Facebook Slingshot’s core mechanic ‘reply to unlock’ makes sharing a fun game or an annoying chore depending on how you look at it. The new standalone photo and video mass-messaging app is delightfully designed, but much of it still feels like Snapchat with a layer of polish, years late. The question is whether Slingshot holding content hostage will lure people in, or if…
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This week's list includes the latest FIFA title from Electronic Arts and a camera app that takes advantage of iOS 8's new camera features.
This week's list includes an expansion of Dropbox's photo-organization app, a running app to help you train smarter, and an app that helps you find new beer and wine to try.
Disney's new theme park-connected "Show Your Disney Side" app for iPhone lets users shoot a selfie and merge it with a famous character from one of the company's movies or attractions, such as Frozen, Star Tours, Pirates of the Caribbean, or the Haunted Mansion.
Some good news for Instagram fans: three new photo filters are arriving today, and Instagram plans to keep adding more in the near future. The app has gone for long periods of time without adding new filters â in December, it added five new ones after a two-year break â but we apparently won't be seeing extended gaps like that any longer. Instagram intends to add new filters "more regularly going forward," which should be music to the ears of its users who don't like having to outsource their...
In April, wrapping up our piece about the best way to manage your photos online in 2015, I lamented that companies didnât seem to be taking the problem all that seriously. Plenty of internet giants were happy to store your photos, but few were really doing anything with them. And then, as if on cue, internet giants revealed ambitious new offerings. Flickr unveiled helpful new tools for uploading your entire archive to the cloud, plus machine vision for organizing it. Google Photos then matched those...
A new fun way to annoy your friends, family and followers.
Lookin' good, YouTube.
An update to one of the top photo editors for iPad and iPhone 6s supports iOS 9 features and huge images.
Lightroom for Android is getting a big update today that adds in features like split toning and haze removal that were added to iOS last year. The real purpose of this update is bringing Lightroom's Android app up to date with its iOS app â Adobe say that for the most part, everything should be there â but it actually moves ahead of iOS in one interesting regard: it can now be used as a camera app that shoots RAW photos (in Adobe's DNG format, specifically). This won't work on every phone, but...
If you have albums and shoeboxes stuffed with old photos, a startup called Photomyne wants to help you scan those photos, in order to bring them online where they can be saved and shared. Now the Tel Aviv-based company has raised $2.6 million in seed funding to continue to grow its business, which today is closing in on its first million users, over half of whom are paying…
Sending photos is much easier if you and the recipient are using Google's all-in-one image service.
Kicking off this week’s must-have apps roundup is a stunning new weather app called Solar, which boasts a simple, intuitive user interface and a no frills approach that doesn’t suffocate you with information you’re not interested in. There’s also a great new drawing and animation app from Disney that you and your kids will love; a great new photography app that adds bokeh light effects to your photos; and updates to Google Earth and Yelp.
Keeping up with all the new apps to hit the scene is a tough job. But you're in luck: You don't have to, because each week we round up our favorite apps and app updates...
It's summer: Time for outdoor festivals, picnics and anachronistic celebrations of our fading youth (see: crochet matches, clambakes and ironic sock hops). And what better...
For all the talk of group messaging apps being the breakout hits at SXSW this year, most people are overlooking another genre: mobile photo-sharing apps. But that’s probably because a few of those apps already are pretty big hits. Take Instagram, for example. The app already has well over 2 million users, even though it’s not even six months old yet. For some context, when Foursquare successfully launched at SXSW two years ago, they left town with just 5,000 users. But just because Instagram has had som...
The iPhone is the most popular camera on Flickr, and for good reason. Not only does it take very decent photos that keep improving with each iteration of the device,…
There are literally thousands of apps in the iPhone App Store, with hundreds being added each week. It's hard to keep track. In the same vein as our "iPhone Apps We Like" posts, take a look here at what stood out this week-notable for usefulness, novelty, birthing a child, whatever. Let's spend some iTunes credit. Wikime: Hands down my favorite app of the week, Wikime takes a location reading and then queries Wikipedia's large list of geotagged articles, showing you info relevant to where you are at...
The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. Percent Calculator - Pro (Amazon Appstore) Previously $1.00, now Free. Percent Calculator - Pro for Android puts a variety of real-world percentage problems just a couple taps away. Figure out percent increases, decreases, tip amounts and more with a minimum of puzzling and pondering. Get it for Free. (via Apps-aholic) iOS iOS
The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. iA Writer (iTunes) Previously $1.99, now 99¢. iA Writer for iPad makes writing easier than ever. With a comfortable keyboard complete with arrow keys and other extensions, this app ensures you will remain productive with your writing wherever you go. And when you're done? Save it to your iCloud or Dropbox account so you can view your document on multiple devices. Get...
iPhones. iPads. Android. We've updated all of our essential apps lists to include a few forgotten favorites, some long awaited arrivals and, as always, even more amazing apps. Check them out! If you want to jump to see the best apps in a specific platform, click here: The end of the month is here, and that means it's time to do a little housekeeping on our list of the absolute best iPhone apps. Who made the cut? Facebook Camera: Facebook gave us a clue as to why it made that billion dollar Instagram...
Nearly six months after launching Paper for iPad to much praise and fanfare, George Petschnigg still can't stop smiling. Our interview hasn't even begun and he's already spouting off the various ways his team has tightened up Paper to be easier and more intuitive for users. It's typical startup founder talk, except Petschnigg leads an unusual startup that has thus far delivered on its promises to build a great product. Ask him about money, and his tail drops between his legs as if he's ashamed, or...
From creating a zombified avatar to ghost-o-meters to an app to disguise your voice, there are plenty of iOS apps available this year for free or small purchase to get you into the Halloween spirit.
