ContactSaver (Free)
Here’s an interesting app which searches your inbox for contacts. That’s right. ContactSaver scans your email inbox to convert email signatures into address book contacts. Genius! The app is easy to use. You just connect your Gmail account to ContactSaver and then check off the addresses it identifies, if you want to save them to your address book. Just press ‘Save’ and you’re done.
Intro by About.me (Free)
About.me is gearing up to disrupt the business card. Their new app, Intro, is a digital business card and gathers the information you have on your personal about.me page, such as your picture and contact info, and puts it front and center on the app. You can then share that information with others. And of course you choose what information you give out to others on the app.
Immediately (Free)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcjedw-bms4 Immediately is an email client designed for salespeople, businesspeople, and dealmakers. It lets you track when your emails get opened, get reminders to follow up with leads, offer suitable meeting times in a couple taps, and use email templates to turn your phone into a sales weapon. You can configure the app to send you push notifications when email opens occur by designating which emails you want to track with a push of a button in its “Compose” interface.
Blloon (Freemium)
Blloon is a new service which claims to have almost one million books across different genres – classics, short stories, science-fiction, romance etc. It also comes with an easy search and explore feature including handcrafted/curated Readlists. Although you can start reading for free, you’ll need to pay up for additional reading. But the good thing is that the users can earn ‘free pages’ by engaging in Blloon’s community, whether that’s writing book reviews or sharing ebooks. Note that the service is currently available in UK only for now, but you should already know how to create country specific new accounts, isn’t it?
Cloth (Free)
Cloth is a new app that lets users share their favorite outfits in an Instagram-like feed, letting them get feedback from friends (with likes and chat) and saving their favorite outfits to remember later. The app has been in beta for two years and just went public. If you are into fashion, downloading this app is a no-brainer.
Auxy (Free)
Auxy is a simple but deceptively powerful music-making app, where you create beats, bass lines and melodies then string them together into tracks to share online. Yes, there are many music making apps like Fruity Loops, but Auxy is simpler and more casual than most others. And yes, it’s free as well! We just wish they bring it to the iPhone as well. 5.5″ screen isn’t too small you see.
Tidal (Freemium)
Tidal is a premium music streaming service, and by premium, we don’t just mean that you need to pay for the service, but in terms of quality. Tidal is trying to differentiate itself from the likes of Spotify by offering lossless FLAC quality music. It also mixes videos and articles with music giving you a unique experience. For now it’s US and UK only and will cost $19.99 per month.
Code School (Free)
We have previously listed down the best online educational video libraries, and here’s something for you iPhone users. The new Code School app gives the ability to view Code School’s videos for more than 40 courses on topics like JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Ruby and Rails, Git, and iOS. Mind you, this app is aimed towards professionals rather than novices.
Audio Defence: Zombie Arena ($4.99)
Somethin’ Else’s spooky audio games are back. Audio Defence : Zombie Arena is a zombie shooter audio game where you can’t see anything, so have to rely on sound to know where to hit. Not the usual zombie shooter games you might have tried in the past, so sit back and enjoy this new journey.
Vektor (Freemium)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmmZ3LhcFGQ Vektor is an aggressive cyberpunk endless runner. You are a courier guy whose mission is to deliver “top secret” data to aid the fight against the corrupt corporate goverment. While streching through the endless highway, you battle against the corporate merceneries, who would not hesitate to use any means necessary to prevent you from delivering the “package”. The game is ad supported, and can be disabled with IAP.
title: “10 Best Iphone And Ipad Apps This Week” ShowToc: true date: “2023-05-04” author: “Michele Cady”
Last week, our weekly roundup was heavily dominated by games, and surprisingly, this week we don’t have even a single game. We do have a science show inspired app, but that can’t be termed as a game as such. And yes, we have a couple of productivity apps, a couple of photo gallery apps and an app for music lovers. Let’s go checkout the best iOS apps this week.
Sleep Genius (Free)
Billed as the world’s most advanced sleep app, Sleep Genius uses neurosensory algorithms, multiband binaural beats, pink noise and psychoacoustic music. It comes with options to choose one of the three different sleep programs to help you get the optimal night’s sleep, an alarm with a gentle 5 minute Revive Cycle and Power Nap feature created for optimal brain rejuvenation.
Soundwave (Free)
Soundwave is a nice way to share what you’re listening to in real-time. Be it on Spotify or Rdio, Soundwave will log the entry in your profile. In addition, it lets users to follow one another and see each other’s activity in a feed as they listen to music. What’s more? You get to listen to a 30-second preview of the song you discovered, which you can buy if you choose to. Below is a demo of the app on Android, but the iOS version is pretty similar too.
Poutsch (Free)
Poutsch has been around as a web service, but now makes its way onto iOS with a brand new app for the iPhone. Poutsch is a neat way to ask questions, express opinions, and engage in debates with friends and people all over the world. If you have some free time over the weekend, this is a nice way to kill it.
Dispatch ($4.99)
Dispatch is a new productivity app for iPhone which aims to integrate your email with a variety of iOS apps. Though it’s an email client per se, the developer has no plans to come out with features like Push notifications. You can use Dispatch to send notes about an email to other apps like Evernote, or Drafts. You can create reminders to follow up on an email in an app like Things or Due. So you can triage your reminders and todos to the right tools instead of having your inbox double up as your notebook, calendar, to-do and bucket list.
Origami (Free)
Origami is a new family-focused service which lets people share moments, photos, and videos with their family members in real time. The app is an extension of the web service and requires an account to be created for it to work. Origami is developers by the folks behind he app Everyme, and is pretty similar in terms of concept and idea.
Photoful (Free)
Photoful is the re-branded avatar of PhotoSocial, which aims to replace the Photo gallery app of your iPhone. Apple has surely improved upon the Photos app in iOS 7, but Photoful extends the functionality with its ability to integrate with other third-party apps.
CloudSpotter ($2.99)
CloudSpotter is your virtual guide to the wonders of the sky, with which you can discover the amazing and unexpected world of clouds. Recently NASA announced that they will use the data gathered by CloudSpotters around the globe to calibrate their CERES cloud-observing satellite instruments. That’s no mean achievement, isn’t it?
Eventiles (Free)
Eventiles is the second photo gallery replacement app we are featuring today. It organizes your photos into meaningful events, gives them titles, discard duplicates, and selects the best pictures to create beautiful collages. And all of these are done automatically. It’s free for a limited time. So grab it ASAP.
Bill Nye The Science Guy (Free)
To commemorate 20 years of raining facts on TV audiences via his Emmy Award-winning show, Bill Nye the Science guy has teamed up with Disney to come out with an iOS app that’s full of science goodness for children ages 4 and up. It also features a couple of games and some video clips from select episodes of the TV show.
Morning ($2.99)
As you might have guessed from the name, Morning is a great way to start your day. It brings the weather, calendar, news etc right there on a big iPad-sized dashboard. The design matches the flatness of iOS 7. And the best part about Morning is its integration with Reminders.
