Walk appears to be as infinite as
space itself. It is packed with features that go
way beyond simply swiping and pinching
in and out to zoom. The planets are clearly
labelled and tapping on one shows it up
close. You can turn planets on their axis,
discover fascinating info ranging from Did
You Knows to figures and general facts. You
can look at the internal structure of planets,
watching as the app slices through them via
a slick animation. Swiping in from the right
gives you a greater understanding of each
section, building your level of knowledge.
There are movies too. The app draws on
the time and you can see the movements of
celestial bodies in relation to each other. You
can also view their trajectories. Even
satellites around Earth can be viewed and
analysed. With the ability to view the app on
a 3D television (or via cyan-red 3D glasses),
Solar Walk seems to have it all.

With gorgeous animations and

insightful info, this truly is an app that is
out of this world.
n Alter the app so that you n Discover all kinds of amazing
can time travel. celestial bodies

 Price Freemium

Disney Gif
The GIFs are strong with this one
Octopus, star, sad face. If you have
no idea what we’re talking about,
perhaps trying to decipher what a
sentence of emojis means is just too
difficult for you. Thankfully, Disney has
made these kinds of keyboard inputs easier
to understand with Disney Gif.
Using GIFs from your favourite Disney
movies, you can send the perfect reaction
images to your friends and family. All
you have to do is enable the Disney Gif
keyboard on your device. The interface
is a bit clunky and sometimes difficult to
use though, but all this can be forgiven
considering the amount of GIFs on offer.
From Star Wars to Alice in Wonderland,
to ABC shows like Once Upon A Time and
the newest Pixar releases, there are plenty
of perfect scene captures to share. The
GIFs are sorted by company and then film
if applicable. But you can also find the
perfect GIF via the emotion you want to
convey or by what you recently used.
You can’t, however, share the GIFs
via Facebook or Twitter or other social
media apps, you can only send them on
in other apps if they enable the copying
and pasting of images. You can also buy
more GIF packs if you wish but there are
still plenty to use in the free option, which
is refreshing as Disney is making the GIFs
of the biggest franchises like Star Wars
absolutely free from the beginning.
A solid option for entertaining GIFs
from the top Disney movies. Best of all,
it’s free!
n You can send GIFs from Disney’s most memorable
scenes via email and text

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 Price £1.99/$2.99
Star Walk 2
Star Walk’s latest version takes it to
new heights. Point your phone or
tablet to the sky and you’ll be given
loads of info about what you see. Visually, this
new version is wonderful and just as before,
the insight on offer is perfect for any budding
stargazer or for those who are simply curious.
The night sky just became a lot clearer
and more beautiful.
 Price £1.99/$2.99
Infant Faces
Babies love faces and this app
takes advantage of that by
offering different faces for them
to interact with. They get to tap each face
and see colourful objects fly by or they can
simply watch what is happening in the
watch mode. It’s not easy for an adult to
understand the care put into this until they
see a baby interact with the objects. It truly
is a sight to behold.
You don’t have to be a baby to
appreciate quality and fun.
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 Price £2.99/$4.99
Russ Bray
Darts Scorer
Apps that can calculate the scores
as you play a game of darts are
commonplace, but here we have
one which adds atmosphere and fun to a
game. Russ Bray will speak your name and
work out the scores for you, and there are so
many features here that we cannot possibly
cover them all. It is a brilliant and ambitious
darts scoring solution in app form.
A highly practical solution to a dart
player’s problem.
 Price £0.69/$0.99
Learn How
To Crochet
The simplistic nature of this app is
quite stark at first, with some
missing elements in terms of
navigation. It feels slightly unfinished, but
as you get to the videos it all changes. They
are easy to understand and educational. If
you want to learn crochet, this is a good
place to start despite the shortcomings.
A specialist crochet app that turns out
to be more useful than it first looks.
 Price Free
Tumblr
Tumblr works well on mobile
devices, but the latest update lets
you deal with the look of your blog
as well, and the implementation is sublime
– as you’d expect from the blogging giant.
We’ve reached the point where Tumblr is
possibly the most effective mobile blogging
platform thanks to the careful use of multiple
features within the app. You can now blog
from anywhere, and make changes
previously kept only for desktop users.
Tumblr for mobile feels complete with
every possible feature you will need.
 Price £2.49/$3.99
Hype Machine
Many try to build services to
discover new music, but most fail.
Hype Machine, however, works
quite well, using the discussions of fellow
users to give you the popular tracks. The
design is vibrant and previews let you try
thousands of tracks whenever you want to.
Finally an app which makes discovery
not only possible, but enjoyable.
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Stopcast
A simple, effective solution for tracking London buses
Tracking buses in London can feel
like trying to find bees around a
hive at times. The randomness of
the schedules and the sheer number of
routes can become unwieldy and
confusing for all but the most hardened
travellers. Stopcast is an app which solves
all of these pesky problems immediately
and it does so in a way which really is
incredibly refreshing.
You can search for any bus on a real-time
map, select it and it will then display when
the next few buses will arrive. The times are
extremely accurate and you are given just
enough detail to understand which bus it
is, where it is going and when it will arrive.
You can track multiple bus routes if you
upgrade to the premium version and it is
especially useful if you miss a bus and need
to catch another in a hurry. Rarely have
we seen an app so simple to use and so
minimally presented that still manages to
tick all of the feature boxes we require, but
this one does so with aplomb.
To sum it all up, if you use buses in the
capital, no matter if it’s rarely or on your
everyday commute, this solution will
prove to be handy time and time again,
and it could also get you out of trouble
in an instant. It is a brilliant solution that
has been carefully produced, beautifully
designed as well as flawlessly presented
and executed.
A refreshing way to track the London
buses in many locations and with
deadly accuracy.

 Price £1.99/$2.99

Castro – High Fidelity

Podcasts
Podcasts that look as good as they sound
Taking advantage of background
updates, your podcast list is
constantly being refreshed, and the
app also has a News section where all the
latest episodes of the most popular podcast
shows are kept. It’s such a clean and tidy
interface that Castro makes you want to
explore more of the app, subscribing and
listening to even more podcasts – and surely
that can only be a good thing given the
subject matter it is supporting.
You can listen to episodes without having
to subscribe to get a flavour of the show, and
you can also mark an episode as ‘Listened’
to maintain your housekeeping and save
yourself checking where you got up to.
Crucially, as well as streaming podcasts,
Castro supports offline playback, meaning
you can listen to your episodes regardless of
where you are.
Driven by gestures and a great interface,
there aren’t many better looking ways to
organise a podcast library on your iPhone
that feel as good as this great little app. Just
give it a try over the service you’re currently
using; the chances are you definitely won’t
go back afterwards.
It may indeed be a little pricey, but
Castro’s user-friendly nature makes it a
worthy investment.
■ The interface is attractive and perfectly adjusted for
iPhone users

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■ Squawka offers users stats in very easy to
understand visualisations
Squawka
This soccer second screen brings big data
to the Beautiful Game
Get all the vital statistics on your
favourite team’s performance and
matches with the Squawka
Football App. It calculates 500 million data
points per match, allowing you to check out
the pass percentage of a midfielder or total
amount of wins.
Despite containing huge masses of
information, drilling down to the data you
want is easy. Swipe sideways to view profiles
of your favourite teams or tap the drop-
down menu to jump to topics like Players,
Leagues and News. There is also a search bar,
and you can even set alerts to be informed in
key details.
For more casual browsing, the Dashboard
screen provides a continually updating feed
of football stats, news stories and multimedia
content – including animations of key events
minutes after they happened. There is even
some social interactivity with the option to
provide your own post-match analysis in a
Comments section.
All this information is free to access,
however this is offset by banner ads
permanently squatting at the bottom of the
screen and adverts that pop up occasionally
in the news feed. These throw off the
otherwise gorgeous aesthetic of the app, but
are not particularly invasive and don’t ruin
the user experience.
Like a mobile Moneyball, Squawka is
a comprehensive app for finding out
football trivia in a matter of seconds.

 Price Free

Snapchat
An entertaining, addictive way to stay in touch
The appeal of Snapchat is simple
– take a picture, add a message,
send it to your friends, and then
once they’ve taken a look, it immediately
vanishes. The ability to cover a selfie in all
kinds of doodles and captions, and send it
out knowing that it will be gone in a matter
of seconds, is the reason millions of teens
have adopted Snapchat as their primary
choice for communication with their
groups of friends.
The latest version of Snapchat includes
a range of new features, including a
messaging platform and video chat option.
Instant messaging on Snapchat follows the
same principle as photos – once a message
is seen, it disappears – although you can
save it by simply holding a finger or thumb
over it.
Another extra to Snapchat is Story, an
ephemeral version of Facebook’s Timeline.
You can post an image to Story the same
way you would send it to a friend, and
everyone in your contacts can view it
as many times as they like for a 24-hour
window. The newest addition is a selection
of interactive filters that work like masks.
A quick word of friendly advice: these
photos don’t always disappear forever.
The recipient of the image can take a
screenshot and save it to their phone,
although if they do this, Snapchat will
notify you. You’ve been warned!
Just as much fun as the hype suggests,
Snapchat is a creative alternative to
messaging apps like WhatsApp.
■ Communicate with your mates with picture
messages that vanish after seconds

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■ It is easy to find articles relating to areas of ■ Enjoy quality journalism mapping out how
your interest thanks to a simple menu system the past shaped the stories of today

 Price Free

Timeline
Explore how the stories of the past provide
context to the events of today
Timeline - News In Context isn’t a conventional
PROS/CONS
▲ Packed with facts news app in that the news isn’t new. Instead it
which are expertly delves back into the vaults to pluck forth key
woven into the
various articles stories from yesteryear and explore connections they have
▲ Very accessible to key events of today. The result is that the articles you read
thanks to a clean
and intuitive are fleshed out with some insightful historical context to and share stories, then you have to connect to Timeline via
interface provide a much more rounded knowledge base. Facebook, Twitter or email.
▼ No way to
customise the
In an age when all we seem to want is headlines and The articles are cleanly presented, but there are no
appearance of the bullet-pointed news facts beamed into our brains in as rapid options to change background colour for outdoor reading,
articles to suit your
wants and needs a fashion as possible, Timeline is an altogether different change font size, or even zoom in on the text. What you see
▼ It’s obviously vying prospect. Housed within an ultra-simplistic interface, is what you get. But while reading, tapping on the Timeline
for your time
alongside the many you can tap a menu icon to explore the many featured icon will display all of the related articles going back in time,
other live news apps categories of content (which include World, Technology and making it easy to quickly switch between linked stories.
Editor’s Picks) and then swipe down through the related So, do you need Timeline? Perhaps only if you have the
articles before settling on one to read. If you wish to enjoy spare time to absorb what it is attempting to deliver – which
the app’s other services, including options to bookmark is a well-balanced insight into how historical news has
shaped the present.

“The articles you read are fleshed A triumph for fact-heavy journalism, but the
reading restrictions mean you’re limited as to
out with some very insightful when you can enjoy it.
historical context”
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Plot
Plot ensures you don’t miss
movies you intend to watch. It
features a capable design perfect
for the subject and lets you enter new titles
and share them with others instantly. The
discovery mode is excellent and so is the
ability to read reviews.
A well designed and feature-rich app
which will be perfect for movie buffs.
 Price Free
Clip Video
Clip Video aims to help you share
videos with music in the back-
ground, but it focuses more on the
social side. It has a fun interface, especially
when browsing creations, and the use of
comments and likes will feel familiar. Clip
Video is easy to grow to love over time.
A fun media-centric social network
which is easy to use on the move.
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Roald Dahl
Audiobooks
Most people know the works of
Roald Dahl and this app delivers
his best works in audible form.
The interface is slightly bland, but the
actual content is superb. The quality of the
recordings is excellent and gets better with
narrators ranging from Stephen Fry to
David Walliams. Each book is priced very
reasonably and there is a lot to enjoy here.
The genius of Roald Dahl’s books is
brought to life.
 Price Freemium
Forza Football
Forza Football is beautifully
presented and gives you access to
all of the latest results in an instant,
following every game live. You can receive
notifications so you never miss a goal and
the app lets you follow as many teams as you
like. Share your thoughts and opinions with
others, set up alerts for your teams and do
much more within an interface that works
perfectly for its intended goal (get it?).
A brilliant app for football stats and
linking with fans.
 Price Free
Hole19
Sometimes we come across apps
that seem too good to be free,
and Hole19 is a good example. It
uses GPS to excellent effect and monitors
every important part of your golf game
such as the distance of the last shot, your
scores and useful info for your next shot.
Hole19 delivers complex tracking in an
easy-to-use app.
 Price Free
Rhymeo
Rhymeo helps you develop your
freestyling skills. You can use
rhymes, words and pictures, and
share your work. The design is perfectly
suited to the genre and offers inspiration to
help develop to a level you wouldn’t have
considered possible before using it.
Sharpen your freestyling skills and
share them with the world instantly.

 Price Free
ArtStack
– discover
artVideo
This app offers a way to discover
hundreds of new works in a
simplistic interface. You can share
findings and at no point are there barriers in
the way of your enjoyment of some great
artistic ventures. Sometimes apps just need
to do one thing well and ArtStack succeeded.
An easy way to discover new art and
share your findings.
 Price Free
The FIFA
Weekly
This magazine is delivered every
week automatically and includes
a range of articles and interviews
on some of the biggest names in football.
The presentation is very professional and
you can even shake your phone to have an
article played audibly. It doesn’t knock your
socks off to be fair, but it is competent.
Any football fan will enjoy the well-
written articles.
 Price Freemium
GifLab
Creating GIFs is a tricky process, but
here we have an app which does it
for you in seconds. Simply choose a
video and adjust the speed and quality. Add
a filter and text and share the end result on
social media or via messaging or email. Few
solutions are as easy to use as this app.
A simple, but clever app which turns
your videos into great GIFs in seconds.
 Price Free
Mixcloud
Mixcloud offers a supremely
positive experience from the
very moment you open up the
app, and we haven’t stopped enjoying it
since. If you are a fan of dance music in
particular, you can use it to discover new
artists through the varied music listings,
but anyone can find something new
because the quality is so impressive. It’s a
little fiddly, but the end result is excellent.
You get a lot of good quality music for
free in this well-presented music app.
Entertainment
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Meerkat -
Tweet Live
Video
Meerkat has achieved a lot of
success in a very short time and
the reasons make perfect sense
when you think about how it works. You can
start streaming a video from your phone and
the app will then post a link in a new tweet
so that others can watch you in real-time.
Meerkat is already set to be the next
big thing.
 Price Free
The EDIT
by NET-A-
PORTER
NET-A-PORTER is a huge name in
fashion and this mag encompasses
all the goodness to help you stay in
vogue. Everything from interviews to in-
depth articles shine, with the app only
becoming a little busy on occasion.
The fashion world just got smaller and
more interesting.
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■ The interface for the Acast podcast app is accessible,
and will feel familiar to Spotify users
Acast
A podcast streamer that offers eye-catching extras
Podcasts are as popular today as
they have ever been, thanks to
Serial which has not only broadcast
compelling true crime stories but
accompanied it with a website packed with
incredible maps and documents that bring
its story to life.
Acast wants to achieve the same, and
takes a similar approach to podcasting by
enhancing the user’s listening experience
with what it calls “bling”. As you listen, the
app automatically calls up images, links and
videos relating to what is being said, alerting
you to on-screen content via a little ‘pop’
noise. As you engage with the content, the
podcast continues to play in the background,
the idea being that the experience becomes
multidimensional, and you can explore the
content discussed in the podcast further.
In principle, it is a great idea but a big
problem is that the content isn’t always
as compelling as it perhaps should be.
There are some awful low-res images and
links which underwhelm. This is a shame
because otherwise the app is solid, slick and
good-looking. It’s a great way to find new
podcasts, it lets you continue where you left
off, updates on the podcasts you follow and
incorporates a sleep timer for those late-
night nod-off sessions.
As podcast producers get to grips with the
possibilities, though, Acast will surely be a
serious contender.
Acast wants to revolutionise
podcasting and it succeeds to a point, it
just needs more time to settle.

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Stereo
Transform your iPhone’s music library into an old-school record store
Loyal iPhone users will have
noticed that, despite a new
handset hitting the market every
autumn, the music interface hasn’t
changed much over the years. Stereo is a
visually engaging alternative to the native
player that takes your music collection and
presents it in a pleasant tiled manner,
making selecting a song a little
like browsing at an old-
fashioned record store.
And it must be said,
browsing in Stereo is
incredibly easy, mainly
because it fits so many artists
onto the screen; there’s no
need for endless scrolling.
And behind the name of
each artist is an image
for each album, ensuring you can see
everything that’s there.
There are, however, a few major flaws.
For one, it will only import an artist if you
own one of their albums. So if you’re a
fan of composing esoteric playlists, with a
treasury of single tracks, this probably isn’t
for you. Stereo is clearly designed for those
who are happy to play an album from start
to finish. But even that selection is rather
arbitrary; Stereo might see fit to include the
second disc of the edition of an album, but
not disc one. Casual listeners are probably
better off sticking with their iPod.
Attractive enough, but a few kinks
make this a download for die hard
music lovers only.

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RA Guide
An app as electrifying as the music it helps you find
RA Guide is the new app by the
online music magazine Resident
Advisor. It allows users to discover
the best clubs, DJs and electronic music in
your area as well as around the world and it
claims to have information on a million DJs,
artists, venues and events that are
personalised to your taste and location.
The app certainly sings. It has bold
presentation, presenting search results
clearly and concisely while letting you tap
to find out more. When seeking events, you
can search through favourites, those close
by and the most popular and you not only
get to see the actual times and dates but
prices and booking information (you can
book through the app).
We like being able to seek out artists and
add them to favourites. The entries don’t
contain lots of information about them but
you do get to see where and when they
will be appearing. You can also look for
clubs in general in particular cities and see
how many other people are like-minded.
What’s more you are able to add DJs and
artists via your iTunes library, taking out a
lot of the legwork involved.
With recommendations and the ability
to share information on social media, it is
clear much work has gone into this app.
Though to need to log in for some of the
features is a pain, and it might annoy some
users, but it’s easy to accept once you start
appreciating the amazing content on offer.
You’ll be rocking to the beat of this
well-presented and useful music app.

 Price Freemium

Overcast
Slick podcast player from the maker of Instapaper
There may be a wealth of podcast
apps out there but there’s still a
sense that no-one has yet found
the perfect formula. Marco Arment (of
Instapaper and Tumblr fame) is the latest to
take on the elusive challenge, and he’s
managed to produce a stylish-looking app
that combines some very handy features
with a gorgeously intuitive interface.
Like all podcast players, Overcast can
subscribe to new feeds, download recent
episodes, manage playback and so on. Yet
there’s a beauty and attention to detail in
how Overcast works that makes it stand
out from the crowd. Everything is well laid-
out and easy to find, and the translucent
equaliser overlay is just one of the nice
visual touches spread through the app’s
different screens. The option to get podcast
recommendations from your Twitter feed is
also welcome.
Put down £2.99 and you can unlock all of
the app’s premium features: downloads over
mobile networks, variable playback speed
(with no effect on the pitch), voice boost
(for badly mixed podcasts), per-podcast
effects settings, a sleep timer, a one-by-one
playback option and no restrictions on
your playlists. Some of these features can
be tested in the free version and they’re all
well worth the small investment. As soon as
you try these amazing extra features, you’ll
wonder how you ever did without them!
A new podcast champion has entered
the scene – but only if you’re the lucky
owner of an iPhone.
■ Every single screen in Overcast looks as though it
has been carefully crafted

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PROS/CONS Busy parents now have another

▲ Very easy to use, tool to add to their distraction
perfect for its arsenal. Vine Kids is a very easy to
target audience
use, slimmed-down version of Vine that
▲ Videos are the best
of the best having presents videosfull of colourful monsters
been selected by for children aged five and under. If ever you
the Vine team wanted a child-friendly video collection of
▼ No option to like or
save videos to view
puppies running head-first into the camera
them again later or an animated penguin, this is your app.
▼ Can’t search for There are no nasties, no unsuitable jokes,
similar videos
nothing scary that accidentally pops up to
scare your children as the videos are all
vetted by human moderators.
The interface is very simple and only
■ Watch cute animals requires a left or right swipe to scroll
rush around over and through videos - that’s it, that’s literally
over again
all you need to do in the entire app. The
 Price Free videos automatically play and replay,

Vine Kids Children of the re-Vine-lution

just like on Vine, for endless loops of the
funniest or cutest footage. There aren’t any
words, confusing buttons or even a menu,
just video after video. It means that you
can trust the little ones to not mess around
with any in-app features whilst using Vine
Kids. Poking the monsters that present the
videos make them shake and pull a face
too, adding another engaging element.
Vine Kids may seem too simple at times
however, and if a parent wants to like or
save a video for later, there is no capacity
to do so. Similarly, if they know their child
adores cats, there is no function to search
for them – you just have to go by what Vine
Kids has picked and displayed for you.
Nevertheless, there’s nothing
complicated about Vine Kids, which is
refreshing. And just because it’s called Vine
Kids doesn’t mean we didn’t enjoy the
chameleon making fart noises ourselves.

A treasure trove of videos, lovingly

handpicked by the Vine editorial team
■ You can swipe left themselves. It’s fun and uncomplicated.
or right to watch the
previous or next video

“There’s nothing complicated

about Vine Kids, which is
refreshing in today’s market”
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BuzzFeed News
Got an insatiable appetite for news? This may cover it
BuzzFeed has been around for 11 years and, in
that time, it has gained a reputation for
pumping out lots of list-type articles. In 2014, a
huge amount of money was injected into the company
and, while many newspapers and magazines have tried
to mimic its frivolous style, BuzzFeed has been going the
other way: serious news is now on the agenda.
This app taps into that perfectly with a diet of hard
reporting curated and - in the main, written - by its own
staff. It offers a speedy catch up consisting of bullet
pointed headlines as well as a run of the day’s stories.
Each one shows a headline, an intro and an image while
giving you the ability to share or read further with a
single tap.
The articles are comprehensive, often mixing
reportage with Twitter, YouTube and other sources to
build a rounder picture of a story. It is such use of quotes,
“The articles are comprehensive,
often mixing reportage
with other sources”
■ A bullet point list of headlines is shown as a
catch-up when launched
Entertainment
PROS/CONS Vines and other modern tale-telling methods that stands
▲ It’s an easy app to the app apart from most rivals but with BuzzFeed’s vast
dip in and out of experience in such areas, this is to be expected.
▲ You can set up
specific alerts
It’s a shame then that, as it stands, the output is so
▼ It needs to have skewed to users in the United States which could be
more categories off-putting to those in other parts of the world. Yet,
▼ A better headline
overview would
even so, with a tap of My Alerts, it is possible to tailor the
improve the app news to suit your taste, with the choices including major
breaking and world news. You also select news relating
to LBGT issues, business and technology, celebrity and
entertainment and sports (big stories get their own
section which is great for keeping abreast of changing
situations in the world).
This makes it an interesting app to keep handy, letting
you dip in and out for briefings and reaction. A more
comprehensive overview of the headlines would be nice
to cut down on scrolling but the app certainly keeps its
rivals on their toes.
Get notifications and solid overviews of breaking
news stories written with a fresh approach to
current affairs.
■ There are also some interesting graphics and
brief reports
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■ Entertainment pushes a young agenda with ■ Select a category and input some
celebrity and style blogs information for a new collection

 Price Free

Bloglovin’
Read the latest blogs and discover new content
PROS/CONS When Google Reader was axed - a casualty of one
▲ A beautiful, clean of the search engine giant’s more controversial
design putting cuts - numerous apps attempted to fill the void.
content first
▲ You can embark Bloglovin’ was one of them, an offering that relied more on
on a voyage of discovery than on letting you input your own RSS feeds. That
discovery
aspect still remains, but the app looks better than ever with a
▼ The categories
presented to you smart refresh and the addition of a feature called Collections. for Fashion. There is no doubt that this is an app for people
may not suit your
needs It makes a big difference. One of the fundamental aspects who are primarily into art, beauty, design, fashion, lifestyle,
▼ You cannot simply of Bloglovin’ has been its ability to let you browse and save food and drink. If you are into technology, gaming, sci-fi and
input all of your
favourite blogs
pages but this would give you a mass of disjointed articles. so on, you have to do some extra digging via the search
Collections enables you to put those pieces into folders, function and hope that the blog you enjoy reading is there.
letting you build your own library of interesting reads and Get into the app and find those feeds, however, and
ensuring they are well-categorised too. the experience is rewarding. The clean interface with its
The main issue, though, is that the categories well-defined sections along the bottom make light work
recommended by Bloglovin’ will not be to everyone’s taste. of reading through your feed while letting you find what is
Clicking on Popular, for instance, shows the app’s true popular. Each article fits well within the browser and can be
intention: it has a tab for Categories and one specifically saved and shared via social media. For those who don’t want
the finicky aspects associated with readers, it’s perfect.

“The app looks better than ever Smart, straight-forward and with content at the
forefront, if you match its demographic you’re
with a smart refresh and addition sure to love it.
of a feature called Collections”
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Noon Pacific
Get a weekly mixtape of the best new music
There are few things more rewarding than
discovering new artists and music that
become favourites of yours, but the days of
sharing a cassette tape with friends have long gone.
You could spend hours building what you considered
to be a clever and flowing selection of tracks to show
off to your friends back then. With the invent of
phones and tablets, the world has changed, but the
developer of Noon Pacific has tapped into that feeling
by offering a new mixtape every week which you can
stream for free.
The interface is incredibly simple and only shows
a graphic, a list of tracks and extra options which
appear when an action is performed. You can play
them anywhere you have an internet connection and
then move to SoundCloud to do other things with the
latest tracks. It all sounds great and easy to use, but it
“It is in the quality of the
music that this app
truly shines”
■ The interface within Noon Pacific is minimal,
but it still works very well
Entertainment
PROS/CONS is in the quality of the music that this app truly shines.
▲ The simple design is Time after time, we selected tracks from previous
very easy to use weeks and were more than pleasantly surprised at the
▲ The music tracks are
diverse and above
diversity and the feeling the tracks gave us. It is easy to
average in quality understand exactly who has created what and to then
▼ You cannot directly explore further in SoundCloud to listen to more from
download the tracks
▼ The genre of music the same artist.
will not appeal to Working as a catalyst for discovering new tunes, you
everyone
know it is a success when you start to look forward to
the next selection arriving. It is clear that the developer
of this app loves music a lot and this shines through
in the design and the way the tracks are curated.
In a world of complex apps and services which are
designed to grab all of the headlines, this simple app
does exactly what it sets out to and will be one which
you use often. A brilliant app solution with a very
simple, but essential, goal.
A brilliant weekly mixtape for free brings
traditional music sharing to more modern phones
and tablets.
■ There are more options in SoundCloud for
recommended tracks
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n The interface mimics the main iOS home screen
extremely well and is easy to navigate
AppZilla 4: 200 In 1!
Less than half a penny for each app can’t be bad
It would be easy to write off an app
that offers individual titles for
£0.035 as nothing more than a
gimmick, but spend some time with AppZilla
4 and you will be surprised. Obviously it takes
some time to navigate through each
available app, but it’s worth trying as many as
you can.
There are solutions for detecting the
hexadecimal colour of what is seen
through the camera instantly, a useful
magnifier for viewing small text, even a
handy speedometer and many more useful
additions to your iPhone. Add to this a
selection of games (some of which could
stand on their own in the App Store), plus
a series of reference apps and you start to
realise that this collection really is very good
value for money.
The Favourites option also allows you
to select the ones you will use often and
effectively build a mini home screen to
access them. This helps get around the
inherent problem of so many apps being
crammed into one interface.
Of course there are some seemingly
pointless apps included that you will not
use, but don’t let that put you off. Even if you
only pick ten apps as your favourites this
still represents very good value for money.
Having said that, we are sure that you will
enjoy many more than ten; the collection
really is that good.
There are enough useful apps here to
make it worth an impulse purchase,
even if it’s just out of curiosity.

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A Hollow Body
A Holmes-inspired walk around the city of London
A Hollow Body is one of the more
unusual apps we’ve come across
lately: it’s essentially a guided
walking tour for you and a friend to take
around the City of London, starting at
Paternoster Square near St Paul’s Cathedral.
It’s not an educational or historical tour —
it’s sort of an interactive star-in-your-own-
movie type of experience, inspired by the
major Sherlock Holmes exhibition that is
now on show at the Museum of London.
We won’t spoil too much about the
content and what exactly you’ll uncover,
but there are two different routes for you
and your friend to follow, and you will
occasionally meet up along the way. It’s fun
and especially intriguing to do – especially
when you cross each other’s paths – and
there’s nothing particularly dangerous or
embarrassing here. In total it’ll take you
around 45 minutes to fully complete the
walk and, of course, it goes without saying
that you will need to be in London to enjoy
the experience.
The audio commentary and music are
both very well produced, although the app
itself is pretty bare bones. There’s no pause
button, for example, but the content is split
up into three chapters which is some help
if you get lost and need to retrace your
steps. If you’re a Holmes fan or looking for
something a bit out of the ordinary, then
this is worth investigating.
A quirky and unusual experience to try
if you’re in the capital and fancy doing
something a little different.
n The narration and music are professionally done
throughout the app

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MixRadio
Apple Music and Spotify may grab
all the headlines, but you’d miss
out if you did not try MixRadio. It
learns from what you listen to and some
mixes are truly exceptional. The interface is
clean, performance is fast and it is perfect
for those who love discovering new music.
A brilliantly simple music streaming
solution on the move.
 Price Free
Ginger Emoji
There really is a sparsity of emoji
featuring people with red hair. This
app provides a library of ginger-
haired stickers for all occasions. To use them,
just copy and paste a sticker to a message.
Impressively, the app works in a wide variety
of platforms, from Facebook to Twitter.
A bizarre idea for an app which may
actually be useful for some people.
 Price Free
My Idol
My Idol takes the idea of avatars
and expands it in amazing ways.
Photograph your face to build a
lifelike 3D avatar of your whole body and
add clothes and objects to complete it. The
way it is programmed that makes it truly
shine. The results are surprisingly accurate.
An original and polished app. It’s a
great bit of creative fun
 Price £0.79/$0.99
Festvl
Festvl offers all of the obvious info
you need when at a festival from
site maps, weather reports to real-
time updates. The schedule of each festival is
included with links to Spotify and iTunes so
you can be familiar with acts beforehand and
every part is available without the internet.
The perfect companion for any number
of festivals.
Entertainment
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Machinima
Machinima is designed to present
videos in the gamer culture
genre, and despite the niche
audience, it works very well. You will find
yourself immersed in a huge variety of
videogame-related videos which could
take up a lot of your time – in a good way!
If you enjoy the gamer culture, you will
love the content on offer here.
 Price Freemium
Brain+
Popularity has led to app stores
being inundated with brain-
training games. This one takes a
different approach by offering exercises,
which feel like games, and a personal training
program. The design and variety combine for
an app that’ll benefit you if you persevere.
One of the best brain training games
we have seen.
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 Price Freemium

Juilliard Open Studios

Love art? Whether novice or connoisseur, this is music to the ears
PROS/CONS The Juilliard School is one of the world’s finest designed to give you a greater educational insight
▲ The app uses performing arts conservatories. But if that into rehearsals, coaching and classes, providing a
appropriate conjures up images of elitist pomp, then this masterclass for those unable to attend the school
interactions
▲ The videos are well app will go a long way to dispelling any myths. On first itself. There are so many different approaches to this.
shot and packed glance Juilliard Open Studios appears to be a simple Should you wish to gain a greater understanding of
with experienced
people video app offering straightforward episodes about the evolution of choreography, you can use the apps’
▼ Each video takes high-end artistic processes and performance, but you multilayered video comparison. If you want to learn
up between 80 and
150MB of space soon realise that it is entirely approachable and about the synergistic relationship between dance and
▼ You have to entertaining for everyone. music, you can see both disciplines enacted side by
pay a monthly
subscription for the
Most of the episodes’ chapters are interactive but side, tapping on either to view in fullscreen.
videos not in a gimmicky sense. Rather, each element is Being able to watch footage of a brilliant teenage
pianist taught by piano pedagogue Yoheved Kaplinsky
is a joy but more so because pop-ups appear in the
right-hand corner, offering video explanations of key
topics. As you watch and listen to her play, you can
listen to commentary and see the score, enhancing
your enjoying and giving you a lesson at the same
time. And given the high level of the teaching, you feel
as if you are really learning something.
Indeed, from Marcelo Gomes to Larry Keigwin,
the well-shot videos ooze experience, making for a
highly professional app; intuitive in its make-up and
yet complex in its delivery. Note that it works on a
subscription basis. But still, it’s a small price to pay for
those with a strong interest in the arts.
■ From music to dance, the genres covered are wide With high production values and lots of
and varied, ensuring all disciplines are covered
educational and enlightening information, arts
students and lovers will adore this app.

■ The well-shot videos can explain concepts and methods

“Given the high level of teaching,

you feel you’re really learning”
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 Price Free
Alexi
Broaden your reading horizons with advice from famous authors
Even though the internet has altered our
reading habits, for many of us there are still few
greater pleasures than picking up a good book.
The likes of Amazon will use their algorithms to
recommend tomes that you may like based on your
previous reads, but a lot of the fun in reading is being
surprised and stretched. For that, you want a respected
steer and that is where Alexi is hoping to come in. By
allowing guest curators and its in-house team to
generate weekly lists of recommendations, the app seeks
to expand your horizons.
When it begins, it asks you to select some curators.
Each of them come with a biography so even if you are
not familiar with their work, you can at least see what
makes them tick and figure if their recommendations
may work well for you. When you have selected the
ones you like, you can read their lists. Each book
“A lot of the fun in reading is
being surprised and
stretched”
■ Getting around the app is easy, with a clear
drop-down menu available
Entertainment
PROS/CONS recommendation comes with a well-written synopsis
▲ There are some of its content as well as the option to add it to your own
big-name authors
involved as curators
list. If you like the curator’s article you can favourite this
▲ You can build too. And because there are options to share these finds
reading lists with others via social media, email and SMS, the entire
based on
recommendations experience is widened out.
▼ You can’t leave your That’s as social as it gets though. You can’t make
own comments
comments on the book pages and you can’t read the
▼ It is not possible to
directly purchase thoughts of others. The descriptions are also written by
the books listed
Alexi so if you are following a guest curator – and they
number some very well-known authors including John le
Carré and William Boyd - you don’t get to discover exactly
why they have chosen a particular read.
Neither can you buy the books through theAlexi
app. For that you will have to head back to the likes of
Amazon. This may change in time as the app grows. Yet,
Alexi remains an essential app for bookworms and it will
be hard to find such solid curation elsewhere.
A promising start from Alexi that looks to bring
app-based curation to the world of books and
bring new experiences to readers.
■ You can a page with friends and family via
various methods
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 Price Freemium

■ If you’re after Judge Dredd and 2000AD comic
books, look no further
2000 AD Featuring
Judge Dredd
The law doesn’t make mistakes. Do apps?
Aimed squarely at fans of the
comic book series 2000AD, this
store and reader app is a Judge
Dredd fest, offering an incredible number
of comics stretching back 37 years. The vast
majority of the content must be paid for,
with prices ranging from cheap to wallet-
bashing. But the idea is that you will have
all of your reading material in the one place
and this is where the app excels.
It divides the comics up into specific
sections including 2000AD, the Judge
Dredd Megazine, specials and graphic
novels. It also has free content although
this section is sparsely populated (there are
free back issues for those who subscribe to
either 2000AD or the Megazine, though).
Buying an issue is as simple as tapping
on it to order and then waiting for it to
download. Tapping Read will let you
browse by swiping left and right.
If you bookmark pages they’re shown in
a bookmark tab and if you want to view all
of your owned content, you can do so in
the account section. The biggest criticism is
there is no separate section for purchased
items. You need to navigate via the store
and look for the downloaded icons which
can make it rather messy.
If you want to subscribe to one of the
comics, this accessible app is the way
to go.

 Price £6.99/$9.99

GrooveMaker
Become an expert DJ in minutes
You wouldn’t normally think of an
iPhone as the best equipment for
making music, but with
GrooveMaker it actually becomes a powerful
tool. Within a few seconds of picking up the
app we had created a full-on dance loop,
and within minutes we felt like professional
DJs, switching between tracks, using filters
and effects on the beats, and
adjusting audio levels.
First and foremost,
everything is enormously fun.
You have up to eight tracks,
each with different dance
riffs, beats and melodies. Each
has nine different sounds to
choose from, and mixing them
is a simple as tapping a square
on the main screen.
But there’s so much more to play with.
Effects such Filter and Phazer help mix up
the looping track, and you can buy more
sounds within the app. Everything sounds
professional, but it’s really easy to create a
unique mix in just a few seconds. There are
a huge number of options to play with, and
while it could do with a tips page when you
first open the app, the learning curve isn’t
too steep.
It’s expensive, but for those DJs who want
to mix on the move, lovers of dance music, or
those just willing to spend a bit to have some
fun, GrooveMaker is an excellent option.
A fun but powerful way of making
music that anyone can pick up and
enjoy, but pros will also love.

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 Price £2.99/$4.99

John Lennon: The Bermuda Tapes

An interactive history of The Beatle’s last album
There is an undeniable enduring
quality to The Beatles, but also a
continuing fascination with John
Lennon, someone who continues to inspire
entire generations and countless musicians.
This historical app charts his journey in the
summer of 1980 to Bermuda. It was his final
creative period, for months later he would be
shot. There’s no mention of that here; instead
it’s about the merging of art and audio into
a compelling narrative that explores his
influences. It shows how he drew on the
most inspiring figure in his life, Yoko Ono, as
they penned the music of Double Fantasy.
The app has it all: newly discovered
photos, interviews and handwritten lyric
sheets. The audio is crisp, and, with the
benefit of hindsight, often haunting. There is
plenty of it too.
But the music is just as important. The app
places the music and story onto tapes which
play in a retro-style deck, making it feel quite
nostalgic. Sometimes there are interruptions
to the music but it’s a minor distraction.

A well-thought out musical history app

including Lennon’s voice and some
magical music.

 Price Freemium

Mezzo Music Player

An alternative player with an innovative queue
Launching a music player for
iPhone is a bold move with so
many established competitors
– not least Apple’s own native app and the
just-announced new Apple Music – but the
developers of Mezzo don’t seem daunted
by the challenge. The main selling points
for Mezzo are an attractive interface and an
intuitive queue system that lets you easily
navigate around your library.
Much of the app is well designed and
laid out, though you may have to unlearn
the default swipes and actions you’re
used to in your usual music player app; a
short swipe puts a song next in the queue,
a longer swipe adds it to the end of the
current list. The usual song, artist and
album views are included, as well as a lyrics
view that offers the chance to sing along.
Those lyrics didn’t always load correctly
and we noticed one or two other graphical
glitches too. There’s no playlist support
(the app uses your iTunes playlists instead),
an abundance of ugly-looking ads (you
can get rid of them with a £1.49/$1.99
upgrade) and the overall experience is
rather underwhelming.
The design is impressive (though in need
of a little polish) and other apps could learn
from Mezzo’s clever queue system, but
there’s not quite enough here to tempt
people away from the big names in music
player apps.
Mezzo definitely has some good ideas
to offer music fans but ultimately it fails
to impress.
■ Effort has clearly gone into the design of this app,
but it could still do with a polish

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iPhone
Enhance the everyday with your iPhone and these apps

“From weather
updates to recipes,
find everything you
need with these apps”

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Dollarbird – Personal Finance with
Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Windy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Wthr Complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Klout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Weather or Not . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Group Text+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Hotel Tonight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Pillow: Smart Sleep Cycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Wayfare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Clima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Flood Risk Finder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Cody. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Sleep Science HQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Grabble: The Fashion Finder . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Noisli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Facebook Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
YOU-app with Jamie Oliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Blixt for App.net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Scanbot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Sorted Food. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Forks Over Knives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Highball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Simmer by Panna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Lush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Where Chefs Eat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
6Tribes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Grokker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
3 Kinds of Ice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Dingo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Sworkit Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Lyst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Babylon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Humin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Be My Eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Plume Air Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Fit Men Cook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Week Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Yummly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Wants and Needs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Runtastic Leg Trainer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Huffpost Realtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Reuters TV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Hopper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Polyvore Remix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Nat Geo View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Tunepics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Atmos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Baby Name Genius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Parkopedia Parking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
HERE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Streaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Popsugar Weddings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Curator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Foresee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
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■ The calendar view is monthly, ■ Reminders can be on the day of ■ The settings have many options
showing expenditure for each day transaction or before to tailor the app for your needs

 Price £1.49/$1.99

Dollarbird – Personal
Finance with a Calendar
Discover where your money really goes every month
It pays to keep a track of your
PROS/CONS
▲ Expense categories personal finances in the
easily identify current climate to ensure
heavier outgoings
that you’re not living beyond your
▲ A well-designed app
that’s clear and easy means, but it’s not always very easy to
to use
find the perfect app for it. Dollarbird,
▼ Some aspects could
be made clearer, which mashes up a calendar with a
such as incomings personal finance tracker, could well be
▼ A few gestures are
annoying but are it, though.
soon learned In letting you enter incomings and
outgoings on a day-to-day basis, it
offers a more of an at-a-glance view
of where your money is leaking. This
is all done without needing your
bank details or a tiresome email and
password login, taking the chore out
of finances.
Starting off by asking for your
current balance, the app whisks you
straight into the monthly calendar
view. Without any inputs, it looks just
“Great markers mean you can instantly see
what you are spending your pennies on”
like a regular calendar but as you build
it up with your spending and wages,
you will see that each day carries a
handy overview of how much you
have earned and spent that day.
There is a sense at times that the
developer has perhaps tried to be too
clever. When you tap on a new day, it
will show no transactions. To add one,
you need to pull down. It shows a plus
icon and then takes you straight to
the input screen – a simple tap might
have sufficed to get to this stage. It’s a
small point but it started to annoy after
a little while, although it is really quite
easily learned.
The input screen itself, however,
is great. You see a series of icons,
colour-coded and with tiny graphics
that denote anything from groceries,
household, eating out and fun to gifts,
clothing, car and transport. These are
great markers so that you instantly see
what you are spending your pennies
on. There are also spare icons that you
can customise with your own colour
and names.
Tapping on the money section of
this page lets you write the amount
you have spent. The way it works is that
you need to select a category first and
input the money later but the money
section is at the top of the page and
the categories fall underneath – the
display should really be reversed to
avoid confusion here.
There are then three options: choose
a date if it’s different from the one you
initially selected, using a feature that
allows the entry to be repeated – so
you may make a standing order at the
same time every week or month if
you’d like, for example.
There is also a reminder ranging
from the day of transaction to up to
two days before. With note-taking

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How to
Protect financial data with a PIN
01: Swipe
While you’re on the
calendar page, you
will need to swipe up
from the bottom of
your screen to show
the menu. Then just
go on and tap on the
Settings tab if you are
within either Expenses
or Balance.

02: Turn on
You can choose to
toggle the PIN code
protection option to
On by using the slider
and moving it over to
the right. You will then
■ No matter how many items you shell out ■ The app begins by asking how much be shown another
for, the total tally can eventually be found for money you currently have – which can be a screen with four square
the month painful admission for some blocks and a standard
numerical keypad.
abilities to write a little more about the This is where Dollarbird becomes 03: Number
purchase, this screen is near perfect in very useful. Suddenly you see a Now you’ll have to
covering all of the things you would monthly tally of how much you spend input a four-digit PIN
number of your choice.
want to do. and where this leaves you in terms of An original PIN improves
Adding an income isn’t immediately debt. It’s a good way to get a handle on security. You will be
apparent, though. You have to swipe your finances and, even better, a block asked to do this twice in
order to verify it and to
down among the expense icons in is displayed which charts that month- ensure that you haven’t
order to find Salary and Other, and it by-month set of accounts in a very mistyped the number
took a while to work that out – which visual fashion. the first time around.
either says something about the Version 1.1 brought with it a PIN 04: Protect
user or indicates a design flaw. It’s code, which covered the privacy On this screen you
easy to see why this works as it does issues that’d be one of the negatives will be able to see that
PIN code protection is
– outgoings are more regular than that would have otherwise been
now switched on and
incomings, sadly – but it should be mentioned. Although you do need is activated and ready
more obvious. to visit Settings as it isn’t enabled by for the next time you
will use the app. The
Entries can be added at any time, default. It highlights a need to play
PIN code protection
however. You can add entries in the around with apps of this nature to get will now be in the On
future or retrospectively and scrolling familiar with them. Still, the settings are position on the slider.
through the months is a case of comprehensive and you can change
05: Remember
swiping left or right and this works reminder times and export data to CSV The app will now
quite well, and is easy to grasp. Swiping from here too which, again, is evidence continue to ask you for
your personal pin. Don’t
up from the bottom of the screen of some great thinking.
forget it otherwise you
brings up a tally of how much you will lock yourself out
A beautiful-looking financial app
have spent and it details what you have and subsequently lose
that doesn’t need you to link up all of your data. The app
spent it on. This is a multi-tabbed page
with a bank account nor sign-in warns you of this when
too, so not only do you get to see your you first set your pin, so
and works a treat.
expenses but you can instantly view take heed.
the balance.

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“There’s
very little
about the
app that
makes you
feel rushed”
 Price £1.49/$1.99

Windy
Relax and meditate with this calming download
Windy ~ Sleep Relax Meditate with Natural
PROS/CONS
White Noise Sounds, is an app that combines
▲ The application
achieves its goal to the use of natural wind recordings and artwork
relax the user
in order to help its users to relax, whether they are aiming
▲ The artwork and
animations are very to sleep, study or meditate. Through the use of so-called
high quality ‘psychoacoustic 3D audio recording technology’, the app
▼ The scenes can be a
little repetitive uses a series of different scenes worked up with some
▼ The noise effects stunning visual effects to help your find inner calm.
won’t stop unless It is the imagery that is the most impressive part of the
you tell it to, which
could be a real app; you can set the images to move as you tilt the screen,
battery drain
acting as if you were looking out of your window onto the
world. Some of the scenes can be a little repetitive, save a
couple they are all scenes of nature, which makes sense as
it moves away from the hubbub of a busy habitat.
The constant wind recording certainly does provide
a sense of relaxation. You can close the app by hitting
the home button and the wind shall continue, which is
perfect for when you are trying to sleep or meditate, but
could drain your battery. Wearing headphones is the best
approach for total immersion, as it forces other noises to
be drowned out. However, it can sometimes sound like
running water, which can lead to the relaxation method
being disturbed.
There is very little about the app that makes you feel
as though you are being rushed. Each change of screen
runs smoothly and slowly and even the stories you can
read seemingly float into view. This helps to continue the
calming effect, which would be instantly ruined by any
sudden movement. Users do have the option to ignore
the story completely, depending on what your aim of
using the app is, but it isn’t complicated to read and offers
a simplistic access point to let your imagination run wild,
fully immersing you into the scene you see before you.
Overall the application benefits from its calming
output. It has been well thought out and nothing feels
rushed or unfinished.

Windy is successful in its goal to relax its user,

once they are familiar with its interface.

■ Each of the individual scenes is well thought out and in mesmerising 3D ■ The imagery is truly stunning in this app

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 Price £1.49/$1.99

Wthr Complete
Experience one of the most fact-packed weather apps available
If the weather doesn’t really affect you beyond day over the past four years to determine if whatever
PROS/CONS
▲ Accurate and deciding what to wear on a brief commute to conditions you are experiencing are normal. In truth you’ll
absolutely packed work then you’d be better off downloading one probably only explore this little feature a handful of times,
with stats
▲ Everything is clearly
of the many free weather apps. However, if you’re but that fact that it’s there has impressed us regardless of
presented in a sharp frequently at one with the elements then Wthr Complete the practicality.
and stylish interface
is as good a source of accurate predictions and The app’s settings let you change the units in
▼ What it delivers
above and beyond atmospheric insight you could hope to find on your very which the various stats are displayed and you can also
the free apps is
open to debate
own iPhone. activate push notifications to keep you informed on
▼ The search function Information regarding your current location will be climate changes. There is also help at hand to help
could be quicker, loaded into the app when you launch it, but you can you understand key stats, such as the Air Quality and
but it’s merely a
microscopic niggle also add in additional locations to populate the screen, UV indexes. It’s hard to sound excited about a weather
which is ideal for planning holidays or road trips. When app and be convincing, but Wthr Complete delivers
a location has been stored, tap on it to see a wealth of everything you need in a stylish and accessible interface
additional weather-related information. This includes and apart from eradicating the cost to download it, we
eight-day forecasts, air quality, UV, sunrise/sunset times, really couldn’t ask for more.
the current moon phase and more – simply scroll
Expertly delivers an array of accurate weather
through the various pages and you’ll be amazed at the
stats for any location in the world in the time it
level of detail that is relayed within seconds.
takes to wipe a spot of rain off your lapel.
Wthr Complete also dares to be original too, by
allowing you to check the conditions for any given

“When a location has been stored,

tap on it to see a wealth of
additional weather-related info”

■ The radar maps can be customised to ■ Add locations to your home screen
display at-a-glance info of your choice and tap for in-depth weather reports

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 Price Free
Klout
Klout takes social networking and
mixes it with news curation. Find
articles that interest you and post
comments. This builds up a picture of you
over time for others. The interface is lovely
and simply requires swiping articles up to
post them, and suits mobile devices well.
A clever marriage of news curation and
social networking.
 Price £0.69/$0.99
Hotel Tonight
Hotel Tonight brings a level of
professionalism to an often-dire
proceedings. Simply tap on an
image for details for hotels and scroll
through the imagery. The entire process of
booking can be done in seconds and the
range on offer is very impressive.
A visually splendid solution for finding
places to stay.
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Weather
or Not
This app analyses calendar entries
and offers a bespoke set of info so
you can see what the weather will
be like at certain times. The interface is
sumptuous yet subtle and makes for a useful
tool ideal for anyone with appointments
where the weather is an important factor. It
may not suit everyone, but it could be a vital
app in certain lines of work, like photography.
A clever app which shows you weather
forecasts based on your calendar.
 Price £1.99/$2.99
Pillow: Smart
Sleep Cycle
Pillow is one of a number of sleep
recording apps, but the feature
set included here is phenomenal.
With sleep tracking and an optimal wake
up time we’re off to a good start, but the
list continues. Powernap modes, sleep aid
melodies, synchronisation, history tracking
and much more offer all that you need.
You should never underestimate the
importance of sleep.
 Price £2.29/$2.99
Group Text+
Group Text+ lets you quickly send
messages to groups of people set
up from your contacts. The set-up
process is very simple and there are many
shortcuts such as showing location and
sharing GIFs. It only takes a few taps and
could be a new solution for group messages.
A clever and time-saving way to send
group messages.
 Price Free
Wayfare
Wayfare should win awards for its
idea as it is one of few services
that lets you experience cultures
around the world. You connect with people
in other countries, complete missions and
share photos, which quickly becomes
rewarding. It takes time, but is great fun.
If you have some spare time, Wayfare
will teach and entertain you every day.

 Price £0.69/$0.99
Clima
Despite the sparseness of the
interface there is a lot of weather-
related info and forecasts for
multiple locations. In comparison to other
apps it is worth giving it a try, but for those
serious about weather tracking they may
prefer a more complex, detailed solution.
An easy and accurate weather app
which may be too simple for some.
 Price £1.49/$1.99
Sleep Science
HQ
This sleep app delivers. You get 750
natural sounds to wake you up
with the ability to wake up during
light-sleep. The app measures movements
and lets you create notes of dreams too.
Is this the ultimate sleep monitor? Yes,
it probably is.
 Price £0.79/$0.99
Flood Risk
Finder
Great apps need two things –
obvious design and a practical
use, and Flood Risk Finder has
both. All you have to do is enter your
address or use your location, and it will tell
you what risk your property falls under. The
design is simple and the accuracy of the
results is just what you need. Useful if you
suspect you’re moving onto a flood plain.
A superb app for finding out your
property’s flood risk.
 Price Free
Grabble: The
Fashion Finder
Grabble lets you grab any item to
then buy it from within the app. It’s
not a new concept, but it’s great at
suggesting purchases as it understands your
style from your choices, and we found many
garments which fit our tastes perfectly. If
you’re running out of outfit ideas, there are
trends from Grabble stylists to get inspired.
A personal shopper in your pocket – an
inspired app for fashion lovers.
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Cody
We can’t complain about the
quality of exercises within Cody,
or how they work. Stream them
to your TV, follow the instructions and then
share your progress with friends any time.
It works beautifully, but you will have to
pay for a range of exercises.
For those serious about exercise, this a
clever and inexpensive solution.
 Price £1.49/$1.99
Noisli
Noisli is similar to other apps with
nature sounds, but it has many
advantages. The UI is brilliant and
all you have to do is tap an image to play the
sound, and tap another to blend them. With
a timer that fades out the sounds as you drift
off, and it does everything it promises.
A superb interface that works perfectly
with the included sound effects.
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 Price Free

Facebook Groups
Another spin-off app you never knew you needed
Initially, we struggled to discredit
the sheer superfluousness of this
app as it seemingly only served as
a means to access your Facebook groups
outside of the actual Facebook app.
Perhaps the grand plan is to migrate this
aspect of the service from the main app
into another, like Messenger successfully
managed before it, but for now it serves
only as an optional extra.
The app is divided between four
sections, each accessible via icons at the
bottom of the sparse interface. The Groups
section lists all of your active groups and
allows you to create brand new ones,
whereas the Notifications section simply
lists recent alerts.
■ All of your groups are in a simple grid
What we do like is the Discover section,
as this lets you effortlessly browse for new
groups to join in a far more straightforward
way than in the main Facebook app. It
presents a selection of recommendations
and you can enter keywords to find more
groups. The app is rounded off with the
obligatory Settings section, which allows
you to tailor alerts to specific groups.
While we’re a little suspicious of the ‘why
have one app when you can use three’
logic of another Facebook service, we have
to recommend this simply because it is
a quicker and easier way to monitor and
manage your groups. If you frequently use
Facebook groups, it provides fast access.
An efficient app in its function, but
the very existence of it means a star is
struck from the score!

 Price Free

YOU-app with Jamie

Oliver
It’s all about you, you, you – and that’s great
Many of us will make New Year’s
resolutions. But it’s a fair bet that
very few, if any, remain which is
why the You-app may well be on to
something with this life alterations app.
Created in partnership with chef Jamie
Oliver, the You-app wants users to perform
one ‘micro-action’ each day, an approach the
developers say is scientifically proven to help
enrich your life and make you more aware of
your surroundings. To that end, none of the
simple tasks should take much more than
a minute to complete. They typically entail
you snapping a photo of something, be it
someone who makes you happy or a meal in
which half the food is a healthy green.
In its instructions, the app is encouraging.
Oliver explains the benefit of each task in
a chatty, personal style. The photos can
be shared on the app’s social network and
fellow users can ‘like’ them. And while it is all
very twee in approach and appearance, the
app’s sugary sweet wrapping is part of the
attraction. For this app is easy on the eye,
simple to navigate and is, in many ways, the
perfect lazy person’s approach to life-change.
Consider it at the start of the new year.
We all need a nudge to make positive
changes to our lives and You-app may
have hit the right formula.
■ The app begins with some ‘starting actions’ - little
ideas for photos to get you going

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Blixt for App.net

App.net has had a rough time – this may be its saviour
For those who just cannot
encapsulate their thoughts into
140 characters, there is App.net, an
ad-free social network that lets you write
messages of up to 256. Blixt is a client for
App.net, letting users navigate the network
on their handset in a simple format – so
simple that you often swipe around to see if
it does more than it appears to. It doesn’t.
This cut-down approach to the interface
means you are able to view profiles as
well as check your mentions. You can also
have multiple accounts, quickly switching
between them. There’s no lag and scrolling is
immense. App.net isn’t the most popular of
services but it’s worth being a member just
to use this.
A nice touch is access to an in-app web
browser that opens in a full screen. Send
content to a reading list, post, copy or email
the URL, or open it in Safari. Writing messages
is also a joy with a screen count keeping a
tally of your characters. You can add images,
too. Best of all, Blixt allows for text to be
turned into a link for others to access via a
browser. All you need is to have a URL saved
in the clipboard and it will be detected and
subsequently included.
There may not be a private message
facility and the app crashed on us a couple
of times but they were small issues. They
certainly didn’t affect the overall enjoyment
and quality of the app.
Minimalist yet bold, this is a smooth-
scrolling beauty that social networkers
will love.

 Price £1.49/$1.99

Scanbot
Scan your eyes over this user-friendly mobile scanner
Scanner apps for mobile devices
are nothing new but they can be
fiddly to use. Using your phone to
take a shot of an A4 sheet in paper in most
instances can lead to a many retakes.
This is still the case with Scanbot,
especially since it doesn’t straighten scans
like rival CamScanner. But, given that it
puts speed at the heart of its operation, the
process of getting a good shot was made
far easier. To get going, you press a large +
button to access the camera.
You can make use of the flash and
decide if you want to scan multiple pages.
Then you just snap away using the camera
shutter icon. Once a scan has been made,
you can apply colour, grey and black and
white filters, use the crop tool to fine-
tune the scan and rotate the image. The
resulting scans are of brilliant quality and
the app creates PDFs and JPGs that are
200dpi and higher.
Each scan is then saved. You can then
send them to all of the major cloud
services such as iCloud and Dropbox. You
can also add a signature, email or attach
them to SMS, open them in iBooks or
Adobe Reader. With automatic uploads
and the ability to save JPGs to the camera
roll, Scanbot is certainly very versatile. Add
more tools and it will become a much-
loved, unmissable app. Until then, a few
tweaks are still needed.
Scanbot is a quality mobile scanner
which, given greater user controls,
could seize the market.
■ The editing tools allow for signatures and notes to
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■ The main menu is arranged into four rows ■ The Fridgecam videos are amusing, taking a
that can be swiped sideways fun view of cookery

 Price Free

Sorted Food
Share your delicious food videos with others
PROS/CONS Launched by a group of young British foodie
▲ Entertaining, friends in 2010, the Sorted Food YouTube cookery
broadcast-quality channel has built up a following of over 870,000
cookery videos
▲ Some great subscribers who enjoy the mix of tasty recipes and light-
recipes plus social hearted presentational style. The next logical step was to
interaction
launch this dedicated app, which offers a range of extra
▼ No way to store the
recipes for offline social network-style benefits by enabling users to follow In total, over 700 free recipes are included, so the search
use on your phone
others, interact and upload their own recipes. facility comes in handy. You can also browse the database
▼ sers can’t upload
their own videos After signing in by email or Facebook, you get to create by cuisine, dish type, main ingredient and special diet. Each
a profile including food loves and hates. The photo-laden recipe features step-by-step instructions and an ingredients
main menu then appears, arranged into four swipeable tiers. list. Favourite recipes can be bookmarked and shared via
At the top is a selection of recipes by the Sorted team. Below Facebook, Twitter or email. A novel interactive element is
that are categories such as Recommended, What’s Trending the ability to add comments and photos to recipes, so you
and Fridgecam – an irreverent look at food, including one might well suggest tweaks or variations.
Italian recipe where the cooks dress up as Mario and Luigi! Only recipes by the Sorted team feature a video, since
Then there are featured foodies whom you may choose to users can only upload photos. Plus, videos are streamed
follow, while at the bottom are top-rated user recipes. from YouTube, so aren’t viewable offline. It would be nice to
be able to download standard recipes for offline use, too.

“In total, over 700 free recipes are A well-designed cookery app with some great

included, so the search facility recipes, amusing videos and a novel social aspect
to proceedings.
comes in handy”
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Forks Over Knives
An app that makes cooking easy and healthy? Thank Forks for that!
If you’re in the mood for a dirty burger keep
walking, as Forks Over Knives is designed
with your nutritional well-being in mind. The
app features over 130 sumptuous dishes comprising of
whole-food, plant-based recipes from over 20 leading
chefs that are updated weekly and are easy to prepare
to ensure that you never have to pass by the good stuff
in favour of an artery-clogging quick fix.
The main menu is dedicated to recipes; simply scroll
through the sections, pick a category, including Pasta
& Noodles, Soups & Stews and Baked & Stuffed, and
then swipe down through the recipe lists when you
spot one that gets you salivating. You will then see a
summary page that is penned by the chef responsible
and features info such as the size of the serving and
the time it takes to prepare. Tabs at the top of the
screen will then take you to the required ingredients
“Whatever your ability in the
kitchen, this app provides
plenty inspiration”
■ The recipe content is regularly updated to
ensure you have plenty of choice
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PROS/CONS list and the all-important method for preparing the
▲ Clean, easy to use dish. The really useful thing about the ingredients list
and very welcoming is that you can add the items on it that don’t currently
▲ Packed with mouth-
watering recipes
reside in your cupboards to an in-app shopping list.
▼ Not as many recipes This list can then be accessed via the icon at the
as many other apps bottom of the interface for easy referral when you’re at
▼ The price may put
some people off
the supermarket.
When you come to prepare the dish, not only is
each recipe broken down into easy steps, you can also
tap on a step to view the ingredients you are working
with for that specific step. It’s a simple feature that
makes following recipes much easier. You can also
share recipes and add them as favourites with a single
tap and even see the recipes that have proved most
popular with the Forks Over Knives community at
large. So whatever your ability in the kitchen, this app
provides plenty of inspiration and simple steps to help
you rustle up something a bit tasty.
Well-designed, brilliantly executed and an
enthusiastic advocate of healthy eating. What
more could you want?
■ Each recipe is presented by the chef and is
beautifully designed
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n The styling of the app is attractive and organised for
a bartending experience without the fuss
Highball
Maintain a cocktail library for budding bartenders
There are plenty of bartending
apps around but Highball, like any
self-respecting cocktail
connoisseur, stands out from the crowd.
Boasting an elegant but simple layout,
Highball is a place to store your favourite
cocktail recipes. Each cocktail has its own
individual card, which is visible from the
homepage, and a simple click on the cocktail
that strikes your fancy brings up a list of
ingredients (which are measured in ounce or
millimetre depending on your personal
preference) and instructions.
Your own personal cocktail collection can
be enhanced by adding recipes from a vast
library, which includes a host of entries from
the International Bartenders’ Association,
while there is also the option to create your
own classy drink card.
Each of the individual cocktail cards can
be edited to suit your own tastes and shared
via Facebook, Twitter or even with the rest
of the Highball community – it is never nice
drinking alone after all.
It is worth noting that there are
promotions for Studio Neat’s Ice Kit and
Simple Syrup Kit within the app but they
are inoffensive and never interfere with the
overall experience of what is a simple, but
very effective, bit of kit for cocktail drinkers.
All in all, it really is about the cocktails, and if
you’re a fan of fancy colourful drinks, you’re
sure to love this app.
A place for the discerning drink-maker
to store all of their favourite recipes for
that next cocktail party.

 Price Free

Simmer by Panna
Need culinary inspiration or have dishes to share?
If you fancy yourself as a super-
chef, then this app provides the
perfect portal through which to
broadcast your recipes and methods to
other foodies. From the menu you can
swipe down through the culinary delights
of other chefs to get inspired and each
recipe comes with a simple icon bar of
options. You can mark recipes as favourites,
share them with others and even follow
the chef responsible so you can see what
they rustle up next.
When you are ready to start unleashing
your own kitchen exploits on the world
you can tap the ‘+’ icon and then give your
dish a name. The simple interface then
makes it easy to add images, an ingredients
list and write up steps for your audience
to follow en-route to preparing your dish.
Whatever you create and publish is then
linked to your profile so others can leave
comments, ‘like’ your dishes and follow you,
Twitter-style.
The menu icon in the top-left corner of
the interface provides quick links to the
chefs that you follow, your favourite dishes
and more – so a wide range of great dishes
to suit any occasion is never far away.
Think of this as a social network for chefs
that is exceptionally well executed for easy
access in even the hottest of kitchens.
Connect to other foodies and share your
own culinary adventures.
A great way to get quick-fix inspiration
for a wide range of dishes and share
your own recipes with the world.
n If you come across a particularly sumptuous dish,
you can mark it as a favourite

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■ Every cocktail imaginable is listed alphabetically for
you in this delectable app
Lush
There’s more to cocktails than cherries and hangovers
Fans of exotic tipples will
doubtless be delighted with Lush:
Cocktails and Mixed Drinking
Recipes, which provides a comprehensive
A-Z of cocktails to suit any season or
occasion. Tabs at the bottom of the screen
let you access the various sections that
make up the app and starting with the
aforementioned index, you can browse
cocktails alphabetically and then tap on
one to view the ingredients, measures and
preparation instructions.
The next tab lets you view a list of
ingredients – handy for seeing which
cocktails you can shake with what alcoholic
remnants lie in your cupboard – and that
is followed by a useful list of drinks best
suited to specific occasions. So if you’re
staging an impromptu party, then you can
easily look up which cocktails go with the
season and the event.
Also included in the app is a list of
cocktails tailored to various flavours (if
you’re in a cinnamon or bitter kind of
mood, for example) and, of course, the
obligatory favourites section, where
all of the cocktails that you try, like and
subsequently ‘heart’ are stored for easy
future access.
Everything the discerning cocktail
enthusiast could need is here with no
unnecessary flab to help justify the slightly
higher price tag.
Expertly designed and executed, this
app makes it easy to discover and enjoy
exciting and exotic beverages.

 Price £10.99/$14.99

Where Chefs Eat

Rich taste in food? You may need a bigger wallet
There are two main choices when it
comes to eating out: the familiarity
of a chain restaurant or somewhere
rather more unique, whether its a hole in the
wall or an eaterie backed by a recognisable
chef. Where Chefs Eat serves up the latter,
with recommendations from more than 600
leading cooks.
Although it’s an expensive app which
caters for the very best (read, costly)
restaurants there is no doubt it is easy to
use. The main page is split into three main
sections: Where, Chefs and Eat. Where allows
for a manual search, letting you narrow
locations down to city. Chefs gives a bio of
each food expert and a list of their eateries,
and Eat lists every recommendation in
alphabetical order. The app can also use your
location for faster results.
The results can be filtered according to
region, cuisine type, price and the highly
tipped, and you can view restaurants
according to the kind of meal you want
(from breakfast to high end, to the most
quirky or adventurous).
When you find a restaurant of your liking,
you get full details including whether credit
cards can be used to pay, a phone number
for the establishment and the opening hours.
These can then be shared via social media,
SMS or email. The reviews could do with
being longer than a few words but this is an
app to savour.
Expensive and high-end, Where Chefs
Eat is nevertheless a great pocket
resource for a special culinary treat.
■ Each listing is comprehensive, giving you all the
details you need for a booking

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 Price Free
6Tribes
6Tribes takes an original approach
to social networking by bringing
you together with people who
have the same interests as you. Your ‘tribes’
are created based upon one big topic such
as Urban Explorers. This has the potential
to be a very popular service.
A new approach to social networking
which has not been done before.
 Price Free
Dingo
Dingo is designed to focus the
buying and selling of tickets in one
space and, because of this, you can
be assured of reaching a targeted audience.
The controls are as natural as you could hope
for, and there are no commissions or fees, but
we have a concern about long-term security.
Take the randomness out of ticket
transactions with Dingo. It works well.
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Grokker
With a full title of Grokker Yoga,
Fitness & Cooking Videos, this app
delivers what you would hope it
would. The interface is very professional
and the clean presentation of each video is
even better. It covers yoga, general fitness
and cooking in equal measure and once
you start there is more than enough
motivation to keep you trying to get fitter
every single day, which could potentially
change your life.
A huge variety of fitness videos keep
you fit and in shape.
 Price £2.49/$3.99
Sworkit Pro
Sworkit Pro is a workout app that
offers just the right amount of
variety for anyone who is looking
to improve their fitness. The instructions are
extremely easy to follow and there is genuine
science behind each of the workouts which
should help to offer a range of benefits.
This fitness app is packed with help and
varied exercise.
 Price Free
3 Kinds of Ice
3 Kinds of Ice is designed to help
you discover new bars,
restaurants and establishments
by taking you to each venue within the
app. It certainly looks stunning and is
informative to use which makes it well
worth checking out.
A wonderfully presented app which
could help you discover new places.
 Price Free
Lyst
Shopping for clothes can be
tiresome. Lyst is designed to send
alerts when items go on sale and
when they are available, and in our tests it
worked flawlessly. The content is huge and
the variety is good, but of course it may not
have everything you like.
Find the clothes you want and wait for
offers and availability to come to you.
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PROS/CONS In the UK, the NHS is always on

▲ You can usually get the agenda, usually due to
hold of a doctor
within 10 minutes
grumbles that it can take two
▲ Consultations are weeks to see a GP. The Babylon app hopes
friendly and can to ease the situation by providing a private
be done with the
doctor by phone or healthcare solution which cuts waiting
video
times and puts a doctor in your pocket 12
▼ The service is not
free and Babylon hours a day, six days a week.
needs to make this Developer Babylon Health may not
more clear
▼ The app could do mention it on the App Store page but, first
with the option of month aside, the service costs £4.99 per
passcode protection
month or £29 a pop on a pay-as-you-go
account. For that, you gain access to many
GMC-registered, fully qualified doctors who
■ When you need
a consultation, you can advise on a wide range of conditions
only have to tap a few from rashes to diabetes. The doctors can
basic options
sign prescriptions (and repeats) and have
 Price Freemium them delivered to a nearby chemist.

Babylon Consult doctors – even get Booking an appointment is simple

and effective. Once you’ve registered
a repeat prescription your mobile number, you tap the Book a
Consultation button and decide whether
you want a GP or specialist. You then
arrange to speak to a doctor at a certain
time by phone or video and potentially
add notes, or take a photo of a specific
complaint. The consultation worked in the
same way as in real life, asking questions in
the hope of reaching a diagnosis.
Clinical records are also available and
the Records function of the app lets
you include GP details, medications and
allergies. You can also hook into Apple’s
Health app to monitor your general
wellbeing daily. We particularly liked the
free Ask a Question option which enables
you to ask general healthcare questions
and receive a qualified answer within a few
working hours.

Babylon gives users a glimpse into the

future of healthcare - but it will cost you
■ You can see at a glance to find out.
how generally fit (or
otherwise) you are each day

“Arrange to speak to a doctor at

a certain time by phone or video
and potentially add notes”
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Humin
Intelligently organise your phone’s contacts
Keeping all of your contact information up to There are plenty of plus points, though. The interface
PROS/CONS
▲ Smooth, date and easy to find is a challenge that many is beautifully slick and responsive, the search tool is a
intelligent contact have taken on. Humin is the latest clever app to revelation when it works, and the way it can order your
management that
works automatically have a go – it wants to replace the default Phone app on contacts based on time, location and the frequency of
▲ Natural search is a your iPhone with something that’s more intelligent, more past communications is really helpful if that’s what you’re
great way of calling
up contacts based intuitive and more reliable. looking for.
on different criteria It can scan in contacts from various sources, for a start, When you need to actually make a call or send a
▼ Needs good source
data (e.g. from
tapping into your existing contacts list, your Gmail, your message, Humin has to fall back on the default iOS apps
Facebook) in order Facebook account and your calendar for data. It then lets – this is a little clunky (Humin says it’s due to restrictions
to work well
you run smart searches based on the information it has in iOS) but it worked well enough in our testing. There’s
▼ Has to fall back on
default iOS apps stored: which of your contacts are in town? Who is the lots of promise here – Apple, Google and Microsoft could
for calling and
messaging functions colleague who works in accounts? How many contacts take note – but you need to add all your other accounts
do you have who went to the same school as you? and hope the data is up to date for it to live up to its
In theory, Humin can answer natural search queries potential and change the way you access contacts on
— such as “who did I meet last night?” – but of course your iPhone.
it’s dependent on the quality of the data it has in the first
Certainly an improvement over the default Phone
place. It can be a little hit and miss, particularly if you’re
app but it’s not perfect and contains a fair few
not keen to give up the keys to your Facebook and Gmail
limitations that hold it back.
accounts to let the app build up a picture of who you
speak to most.

“It then lets you run smart

searches based on the information
it has stored”

■ The links Humin makes between your ■ You can edit contact information and
contacts is one of the best features merge contacts together

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■ The demo video helpfull explains the virtues ■ Getting started with Be My Eyes is quick and
of the app straightforward

 Price Free

Be My Eyes
The sighted leading the way for the blind
The idea behind Be My Eyes is simple; if you’re
PROS/CONS
▲ Great idea blind, you can get help from a sighted volunteer
underpinning the over your smartphone; if you’re one of those
app
volunteers, you can donate as much or as little of your
▲ Smooth sign-up
process only takes time as you like and wait until someone needs assistance.
minutes
That assistance could be anything from identifying
▼ Seems to be a long
time between calls what’s in a tin of food to guiding someone through a given 50,500 times through the service — so someone
▼ App is too simple department store. When you lend your eyes to someone somewhere must be making use of it. It’s possible that
and uninformative
in need, a live video connection is established, and you there’s a hardcore of very active sighted users with high
take it from there — as you help more and more people, ratings who the app turns to first.
you can build up points and your Be My Eyes reputation. We can’t therefore comment on the quality of the
The only problem is, we have no idea if it works in video connection or the ease with which you can
practice. Despite spending a week with the app, we were assist someone else (or indeed get assistance), but the
never called upon to help anyone out, and if you read premise is sound. On the downside, the app is sparse
through the reviews, it seems to be a common problem. and intimidating. There’s no indication if you’re likely
The app’s real-time statistics say 15,300 blind users and to be called any time soon, but if you are asked to give
155,000 sighted users have registered, and help has been assistance then there’s no obligation to do so — if you’re
busy the app will just move on.

“It’s possible that there’s a hardcore A great idea in theory and people are making use
of it, but we’re just not sure about how Be My Eyes
of very active sighted users who actually works in practice.
the app turns to first”
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 Price Free

Plume Air Report

■ There are 60 cities to choose from, and it will advise
you on doing various activities in each
Save yourself from smog with this pollution app
Going outside for a breath of fresh
air isn’t always wise or healthy
especially if you live or work in a
busy, polluted city. The environment can be
palpably choking with particles from traffic,
combustion and even natural occurrences
such as volcanic eruptions, but the level of
them can depend on the wind speed and
temperature. To take the guess work out of
assessing when it’s safe to take a deep
breath, Plume uses real-time analysis to
predict the air quality.
For a start, the app looks great. It’s clean
and neatly sectioned with all of the main
information located at the top of the screen.
At the bottom of the screen is a graph which
builds throughout the day, showing the
peaks and troughs of the air quality. You can
slide your finger back through time to see
what the air quality was like in the recent
past. But if you just want a clear snapshot of
the air at the current moment, look at the
description: it can range from fresh air to
extreme pollution.
To assess whether it’s wise to leave the
house or office, you can choose from one
of four activities: outdoor sports, cycling,
bringing the baby out and eating outside.
By tapping on the different buttons, the
app tells you if you should be cautious or
whether it is safe to just go for it. You can
also set up handy notifications for when the
pollution peaks.
For those with breathing difficulties
or anyone concerned about pollution,
Plume is an essential.

 Price £2.29/$2.99

Fit Men Cook

Eat your way to a healthier lifestyle
Grabbing a slice of pizza is easy,
right? But you won’t be surprised
to know that there are much
healthier alternatives out there. Fit Men
Cook looks to help novice cooks rustle up
tasty, cheap and healthy meals that won’t
leave them stuck in the kitchen for ages.
As well as providing access to
hundreds of text-based recipes, most
are accompanied by video instructions
so that you can follow at your own pace.
Embedded videos can sometimes be a
little unresponsive and crash frequently,
but they’re certainly great for less confident
cooks. After regularly using the app, you
can collate your favourite recipes into your
own grocery list, so you’ll know all the
ingredients you need to buy, while noting
the ones you should really avoid.
If you then want to take it to the next
level, you can spend some time exploring
the nutritional information section of
the app, which is used to track your daily
calorie and protein intake.
Fit Men Cook is nowhere near as in-
depth as downloading an independent
fitness tracker, but the core features do
work very well here.
For those who are looking for a suitably
easy way to start cooking healthy meals
from scratch, Fit Men Cook is by no means
the best app for it on the market, but it’s
certainly worth flicking through to pick up
some inspiration.
The selection of recipes within Fit Men
Cook rivals many of its competitors.
■ There are plenty of tasty meals for you to try out,
and all the info you need is on display

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Week Weather
Will it be rain or sun this week? Find out instantly
Weather experts say the limit for
making forecasts is between ten
and 14 days. That’s good news to
anyone using Week Weather which not
only concentrates on a smaller timescale of
seven days but presents the data in such a
way that it makes it easier than any of its
rival apps to see what the elements are set
to throw at you in the days to follow.
The app presents the weather over seven
columns for your current location, running
the times down the side so you get a good
idea of the forecasts throughout each day.
You can slide up and down to contract
or expand the data, and you can choose
from the general forecast to specific
information about the temperature, clouds,
rain, wind and humidity. By tapping on
one of the blocks within a column, you
get a comprehensive snapshot the data
relating to that day and time period and,
if you want to view the weather reports
for another location, you just tap the +
and enter a name. Sometimes the app is a
little slow to respond to a tap but it’s only a
minor negative.
For overall, Week Weather is a brilliant
offering. You can tailor it to suit the metrics
you want and you can also alter the time
period from 24-hour to 12-hour for easier
viewing. More importantly, it appears to
be accurate – certainly for the locations we
looked at anyway.
This is well designed and shows you a
solid view of the week’s weather in a
flash (of lightning).

 Price Free

Yummly
Recipes for success
For a beautiful recipe app, you
need look no further: Yummly has
got all you need and more, with
lots of options that you didn’t even know
you wanted.
Yummly ’s great for looking up recipes that
are suited to your tastes as the search filters
are helpfully separated into different diets,
courses, prep times and global cuisines to
name just a few. You can even search recipes
by their nutritional values, so for example if
you wanted a low-sugar dessert, it’s easy to
find one with this app. You can also search by
technique, so you’ll find something to whip
up in no time if you want to test out a new
blender, for example.
The recipes are reliable, informative and
accompanied by mouthwateringly big
pictures. Each recipe has a serving count
that can be adjusted to automatically give
you new amounts of each ingredient, and
these can then be added to a shopping list
within the app. You can add to this list with
ingredients outside of Yummly should you
want to remember to top up on something
in your fridge – just scan the barcode of
whatever’s running low and Yummly will do
all the work for you.
The app is truly a pleasure to use, gestures
are smooth and animations are fluid too.
There are several buttons to go alongside
the many features available, all without being
overbearing and difficult to use.
With a bundle of recipes, Yummly
is a comprehensive app with user
experience in mind.
■ Tapping Yum on a recipe will help the app
recommend other recipes

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Wants
and Needs
Keeping track of aspirational
items is not easy. However, Wants
and Needs gives you a way to
easily note what you want, what you need
and what you should be thankful for. With
this app you can start to understand what
is really important and it works perfectly.
The simplicity of the system is ideal for this
task and we have to recommend it highly.
A beautiful way to track the important
things in your life.
 Price Freemium
Reuters TV
Whether you want the best-quality
news coverage for work or
entertainment, this is an app that
will give you every feature you could need.
You can watch live news feeds and also
download longer segments, all for a very low
monthly subscription.
Serious news with reliable performance
and a simple design.
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Runtastic
Leg Trainer
Keep your lower limbs in shape
with this new app from Runtastic.
In this free download you can
view and follow over 50 videos which are
exceptionally well produced. The variety of
workouts included is impressive and you
can measure your heart rate while
exercising. Seriously, there is nothing
missing from this app.
Highly professional video exercises to
put you in top shape.
 Price Free
Hopper
Finding the best prices for flights
has always been a lottery, but
Hopper helps you find the best-
possible offerings. It can notify you of price
drops, the best travel dates and promises
savings up to 40%. In our tests we continually
found very impressive prices.
A flight recommendation app that
actually delivers on its promises.
 Price Free
HuffPost
Realtime
The streamlined newsfeed in
HuffPost Realtime makes a lot of
sense as it should ensure that you
catch up on news in real-time. The problem
is that this can cause overload which
ultimately makes understanding what is
happening difficult. Add to this an
inconsistent approach to how the news
displays and we were left feeling bemused.
A competent news app which needs to
offer more to truly stand above the rest.
 Price Free
Polyvore
Remix
The idea of an app that attempts to
help you create an entire outfit
without the need to do any work is
not new, but the way that Polyvore Remix
works lifts it above the competition. We
experimented with many items of clothing
and we were pleasantly surprised at how
effectively it could create selections.
An innovative way to quickly create an
entire outfit.

 Price Free
Nat Geo View Tunepics
The content in Nat Geo View is
professional, educational and often
exhilarating. Each day you can
come back to see new photos and videos,
and it will quickly become an app you will
want to check to make sure you are not
missing anything. Plus, it’s free.
The content here is stunning, but it
would be nice to see more.
 Price Freemium
Baby Name
Genius
Baby name books and services are
useful, but tend to leave the
feeling that the task is a chore.
Baby Name Genius makes the task more
enjoyable by showing poll results for each
name, offering meanings and including a
variety of features. The interface adds to
the colourful tone throughout.
Take away the pain when trying to find
baby names. There is a lot to like here.
 Price Free
Tunepics lets you share music
alongside photos, emotions and
weather effects to show how the
tune makes you feel. It sounds too basic to
work when compared to social networks
that let you share everything, but it really
does. The lack of options focuses the mind.
An unusual and innovate way to share
music, photos and emotions together.
 Price Freemium
Parkopedia
Parking
Parking in a busy town is never
easy and finding car parks with
decent rates can be like looking
for a needle in a haystack. Parkopedia
Parking helps by showing accurate
directions, the rates for each car park and
every other piece of parking information
that you may need.
This app will be the perfect solution for
those of you who need to park often.
Lifestyle
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Atmos
Atmos is like other weather apps in
that it breaks down conditions and
forecast to a simple visual form. It is
elegantly designed and does what it should,
but so do many others. The difference here is
that the widget is impressive as is the way it
works on Apple Watch.
A simple weather app with some useful
and clever functionality built in.
 Price Free
HERE
For features alone it is hard to
knock HERE as it offers quality
navigation, maps for over 100
countries, real-time traffic information,
public transport data and a clever route
planner. When compared to expensive
alternatives it really does offer lots.
A fully featured navigation app offering
the features most people need.
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Streaks
Log your daily habits and change your lifestyle
Streaks is nothing to do with washing clothes
PROS/CONS
▲ Neat design and or running naked across a football pitch and
intuitive to use everything to do with forming habits to
▲ Cuts out most improve your life. The ‘streaks’ in question are the
unnecessary clutter
▼ Six task limit can be continuous run of days where you hit your target,
a problem whatever that might be: walking a certain distance,
▼ No historical data reading part of a book, writing and so on. You can set
view
daily or weekly targets or somewhere in between.
Considering you could do this with just a pen and
paper, Streaks needs to earn the money you’re shelling
out for it. It does this by making it ultra-simple to set
up, track and review the habits (or streaks) you want
to keep up with — you can set up your own tasks
with a couple of taps on the screen, or you can choose
one of the presets provided. It ties in with the Apple
Health app too (if you want to import your walking
achievements each day, for example).
The tasks overview screen lets you quickly see
which streaks you’re doing well on while the calendar
provides an at-a-glance view of your progress. You can
only track six streaks at once, presumably to keep the
interface as uncluttered as possible, and you can turn
daily reminders on or off through the settings page.
Streaks has got a lot going for it: it’s very nicely
designed, it’s simple to use, and there’s no doubt
it could really make a difference if it happens to fit
with the way you live and work. On the downside,
the six task limit seems a bit arbitrary, and there’s no
opportunity to really dig deep into the data. You can
only review your recent runs rather than track progress
over time, for example.
If you’re not already using an app or a pad of paper
to do this then Streaks is definitely worthy of your
consideration — just don’t expect too much beyond
the basics.
Streaks is a simple idea that’s executed well, but
there are some minor drawbacks to it, such as the
six task limit.

“It’s nicely designed, it’s simple to

use, and there’s no doubt it could
really make a difference”

■ The task view can be tweaked to ■ Streaks is a simple app you’ll learn to
show different data use in seconds

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■ Printables can be downloaded to help keep
wedding costs down
Popsugar Weddings
Make it a nice day for a white wedding
Wedding season is upon us and
plenty of stressed-out couples will
be feverishly looking for ways to
make the build-up to their big day a little
easier. Popsugar have come up with this
handy app to try and take some of the stress
out of the notoriously tricky business of
organising a wedding.
The Popsugar Weddings app appears to
have covered all of the bases by providing
helpful advice on a variety of aspects of
wedding planning, including tips for music,
food and drink. The various aspects of a
wedding are divided into various handy
sections, with each section boasting a vast
array of articles which serve up a bevy of tips,
ideas and even free printables to keep costs
down – bound to be particularly useful for
budget-conscious brides and grooms.
The articles are retrieved from the lifestyle
website popsugar.com and the sheer
volume of information at hand in the app
ensures no stone has been left unturned,
although this can also be a downfall of
the app as it can be very time-consuming
to trawl through. It would also be helpful
if there was a feature so that users can
‘favourite’ articles for later reading, but it
is possible to ‘share’ articles via Facebook,
Twitter and email.
All in all, the app is likely to prove an
invaluable tool for engaged couples
struggling for ideas for their big day.
Struggling for ideas for your big day?
POPSUGAR take all the stress out of
wedding planning.

 Price Freemium

Curator
Check out your tasks, write notes and add images
We’ve certainly seen a ton of
notebook apps, but perhaps not
one as visually intensive as
Curator. The app uses a 25-tile
checkerboard that houses your daily
thoughts, website information or even
saved images in a colourful and creative
fashion. Any items added to your book can
be switched between pages and tiles to
suit your tastes, or even formatted to
remove the data they contain. A finished
checkerboard can certainly look fantastic,
but depending on what you fill each tile
with, they can be a little slow to load when
you try and open them.
To add something to an empty tile
it’s simply a case of tapping on it and
selecting an input method. Selecting the
image option will enable you to search
your camera role, or from a number of
social networks, while the web search
turns a search query into an online hunt
for images. Text input is the final choice,
but the lack of font and colour choices will
leave some users wanting more. Importing
images is also a little on the slow side
and in some cases we found the app just
crashed instead.
Note-taking is a tried and tested formula
for an app, and while we applaud Curator
for trying something different, the current
product is a little too slow and bug heavy
for us to recommend to others.
While the app certainly looks great and
the concept is sound, it’s let down by
performance issues.
■ The simplistic tiled interface is excellent in theory,
but the app needs to work better to gain our trust

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■ Any cities from around the
world can be added
 Price £1.49/$1.99
Foresee
Try this unusual, but fascinating weather forecast app
PROS/CONS
▲ The beautiful and
modern design
looks great
▲ Instantly see how
the weather is for an
activity
▼ It’s not good if you
have lots of activities
▼ Traditional weather
forecasts are
more detailed
promotional
“Foresee is a different type of weather
forecasting app, with a novel approach and a
great interface that fits right in with iOS”
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■ Tap at the bottom of the screen
to see a detailed view
The iPhone comes with a
handy weather app, but that
hasn’t put developers off
creating alternative versions, and now
this is a very crowded sector of the app
market. A search for ‘weather’ in the
App Store will result in a list of a couple
of hundred apps and many of these
are free, so the obvious questions to
ask are why would you want to pay for
Foresee and what is so different about
this weather app?
There are two ways to use weather
forecasts and you can use one to see
what the weather will be like today,
tomorrow, or later this week. You can
then decide what activities are best.
For example, if it’s going to be sunny
tomorrow you could go to the beach,
but if it’s going to rain you might go
to the cinema. The other way to use a
■ You can tweet the forecast from
within the app
forecast is to decide on the activity
and then see when it is best to do it.
Foresee takes this approach and if you
want a barbecue one day this week,
you can see which day is the best
choice. If you want to go walking in
the countryside, you can see which
days rain is forecast for and choose one
that will be sunny instead.
Foresee is an activity-focused
weather forecast app and it enables
you to add any of your favourite
activities and locations. There are 72
predefined activities and each has its
own icon. It is a diverse collection and
includes walking, fishing, mowing the
lawn, star gazing, picnics, sailing, skiing,
camping, gardening and so on. All the
activities are outdoor ones for which
a weather forecast will obviously be
helpful – but the developer has clearly
missed a trick here. It would be very
useful if the app also included indoor
activities such as going to the cinema
or swimming as these would be a
great suggestion for those inevitable
rainy days.
After selecting an activity, you
choose the best time. This could be
fishing in the morning or going for a
bicycle ride in the afternoon. There are
six different weather conditions and
any three of them can be selected.
There is temperature, rain, clouds,
wind, and UV index. If you are planning
on getting a sun tan you would want
a high temperature, no clouds and a
high UV index. If you like playing golf
then the best conditions would be
warm with little wind and no rain.
Having set up one or more activities,
a single activity is then displayed on
the screen and swiping horizontally
browses through them easily. Dates
and times are displayed in two rows,
which are also easy to swipe through.
As you do this, face icons are displayed
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How to…
Match the weather and action
01: Pick the
activity
There are lots of
activities to choose
from and they all have
descriptive image icons.
Scroll through them
all and select whichever
one of the activities
available appeals to you
the most.

02: Configure it
It doesn’t matter which
of the activities you
select, the screen will
always more or less
resemble this one
(right). Swipe left and
n What sort of weather is ideal for a specific n Up to three different weather indicators right over the icon to
activity? The app will let you know can be used select the colour you’d
like to use to indicate
that activity.
“If you want a barbecue one day 03: Choose the
this week, you can see which day is time
Press the time in the

the best choice” centre of the screen on

the last step and drag
your finger along the
indicating whether it is a good or to share forecasts and activities on slider blobs to indicate
the best time for you
bad time to engage in that activity. social media.
to participate in your
Tapping right at the bottom of the Foresee is certainly a different type of selected activity, due to
screen displays the weather forecast for weather forecasting app with a novel the weather.
that specific day and time, along with approach, and a great interface that
04: Ideal weather
a comment indicating the activity’s fits right in with iOS. The question is Press at least one of the
suitability for the forecast and when is whether it is better than a traditional weather icons at the
best to try it, such as “I like 3pm!”. weather forecasting app and the bottom of the Step 2
screen. Now you can let
Like many other weather forecast answer is unfortunately no, it isn’t.
the app know what the
apps, Foresee is capable of forecasting Suppose you have added 20 activities optimum conditions
the weather in any city around the and the one you are interested in is the for your activity should
be so that it can advise
world. Your current location is the last one. You would need to potentially
you when it is best to
default, but it is very easy to add in swipe through 20 screens to get to take part.
other cities and there is a locations the right forecast, making it actually
05: View the
screen that stores them. This means quite difficult to find the information.
forecast
that if you are off to the south of France It is initially fun to use, but the novelty Press I’m Done to go to
on holiday you can add it as a location could wear off and you may want a the forecast screen for
your selected activity
and view the best days and times for simple, standard forecast.
and see the results.
sunbathing or the beach, camping, Swipe the date and
Foresee repackages the weather
or wind surfing. The locations screen time and tap at the
forecast, presenting it in an bottom to view the
displays the time, temperature and an
unusual and entertaining way. weather forecast. It’s as
icon indicating the current weather. simple as that!
Another interesting feature is the ability

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BrainPOP UK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Duolingo Test Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Vocabulary.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
BrainPOP Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Tandem – Language exchange . . . . . . . . . 79
Textio Speed Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Sumhold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
LookUp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Sprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Stache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
CV Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Microsoft Translator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Pomodrone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Passible. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Timeful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Moodnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
DataMan Next: Track Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Boximize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Hours Time Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Alter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Currenci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Saver 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Tally 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Calcbot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Lrn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Pocket Drive+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
1Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
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Sumptus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Next Deadline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
RefMe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Numerous. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Asana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Snapschool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Facebook at Work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Moleskine Timepage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Simple Machines by Tinybop . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Glass Planner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Spark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
SignEasy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Snapsolve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Caliber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Gojimo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Tether . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
“Using your phone
to work on the
move will save
valuable time later”

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n The fun illustrated imagery on the main screen of
the app means it is great for children
BrainPOP UK
A unique and interactive learning experience
This app offers its users many
unique features and uses logical
tools to teach children about a
range of different topics.
From science to maths to the arts, the
range of content is broad, but it is in the
presentation that it truly shines. You get to
watch a new animated movie every day that
includes a great deal of interesting facts, and
when you have finished, you can take a quiz
to see how much of the information was
taken in.
The ability to view all of the movies at
any time is also available via a reasonable
monthly subscription for parents, or through
a special rate for schools that makes the
app accessible to students in the classroom
and at home. Add to this a set of questions
that are incredibly well designed with a
high level of care and attention clearly taken
throughout, and we have a truly absorbing
and fun app that offers a huge amount of
longevity and knowledge.
There are many ways to teach children,
but the combination of humour, visuals and
carefully considered factual information to
be found in BrainPOP UK Featured Movie
come together to create an experience that
takes away all of the fear of learning instantly.
When learning is fun, it is likely to be a lot
more beneficial and here we have an app
that offers these benefits to anyone who
uses it.
A compelling and enjoyable way to
teach children, and adults, new facts in
many topics.

 Price Free

Duolingo Test Center

Put your grasp of the English language to the test
If you are from foreign shores and
seeking a job that requires an
understanding of English, then
this app provides simple certification of
your skills through your mobile device. It is
a very convenient means of testing what
you know and getting it verified.
You will need a Duolingo account to get
started, but this can be created quickly and
easily in-app. Then you can get a feel for
the kind of things that you’re likely to be
asked in the test by tapping the Sample
Questions option or alternatively you can
dive straight in and take the Certified Test.
You will need to undergo a criteria check
before taking the test but everything is
clearly defined so you’re never left in the
dark as to what is required of you. The
simple interface makes it very easy to
input your test answers and the app makes
clever use of the camera and microphone
on your device in order to speak some
answers and verify that it is really you
taking the test.
Obviously this is a very specific app that
is intended for use towards a specific goal,
and it only appears to currently revolve
around English as a foreign language. But
if you are looking to get into an English-
speaking job then the test environment
served up here is surely as stress-free as
they come.
Provides a decent means of testing
your English language skills in a
relatively straightforward and stress-
free manner.
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Vocabulary.com
Boost your word power in minutes
Hailing from the creative minds behind the all questions that are too easy or that are beyond your
PROS/CONS
▲ The app learns to eponymous website, the Vocabulary.com app current reach. While the app is certainly helpful, mildly
coach you at a level is a smart and useful tool to have at your fun and borderline addictive, it can get dull after a session
that suits you
▲ Point system makes
disposal. The app not only works as a handy dictionary, of half an hour or so due to its rather basic remit. The lack
it addictive in a but also offers a constantly honing vocabulary game that of variety in how questions are posed plus the absence
positive way
helps to increase your understanding of more complex of any visual stimuli are the main reasons why some users
▼ Multiple choice
format can get a words. The game challenges the user to correctly identify might tire of it. Arguably, picture rounds and the ability to
bit tedious
a missing word within a sentence or pick the highlighted type in words as answers might help to extend its appeal
▼ Lack of imagery and
colour makes it less word’s synonym from a choice of four possible answers. – and the ability to challenge friends online would have
stimulating When the right answer is achieved, the app delivers a full been a nice touch.
definition of the word in question and an explanation of Priced at just under £2/$3, the app is small change for
how to use it correctly. what could make a huge difference to your word arsenal.
Unlike similar apps on the market, there’s little chance Wordsmiths, crossword enthusiasts, students, teachers,
of repetition here thanks to its well-stocked library of literary types and anyone looking to fire up their brain
120,000 questions that teach 12,000 words and also function would do well to download this app.
provides 50,000 learnable lists tailored for specific exams
A reasonably priced app that is perfect for
such SATs.
improving the extent of your vocabulary
Perhaps the most impressive feature though, is its
practically overnight.
ability to judge your aptitude and then coach you at a
level that neither patronises or antagonises you; ignoring

“There’s little chance of repetition

here thanks to its well-stocked
library of 120,000 questions”

■ Tap on the speaker icon to hear how ■ Select ‘Focus more on this word’
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BrainPOP Jr
A superb solution to kickstart a young child’s education
When a child is starting to learn about the the ages of five and nine. Ideally, it would make sense
PROS/CONS
▲ Lots of well world around them, the experience can be to start a child on the learning process early and in no
presented content daunting and even unnerving in a school time at all they could be absorbing information about
to help children
learn setting. But there is a way to make learning more fun computers, health, reading and writing and a host of
▲ Excellent value and to give them a valuable head start. BrainPOP Jr. other subjects.
for money with
multiple plans Movie of the Week gives you one educational The presentation is perfect for facilitating quick
available animated movie per week for free and the ability to learning and the way each part has been crafted
▼ Some words used
in questions may be
purchase more in two ways; you can buy bonus means that children will be able to apply the process
tricky to understand features and three movies a week for £1.49 a month of learning in this app to their other subjects at
▼ Parts of the and gain unlimited access to all movies for £3.99 a school, which is quite an achievement. There really
language have
a definite month. With each movie the child will need to is no downside here because you can try it for free
Americanised slant
complete a quiz and provided that they concentrate and choose which plan suits your child best, but we
when watching it, they should be able to gain a sense are confident that the vast majority of parents will
of immediate achievement by answering most appreciate the content and the educational fun it
questions correctly. offers their children.
The use of simple animated imagery and friendly
A near perfect and colourful environment for
characters bring real-world objects to life and much
helping to educate younger children outside of
care has been taken to offer questions that make
the classroom.
sense, thus speeding up the learning process. The app
and related service are designed for children between

“Simple animated imagery and

friendly characters bring real-
world objects to life”

■ Colour dominates the splendidly ■ The easy and hard levels for each
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Tandem - Language exchange
Learn new languages with this modern day ‘pen pal’ app
If you want to learn a language but are more
interested in having a friendly chat than
studying the correct grammar and syntax,
Tandem – Language Exchange may be for you. It pairs
you with users in different countries, so you can chat
face to face over a video call, to discuss different topics
and hopefully master a new tongue.
The set-up process is a little disconcerting; it often
feels like you’re joining a dating site. After setting up,
the app, gives way to a friendly and informal interface.
As its name suggests, the app is based on the
premise of a ‘tandem partnership’ where people meet
to exchange their conversational skills in a particular
language but this online community eradicates the
need to even step out of the house. Rather than the
pressure of attending night school or discussion
groups, the user simply taps ‘Find Chats’ to let other
“People meet to exchange
conversational skills in
one language”
■ Sometimes setting up Tandem feels a bit like
joining a dating website
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PROS/CONS members know what they are looking for (eg “I want
▲ An engaging way to improve my Italian”) and Tandem provides a list of
to learn a new users who might be able to help.
language
▲ A range of ways to Users can then communicate through the app,
communicate preferably as a video chat. The idea of calling a random
▼ Logging in via person from another country to speak a language
Facebook is required
▼ The app provides no you barely know may sound a little daunting, but
additional support during our review we spoke with several users while
for learning
trying to learn Italian, and they were all friendly and
encouraging. If you’re still not comfortable, there is
always the option to audio call without video or just
exchange text messages instead.
And that’s it. The app doesn’t offer any additional
support, if you want to improve pronunciation and
master grammar, you will have to ask other users.
A downfall of the current version of the app is the
fact you can only sign up using Facebook, but the
developers plan to change this.
Practise your language skills with other users, but
don’t expect to learn a language at more than
conversational level.
■ If you don’t feel comfortable video chatting,
you can also text other users
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Textio Speed
Reading
Speed reading is ideal for those
who have little free time and are
not too fussed about the actual
reading environment, and here we have a
solution with a new approach. The sweet
visual spot is used on-screen to help you
read very quickly and with some trickery
you can even import iBooks and Kindle
books to the app.
For those with little free time, this app
could help them consume more books.
 Price Free
Sprint
Apps that help you read books and
articles at speed are common, but
Sprint takes this idea and bundles it
into a web browser. This makes sense as web
content is often not reliant upon the
environment it is situated in and you will be
able to read more of the web each day.
A clever web-based speed reader that
you will possibly use every single day.
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Sumhold
It is difficult to change a tool as
embedded in culture as the
calculator, but Sumhold does this.
When you have completed a calculation
and want to save the number, simply swipe
it down and it will be shown to use in your
next calculation. It works brilliantly.
A brilliant and useful take on the
traditional calculator.
 Price £1.49/$1.99
Stache
Bookmarks have lived as simple
links that you can access when you
need to, but with Stache this has
changed. The app is highly visual and each
bookmark is shown as a descriptive
thumbnail, which makes quickly selecting
the ones you need as efficient as possible.
A new way to bookmark websites. It is
visually refreshing and feature laden.
 Price £1.99/$2.99
LookUp
Checking the meaning of any
word can be undertaken through
the internet fairly quickly, but
there will be occasions when a bespoke
solution that works in an instant is a more
suitable tool for the job. LookUp could well
be that tool because all you need to do is
type the word and the full meaning will
appear. Links to Wikipedia are included
and at no point does any feature trip over
the others.
Sometimes you just need an accurate
dictionary. This could be it.
 Price £1.99/$2.99
CV Builder
This is one of the best CV-building
apps we have seen as it covers
every important creation area and
lots of advice is included as you work
through the system. The design, however,
feels antiquated and we found a couple of
bugs that popped up from time to time.
This app will certainly help you create a
CV, but it is a bit fiddly to use.

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Microsoft
Translator
Microsoft doesn’t always make
simple software that is easy to use,
but with Microsoft Translator we
have a shining example of what can be
done. You can speak into the app and it will
present the translation in any language you
choose, both audibly and through text. It is a
perfect tool for speaking to people when
you’re abroad.
A simple, accurate and free translation
experience for your iPhone.
 Price Free
Timeful
Timeful is not a normal calendar
app because it has features up its
sleeve that are unique and could
help you organise the days ahead. The way
tasks are presented above appointments
offers flexibility in managing what needs to
be done.
A different approach to calendars that
many will love.
 Price Free
Pomodrone
The Pomodoro Technique is a
popular tool used to break down
work and this app is designed to
make timing of tasks simple. The pro version
contains extra features, but the free version
can still be used for basic timing and all that
is required is a tap to start.
An incredibly simple timer which can
help you get work done every day.
 Price £2.99/$3.99
Moodnotes
Moodnotes has the potential to
change the way you think and
can enable a more positive
outlook. You have to make entries
regularly, which explain your current mood
and also the events that created your
feelings. The simple design with the date, a
description and a mood icon works as it
increases your self-awareness and may
help avoid negative thinking.
Understand what changes your mood
by keeping a simple and effective diary.
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Passible
Striking a balance between security
and efficiency is tough, but
Password Manager by Passible
does it well. You set up a master code, add
username and password information, and a
web URL. When you go to a related website,
your information will be filled in for you.
A fast solution for password input
which works as it was intended to.
 Price £1.99/$0.99
DataMan Next:
Track Data
It is not easy to track data usage
on an iPhone, but if you install
DataMan Next it becomes simple.
The app is minimalistic and once set up,
you will be able to always see exactly how
much data you have left for the month
ahead. Only the main statistics are
presented making it a simple solution.
A data monitoring app for limited
mobile contracts.
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■ There are lots of categories, ranging from ■ Each category has a form which allows for
audio notes to a to-do list more uniform and accurate note-taking

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Boximize
A smart way to organise your notes
Drowning under a sea of information is never fun
PROS/CONS
▲ Every note must be and note-taking apps can lead to overload.
categorised and, Laziness means many of us quickly jot a note, fail
therefore, organised
to categorise it, and end up with a large, unstructured list.
▲ Data can be
protected with Boximize, by contrast, forces you to be more organised.
a four-number
pincode Instead of tapping + to write a note that needs to be
▼ The settings area is, categorised later, when you tap + you are immediately Such auto-organisation makes Boximize stand out.
rather ironically, far
too cluttered
asked to choose one of 26 categories, ranging from business By taking a hand-holding approach, your notes not only
▼ By default, notes list cards to car maintenance to customers, diet logs, donations, become comprehensive but searchable, too. Each of the
by date, not activity, items for sale, recipes and task assignments. If none of these fields within a category can be added or removed so that
so can be confusing
suit, there is also a blank category. only the information you want to include is present.
Only after choosing a category can a note be written. It Notes within categories can be sorted by date, text,
means, straight away, that your note is being organised. If number or other fields. By taking the effort to split notes into
you want to write another note in that category you can do fields, you ensure you don’t forget anything crucial.
so. Alternatively, you can leave the category and write a new To keep everything secure, there is a passcode lock facility
note in a fresh one. All of the categories end up on the app’s activated via the Settings. Use this to input a four-number
home page, ensuring ease of access. passcode which, if entered incorrectly ten times further
down the line, will wipe all of the data from within the app.

“By taking a hand-holding Boximize manages to keep you incredibly

organised while ensuring the very minimum
approach, your notes become amount of effort on your part.
comprehensive and searchable”
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Hours Time Tracking

n Tap the clock icon to time your task and build a
picture of your day
Stop wasting time and keep track of your day
More often that not, we approach
tracking apps hoping to become
that bit more productive and pack
more into our time. In reality, we forget to
open them, become side-tracked and
remain just as chaotic. Yet with Hours
reminding us to add timers for the day, we
were left with no excuse to forget about our
intentions. Over time, we became far less
distracted as a result.
Hours has been designed by the brains
behind the award-winning Grade and it
clearly shows in its ease-of-use. You can get
stuck in immediately, adding timers with a
simple tap of the screen before naming and
colour-coding them. All you then need to
do is tap the clock icon to the right of your
entries and the timer begins. It will stop if
you jump to another task so you will see just
when you became distracted. When used
correctly, you’ll be able to assess exactly
how long you have spent on each of the
day’s tasks and this is great for billing and for
eliminating wasted time.
Hours lets you round up to anything from
a minute to an hour and times can also be
edited. You can switch between 12 and 24-
hour clocks and get weekly reports which
can be exported as a PDF or CSV file. But it
is the ability to track multiple projects, add
notes and see with clarity how your day was
broken up that proves most useful, making
Hours a must-have download.
A visual, intuitive app that lets you
chart your working day with the
greatest of clarity.

 Price £0.69/$0.99

Alter
Convert any copied text into a to-do list
If someone gives you a list of
tasks, or items to buy from the
supermarket on the way home,
copying them one by one into a to-do list
can be a chore in itself. That’s where Alter
comes in. Just copy some text from an
email or message, open the Alter app and
paste it into its main screen. When you hit
the list icon, it’ll magically convert the text
into a to-do list of tasks or items. You can
then swipe or double-tap each item as you
complete it to cross it off and move it down
to the Done section.
The app works by separating items after
every return, comma and/or full stop –
you can turn each separator on/off in the
settings. You don’t even need to faff about
moving markers to select the correct bit of
text to copy in the first place, since long-
pressing an item in Alter enables you to
start the list (or end it) there, so it’s easy to
cut out the bits of the message that you
don’t need.
You can also merge an item up/
down into an adjacent one if it’s been
erroneously split up. Strangely, given the
app’s name, there’s no facility to alter the
text of an existing item, which is a shame.
However, you can hit the ‘+’ symbol to add
new entries. One minor drawback is that
Alter can only handle one list at a time, so
you’ll need to delete the current one to
start another.
This is a simple and easy solution for
quickly creating to-do lists from text
you have copied in.
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n You can pack the screen with different currencies
and gain instant conversions
 Price £4.49/$5.99
Saver 2
Saver 2 is an update to an app
which was positively received, but
had fallen back in terms of design
and functionality. You now get a professional
interface in which to manage your finances
and more than enough features to keep
track of income, outgoings and savings.
Throw in budgets, Touch ID support, and
colourful and clear charting, and you should
be able to cover just about everything.
A highly competent app which should
help you to reach your financial goals.
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Currenci
How much is that croissant in the window?
It is important to get a grasp on
how much you are spending
when you are abroad, just as it is
crucial to understand the current rates
when you are buying from a website or
app that lists prices in a foreign currency.
With Currenci, the job of conversion is
made as simple as it ever could be. You
input the amount of money you are
looking to convert and it instantly gives
you an answer.
The app defaults to British sterling, US
dollars and European euros but, with a
push up on the screen, you can add many
more. The exchange rates are obtained
automatically (and will refresh with a pull
down) so you don’t have to mess around
with conversion details. The downside to
this is that the results may not necessarily
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Tally 2
Keeping tallies – it sounds like
something you would do as a child,
but there are benefits that come
counting your everyday important activities.
Whether you need to track employees or
count specific work-based events, you can
keep track in a second through the widget or
in the Tally 2 - Quick Counter app itself. Your
tallies are shown in a list and you can even
integrate with other apps.
Ideal if you need to keep multiple
tallies for different uses.
be the exchange rate you receive in reality
but as a general guide, it is very effective
and this has to be in kept mind when you
are using it.
The app also has a handy widget. By
pulling down to call up the Notification
centre, the app is re-created in miniature
using the top two currencies chosen from
your list and you can input an amount for
an instant conversion.
Should you wish to alter the currencies
that are listed in the widget, simply tap and
hold on a particular currency within the
app and move it up or down.
Currenci is a simplified app that makes
international dealings easy and feel like
second nature.
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Calcbot
Calcbot used to be revered as one
of the best mobile calculators you
could buy, but a lack of
development meant that it lost some of its
appeal. The latest update, however, refreshes
the calculator for 2015 and we now have a
beautifully presented tool which will help
you in a variety of ways. From seeing all of
your calculations to scientific functions and
creating favourite ones, it is a great app.
A great tool, with multiple functions
and simple interface.
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■ The classes offer practical advice and are organised
clearly for easy navigation
Lrn
Get more out of computing and learn to program
Learning code is not easy and there
is no getting around the fact that
mastering programming requires
lots of time, hard graft and experimentation.
But as coding continues to be seen as vital
for the future prosperity of nations, keeping
up to speed feels important which is why
there are many initiatives out there to lend a
helping hand. Lrn is the latest app solution
for just that.
It’s functional and off-putting at first,
throwing you straight in with a long menu
that takes you from the basics – introducing
JavaScript, syntax, keywords and more –
but it gets you learning about functions,
conditions, loops, arrays and options. You
soon realise that Lrn is more guiding and
gentle than it first appears. So if the concepts
sound alien to you now, they won’t be after
a bit of tinkering since the app builds up
your knowledge at a nice pace and then asks
some recap questions at the end to ensure
you get it.
The first lesson is free of cost and doesn’t
take too long to complete. To continue,
however, you will need to pay £2.29/$2.99
for all lessons. The grounding it gives in the
principles of coding will set you up well,
and it should encourage you to explore
the concepts further without feeling too
overwhelmed. Given the emphasis on under-
the-hood computing, it really is well worth
the investment.
Learning to program through mini-
quizzes takes the sting and boredom
out of coding.

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Pocket Drive+
Wirelessly transfer files with the greatest of ease
Pocket Drive+ offers a
wonderfully convenient way to
transfer files wirelessly between
computer and iPhone. Connection to a
Mac couldn’t be simpler: just launch Pocket
Drive+ on the iPhone and it’ll appear in the
Mac’s Finder (under Shared). Then just
confirm the connection on the phone.
First-time set up on a Windows PC is only
a slightly trickier affair. Once connected,
you simply drag and drop files into the
folder to transfer them to your iPhone,
where they can be accessed via Pocket
Drive+’s file manager. The only downside is
if your phone goes to sleep or you exit the
app, you’ll need to go through the process
of reconnecting to the computer.
Otherwise it’s a very versatile system. The
app’s file manager enables you to create
folders and drag and drop files into them,
while the folder structure shown at the
bottom aids navigation. Most major file
photo and video formats can be viewed,
plus iWorks and MS Office documents.
There’s even a built-in text editor and music
player, plus a web browser that comes
in useful for downloading files from the
net, although it’s a shame you can’t long-
press to save images. You can take a new
photo or video and import items from the
Camera Roll, though. Another major bonus
of the app is the ability to expand and
compress ZIP files.
More versatile than AirDrop, it enables
easy file transfer between your iPhone
and your computer.
■ Easily transfer files including music without the
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1Password
The final pieces of the integrated password puzzle fall into place
While 1Password has long been a security password or PIN code for 1Password to unlock it and use
PROS/CONS
▲ Integration with stalwart for storing and managing all our the desired login, although there is now a convenient
other iOS apps such passwords and sensitive data, the iOS app has alternative: if you own an iPhone 5s or beyond, you can
as Safari makes it far
more useful lagged behind the Mac version in some respects. Not any instead use Touch ID fingerprint recognition (via the
▲ Now supports more. Thanks to iOS 8’s deeper integration, 1Password 5.0 Home button).
Touch ID on later
iPhone models for now offers seamless syncing with other Apple devices, as Elsewhere, the now-freemium 1Password app will look
much easier and well as working with other apps. familiar to users of the previous paid version – who get a
quicker access
▼ Some major apps
While 1Password retains its own in-app web browser, free Pro upgrade (normally £6.99/$9.99) for features like
don’t support the it now finally offers integration with Safari via the app multiple vaults, extra categories and custom organisation
1Password extension
extensions system. So, no more awkward copying and of items – with an item-creation system and built-in
▼ You need to set up
each third-party app pasting of passwords from your secure vault. Staying in strong password generator.
extension
Safari, you can autofill website logins (plus credit card One final bonus is the much improved, instant iCloud
details and identities) with just a couple of taps – once syncing (along with Dropbox and Wi-Fi options) for
you’ve set up the extension. It doesn’t just work in Safari seamless integration with other iOS devices and Mac OS
either: over 100 apps already support the 1Password X 10.10 Yosemite and above.
extension, including Slack, Twitteriffic and Pocket
The new iOS features result in a major
Informant, though not yet major official apps such as
improvement to 1Password, adding greater
Facebook and Twitter.
security to all your apps in the process.
Note that, depending on the settings, you may
sometimes still be prompted to enter the master

“Over 100 apps already support

the 1Password extension,
including Slack and Twitterific”

■ You’ll be required to enter the master ■ Your most frequently used items can
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■ If an expense category isn’t available you can ■ You can also add photos to your outgoings
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Sumptus
Track your expenses quickly and easily
If your default setting for money management is
PROS/CONS
▲ Simple, uncluttered to bury your head in the sand, then this app will
and very easy-to-use gently coax you out of blissful ignorance and
interface
install an element of organisation in your life. Unlike a lot
▲ Allows you to add,
edit and update of finance apps on the market, Sumptus – Personal
as many different
budgets as you Expense Tracker isn’t complicated to use – trust us, there’s
could want nothing to be scared of here. remaining, you can tap on the pie-chart icon for an instant
▼ The screen for
entering figures
Creating a new budget is easy – you simply name it, visual representation on where you stand financially.
perhaps isn’t as set the currency and your spending limit over a specified The interface is clean and uncomplicated with a slide-
clean as it could be
period of time and then save it. You can set up as many out menu that lets you view your budgets, edit categories
▼ There are cheaper
alternatives that different budgets as you like and they will be listed and set limits. Icons at the bottom of the screen let
work just as
efficiently alphabetically on the main Budgets screen. When it you create new budgets, view pie-charts and export
comes to entering expenses, tap the ‘+’ icon to enter an your budgets to HTML and CSV formats. There is also a
outgoing figure and then assign a category via the series calendar to help you view your expenses for a selected
of icons (you can make new ones if the right one isn’t time period and you can also compare expenses during
there). Tap Save and your expense will be logged. To help the previous months with the current one. The calendar
you keep track of what you have spent and what you have can be used to enter backdated expenses so no pennies
are unaccounted for.

“You can set up as many different With a simple interface and the flexibility to create
new expense categories, Sumptus comes highly
budgets as you like and they will recommended for money management.
be listed alphabetically”
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n The light-hearted messages that appear when you
complete a project are a nice touch
Next Deadline
Keep on top of multiple projects more easily
Next Deadline is a productivity app
that’s simple but effective. First, it
lets you break up your projects into
segments and assign each one a deadline
date; once you’ve done that, it will tell you
which task in which project needs doing
next as you tick each one off. If you’ve got a
number of different jobs to juggle it’s ideal,
but there’s not all that much more to it.
You can manage up to four projects in
the free version of Next Deadline or if you
want to pay the extra £1.49/$1.99 you can
remove the limit completely. It may not
be packed with features but it’s neatly and
clearly designed, with just enough use of
colour to help you find what you need
on the overview screen. iCloud support is
included too to sync projects across multiple
iOS devices.
Some sample projects are included so you
can get an idea of how it works, and entering
new ones is straightforward. Browsing
through your agenda or marking tasks as
done is easily accomplished with a few deft
swipes and taps, and the look and feel of the
app is one of its strongest aspects.
Some extra bells and whistles would
certainly be welcome here but it’s difficult
to grumble over such a compact and useful
app — the free version should at least give
most users enough flexibility to work out
whether or not the upgrade is going to be
worth their while.
Admittedly there’s not much meat to
Next Deadline but it does its limited job
well enough.

 Price Free

RefMe
Quick Camera-enabled bibliography citations
One of the most laborious aspects
of working on an academic essay
is producing a solid reference list
or bibliography. It is all too easy to miss a
book or journal, and trying to strictly stick
to the expected referencing style can be a
pain when all you want to do is get on with
the meat of an essay.
RefMe aims to make referencing a
straightforward task by not only letting
you manually input key information such
as a source’s author, editor, title, edition,
date, publisher and so on but granting
access to the camera so that you can
simply generate a reference from a book or
journal’s barcode.
Although there seems to be an issue
when searching the system for newer
books, there’s no doubting that RefMe is
a powerful, clean and intuitive app. With
more than 7,000 referencing styles and the
ability to search for specific articles, books
and even websites, you’re able to select the
specific location of a citation and – thanks
to an update – add your own notes to
the references.
What makes the app especially useful
is that all of this referencing information
can be exported via email or Evernote.
By syncing the notes to ReadMe.com,
they can even be exported to Microsoft
Word or EndNote. There’s really no better
autocitation tool.
With all of the legwork taken out of
creating essay citations, more time can
be freed for research.
n The clean and precise interface of RefMe
accentuates its ease of use

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■ Each workflow is broken down into a series ■ The gallery is a great place to look for
of customisable drag-and-drop stages inspiration and to see what the app can do

 Price £1.99/$2.99

Workflow
Become an iOS power user with a few swipes
If you’ve ever used IFTTT web service or the phone
PROS/CONS
▲ Easy to follow, drag- app then you’ll have an idea of where Workflow is
and-drop interface coming from. The app ties together different apps
▲ Large gallery of and actions on your iPhone or iPad and lets automates
example workflows
▼ Can be difficult to processes that would otherwise take dozens of taps or
pick up initially complicated scripts to complete. Finished workflows can be
▼ Some workflows pinned to your home screen and run on demand, as well as intuitive way possible, and there’s lots to like about
could be better
documented being integrated into other apps as extensions. Workflow: it’s polished, it’s smart, it lets you do more with
Perhaps the best way of explaining Workflow is to give your phone (or tablet) and the gallery of example workflows
you some examples of what it can do. You can automatically is a great way to get started. If you enjoy tinkering with your
turn three photos into a GIF and tweet the results; you can iPhone, you’re going to find this is money well spent.
pull up lyrics for the song that’s currently playing; you can It’s not perfect though, and it won’t appeal to everyone.
get the travel time to home from your current location with Even with the tutorial and galleries it isn’t all too clear how
a single tap; you can upload your most recent photo to different actions might fit together in your workflows. Make
Dropbox, or send it to Facebook, and so on. any mistakes and the drag-and-drop script you’ve put
Part of the fun is experimenting with the app. It’s for together will simply fail without so much as an error alert.
people who want to become power users in the most Nevertheless, it’s a largely impressive app, particularly in
the way in which it integrates with iOS — contacts, maps,

“Workflow is for people who want documents, music, photos and videos are all available.

An app that could genuinely change the way you

to become power users in the use your phone or tablet.
most intuitive way possible”
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■ Numbers are very much at the forefront of this
handy tracking app
 Price Free
Asana
Asana is one of the better apps we
have seen for working remotely
together. Projects can be stripped
down to tasks simply and making contact
with other workers is easy. Potentially it will
keep everyone aware of the latest situation
and could keep a project on track.
A collaborative app to bring workers
together with just enough features.
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Numerous
Stay on top of business with a single glance
It is fair to say that life can feel
surrounded by numbers, from
share prices to interest and
exchange rates. Numerous aims to allow
you to follow your most important
numbers and keep them in one place. It
may sound weird but it can have its uses.
The idea is that you select to follow
various channels that have numerical data
at their core. So, for example, you could
choose to add a channel called Piggy
Bank which lets you create allowances for
children and see how much balance is left.
This data is presented on the app’s home
page within an at-a-glance box and the
more channels you subsequently add, the
more data you can keep an eye on.
There are 29 channels in total with links
to the likes of Google Analytics, Google
 Price Free
SnapSchool
SnapSchool is a great solution for
any child struggling with
homework from time to time. It lets
them take a photo of a homework question
and asking for help socially. Rewards are
given for asking and answering, and the
experience is focused on learning.
It helps children do homework with
real learning. Superb!
Sheets, Salesforce and NEST. Numerous
explains exactly what you will expect to
see from each channel and adding them is
as easy as tapping + and looking through
the tabs labelled Business, Lifestyle, Fitness,
Social and Connectors.
It does concern us that the app asks
you to sign in but has no option available
for a simple email and password, though.
Instead, you have to use social media
which makes us feel wary. Some of the
channels also inevitably require logins,
such as Facebook Pages, although others
like Celestial Events do not.
Great for staying on top of numerical
information but the sign-in options
need widening.
 Price Free
Facebook at
Work
Using Facebook at work has long
been done secretly, but this app
could end that. The company
needs to sign up first, then it offers the exact
same experience you’re used to.
A clever move by Facebook to bring
secret socialising into the open.

 Price £3.99/$4.99
Moleskine Timepage
This elegant calendar app offers smooth scheduling
The calendar app is hardly a new category so
Moleskine must believe it’s got something
new for it to take a shot at this crowded field.
It sells itself on the elegant minimalism of its interface,
its ability to pull in several calendars at once (complete
with maps and contacts) and the simple, intuitive way
you interact with it. Those are the headline features,
but are they compelling enough in practice?
As it turns out, yes they are: interacting with
Moleskine Timepage is smooth and intuitive in a way
that you can’t really appreciate in full until you’ve
tried it for yourself. The main view is one long agenda,
and moving between days, events, settings, weather
forecasts and the app’s other sections is very simple
and smooth.
Even in a category where beautifully designed
apps are the norm, this one still manages to stand
“It sells itself well on the
elegant minimalism of
its interface”
■ The front screen offers one view — though
you can alter the number of days on show
Work
PROS/CONS out: whether there’s a lot of data to display or not, the
▲ Well-crafted interface never feels cluttered. Useful information that
interface throughout you don’t necessarily get with other apps — like the
▲ Easy setup and
navigation
time to the next meeting or how much of your day is
▼ Only one view of free — is surfaced naturally to the front, and you can
your schedule easily make changes to existing events with a few
▼ Busy days can be
difficult to view
swipes: add reminders, set locations, invite people and
more, all from the same unified interface. Perhaps a
month view would be handy (you can view five to ten
days at a time) but it’s a minor niggle.
Adding calendars from Google, iCloud or Microsoft
Exchange is a breeze, and you can select which ones
are on show and which ones are hidden. You also get
a choice of colours and themes, a companion Apple
Watch app and the ability to add events using natural
language (“coffee with George at three”). Even the
areas in Moleskine Timepage that aren’t original (like
weather forecasting) have a polish and ease of use to
them that you don’t often find.
A genuinely impressive interface and slick UI
make this calendar app worth the expense.
■ You can get hour-by-hour weather forecasts
for any upcoming day
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Portfolio
Buy. Sell. Now. Be a sharp trader with Portfolio
If you own shares in a company, then you will
PROS/CONS
▲ It offers real-time know how hard it can be to keep up to speed
updating and with the changing markets. Prices move
notifications
▲ The daily data is
throughout the day and it’s important to stay on top of
clearly presented things to make sure your investments are reaping the
▼ There is no support best rewards.
for Sterling or FTSE
▼ International users
Portfolio: Stock Tracker & Brockerage Companion
may want to look makes this task easier. It lets you input your share
elsewhere
portfolio by simply searching its database for listed
companies. Once you have found a firm, you just tap in
the number of shares you have and the price you bought
each one for. The app will then update on how they are
performing every day.
What marks out Portfolio as something rather special
is its straightforward nature. It doesn’t bombard you with
intricate, pointless features and nor does it distract you
with adverts. It doesn’t even require an account so you
can just get on with the task in hand without worrying
that the app’s developers have a handle on the shares
you own.
And yet despite its relative simplicity, it is also
comprehensive. You can tap to get the day’s activity
charted in a line graph. The reports can be toggled
between percentage gains and Dollar gains, and you
can view the Dow, NASDAQ and S&P 500. But there’s the
problem. For all of its lovely presentation and intuitive
navigation, those in the UK will be disappointed to learn
there is no Sterling support and neither is there a FTSE
entry. Portfolio is limiting its market and making it less
useful for many.
Still, there is much to commend. You can turn on
notifications, giving you daily summaries, short earnings
reports and price movements. You can get an overview
of individual shares, looking at the closing and opening
prices and the dividend. It all makes for a tight, focused
package which takes the brunt out of portfolio checking.
Portfolio needs more worldwide support, but for
those in the US, it’s a must-have shares app.

“What marks out Portfolio

as something special is its
straightforward nature”

■ As you search the database, the ■ It is easy to add data to your

results present themselves in real-time portfolio with very few questions asked

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Simple Machines by Tinybop

Simple games to explain simple machines to complex young minds
During the course of human history, six colourful interactions which invite exploration and
PROS/CONS
▲ Beautiful styling simple machines have emerged which have experimentation. It concentrates on each of the simple
and approachable allowed people to carry out their work. They machines in turn, giving players a specific aim and
puzzles
▲ It helps to make
are the lever, the wheel and axle, the inclined plane, then letting them get on with working out how to
learning physics the wedge, the pulley and the screw. Understanding achieve it. The inclined planes, for instance, let players
enjoyable
the concepts and complex physics principles behind create music.
▼ Setting up a profile
is a – small - pain these can enlighten young minds and that is where The app allows children to work out the different
▼ The “screw” game is this puzzle-based app comes in. types of pulley systems and how certain ones cope
a tad dull
Simple Machines introduces children to the with more weight than others. It’s entirely educational
fundamentals of physics without them even knowing and whether players are conducting experiments or
it by wrapping them up in a series of curious, understanding more about direction, distance and the
strength of forces, they can’t help but pick up the most
vital principles.
To aid children, makers Tinybop also have printable
worksheets and a handbook available and everything
is integrated into the STEM curriculum. Given that
it is aimed at four to six-year-olds, it will need some
parental supervision: some of the puzzles may not be
immediately obvious. An adult will also need to be on
hand during the fiddly profile setting process and to
point out the little nuances such as the sliders and the
settings that allow for visual pointers and sound and
vision toggling. Once children get to grips with Simple
Machines, it will engross them for hours, stretching
their minds in the process.
■ The puzzles are chosen from this simple blocky Another winner of an app from Tinybop that helps
menu, quickly taking children to the games
to make science a whole load more fun for curious
young minds.

■ The app encourages children to experiment

“This app introduces children to

the fundamentals of physics”
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n This app features an upgrade option like many
others, that can off various new possibilities
Glass Planner
A difficult task manager, but it’s all with reason
You know something is going to be
complicated when an app instantly
tells you it starts with a reduced
feature-set to enable you to learn the ropes
before you are then gently eased in. More so
when the explanations for each step have to
be read and reread a few times in order to
‘get it’.
There is no doubt that Glass Planner is
comprehensive and makes very good use of
the screen. At the top are two lines of dates
for the current calendar month and beneath
is a list of forthcoming days with their
associated entries.
There is a horizontal insertion cursor that
has to be in the right place before you can
add an item, appointment or calendar note
for a day. You can then view these later with
a simple tap. But the constant bombardment
of pop-ups explaining each expect of the
app threatens to suck the early life out of it
and using Glass Planner is a mind-bending
chore that quickly bores. Yet when you stick
at it, it does begin to click.
Its organisational ability is unparalleled
and it feels slick and solid – more so, when
you upgrade to the Standard Edition and get
coloured graphics, tags, projects and tasks
that can really improve your planning skills.
One thing that we don’t like, though, is the
upgrade process where you have to either
pay or enable the app to write a promotional
post on your Facebook wall.
The app makers agree that Glass is
controversial but stick at it and it
becomes intuitive and less of a chore.

 Price Free

Spark
The latest app to try and tame your inbox
You might have thought the
world had run out of room for
email apps, but here comes
another. Spark is designed to help you “like
your email again” and power through your
inbox faster than all those other apps
designed to help you upgrade your inbox.
The unified ‘smart’ view can support several
accounts, and the app is able to spot the
difference between a personal email, a
notification and a newsletter.
To give Spark its due, it does a decent
job of organising and prioritising your
messages. Emails you’ve pinned (or ‘starred’
in common parlance) appear at the top
of the inbox together with anything that’s
unread; you can choose to auto-archive
read messages if you don’t want them to
surface again. The ‘quick reply’ feature is
interesting, letting you fire off a fast smile
or thank you with a simple tap.
Swiping to archive, flag or snooze emails
is nothing new but Spark does offer more
customisation options for these features
than most.
The natural language search works
well too: you can simply type ‘picture
attachments’ in the search bar to receive
results of any emails that have a picture file
attached, for example. With a calendar app,
Apple Watch extension and the ability to
save emails as PDFs, Spark scores highly for
bonus features too.
Spark is an alternative email app that’s
worth considering as your default
choice to replace those native apps.
n This could improve your email experience in ways
that you never imagined

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SignEasy
In this digital age, there is nothing
more annoying than dealing with
paper documents, especially
those that require signatures. With this app,
you can dispense with the hassle and
quickly insert your signature into any
document. It is a huge time saver.
Throw away the paper and sign digital
documents with this app.
 Price Free
Gojimo
150,000 quiz questions makes for a
very large number and here you
have them categorised into
subjects that you can revise at any time. The
presentation is excellent and the way it works
feels like fun at times so it has to be worth a
look if the stress of exams is getting to you.
Take the stress away from exams with
this clever app.
 Price Free
Snapsolve
You know how it goes. Almost all
your homework is done and there
is one question stopping you
from submitting it. With Snapsolve, you can
take a photo of the question and upload it
to the service to get an answer. In our tests
we received a couple of answers quickly.
Get help with your homework at any
time. This service really does work.
 Price Free
Tether
Tether gets around having to
unlock your Mac with a password
every time you want to use it by
using your iPhone as a digital key. Even
better, all you need to do is have your iPhone
with you and the Mac will unlock, so there is
no need to actually do anything else.
Unlock your Mac with just your iPhone.
It’s as simple as that.
Work
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Caliber
Can yet another messenger app
offer enough benefits to make it
worth installing? Well, it would
seem that Caliber can – it is good at
sourcing all of your business contacts from
multiple sources and then letting you
make contact with them in seconds.
A professional messenger which works
perfectly in a corporate environment.
 Price Free
Zero
There are many unique traits built
in to Zero and it will take some
time to get used to. It is focused on
helping you get to the magical inbox of zero
so that you can get on with real work and we
reserve judgement on how good it is at that
task, but we have been impressed with the
way it displays emails and how it works with
multiple email providers. Once you know
how it works, you will no doubt enjoy it.
A unique email client, but it takes time
to understand.
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Make your iPhone the ultimate portable console

“Immerse yourself in
elaborate gaming worlds
wherever you are”
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Angry Birds 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Asphalt Overdrive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Sonic The Hedgehog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Into The Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
DomiNations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Lost Within . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Til Morning’s Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
None* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
FarmVille: Harvest Swap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Bitcoin Billionaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Lara Croft: Relic Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Motorsport Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Last Voyage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Ten Large . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Angry Birds Fight! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Dodo Pop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Emoji Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Hellrider. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Crazy Taxi City Rush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Lettercraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
AdVenture Capitalist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Capitals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
VVVVVV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games . . . . . . 108
World of Warriors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Hitman: Sniper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Clumsy Ninja . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Splash Canyons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Space Marshals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Treasure Run! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Minesweeper - Widget Edition . . . . . . . . 112
Grow Me Up! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Luka and his Chinese Friends . . . . . . . . . 112
Crossy Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Titans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Evolve: Hunters Quest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Her Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Moon Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Blades of Brim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
World of Tanks Blitz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Lara Croft GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Pokemon Shuffle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Goblin Sword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Divide By Sheep. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Counterspy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Heroki. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Space Age: A Cosmic Adventure . . . . . . 118
Game Of Thrones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
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“The undeniable
joy of smashing
things to pieces
remains”

 Price Freemium

Angry Birds 2
This freemium game may well ruffle a few feathers
Given the sheer number of Angry Birds games you’re faced by some impenetrable materials). Hit them right
PROS/CONS
▲ Angry Birds looks available, it may be astonishing that Angry Birds 2 and they are energetically brought down. At the same time,
better than ever is a recent addition. The game is instantly familiar you are able to see the fear in a poor porky’s eyes, played
▲ The gameplay is and yet one which wants to extract cash from you whenever out in the top-left corner. It’s all gloriously mad-cap cartoon-
more intricate and
challenging it can. But people don’t seem to be put off by this. like in nature but tapping fast forward gets you to the next
▼ Feeling the need to The game certainly starts well. There is a fleeting tutorial bit if this does become a little too tiresome for you. The
pay to proceed will
always rankle (surely everybody gets it by now) but you are soon same undeniable joy of smashing things to pieces remains,
▼ The game has unfair mesmerised by the frenetic goings-on on screen. All of though, making for a solid game all round with even better
random elements
that can hamper the old favourites are present with the addition of a dive- physics than ever before.
progression bombing bird called Silver and this time out you can tap Yet there are sections of the game as you progress that
on a card in the bottom-left corner to choose which of the are hard to complete, unless you chuck money into it.
available birds you want as ammunition rather than have Thankfully there are adverts than can be watched too which
them selected for you. mean you don’t always have to get your purse out but it’s
The piggy constructions are animatedly built before your enough to make for some Angry Players.
eyes and they are also random (which can cause issues if
Angry Birds has been given a successful revamp,
but the continued emphasis on freemium gaming
grows tiresome.

■ The principles of the gameplay are explained which makes it a perfect game for newcomers ■ The animations are lovely with genuine fear on the pigs’ faces

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Asphalt Overdrive
Gameloft revs up the action in this cop car chase spin-off
Typical console driving games can be quite
difficult to play. A slight nudge of the joypad’s
sticks can send cars careening off the road as
the pack roars away ahead of you. Asphalt Overdrive has
no such qualms. With swipes left and right to manoeuvre
and a upward swipe to soar high into the air off a handily
placed ramp, it’s incredibly easy to control. There are a
few taps and some mid-air twirls, but nothing too taxing
for the average mobile gamer.
A detour from the usual Asphalt racing game, rather
than trying to overtake the competition, Overdrive
revolves around staying ahead of the police. What kind of
message this gives is questionable, but it’s different. Not
only is the gameplay compelling, it has bags of polish,
bringing a familiar console look to smartphones and
tablets and creating a racer that is high on energy and
impressive in looks, albeit in a Eighties kitsch kind of way.
“To keep you engaged, there
are lots of missions with
special objectives”
■ The police figure highly. Allow them to hit
you and you’re busted
Games
PROS/CONS To keep you engaged, there are lots of missions with
▲ The graphics special objectives. You may be called to drive a certain
are realistic and distance, hit a number of ramps or minimise the extent
polished
▲ It has a great, easy- of your collisions so that the police don’t bust you, and
to-use and simple given the simple nature of the mechanics, this can
control system
happen quite often. There is cash and nitros to collect
▼ The game is overly
monetised and you and you are rewarded for pulling off various moves such
can become hooked
as knocking cars off the road.
▼ Mutiplayer is limited
to leaderboard Cars can be customised using the in-game cash you
challenges have built up, but it is very easy to start spending real-life
cash. Monetisation figures highly and while cash is easy
to come by, it’s the gold you really want. It is harder to
achieve in-game and you may be tempted to get your
wallet out.
That will put some people off but don’t let it. Asphalt
Overdrive may not be in pole position when it comes to
the best racers of all time, but if you remain in control, this
fun, frivolous jaunt can be rather rewarding.
The annoying monetisation aspects may drive
you a little bit crazy but as casual mobile racers
go, this game is motoring.
■ There are some amazing stunts to achieve
such as spinning off a ramp
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■ The aim is to complete each stage with as many

rings and points as possible

■ The boss battles

with Dr Eggman are
■ Look out for giant rings in each level that lead back, take him out to
to hidden mini games complete each zone

 Price £1.99/$2.99

Sonic The Hedgehog

Jumping and spinning his way back into our hearts and our devices
Sonic and mobile devices are
PROS/CONS
▲ You’ll have not a new partnership, Sega
flashbacks to the have been have pleasing
original as you play
through zones fans with new games and 3D versions
▲ The re-mastered for some time, but this latest release
visuals and audio do
the game justice will tug at the heartstrings of any
▼ The control system gamer. The original Sega Mega Drive
is lacking real
precision
version of the game - the one that
▼ The leaderboards started it all - has been ported to iOS
have been hijacked and Android, getting some polish
by glitchers
along the way.
This is a revamp of an app that has
been around for some time, initially
appearing back in the early days of the
App Store, but suffering from some
bugging issues. This version 2.0 is an
all-new port of the game and this
time has captured the essence of the
original perfectly, re-mastering the
visuals and audio without tampering
with them. Just reaching the menu
screen is a huge nostalgia trip; the
music kicks in and you’re instantly
transported back to the first time you
played the game.
Get into the gameplay and it’s all
still here; the classic platform format,
ring collection and a vast array of
obstacles and enemies to overcome.
There are seven classic zones to work
your way through, and though plenty
of the levels feel repetitive in terms
of design and indeed obstacles, that
doesn’t change how enjoyable it is to
play. This re-mastered version has seen
huge steps forward made in terms
of how the game runs, with players
now seeing widescreen and 60fps on
screen, making Sonic look and feel at
home on mobile.
There are also some new additions
to the gameplay that are bound to
catch the player’s eye, with both Tails
and Knuckles available as playable
characters for the first time in the
game, once unlocked of course. Taking
advantage of the mobile aspect and
the social links that come with this,
there is also a new Time Attack Game
mode where the focus is on time taken
to complete a zone. This ties in with
Game Center so users can compete
against friends, as well as view
achievements and leaderboards from
the new home screen that appears
before the game menu. This is actually
a nice piece of design, with an original
Sonic The Hedgehog game case and
cartridge being part of the animation
that welcomes you to the app.
These are all great new features
and improvements on the initial port
but the real key here is of course
the gameplay, and while there is

“Just loading up the menu is a huge no doubting the huge amount of

enjoyment and nostalgia that you can
nostalgia trip – the music kicks in and you’re get from diving into this game, Sonic
does still have translation issues when
transported back to the good old days” it comes to moving from console to

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Showcase
Five key areas of
Sonic the Hedgehog
01: The menu
Newly introduced and
your hub for the entire
game, this is where
your saves are, as well
as the Game Center
links and Time Attack
Mode. We really love
the retro style.
■ The left button acts as joystick, the right as an action button
02: Zones
There are seven of the
classic zones for you
to play through and
complete – each one
no doubt stirring those
early gaming memories
as you go. What’s not
to love?

03: Controls
The old D-Pad has
now been replaced
with a joystick. This
change has had quite
a profound effect on
the ability to be precise
■ The classic chiptune soundtrack has also been re-mastered to aid the nostalgia with some of your
movements.
mobile. These issues come in the form infuriating game, but this feels like too 04: Rings
of the touch screen controls, which is much of a patience pusher at times. As with the classic
not an issue new to iOS and Android Missing ledges and moving onto spikes original, your survival
and final game score
games. Interestingly, this is one area because of clunky controls is not the
rests on your ability to
where Sonic The Hedgehog was better way to keep users coming back, and collect and hold on to
before the renovation, with an on- playing this game on a smartphone is those rings – not always
screen d-Pad and action button. Now, especially cramped. as easy as it first seems!

this has been replaced with a joystick
that in truth is less than reliable.
There are plenty of occasions where
a touch of subtlety is needed when
it comes to movement, and in most
cases the joystick can’t provide this.
Instead you either go too far, or the
lack of precision means you’ll get
two movements instead of one. It’s
incredibly frustrating when you’re
trying to guide Sonic over lava pits,
where timing is essential in order to
make a jump between platforms or
moving blocks, and it’s a struggle to
do. Sonic was always a wonderfully
Purists might also have issue with
the inclusion of Spin Dash, something
that didn’t originally appear until Sonic
2. While there are things to pick at,
there is still plenty of joy to be found
too. Being able to potentially show
your own kids what you grew up
playing, or simply to get that healthy
dose of nostalgia as you make your
way to work.
Far from perfect, but that’s one of
05: Bad guys
the reasons we loved Sonic, along
Simply avoid them or take them out – but only if it’s worth the
with looks and the sound. risk. Then of course, there is the challenge of dealing with our
old foe Dr Eggman in a boss battle.

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■ The game’s visual style is great and reminds us of
mobile games like Faif
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DomiNations
Is it better than Clash of Clans?
Brian Reynolds may not be a
household name but when it
comes to combat strategy games,
he knows what he’s doing. He helped design
games such as Sid Meier’s Civilization II, Rise
of Nations and FrontierVille, so DomiNations
got many people very excited.
■ Strategy is a large part of
DomiNation’s gameplay
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Into The Circle
Who would have thought curling was this much fun?
Here we have a game where you
fling a circle into a larger circle in
the hopes that you happen to
land into a smaller circle within the big
circle. Into The Circle is like everyone’s
favourite Winter Olympic event, curling.
The aim of the game is to keep flinging
your circle (to avoid confusion, we’re forced
to call this a ‘disk’) into the bigger circles
as the game ramps up the difficulty with
each successful attempt. An oscillating
spindle will determine which direction
your disk will fly, just tap the screen to stop
the spindle and hold it to build up power
before, finally, releasing your shot and
hoping that it doesn’t fly off into the ether.
Despite the simple controls. Into
The Circle is surprisingly deep with its
mechanics. You can perform trick-shots by
There is a noticeable Civilization influence.
You start in the Stone Age and you have
to evolve to the space age. This is done
by producing a habitable, defendable
settlement for your people and expanding
by battling against other tribes in a bid to
reign supreme. It entails a lot of tapping
■ The graphics for the game
are vibrant and interesting
bouncing your circle off the boundaries,
for example, but we’d discourage you from
doing so as it usually ends with you losing.
You can pay to keep going should you
miss your mark with Stars – you can earn
these via hitting the bullseye within target
circles or just by coughing up cash. We feel
that the game would actually benefit from
having its paid Stars removed, enabling
people to progress based on their skill.
Despite its pay-to-win model and
frequent advert breaks, Into The Circle is
a very easy to pick up and difficult to put
down game.
Intriguingly deep and intensely
addictive, Into The Circle is ideal for
gaming on the fly.
around, creating buildings and battlements,
and training up your men for a fight.
The presentation is intricate and the
interaction fiddly. There is also a huge dollop
of paid-for content. If you decide you don’t
want to pay you will find yourself restricted
in terms of the number of houses you can
have and how many citizens can live there.
That is part and parcel of these kinds of
games, though, and it means you really have
to become hooked if you want to get the
most out of it. You will find yourself returning
though, just to tweak a few things here and
there. It is nothing if not addictive.
DomiNations feels far more substantial
than its rival Clash of Clans, but the
paid-for content will irritate some.

 Price £4.99/$6.99
Lost Within
A good old-fashioned ghost story
Lost Within is a horror game that
ticks boxes. It takes all of the things
that are supposed to be scary in
and of themselves – a dark set of rooms, an
asylum, writing scrawled on the wall,
monsters and eerie music – and combines
 Price £4.99/$6.99
Til Morning’s Light
Dictionaries alone won’t save you here
Poor Erica, in classic teen horror-
story style she’s been tricked by
schoolmates and is locked inside a
haunted mansion. Armed with only a torch
and her wits, she must make her escape
them into a game that makes you feel you’ve
seen it all before. Even so, it works because
there are points in this game where you will
jump out of your skin.
As a cop sweeping the condemned
asylum to make sure it’s clean, you soon
before the mansion claims her life. It kind of
plays like a ‘My First Survival Horror’, similar to
the likes of Luigi’s Mansion but spliced with
the likes of Resident Evil. Erica must explore
each nook and cranny of the dusty old
Games
become embroiled in trying to solve a
mystery in order to be able to escape.
You move around the claustrophobic
environment by tapping on the screen in
the direction you wish to head, looking for
glowing objects to examine and seeking
clues that advance the story. Flashbacks also
fill in the gaps as you create weapons to
bash the monsters which roam the creepy
corridors and rooms.
It is this narrative which drives you forward
as you soon become more preoccupied
with trying to fathom what is going on and
seeking clues. It helps that the presentation
of the game is so slick and atmospheric. Not
only do you come to have a real feel of the
building in which you’re stuck, you come to
believe you are playing a full-on console title:
the quality of the experience is that good.
Lost Within really shows the power
of good storytelling in the form of a
mobile app.
mansion, solving puzzles and collecting keys
with symbols on them to unlock the doors.
Of course, Erica isn’t alone and must use her
trusty flashlight (you find other weapons) to
defeat the various monsters.
The game strikes a nice balance between
combat and puzzles. The combat is varied, as
each monster requires a different approach:
one monster may require you to swipe icons
at the right time, whereas others prompt you
to tap multiple locations in quick succession.
The puzzles, though, feel like glorified fetch
quests with the occasional ‘push-block-to-
do-something’ activity thrown in.
While not scary in the slightest, the
game has an undeniable charm and is
varied enough to hold your attention.
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None*
None* is a simple game in the
extreme. You’re shown obscure
questions, which you have to
answer to progress through the game.
Some of the questions are obvious, but
others are not. The puzzling nature works
on so many levels and is great fun.
A game that is so simple should not get
you thinking so hard, but it does.
 Price Freemium
Lara Croft:
Relic Run
You may feel like you have played
this game before. It is a traditional
running game in how the character
moves and is controlled not unlike Temple
Run, but it looks sublime and we found
ourselves playing with it for much longer
than other runner-style games. There is a lot
to enjoy here once you dig deep into it.
You may have seen most of this before,
but it is one of the best runners yet.
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FarmVille:
Harvest swap
Zynga has taken the FarmVille
name and used it to good effect
in this match-three game. It will
look familiar to Candy Crush and it is
completely addictive. In a crowded market,
this game still offers something for those of
you who enjoy the genre.
Yet another match-three game to keep
you busy at lunchtimes. A good effort.
 Price £1.99/$1.99
Motorsport
Manager
It’s hard to create a simulation
game that offers the right balance
between progression and difficulty.
Motorsport Manager, however, offers in-
depth management of your racing team,
which involves dealing with changing
weather, team finances, sponsorships and it
also looks fantastic on any device.
Strategy, realism and addiction, all
paced just right.
 Price Freemium
Bitcoin
Billionaire
The retro graphics and simplistic
game management in Bitcoin
Billionaire are initially slightly
confusing, but once you get into it, it’s
addictive. Your goal is to mine bitcoins by
tapping the screen and investing in a
variety of ideas, including lottery tickets.
The addictive nature will certainly keep you
coming back.
A highly addictive game, which is hard
to put down.
 Price £1.49/$1.99
Last Voyage
It’s hard to explain what Last Voyage
is about, but we recommend you
give it a try. Some of the challenges
are bizarre as you have to deal with visual
puzzles that offer the smallest clues. The
soundtrack is immersive, and the more you
solve the riddles, the more addictive it gets.
A really unusual game, which feels
very different.

 Price Free
Ten Large
When you first play Ten Large, it is
not obvious what you need to do.
As you start to understand what is
involved, the experience becomes incredibly
addictive. There are nods to Minesweeper
and other classics, but with a pace that
means it feels like a truly frantic puzzler.
It feels like a mixture of many classic
games, but it remains highly original.
 Price Freemium
Emoji Stars
Emoji Stars takes features from
other popular multiplayer games
such as emojis, guesswork and
immediate feedback for an experience for
those who have a keen interest in music.
Look at the emojis and the available letters
to guess the song. Easy? Well, it really isn’t.
A rewarding game, which will suit those
of you with a deep music knowledge.
 Price Freemium
Angry
Birds Fight!
Angry Birds is of course a legendary
mobile-gaming brand and here we
have a new twist. You get to play a
Candy Crush-style game, but all the while
you have to build up the powers of your bird
so that you can win the fight after each
round. It is quite absorbing and we have
found ourselves coming back time and time
again, which is of course a very good sign.
A different take on the matching tile
genre, which offers entertaining depth.
 Price Free
Hellrider
This game initially feels a bit like
you are playing Flappy Bird in that
you are extremely likely to lose in
seconds, but if you persevere and get used
to the play style and the controls, then you
will soon realise that a lot of skill will get
you quite a long way. It’s set in an
underground world, where you’ll need to
avoid lethal traps and destroy the agile
bosses. The simple premise of having to
steer your bike to avoid obstacles and
collect rewards really is great fun and the
experience is very addictive throughout.
This is great, simple and it’s not
frustrating to play.
Games
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Dodo Pop
The visuals in Dodo Pop are superb
and highlight the sheer quality of
the game. Despite a familiar-feeling
game mechanic, the matching of gumballs
to pass each level is fun every time. There are
in-app purchases later on, but overall we did
greatly enjoy the gaming experience.
An absorbing and natural board game,
which will have you hooked quickly.
 Price Freemium
Crazy Taxi™
City Rush
The animations and graphics in
Crazy Taxi offer a close-up sense
of perspective, which only adds
to the fun. As you drive through traffic to
achieve your goals, the elements jump out
at you and the end result is a game that is
frantic at every turn. It’s fantastic fun.
The legend returns in a high-octane
romp – you’ll keep coming back.
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nAs time goes on, some tiles turn red and you start
to lose them
 Price Freemium
AdVenture
Capitalist!
Describing AdVenture Capitalist!
is far from easy. It’s an incremental
game where you have to increase
your wealth over time until you can buy an
oil company and you do this by hiring
people to increase your smaller businesses.
The experience becomes very addictive. It’s
strange, but fun.
This game is repetitive and you don’t
have to do much, but it is great fun!
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Lettercraft
Create the longest words possible in the time frame
Word-based games have long
proven to be rather addictive and
Lettercraft is of course no
exception. At face value, it doesn’t appear to
be particularly original – there’s a relatively
simple grid and you make words based upon
the letters that appear in it. But each of the 70
levels brings a certain freshness to the table,
thanks in no short measure to the fact that
some of the tiles vanish.
Whether you are concentrating on making
words containing the letter A or just racking
up as many points as you can to win a level,
this is a game that will certainly keep you
thoroughly on your toes.
The tiles change colour as you continue
to play and you have to watch out for the
red tiles in particular. If you don’t use them in
time then they disappear and the potential
 Price £2.29/$2.99
Basileo
Greek mythology is hardly a topic
that you would associate with
children, but Basileo by developer
MakeItApp somehow manages to explain,
what are often, quite bizarre concepts in a
way that even young children will
understand. The imagery is beautiful and
there is just enough text used to explain,
but not overrun the interface. The app also
includes a variety of games and languages.
A brilliantly inventive way of teaching
Greek mythology.
for word making and for points amassing is
therefore reduced.
How you play depends on how adept you
become at the game. There are easy, normal
and hard levels, and an adrenaline-pumping
survival mode which you can only unlock if
you obtain 20 stars on the normal difficulty.
There is also a multiplayer mode for going
head-to-head with others over Bluetooth to
see who lasts longest.
It’s just a shame that the app only gives
you five levels for free although the upgrade
cost is relatively low. That said, charging for
game statistics and themes is a tad mean.
Lettercraft is an addictive, but familiar
kind of word game that spices things
up with its tile time limits.
 Price £2.29/$2.99
Brutus & Futée
Despite the child-like nature of
the graphics in Brutus & Futée,
there is actually quite a lot of
depth involved in the various chapters. You
have to paint and touch objects to
progress and it works as a clever
introduction to the world of platform
gaming for younger children. Even adults
will enjoy many of the features that are
within this game.
A charming platform-style game for
children that adults will also enjoy a lot.

VVVVVV
 Price £2.49/$2.99
A visage of value and veracity vicariously vivid and valorous
Developer Terry Cavanagh is
known for his anarchic, but familiar
approach to games design, and
four years ago he solidified his status as a
master of the form with VVVVVV; an uber-
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Capitals
Dictionaries alone won’t save you here
Turn-based mobile multiplayer
games are either made or
damned by their respective
communities. A game could be genuinely
great, but if it doesn’t have a good amount
of players floating around, then no one is
going to be able to play it. Thankfully
Capitals has managed to entrance many a
wordsmith and provoke a rather healthy
player base, which is good news as the
game is rather brilliant.
Capitals – Free Word Battles requires a
mind for strategy as much as it demands
a dictionary; on each of your turns you
form words using the hexagonal tiles on a
grid in order to expand your territory – the
endgame being that you take over your
opponent’s capital tile. You can choose
any tile on the board in order to deny
precise Metroidvania-style game whose
centre of gravity rested on adventure, while
its limbs explored platforming, pixel-perfect
skill jumps and intrepid exploration. The iOS
port has been a long time coming, but
Games
letters from your opponent, but your
territory only expands if you use letter tiles
which are adjacent to your territory. It’s a
refreshing take on the word puzzler and
one that we are quite fond of.
If you are that kind of person who
demands a game of Scrabble at family
events then we can’t recommend Capitals
enough. The game does lack a single
player option, which worries us a little
as it throws the game at the mercy of its
aforementioned community, but that
makes us recommend it more – if only to
keep it alive.
As much about strategic placement
as it is about words, Capitals will bend
your brain in more ways than one.
ultimately worth it. Captain Viridian’s ship has
crash landed on an 8-bit realm of gravity
defiance: you can’t jump in VVVVVV, you can
only flip. Flipping is by default mapped to the
right side of the screen, but the option to use
a D-pad exists, too, though we found that
was obstructive: you really need a decent
view of everything, at all times.
The game is challenging, but never
impossible. It’s a stylised, less-is-more
approach to gaming executed superbly on
the touch interface. Don’t let its classic arcade
game skin put you off – beneath is a delicate,
responsive masterpiece.
Both retro and innovative, this game
could be decades old yet still feels
excitingly fresh.
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Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games
Cartoon violence aplenty in the game where winning is a matter of life or death
 Price Freemium
World of Warriors
A potentially good game hampered by in-app purchases
World of Warriors takes the classic
genre of fighting gradually more
intimidating opponents in direct
combat and adds a modern twist to the
experience. The graphics are colourful and
add fun to the experience, with audio that
■ The stunning 3D graphics ■ The timing mechanism of
and colour adds enjoyment hitting the red bar works well
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Simplistic throwaway nonsense,
this game serves up a series of
diverse events and invites you to
high-score them solely for personal
gratification. Of course, as the name
suggests, fail and you die horribly. When
starting out you have no clue what is
required of you for the next game before the
instructions flash up and the
game commences
simultaneously – so expect
your three lives to expire
rapidly for the first few goes.
The events range from
electrified hurdles to shark
jumping, from hammer
throwing to paddling pool
diving and they are short,
snappy and mildly enjoyable.
blends in perfectly to create more depth. It
feels inviting right from the start and there
is a sense that it has been professionally
created, but it doesn’t take long to realise
that this is far from a free game. Despite the
fact that timing is crucial to beating
The further you progress the harder the
games get until the inevitable happens and
you meet your maker in a suitably grizzly
fashion. The controls are very simple, relying
on tilting, tapping or swiping the screen
and the visuals are similarly minimalistic.
In fact, until you get used to the rapid
bombardment of events, you’d be forgiven
for thinking that what you’re watching is an
intro animation instead of a mini-game that
has already started without you. There isn’t
a great deal of replay value and it lacks any
Game Centre support – so you can’t even
play against your mates.
Entertaining for about half an hour, the
appeal soon wanes once you have clocked
all of the mini-games.
opponents and that you, at times, have to
carefully consider when to upgrade, there
is still a lot of the game that relies on
needing to purchase items in order to win.
This is particularly true as you progress
and can work very effectively, but in
this case we felt that it was a little too
aggressive to make the game a valuable
proposition. There is still a lot to enjoy here
and if you are looking for a fighting game,
which you can play for a few minutes a
day and are not too fussed about building
progress over a long period, this could still
be worth a try.
Great graphics and audio, plus a
simple fighting mechanism, but it gets
quite expensive
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Hitman: Sniper
Agent 47 has mobile gamers in his sights again
There is something strangely calming and sights, pinch to zoom and use your fingers to move
PROS/CONS
▲ It is a polished, scarily alluring about assuming the role of a around. When the person is dead centre, you tap the
good-looking sniper, waiting patiently for a hit and picking screen and execute the kill.
game with
great controls off targets in the most creative of ways. So it’s a good If this was the only task, the game could easily
▲ The missions are job Hitman: Sniper enables you to perform this most become very dull and repetitive quite quickly as the
varied, fun and
action-packed sinister of tasks without actually having to violently action takes place in a single setting: a large, but easily
▼ You have to hurt any real humans. scannable mansion. But the developers have spiced up
pay extra for
the best
Wrapped in a glossy veneer with instructional the action with further objectives, involving anything
firepower voiceovers and reels of incoming stats, Hitman: Sniper from achieving a certain number of points, avoiding
▼ It is essentially is packed with missions, each asking you to kill a detection or picking off moving guards.
a shooting gallery
at the heart of it specific target. You simply peer through your shooter’s This raises the adrenaline level of the game and will
keep you reasonably hooked. Mistime a shot, leave a
body in plain sight or hit a civilian and the guards are
alerted almost instantly, picking up their walkie-talkies
for assistance. Should the central target be startled, he
or she will run, turning the game into something of a
cat-and-mouse chase.
The tasks also becomes progressively harder and
intricate. By shooting at objects, you can lure guards
to safe killing spots or into neatly placed death traps
and you will become frustrated yet drawn to the more
challenging sections.
Some of the additional rifles need cold-hard cash,
but with leaderboards to aim for, you may well be
tempted to invest.
■ All of the action takes place on this sprawling Polished, varied and full of excitement with some
lake-fronted mansion
really neat flourishes, this is a game that is right
on target – hopefully you will be too.

■ Here the enemy guard is about to meet a watery end

“You will become… Drawn to

the more challenging sections”
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■ The game isn’t really suited to smaller screens and
there is a lack of challenges
 Price £0.79/$0.99
Splash Canyons
It’s time to go with the flow in this new puzzler
Very often, puzzle apps hold you
by the hand and offer guidance
for what seems like ages until you
grasp the concept. Not Splash Canyons. A
couple of instructional levels and that’s
your lot – the rest you just have to get on
with. This makes for a fiendish puzzler with
an upward difficulty curve. But it also
makes it a satisfying challenge.
The idea of the game is to enable
brightly coloured liquid to flow perfectly
into a set of canyons by slicing away at
obstacles. You have to take into account the
environment and natural elements such
as wind. Most crucially, you have to think
about how real-life physics will affect how
the liquids descend. Some of the liquids
have to be combined to make different
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Clumsy Ninja
Needy freemium ninja child barely delivers
Clumsy Ninja comes bearing great in-app boosts – these options expand, but
promise – a free and pretty app agonisingly slowly.
with a quirky central character you As you progress, there is an almost total
have to train up to be a master ninja. lack of challenges, variety or, you know,
However, once you enter, it soon becomes actual ninja fighting. There is a promise
apparent that not all is as it seems. The app of super-special ninja moves, but there is
description promises the next generation of nothing special here. Turn on notifications
interactive characters, but we weren’t wholly and you’ll be subjected to a nonstop stream
convinced. While the animations are slick, the of requests by your ninja to train, play or just
physics of lifting, moving, throwing and buy something random in the app.
tickling (yes, really) the ninja are smooth and The fact that there are in-app purchases
the colours are vibrant, the gameplay simply or social sharing isn’t the problem, it’s the
isn’t at the top level it promises. incessant emphasis on it, above gameplay
The first problem is the limited range of experience or variety – that’s most grating.
actions. The options include basic training,
Clumsy Ninja is not an adventure game.
potions, tying balloons or just general
It’s a glorified needy tamagotchi for
fiddling about. That’s it. Very gradually – if
kids raised on social media.
you don’t want to start rolling a rapidly
growing snowball of mini-transactions on
colours which means the ordering of play
has to be perfect – waste too much red for
instance and your yellows won’t enable you
to make the right amount of orange. It can
be very frustrating to fill one canyon only
to realise you do not have enough left to
fill another. Since there is no way back, it’s
a case of learning from your mistakes and
experimenting – but this is of course all
part of the fun.
Splash Canyons is inventive and
addictive. Its bold colouring and cutesy
structure is akin to the trend of similar titles,
but its creativeness sets it apart.
Totally addictive and rewarding for the
accomplished, Treasure Run! may eat
some cash, but it will test your reflexes.
■ You have to cut through parts of the environment in
order to fill the right parts

 Price £3.99/$4.99
Space Marshals
Escapee-annihilating action in the Metal Gear mould
Mashing up sci-fi with the Wild
West, Space Marshals is an
instantly enjoyable top-down
adventure in which you have to track down
fugitives and deal out some justice. It
neatly combines various tactical methods
 Price Free
Treasure Run!
On your marks, get set... Run and run
Runners have become a staple
gaming favourite and Treasure Run!
is a fine example of just how fun
this popular genre can really be. Boasting
some cute, cartoon graphics, a host of
that you can use to get through tricky
sections – guns blazing or stealthy
assassination. Its execution is warmly
reminiscent of the Metal Gear Solid games,
where you can utilise your surroundings to
help you creep around undetected and aid
addictive collectibles and a variety of
enemies, this game sometimes skirts with
boredom and yet somehow manages to pull
itself back from the brink, powering the
player forward and generating that crucial
Games
in the downfall of the bad guys. However,
you can’t rely too much on the lay of the
landscape and what’s around you to keep
you safe. You’ll need to apply a degree of
savvy in your weapons load-out, picking
the right tools for the right job and
ensuring that you don’t get flambéed
when it comes to the out-and-out
gunfights. In addition to body armour and
grenades you can carry one two-handed
and one single-handed weapon in each
mission, which include shotguns,
crossbows and the good ol’ sniper rifle – so
there are plenty of combinations to try out.
Thanks to Retina Display graphics, the
game looks gorgeous and everything is
easily distinguishable. The only real issue
we found was in the control method that is
slightly fiddly and awkward to master.
Space Marshal’s mix of the stealthy and
the gung-ho makes it instantly lovable
and thoroughly enjoyable.
one-more-go feeling. It’s a highly polished
game in which you are forever dashing
forward, tapping the screen to jump, double-
tapping to double jump and killing enemies
by bouncing on their heads. The aim is to
collect treasures and go as far as you can,
taking advantage of well-placed goodies
such as the golden lion – a feature that turns
all coins into gold – and speed increases. The
excellent level designs ensures these are
always in the right places.
Fall down a void and it is game over, but
keep going and you rack up a great score
supplemented by bonuses.
Totally addictive and rewarding for the
accomplished, Treasure Run! may eat
some cash but it will test your reflexes.
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Minesweeper -
Widget Edition
Most people know the classic
Minesweeper game very well and
it has never lost appeal for the
millions who still play it every single day.
This version is as simple as you could wish
for and the fact that it works in the
notification centre means that it is always
only ever a swipe away. It highlights just
how impressive a notification centre is.
Brings back some glorious gaming
memories. Simplicity done well.
 Price Freemium
Crossy Road
A full thirty-three years after the
original Frogger game was
launched, we now have an
awesome alternative, which manages to
keep the retro charm of the original game, all
the while using clever techniques to ensure a
unique environment. Your moves through
the busy traffic, train lines and rivers are
chunked, but the movement of the
environment is super smooth.
A brilliant re-creation of a classic. A
truly addictive treasure of a game.
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Grow Me Up!
In this game you have to help
Alex grow to 100 years old. He
starts out as a baby and you have
to catch all of the food that flies over the
screen and drag it down to him. The
graphics and sounds are excellent, but over
time it does become repetitive.
A fun game for children which is good
at the start, but can become repetitive.
 Price Freemium
Titans
Think of this game as one in which
you use cards to battle the enemy,
and one where chance plays a big
part. It can be frustrating at times, but the
ability to collect new materials and to use
them in a variety of ways ensures that you
will be trying to improve over a long time.
A game with many interesting
elements, which work together well.
 Price £1.49/$1.99
Luka and
his Chinese
friends
This travelling game will let young
children meet new virtual friends
and understand more about the
world around them in a fun, engaging way.
The app provides quick and simple
activities and gradually builds up the
experience, which is underpinned by
friendly narration and colourful graphics. It
is quite a short game, but what is included
here is of excellent quality.
Fun, colourful and most importantly
educational. A friendly children’s app.
 Price Freemium
Evolve:
Hunters Quest
At first glance this game looks like
yet another match-three game –
similar to the likes of Bejeweled,
but the more you get involved in Evolve:
Hunter’s Quest, the quicker you will realise
that there is genuine combat strategy
included here as well as progression that is
highly addictive. We have certainly enjoyed it.
Match-three games are very common,
but few include combat as good as this.

 Price £3.99/$4.99
Her Story
Searching for videos has never been more arresting
 Price Free
Moon Control
Super Hexagon meets Harbor Master… in space
Moon Control follows the lead of
Harbor Master or Flight Control
– the two action/time-
management games that popularised the
genre more than any other titles. Moon
Control is unafraid to shoot for their crown
■ The UI is reminiscent of Lunar ■ Moon Control does away
Lander, but more modern
You may have heard of a podcast
called Serial, which redefined the
way crime dramas could be played
out in audio. Her Story is so off-beat and
unique that it could well be doing the same
for detective games and adventure games. It
may not look like much at first glance – you
see the desktop of a computer running a
police database – but curiosity
and the right search keywords
helps the narrative unravel.
The story surrounds Hannah
Smith, whose husband has
been found dead and whose
police video interviews can be
viewed on the system. All of
the words spoken by Hannah
are searchable so you need to
listen out for potential clues
– as soon as you boot it up, you’ll feel the
influences of the aforementioned flood in.
The serene neon visuals belie how
gruesome the game can be; failure to dock
your colour-coded ships to their respective
landing pads results in a one of many
with subtlety
Games
and use them to delve deeper. You’ll pore
over the details from the nuances in the
actress’ voice and demeanor to the times
of the interviews and you will likely jot stuff
down, just as gamers used to do with a retro
adventure. Since each clip is short, you find
the pace picking up as your mind races to
the next search word you wish to try.
It’s a masterclass in storytelling that has
no real logical order nor ending and it is
determined purely by the way you search.
It’s like a jigsaw only with hunches that you
want to see proved right and a woman who
sends your emotions up and down.
Amazing. Her Story is a captivating and
realistic detective game, which lets you
set your own pace.
cartoon space-deaths – decompression,
suffocation, fuel-burn to name a few.
Avoiding these myriad ends is achieved
by rotating the planet to match the ever-
increasing number of ships ready to touch
down. Extra seconds can be given to your
strategy by tapping an individual ship and
igniting its boosters – a tactic that becomes
vital as you progress.
Moon Control is a hard game, and one
that’ll take some time to acquaint yourself
with. Getting a high score will be a more
challenging, time-consuming affair than
the game would initially have you think.
Difficult physics and a steep learning
curve eventually yield an addictive
experience, if you’ve got the patience.
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Blades Of Brim
Finally, Temple Run has been dethroned
Just when you think a genre has become so
PROS/CONS
▲ Great visuals and oversaturated and bloated with pointless
charming animation clones and tie-ins to existing popular franchises
▲ Gameplay that and brands. Just when you think that genre has died and
perfects the
genre tropes and the final nail has hit the coffin, suddenly a hand bursts
innovates
through the timber and grabs your attention once more.
▼ IAPs can get a little
bit intrusive And so this is the case with the endless runner genre and
▼ Sometimes it can Blades Of Brim.
get a bit busy
onscreen Sybo has created something that doesn’t have to
rely on the familiarity of an existing brand or rely on in-
jokes for its appeal. Brim has its own world with its own
denizens, which gives it a little bit more charm than its
peers. Here, you play as a dashing hero of Brim and must
rid the realm of evil and save adorable Brimlings.
Brim changes up the old formula of avoid-obstacles-
and-gather-gold by throwing enemies in the mix.
Throughout your run, you can give your foes a good old
cleave with your medieval weapon by swiping in their
direction, doing so will help you level up and complete
the game’s various quests.
The game further develops on the genre by adding
some high-difficulty mechanics to pull off in order to
keep your momentum going throughout the game’s
tougher areas. Whilst jumping gaping chasms, you can
keep yourself in the air by attacking airborne adversaries.
Your runs are also permeated with dungeons, each
with their own quests adding more variety into the mix.
Completing each quest will net you a chest at the end
of the dungeon, which will contain either gold or some
new equipment for your hero to use in the form of
armour or a weapon.
We can’t recommend Blades Of Brim enough, its visual
style and charm reminds us somewhat of the Medieval
levels of Crash Bandicoot, this vibrancy is matched by its
varied and addictive gameplay.
Blades Of Brim has set the gold standard for every
endless runner out there. We can’t recommend
this game enough.

“Brim changes up the old formula

of avoid-obstacles-and-gather-
gold by throwing enemies in”

■ You have the opportunity to earn ■ Upon collecting five runes you are
more gear or animal companions taken to a bonus area

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World Of Tanks Blitz
Mobilise forces in this desktop adaptation
There’s a fairly good chance
you’ve heard of World Of Tanks.
It’s that free-to-play online game
that puts players into the driver’s seat of
behemoth tanks and encourages you to
blow up everyone in sight. It’s one of the
 Price £3.99/$4.99
Lara Croft GO
The tomb raider star is going in the right direction in this mobile re-imagining
Lara Croft is an icon of videogames;
the digital it-girl who helped ease
gaming into the mainstream with a
starring role in one of the most well-known
titles of all time: Tomb Raider. She’s rather
biggest games in the world and so it’s no
surprise that developer Wargaming has
taken the concept and transferred it to
mobile devices. What is a surprise, however,
is how solid and enjoyable the experience
of playing World Of Tanks Blitz is.
handy with a pair of pistols and she’s able to
leap around athletically, but while both of
these attributes are present in this new
game, the action takes a back seat in favour
of some very clever puzzles.
Games
World Of Tanks on console and PC had
a tendency to seem over complicated, but
Wargaming has streamlined the entire
experience for mobile. The team size has
been reduced from 15 to seven, the eight
maps are smaller and denser than their
PC counterparts, and there’s only three
countries represented across the game’s 90
tanks. World Of Tanks Blitz has successfully
captured the essence of the original game;
distilled what made it fun to begin with
and pumped that into rounds that last no
longer than eight minutes.
With these sorts of releases, there’s
always a worry that play-to-win culture will
dominate. World Of Tanks Blitz approaches
monetisation smartly, ensuring that it’s
only for those who want a wider variety of
options with no obvious advantage.
It is a solid and thoroughly enjoyable
experience that captures the essence of
the original game. It’ll blow you away.
This turn-based game is a delight, even
if it does replace one of the fundamentals
of Tomb Raider – its great freedom of
movement – with a rigid path. Go is all about
figuring out how to get from A to B while
pulling levers and stepping on pressure
plates to activate various parts of the scenery,
trying to dodge spiders, lizards, snakes, and
being cut into bloody pieces by buzzsaws.
Navigation is made easy with the controls
being a series of swipes and taps. It is
gorgeously stylish. You’ll relish spending time
scaling walls and figuring the consequences
of your actions.
It’s frustratingly short and leaves you
begging for more, but it is a most
perfect turn-based puzzle game.
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■ Match enough faces horizontally and vertically to
defeat our orange chum
 Price £0.69/$0.99
Goblin Sword
A polished pixel-art platformer to die for… A lot
Goblin Sword may look like a port
of a classic Mega Drive game, but
it’s actually an original title. Well,
maybe not in the sense of offering any
innovation: it’s a standard platform
adventure with periodic boss fights.
■ Coins can be spent on ■ There are also treasure chests
weapons, armour and relics
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Pokémon
Gotta catch ‘em all?
Shuffle
It feels a little odd to be playing a
game that is so strongly linked to
Nintendo on a smartphone, but it
shows just how important iOS and Android
devices now are for gaming. How
disappointing, then, that Pokémon Shuffle
Mobile feels largely inferior to the host of
other puzzle games littering the app stores,
both in its presentation and lack of originality.
At its heart, this is a match-three puzzler
with Pokémon faces and it is a boring one
at that. The aim is to match three faces
horizontally or vertically in an apparent battle
against wild Pokémon. The game description
states that “battling, collecting and leveling
up can provide hours of fun” Although you
are able to position a face on any spot on
the board – the lack of any time limit (except
in Expert) makes it feel rather too laid back.
However, its pixel-art presentation is
polished to perfection. Most importantly,
the gameplay is well designed as you
embark on a quest to recover the
legendary Goblin Sword. Each area of the
world map comprises a collection of
and crystals to find
Completing puzzles in a set number of
moves lends some depth, but it never feels
satisfying enough.
It’s not all bad. The presentation is slick and
the graphics more than adequate for what
the game is trying to achieve. There is too
much emphasis at the start with tapping
laboriously through the speech bubble
explanations, but this eases when it feels
you’ve got the hang of things.
We do like the fact that, as a freemium
game, it doesn’t bombard with monetary
requests. However the little things, like losing
a life when starting a level, do rankle.
If you’re after a fun match-three game
then there are plenty of better and
more challenging alternatives around.
relatively short levels, ideal for mobile play.
While jumping around platforms and
defeating enemies with a sword, you
collect coins that can be used later to buy
weapons, armour and relics. There are also
treasure chests and crystals to find – often
via hidden passages – to attain full level
completion, although replaying them over
and over to try to find everything could
prove annoying for some.
While the action starts off easy, the
difficulty is soon ramped up, which will
please retro fans looking for a challenge. It
plays pretty fair.
Fun gameplay and a lengthy quest
make it absolutely great value
for money.

Price £2.29/$2.99
Divide By Sheep
Will counting these sheep send you to sleep?
Just when you thought you’d seen
it all, along comes another
ingenious puzzler. It may appear
to be familiar fare, but beneath Divide By
Sheep’s glossy and cartoony graphics lies
something altogether more morbid and
 Price £3.99/$4.99
Counterspy
If Pixar and LucasArts made a James Bond game
CounterSpy’s development team
contains ex-Pixar and LucasArts
staffers, which spills into its design,
animations and style. The staffers weren’t
game developers, though; CounterSpy is
dark and it is nothing short of excellent.
The game takes place on water with sheep
sitting on top of a set of blocky islands. You
must rescue them in set numbers by
allowing them to leap from one island to
another until they reach a raft that takes
DynaMighty’s first game, and it shows. The
translation of the action-stealth plarformer to
iOS has done little to solve the console
version’s buggy AI or frame-rate issues. The
game is a stealth shooter and the randomly
Games
them to safety. The only issue is the islands
have their own capacities and you must
work out whether you need to sacrifice
some of the little lambs by drowning them
in order to reach the criteria set down to
the left of the screen.
At first, it seems too easy but then the
game starts to throw some curve balls by
adding new animals and some clever traps
that make you think strategically. By firing
sheep at lasers, for instance, you can slash
them in half and piece them back together
later. It is glorious fun.
As the play continues, it’s hard to tear
yourself away. Even when you’ve restarted
a level umpteen times, you feel determined
to crack it. For this game is as addictive as
they come and you’d be baa-rking mad not
to try it.
It’s a mathematical puzzler that
introduces a host of clever twists. An
instant classic.
generated levels mean you’ll never play the
same path twice, but there’s little substance
over the style. After a few levels, you’ve
exhausted all there is to do and are
motivated to push further on by little more
than the promise of unlocking new plans or
formulas. We found ourselves playing
through to the end just to see the level
design of each tier of the Imperialist and
Socialist military installments – the game’s art
direction is by far its strongest facet.
The game’s flaw is that the further you get
in, the more resistant enemies become: it’s
not harder per se, it just takes longer.
You’ll never play the same path twice.
Initially intuitive and smart, but it soon
becomes stale.
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Heroki
With stark echoes of Mario, this game certainly flies
 Price £2.49/$2.99
Space Age: A Cosmic Adventure
To infinity and beyond - or 1976 at least
Inspired by the point-and-click
adventure games of the 1990s,
Space Age invokes a lot of
memories in gamers of a certain age. Yet
the game’s top-down pixel-art styling –
courtesy of Matt Comi and Neven Mrgan
■ Refreshingly doesn’t rely on ■ As you move around, more
social media gimmicks of the planet will reveal itself
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The power of mobile technology is
so good that seeing a console
quality game running on a phone
or tablet shouldn’t amaze us. But Heroki does
just that: its fantastic Japanese-style visuals
and slick presentation more than matching
anything on a Nintendo machine.
The concept of the game is simple: you
make use of the propellers
above the head of the cute
main character Heroki to steer
him through the air, collecting
objects, grabbing throwable
boxes and defeating enemies
as you go. The game asks you
to discover hidden objects and
push buttons that will open
doors in order to reach the end
of the levels. It also requires
– is merely a distraction for what is a
compelling mix of clever puzzles and
action, set in what it supposed to be the
futuristic world of 1976.
Unashamedly self-aware, the game takes
place on an alien planet called Kepler-16.
the solving of some fiendish puzzles, many
of which rely on the new skills you pick up or
environmental factors such as wind.
It proves to be great fun, initially at least.
You certainly can’t help, but be spurred on by
the jaunty music and the fast-paced action,
that’s not to say it isn’t without its faults.
Although you can choose your preferred
control method, we found our podgy fingers
got in the way of the action. We felt that the
levels became tiresome, with a lack of variety.
But for all of that, it is ambitious and it pushes
the boundaries of mobile gaming. For that it
must be applauded.
Impeccable level design and a
character to take to your hearts, Heroki
proves to be an absolute delight.
The world unfolds bit by bit as you explore
it either as Private or one of the other
characters. You learn much about them
thanks to the fantastic dialogue and your
emotions stir as the amazing sound track
pumps out in the background.
It is refreshing to see the game
concentrate so much on gameplay
rather than on scores and social media.
The short levels are packed with intrigue
and complexity. Its not perfect. The tiny
characters don’t always move where you
want them to and it can unfortunately feel
painfully slow-paced.
An old-school gem that combines
humour and a great script with the
8-bit look of games gone by.
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Game Of Thrones
Game Of Thrones invades iOS, but does the HBO magic translate?
How committed are you to HBO’s Game Of was always going to be tough for Telltale to depict a
PROS/CONS
▲ Very faithful to the Thrones TV mythos? Picking up at the corner of the universe without stepping on the show’s
HBO TV show infamous red wedding from Season Three, shoes, but by introducing a House that’s received
▲ Shocking cliffhanger The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us developer barely a passing mention thus far gives the studio the
makes us desperate
for more Telltale Games has constructed a delicate love letter to scope to experiment with characters and situations.
▼ IAP to get the next fans of the popular TV series. Game Of Thrones follows Telltale’s established point-
episodes inside the
app could mislead Episode one of six – Iron From Ice – is the very and-click adventure structure. Most of the action with
▼ Sadly it’s riddled definition of a slow burn. Telltale takes its time any immediate consequence plays out in Quick-Time
with bugs and
frame rate problems introducing the conflicts of Westeros, various major Events, though the real fun really comes from
players, and House Forrester – the noble craftsmen surviving conversations.
you embody throughout the 90-minute episode. It You’ll spend time talking with characters and
manoeuvring through political situations, and what
you say will often impact how the story unfolds in
future episodes. Being that this is only episode one,
it’s difficult to see where the story will head or what
consequences our actions will have. But, this is a slow
burn and the show isn’t any different.
Game Of Thrones has clearly been designed with
console players in mind, so expect to see a few issues.
The touch controls work perfectly for the most part,
though on rare occasions they can be a bit of a twitchy
drag. Like every other Telltale release, we also ran
into a couple of performance issues: the frame rate in
particular had a tendency to bottom out, even on an
iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.
■ Designed for fans of the HBO show, fans of the A decent start to what will no doubt by a great
books or causal observers will be lost in the plot
story, but expect a few technical hiccups along
the way.

■ Expect to see plenty of familiar faces from the TV show

“It’s difficult to see where the

story will head”
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Whatever you ‘re making, the iPhone can help
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Enlight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123
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Reuk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128
Nutshell Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128
Post-it Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128
Marvel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129
Take Creative Vocal Recorder . . . . . . . . . .129
Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129
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EffectBuilder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129
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Procreate Pocket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131
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Frontback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133
Trap Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133
Layout from Instagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134
TinType by Hipstamatic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Darkroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Modio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
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“The iPhone is
everything from
mixing deck, to
editing suite to easel”

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■ There’s a good range of live filters, but ■ Optional on-screen guides help you line up
unfortunately you can’t adjust their strength shots. There’s also an HDR option

 Price £2.99/$3.99

ProCam 3
Gain greater control over your iPhone camera
ProCam 3 was one of the first third-party apps to
PROS/CONS
▲ Manual camera give users access when iOS 8’s manual camera
controls enable controls came in, which weren’t available in the
precision adjustment
of shots default Camera app. Tapping two fingers on the live camera
▲ Live filters and view brings up indicators for exposure and focus, which you
lenses, tons of
settings, plus an can drag around to obtain automatic settings, moving a
editing mode slider to adjust exposure compensation. Tapping on the most of the latter can be adjusted manually and range
▼ Some lag when locks in the middle brings up extra sliders for ISO, shutter from vignettes, fish-eye and tilt-shift to kaleidoscopic and
switching modes,
in addition to the speed and focus, allowing manual adjustment of these key wormhole effects. There are 12 shooting modes, including
occasional crash
aspects of photography. It’s the kind of fine control you’d face detection, anti-shake and burst, plus slo-mo and time-
▼ Not always easy,
and therefore quick expect to find on a decent standalone camera and enables lapse video. There is also a selection of on-screen guides,
enough, to find the
setting you need
you to set up each shot with precision to suit the conditions. aspect ratios and resolutions. Finally, there’s an array of
The ability to control ISO and shutter speed is a real boon for settings for photo and video modes, most notably, the
low-light shooting, while another slider offers gradual ability to save stills as lossless TIFFs.
control of white balance to suit the lighting type. That’s not all, however. ProCam 3 includes a photo editor
The manual controls combine well with a plethora for making nondestructive edits to any shot from your
of other options, including 40 live filters and 17 lenses – Camera Roll. As well as standard crop, rotate and adjust, you
have access to those filters and lens effects.

“It’s the kind of fine control you’d Manual controls, plus an astounding array of
options, turn your iPhone into the ultimate
expect to find on a decent photographic powerhouse.
standalone camera”
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Enlight
Want to do more than add photo filters? Enlight them
There are many photo-editing apps in the
App Store, but Enlight aims to replace them
all by providing as wide a range of features as
possible. It’s a bold aim and yet it is not without merit.
Enlight really is feature-packed, ensuring even the
worst of photos have an opportunity to shine.
The first time you use the app, it can annoy you with
pop-ups explaining how each element works. Once
you get those out of the way, the experience becomes
more fluid. You can crop, skew or refit images, or make
alterations to the contrast, exposure, colour correction
and curves.
But it’s when you become creative that the app
starts to shine. The reshape option is lovely, letting
you tug at parts of your central image in order to
make it appear bloated or smaller. You can also blend
images to gain some amazing effects including double
“It’s when you become creative
that the app starts
to shine”
■ The menu appears to the right of the screen,
but only when you need it
Creative
PROS/CONS exposure. If you like to change photographs into
▲ The gestures control paintings, you can do this too, with options for urban
are easy to learn looks and sketches. There are also loads of effects and
▲ It is packed with
great features
decals made from text that can jazz up images.
▼ The in-app camera By making all of these processes very simple, the
is too basic photo-editing process is sped up. It relies on gestures,
▼ There is no iPad
version available
which gives you a better feel for what you are doing,
making it more intuitive, and it also reduces screen
clutter. Indeed, you only see what you need to. There
is no iPad version, strangely, but we would expect this
feature would work very well on those devices in the
future too.
At any point, you can change an image by scrolling
through the Camera Roll at the bottom of the screen
and tapping on a new picture. If you want to take
a fresh pic, you can use the in-app camera, but it’s
nothing amazing. In fact, that will be the only time
you’ll end up leaving this app.
A great all-in-one image editor with many
features that can help to produce some
outstandingly good results.
■ Elements can be undone and the app
explains how each feature works
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■ The tutorial will help you to get ■ It lets you import images from ■ The app contains an impressive
to grips with the controls the camera or your library set of textures

 Price £1.49/$1.99

Mextures
Meet the most powerful photo filters app for iPhone
On the surface of things, you
PROS/CONS
▲ Professional-grade might be forgiven for
tools offer a wealth thinking that Mextures is
of customisation
options another photo filters and effects app to
▲ Formulas are a great add to that bulging folder on your
touch for an easy
editing process smartphone’s home screen. This might
▼ The sheer number well be yet another photo filters app,
of options might be
daunting for some
but that’s where the similarities with
▼ Too many textures the ever-expanding App Store
can quickly ruin category ends.
an image
Far from being another take on the
classic vintage effects app, Mextures
combines just the right amount of
professional tools and advanced
functionality with an impressive
collection of filters and effects, making
it by the far most powerful and flexible
app of its type we’ve ever come across.
The process for editing in Mextures
is relatively simple. You start by
shooting a photo or selecting one from
your iPhone’s Camera Roll and then
adding textures from the collection
of texture packs the app has to offer.
There’s a lot to choose from here, and
that’s where the app might start to get
a little bit daunting for the beginner.
From light leaks, to grit and grain, to
gradients; the sheer number of options
available is brilliant, especially when
each one can be customised with a
variety of blending modes and its own
opacity slider.
You can apply any number of
textures to your images, which is a
most welcome change from many
apps in this category. With the
opportunity to layer texture upon
texture, no two images we produced
with the app were exactly the same.
There’s a caveat attached to this
though, in that too many effects can
detract from the original image and
end up looking a little tacky.
On occasions, we found it hard to
dial down the opacity of each texture
and stop it from overpowering the
image or the overall edit. In this sense,
despite having a lot of options as far
as different texture types go, less is
definitely more.
However, to Mextures’ credit, there
are a good few tools on hand to help
with this issue. Every time a texture
is applied to an image, it starts with
a pre-selected blending mode that
certainly helps to keep things subtle,
but by heading into the layers menu
you can change this and vary up the
effect. There’s also the opacity slider,
which is less useful depending on the
blending mode you’re using, but can
still be effective on some images.

“Where Mextures really shines is the way in Once you’ve chosen and added
all of your textures, heading into
which it brings all of its features together into the layers menu will show them all
individually. Tapping on any texture
an intuitive and coherent interface” layer will bring up its opacity slider

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How to...
Create your own
Mextures Formulas
01: Create
Add your favourite
combination of Textures
to your first image. If
you’re unsure about a
Texture, you can always
hide it and this will save
hidden, ready for you to
use later on.

02: Save
Head back into the
main photo menu and
tap on the sharing
icon. You’ve got a few
options here, but you’ll
n You can duplicate or add new textures n The app’s blending modes allow for even want to select the Save
and layers in Mextures more creative options Current Formula button
at the bottom of the
option list.
“By far the most powerful and 03: Name it
flexible app of its type we’ve ever In the dialogue box
that appears, give your

come across”
Formula a name (make
it as descriptive as you
can if you have a fair
and give you the option to reselect to this app beyond the regular sharing few to work with, so it’s
easier to find the one
a blending option. There’s also an features, although that’s by no means you need) and hit the
option to hide or even delete a texture, a bad thing. Save button to commit
meaning the levels of undo in the app Where Mextures really shines though the formula to the app.
are almost endless, even if there is no is the way in which it brings all of its 04: Select
actual undo control. great features together into an intuitive When you’re working
With so much control and so many and coherent interface. There’s a pretty on a new image, select
the Formulas tab
textures on offer, it’s easy to lose extensive tutorial to get through before from the top of the
yourself and spend hours working on a you even get started with the app, but Mextures menu. Tap on
single image – and it’s this that makes we’d be confident in skipping a lot of it My Formulas in order
to access your own
Mextures more than worthy of its and diving headfirst into this awesome
creations and then find
£1.49/$1.99 asking price. editing app. the one you’ve saved
To save time though, Mextures Mextures’ fantastic mix of power user from the list of options.
allows you to save combinations features and faithful analogue textures 05: Edit
of texture layers as Formulas. The makes it a must-have app for eager When you select a
Formulas are very similar to the presets iPhoneographers of all levels – and saved formula it will
then appear previewed
that you can make and apply to your at this price, you really are getting an
in the main image. To
images in various desktop imaging absolute bargain. edit this, simply tap
software. These can be instantly the tick button and
Offering something extra to the continue working on
recalled and edited at any time and
photo-editing category, Mextures the image exactly
there’s a whole host of pre-made as you normally
ticks all the boxes.
Formulas created by iPhoneographers would edit.
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 Price £0.69/$0.99

Faded
Add and control the filters on your photos
The Photo section of the App
Store has been overcrowded for
years with apps offering a range
of retro filters. Inspired by Instagram, users
simply can’t get enough of new ways to
add vintage effects to their pictures.
Faded is the latest download to capitalise
on filter fanaticism, but fortunately offers
some nice features to make it worth the
investment. For instance, a simple scrollbar
interface enables users to control with a
smooth swiping motion the extent that
a filter is applied to an image. The app
also offers cropping and other essential
editing tools, but the real focal point is the
collection of filters. Buyers should be aware
that there are in-app purchases at play in
Faded – any filter with a coloured border
around it will need unlocking.
Still, the interface adds a touch of polish
to the UX, with swift transitions between
the different sections. The Action feature is
a particularly nice touch, letting you record
the different process of a look you create so
that you can apply them to other photos in
the future. It’s a great way of streamlining
the experience, and also enables the
possibility of themed albums of photos,
should you decide to stick to a particular
look throughout.
It might be in a busy part of the App
Store, but Faded does a very good job of
standing out from the competition.
Very polished and pleasant to work
with, Faded does photo filters with a
touch of class and professionalism.
n View one filter at a time and use the scrollbar to
change the strength of the effect

 Price £0.69/$0.99

n Use the Smoothen tool to smooth out skin
imperfections – like she needs it!
Truefilm
Fine-tune photos and remove blemishes
At first sight, this new photo-
editing app could be mistaken for
Afterlight, featuring as it does,
similar sliders to adjust the level of effects
applied. However, Truefilm does bring some
original tools and features to the table. Most
notable are the pair of retouch tools:
Smoothen and Patch, both with an
adjustable brush size and zoomable view.
Smoothen is a nifty way to smooth out
imperfections, such as on skin, but in reality
seems more of a blur tool. Effective at
removing blemishes, Patch is a Photoshop-
style cloning tool that lets you copy pixels
from one area to another.
Elsewhere there’s a pretty standard
selection of 20 filters (sadly sans sliders),
plus the usual options for image cropping,
straightening and rotation. A range of
adjustment tools with sliders enable you to
fine-tune common problem areas such as
contrast, exposure, colour, saturation etc, but
also include an adjustable vignette effect.
Another neat inclusion, among the frames,
is the option to add your own text to an
image. Even cooler is the history view, which
enables you to browse through a stack of
image versions to see the edits you’ve made
and revert to an earlier version if you want.
On the downside, you can’t rotate
to landscape view, there’s no choice of
resolution for saving/sharing and it’s not a
universal app.
A photo editor with a few flaws but also
some powerful editing tools and a cool
image history feature.

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“Beatwave
is intuitive
and easy
enough to
be able to dive
straight in”

 Price Freemium

Beatwave
Impressive music-making app with plenty of depth and flexibility
Being able to compose tunes with a few taps of even if you’re just experimenting and exploring the
PROS/CONS
▲ Suitable for both the finger is an appealing prospect whether different options on offer. The app is geared more towards
beginners and you’re a seasoned musician or a complete electronic sounds and structured compositions, but
advanced musicians
beginner and therein lies the beauty of Beatwave — there’s still plenty of flexibility in terms of what you can
▲ Plenty of depth
and flexibility, returning in a revamped, refreshed version 2.0 skin, the create — echo, flange and tremolo are some of the effects
particularly with the
Pro upgrade app lets you use grids to layer repeated beats and you can overlay on top, for example, and you can layer up
▼ Not all of the app melodies on top of each other. to four different instruments on top of each other.
is covered by the
existing tutorials
Ten instruments are included for free with the app, with There are options to share your creations to
▼ Lacks some another 200 available as in-app purchases. Beatwave is SoundCloud and social networks, but Beatwave’s greatest
advanced features intuitive and straightforward enough to be able to dive strength is its depth. You can fool around for a few
such as MIDI input
straight in with no introduction — just tap a few dots on minutes with it or take an afternoon to plan out an audio
the grid and press the play button. To take advantage masterpiece, and the app will keep right up with you,
of the advanced features, however, you’ll need to run particularly if you invest in the Pro upgrade. Even if you’ve
through the tutorial. Everything is easy to get to grips never made music before, you’ll feel like a maestro after a
with, and you can very quickly create some catchy tunes few minutes with Beatwave.

The new Beatwave is better than ever, a treat for

musicians at all levels.

■ Spend more time with the application and the advanced features come to the fore ■ You can record your composition and share it via SoundCloud

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Mindie - Music
Video Maker
Here we have an app that strikes a
perfect balance between easy
creativity and professional results.
You can upload your video footage with
music in the background and share your
creation with the world in minutes. The
process is as easy as could be imagined and
the social networking elements are obvious
so it is an app you can jump right into.
Anyone can create video clips and
share them in seconds.
 Price £0.79/$0.99
Reuk
At first there’s not a lot that stands
out about Reuk but as you start
using it, benefits become clear. It
provides you with manual tools which you
can control such as ISO, shutter speed and
white balance, and together these offer a
sense of using a DSLR, within a phone.
Take control of your iPhone camera and
test your skills.
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Crop
This app has one goal: to correct
videos that you have taken on your
phone in vertical mode. Videos
taken in this orientation do not look good on
YouTube or a TV. With this app you can
simply select what part of the video to clip
by sliding the box to the relevant position.
A simple tool which can improve your
videos in seconds. It works very well.
 Price Free
Nutshell
Camera
Nutshell Camera is designed to
help you share inspirational video
clips. Snap three photos and
these will then be automatically
transformed into a short clip to which
effects can be added, and the end results
are almost always super impressive. This is
truly an awesome video creator.
Professional short video creation is
now within your grasp.
 Price £0.69/$0.99
REBELSAUCE
Rebelsauce is a photography app
which lets you add special effects
to your snaps. The focus is on
making those filters as realistic and pleasing
to the eye as possible and we found
ourselves improving many of our shots. The
process is simple and the interface is clean.
One of the more professional photo
effects apps we have seen.
 Price Free
Post-it® Plus
We all know Post-It notes are
useful for many tasks. With this
app you can still use paper notes
and then capture them using your phone
camera. At this point the notes become
digital and can be moved around to
wherever you need them on the screen.
Old meets new in this very clever take
on analogue notes.

Marvel
 Price Free
With Marvel, you can photograph
a sketch of your idea and
immediately add tappable areas
to it. Once the hotspots have been added
and you have created screens to link to
from these hotspots, you can then share
your idea immediately. It’s a simple
solution to a common problem and one
that works exactly as intended (apart from
the occasional crash). It also helps you to
create new app ideas using pen and paper.
Turn a sketch into an interactive
tappable app design image.
 Price £1.49/$1.99
Hum
Hum lets you capture musical ideas
when they strike and to ensure that
you do not forget the lyrics, key or
tune. You can type in lyrics and hum the tune
for the song you are creating, and all of your
creations can be shared. The interface is
minimal and everything works well.
Musicians will love the straightforward
approach of this app.
 Price Free
Take Creative
Vocal
Recorder Voice recorders on mobile devices
vary wildly between basic
recording or highly advanced
functionality. Here we have an app that
succeeds in marrying the two ends of the
spectrum together within a delightfully
colourful and extremely enjoyable
interface. You can easily mix up to three
tracks together and then use clever effects
in the app to make the results sound very
professional indeed.
A top voice recorder that is packed with
easy to use advanced features.
 Price £1.49/$1.99
Videoshop –
Video Editor
Videoshop does not look like a
professional video editor, but you
quickly realise that it is close to
flawless. A recent update has added Vine
sharing, stop motion, a superb reverse tool
and many other features that complement
what is already a brilliant solution. It’s a real
surprise and fun to use.
A fully featured editor which packs in
many features.
Creative
 Price £1.49/$1.99
Matter
Matter is not a standard photo-
editing app, but one that lets you
add special effects and objects to
photos you have already taken. These can
be manipulated in every way and some will
even show accurate reflections of their
surroundings when placed in the photo.
A unique app which makes adding
effects easy.
 Price £0.99/$1.99
EffectBuilder
Unlike most photo editing apps,
EffectBuilder gives you the
opportunity to try as hard or as
little as you want and the results will perfectly
match your efforts. There is a range of filters
and add-ons to spice up images plus a clever
mechanism to let you overlap areas.
Your effort will be rewarded with some
beautiful effects.
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Fonta
Customise your photos with unique stamps and text
Photo editing is great fun, and
with Fonta you have all the tools
you need, along with layering
options and more, to help you create
fantastic finished products from your
snaps. Fonta uses simple design to give
you the tools you need. Pick a photo and
you can add any one of a small number of
filters on offer, insert text and customise it
with transparency effects and different
fonts, and even add your own borders and
other stamps.
The controls are all relatively easy to
find, but they could be spread out a little
to take advantage of the iPhone 5s’ larger
screen. Each tool is accessible from a menu
that sits over the photo on the right of the
screen. Tap one of these tools and more
detailed controls appear at the bottom of
the screen, but there is always plenty of
empty space that could have been used
more effectively to hold other controls, or
expand the ones you have.
Still, we were really impressed by
the quality of the editing tools, which
have some great options. Text can be
recoloured, made translucent, and even
erased or painted in around items in your
photo. We also liked the simple photo-
editing tools; you won’t find 50 filters, but
the few that there are look great and help
you focus on the other tools. It’s a great
way to get more from your photos.
A fun app, with a combination of
great effects, powerful tools, and a
straightforward interface.
n Fonta contains lots of distinctive text effects and
stickers to choose from

 Price £1.49/$1.99

n Combine your images in creative ways to create an
astonishing effect
Union
Is this the intuitive alternative to Photoshop?
As its name suggests, the Union
app enables photographers to
blend two images into one with
ease. Users have the tools and ability to either
blend the two frames in different styles to
create surreal artwork, or use the removal
features to cut out and place part of one shot
on top of the other.
The app is relatively easy to master, as
users are led through the process from start
to finish in straightforward steps. Anyone
with a basic understanding of cutting out
images in editing suites won’t have any
trouble here.
That said, the tools’ precision is still rather
primitive and it can take a long time to work
around the finer or more complex details
such as hair; even the real-time Magic Wand
can be a bit hit and miss in this situation.
What’s more, users are unable to change
the size of the Erase tool; instead you must
zoom in closer and thus the tool becomes
proportionally more suitable. This procedure
can be a little fiddly on the iPhone and as
such, the app is perhaps more suitable for
the iPad.
Despite its handful of small flaws, the
app really is a terrific boon for anyone
who likes to get creative with their shots.
Ultimately with a little more tweaking from
the developer, this app has the potential to
remove the need for apps and programs
such as Photoshop altogether.
The Union app is an ideal creative
editing suite for photo enthusiasts
and imaginative art fans.

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■ Create a precise and fluid selection on your ■ As you draw, your brush strokes are recorded
image using Freehand and saved as a video

 Price £2.29/$2.99

Procreate Pocket
If Picasso chose an iPhone app...
The iPad has revolutionised digital art, providing
PROS/CONS
▲ Lots of brushes a large, touchscreen canvas for artists. One of
– and no in-app the best apps in recent times has been
purchases
Procreate – Sketch, Paint, Create, a comprehensive
▲ 64-bit colour and
fantastic use of offering which, like Adobe Ideas, is packed with
the screen
modifiable brushes, layers and a strong palette of colours.
▼ It’s not built for
quick sketching Developer Savage Interactive has finally brought the differ in texture. Procreate uses a dual-texture system to
▼ Do your art Procreate experience to the iPhone. In doing so, Procreate define the brush shape and grain. You can also import
skills match the
possibilities offered? Pocket sacrifices very little, packing in most of the features brushes from the hundreds by the Procreate community.
of its big brother albeit in a redesigned manner. As you paint with a brush or use the blend tool, you can
When you start the app, you are given the choice of one alter the opacity and thickness using sliders. Colours are
of four paintings. Whether you select one of them or go altered using a full-screen wheel and you can add up to
for a blank and create an image from scratch, the options ten layers on a 64GB iPhone 6 (fewer than the 16 on the
are entirely the same. Like the iPad version, Procreate iPad but still plenty). There is also no need to worry about
Pocket’s strength is in its brushes. With a tap of an icon getting anything wrong as there are 250 levels of undo.
you can choose from a range of 12 brushes split into two This app leaves very few stones left unturned. With
categories – concept and illustration – each of which versatile exporting (Procreate and PSD are included) and
the ability to record your strokes, this is a great art tool.

“Procreate Pocket sacrifices very Artists should never blame their tools – and with
this incredible drawing app, they will never be
little, packing in most of the able to.
features of its big brother”
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Gridplay
Give your videos a fresh spin with this editing app
Once in a while a video app comes
around that really makes a
difference to the way you take
photos. Gridplay is is one of those apps.
Rather than throw a range of focus features
your way or give you lots of filters, the app
splits the screen into a grid. This is the clever
bit. You can split the screen into two, either
horizontally or vertically. But you can also
divide the screen into a 2x2, 3x3 or 4x4 grid
with each of the squares – four, nine or 16
– initially showing the same image from
either the front or back-facing camera.
Gridplay then lets you select and deselect
the squares, combining some while leaving
out others.
It produces some fascinating results, giving
a movie-like appearance to even the most
banal of shoots, and it is also lots of fun. Even
better, you can work frame-by-frame, add
music and then upload your masterpiece
to social media. Of course, an app like this
could become very fiddly but here the main
options are at the bottom of the screen as a
series of sliders.
The settings cog lets you select colours
and a frame for your video and there are
also options to enable the flash and set
a timer. Videos can be recorded up to 15
seconds unless you purchase the expander
- a money-making option we would much
rather have been built in. That aside, Gridplay
has us gripped.
By inviting experimentation, Gridplay
becomes one of the most creative
video apps around.

 Price £1.49/$1.99

■ With the slow-mo function, you can capture up to
120fps with the iPhone 5s
Steady Camera
Ensure slow-mo movies are nice and steady
Slow-mo apps are immensely
popular right now so we thought
we’d give newly-launched Steady
Camera a try. The difference between this
app and some of its rivals, however, is that
it’s multi-functioning and allows users to
record video with ‘cinematic’ stabilisation.
What this means is that it’s ideal if you want
to shoot movies on the go, as well as being
able to control the speed at which your
precious footage is shown.
The app powers out 120 fps on the
iPhone 5s and 60fps on the 5 and 5c,
however there’s yet to be an update for
the iPhone 6’s heady 240fps. Video can be
recorded in either square 1:1 by shooting
in portrait orientation or cinema 16:9 by
holding the device landscape. Results
for both modes are smooth, slick and
professional; no wobbly, bouncy footage
here. Steady Camera is undeniably as
useful as it is easy to use, with one of
its main plus points being its effortless
simplicity. There are no tutorials as the
toolset is self-explanatory, with the main
idea being just to shoot slow as needed.
What’s more, you can easily trim videos
and adjust where the slow-mo starts
and ends using the in-app editing tools.
Connectivity is also straightforward so
movie-makers can easily save projects to
their Camera Roll and export square videos
to Instagram, Vine and Replay.
Slow-mo video apps may have started
as a novelty, but Steady Camera proves
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Frontback
Photograph front and back for the ultimate selfie
The photography app, Frontback,
by Checkthis, does exactly what
you think it would; it takes a
photo of what’s in front of the device and
then one behind it; a picture of the scene in
front of you, followed by a shot of the user.
The app, which is effective and very
easy to use, capitalises on the meteoric
rise of the selfie. Rather than a mere shot
of someone’s face, this app offers users the
ability to add a contextual note in the form
of an additional photo as to where the user
is or what they are doing.
It is a simple idea but one that benefits
a multitude of occasions from sightseeing
or travelling to nights out or in. The app
allows users to retake the shot, flip it
and change the order in which the shots
appear, as well as share it via the usual
means of communication. Set to follow
in the footsteps of Instagram and Vine,
the app also includes its very own news
feed which profiles popular and recently
uploaded images, those taken nearby
to the user and images chosen by the
developer as Staff Picks.
It’s perhaps this last accolade which has
greatly inspired its creative fan base to
move beyond the basic brief of the ‘selfie-
in-situ’ shot, with a growing number of its
users capturing increasingly more dynamic
couplings and very interesting, often story-
based shots.
Frontback is a free, fun and useful app
that will push iPhoneographers to
think more creatively.
■ Frontback could easily have the potential to be as
big as Instagram

 Price£0.69/$0.99

Trap Studio
THE EASY WAY TO CREATE AND SHARE MULTI-TRACK MUSIC
For anyone who has ever lusted
over the possibility of laying down
tracks in their bedroom and
becoming an overnight music sensation,
then apps like Trap Studio are a great
gateway for understanding the principles
that go into making hits.
Priced at a very reasonable £0.69/$0.99
(currently discounted), the
app allows wannabe-music
producers to create, record
and share Trap music; a gritty
fusion of dubstep and hip-
hop. Fans of the genre can
layer tracks using a variety of
drum, bass, synth and SFX
samples as well as create
their own additions using
the in-app synthesiser. What’s
more there’s a host of onboard wizardry to
perfect the tracks such as: splitting, trimming,
looping, duplicating as well as being able to
import samples from your iTunes collection.
There’s a lot of potential here; it’s easy to
understand and it’s certainly great fun to use,
but currently in its debut version the app can
be a little glitchy and it isn’t the most intuitive
of its kind on the market.
At this point in time the app is a great
entertainment tool, particularly for the
musically-minded or Trap enthusiasts, but as
far as more for anyone to achieve fame and
fortune from using it.
Trap Studio is an enjoyment rather than
career-focused app for laying down
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Layout from Instagram
A way out of boring, bog-standard selfies with layout
Layout from Instagram is the latest collage-
making addition to the Instagram collection
of apps. Layout doesn’t require an Instagram
account to work either. A simple download and you
are all set to start making collages from existing
photos, by taking selfies there and then with the
option of a burst shot of up to four photos, or by using
a mixture of the two options. The clever thing about
using existing photos in Layout is its face-detecting
feature, which automatically categorises images that it
thinks has a face in it into a completely separate tab for
your convenience.
Once you’ve chosen the photos for the collage, ten
different layouts will be presented. Select the desired
layout and you will then be able to drag photos to
swap their position in the layout, mirror them, flip
them, and – our favourite – change the size of each
“Mirror images, flip them, and
– our favourite – change
the segment size”
■ You can resize each part of the layout by
pulling on the blue handles
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PROS/CONS canvas segment, providing a new level of abstract
▲ Easy to use and very creativity or even funny combinations. You can then
intuitive share the results on Instagram, Facebook or via the
▲ Ability to resize each
part of the layout is
native iOS share options. But if you want to post the
ingenious collage to other social media then the process can be a
▼ Lacks sharing and bit cumbersome.
editing options
beyond the basics You’d assume that as its name suggests affiliation
▼ Unable to take non- with Instagram that you’d be able to change the
selfie photos in the
app itself collage’s colour filters too. But this can only be done as
a whole in its parent app, and not individually.
It would also have been helpful if Layout could take
photos inside of the app using the main camera, and
not just the front camera. Sometimes selfies might not
suit the collage we want to make.
But, Layout from Instagram has evolved collage
making and the ability to resize each layout segment
leads the way for endless imagination. Future updates
to the app will surely make it shine.
A fun collage maker which can provide some
really creative and humourous results but will
definitely benefit from more options.
■ Swapping the segments around only
requires a simple drag and drop
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■ Simply importing portrait images gives them an
instant, distinctive metallic look
TinType by Hipstamatic
Give your selfies a metallic 19th-century look
Tintype is a photographic process
involving iron (not actually tin as
the name would suggest!) and
lacquer that was widely used in the mid-to-
late-19th century.
A negative image was then placed on to
a tin sheet with the reflective parts used to
simulate the greys in the image which gave
the resulting picture a very distinctive look.
This app aims to recreate that look (and that
of daguerreotypes) thanks to a basic tintype
filter effect that is applied when you import
photos in to the app or take new images
through the app itself.
A large range of adjustments can be made
to alter the grainy nature of the backing plate
and the eye intensity, to give them a darker
or lighter look. The style of the filter used
obviously makes it better suited for portrait
images – as that is what it was traditionally
used for – but that doesn’t stop you from
using it to add a new dimension to other
images too.
The app’s interface is fairly straightforward
and easy to grasp and once you have applied
the desired effects the image can easily be
saved and shared to the usual array of social
media services to wow the crowds. It could
It would probably be better suited as
a filter in an existing and wider-spanning
photo-editing app like Instagram, but the
distinctive look it provides just about justifies
the modest asking price.
An easy-to-use photo app that gives
your portraits a distinctive retro look,
but the features on offer are limited.

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Darkroom
Slick, simple photo editor
One of the latest additions to an
increasingly saturated selection of
third-party photo editors for iOS
is Darkroom from Norwegian start-up
Bergen Co. While many photo apps choose
to set themselves apart by providing more
and more different and often obtuse
options, settings and editing options,
Darkroom looks in the other direction and
aims for simplicity.
At its core, Darkroom has an exceedingly
simple interface. Everything is focused
on clarity and low-impact UI. There is no
need to import your photos, as you can
edit them straight from the native Photos
app, and the sliders are simple, very easy
to navigate and intuitive and somewhat
cleverly, a quick double tap on the label
resets the slider to default.
There is the now-necessary sharing
facility, and that is simple to use as well,
and comes with a selection of filters, but
it’s there you’ll find the app’s best feature.
If you stumble onto a good setting you
will want to repeat, save it as a preset, and
name it something snazzy.
However, it does suffer somewhat
from its lack of unique features, and the
curves tool – which works well enough – is
blocked behind a pay wall. The editing
settings are few compared to some other
free editors, and it doesn’t make up for
those shortcomings anywhere else.
It’s light, easy to use and clean, but isn’t
unique enough to stand out in the long
term against competitors.
■ Intuitive controls make easy to edit images using
touchscreen gestures

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Modio
Create a series of futuristic creatures and print them in 3D
Modio is one of those apps that
makes you feel creative and artistic
even if you have very little talent for
that kind of thing and, for this reason alone,
we love it dearly. Now that it is available for
the iPhone, as opposed to iPad-only, it is
even more portable, letting you use its
intuitive interface to put together wonderful
3D robot characters in minutes
no matter where you are.
It uses a collection of built-in
parts that are pulled into the
main creation screen from a
selector in the top-right corner.
The parts snap into place and
they include torsos, heads, legs
and arms. A second menu in
the bottom right-hand corner
lets you colour and texture the
parts with a single tap. It doesn’t take long
to produce something rather impressive
and it feels cool moving your finger around
the screen to see the creation from various
points of view.
The whole package is very polished. As
well as impressive visuals, there is soothing,
futuristic music in the background. Although
your creations can then be sent via email,
Facebook or Twitter, it comes into its own
when combined with a 3D printer. If you
have one available, you can see your
creature come to life in plastic with all of the
necessary tech integrated within the app.
Smooth and intuitive, you will be
surprised how quickly you can create
even the most intricate creatures.

 Price Freemium

Vimo - Video + Motion

Sticker
Stick stickers on your videos and get noticed
Many app developers want a slice
of the social media market and it
would appear that those behind
Vimo are no exception. They have
produced an app which enables users to
add fun stickers to their videos before
sharing them. The USP is that Vimo’s
stickers move in line with the video.
Users are able to place stickers over the
top of any video and can have up to two
stickers at any one time for free. If you
want to have more than two at once, or if
you would like a new set of stickers, then
you need to start spending on in-app
purchases. Once the stickers are in place
and rotated and resized to suit, there is a
function which lets the video play while
the sticker is being manipulated. A fresh
video is then recorded, ready for sharing,
but it can also be edited if it is not right.
What makes this app stand out is
its intuitive interface, which produces
stunning cartoon-like effects in next to
no time. The only downside is that it is
perhaps too easy to use and that we can
see many a news feed being clogged with
the resulting efforts.
A playful video sticker app with a twist,
Vimo will brighten up and energise
even the dullest of videos.
■ There are loads of stickers to choose from in various
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MyEye
Does this Meerkat rival keep its eye on the ball?
Although Meerkat and Periscope
have been dominating the live
video streaming space (Periscope
now has 10 million signups), there is still
room for competition. Footballer David
Beckham certainly thinks so, having
become the founding investor and
ambassador for MyEye. It forms a stand-
alone social network unlike Periscope, for
example, which ties in with Twitter. It is also
proving popular like Periscope.
Signing up is simple and you’re quickly
led to the main action. To start filming, you
tap the eye icon and swipe up the screen,
adding a title and style. You can decide if
you want everyone to see your efforts or
you can form a private group.
Either way, others can interact with the
videos in real-time and if they miss it live,
they can still catch up with your broadcast
for up to 72 hours afterwards. You can keep
the clip if you wish and you can also share
it via other social networks.
Perhaps the most fun part of using the
app is discovering what others are filming
around the world under the Discovery tab.
Before a clip starts, you can see its location
and you can indicate whether you like it
or not using one of the two thumb icons.
Interestingly, there are a fair few celebrities
making videos already which could well
help to make this the number-one live
video streaming app.
MyEye has strong backing and it
debuts well, it’s an early winner in the
video streaming space.

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CoachGuitar
Want to be a rock star? This may be the start
If you’ve ever fancied playing the
guitar, you may have been put off
by the apparent complexity of
learning the instrument from scratch.
Whether learning to read music or
memorising chords, the process can indeed
be daunting. But that is where this app
comes in. It dispenses theory in simple
language and, by allocating a colour to each
finger, it aims to visually guide you to play a
host of popular songs.
At first it appears to be rather generous.
You get a free Basics for Beginners lesson and
a few songs ranging from The Beatles’ Let It
Be to One by U2. But to get the most out of
the app, you must splash the cash. It’s not
cheap. Each course costs £2.99/$3.99 but it
gets you many professionally shot videos.
They really do help you get to grips with
playing the guitar by breaking songs down
into verses, choruses and solos, showing you
exactly how to play the overall tune. Each
course also grants you a full-length backing
track and a professional tablature. What’s
more, it is possible to choose slow motion
and loops for each section.
Choosing new songs is easy thanks
to a well-stocked shop and your lessons
are stored in one accessible location. You
can also earn badges as you continue
to hone your skills which, together with
the recognisable nature of the songs,
encourages you to keep going.
CoachGuitar could prove expensive
but it’s still much cheaper than having
formal music lessons.
■ There is a free beginner’s lesson which shows you
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Google Photos
A picture-perfect update offers free unlimited cloud storage
A picture is worth a thousand words they say,
and after you back that picture up with
Google Photos it will surely be worth double
that. In offering its users unlimited storage in the cloud,
Photos has completely revamped its own system of
how photos are stored.
With this app, it’s easy to upload your entire gallery
to the Google Photo library and after doing so, Photos
truly opens itself up to you. The Assistant will cleverly
automatically suggest things like animations, which
can make entertaining automatic GIFs – and the
gallery is refreshed with a slick layout cleanly organised
by date.
Your photos can then be enhanced further with
options like adding vignette. It sounds similar to
Apple’s Photos, but it is the gestures and search
function that truly sets it apart.
“Type in a general keyword like
‘blue’ and it will suggest
from your photos”
■ Turn those weekend sight-seeing photos
into an interactive story
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PROS/CONS Type in a general keyword and it will provide
▲ The Collections suggested photos, and far too often, this intelligent
story-making function had us exclaiming “How are you doing
option is brilliant for
reminiscing that?!” out loud with its facial recognition and analysis
▲ Very easy to use, skills. Search a colour like ‘Blue’ for example and it will
gestures and search
feel intuitive cleverly show you everything that it thinks is blue: the
▼ Free storage is beach on a summer’s day, a woolly jumper, a clear sky
limited to photos
of 16 megapixels or and so on. Searching for ‘Cat’ gave us results of a dog
less though but you can manually remove these results so
▼ No desktop app that they don’t appear in the same search again.
The use of navigation gestures is quite exciting too
and came instinctively to us. Just hold your finger still
for a few seconds over a photo and then quickly swipe
over others to select multiple images. You can also
pinch the gallery to view it in day view or month view,
or to open or close a photo. It’s clear that Google has
designed Photos to be navigated intuitively, setting it
apart from its competitors.
Google Photos has made backing up photos a
great pleasure; new features are intuitive and very
fun to play with.
■ Search for ‘Office’ and it ironically shows you
photos you took outside

n You can also check out the videos uploaded by
other users
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LiPP
The simplicity of LIPP hides the
fact that with time and patience
you can create hilarious videos.
There are a selection of well-known clips
included, or you can import clips from
friends and family to share a private joke.
Then, share the video for maximum payoff.
A fun app which is easy to use. If you
want to impress friends, give it a try.
 Price Free
Adobe Premiere Clip
Adobe want to make video editing easy
Adobe makes some pretty
heavyweight creative software
packages, but it’s shown in the past
it’s not averse to throwing out some free
beginner tools for the rest of us. Case in
point: Adobe Premiere Clip. This fast and
friendly video editor helps you get your clips
looking as good as they can be without
bogging you down with menus and tools.
Getting your scenes together and
trimming them to the right lengths is a
breeze using drag-and-drop, and if you want
to get more involved you can change the
lighting, drop in a transition or two or even
try out a slow-motion effect.
Audio can be added (either your own or
something from a stock library) and then of
course you get the usual sharing options. If
more edits are needed you can export the
 Price £3.99/$4.99
Crayola DJ
Mixing apps tend to be created
for adults, but here we have a
clever and colourful version for
kids. The extensive list of loops is
impressive and so is the ability to perform,
but best of all it is extremely easy for a child
to understand and to use. Indeed, this is
one of the most carefully thought out
children’s apps we have seen to date. It’s
very clever.
A brilliant introduction to musical
creativity for the young .
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footage to Premiere Pro CC on the desktop.
If that list of features sounds about all you’re
going to have need for, then Clip is well
worth checking out, though we’d like to
see more transition and titling options. The
interface is slick and smooth and you can
have a lot of fun playing around with short
videos on the go.
Of course if you’re doing something more
serious than a personal video you’re going
to need a more powerful desktop editor, but
Adobe seems to have found that sweet spot
for mobile users between complexity and
ease-of-use.
One of the best lightweight video
editing apps for mobile devices to
appear so far.
 Price Free
Mosaic.
This app offers one of the most
original note-taking interfaces we
have seen yet. You can input text
or images and move them around as
required within the note. The visuals are
clean and it works as described, but it
would be nice to be able to share notes.
A brilliant and creative note-taker with
limited sharing features at this time.
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Tayasui Memopad
Indulge your occasional doodling urges
Tayasui Memopad aims to be “the
simplest and fastest drawing
notepad possible” according to the
official blurb, and to that end it keeps
interface elements and settings right down
to a minimum.
Launch the app and you’re immediately
met with a blank canvas to start doodling
on, and clearing the page or loading in your
previous bit of artwork only takes a swipe or
two. Pictures are automatically saved to your
Camera Roll as you go along, too.
The drawing tools themselves (pen, pencil
and paintbrush) are well designed and
there are enough options here to create
some eye-catching pictures — the ability to
load in an existing photo to draw over is a
handy feature, and everything feels naturally
positioned on screen. The same developer
makes the much-loved Tayasui Sketches and
you can see the same quality here, albeit in a
more limited form.
You can pay (£1.99/$1.99) for the extra
features: extra colours, extra brush types,
better sharing options and more. The basic
app has plenty on hand to exercise your
creative urges though, and because there’s
an emphasis on minimalism it’s easy to dip in
and out of the app.
Whether you want to start exploring
digital art seriously or you just want to waste
five minutes, Tayasui Memopad fits the bill
very nicely.
A simple but impressive doodling app
that has all you need to start getting
your creative juices flowing.

 Price £2.29/$2.99

■ 1Writer performs as a great text editor that can also
make use of Markdown syntax
1Writer
The iPhone’s most feature-laden text editor
Although the 1Writer - Note
taking writing app can be used as
a basic text editor, its ability to
work with Markdown – a markup language
that enables plain text to be converted to
HTML – elevates this note-taking tool to a
greater height. For while you can use it to
simply produce lists or to jot down your
ideas as rthey arise, being able to insert
images, weblinks and all manner of
headings, formatting and styles makes it a
very flexible package.
A Preview button in the right-hand
corner enables results to be seen instantly
and it is also possible for advanced users
to make use of JavaScript. But even casting
such features aside, 1Writer remains a
powerful offering that you’ll pick up in no
time. You can create multiple notes within
folders and you can sync with Dropbox
folders and documents. Text can be sent
to 1Writer from other apps and text can be
exported to Evernote too.
By swiping right you are able to call
up 1Writer’s own in-app browser so that
research and cutting and pasting (in
Markdown syntax) can be performed
without leaving the app. And if you are
worried about prying eyes, you can set a
passcode to keep your notes safe. From
notification widgets to bookmarks this
complex, yet approachable, app is more
than worth the one-off outlay cost.
A jam-packed Markdown-enabled
writing app that both looks and feels
fantastic to use.

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Paper by FiftyThree
Does the update make Paper a must-have?
Paper by FiftyThree is not a new
app, but the latest update has
prompted us to see what the new
features can offer users. Through the new
Think section, Paper now provides all the
tools to create a manageable workflow for
 Price £2.99/$3.99
Relook
Take your photos up a notch with this fix-all
How do we achieve good-looking
skin? Drink lots of water?
Moisturise? Well with Relook, you
don’t have to go to all that trouble for a
simple photo. Just retouch your pictures with
its many fixes and you’re ready to go.
Boasting Bright-3 technology to provide
as natural looking results as possible, Relook
has many alteration brushes for a photo
such as smoothing out skin pores, removing
blemishes and cloning an area like facial hair
to fill in any gaps in a beard. As long as you’re
careful with your fingertips, the results can
be astonishing like it was for the Smooth
brush – but we weren’t very impressed with
the teeth whitening option, which provided
a chalk-like exterior to the teeth.
Trying to alternate between moving
around a photo and zooming in was a bit
Creative
great to see that the app will automatically
format your image to the shape it thinks
you’re trying to draw. It’s then a case of
long-pressing on any shape or arrow to
move your shapes around.
There’s a plethora of editing options
included in Paper; shapes can be altered,
colours can be applied and text can then
be added to the shapes and the page as
a whole.
As ever, using a stylus is highly
recommended for this sort of app, as it’s so
much easier to use than using a finger to
style your Think page. As far as updates go,
adding the Think functions has proved to
be a massive plus step for the Paper app.
All in all, this is a quick solution to creating
workflows while on the go and one that we
everyday tasks. At the bottom of the menu recommend you check out right away.
you can use the necessary tools to draw
The new update just helps define Paper
various shapes and arrows to format your
as one of the most user-friendly iOS
workflow correctly.
apps around.
If you’re anything like us, chances are
your circles may not look like circles, so it’s
fiddly too but learning to use the brushes
was easy. We also liked that changing the
brush sizes was as simple as zooming into an
area of the image.
Once you’ve finished editing, there are the
regular iOS options available for sharing to
social networks and beyond, or you can post
the photo to Instagram or even export it as
a lossless image to Photoshop… for another
£2.99. It’s a bit of an annoying additional
payment if you want this feature considering
the app wasn’t free to begin with. But
otherwise, Relook has everything else you
may need for retouches.
Relook clears up skin in pictures
amazingly well and is great for flawless,
quick pictures.
■ The Smooth brush was very impressive, smoothing
out skin naturally
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Your at-a-glance guide to what’s inside…
Creative
1Writer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Adobe Premiere Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Beatwave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
CoachGuitar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Crayola DJ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Crop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Darkroom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
EffectBuilder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Enlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Faded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Fonta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Frontback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Google Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Gridplay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Hum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Layout from Instagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
LiPP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Marvel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Mextures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Mindie - Music Video Maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Modio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Mosaic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
MyEye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Nutshell Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Paper by FiftyThree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Paper Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Photo Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Post-it Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
ProCam 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Procreate Pocket. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
REBELSAUCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Relook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Reuk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Snapseed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Steady Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Take Creative Vocal Recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Tayasui Memopad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
TinType by Hipstamatic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Trap Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Truefilm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Videoshop - Video Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Vimo - Video + Motion Sticker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
142 iPhone 6s App Directory
Entertainment
2000 AD Featuring Judge Dredd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
A Hollow Body. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Acast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Alexi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
AppZilla 4: 200 in 1! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
ArtStack - discover artVideo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Audible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
BBC iPlayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Bloglovin’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Brain+. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
BuzzFeed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
BuzzFeed News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Castro – High Fidelity Podcasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
Clip Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Cute Or Not. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Disney Gif . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Ebook Reader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Festvl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Forza Football. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
GifLab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Ginger Emoji. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Groovemaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Hole19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Hype Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Infant Faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
John Lennon: The Bermuda Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
Juilliard Open Studios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
Kindle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Learn How To Crochet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Machinima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Marvel Comics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Meerkat - Tweet Live Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Mezzo Music Player. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
Mixcloud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
MixRadio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
MX Video Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
My Idol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Netflix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Noon Pacific . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
Overcast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
Periscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Pocket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Pocket Casts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
RA Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
Radiolab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Rhymeo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Roald Dahl Audiobooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Russ Bray Darts Scorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Snapchat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Solar Walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Spotify . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Squawka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Star Walk 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Stereo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Stopcast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
The EDIT by NET-A-PORTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
The FIFA Weekly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Tidal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Tumblr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
TuneIn Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Turn Taker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Vine Kids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Wattpad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
YouTube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Games
AdVenture Capitalist! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Angry Birds 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98
Angry Birds Fight! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Asphalt Overdrive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
Bitcoin Billionaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Blades of Brim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Capitals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Clumsy Ninja . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Counterspy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Crazy Taxi City Rush. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Crossy Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
CSI: Hidden Crimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Divide By Sheep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Dodo Pop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
DomiNations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Emoji Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Evolve: Hunters Quest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
FarmVille: Harvest Swap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Game Of Thrones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Goblin Sword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Grow Me Up! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Hellrider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Her Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Heroki. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Hitman: Sniper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Into The Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Lane Splitter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Lara Croft GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Lara Croft: Relic Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Last Voyage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Lettercraft. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Lost Within. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Luka and his Chinese friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Minesweeper - Widget Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Modern Combat 5: Blackout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Moon Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Motorsport Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
None*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Pokemon Shuffle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Sonic The Hedgehog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Space Age: A Cosmic Adventure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Space Marshals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Splash Canyons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Temple Run 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Ten Large . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Til Morning’s Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Titans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Treasure Run! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
VVVVVV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
World Of Tanks Blitz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
World of Warriors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Lifestyle
3 Kinds of Ice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
6Tribes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Atmos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Auto Trader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Baby Name Genius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Babylon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63
Be My Eyes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Blixt for App.net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57
Clima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Cody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Curator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71
Dingo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Dollarbird – Personal Finance with a Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
eBay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Facebook Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
Fit Men Cook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Flood Risk Finder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Forks Over Knives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Google Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Grabble: The Fashion Finder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Grokker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Group Text+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
HERE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Highball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60
Hopper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Hotel Tonight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
Huffpost Realtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Humin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64
Klout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
Lush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
Lyst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Met Office Weather Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Nat Geo View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Noisli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Parkopedia Parking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
PayPal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Pillow: Smart Sleep Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
Plume Air Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Polyvore Remix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Popsugar Weddings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71
Reuters TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Runtastic Leg Trainer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Scanbot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57
Simmer by Panna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60
Skype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Sleep Science HQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Sorted Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
Streaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Sworkit Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
TomTom UK & Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Tunepics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Wants and Needs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Wayfare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
Waze Social . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Weather or Not . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
Week Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Where Chefs Eat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
Windy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
Wthr Complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
YOU-app with Jamie Oliver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
Yummly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Work
1Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86
Alter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
Asana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90
Boximize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82
BrainPOP Jr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
BrainPOP UK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76
Calcbot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84
Caliber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Currenci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84
CV Builder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
DataMan Next: Track Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81
Docs To Go Premium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Due . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Duolingo Test Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76
Evernote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Facebook at Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90
Flipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Foresee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74
Glass Planner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
Gojimo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Google Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Hours Time Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
iPlanner UK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Letterspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
LinkedIn Job Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
LookUp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
Lrn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85
Microsoft Translator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81
Microsoft Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Moleskine Timepage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
Moodnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81
Next Deadline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88
Numerous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90
OfficeSuite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Passible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81
Pennies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Pocket Drive+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85
Pomodrone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81
Portfolio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92
RefMe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88
Saver 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84
SignEasy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Simple Machines by Tinybop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93
SnapSchool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90
Snapsolve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Spark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
Sprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
Stache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
Sumhold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
Sumptus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87
SwiftKey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Swype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Tally 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84
Tandem – Language exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
Tether . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Textio Speed Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
Timeful. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81
Todoist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Vocabulary.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Zero. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
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