Apps

For a device with a 3" screen, the iPhone has a pretty impressive resume: Phone, map, camera, sketchbook, dedicated Doodle Jump playing machine. And for $1, the newly revamped Ruler 2 app makes it a pretty decent measuring thinger, too. Ruler 2, an overhauled version of an apparently less-good Ruler 1, offers a simple, functional ruler that you can drag to measure things smaller than the size of your screen. Measuring things that are longer than your iPhone (or your iPad—it's a universal app) isn't...

When it was first released on iOS devices in 2011, Minecraft: Pocket Edition was just a shadow of what it was on the PC. Where as the PC version contained infinite worlds, Pocket Edition’s worlds were tiny and self-contained. There…

There was a time that (now Dropbox-owned) Mailbox was the swankiest email app in the App Store and, while it quickly passed 1 million downloads within six weeks of launch, a number of equally as nifty competitors have arrived en masse, including Dispatch....

Sure, you've got your Hipstamatic filters and your ProCamera bag of tricks. But to capture truly ethereal slow-shutter speed shots and lithe light paintings, you're going to need Magic Shutter. It looks pretty amazing, and amazingly pretty. You can choose among front and rear-curtain sync effects in flash modes, meaning that the blur effect either tails or leads the sharp image. It's a creative blend of the iPhone's video and still camera, and may just elevate the app camera effects game from "hipster...

Mobile accounted for more than 50% of ecommerce last year, yet was just 0.08% of Broadway sales. TodayTix is changing that with its last-minute theater ticket app, and it’s making good money along the way. Six months after launch, the startup has 120,000 users, 15 employees, is making a hefty 12% margin on purchases, and is set to sell 1% to 2% of all Broadway tickets in 2014.The…

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HBO Go has officially landed, earlier than expected! As a quick refresher, if you're an HBO subscriber you'll be able to watch every episode of every season of The Sopranos, The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Rome, that vampire silliness, all on iOS or Android. It's a treasure trove of not TV, but—for now—it's only available if your cable provider allows it. So congrats, AT&T, Charter, Cox, DirecTV, Dish, SuddenLink, Verizon, and Xfinity subscribers! You're lucky in a way that...

Facebook on Monday announced it will be drawing down support for messages sent through its flagship mobile app, meaning users around the world will be forced to download the standalone Messenger app if they want to take their chats on the road.

Instagram today finally unveiled its anticipated video service and served it with a kicker, great for those of us with shaky hands. It launched Cinema: a way to stabilize the video captured with the iPhone. Right now this is an iPhone-only app. And for good reason. Since the launch of the iPhone 5, Android phone makers have embraced higher quality cameras than Apple with many flagship devices…

DirecTV has just released an iPad app that lets you browse and search their schedule (up to 2 weeks out), set recordings on the go and even check sports scores to see if the game is worth watching. Free.

You wait ages for an emoji-only social network — and then two come along in quick succession.

If you grew up playing the NES in the 80s, the famed "Konami code" is practically part of your DNA. It's the code that gave players of Konami's incredibly difficult alien shoot-em-up Contra 30 lives instead of three, making it actually possible to complete. Despite the fact that the code often steals the limelight from the title that helped take it mainstream, the game itself is making a comeback with Konami's new Contra: Evolution iOS apps....

The World by National Geographic: It's a 'maps' app in the sense that the bulk of what you're looking at is maps. But it's also a spinning globe app that allows you to twirl around our little blue planet to your heart's desire (rich people: pick your next vacation!), a photos app that shows you astonishingly gorgeous pictures of places around the world (hey Algeria, you are booootiful) and a Flag book that shows you all the flags of countries around the world. The idea is to let you poke, prod and yes,...

Apple on Friday activated a new iOS and Mac App Store asset that notifies customers of compatibility with the company's upcoming Family Sharing program, which allows family members to share purchased content.

Yahoo has announced that it will be shutting down “a few products”, including the ancient search engine AltaVista. The company has deemed 12 products unfit for service and will be ceasing support for them as early as today. Specifically, AltaVista is being shut down on July 8....

Is your roommate like me, always stealing your food and clothes? Now you've got another way of catching him (or an actual criminal) with a Mac and iPhone duo from iVigilo. Keep tabs on your room and gear remotely. The setup's pretty simple: install the iVigilo $5 app on your iOS device, ditto for your Mac, and then let your computer's camera keep an eye open for you. It'll beam video or timelapse pics over WiFi or 3G, and sports a motion trigger in case anyone tries to make off with the computer itself...

With sharing services like Uber and Lyft becoming more and more popular, it’s no surprise to see these ideas branch out into different services such as moving.

Smartphone apps can be an insightful and motivational way of monitoring your daily exercise, sleep patterns and diet. Few apps combine these data points together, however, offering a holistic and truly useful way of measuring your overall health and well-being....

Camera+ is one of the go-to camera apps for many a Giz staffer, and today they dropped a pretty significant update that, among other things, brings more advanced options for capturing photos, an improved engine for Clarity, and a redesigned system for importing and exporting images. You've long been able to adjust focus and exposure independently of each other in Camera+, but now you can also lock those settings so that they don't automatically adjust themselves if you adjust the composition of your...

A new mobile application called Camu, launching today, is designed to serve as a lightweight replacement to the iPhone’s default camera app while also offering the ability for users to edit and share photos more easily after the fact, without having to switch between other applications. The app somewhat competes with long-time popular camera apps like Camera+ or Camera Awesome, but with…

As the iOS App Store's fifth anniversary approaches, Apple has reportedly made a number of high-ranking apps free, including popular games like Infinity Blade and relatively expensive titles like Traktor DJ.

There are piles of address book alternatives for the iPhone, but after digging through them all we settled on Smartr Contacts as your best bet. It gives your contacts an upgrade by adding a historical overview of your interaction and adds social media updates to their pages. Overall, your address becomes much more useful. Platform: iPhone (and Others)Price: FreeDownload Page Smartr Contacts is one of those apps that will surprise you by being free. You won't find advertisements, but simply a really...

If you're sort of interested in looking for a new job, but don't want to put much effort into the hunt, then Poacht might fit the bill. The app, which launched Thursday on iOS and Android, bills itself as a "covert job search for the already employed." It lets you pick the salary level, benefits and other perks that might entice you to leave your current job. Whenever a good match pops up, you can accept an interview with a single tap.

One of the more amazing things about our smartphones is that they don’t just put the capabilities of computers and cameras into small, portable form factors, they also leverage the combination of being both these things to give ordinary users the access to tools which previously required advanced photoshopping skills. Case in point: today, a new application called Groopic is launching which lets…

I've been shuffling along on Fitmodo for several weeks now, trying to get my chunky butt in shape. Yet just as I'm starting to finally drop some body fat, here come the holidays. Parties and ham and pie! Oh no! Thankfully, there are loads of little helpers to And while no gadget or app will save you from stacking on pounds anymore than they can save you from turning a short stack of pancakes into a tall one, they can at least help make you aware of what kind of crap you're putting into your body. In...