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WELCOME
WELCOME TO APPS MAGAZINE Your essential apps guide every issue
The team recommends…
DAN HUTCHINSON
JACK PARSONS
Streaming music gives you access to almost limitless tunes, but means compromising in sound quality. Tidal (page 23) sets the record straight with highfidelity sound and HD videos.
The spiritual successor to the criticallyacclaimed Device 6, The Sailor’s Dream (page 38) blurs the line even further between video game and story, with a nautical twist.
DOM PEPPIATT
JOSHUA WEST
To satisfy your epic tower defence game needs, Kingdom Rush Origins HD (page 39) is a must.
If you’re off on holiday, tripwolf (page 29) offers offline maps so you don’t rack up roaming charges abroad.
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Whether you’ve got a new device or just looking to turn over a new leaf, we’ve got the best apps for you this issue. If you’ve just got a new iPhone, iPad or Android device, head straight to page 14 to find out what apps you should download. However, we’ve avoided the obvious apps like Angry Birds and Facebook, so even if you’re an App Store veteran there’s likely something here for you too. If you’ve made New Year’s resolutions for 2015, we’ve also got the apps for you. If you’re looking to improve your culinary skills, head to page 18 for the top recipe apps for cooking up a storm. If you’re learning a language, take a test and get an accredited certificate with Duolingo Test Center (page 33). Even if you’re just looking to get in shape, check out the fitness apps in our Top 200 Greatest Apps Ever (page 44).
KINGDOM RUSH ORIGINS HD
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OiPad+ | iOS 7.0 | £1.99/$2.99 | v1.1 O Android | OS 4.0 | £1.88/$2.99 | v1.04
THE SAILOR’S DREAM
O iPad+ | iOS 6.0 | £2.49/$2.99 | v1.1
TIDAL
OiPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free | v1.0.3 O Android | OS 4.1 | Free | v1.00
TRIPWOLF
OiPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Freemium | v4.3.0 OAndroid | OS 2.3 | Freemium | v2.11.1
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CONTENTS 345 APPS INSIDE ENTERTAINMENT 19 APPS
WORK
022 Geek out
032 Sumptus
023 Tidal
033 Duolingo Test Center
It’s time to unleash your inner nerd with these top apps The superior streaming service for serious music lovers
024 Blloon A freemium approach to reading books
024 Auxy A wonderfully simple way to create music
EVERYDAY
22 APPS
026 Scan the skies Amazing astronomy apps
027 Molecules An interactive textbook
028 Yo A simple social network
029 Facebook Groups Another Facebook spin-off you never knew you needed
029 Tripwolf Offline travel guides
030 Toca Nature Toca Boca gets in touch with its wild side
030 Simmer by Panna Share sumptuous dishes and get culinary inspiration
14 APPS
Track your expenses with this money management app
Test your language skills
033 The Economist Espresso
A shot of daily business news
GAMES
22 APPS
036 Infinite runners The best games never end
037 Call of Duty: Heroes
Clash of Clans in camouflage
038 The Sailor’s Dream A sea shanty fom the makers of Device 6
039 Kingdom Rush: Origins HD The tower defense franchise continues
039 World of Warriors A frantic RPG fighter
040 Twisty Hollow Mildly-amusing multitasking
040 Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Game Cartoon violence aplenty
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14 22 GEEK OUT
THE BEST APPS FOR YOUR BRAND-NEW DEVICE
CONTENTS
APPS + PEOPLE + GEAR 006 In-car voiceactivated apps
Land Rover Jaguar is well on the road with justDrive
008 Q&A
We speak to the co-creator of Device 6 about The Sailor’s Dream, the final instalment in the ‘narrative trilogy’
009 How to hail a taxi
Hailo? Uber? Find out which taxi app you should be using and how
010 Win! Personalised postcards Turn your digital photos into postcards thanks to Postify
011 My home screen
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Top apps for under 10
DITCH THE RECIPE BOOKS AND BECOME A MASTER CHEF USING YOUR PHONE OR TABLET
012 Gear round-up
This month’s essential gadgets
09HAIL A TAXI
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SCAN THE SKIES
PLUS
LEARN MORE ABOUT YOUR APPS!
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042 Create your own Facebook Groups
INCREDIBLE INFINITE RUNNERS
Remember Facebook Groups? Find out why and how you should be using the social network’s relaunched service
HOW WE REVIEW OPERATING SYSTEM
Certain apps only work on specific operating systems; check your device meets the specifications here.
FORMAT
Some apps are specific to iPhone or iPad, however if listed with a plus symbol, apps will work on both devices.
PRICE
O iPhone+ | iOS 5.0 | Free | v4.5.2 O Android | OS 2.2 | Free | v4.6.3
VERSION
We always review the latest versions of apps when going to publication, but bear in mind issues we outline may be fixed in updated versions.
We list the most up-to-date price possible, but check before purchasing. Note that free apps may still require some in-app purchases.
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IN-CAR VOICE-ACTIVATED APPS LAND ROVER JAGUAR IS DRIVING INNOVATION
Buying a car can drive you crazy. If you’re not kicking at the tyres of second-hand motors, you’re fretting over the colours and trim of a new vehicle. But if you’re hoping we are going to tell you that apps can make the whole process easier, then you are in for a disappointment: for apps are actually going buying a car even more difficult. Over the coming 12 months, more and more cars are going to be driven off the forecourt with built-in internet access and dashboard devices running a multitude of apps. So it may get to the point where you make the choice of onboard service a key factor when splashing out. This month, Jaguar and Land Rover cars are set to lead the way with the release of justDrive. Designed for iOS 8 and Android phones, this free in-car offering works with both cars’ InControl platform, letting you plug in your handset and integrate services such as Spotify, Twitter and Yelp. It allows the apps to be controlled via voice commands using what is claimed to be one of the most advanced plain speech recognition packages in the world. “Using speech as a key enabler, together with justDrive’s simple and clean user interface, means we only show essential information to help
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create a safe, non-distracting driving environment,” says Dr Wolfgang Epple, director of Research and Technology at Jaguar Land Rover. And yet justDrive is only one of many in-car systems. So far we have seen the likes of MyFord Touch, Kia’s UVO and Audi Connect, but both Apple and Google are in on the act as well. Apple’s CarPlay (formerly iOS in the Car) is an optimised version of iOS 7.1. It puts mapping and Siri at its heart and it will allow for songs to be played from an iTunes library and for messages to be received. Manufacturers such as BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Toyota and Hyundai have signed up. Google’s Android Auto hopes to create a common platform for connected vehicles and while it is allied closely with Google Now, it will also offer car-specific features and be customisable by manufacturers. Both systems will be made available in 2015 models of Hyundai Sonatas, with updates available for current owners.
JUSTDRIVE
OiPhone | iOS 8.0 | Free | v1.0 OAndroid | OS 4.4 | Free | v1.0
IN TOUCH THE JUSTDRIVE APP
IN-CONTROL
With the app downloaded to an iOS or Android phone, justDrive integrates multiple apps into a single in-car function. This adds services ranging from Yelp to Spotify to Twitter so you can get it to send a SMS or tweet.
A total of 18 apps will be built into Jaguar Land Rover’s InControl Apps in-car infotainment system and they include the apps we see here: Calendar, Contacts, Music, Parkopedia and JustDrive as well as music services iHeartRadio and Stitcher.
SMARTPHONE CONNECTION
The handset needs to be connected to the car infotainment system via both USB and Bluetooth for justDrive to work. Bluetooth relays call and audio sounds through the car speakers. Say “Listen to One Direction” and it won’t throw a wobbly but just play. Unfortunately.
VOICE ACTIVATION
Once everything is all set up, the system needs no hands. JustDrive takes the touchbased interaction of the apps it works with an allows them to be controlled via plain natural speech, allowing the driver to keep focussed with both hands on the wheel.
TOP APPS FOR DRIVERS
GOOGLE MAPS Like the much-improved Apple
PAYBYPHONE PARKING FIND There MY are CAR Scrabbling around for change for a umpteen apps of this
Maps, Google Maps has voiceguided GPS navigation for when you’re driving, on foot or even cycling. With live traffic conditions, a simple interface and details on restaurants, leisure facilities and other places of interest, it’s a crucial car accompaniment. O iPhone | iOS 8.0 | Free | v4.0.0 O Android | Varies | Free | Varies
parking meter and coming up short? You could call a number on the side of the machine and go through a long audio process, or you could fire up this app and – with your card and car registration details entered – pay for parking with just a few taps. O iPhone | iOS 5.1.1 | Free | v1.2.4 O Android | OS 2.1 | Free | v1.0.18
nature available for both iOS and Android operating systems, but we do like this particular one from eLibera. When you park your car, you indicate its GPS position. Then should you struggle to find it again later on, the app will helpfully guide you straight back to your stranded motor. O Android | OS 2.2 | Free | v2.4
WAZE SOCIAL GPS, MAPSTraffic & TRAFFIC jams are terrible and often we don’t know what’s ahead. Waze allows drivers to share real-time traffic and road information so any accidents, road closures and hazards will be brought to your attention. O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | Free | v3.9.1 O Android | Varies | Free | Varies
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APPS + PEOPLE + GEAR QUESTI QUE STIONS STI ONS & ANS ANSWER WERSS WER
DREAMS NEVER END
As the ‘narrative triology’ draws to a close, Simon Flesser discusses the making of The Sailor’s Dream
Swedish indie developer Simogo Games are renowned for making games that defy convention. For instance, 2012’s Bumpy Road was an arcade game about guiding an elderly couple out for a Sunday drive. However, they are best known for their narrative trilogy, which included the award-winning titles Year Walk and Device 6. One half of Simogo games, Simon Flesser, explains what The Sailor’s Dream is all about... Year Walk, Device 6 and The Sailor’s Dream have been called ‘the narrative trilogy.’ Do you agree with this description? Sure. They’re not a story trilogy in the sense that they are part of the same universe or tell the same story, but they share a lot of ideas of how to tell a story differently by being digital pieces of work. Beyond the three games being narrative puzzles, what themes do they share? Also, what are the differences between them? They all share how you interact with them, and navigate in spaces. Other than that they are very much their own things thematically.
THE SAILOR’S DREAM Part sea shanty, part game O iPad+ | iOS 7.0 | £2.99/$3.99 | v1.1
You released Year Walk for Steam earlier this year, but you’ve always favoured mobile as the platform for your games – what is special about the medium? It’s a fun platform to work on, and it’s fun to reach people that wouldn’t perhaps normally play games. When we started out it was also the ease of development, but that is getting more and more difficult as more devices are being released at a higher pace. Can we ever expect Simogo to launch a game on Android? We never say never, but it’s not very likely at the moment. Having based games on everything from elderly lovers out for a drive, to Swedish folklore and spy novels, where do you find your inspiration? A lot of inspiration comes from music. But we find inspiration in everything from books, how
The Sailor’s Dream takes you through a whimsical world an everyday object feels to interact with, and beautiful objects found at flea markets. On average, how long does it take you to produce a game from initial conception to publishing it on the App Store? Every game is different, but we tend to make games in about six months or so. Why is that and what was it like working with Jonathan Eng to create the music for The Sailor’s Dream? There’s just so many emotions and sensations that can be communicated via music, so I think that is why it’s often a starting point for us. Working with Jonathan was great. It was his first time making a full album, and a soundtrack on top of that – he did an exceptional job! You’ve never produced a game with multiplayer options, beyond Game Center leaderboards for Kosmo Spin. Why is that? Good question. I think it’s just a question of us not wanting to shoehorn it in into any game. We like multiplayer games ourselves, so who knows, maybe in the future. Many fans claim that there is a second secret ending to Year Walk. Can you confirm whether or not this is true? If it’s not, would you ever consider launching a Year Walk 2? No comment! Perhaps something loosely related to the same universe, but I find it unlikely that we’d do a straight follow-up to Year Walk.
“A LOT OF INSPIRATION COMES FROM MUSIC. BUT WE FIND INSPIRATION IN EVERYTHING”
TOP 5 INDIE GAMES
THREES! CROSSY ROAD RIDICULOUS FISHING MONUMENT VALLEY SUPERTheHEXAGON Geek chic combines with Offering up some great Catch as many fish as Apple’s Best iPad Game addictively difficult traditional matching games as you combine multiples of three. O iPhone | iOS 6.0 | £1.99/$2.99 | v1.2.3.4 O Android | OS .1.7 | £1.17/$1.99 | v1.2
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old school-style graphics and game mechanics, this modern day Frogger involves guiding a chicken across a busy road. O iPad+ | iOS 7.0 | Freemium | v1.1.0
possible while using everything from guns, toasters and even chainsaws. O iPhone+ | iOS 5.1 | £1.99/$2.99 | v1.31 O Android | OS 2.3 | £1.99/$2.99 | v1.2.2.4
of 2014, navigate a strange world of impossible architecture. O iPad+ | iOS 6.0 | £2.49/$3.99 | v2.2.2 O Android | OS 2.3.3 | £2.49/$3.99 | v2.0.33
puzzle game from the king of indie games, Terry Cavanagh. O iPhone+ | iOS 6.1 | £1.99/$2.99 | v1.31 O Android | OS 2.2 | £1.99/$2.99 | v1.0.7
IN TOUCH
HOW TO…
HAIL A TAXI
KEEP YOUR ARMS BY YOUR SIDES WHEN GETTING A CAB - JUST TAP INSTEAD Whether you want to pre-book a lift to the airport or you’re out and about and need a ride as soon as possible, you can whip out your phone and use an app to book your taxi or private hire car. Customers enjoy the convenience of seeing where the cars are and knowing how long it will take for one to arrive; drivers like the ease of digital payments. With no cash involved, transactions are simple and safe and easy. No more fumbling for change.
01 Identify location With the GetTaxi app, you can input your specific pickup and a drop-off locations. Use the map to find where you want to be picked up from (or let the app find you) and then select Set Pickup. Then add a destination and input your credit card details.
02 Book your taxi If you would like to prebook a journey and find out the exact cost – perfect for an airport run – then tap the aeroplane icon, set the ‘from’ and ‘to’ locations and then see the GetTaxi price. Tap Next, review the order and then tap Order Now, it’s as easy as that.
03 Setting up accounts GetTaxi lets you add payment details later but some, like Uber, request you set up an account immediately. Input your email, phone number and bank details (or PayPal). When bookings are made, payments are deducted digitally. No cash needed.
04 Get a pick-up Apps such as Uber let you select your preferred pickup and drop-off location and see where cars are in your vicinity. You can also see the time it will take for your cab to arrive and you will be given a fare estimate. Promo codes can also be used.
05 Get a black cab Prefer to take black cabs rather than private-hire vehicles? Then check out Hailo. Again, you can see where the black cabs are and select a pick-up point. As with Uber, the app shows you how far away – in minutes – your ride will be. Tap Pick Me Up Here.
06 Remember to tip Apps like Hailo let you tip your driver automatically whenever you book a cab. Tap on the Menu option in the top right-hand corner, select the Wallet option and indicate the level of Auto Tip from 10 per cent to 20 per cent of a specific sum of your choice.
APPS USED UBERWhen booking a cab, you will GETTAXI With no minimum fares,
HAILOTwo taps on your mobile
be emailed a map of the driver’s route so you know how long the journey will take. O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free | v.2.50 O Android | Varies | Free | Varies
phone and a fully insured, licensed black cab will be on its way to you. Receipts are emailed. O iPhone | iOS 7.0 | Free | v.4.1 O Android | Varies | Free | Varies
pre-booked rides, a lack of cancellation fees and £10 when you invite friends, GetTaxi is a very promising app. O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free | v.2.50
FINAL THOUGHT
More and more drivers have signed up to app services and, for customers, seeing prices, finding nearby cabs and not having to deal with money, saves raising an arm in the street or finding a cash machine. You can even split your fare with other passengers. Beware of surge pricing, though – fares can rocket at certain times of the day or during events.
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digital photo from your phone’s gallery, Facebook or Instagram app. You can then airbrush your photos with editing tools, as well as adding fun graphics. When it comes to adding your own message, you can also select from a large variety of fonts and text sizes to capture the right feeling for the occasion. Ideal for birthdays or special occasions, Postify Postcards will send your cards to any recipient, no matter where you are or where it’s going. Though postcards are sent via snail mail, they are all dispatched with first class postage to ensure they arrive within 1-3 business days in you’re country, or within 3-10 depending on their destination. Normally a card costs £1.59/$1.99 each to send, but thanks to Postify Postcards we have 1,000 postcards to give away! Download the Postify Postcards app now and use the voucher code ‘APPSMAG’ when prompted to pay to redeem your free postcard.
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IN TOUCH
MY HOME SCREEN
THE UNDER 10
TOP PICKS FOR EDUCATING AND ENTHRALLING KIDS AMAZING WORLD ATLAS
Children love the touchscreen nature of smartphones and tablets, and developers have strived to produce a range of kidfriendly apps to help them get the most out of modern-day tech. Part educational and part fun, the apps enrich a child’s learning process while introducing them to concepts that will stand them in good stead in later life. Here we look at a mix of creative, practical and knowledge-based apps to get youngsters off to a flying start.
ALTERNATIVE TO: MAPS
Created by Lonely Planet, this app allows children to explore the world through games, quizzes and interactive maps, with nice sound effects and jaunty music to keep up interest. O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | £1.99/$2.99 | v1.4 O Android | OS 2.3 | £1.81/$2.99 | v1.4
CARIBU – TURN VIDEO CHAT INTO STORY TIME
ALTERNATIVE TO: FACETIME Even when you’re away from your little one, you can tell a bedtime story with Caribu – set up a video call and read together. O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free | v2.7.1
CRAYOLA TIMES TABLE LIGHTS, CLOUD CLICK CAMERA, COLOR! GAME
CHOREMONSTER: MAKE CHORES FUN FOR KIDS! ALTERNATIVE TO: REMINDERS
ChoreMonster aims to put the fun into the most mundane of tasks by awarding children points whenever they complete a chore. Chores can be stacked up, with the app offering daily or weekly reminders of key tasks. O iPhone | iOS 6.0 | Free | v2.3
ALTERNATIVE TO: CALCULATOR
With Crayola, children can become very creative. Snap a pic, drain it of its colour, add stickers and then use the crayons to colour the image in any way you wish. O iPhone+ | iOS 5.0 | Freemium | v1.1.7
Multiplication tables can be a chore to learn but this apps turns it into a fun game based around a series of tappable clouds. O iPhone+ | iOS 6.1 | Free | v1.0.2 O Android | OS 2.3.3 | £1.99/$3.19 | v1.0.2
“A RANGE OF KID-FRIENDLY APPS TO HELP THEM GET THE MOST OUT OF MODERN-DAY TECHNOLOGY”
EPIC! - BOOKS FOR KIDS
KID-SAFE TUBE TV LITE
After setting a child’s age and the kind or books he or she will enjoy the most, Epic! filters through thousands of books and delivers a series of suggestions. Downloadable books include classics such as the Flat Stanley and Nancy Drew series. O iPad+ | iOS 6.0 | Free | v1.02
Not all videos online are child friendly, but with this app parents can rest assuredthatsafe,entertainingand educational YouTube videos are delivered. There’s also a timer to ensurethatyourlittleonedoesn’t get square-eyed. O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free | v1.9.6
ALTERNATIVE TO: NEWSSTAND
ALTERNATIVE TO: CAMERA
ALTERNATIVE TO: VIDEOS
MOBICIP SAFE MAILY: YOUR KIDS’ BROWSER WITH FIRST EMAIL TO: EMAIL PARENTAL CONTROL ALTERNATIVE Designed for children ALTERNATIVE TO: SAFARI
Based on the Mozilla Firefox browser, Mobicip allows you to create age-based settings to filter content and block unsuitable sites. It claims to use advanced algorithms to rate each page. O iPhone | iOS 6.0 | Free | v4.1
aged three and over, Maily lets children produce visual messages using photos and built-in tools from stickers to backgrounds. Parents can monitor what their children are sending. O iPhone | iOS 5.1 | Free | v2.1.5
INTERACTIVE TELLING TIME LITE ALTERNATIVE TO: CLOCK
This cute app makes time-telling fun. The app asks kids to set the clock to a certain time using the hands. They can also stop the clock when it reaches a set time. O iPhone+ | iOS 4.3 | Free | v3.5 O Android | iOS 2.3 | Free | v3.4
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OLIXAR X2 PRO BLUETOOTH HEADPHONES
For the price, the Olixar X2 Pro’s offer an appealing feature set. The Bluetooth 4.0 tech housed inside the comfortable cans ensures you can move up to 10ft away from your device without losing connectivity. Call quality is crisp and the NFC pairing is expectedly effortless. Sadly, you can’t have everything for such little money. The sound is clear, but flat – lacking definition, especially when heavier, bass-loaded music was pumped through at volume. There are plenty of better devices to surround yourself in music with.
+++++ £59.99/$TBC | Accessory Lab | www.accessorylab.co.uk
VAULT SLIM WALLET FOR iPHONE 6
Protecting your brand-new Apple device should be priority numero uno, though it’s always nice when you can get a bit more out of your protective case. The Vault Slim from Silk Innovation is one of the better cases on the market, offering a soft, slim design and enough protection to save it from small drops and knocks. It also comfortably holds three debit cards, and - thankfully - doesn’t damage them like other products have a tendency to do. It’s a very good case for casual day-today application.
+++++ £14.99/$24.99 | Silk Innovation | www.silkinnovation.com
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GEAR ROUNDUP
SURVIVOR ALL-TERRAIN FOR iPAD AIR
Are you planning to hike across the countryside or scale a mountain in the near future? Do you think you’d be able to do without your iPad Air for a couple of days? Of course you couldn’t, how would you check Facebook?! The Survivor All-Terrain takes ‘ultra-protective’ to a whole new level, as its three-layer design looks to shield your tablet from scratches, rain and… who knows what else – war, probably. It’s versatile, strong and provides an insane amount of protection. Though it will make your device substantially weightier.
+++++ £49.99/$79.99 | Griffin | www.griffintechnology.com
HUAWEI TALKBAND B1
Every tech company under the sun seems to be taking awkward first steps into the uncharted waters of wearables. While there’s been a couple of early success stories, most are struggling to define their place on the market. Huawei falls into the second bracket as it attempts to merge a wrist-based fitness tracker and Bluetooth earpiece into one package. Merely competent in both areas, the TalkBand B1 fails to master either, meaning you’re probably better off purchasing dedicated individual items. Still, it’s a good first attempt that could do with focus and refinement.
+++++ £99.99/$149.99 | Huawei | www.huawei.com
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NEW YEAR, NEW APPS Left Pixelmator will let you apply a whole host of effects to your images
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SHOOT A TIME-LAPSE
An award-winning app that lets you capture stunning time-lapse video. It’s super powerful, letting you adjust settings for the perfect footage.
If you’re new to Apple’s mobile operating system, then you likely won’t have noticed that iPhoto for iOS has been discontinued. This is quite a big deal, simply because the mobile version of iPhoto was really powerful due to the presence of brushes with the ability to make advanced edits to your favourite images. Thank goodness then, in a post-iPhoto world, that Pixelmator for iPad has been released. Pixelmator has long been a favourite for Mac users who are very keen to get Photoshopstandard quality without having to shell out for the silly price tag. The mobile version continues this trend, scooping Apple’s Best iPad App of the Year Award last month. As an image editor, you can control colour,
LAPSE IT
O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | Freemium O Android | OS 2.2 | Freemium
add filters and apply effects that go well beyond what iPhoto could ever do. The Adjust Colors menu offers histogram and curves control, as well as sliders for finer control. In Effects, you can add things like light leaks, bokeh and distortion effects, all of which can be edited using the neat onscreen controls. And then there’s the Retouch tools. Truly an iOS must-have. O iPad | iOS 8.0 | £2.99/$4.99
ntrol colour, add filters and apply effects t go well beyond what iPhoto could do”
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BY AVIARY A fun and simple way to make beautiful photos in seconds. Aviary uses professionally designed filters, frames and editing tools to help photographers take pictures to be proud of. We particularly love the blemish tool that lets you get rid of imperfections with a single tap of your iPhone. That’s cool, right? O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Freemium O Android | OS 2.3.3 | Freemium
PIXLRTheEXPRESS fact this app is made by Autodesk should give you a heads-up as to how powerful it can be. The app lets you crop, rotate and fine-tune, while providing over two million combinations of effects, overlays and borders to create standout images. Pixlr Express stands out for being so easy to use – a must for any amateur snapper. O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | Free O Android | OS 2.2 | Free
VSCOVSCO CAM Cam gives you more control than, say, Instagram would, delving deeper into the editing process. You can customise your images with professional-grade tools and presets, including some fine highlight, contrast and temperature sliders. There’s a thriving community too, and a vault gallery of exceptional images to browse. O iPhone+ | iOS 8.0 | Freemium O Android | OS 4.0 | Freemium
CAMERA+ An app that can truly take
When Apple uses an app in its official keynote to show off the bumper new specifications, it’s surely time to stand up and take notice. That is most definitely the case with Vain Glory, a ayer online battle arena game that was built with Apple’s new developer re and A8 chip d. You fight at 60 frames per , while the millisecond responsiveness to beat. + | iOS 6.1 | Freemium
TOP QUALITY CAMERA APPS PHOTO EDITOR
your iPhone 6 photography to new levels of professionalism. It’s an instant improvement on the stock camera app, giving you greater control over flash, exposure, focus and zoom. Then when you’ve taken the photo, check out the brilliant Clarity filter and powerful one-touch fixes to get memorable photos to share. O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | £1.49/$1.99
INSTAGRAM A social media behemoth yes, but also a trailblazer for photoediting apps all over the App Store. Giving your pictures a feel from a bygone era, Instagram uses lightbleaching and sepia tones to instantly transform images before you get the chance to share it with all your followers. Plus you can post to various other social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | Free O Android | Varies | Free
Above Epic battles usually take 20 colourful minutes
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NEW YEAR, NEW APPS
BEST APPS FOR WORK
DROPBOX You’ll have noticed Apple
getting you to use iCloud Drive when you initially set up your new device. No harm in that – it’s a great service, especially if you own multiple Apple devices. Dropbox is an equivalent cloud storage service, but this productivity giant is compatible with a load more services at present. Sign up now! O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Freemium O Android | Varies | Freemium
TUMBLR
The world’s biggest micro blogging platform now has an app to be proud of. Recent updates have given you the chance to fully customise your blog, with the option to tweak the look and feel on your main page to better reflect you as a user. All this used to be confined to only the desktop version, so it’s a refreshing change. O iPhone+ | iOS 8.0 | Free
O Android | Varies | Free
IFTTTOne of our favourite apps of
Few games on the App Store have such a cult following as Football Manager. The 2015 incarnation brings the game bang up to date, letting you live you dream of managing your team. You call the shots on everything from transfers and tactics to scouting and subs, then watch your decisions unfold in front of you in the game’s 2D match engine. Can your nerves handle the pressure?
the year, IFTTT is the task automating service taking the digital world by storm. Based on the If This Then That principle you create recipes to automate a massive range of tasks. Taken a photo on Instagram? Tweet it immediately. Walked into your house? Turn your Philips Hue lights on. The possibilities are endless. O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free O Android | iOS 4.0 | Free
MICROSOFT OFFICE MOBILE
We waited years for Microsoft to finally release a mobile version of its world-famous Office productivity suite, and last year we finally got our wish. Comprising of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Microsoft Office Mobile gives you all the tools you need to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations. It’s recently been made free, as long as it’s for personal use. O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free O Android | Varies | Free
WUNDERLIST Wunderlist: To–Do List &
O iPhone+ | iOS 5.0 | £6.99/$9.99 O Android | OS 2.3.3 | £6.99/$9.99
LISTEN TO THE RADIO
TuneIn Radio is the world’s largest collection of sports, news, music and talk radio. There’s over 100,000 real radio stations and more than four million podcasts from all over the world.
Tasks helps millions of people around the world capture their ideas, things to do and places to see. The beauty of Wunderlist lies in sharing your stuff, whether that’s a shopping list with your partner or a work idea with a colleague, this is the app to gets your hands on to ensure everything in your life runs smoothly. O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Freemium O Android | OS 4.0 | Freemium
GMAILMany new iPhone and iPad users will have ported over from Android, where Gmail is the default email app. No fears, because it’s easy to transfer over everything you possibly need. You could set it up through the stock iOS Mail app, but it makes equal sense to sync it up with this official Gmail app from Google. O iPhone+ | iOS 7.1 | Free O Android | Varies | Free
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FOOTBALL MANAGER HANDHELD 2015
TUNEIN RADIO O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Freemium O Android | Varies | Freemium
REPLAY VIDEO EDITOR
Another app that was showcased at Apple’s autumn event to show of the power of the new iPad Air 2, Replay Video Editor does a great job o inspiring you to make great movies. Naturally, th your device’s Camera Roll, so you nto the app. This is where Replay plying a series of effects and filters as ersonalise your film. You get a great ease of use is definitely one of its s, it’s easier to do it on a bigger screen, but Replay makes small-screen editing as pain-free as possible. The app’s simplicity and attention to detail when it comes to stylising video means that you can export a finished film that really looks the part. It might not have iMovie’s extensive toolkit, but this is an impressive app. Replay is free to download however there are a series of in-app purchases that can be made providing you with all 21 video styles and allowing you to remove the Replay logo from your finished film. The total cost for all in-app purchases is £6.99/$9.99. OiPhone+ | iOS 7.1 | Freemium
NEW YEAR, NEW APPS
NETFLIX
A worldwide phenomenon in a entertainment streaming, Netflix is the place to come to watch the cream of TV and film from both sides of the Atlantic. You need a £5.99/$9.99 monthly subscription to get access, but you can get your hands on a free 30-day trial. Fix yourself up and you can watch Breaking Bad, House Of Cards and more whenever you want. O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free O Android | Varies | Free
SPOTIFY
Music-streaming services are numerous on the App Store, but Spotify remains head and shoulders above the rest. Premium customers get to search for any track, artist or album and listen absolutely free without any adverts and at high-quality frequencies. You can also build your playlists and download tracks to your device so that you can easily listen offline when you’re not connected to Wi-Fi. O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Freemium O Android | Varies | Freemium
APP STORE ESSENTIALS BBC WEATHER SHAZAM SKY NEWS Apple’s default weather app is fairly basic, so if you’re after a more informed second opinion, BBC Weather is the perfect solution. The app knows your location and provides you with detailed 10-day forecasts, sunrise and sunset times as well as those all-important temperature ranges. With this app on board, you’ll know exactly when to pack the umbrella. O iPhone+ | iOS 5.0 | Free O Android | OS 2.2 | Free
We’ve all been in the same scenario time and time again. There’s a naggingly familiar tune on the TV and you can’t for the life of you remember what it is. This is where Shazam comes to the rescue. Shazam will listen to the music at the tap of finger and report back to you precise details. Your results are stored as tags, from which you can listen to and buy tracks. O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free O Android | Varies | Free
GARAGEBAND
No app shows off the power of the new iPhones and iPads like GarageBand. Taking advantage of the 64-bit architecture and superpowerful A8 chip, GarageBand turns your new device into a collection of touch instruments and a portable music-recording studio. This awesome app lets you use multi-touch gestures to play piano, organ, guitar and drums. This virtual studio sounds incredible, and you get to do things you couldn’t imagine doing on a real instrument. For example, plug in your guitar to your device and you get the chance to play the instrument through classic amps and stompboxes. Or you could make use of the Smart Instruments feature to conduct a whole string orchestra with just one finger. We’re huge fans of the Jam Session tool too, which adds a really fun social element to the app. Connecting over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, you can get your own jam session going up to three of your musical buddies – meaning no one has an excuse not to turn up for band practice! GarageBand’s InterApp Audio tool also enables you to record using a compatible third-party app. And as this is an Apple-built app, sharing options are plentiful. O iPhone+ | iOS 8.0 | £2.99/$4.99
Easily the best news app on iOS, Sky News provides you with breaking news on a huge range of topics, from World News to Sport to Entertainment, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Major stories come packaged with embedded video to provide a true multimedia experience. You also get access to news bulletins from the news channel of the same name. O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | Free O Android | OS 2.3 | Free
Above Download albums to your device to listen to offline
TVCATCHUP TVCatchup is an
EBAYOne of the best ports of
essential app download for any TV fanatic, enabling you to watch Freeview channels while you’re the move. You’ll never miss your favourite shows ever again as you can watch live TV from channels ranging from BBC One and Two, ITV, Channel Four and many more at no cost at all. TVCatchup also streams to your TV via AirPlay – what could be better? O iPhone+ | iOS 5.1.1 | Free O Android | OS 2.3 | Free
a traditional desktop service, eBay has a great-looking, and more importantly, great-functioning app. There’s a very good search function that lets you dial down what you’re after, and making purchases is quick and simple using PayPal. The app is also the place to go to for daily deals, which eBay collates and personalises for you. O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free O Android | Varies | Free
“GarageBand turns your new device into a portable musicrecording studio”
Right GarageBand turns your device into a fully fledged recording studio
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DELICIOUS COOKING APPS DITCH THE RECIPE BOOKS AND BECOME A FOODIE PRO USING YOUR PHONE OR TABLET
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25 DELICIOUS COOKING APPS Make mouthwatering recipes created by some of the world’s top chefs
STORE FOOD CORRECTLY
YUMMLY
Simply put, Yummly is one of the most powerful recipe managers in the cooking app market. It puts thousands of cooking recipes into the palm of your hand, making recommendations of recipes for you to try based upon your activity within the app. Yummly features recipes from many popular food recipe websites and apps such as Epicurious and AllRecipies in addition to recipes from popular food blogs! Yummly’s powerful search tool helps you to find the recipes you want without wasting time. The search filters include taste, ingredients, cooking time, diet and allergies. A recent update of the app offers nutritional information integration with iOS 8’s Health
PERFECT PRODUCE
O iPhone | iOS 4.2 | Free O Android | OS 2.1 | Free
app, allowing you to track calories and other nutritional content of the food you’re eating. One of Yummly’s stand-out features is the ability to scan an ingredient’s barcode into the Grocery List feature and receive a list of recipes which feature that ingredient. All of this is packaged into a clean ,attractive looking app based around some great images. O iPhone | iOS 7.0 | Free O Android | OS 4.1 | Free
ALLRECIPES DINNER SPINNER
OiPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Freemium OAndroid | Varies | Freemium
ESCOFFIER COOK’S COMPANION Escoffier Cook’s Companion is
the ultimate measurements app: it contains everything kitchen tool you might need… except the kitchen sink! It offers a kitchen timer, a measurement converter, a cooking terms glossary, and a searchable equipment index Cut down on your overall food waste which shows you how to use and store kitchen equipment by learning how to correctly store food and utensils, all packaged into a items and how to identify good-quality beautifully designed interface. O iPhone+ | iOS 5.0 produce in the supermarket. | £0.69/$0.99
“Yummly puts thousands of cooking recipes into the palm of your hand”
Stuck for meal ideas? Enter Allrecipes Dinner Spinner, the app which injects some fun into inspiring your next meal. Launch the iPhone app and shake it all about to spin the meal categories and receive a random recipe. If shaking your iPhone isn’t your thing, you can also use Dinner Spinner to view and try recipes shared and recommended by other Allrecipes members.
ESSENTIAL KITCHEN TOOLS
Dinner Spinner makes meals more fun and less fuss
SUBSTITUTIONS If you struggle to cook recipes due to food allergies or missing ingredients, quickly and easily find a substitute ingredient in your kitchen cupboard using your iPhone or iPad with the Substitutions app. Substitutions is incredibly easy to use: find your ingredient from a list of food groups in the main menu and substitute ingredients are listed underneath. Super simple! O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | £1.49/$1.99
EGG TIMER How do you like your eggs in the morning? Egg Timer, from the Egg Farmers of Canada, is the ultimate guide to cooking the humble egg - from the people that are the authority in eggs. Cook eggs the way you like them - boiled, poached, or scrambled by following the onscreen instructions and use the builtin timer which can be customised based on how you like your eggs. O iPhone+ | iOS 5.0 | Free
SEASONS Did you know that although we eat certain fruits and vegetables all year around, that the peak of their natural ripeness and flavour varies from season to season? Seasons is a comprehensive guide to the best fruits and vegetables to consume in each natural season of the year – helping you to get the best flavour and ripeness out of your favourite fruits and veggies. O iPhone | iOS 4.2 | £1.49/$1.99
POCKET WINE PAIRING
Wine pairing is a tricky business. Forget poring over the back of wine labels in the wine aisle at the supermarket, all you need is the Pocket Wine Pairing app on your iOS device. Simply organised and easy-to-use, you choose the meal or main ingredient you want to pair with wine and it offers recommendations and explains why the wine will complement the ingredient. O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | £2.49/$3.99
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APPS TO COOK UP A STORM
KITCHEN STORIES
THE PHOTO COOKBOOK The Photo Cookbook is a
compendium of recipes for you to try at home, accompanied by mouth-watering, high-resolution photos which illustrate each step of the recipe and required ingredients. You can pick recipes from a variety of popular categories such as Quick, Asian and Italian and each recipe is accompanied by an ingredients list to take to the supermarket. O iPhone+ | iOS 5.0 | £2.49/$4.99
MARYBritish BERRY BAKES Bake Off fans assemble! Queen of sweet treats Mary Berry has created an app fullto-bursting of baking recipes, illustrated with some truly stunning photography and easy-to-follow instructions. The app features an interactive ingredients list; cross off the ingredients as you use them or purchase them in the supermarket. Use the handy bookmarking feature to keep track of your favourite recipes. O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | £2.49/$2.99
COOKPAD RECIPES
Cookpad Recipes is (almost) a social network for food and cooking fans across the world. Boasting a library of over 150,000 recipes, Cookpad Recipes is a community of foodies and offers the opportunity to share both ideas and recipes. Add your own recipes for other people to follow and enjoy or simply browse what everyone else has to offer by category or meal type. O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free O Android | Varies | Free
HOW TO COOK EVERYTHING How To Cook Everything is one of the most extensive recipe apps in the market today, offering over 2,000 recipes. Although it doesn’t offer glossy photography and video like its competitors, it offers an extensive search tool, allowing you to narrow recipes down by key ingredients and cooking styles. Each recipe also contains handy tips on how to prepare its ingredients. O iPhone+ | iOS 6.1 | £6.99/$9.99
JAMIE’S RECIPES Ever the champion of highquality, home-made food, Jamie Oliver has now set his culinary sights on the app world. Containing over 400 exclusive recipes created by the Naked Chef himself, Jamie’s Recipes is based around beautiful photography and hours of HD video which help you master difficult cooking techniques, as well as a very handy shopping list feature which allows you to sort the required ingredients for recipes by supermarket aisle. Pukka! O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Freemium
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EVERNOTE FOOD
Evernote Food wants you to equate food with experiences. It’s part recipe manager, part food blog, part restaurant directory - grab your favourite recipes and store them in the app. Find and keep a list of your favourite restaurants plus notes and photos about your experiences and create your own recipes in app - all of this syncs with your existing Evernote account.
OiPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | Freemium OAndroid | OS 2.2 | Freemium
PAPRIKA
Kitchen Stories is a fantastic foodie app designed to showcase the best of delicious yet easy-to-cook recipes. If you’re looking for some inspiration, Kitchen Stories collects recipes together into categories such as ’20-minute dishes’, where you’re likely to find yummy hidden gems. Howeverm Kitchen Stories’ main strength lies in its brilliant HD videos – these clips display the cooking instructions on screen as the chef is actually walking you through the whole delicious recipe step by step. OiPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free
MANAGE YOUR FRIDGE
Keep track of food in your fridge - add
A through-and-through recipe manager, items to your digital fridge, detailing Paprika allows you to save recipes to when you bought it to ensure you eat the app from any website using a handy food while its fresh. browser add-on. Quickly and easily search for recipes by ingredient, cooking time or recipe source. Following a recipe from Paprika could not be easier. O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 Cross ingredients off of the recipe as you use them, | £0.69/$0.99 highlight your current step so you don’t lose your place and our personal favourite… scale ingredient amounts according to your desired serving size. Timers are built in to recipe steps so you can just tap on one to get it started – you can even run multiple timers simultaneously. While you’re ditching your recipe books, you may as well ditch your shopping lists, too. Paprika helps you keep track of the contents of your kitchen cupboards with the Pantry feature – you can use the ingredients you already have while knowing which ones you need to go out and buy using the Grocery List feature. Throw all of these ingredients together and Paprika becomes the ultimate digital resource for brand-new chefs, cooking aficionados and foodie professionals alike. OiPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | £1.99/$2.99 OAndroid | OS 4.0 | £3.17/$2.99
FRESHBOX
25 DELICIOUS COOKING APPS
BIG OVEN
Big Oven offers access to over 350,000 recipes, never leaving you short of inspiration for dinnertime. The app regularly curates collections of recipes by season, holiday and diet, to name a few. Use the ratings from other users to decide what to try – you can even get a recipe recommendation based upon the leftover ingredients you’ve got in the fridge. O iPhone+ | iOS 7 | Freemium O Android | Varies | Freemium
EPICURIOUS
Epicurious is an offering from Condé Nast who publish upmarket cooking magazines Bon Appétit and Gourmet the recipes featured on Epicurious are sourced straight from these magazines which is a great deal considering the app is free. Choose recipes based on season, ingredients, or get inspiration from the curations on the app’s homepage.
OiPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free O Android | OS 1.5 | Free
LEARN TO COOK IN STYLE! APPETITES CULINARY GREAT BRITISH If you’re learning the ropes in the kitchen and prefer to be shown how to cook than following instructions from a book, look no further than Appetites - the comprehensive step-by-step video cooking class. Choose from over 200 cooking classes covering a wide variety of food styles, with videos shot from the point of view of the chef to demonstrate the recipe to you in the clearest-possible way. O iPad+ | iOS 7.0 | Freemium
FUNDAMENTALS Progress your cooking
CHEFSGetting KIDS kids cooking at
skills and perfect cooking techniques used by the pros with Culinary Fundamentals. A solely videobased app, it offers 300 clips focusing on vital cooking skills such as knife skills, filleting meat and fish and vegetable preparation. The videos can be viewed in-app without an internet connection. O iPad | iOS 4.3 | £2.49/$3.99
an early age is a surefire way to help them develop a solid foundation of long-term culinary skills. Great British Chefs Kids is an app full of simple, photo-based recipes, created with young chefs in mind. For those trickier recipes, the app offers a selection of how-to films to demonstrate the techniques required. O iPhone+ | iOS 5.1 | Free
Get inspiration from Epicurious’ superb curated collections
COOKBOOTH If you love cooking and
LOOKLook & &COOK Cook might just
want to share recipes with other foodies, Cookbooth is the perfect app for you. Use Cookbooth to quickly and easily create your own photo-based step-by-step recipes to upload to Cookbooth and share with your social networks – or simply use the app to connect with other foodies and get inspired by their recipes and knowledge. O iPhone | iOS 6.0 | Freemium O Android | OS 2.3 | Freemium
be one of the most beautiful cooking apps that we’ve reviewed here at Apps Magazine - you’re in for a treat if you’re learning to cook. Every step of a recipe is illustrated with gorgeous images; it’s impossible to go wrong! One of Look & Cook’s coolest features is voice activation – keeping your device clean when it matters. O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | Free O Android | OS 2.3.3 | Free
GOJEE
The Gojee app is one of the most beautiful cooking apps on the App Store right now. Offering both mouth-watering food and drink recipes accompanied by stunning photography from a network of award-winning bloggers and chefs, you’ll find inspiration in your kitchen with Gojee by your side. Combining both food and drink recipes sets Gojee ahead of its competitors – plan a whole evening around food and drink in one place. Find cocktail recipes to impress your friends with, without needing to buy extra alcohol – simply select the main drink ingredient that you want to work with and Gojee will recommend cocktails containing that ingredient. High-quality photography is one of Gojee’s stand-out features – the app is built around photography, and rightly so – you won’t find any kebab-shop style photos here. It’s a great tool to inspire you to want to try new flavours with fresh new recipe ideas. Pair that with Gojee’s collections of featured recipes and you’ll be locking yourself in your kitchen until you’ve tried them all. Gojee offers a variety of mouthO iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free watering cocktail recipes to try
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GEEK OUT
IT’S TIME TO UNLEASH YOUR INNER NERD WITH THESE GEEKY OFFERINGS NASA APP
Are you geeky about all things space? With over 13,000 images plus scores of news and features, it would take a (space) age to get through it all. The app is broken down into accessible chunks with the most recent data listed first. You can favourite articles and even save images as backgrounds and wallpaper. A packed, pro app that tells you all you need to know about NASA’s amazing work. hone+ | iOS 7.0 Free | v3.18 ndroid | OS 4.0 | Free | v1.52
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Blastr is produced by the brains behind the SyFy Channel and it aims to be the main source for the latest sci-fi TV, film, games and comic news. A carousel delivers the day’s top stories with a list of other news underneath. There is also an assortment of curious images and an abundance of video (that is, sadly, US-only). Boom! Blastr keeps you well and truly in the know when it comes to sci-fi news.
BLASTR
MARVEL UNLIMITED As Comixology’s star
DINOSAURS 360 As Jurassic World readies
wanes (on iOS at least due to a lack of in-app purchasing), the likes of Marvel Unlimited are proving popular. A subscription program lets you read over 70 years of Marvel comics, panel-by-panel. There are many free issues and you can read up to 12 offline. For comic fans, the subscription model can be a money-saver, giving access to hundreds of graphic novels.
itself, the world is set to go dino-crazy. Brush up on your dinosaur knowledge with this app’s quiz and then study the zoomable images of these magnificent creatures, each one coming complete with a suggested sound. We like the tours of the Jurassic, Early and Late Cretaceous periods. While it could do with some animations, this reference app is a solid dino identifier.
O iPhone+ | iOS 5.0 | Free | v4.0.4 O Android | OS 4.0 | Free | v2.0.19
O iPhone+ | iOS 6.1 | Free | v2.2 O Android | OS 4.0 | Free | Varies
O iPhone+ | iOS 5.0 | Free | v5.0 O Android | OS 2.3 | Free | v3.0
STAR TREK PADD FOR iPHONE If you’re one of those Star Trek fans that wish they had their own tricorder, now you can. Gloriously nerdy, with actions accompanied by blips and bleeps there are character and episode guides plus lists of ships, food and aliens. Even for nonTrekkies, it’s a geek treat. Futuristic computing is delightfully fun – plus there’s room for Twitter. O iPhone | iOS 5.0 | £1.49/$1.99 | v2.4.912
ENTERTAINMENT
Above The main menu has new music and playlists compiled by music writers
TIDAL PROS/CONS
V Absolutely rammed
with content for users to explore V Packed with cool features to help take your music further W The service itself is quite expensive compared to similar music services W The app could be designed better to make it easier to find new content
Above You can mark a track as a favourite, add it to a playlist or share it
THE AUDIOPHILE’S SUPERIOR MUSIC STREAMING SERVICE
As music streaming services go, Tidal’s credentials seem very favourable. It is the first service of its kind to offer high fidelity sound quality on over 25 million instantly accessible tracks and boasts a selection of 75,000 HD music videos. It is also curated and contributed to by experienced music journalists – people who should be able to balance the mainstream with the offbeat when it comes to recommendations and in-app playlists to open your ears to all manner of exciting new sounds. But, before your ears start pulsing at the prospect of superior sound and expertly sourced content though, it is worth pointing out that the service comes at a hefty subscription cost of £19.99 a month – although you can try it free for seven days before committing – and you will need an account in place (go to tidalhifi.com) in order to use this app. When you are logged in, the interface that binds and projects the service is devoid of pizzazz but easy enough to navigate. New stuff is flagged up at the top of the screen and sections, such as the latest playlists and tracks, can be accessed by scrolling down and a menu provides easy
access to some of the other key features, such as Genres, Offline Content and Audio Search. Using the standard keyword search will also hook you up with all related content applicable to the entered artist or track, including videos, which are otherwise hard to find. When you weigh up the fact that, for the price of two CDs a month, you have access to a sprawling sonic highway with the added bonus of insightful articles and hand-picked playlists, the price becomes less of an issue. Sure the monthly subscription fee trumps that of Spotify, but there is a chasmic gulf between the two in terms of what you get. must for music-lovers, Tidal has the ality, content and innovation to become e world’s premier streaming service. OiPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free | v1.0.3 http://bit.ly/tidalios OAndroid | OS 4.1 | Free | v1.0.0 http://bit.ly/tidaland
SHOWCASE Our five favourite features of the Tidal service
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Listen offline Download albums, playlists and tracks on up to three devices and listen anywhere.
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Audio search Hear something cool? Find out what it is with the Shazam-like Audio Search.
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Interesting articles Read the stories behind the music with articles, features and interviews.
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Playlists Instant access to a range of professionally compiled playlists to suit any mood or occasion.
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Your music Mark items as favourites to access them easily in the My Music section.
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BLLOON - READ FOR FREE
A FREEMIUM APPROACH TO READING YOUR FAVOURITE BOOKS
AUXY
Blloon is a service which is designed to let you read occasionally for free and to buy plans which are based around the number of pages you read rather than actual books. This means that you can read 1,000 pages to start and then share titles with others to gain more free pages, but at £3.99 per month for 500 pages, there is a potential market here for those with little free time to read. On the positive side, the range of books available is impressive and many new titles are included so you should be able to find titles of interest to you. However, the actual reading experience could be more flexible because it does not compare favourably to the likes of Kindle and iBooks. It does what it needs to, but there is a sense that more could be done to let the reader personalise the reading environment to their taste. The interface of the app is more professional and you are given enough information to make a decision before downloading, and the way the books are categorised works well. With a few small
tweaks and better compatibility with more devices and platforms, this could be the ideal reading app for those who are busy and who only want to pay for the amount they read. A reading service and app which may suit some, but the limitations may be too much for others.
Left The overall presentation of the Blloon app is very professional
OiPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free | v1.1.1 http://bit.ly/blloonios
Above The reading experience is okay, but could be better
Above Categorisation of books is logical and easy to manage
A WONDERFULLY SIMPLE WAY TO CREATE MUSIC With so many apps aiming to make the creation of music as quick and easy as possible, it is never an easy ask for a new release to compete. However, Auxy may have cracked the conundrum by building a solution that suits those who are new to music just as much as it suits those seasoned music makers who need to create songs and beats to aid their songwriting. It uses a simple grid which you tap to open up a new panel where you can add a tune, bass or drum beats. This will then translate to a single part of the track at which
point you can tap a new panel to build a sound which can either follow or play alongside your first creation. The process really could not be simpler and the clever way that complex tunes and a myriad of instruments can be selected really is quite unique in this area. It feels like GarageBand, but with every tool and sound presented to you with no barriers in the way at all, and it really does take less than a minute to understand how to utilise every feature within the app. All of this comes together to widen the scope of potential users ranging from children randomly creating a tune with little care to professionals who want to create complexity in an efficient environment. To call any app perfect would be a stretch, but this one does c me rather close. xy takes the goodness of rageBand and makes music ation accessible to anyone.
Above All of the settings and beat placements are natural to use
OiPad | iOS 7.1 | Free | v1.0.1 http://bit.ly/auxyios
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Above You can create complex tunes in Auxy with very little effort
ENTERTAINMENT
- VISUAL iTATE - ANDY TATE DISNEY VILLAINS GOPOP ACCOMPANY CONVERSATION SOUNDBOARD CHALLENGE A MOVIE
Disney has been developing ambitious mobile games recently and this one comes with all of the excellence you would expect. It offers a series of quick and simple challenges to complete, ranging from repeating piano notes to tracing objects with your finger. But the free aspects are limited and you will have pay to progress quickly. Fun and quick challenges for younger children, but they come at a price. OiPad+ | iOS 7.0 | Freemium | v1.8
GoPop is yet another attempt at reinventing the online social network, but it may have managed to find a way to help people post fun content without complex editing. You can easily share two images which work like a simple animation – when tapped the second image is displayed in place of the first. It sounds too simple, but it does allow you to add some surprises to your creations. For some people, this could be the very best social network on the planet.
If you are aware of the internet phenomenon that is Andy Tate, you may like this soundboard app. A few comical phrases are included which when tapped will cause Andy’s voice to blare from your phone, but that is about all this app has to offer. The presentation could be much more professional in our view and a few more sounds would be nice to see, but fans of Andy will be pleased. You will either love or hate this app, but we feel it needs more to succeed.
OiPhone | iOS 7.0 | Free | v2.3.1
OiPhone | iOS 7.1 | Free | v1.0
01 IMDB MOVIES & TV Packed with info on just about every film ever made, the IMDb app also comes with trailers, photos, quotes, reviews and more.
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O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free | v 4.5.2 O Android | Varies | Free | Varies
02 NETFLIX Netflix requires a monthly subscription but it offers up thousands of films (and TV programmes), each of which can be slickly streamed to your phone or tablet.
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MIXCLOUD RADIO & DJ MIXES Mixcloud offers users 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 and music through the varied music listings, but anyone can find something new because the quality is so impressive. It’s a little fiddly in some places, but the end result is truly excellent. You get a lot of good quality music for free in this wellpresented music app. OiPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free | v6.0 OAndroid | Varies | Free | Varies
O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free | v7.0.1 O Android | Varies | Free | Varies
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STRINGER
Here is a game that works beautifully for its intended audience of pre-school children. It includes simple activities to complete like driving the car by pressing the screen and washing it by moving the hose around the screen. There is a sense of a real adventure, with a selection of vehicles available and a friendly environment It’s quite lovely. erfect road trip young children – ormative and fun.
The idea behind Stringer is a good one as it is designed to help you play tracks held in a large music library using gestures alone. In effect, it is a music shuffling machine, but one which lets you customise certain aspects to your preferences such as adding and removing songs from a string (playlist) and automatically including related tracks. It takes a little while to understand the gestures, but if you persevere, you will enjoy it. Stringer can help you tame any music library, but it takes some understanding at first.
OiPhone+ | iOS 5.0 | £1.99/$2.99 | v1.0
OiPhone | iOS 8.0 | Freemium | v1.0.1
03 MY MOVIES FOR iPAD Although PRO streaming is the ‘inthing’, film fans still have a collection of DVDs. Snap their barcodes and catalogue them all.
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O iPad | iOS 5.0 | £4.99/$6.99 | v1.95 O Android | OS 2.2 | £4.99/$6.99 | v1.95
04 MOVIES BY FLIXSTER - ROTTEN TOMATOES Want to watch trailers, create ‘must-see’ lists, rate, review and read-up on movies? Get this app. It also looks up showtimes at your local cinema and hooks into Netflix.
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O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free | v6.18.3 O Android | Varies | Free | Varies
05 ACTION MOVIE FX All film buffs love a bit of Hollywood. This app takes your videos and adds some special effects to them. Packs include Star Trek and giant monsters.
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SCAN THE SKIES
EXPLORE THE NIGHT SKY LIKE NEVER BEFORE WITH THESE ASTRONOMY APPS STAR WALK 2 The original Star Walk was widely regarded as one of the best astronomy apps available on the star-gazing scene, and Star Walk 2 brings with it a much more modern-looking interface. The augmented-reality star gazer is still the main feature of this awesome app, but there’s also plenty of extra information available for users to explore as well as the fantastic ability to tour different parts of space in amazing 3D. One of the best choices for intrepidly exploring the galaxy in 3D from the comfort of your own home.
POCKET UNIVERSE: VIRTUAL SKY ASTRONOMY Packed with features
MOBILE OBSERVATORY — ASTRONOMY The interface could use
and with a slew of awards to its name, Pocket Universe uses your device’s camera to identify or find anything in the night sky. Explore the solar system with a few taps as well as take walks on the surface of the Moon or Mars. Plus there’s quizzes, news and astronomy tips. An exhaustive set of d d f tures but still essible enough complete inners to use.
a fresh lick of paint but nevertheless Mobile Observatory is hugely impressive: there’s a pile of different screens to work through and many different options on each one. As well as the night sky viewer there’s a wealth of information on planets, asteroids, stars and upcoming celestial events. One of the most comprehensive astronomy apps we’ve come across, with plenty to explore.
O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | £1.99/$2.99 | v1.0.3
O iPhone+ | iOS 5.1.1 | £1.99/$2.99 | v5.4.1
O Android | Varies | £3.95/$4.99 | Varies
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STAR CHART Very well designed and free to boot (with in-app upgrades available), Star Chart follows the same augmented-reality approach to astronomy with extra information and features arranged on the side. Take off for a virtual journey through the stars, pull up info on different planets and constellations quickly, and go forwards or backwards through time. Nicely presented and information-packed astronomy app, plus it’s free to get started. O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Freemium | v3.93 O Android | Varies | Freemium | Varies
SKYSAFARI 4 If you’re ready to get serious about your astronomy then SkySafari 4 provides an in-depth look at the universe around us. Packed with historical and scientific data — as well as images from the Hubble telescope — the app lets you see the sky from any point and go forwards or backwards in time. More expensive editions of the app are also available. An authoritative and intuitive astronomy app with different editions to match interests. O iPhone+ | iOS 5.0 | £1.99/$2.99| v1.31.0 O Android | OS 2.3.3 | £1.89/$2.99 | v1.31.0
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Above You can view individual molecules and jump straight to the chapters that mention them Left Text and images are produced to a high quality and the layouts are always varied Below There’s a good blend of text and images, and most can be rotated through 360 degrees
MOLECULES BY THEODORE GRAY ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF AN EXQUISITE iPAD TEXTBOOK PROS/CONS
V Theodore Gray’s
knowledge and passion shines through the writing V 360-degree rotating images are produced to a high standard W Some more interactive experiences and elements would be welcome W Dark text on a light background doesn’t work quite as well
One of the areas where the iPad really excels — and Molecules is a fine example — is in interactive textbooks, educational tomes that are redesigned for the digital screen with images, video and other elements that you just don’t get on the traditional printed page. Molecules by Theodore Gray shows exactly how impressive a digital textbook can be. The follow-up to the widely acclaimed Elements, Molecules is packed with 14 chapters of text and pictures, most of which are interactive images that spin round to the touch. You get everything in the printed version plus an interactive chapter where you can play around with chemical constructs and see how different atoms react together. Theodore Gray not only knows his stuff, he can present it in an engaging and entertaining way — the text here is lively and fun to read, and the rotating pictures are of a high standard. Different areas of the book are linked together, so you can pull up a molecule from the gallery and then jump to the chapters where it’s mentioned, for example. What’s more, the app adapts and looks great in both landscape and portrait mode. Even the Search feature is worth a mention, with real-time snippet previews of results. If we were nitpicking we might want to see a bit more in the way of interactivity. You can wiggle a few molecules
ALTERNATIVELY
Like Molecules? Try these Top 5 interactive science textbooks for iPad
01 ELEMENTS This was the first of Theodore Gray’s books to make the switch to iOS devices, and like Molecules it scores very highly for the quality of its content.
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O iPad+ | iOS 7.0 | £9.49/$13.99 | v2.0.4
02 A NEW KIND OF SCIENCE
around and see how temperature affects them, as well as spin most of the images through 360 degrees, but it’s a largely static experience. That said, it’s a very enjoyable one thanks to the high quality of both the words and the pictures. Although it’s not for younger kids, anyone from teenagers to pensioners with an interest in the way the world works should get a lot out of Molecules. om the style of the writing to the quality the graphics, this iPad textbook is truly cellent all round. OiPad+ | iOS 7.1 | £9.99/$13.99 | v1.1.0 http://bit.ly/moleculestheoios
03 JOURNEYS OF INVENTION
04 STAR WALK 2
What Stephen Wolfram’s iPad book lacks in terms of visual flair and interactivity it makes up for with some truly comprehensive knowledge and insight.
If you’re interested in Get stuck in and astronomy explore for then Star Walk 2 has to yourself some of the key inventions in be near the top of your list. This app offers a the field of science and gorgeous interactive technology that have helped to shape the world guide to the night sky as we now know it today. for endless stargazing.
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O iPad | iOS 6.0 | £6.99/$9.99 | v1.0.3
O iPad | iOS 7.0 | £6.99/$ | v1.1.0
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O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | £1.99/$2.99 | v1.1.0
05 HUMAN ANATOMY ATLAS It’s expensive, but it’s packed with detail, info andillustrationsaboutthe human body.
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O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | £4.99/$6.99 | v6.1.00 O Android | OS 2.2 | £15.32/$24.99 | v5.0.43
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YO.
THE NEW SOCIAL NETWORK WITH VERY LITTLE TO SAY FOR ITSELF – OR TO OTHERS PROS/CONS
V Simple, easy-to-
use and colourful interface V Ideal for quick communication and one-handed use W A by-product of all the decent social networking ideas having already been taken W Its very existence is starting to annoy us the more we think about it
A few minutes in the company of Yo. poses the eternal question: is it better to try and fail than to never try at all? With big-hitting social networks such as Facebook and Twitter ensnaring the majority of the world’s population, the least we can expect is for other services to pop up and vie for a slice of the market pie. However, Yo. is a short-sighted social misfit that could easily have been dreamt up by contestants on The Apprentice hell-pressed to hit a 48-hour deadline from conception to execution and swerving wildly wide of what the consumers actually want in the process. Doing away with all that character-count typing malarkey, you simply communicate everything to everybody with a ‘Yo’. That’s it. It’s reminiscent of the early days of Facebook when you poked people and they had no idea whether you were doing it to engage in friendly banter or because you thought they were a freakish social outcast. Yo. gives nothing away and totally misses the point of what makes other social networks so popular – to paint a fabricated over-embellished picture of our lives in order to rub it in the faces of people we would scarcely utter a word to in the real world.
Above Access your contacts to invite your friends. We wager not one will thank you, though…
Yo.’s overly-minimalistic approach makes it more akin to an annoying heckler than a viable communicative means. If you ‘Yo’ someone or if they ‘Yo’ you, it is never clear exactly what information is being relayed – it’s pointless. Something resembling a purpose does come by subscribing to different websites and services through the app as they can then ‘Yo’ you when new content that you crave has gone live, but ultimately this is just throwaway rubbish that we would be embarrassed to inflict on another human being. An app built around a word that takes two seconds to type into any existing social networking app. OiPhone | iOS 6.0 | Free | v1.3.6 http://bit.ly/yoappios OAndroid | OS 4.0.3 | Free | v1.11.06.40.64 http://bit.ly/yoappand
Above Subscribing to sites via th app will keep you notified when new content is posted
SHOWCASE Navigating Yo’s overly minimalistic interface
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Find Friends It is easy to invite your contacts. We decided not to inflict this on any of ours.
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Spread the word Tap Invite to spread the word through other social networks – does that make it a Yo-Yo?
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Index Perhaps the only real point to the app is to get notifications from your subscribed sites.
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Main menu Tap the red list icon to view options, many seem to be the same ones we have explored.
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Rate it You can provide feedback on the app – although the choice of words is a little tame.
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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 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 new ones, whereas the Notifications section simply lists recent alerts. 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
TRIPWOLF
VISIT NEW DESTINATIONS Y DIGITAL GUIDES
Above All of your groups are in a simple grid with the obligatory Settings section, which allows you to tailor alerts to specific groups. While we’re 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.
Now and again you can tell if an app developer truly understands the market they are aiming for and tripwolf is a very good example of such a solution. Once you have downloaded the guide for the city you are travelling to, feature can be used offline so you need roaming charges. Plus the fellow travellers is to ensure you are t places. Add to this a which can save you ngside a comprehensive hotels, restaurants and e, and you will quickly pp useful on every stage of The complete feature set is mented by an interface which edibly natural to use when y doing other things and it all mes together perfectly. You do ave to pay for premium content, ut you can do so city by city or pay for everything in one go if you are a frequent traveller. The choice is yours and the included features make either option excellent value for money. As we said at the start, nderstanding the market is crucial and
An efficient app, but the very existence of it means a star is struck from the score! OiPhone | iOS 7.0 | Free | v1.0 http://bit.ly/facebookgroupsios OAndroid | OS 4.1 | Free | v1.0 http://bit.ly/facebookgroupsand Left You can interact with each location and add your own reviews
throughout this app it is demonstrated well, so we have no concerns about recommending this solution. Travelling always work best with a clever friend beside you. omprehensive app that will ve travellers well, with an erface that just works. OiPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Freemium | v4.2.0 http://bit.ly/tripwolfios OAndroid | OS 2.3 | Freemium | v2.11.1 http://bit.ly/tripwolfand
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EVERYDAY Left A camera function lets you snap the many creatures you will find on your island Below Different types of environments draw out different animals to discover
TOCA NATURE
TOCA BOCA GETS IN TOUCH WITH ITS WILD SIDE Created by kid-friendly Swedish developer Toca Boca, Toca Nature is a charming, engaging game with an emphasis on exploration and discovery. The player is given an island which can be nurtured with the planting of trees, the altering of terrain and the ability to dig deep into the earth to create lakes and craters. But, most satisfying of all, a series of curious
creatures can roam, fly and swim through these environments, lending the game a subtle sense of wonder. Like Minecraft, to a degree, the game is about building your own mini-land, but without as hard grafting. With a swipe of the finger on an ever-present globe, the gamer can navigate this lush, beautiful-looking world with ease, zooming in and out at will. They can gather
SIMMER BY PANNA
NEED CULINARY INSPIRATION OR HAVE DISHES TO SHARE? If you fancy yourself as a superchef, 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. A great way to get quick-fix inspiration for a wide range of dishes and share your own recipes with the world. O iPhone | iOS 7.0 | Free | v1.1 http://bit.ly/simmerpannaios
Above Name a recipe, list ingredients and then add the steps
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Above All sections are easily reached via the Menu icon
Right Swipe down through the Editor’s Picks to find a wide range of dishes for any occasion
berries, mushrooms or nuts to feed to the game’s cute animals, fishes and birds, learning what each creature desires and the habitats they enjoy the most. There is no violence, no real challenge and no bombardment of in-app purchases and it works so beautifully well. Parents can leave their children to be engrossed for hours in this never-ending game, doing their own thing while enjoying the sights and perky little sounds. It’s soothingly gentle and above all fun. levels, no unlockables – and dly no save – but a game to smerise and enthrall. OiPad+ | iOS 5.0 | £1.99/$2.99 | v1.0.1 http://bit.ly/tocanatureios
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CROP ON THE FLY DODDLE
This app has one goal and that is to correct any videos that you have taken on your phone in vertical mode. Videos taken in this orientation do not look good on YouTube or when played on a TV and with this app you can simply select what part of the video to clip by sliding the box to the relevant position. It will then save it in the new form after you have previewed it. There really is not much else to say except that it worked well for us every single time. A simple tool which can improve your videos in seconds. It works very well.
Doddle is designed to get around an annoying problem with online shopping. It lets you specify a Doddle location for your purchase to be delivered to and you can then pick it up at your convenience for a small fee. Returns can be taken to the same place and every part of the app and related service work extremely efficiently. If you have a Doddle location close to you, this could really change the way your shop forever. A cleverly implemented idea. worth paying for nvenience when it ves you time.
OiPad+ | iOS 8.0 | Free | v0.570
OiPhone | iOS 7.0 | Free | v1.0
INVENTIONEERS
The goal in here is to build inventions which help you to complete tasks. You are given objects which you must use and from there on in, you are on your own. The free-form nature of the interface means that you really do have to use your brain to succeed and it helps you understand how each object works. A clever and interesting experience. An educational game which will have you scratching your head hard to succeed. OiPad+ | iOS 6.0 | Freemium | v1.0.7 OAndroid | OS 2.3 | Freemium | v1.0.7
SNAP PHOTOS
01 MANUAL – CUSTOM EXPOSURE CAMERA With great independent control over shutter speed, ISO, white balance, focus and more, Manual is a pro-grade camera app for iOS 8.0 that can help your photos shine.
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O iPhone+ | iOS 8.0 | £1.49/$1.99 | v1.0.1
02 VSCO CAM Aimed at the creative photographer, this app boasts manual focus, ISO and exposure compensation plus many cool filter effects. It also has an editing package with before and after comparisons.
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MEMORADO BRAIN GAMES
There is no doubt that Memorado is a capable brain trainer which includes a series of clever puzzles to try. When you open the app, you will be asked a series of questions to define where you want to improve and you can then start playing. To get the most out of the app you need to pay for the premium features, but it still has potential to help boost your brain power! A decent brain-training app, but with lots of capable competition close by. OiPhone | iOS 7.0 | Freemium | v2.2.1
PEAKFINDER EARTH
This app is a fine example of how to build a specialist solution that works perfectly for the intended audience. Peakfinder Earth shows, in great detail, a series of popular mountains which can be used for studying before a new climb or for re-visiting past glories. Ultimately, however, it is the design that makes it feel unique and so easy to use, meaning that this app wins on every level. mountaineering p with plenty of eful features. OiPad+ | iOS 5.1.1 | £0.69/$0.99 | v2.5.5 OAndroid | OS 2.3 | £0.66/$1.03 | v2.5.3
O iPhone+ | iOS 8.0 | Freemium | v4.0.1 O Android | OS 4.0 | Freemium | v3.1.1
WAYFARE - MEET THE WORLD
Wayfare should win awards for the idea behind it because it is one of very few services we have seen that lets you experience cultures around the world from your phone. You get to connect with people in other countries and then complete missions and share photos, which becomes extremely rewarding very quickly. It takes time, but is great fun. If you have some spare time, Wayfare will teach and entertain you every day. OiPhone | iOS 7.0 | Free | v2.0.5 OAndroid | OS 4.0 | Free | v1.4.7
03 VIVIDHDR For photos with clarity and detail, very few camera apps can beat vividHDR. It takes a series of vibrant images and pulls them together, while providing intricate control for a cool final result.
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O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | £1.49/$1.99 | v2.1
04 HYPERLAPSE Created by Instagram, Hyperlapse lets you produce stunning time-lapse videos. It comes with a brilliant stabilisation feature so your shots don’t look wonky and instead feel effortlessly cinematic.
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O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free | v1.1.2
05 SIMPLY B&W If you still enjoy the dramatic quality offered by black-and white-photos, this app has all the tools you need with six coloured lens filters and simulated film grain to create monochrome marvels.
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O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free | v7.6.0 O Android | Varies | Free | Varies
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TRACK YOUR EXPENSES QUICKLY AND EASILY WITH THIS MONEY MANAGEMENT APP If your default setting for money management is to bury your head in the sand, then this app will gently coax you out of blissful ignorance and install an element of organisation in your life. Unlike a lot of finance apps on the market, Sumptus – Personal Expense Tracker isn’t complicated to use – trust us, there’s nothing to be scared of here. Creating a new budget is easy – you simply name it, set the currency and your spending limit over a specified period of time and then save it. You can set up as many different budgets as you like and they will be listed alphabetically on the main Budgets screen. When it comes to entering expenses, tap the ‘+’ icon to enter an outgoing figure and then assign a category via the series of icons (you can make new ones if the right one isn’t there). Then tap Save and your expense will be logged. To help you keep track of what you have spent and what you have remaining, you can tap on the pie-chart icon for an instant vi l where you stand financially.
PROS/CONS
V Simple, uncluttered
and very easy-touse interface V Allows you to add, edit and update as many different budgets as you want W The screen for entering figures perhaps isn’t as clean as it could be W There are cheaper alternatives that work just as efficiently
The interface is clean and uncomplicated with a slide-out menu that lets you view your budgets, edit categories and set limits. Icons at the bottom of the screen let you create new budgets, view pie-charts and export your budgets to HTML and CSV formats. There is also a calendar to help you view your expenses for a selected time period and you can also compare expenses during the previous months with the current one. The calendar can be used to enter backdated expenses so no pennies are unaccounted for. Apps like this tend to live or die by their simplicity and accessibility and Sumptus more than justifies the modest cost outlay by providing an easy-to-use interface and a robust system for tracking your cash. With a simple interface and the flexibility to create new expense categories, Sumptus comes highly recommended for money management. O iPhone | iOS 7.0 | £2.49/$3.99 | v1.1 http://bit.ly/sumptusios
Above If an expense category isn’t available you can create your own
n also add photos to your efer back to them later…
SHOWCASE Demonstrating Sumptus’s easy-to-use expense management interface
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Create a budget In the Budgets section, tap Create New Budget button at the bottom of the screen.
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Enter details Give your budget a name, currency, monthly limit and pick a colour for quick recognition.
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Add an expense Tap the ‘+’ icon at the bottom to start adding new expenses to your budget.
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Insert figures Enter the expense and then slide your finger along the categories to select one.
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At-a-glance info Tap pie chart icon to view your budget and see what percentage of it you have spent – easy.
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THE ECONOMIST ESPRESSO
THIS CONCISE APP OFFERS A SHOT OF DAILY BUSINESS NEWS
We applaud the ‘no-strings attached’ way that this app operates. A new digital edition of The Economist is automatically downloaded to your device daily and you can either pay nothing, dip in and enjoy reading one full article of your choice over breakfast, or subscribe for a modest monthly fee of £2.49/$3.99 and read everything. The interface is very straightforward – ideal for bleary-eyed morning commuters – you simply scroll down through the current day’s news agenda and categories and tap on an article to read. No frills. The app may have perhaps benefitted from having options to tailor the display and font sizes when reading the articles, but unfortunately the in-app settings are reserved almost entirely to subscribing or to your existing subscription (you can enjoy a free trial to digest more of the articles on a daily basis). It’s probably worth owning the app on a totally free basis for a decent, albeit brief morning read, but the subs fees are small enough should
Left A simple interface lets you scroll through the day’s stories and select one to read
DUOLINGO TEST CENTER
Above Articles have a very simple swipeand-read system
Above You can also view related articles for free
you want more Economist insight beamed to your device every day. Provides a decent free read every day through an interface designed to be as morning-friendly as possible. O iPhone | iOS 7.0 | Freemium | v1.0.21 http://bit.ly/econespressoios OAndroid | OS 4.0 | Freemium | v1.0.8 http://bit.ly/econespressoand
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 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 stuff you’re likely to be asked in the
test by tapping the Sample Questions option or 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 easy to input answers and the app makes clever use of the camera and microphone on your device to speak some answers and verify that it is really you taking the test. Obviously this is a specific app for a specific goal, and it only appears to currently revolve around English. But if you are looking to get into an English-speaking job then the test environment served up here is as stress-free as they surely come. Provides a decent means of testing your English language skills in a relatively straightforward and stress-free manner.
O iPhone+ | iOS 7.1 | Free | v1.0.2 http://bit.ly/duolingotestcios O Android | OS 4.0 | Free | v0.6.5 http://bit.ly/duolingotestcand Above Take a sample test or dive straight into the real thing
Above When happy with an answer, tap Submit to move on
Right Answering the test questions requires typing, choosing words and speaking answers
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TIGHTEN YOUR BELT
01 GOODBUDGET BUDGET PLANNER Goodbudget syncs your financial transactions across devices, lets you share budgets with others and generates reports and pie charts to ensure you don’t overspend.
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O iPhone | iOS 5.0 | Free | v1.4.1 O Android | Varies | Free | Varies
BUDGET BUDDY COMPTIA CERTMASTER
INBOX BY GMAIL
There are many finance apps available which cater for general day-to-day expense tracking. Here, however, we have a solution for those who have more than a general understanding of finance and thus it offers some quite complex and detailed reporting. We can’t really fault the way the app works or the efficiency it offers, but do feel that, for most people, it works in a way which may feel somewhat alien to them. A useful tool for managing finances and savings, for a select group of people.
Mastering the CompTIA curriculum is far from easy, but if you find yourself needing extra help this app and related service may help you. You can answer questions which are visually intuitive and over time it should start to force the knowledge into your brain. The layout is good and the pricing is reasonable for such a solution so there are few negatives. A specialist app which could help you where other solutions have failed.
Google has successfully changed the way that email works for millions of people across the world, and the new Inbox solution is designed to improve the generic email experience for anyone who uses Gmail. It bundles related emails together and will deal with reminders and important events automatically so you do not have to worry about managing them all, however the downside is that it can be confusing to understand. A Marmite approach to email management which can be somewhat confusing at first.
OiPad+ | iOS 7.0 | Freemium | v1.0.1
OiPhone | iOS 6.0 | Free | v1.4 OAndroid | OS 3.0 | Free | v2.81
OiPhone | iOS 7.0 | Free | v1.0.2 OAndroid | OS 4.1 | Free | v1.1
02 MINT PERSONAL FINANCE Hooking into the trusted Mint. com service, this intuitive app collates your personal accounts and investments, and sends reminders for likely fees and bills.
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O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free | v3.7.0 O Android | OS 4.0 | Free | v3.7.1
03 BUDGT This simple, attractive expense tracker relies on you entering your expenses, but it works out how much cash you have to spare by comparing it to past ins and outs.
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O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | £1.49/$1.99 | v3.1
04 EASY SPENDING EXPENSE TRACKER This beautiful budgeting app syncs to the cloud, allows for multiple accounts and clearly shows where your money is coming from... and going to.
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O iPhone+ | iOS 7.1 | £0.69/$0.99 | v4.4
05 LEVEL MONEY It’s US-only but it works a treat, tracking income and savings and letting you work with your bills.
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O iPhone | iOS 7.0 | Free | v2.2.2 O Android | OS 4.0 | Freemium | v2.3.02
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POMODRONE
The Pomodoro Technique is a popular time-management tool used to break down work into specific periods 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 and another to stop. If this is a technique you use, this app can easily replace your current tools with something more efficient. An incredibly simple timer which can help you get work done every single day. OiPhone | iOS 6.1 | Freemium | v1.3.1
TODOIST: TO-DO LIST | TASK LIST WESWAP TRAVEL MONEY
Recently updated, Todoist is fast becoming one of the premier taskmanagement services on the web and the official app has recently been improved to include even more features. You can now share projects, use visual scheduling to see the future and take advantage of subtle interface changes which make everything clearer. One of the best to-do services just got a little bit better. excellent task nager with a perb update. OiPad+ | iOS 8.0 | Freemium | v9.5 OAndroid | Varies | Freemium | Varies
This is clever. WeSwap lets you exchange your travel money with other people and potentially save on commissions and inflated exchange rates at the same time. The service is transparent and so is the design of the app which aids the process every step of the way. It is a convenient service which has been perfectly combined with an elegant app that just works. A brilliant service which is supplemented with an elegant and efficient app. OiPhone | iOS 6.0 | Free | v1.4.4 OAndroid | OS 2.3 | Free | v1.4.4
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GAMES
INCREDIBLE INITE RUNNERS
ON AND ON AND ON... THE BEST GAMES THAT NEVER END SKI SAFARI The best infinite runners
LITTLE GALAXY There’s a lot to like
CANABALT
stay interesting and varied and with its eagles, penguins, yetis and undulating slopes, Ski Safari sets the bar high. Besides the polished graphics what really stands out is the speed of the game as you slide and swoop your way down an endless mountain, pursued by an onrushing avalanche. Almost everything you could want in an infinite runner game: simple, fast and fun.
about Little Galaxy, from the detailed graphics to the varied gameplay that keeps each successive screen interesting. It doesn’t follow the traditional infinite runner format and it’s all the better for it as you hop from planet to planet looking to collect as many jewels as you can along the way. Not a conventional endless runner game, but it’s truly beautifully made and still plenty of fun to play.
The infinite runner that helped define the genre, Canabalt has been around for years, but that doesn’t make it any less challenging. Its appeal lies in its stripped-down greyscale graphics and the fluidity with which your character jumps from building to building as the world collapses around him. Canabalt is a long way from showing its age and remains one of the best endless runners out there.
O iPhone+ | iOS 4.3 | £0.69/$0.99 | v1.5.2 O Android | Varies | £0.63/$0.99 | Varies
O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | Freemium | v2.0.0 O Android | OS 2.3.3 | Freemium | v2.2.3
O iPhone+ | iOS 5.0 | £1.99/$2.99 | v2.3 O Android | OS 2.3 | £0.59/$0.99 | v3.0
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SUBWAY SURFERS Subway Surfers borrows ideas from other games and has had ideas borrowed from it in return, but if you can forgive its derivative nature it’s very well done: the pacing, variety and bonuses are measured just right and the bright and cartoonstyle visuals add to its appeal. Extra content for the game is released on a regular basis too. Not the most original infinite runner, but one of the most well executed. O iPhone+ | iOS 5.0 | Freemium | v1.31.0 O Android | OS 2.3.3 | Freemium | v1.31.0
TEMPLE RUN 2 Widely regarded as the first and last word in endless runners, Temple Run 2 is one of those rare instances of a sequel that improves on the original. Terrain that constantly keeps you guessing, a variety of moves to master and that chasing gorilla all make this game a must-try for endless runner fans. Often imitated but rarely bettered, Temple Run 2 gets the endless runner formula just right. O iPhone+ | iOS 4.3 | Free | v1.11 O Android | OS 2.3 | Free | v1.11.2
GAMES
Above Some of the Heroes’ specials let you emulate moments from the parent franchise – this air strike riffs on the Death From Above mission Left This enemy base is as basic as they come, but they don’t really get more complex – just more heavily armoured
CALL OF DUTY: HEROES IN WAR, THERE IS NO PRIZE FOR THE RUNNER UP PROS/CONS
V Hero mechanic is an
interesting addition V It’s a lot of fun for the
first hour or so W Paywalls start
appearing sooner than you’d like W You’ll get a curious sense of dejà vu
Heroes is a town-building freemium game. It might dress it up in the urban camouflage of modern warfare, but it’s basically Clash of Clans reskinned. That’s not a bad thing, and the core gameplay that makes Clash of Clans so playable is kept intact in Heroes, but unless you’re a fan of the recent Call of Duty games, you’re probably better off with the former. As per the template, you begin by establishing a base – a command centre, various resource gathering instalments, barracks on so on – before being urged to South America to take back some MacGuffin of an objective (don’t play this for any kind of CoD-based story: there is none). You’re guided in softly, given over-powered units and taught to attack with the game’s functional, if sparse, touch-and-slide interface. As with Clans, actually getting anywhere will require you breaking through a paywall or waiting up to eight hours at a time for various buildings to recharge. This time can be thwarted somewhat by fighting through the campaign missions – the difficulty curve of which is precisely one extra gun to tackle per round – and looting resources to level up your eponymous heroes: recurring faces from the CoD mother-brand like Soap McTavish or Captain Price. These heroes are the only units you can directly command, too – just drag and drop them onto targets and they’ll attack. Use their individual abilities (usually touch-based support
Below If you don’t want to open your base up for attack (and you won’t for the first few days) you can buy shields with IAPs or stored materials
weapons: helicopters, drone strikes, mortar fire and so on) to rack up kill-streaks and reap additional rewards. This is the one genuine element that helps Heroes get its head above the freemium town-builidng pack – everything else is as formulaic as you’d expect. It’s not bad, it’s just not new. The hero mechanic would be this game’s saving grace if it didn’t feel so unapologetically crow-barred in. A safe genre game: if you like micro-management and Call Of Duty, you’ll like this, otherwise you’ll probably have more fun elsewhere. OiPad+ | iOS 6.0 | Freemium | v1.1.1 http://bit.ly/codheroesios
SHOWCASE
Make the most of your heroes…
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Look at stats Some heroes are berserkers, some are snipers. Figure out who does what.
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Upgrade abilities Upgrade their unique abilities to stand a chance in PvP.
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Play smart When your heroes die, they have a lengthy cooldown timer. Don’t risk them.
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Use abilities Your abilities will turn the tide of battle – be sure to learn how each type works.
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Clean up Heroes are hardier than standard units – use them to sweep up enemy bases.
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Above A lot of the game’s elements don’t make much sense, at least to begin with
Above It’s one for the more contemplative and patient gamers out there
THE SAILOR’S DREAM
SIMGO RETURNS WITH ANOTHER GAME THAT STRETCHES THE DEFINITION OF THE WORD If you’ve played any of Simgo’s earlier ‘games’ — like Device 6 or Year Walk — then you’ll know that the studio is happy to play around with the idea of what a ‘game’ really is. It’s the same with The Sailor’s Dream, it’s more of an interactive book or a digital album with extras. There are no puzzles, no enemies to beat, just a rather small world for you to explore. It’s a difficult game to review too, because some will find it dull and pretentious and others will find it wonderful. There’s no doubt that the graphics, atmosphere and audio are all top-notch: musician Jonathan Eng has recorded seven original songs in the style of folky sea shanties, and they certainly hold up well to anything you’ll hear on the radio. In terms of gameplay, you simply swipe from location to location across the water — is this a dream? Is it memory? It’s not completely clear — uncovering gorgeously drawn scenes as you go. There are extended passages of text to find which you can cobble together to form some kind of narrative about the eponymous sailor, and several basic
Above Each of the game’s locations out on the waves are beautifully rendered
PROS/CONS
V Superior artwork
and an original soundtrack that’s definitely worth the admission fee V Excellent audio design throughout helps to create a real sense of atmosphere W What gameplay there is largely meandering and surely not for the easily distracted W Not much to explore, and you can have finished much of the game in an hour
interactive elements involving light and music, but there are no real consequences to your actions. Once you’ve made it all the way around each location you’re awarded a star, and the game does reach a conclusion of sorts. It’s largely baffling though: certain radio transmissions can only be heard at specific times, while you’ll have to wait seven days (or change the iOS time and date manually) to hear all seven songs. If this sounds like an appealing way to pass your time, then The Sailor’s Dream more than rewards the few pounds you’ll need to shell out to get it. Personally, I found it all a bit limited and unsatisfactory, though there’s no denying the visuals and soundtrack are very impressive, and some of you will absolutely love it. A beautiful game-that’s-not-a-game — both wonderful and pointless, depending on your view. OiPad+ | iOS 7.0 | £2.49/$3.99 | v1.1 http://bit.ly/thesailorsdreamios
SHOWCASE What to expect from The Sailor’s Dream
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Graphics Each frame of looks fantastic, though it doesn’t take very long to explore everything.
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Transmissions Stick around for a few hours and you can pick up all of the sailor’s radio transmissions.
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Original songs Seven catchy songs are included with the game, with a new one unlocked each day.
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Stories There is a vague narrative to the app, but again there’s not very much of it.
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Exploration Each location works like a miniature maze but you’ll never get lost or stuck.
GAMES
WORLD OF WARRIORS
A POTENTIALLY GOOD GAME HAMPERED BY IN-APP PURCHASES
Warriors takes the classic fighting gradually more ng opponents in direct nd adds a modern twist e graphics are colourful he experience, with erfectly to create more right from the start and t has been professionally oesn’t take long to s is far from a free game. Despite the fact that timing is crucial to beating 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 a lot to enjoy here and the simplicity of the fighting mechanism can be an advantage for many people, but it needs to be opened out in terms of in-app purchase requirements to let the player work to proceed, rather than just paying. If you are looking for a fighting game which you can play for a few minutes a day and are not 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 expensive. O iPad+ | iOS 6.0 | Freemium | v1.1.3 http://bit.ly/ worldofwarriorsios
KINGDOM RUSH: ORI
Left The simple timing mechanism of hitting the red bar works well
THE TOWER DEFENSE FRANCHISE CONTINUES The iPad has seen a lot of tower defence games come and go, but Origins has learnt the mistakes of those that came before it. The third iteration in the Kingdom Rush series has the best-level design, the most satisfying difficulty curve and the best gameplay in the genre – and it does it all while looking beautiful. Ironhide Studios takes the formula that has worked so well for the developer for two games and redesigned it – adding extra strategy to the game via upgrades to the four base towers you can build. Combining that with new interactive
Above The interactive environments can lend a much-needed tactical hand
environmental elements (tap a griffon, get a carpet bomb – for example) makes Origins a strategyheavy game with action-based gameplay you could only really do on the iPad. The value for money offered in Origins is laudable – each of the 15 levels comes with three difficulties and two bonus ‘challenge’ modes. These act as a metagame; only ultra-specific strategies and learnt wave formations let you succeed. With upgradable heroes that can make all the difference, cheesy pop culture references and production values of the highest calibre, Origins is not only the best Kingdom Rush game on the App Store – it’s the best tower defence game full stop. u won’t play a tower defence me this good all year. And obably next year, too. OiPad+ | iOS 5.0 | £2.99/$4.99 | v1.0 http://bit.ly/kingrushoriginsios OAndroid | OS 4.0 | £1.88/$2.99 | v1.0.4 http://bit.ly/kingrushoriginsand
Above Upgrade your heroes as soon as you can – they can provide a vital edge enemies
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GAMES
DUMB WAYS TO DIE 2: THE GAMES CARTOON VIOLENCE APLENTY IN THE GAME WHERE WINNING IS A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH 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 until the events begin to repeat. The events range from electrified hurdles to shark jumping, from hammer throwing to paddling pool diving and they are short, snappy and mildly enjoyable. 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
Above Is a jumping shark a bad omen? 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 once you have played every game and they’re not good enough to keep you coming back. It also lacks any Game Centre support – so you can’t event play against your mates. Entertaining for about half an hour, the appeal soon wanes once you have clocked all of the mini-games.
Above The 28 mini-games on offer are split into parks that you can access via a metro system
TWISTY HOLLOW
O iPhone+ | iOS 6.1 | Freemium | v1.0 http://bit.ly/dumbwaystodie2ios
THE GAME THAT HAS YOU RUNNING ROUND IN CIRCLES This oddball app brings up to date old-school multitasking games, such as Tapper, as you juggle the erratic needs of the Twisty Hollow townsfolk. Faced with a three-tier interface, you have to rotate the circles to match up the professional (butcher, miner, etc) with the correct tool for the task (knife, axe…) and the base material required to meet the need. For example, if somebody fancies bacon then you have to match up the butcher, with the knife and the pig and then tap the butcher to perform the task and deliver the goods to the
Above The aim is to match the pro with the tool and the base item to create a product
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customer – all within a time limit. Failure to make the matches and complete the task before the customer storms off will make it increasingly harder to earn the money needed to pass the level. The further you progress, the more customers you’ll face and the more diverse their requirements will be, meaning your eyes will be constantly darting around the screen planning rotations in advance. It’s good fun, but we’re not confident that it has the longevity to trouble the pick-up-and-play heavyweights such as Angry Birds and Cut The Rope any time soon – which would probably help to explain the reason why there isn’t a free version available. Mildly amusing multitasking gaming, but there isn’t enough here to keep you twisting the night away.
OiPad+ | iOS 7.0 | £1.99/$2.99 | v1.0.2 http://bit.ly/twistyhollowios OAndroid | OS 4.1 | £1.99/$2.99 | v1.0.6 http://bit.ly/twistyhollowand
Above The gameplay is occasionally broken down with whack-a-mole style mini-games
GAMES
STICK HERO
Stick Hero is a truly brilliant concept which has been implemented nearly perfectly. The idea is that you have to press the screen until the pole is long enough to reach the gap in front of you, and so you move on. It is great fun for a while, but over time it can start to get rather repetitive as it is obviously difficult to add much variance in such a simple mechanism. A brilliant and simple idea, but one which can get repetitive over time. OiPhone+ | iOS 4.3 | Freemium | v1.2 OAndroid | OS 2.3 | Freemium | v1.2
BITCOIN BILLIONAIRE
ROLL RAGE
The retro graphics and simplistic game management within Bitcoin Billionaire are initially slightly confusing, but once you get in to the way everything works, there is an addictive quality that is hard to ignore. Your goal is to mine bitcoins by tapping the screen and then investing your money in a variety of good and bad ideas which include lottery tickets. You need to play it to understand how much fun it is, but the addictive nature will keep you co ing back ighly addictive me which is hard put down.
Roll Rage takes the traditional idea of rolling a ball through gaps in a timechallenged environment and adds a number of bonuses and graphical benefits to the experience. You have to roll the ball through the gaps and collect bonuses to gain extra points while jumping and sliding with perfect timing. The only downside is that the tilting control is quite sensitive so it can take a little while to become familiar with it. Addictive, graphically pleasing, relaxing and frustrating all at the same time.
OiPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | Freemium | v1.0
OiPhone+ | iOS 8.0 | £0.69/$0.99 | v1.0.0
IMPROVE YOUR BEST SCORE
01 ANGRY BIRDS FRIENDS
It’s the ultimate addictive game that still remains fun to play. Friends has weekly competitions, leaderboards, regular new levels and tiers to climb through.
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O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | Freemium | v1.6.2 O Android | OS 2.3 | Freemium | v1.6.2
02 SLINGSHOT RACING If racing is your bag, this fastpaced game lets you compete in online tournaments, compare your times on the Apple Game Center leaderboards and share your points.
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O iPhone+ | iOS 4.1 | Freemium | v 1.0.1
DAY OF THE VIKING
SUNBURN!
CHECKPOINT CHAMPION
If you took Angry Birds and mixed it with a decent tower defence game, you would end up with Day of the Viking. It is a very polished title with colourful graphics and one which can at times offer a huge challenge. The progressive nature is particularly impressive which means that anyone should be able to understand the mechanics of what needs to be done and with luck you can protect your base over many different levels. It includes huge amounts of longevity. excellent game th an overall polish ich is rather rare.
Sunburn! is a game that takes elements of classic titles and blends them together to create a fun experience which you should enjoy. You have to use gravity to navigate through increasingly difficult spaces and also do all you can to reunite your ship mates. The graphics are colourful and inviting, with a genuine sense of space built in and a one-off price that is good value for the amount of fun on offer. An original and fun retro game with many plus points to keep you playing.
It is often the case that the simplest games work best on mobile devices and Checkpoint Champion is a good example. Your goal is to race your car between points and collect them before the time runs out. The simple left and right controls alongside a turbo mechanism make the learning curve disappear and as you progress through the levels, you will find the challenges very hard. At only a few seconds per round, we can think of few better time killers than this. imple, rewarding car game with ny challenges.
OiPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | £1.99/$2.99 | v1.0
OiPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | £1.99/$2.99 | v1.0.0
OiPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Freemium | v1.0.2
03 MONSTER DASH Although you need to be connected to the internet to play, you can gain copious experience points in this run-and-shoot game, with daily events helping you fly up the online leaderboards.
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O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | £0.69/$0.99 | v 1.40.0 O Android | Varies | Freemium | Varies
04 ASPHALT OVERDRIVE More an endless runner, Asphalt Overdrive is a game of skill to play with friends. Advance in championships and climb leaderboards.
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O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | Freemium | v1.0.2 O Android | OS 4.0 | Freemium | v1.0.1a
05 BLUEPRINT 3D A 3D puzzler that lets you earn trophies as you unlock new images. With Apple Game Center rewards and leaderboards.
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O iPhone+ | iOS 4.3 | £0.69/$0.99 | v2.0 O Android | OS 2.3.3 | £1.39/$1.99 | v 1.0.2
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TIP
Discovering new groups
Use Discover to find new groups. The app picks up on groups you already follow and suggests similar ones, showing friends who are already members. Tap Join or indicate Not Interested.
JOIN, READ AND CREATE YOUR OWN FACEBOOK GROUPS As Facebook spins Groups into a new app – Facebook Groups – here’s how to get the most out of it
Facebook’s Group feature has grown in popularity, allowing people to get together under the banner of a shared interest either for information or to engage in lively debate. But with so many other features packed into Facebook’s main app, Groups has largely been sidelined, accessed via the More menu and looking rather staid and functional. With Facebook Groups – a new app that concentrates solely on groups – things have changed dramatically. And because it encourages the setting up of new groups, we can see many more of them being created over the coming months. The chief benefit of the new app is its simplicity. Not only does it look great with a clean, modern interface, it takes very little effort to work out what you need to do. This ensures that you are able to use the search facility to speedily find groups that interest you, join with a single tap and start engaging with like-minded souls. Just as crucial, it is also very easy to leave groups and to report bad behaviour should you come across any. You can even add a group to your Home Screen so that it takes a single tap to get back into the fun. There are some missing features when compared to the main Facebook app. Posts cannot be shared to your timeline via the Groups app and you cannot save posts. But by pressing the downward arrow on a post, you are able to copy a link to the post, get notifications, report it to admin, copy the story text or simply indicate that you do not want to see that entry again. It all adds up to a very tidy, useful package.
VIEWING A FACEBOOK GROUP PAGE > How to engage with a Facebook Group The Menu button
Tap the Menu button to view additional information about the group. You can add it to your Home Screen, see photos and events or even leave it.
Like and Comment
As with the Facebook app, you can Like any posts that you see within a group and you can also comment on any that you want.
Type of group
Anyone can access this Public group without permission. The page gives the number of members and shows those you know. Pressing + lets you add some more members.
Write a post
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Groups are about engaging. Most of them will allow you to write a post and share a photo with everyone else. Some posts will require admin approval.
Abouttheapp…
FACEBOOK GROUPS
Thisisadedicatedapp forFacebook’spopular groupfeature
O iPhone | iOS 7.0 | Free | v1.0 O Android | Varies | Free | Varies
As well as being able to find out what your friends and family are up to, Facebook has a feature called Groups. By separating this function into a new app just as it did with Messages, Facebook has made it even easier to keep on top of the groups that you have joined. This could be a bunch of friends, or something interesting you want to be part of. It also lets you effortlessly set up your own. There is still some way to go - you cannot delete or edit comments and you can’t search groups – but it is certainly worth checking out. Social, flexible and easy-to-use, we can foresee a group explosion.
“Use the search facility to speedily find groups that interest you, join with a single tap and start engaging with like-minded souls”
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Open the app, log in, then tap Groups at the bottom of the screen. Hit Create and choose the type of group you wish to create, from a family or friend-orientated group to one about an event or a club.
You’ll then be shown long list of all your Facebook friends. Go down the list and select those you wish to add as a member to your group by tapping their name. You can now review and create your group.
Enter a group name on the next screen and grant the app access to your photos to pick and choose a profile picture. By default, the group can be found by anyone on Facebook but is viewable only by group members.
Now that the group is up and running, there are two main functions. You can Write Posts, thereby keeping the page’s content up-to-date, and Share Photos, with both features similar to your usual Facebook timeline.
If you do not want to have a Closed group, tap Edit and choose from Secret (where only members can find the group and see posts) or Public (which means that any Facebook user can find the group).
Tap the menu icon (top right) and select Group Info>Edit Group Settings. Here you can indicate whether admins or all members can post to the group and whether posts or member requests require admin approval.
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BOOKS iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/Android
For functionality and design we would take Kobo every time. Free books and cool reading stats.
Scan business cards for easy storage and import contact details direct to your address book.
KOBO READING APP
OiOS 8.0 | Free O OS varies | Free
GREATEST APPS EVER
iPhone/ iPad
iBOOKS
Apple’s own native bookstore comes with iCloud features, as well as the ability to change reading settings to suit you.
Snapchat found fame as the face of so-called ‘ephemeral’ media, that’s to say the photos you shared with friends self-destructed after a few seconds. The app now does lots more, including video chatting and instant messaging. More recently, users in the US can now send money to each other instantly by typing ‘$’ and entering an amount in a private message. OiPhone | iOS 6.0 | Free | v8.0 O Android | Varies | Free | Varies
HAUNTING MELISSA
From the producer of The Ring and Mulholland Drive, Haunting Melissa is an award-winning horror story that pushes the boundaries of mobile media. With the manner of a misbehaving poltergeist, Haunting Melissa will send you push notifications for new episodes when you least expect it. With the original story now concluded, a spooky sequel that’s titled Dark Hearts is also available for an extra in-app purchase. O iPad+ | iOS 7.1 | Freemium | v2.080
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CAMCARD
O iOS 6.0 | £1.99/$2.99 O OS 2.0 | £1.90/$2.99 iPhone/ iPad/ Android
1PASSWORD
Store your passwords for your favourite website and more with this secure app.
O iOS 7.0 | Free
O iOS 8.0 | Freemium O OS 4.0 | Freemium
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
GOODREADS
A great app for book recommendations, Goodreads also has wishlists and social links.
OiOS 5.0 | Free OOS 1.5 | Free iPhone/ iPad
SNAPCHAT
BUSINESS
CHOPSTICKS NOVEL
In this novel experience you are given bits of people’s lives as you weave the story together in your own mind.
O iOS 4.0 | £4.99/$6.99 iPad
THE FANTASTIC FLYING BOOKS OF MR MORRIS LESSMORE
Breathtaking visuals and a heartwarming story. Essential.
LOGMEIN
Remotely access your desktop from your mobile so you can take your business on the go.
OiOS 5.1 | Freemium OOS 2.3 | Freemium iPhone/ iPad
SAYHI TRANSLATE
Speak into this app and have your words translated into 40 languages, either spoken back to you or sent as a message.
OiOS 6.1 | £1.49/$1.99
EDUCATION iPad
THE ELEMENTS: A VISUAL EXPLORATION
View hi-res images of every element in the periodic table.
OiOS 7.0 | £9.99/$13.99 iPhone/ iPad/ Android
STAR WALK
This AR app helps you explore the stars, planets and constellations in the night sky.
OiOS 5.0 | £1.99/$2.99 O OS 4.0 | £1.90/$3.17 iPhone/ iPad
KHAN ACADEMY
A library of over 3,000 videos enables users to learn pretty much anything they want, no matter what their interests.
O iOS 6.0 | Free iPhone/ iPad
iTUNES U
One of the most powerful educational tools around, with full university courses available direct on your device.
O iOS 7.0 | Free
iPhone/ iPad
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
Create a stunning CV with this step-bystep app that creates a polished final product that can be easily exported.
Regular programming with remarkable speakers and lectures for free via this learning app.
CV EXPRESS
TED
O iOS 5.1 | £2.99/$4.99
O iOS 5.0 | £1.49/$1.99
OiOS 6.1 | Free OOS 2.2 | Free
iPad
iPad/ Android
iPad
Schedule meetings, plan seating, save notes and record your minutes all in this one app.
Takes you on a journey deep into the human body, with video content and annotated graphics. A fine iPad app.
THE WASTE LAND
Discover TS Eliot’s epic and revolutionary poem, view interactive notes, and watch related videos.
MEETING MINUTES
OiOS 5.0 | £9.99/$13.99
OiOS 5.0 | £2.99/$4.99 O OS 3.0 | Free
iPhone/ iPad
iPhone/ Android
iPOE 2
Interactive illustrations and music bring the macabre magic of Edgar Allan Poe’s haunting poetry to life.
JAMES CAAN BUSINESS SECRETS
Find out about hiring staff, raising money, and more in this app.
DK THE HUMAN BODY APP
O iOS 4.0 | £4.99/$6.99 iPhone/ iPad
HENRI LE WORM
Top chef Raymond Blanc and actor Simon Pegg teach children about food and cooking. Includes recipes.
ENTERTAINMENT iPhone/ iPad/ Android
NETFLIX
Cross-device viewing thanks to the cloud. An absolute must for subscribers to the service.
OiOS 6.0 | Free OOS varies | Free iPhone/ iPad/ Android
PLEX
Stream music and video from your desktop, and enjoy content from Plex’s channels.
OiOS 5.1.1 | £2.99/$4.99 OOS varies | £2.98/$4.99 iPad
PROCREATE
Paints, inks and abstract shapes are all readily available, so you can achieve just the effect you’re looking for.
OiOS 7.0 | £3.99/$5.99 iPhone/ iPad
SNEAK
In this game you literally have to sneak up on your phone from a distance to capture photos of the shy monsters.
O iOS 5.0 | £1.49/$1.99 iPhone/ Android
iPLAYER RADIO
So much more than an extension of the iPlayer catch-up service, with a great interface.
OiOS 6.0 | Free O OS 4.0 | Free iPhone/ iPad
REMOTE
This handy app lets you connect to iTunes wirelessly and play music and movies that are on your Mac or PC.
O iOS 7.1 | Free iPhone/ iPad
HAUNTING MELISSA
A horror movie for the mobile era, the producer of The Ring directs this experimental but highly gripping ghost story.
O iOS 5.1 | £2.49/$3.99
OiOS 7.0 | Free OOS 2.1 | Free
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ iPad
iPad
iPhone/ iPad
A convenient portal to read over 12,000 comics, and over 500 of them are absolutely free.
OiOS 5.1 | Free OOS 2.2 | Free
Turn your iDevice into a portable scanner. Snap a photo of a document to create a PDF and export to Dropbox.
Explore 600 million years of evolution with a fossil timeline and multimedia treatments that explain the science.
OiOS 7.0 | £4.99/$6.99
O iOS 4.3 | £9.99/$13.99
Give your home videos some truly epic Hollywood effects with this brilliant free app for your iOS device.
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ iPad
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
Learn a new language for free, from grammar basics to translating entire websites.
The streaming service allows you to share media from your desktop to your device.
COMICS
FRANKENSTEIN
The classic horror story is brought back to life in this interactive adaptation.
OiOS 4.3 | £2.99/$4.99 O OS 4.0 | £2.99/$4.99 iPhone/ iPad/ Android
AUDIOBOOKS FROM AUDIBLE
Part of the Amazon family, so you have plenty of choice.
OiOS 6.0 | Free OOS varies | Free
SCANNER PRO BY READDLE
HOW TO TIE A TIE ANIMATED GUIDE
Top tips and AR projection for tying 30 nifty knots – perfect for any occasion.
OiOS 6.0 | £1.49/$1.99
NHM EVOLUTION
DUOLINGO
OiOS 7.1 | Freemium
ACTION MOVIE FX
OiOS 5.0 | Freemium
VLC STREAMER
O iOS 6.1 | £1.99/$2.99
OiOS 6.0 | Free OOS 2.2 | Free
iPhone/ iPad
iPhone/ iPad
iPhone/ iPad
This app instantly translates the spoken word into text. Send notes and reminders to yourself, and so much more.
Everything NASA in one place, including news on missions and stunning imagery.
Make talking 3D masks of absolutely anyone with this clever, customisable app. Then share the results via email.
DRAGON DICTATION
OiOS 4.0 | Free
NASA VISUALIZATION EXPLORER
OiOS 5.1 | Free
OiOS 5.0 | £1.49/$1.99 OOS 2.2 | £1.35/$1.99
MORFO 3D FACE BOOTH
OiOS 4.3 | £0.69/$0.99
THE TOP 200 GREATEST APPS EVER FINANCE
FOOD & DRINK
GAMES
iPhone/ iPad
iPhone/ Android
iPad
The price you pay for this app is fully justified, thanks to its superior functionality and the useful tips it divulges.
Step-by-step photo recipes, plus extra kitchen tips such as how to sharpen knives.
This online card game from World Of Warcraft will soon have you addicted to casting spells and monsters.
POCKETMONEY
JAMIE’S 20 MINUTE MEALS HEARTHSTONE
HEALTH iPhone/ Android
ENDOMONDO SPORTS TRACKER
Endomondo is the most social fitness experience around.
Run to stay alive in a world infested with zombies in this immersive AR workout.
Record your life with this magazinelike app for your memories, ideas and photos. Share online or keep private.
This app tests your vision through a series of exams, and includes an optician finder.
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
Check your current balance, view your account and send money via 16 currencies.
Find and book a restaurant table in just a few taps, if it’s last minute or planned.
Perform high-octane aerial stunts to get the edge on other racers in this arcade game.
OiOS 7.0 | Free OOS 2.2 | Free
OiOS 7.0 | Free OOS 2.3.3 | Free
O iOS 5.0 | Freemium O OS varies | Freemium
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
An absolute must for all foodies, this app features mouthwatering full-screen photos and some clever features.
Guide your character through a mindbending world of impossible architecture.
One of the best finance managers around, with easy-touse functions.
OiOS 6.0 | £2.99/$4.99 O OS 2.3.3 | £3.00/$4.99 iPhone/ Android
BLOOMBERG
Bloomberg is a must for City traders and anyone who is interested in the stock market.
OiOS 7.0 | Free OOS 1.6 | Free iPhone/ iPad
DEBT MANAGER
Offers a clean, simple interface so you can visualise your debt, organise your incomings and outgoings, and pay it off.
MONUMENT VALLEY
O iOS 5.0 | £2.99/$4.99
O iOS 6.0 | £2.49/$3.99 O OS 2.3.3 | £2.49/$3.99
iPhone/ iPad
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
The app that’s perfect for any level of experience, from oven wizards to toast burners.
of troops and attack alien invaders in this top-down strategy game.
HOW TO COOK EVERYTHING ANOMALY 2 Protect your convoy ESSENTIALS
OiOS 6.1 | Freemium
O iOS 5.0 | £2.99/$4.99 O OS 2.3 | £3.56/$4.99
iPhone/ iPad
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
THE PHOTO COOKBOOK – QUICK & EASY
With images of every ingredient and steps to each recipe, it couldn’t be easier to follow.
ANGRY BIRDS STAR WARS II
Play as 30 avian versions of characters from the films.
O iOS 4.0 | £0.69/$0.99
O iOS 5.0 | £2.49/$3.99
O iOS 5.0 | Freemium O OS 2.3 | Freemium
iPhone/ iPad
iPhone/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
An essential destination for when you want something different and great to eat.
A mix of fast-paced fun and subatomic style makes this endless runner very addictive.
iSPREADSHEET
Compatible with Excel, Google Docs and Open Office – manage all of your finances on the go with this app.
FOODSPOTTING
BOSON X
OiOS 5.0 | £1.99/$2.99
OiOS 7.0 | Free OOS varies | Free
OiOS 4.3 | £1.49/$1.99 OOS 2.2 | £1.49/$1.99
iPad
iPhone/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
Keep track of your incomings and outgoings with this app that filters paid, planned, and overdue payments.
File away your favourite web recipes in this dedicated cooking database.
BILLS FOR iPAD
PAPRIKA RECIPE MANAGER
GRAND THEFT AUTO: SAN ANDREAS
Control the criminal underworld in this epic mobile version.
ZOMBIES, RUN!
iPhone/ iPad
iPhone
iPad
Simply hold your thumb over your device’s camera lens to monitor and track your heart rate.
Minimalist, gesturedriven alarm clock and stopwatch that will launch your favourite apps for when you wake up.
This dissection of the human skeleton goes into incredible detail with plenty of room for adding your own notes.
CARDIOGRAPH
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone
Your ultimate calorie guide with a massive database as well as exercises and social links.
Searching and sharing items on Fancy is all about becoming a curator of cool.
Monitor your baby’s development week by week with 3D visualisation, plus a log to record doctor’s appointments.
CALORIE COUNTER
OiOS 6.1 | Free O OS 2.2 | Free
iPhone/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
This app requires a pair of Nike shoes that have an insert for the Nike+ sensor.
This is a handy app to use in an unfamiliar place when you need to find local amenities.
NIKE+ RUNNING
OiOS 5.0 | Free OOS 2.2 | Free
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ iPad
Military-grade workout app that requires no fitness equipment bar your device.
Create your own bespoke icons for your apps either by painting a design in-app or by uploading an image.
YOU ARE YOUR OWN GYM
OiOS 5.0 | £1.99/$2.99 OOS varies | £1.99/$2.99 iPhone
7 MINUTE WORKOUT CHALLENGE
A fast-paced work out with 12 exercises, instructional videos and health and weight tracker.
iPhone/ Android
A stylish interface and inspiring recipes prove healthy eating doesn’t need to be bland.
Part puzzle, part stealth, all rhythm action. Tap your screen to the beat of the music to navigate levels.
Moves automatically tracks your everyday exercise to motivate you to do more and set goals.
O iOS 6.0 | £1.49/$1.99
MOVES
OiOS 7.0 | Freemium OOS 2.3.3 | Freemium
O iOS 7.0 | £2.99/$4.99
OiOS 3.1.3 | £1.99/$2.99
OiOS 7.0 | Free OOS 4.0 | Free
iPhone/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
Send money between accounts, using just a mobile number, from your device.
An absolute must for culinary masters and budding chefs alike.
MINECRAFT – POCKET EDITON
Create your own personal Minecraft world, block by block.
AROUNDME
OiOS 7.0 | Free OOS 2.3.3 | Free
iPhone/ iPad
EPICURIOUS RECIPES & SHOPPING LIST
FANCY
OiOS 6.0 | Free O OS varies | Free
iPhone/ iPad
BARCLAYS PINGIT
SKELETON SYSTEM PRO III
O iOS 5.0 | £0.69/$0.99
iPhone/ iPad/ Android Monitor your spending and save money thanks to the charts, graphs and stats in this app.
START BY TACK
O iOS 5.1.1 | £1.49/$1.99
OiOS 6.0 | £4.99/$6.99 OOS 3.0 | £4.99/$6.99
BEAT SNEAK BANDIT
VISION TEST
OiOS 6.0 | Free OOS 2.2 | Free
OiOS 7.0 | £2.99/$4.99 O OS 2.2 | £3.11/$4.99
GREEN KITCHEN – HEALTHY VEGETARIAN RECIPES
DAY ONE JOURNAL
O iOS 8.0 | £2.99/$4.99
OiOS 7.0 | £2.49/$3.99 OOS 4.0 | £2.79/$3.99
O iOS 5.0 | £0.69/$0.99
SPENDING TRACKER
View rotatable 3D images from Gray’s Anatomy of selected organs or regions of the body.
VISUAL ANATOMY
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ Android
OTTOLENGHI
This communitydriven guidebook is a wonderful resource. Browse its many topics and get all sorts of handy tips.
iPhone/ iPad
OiOS 7.0 | Freemium OOS varies | Freemium
MONEYWIZ
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
SNAPGUIDE
iPhone/ Android
OiOS 5.0 | Freemium
ASPHALT 8: AIRBORNE
iPhone/ iPad
OiOS 4.3 | £1.99/$2.99 O OS varies | £1.60/$2.49
OiOS 3.1.2 | £4.99/$6.99 O OS 2.0 | £4.99/$7.69
OPENTABLE UK
MEDICAL
OiOS 7.0 | Free
O iOS 4.3 | £2.99/$4.99
PAYPAL
LIFESTYLE
ICONICAL
O iOS 6.0 | £1.49/$1.99 iPad
eBAY FOR iPAD
This app is not only great to keep up with your shopping, but also a wonderful place to browse for bargains.
O iOS 6.0 | £2.49/$3.99
PREGNANCY+
OiOS 7.0 | Freemium iPhone
SNORELAB
Worried about how much you snore? Find out how loud you sound with this app, then get tips on how to reduce it.
O iOS 6.0 | £2.49/$3.99 iPhone
uHEAR
As hearing loss usually happens over a period of time, uHear is a good app for monitoring your hearing.
O iOS 2.2.1 | Free iPhone/ iPad/ Android
PROGNOSIS: YOUR DIAGNOSIS
Uses case studies for better diagnosis in patients by doctors.
OiOS 5.1 | Free
OiOS 5.0 | Free OOS 2.3.3 | Free
iPad
iPhone/ Android
MARTHA STEWART CRAFTSTUDIO
Create decorative cards in-app with hints and tips provided by Martha herself.
BREATHING ZONE
Reduce stress and see your breathing patterns displayed in colourful graphics.
OiOS 5.0 | Freemium
OiOS 5.1 | £2.49/$3.99 OOS 2.2 | £2.49/$3.99
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPad
iPad
Plan your workout in this stylish app and receive motivation from the voice coach.
Plan everything, from your big day’s budget to the colour scheme and the seating plan with this detailed wedding app.
Life-like depictions of the heart and circulatory system that can be rotated 360° to appreciate its complexity.
O iOS 7.0 | £6.99/$9.99
OiOS 6.0 | £6.99/$9.99
RUNTASTIC PUSH-UPS PRO
WEDDING PLANNER FOR iPAD HEART PRO III
OiOS 6.0 | Free OOS 2.2 | Free
OiOS 7.0 | Free OOS 1.5 | Free
OiOS 5.0 | £4.99/$6.99 OOS varies | £4.99/$6.99
OiOS 7.0 | £1.49/$1.99 O OS 2.2 | £1.49/$1.99
iPhone/ iPad
iPad
iPhone/ iPad
iPhone/ Android
iPhone/ iPad
iPhone/ iPad
Compare mortgages side-by-side, work out what the true price would be and manage all of your payments.
Create your own recipe book, complete with customisable colours and fonts, then share it with your friends online.
Escape from a prison in this stealth-action adventure. Avoid guards and solve puzzles to earn your freedom.
Post your concern and a qualified doctor will respond with a diagnosis fairly swiftly.
Aspiring novelist? This is the perfect space to express yourself in a clean, distractionfree environment.
Keep a digital diary of your family’s shots, vaccinations, medicines, illnesses and more.
OiOS 4.0 | £1.49/$1.99
OiOS 7.0 | Free
OiOS 7.1 | £2.99/$4.99
OiOS 3.1.3 | £1.49/$1.99
MORTGAGE MENTOR
COOK
REPUBLIQUE
OiOS 7.0 | £2.99/$4.99
HEALTHTAP
OiOS 7.0 | Free OOS varies | Free
iA WRITER
FAMILY ILLNESS AND SHOT TRACKER
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MUSIC
APPS EVER Whether you walk, cycle or ride the rails, t the best travel news.
O iOS 6.0 | Freemium
TIMEHOP
Get a daily dose of nostalgia and view your tweets of yesteryear.
O iOS 7.0 | Free O OS 4.0 | Free
CAMCARD
Easily store business cards and import details to your Contacts.
O iOS 6.0 | £1.99/$2.99 O OS 2.0 | £1.90/$2.99
SNAPSEED
Google’s free photoediting app is still one of the best out there.
OiOS 5.1 | Freemium OOS 4.0 | Freemium
HEARTHSTONE
The fantasy card trading game has been updated with ‘Goblins versus Gnomes’ expansion pack. O iOS 5.0 | Freemium
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PHOTO & VIDEO
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
Use simple gestures to play piano, organ, guitar and drums. Upload tracks to YouTube, SoundCloud and more.
Back on iOS and still the undisputed king of the mapping world. This app is all you need.
It’s not only one of the best news apps around; it’s also great fun to use on your device.
Stream videos from the popular website, now with voice search and picture to picture.
GOOGLE MAPS
FLIPBOARD
YOUTUBE
OiOS 8.0 | £2.99/$4.99
OiOS 6.0 | Free OOS varies | Free
iPhone/ iPad
iPhone/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ iPad
Make music in minutes with this easy-to-use interface. Export results to iTunes Audio Sharing.
View near real-time air traffic maps that let you track the paths of aircraft above you.
This app allows you to watch live news feeds over Wi-Fi, so you can always stay informed.
Apple’s official videoediting app makes it easy to fine-tune the videos you shoot on the go with simple gesture controls.
FIGURE
PLANE FINDER
OiOS 5.0 | Free O OS 2.2 | Free
BBC NEWS
O iOS 6.0 | £0.69/$0.99
O iOS 7.0 | £2.99/$3.99 O OS 2.2 | £2.99/$2.99
iPad
iPhone/ Android
iPhone/ iPad
Take tracks from your iTunes library and start mixing them together on this brilliant fullfeatured turntable app.
Join the world’s biggest treasure hunt by becoming a Geocacher. It’s great fun.
Stay up-to-date with all the latest podcasts with one easy-to-use cross-platform download.
DJAY 2
GEOCACHING
O iOS 7.0 | £6.99/$9.99
O iOS 6.1 | £6.99/$9.99 O OS varies | £6.99/$9.99
iPad
iPhone
THE ORCHESTRA
HOPSTOP TRANSIT DIRECTIONS
NEWS
iPhone/iPad
GARAGEBAND
GREATEST
NAVIGATION
Explore three centuries of classical music with this interactive mix of music as well as video content.
O iOS 6.0 | £9.99/$13.99 iPhone/ iPad/ Android
SPOTIFY MUSIC
Build customised playlists from millions of tracks and share them with the world.
OiOS 6.0 | Free OOS varies | Free iPhone/ iPad/ Android
SOUNDHOUND
Hum a tune or sing a lyric and SoundHound will give you the full name of the song and artist.
HOPSTOP TRANSIT DIRECTIONS
Get real-time subway, bus, train, taxi, walking and biking directions in an instant.
OiOS 5.0 | Free O OS varies | Free
POCKET CASTS
OiOS 7.0 | £2.49/$3.99 OOS 2.3 | £2.70/$3.99 iPhone/ iPad/ Android
POCKET
Pocket lets you save any article, image or video you find online for you to view it later.
OiOS 6.0 | Freemium
OiOS 7.0 | Free OOS 2.2 | Free
iPhone
iPhone/ iPad
Ideal for the mountains, view 3D maps and aerial images and plan your route.
Download and listen to your favourite podcasts directly from your iPhone or iPad without the need to sync with iTunes.
MAPS 3D – GPS TRACKS FOR BIKE, HIKE, SKI & OUTDOOR
DOWNCAST
O iOS 7.0 | £2.99/$4.99
O iOS 6.0 | £1.99/$2.99
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
WAZE SOCIAL GPS, MAPS & TRAFFIC
Get instant travel updates from other users on the road.
LINKEDIN PULSE
With a focus on business news, tailor this reader to follow all of your favourite RSS feeds.
OiOS 6.1 | Freemium O OS varies | Freemium
OiOS 5.0 | Free OOS 2.2 | Free
OiOS 7.0 | Free OOS 2.2 | Free
iPhone/ Android
iPhone/iPad
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
Discover new music with this running feed of what everyone is listening to.
Augmented reality navigator and compass that lets you track your location and work out bearings in real-time.
Save feature articles and blog posts for later offline reading in this paper-like reader.
SOUNDWAVE
OiOS 7.0 | Free O OS 2.2 | Free
SPYGLASS
INSTAPAPER
OiOS 6.1 | £2.49/$3.99
OiOS 8.0 | £2.49/$3.99 O OS varies | £1.93/$2.99
iPhone/ Android
iPhone/iPad
iPad
An extraordinary app, Shazam can identify songs by listening to them for a few seconds.
Provides geographical details for highland, hilltop and mountain walks across the UK and Republic of Ireland.
Watch live streams from the TV station in the palm of your hands. Feature-rich, brimming with content and totally free.
SHAZAM
OiOS 6.0 | Freemium OOS varies | Freemium
HILL LISTS
OiOS 6.0 | £1.49/$1.99
SKY NEWS FOR iPAD
OiOS 6.0 | Free OOS 2.2 | Free
iMOVIE
O iOS 8.0 | £2.99/$4.99 iPad/ Android
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP TOUCH
Edit images on the go with a range of touch-control tools using this essential software.
O iOS 5.0 | £6.99/$9.99 O OS 3.1 | £6.99/$9.99 iPhone/Android
INSTAGRAM
With a wide range of cool filters and a great community you can create amazing photos.
OiOS 6.0 | Free OOS 2.2 | Free iPhone/ iPad
HALFTONE 2
Create a comic book starring your friends and family by applying speech bubbles and borders to images.
O iOS 7.0 | £1.49/$1.99 iPhone/ iPad/ Android
CAMERA ZOOM FX
Take up to ten shots per second with this high-speed snapper, then apply filters to photos.
OiOS 7.0 | £2.49/$3.99 O OS 1.6 | £1.79/$2.99 iPhone/ iPad/ Android
SNAPSEED
This app has quite simply become the go-to image editing app across all devices.
OiOS 5.1 | Free OOS 4.0 | Free iPhone
MEXTURES
Create and combine your own filters and textures for truly individual Instagram photos.
OiOS 6.0 | Freemium
O iOS 6.1 | £1.49/$1.99
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone
iPhone/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
Create multi-track music projects. Works with a desktop program for advanced features.
Explore your city with these user-generated walking tours with turn-by-turn directions or share your own with others.
Get twice-daily summaries of the top news stories, complete with infographics.
Offering 1TB of online storage, this app is great for showcasing and sharing your best photos.
FL STUDIO MOBILE
KAMINO
YAHOO NEWS DIGEST
FLICKR
OiOS 6.1 | Free
OiOS 7.0 | Free O OS 4.0 | Free
OiOS 7.0 | Free OOS 2.3.3 | Free
iPad
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone
iPhone
Quite literally a wall of sound for users to interact with, as each ‘brick’ hosts an artist, their music and cool photos.
Get off the beaten track with this map app, ideal for planning hikes.
Scan articles in select newspapers to create a digital version on your iPhone, which you can save for later or share online.
Capture 3D photos with this unique photo app. Share them online or embed them on your website.
OiOS 7.0 | Freemium
OiOS 7.0 | Free
OiOS 5.1 | £10.49/$14.99 O OS 2.3.3 | £12.95/$19.99
AWEDITORIUM
OiOS 3.2 | Free
VIEWRANGER OUTDOOR GPS & MAPS
OiOS 5.1.1 | Freemium OOS varies | Freemium
PEEKSTER
SEENE
THE TOP 200 GREATEST APPS EVER PRODUCTIVITY
REFERENCE
SOCIAL
SPORTS
WEATHER iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ iPad
iPhone
With wonderful images, animations and video content, it’s a must-have for any stargazer.
Perfect for heavy Twitter users, it includes multiple timelines and smart gestures.
O iOS 7.0 | £3.99/$5.99
O iOS 7.0 | £2.99/$4.99
OiOS 6.0 | Free OOS 2.2 | Free
OiOS 6.0 | Free O OS 2.2 | Free
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
Access your images, documents or any other type of digital file you like, anywhere.
Translate to and from 64 languages, speech from 17 languages, and listen in 24.
The ultimate social networking tool has regular updates. Easy to use and fairly foolproof.
OiOS 6.0 | Free O OS varies | Free
OiOS 7.0 | Free O OS varies | Free
It sets the standard and changes the way people order their taxis on iOS or Android.
OiOS 7.0 | Freemium OOS 2.2 | Freemium
View leaderboards, lap times and exclusive news throughout the F1 season.
Create your own weather station with customisable features and great graphics.
OiOS 6.0 | Freemium OOS 4.0 | Freemium
OiOS 7.0 | Free O OS 2.2 | Free
O iOS 5.0 | £1.49/$1.99 O OS varies | £1.29/$1.99
iPhone/ iPad
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/Android
iPhone/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/iPad
This spreadsheet was designed for your touchscreen, allowing you to calculate figures and create graphs with ease.
Find essential information that is well-presented and easy to use in this clever app.
A simple and satisfying interface that Facebook and Twitter can only dream about.
OiOS 7.0 | Freemium OOS varies | Freemium
This is one of those definitive apps, giving you access to pretty much anywhere on the globe.
Vivid, real-time animated radar images of weather across the United States, with storm alerts and bookmarks.
OiOS 8.0 | £6.99/$9.99
O iOS 6.0 | £1.99/$2.99 O OS 2.1 | £1.86/$2.99
All the latest soccer stats displayed with infographics and animations of in-game events.
iPhone/ iPad
iPhone/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
EVERNOTE
Create a note on your device and save it to the cloud, where it can be picked up and edited.
OiOS 7.0 | Freemium O OS varies | Freemium
DROPBOX
NUMBERS
CLEAR
This purely gesturebased app has one of the most innovative and intuitive interfaces of virtually any app around.
BRIAN COX’S WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE
GOOGLE TRANSLATE
WOLFRAMALPHA
SCRIBO – THE WORLD’S LARGEST ONLINE LIBRARY All the reference books you’ll need, available offline.
TWEETBOT 3 FOR TWITTER (iPHONE & iPOD TOUCH)
FACEBOOK
PATH
SQUAWKA
Hotel and restaurant reviews, cheap flights and virtual tours.
HAILO
GOOGLE EARTH
BBC WEATHER
Simple and clear design with onetouch controls for easy navigation of forecasts.
OiOS 5.0 | Free OOS 2.2 | Free
WEATHER LIVE RELOADED
NOAA RADAR PRO
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
Bring your loved ones closer to you with the free video and audio calls of the Skype service.
View maps and track your position on golf courses across the world with this GPS app.
Plan your route around live travel info with this smart map of the London Underground.
OiOS 7.0 | £20.99/$29.99 O OS 2.2 | Freemium
OiOS 6.0 | £2.49/$3.99 O OS 2.3 | £2.39/$3.32
This stunning app backdrops the forecast with photos of conditions in your location.
iPhone/ Android
iPhone/ Android
iPhone/ Android
For the amount of info at your fingertips, this app is a must for every sports fan.
Book last-minute trips and holiday lets in over 34,000 cities around the world.
A slick UI with a wealth of useful data, you get weather info for over 58,000 cities.
SKYPE
iPhone/ iPad
iPhone/ iPad
iPhone/ Android
This exquisite app brings the night sky to your device, with all major planets and constellations displayed.
OFFICIAL F1 APP
TRIPADVISOR HOTELS FLIGHTS RESTAURANTS
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
OiOS 7.0 | Freemium OOS varies | Freemium
This versatile app allows you to create, edit and view documents as well as create attractive, customised pages.
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iPhone/ iPad/ Android
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iPhone/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPad
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Send photos to friends that vanish after viewing. Also includes video and messaging.
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iPhone/ iPad
iPhone/ iPad
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ iPad
Create a world-class presentation with this top app. Including a range of impressive themes and customisable features.
Browse Wikipedia using this excellent reader, which offers great formatting and customisation options.
Find, follow and shares the things you love on this highly customisable blog network.
Watch the hottest action live with this streaming app (monthly subscription fee).
A list-making app specially designed for your holiday packing, with a detailed pre-departure to-do list with over 100 tasks.
O iOS 8.0 | £6.99/$9.99
O iOS 4.3 | £7.49/$10.99
OiOS 7.0 | Free OOS 2.2 | Free
iPhone
iPhone/ iPad
Ideal for the travelling businessman, track the time in different cities around the world and set location-based alarms.
Interactive 3D globe for children, beautifully rendered with details of all the countries of the world.
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KEYNOTE
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ARTICLES
SNAPCHAT
TUMBLR
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O iOS 6.1 | Free
OiOS 8.0 | Free OOS varies | Free
OiOS 6.0 | Freemium OOS 3.2 | Freemium
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone/ Android
iPhone
Make your life easier by putting the internet to work and automating online services.
The place to go with your burning questions, with the community providing answers.
Shoot six-second videos of your life and share them with this booming community.
IFTTT
QUORA
OiOS 7.0 | Free OOS 4.0 | Free
OiOS 7.0 | Free OOS 2.2 | Free
iPhone/ iPad
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
Write a list and sync it between devices so that you and your flatmates can all keep track of who’s buying what.
Clear, accurate and occasionally witty definitions, plus a detailed thesaurus.
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CHAMBERS DICTIONARY
VINE
THE MASTER TACTICIAN PRO (MOBILE)
Create winning football strategies with this great animated playbook app.
TRIPTEASE
OiOS 6.0 | Free
PACKING PRO
O iOS 4.3 | £0.69/$0.99 O OS 2.1 | £0.99/$1.62
DARK SKY
O iOS 7.0 | £2.49/$3.99 iPhone/ Android
THE WEATHER CHANNEL
A solid and professionally produced app, it offers very detailed info.
O iOS 5.1 | £1.99/$2.99
OiOS 6.0 | Free OOS varies | Free
iPhone/ Android
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
Download full city guides, plus maps, for over 60 of the most exciting destinations.
Fill your screen with some great themes to accompany your weather forecast.
GUIDEPAL CITY GUIDES
WEATHERWISE
O iOS 4.0 | £7.99/$11.99
OiOS 5.0 | Freemium OOS 2.1 | Freemium
iPhone/ iPad
iPad
iPhone/ iPad
iPad
View all of your social networks in one place with StatNut and display them in a simple, colour-coded interface.
The Sky Sports channels on your device, as well as some impressive in-game stat screens and graphics.
Discover great adventures around the world, then create your own wish list of places you want to visit.
View animated hourly and weekly weather forecasts for up to nine different places around the world simultaneously.
OiOS 6.0 | Free O OS varies | Free
STATNUT
SKY SPORTS FOR iPAD
SULLIVAN’S LIST
OiOS 6.1 | Freemium OOS 2.2 | Freemium
MAGICAL WEATHER
O iOS 5.0 | £1.49/$2.99
OiOS 4.3 | £4.99/$6.99 OOS 2.2 | £4.99/$6.99
OiOS 4.3 | £0.69/$0.99
OiOS 6.0 | Freemium
OiOS 4.3 | £1.99/$2.99
iPad
iPad
iPhone/ Android
iPhone/ iPad
iPhone/ iPad/ Android
iPhone
A wonderfully character-filled sketching and creative app where users can purchase other themed tools.
Explore 2,000 years of one of the world’s greatest cities with articles, photos and video.
Quickly turn your device into a radar dish and see what air traffic looks like in real-time.
Forecasting with a difference as this app is truly social, allowing users to share their climate and what they’re doing in it.
OiOS 7.0 | Freemium
OiOS 5.1 | £9.99/$13.99
PAPER BY FIFTYTHREE
LONDON – A CITY THROUGH TIME
TIMEHOP
Relive the past with daily updates of your tweets, photos and check-ins from years ago.
OiOS 7.0 | Free OOS 4.0 | Free
CURLY’S POCKET GUIDE TO SPORT
The rules to 74 major sports from golf to Greco-Roman wrestling, with illustrations.
OiOS 7.0 | Free
FLIGHTRADAR24 PRO
OiOS 5.0| £1.99/$2.99 OOS varies | £1.99/$2.99
O iOS 6.0 | £0.99/$0.99
WEATHERMOB
OiOS 6.1 | Free
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