Apps

Popular mobile messaging app WhatsApp is on fire, apparently. Today, the company shared that it had hit a new daily record with 4 billion outbound messages sent, and 6 billion…

Readdle today rolled out its biggest update yet for PDF Expert 5, one of the finest PDF editing apps for iOS. It adds support for continuous scrolling and calculations, improves performance, and makes PDF Expert a universal app — so you…

Comic book characters have so far struggled to score a smash hit on a mobile platform, with few titles proving worthy of the Marvel and DC Comics' names. But Injustice: Gods Among Us for iOS hopes to change all that with a huge cast of iconic characters, a savvy trading card game mechanic, and an enticing price of free. While Injustice still feels like a cheapened version of the console game it's based off of, Warner Brothers has at least produced an addictive and fun title that will appeal to its...

Vonage is gunning for the mobile VoIP market in a big way with its new Vonage Mobile app for iOS and Android, which it says offers calls that are typically 30 percent cheaper than Skype's rates, based on per-minute rates to the top 50 countries called. You don't need to be an existing subscriber to use the service, with prepaid credit being used to pay for calls. App to app calling is totally free, and the company says these use a high-definition audio codec which offers improved audio quality over...

SAN FRANCISCO — You created an app. You think it’s awesome. Your friends say so too. Something nags at you, though: You have zero reviews, your downloads don’t outnumber your Facebook pals, and you need to make rent. There’s a fancy…

Users of Evernote in Southeast Asia now have cause to cheer as Evernote Business, the business-focused service that expands on Evernote’s standard and premium offerings, has expanded to the region....

Skype for iOS has just been updated to version 4.0, and among other additions, users can now reposition their own video preview when on a call. That's an (admittedly small) advantage that FaceTime and some other video conferencing apps had held over Skype until this point. UI enhancements have also been introduced with the update, bringing an updated look to the contact list, messages, and the login screen. One of the more interesting tidbits relates to stability: Skype claims that the app will now...

WalmartLabs, the retailer’s Silicon Valley-based R&D and innovation center, is today announcing its 13th acquisition – and its first from New York’s “Silicon Alley” – with the acquisition of fashion app Stylr. The app, which helps consumers find clothes they love in nearby stores, will be shut down. It will be pulled from the iTunes App Store by the end…

RadPad is one of those startups that come from a founder’s real-world experience — specifically, Jonathan Eppers (a former product manager at eHarmony and MySpace) said that he was trying to find a new apartment in Los Angeles, and he was frustrated to discover that the process is still more complicated and painful that it needs to be. That was last summer. Fast forward a year and RadPad is…

Facebook Messenger for iOS and Android just hit version 1.8, bringing a few slick new features like fast conversation switching, swipe-to-delete for specific messages, and a built-in buddy list for who's "online" when you start a new conversation. The updates should roll out over the next hour or so, Facebook told us. The company also added larger photos to the app, as it has across all of its web and mobile products recently. Perhaps the most important new feature here is local notifications for chat...

Photo apps have evolved from adding filtering, to being social, to smashing up the two. Instagram grew like a weed based on this philosophy. EyeEm has grown by making your feed of friends photos look so good, you know you just have to take great photos as well (there’s some clever algorithms at work there). Now a new app, designed by one of the world’s best photographers, wants…

Apple’s dedicated app for its Worldwide Developers Conference arrived today, and it brings a look at some of the sessions happening during the event next week, but it also shows off a dramatically different UI compared to past iterations of the app. The changes sound a lot like what’s said to be on tap for a visual refresh in iOS 7, and might be a good early indication of what Apple will be…

If you live in an area where unpredictable weather is a problem, the free SkyMotion app for iOS is a reliable resource for precipitation warnings, and now the service is available on the desktop and non-Apple mobile devices. Residents in the United States and Canada can the SkyMotion web app to keep up with Mother Nature's behavior in one, five, and 15 minute intervals while checking out the current temperature to help you decide if you need to bring out your galoshes. Sky Motion Research uses a...

Why would prestigious VCs Founders Fund and Lowercase Capital invest $4.5 million in what looks like a Tinder clone? Because Hinge is building a romance graph of what structured data clues suggest two people will want to date. While Hinge’s app might not be as carefree as swiping through Tinder’s seemingly endless queue of mates, it delivers a finite daily set of…

Snapchat has updated its iPhone messaging app with a number of design and navigation improvements. Following the rollout of its "Banquo" update, Snapchat now offers the ability to double-tap messages to reply, has made it easier to add friends, and has rolled out new in-app profiles which mimic the public web profiles previously available in the app. The company has also introduced swipe navigation between the camera, friends list, and message inbox, while refreshing the camera screen with a more...

Too lazy to type? Hands busy with something else? Use the iPad version of Dragon Dictation's popular speech recognition software. You can dictate emails and notes which can be copied and pasted if necessary. The Dragon Dictation app is free and available through the iTunes store now. Sure, you'll have to buy an iPad, but it's still cheaper than paying a secretary 24/7.

Looks like Science Inc. is getting more serious about mobile development — the startup studio is announcing that it has acquired an eight-person company based in Yerevan, Armenia called Inlight.That company developed the iOS app of the same name, a social newsreading service targeting women. Science CEO Mike Jones and Chief Business Officer Peter Pham (pictured above at TechCrunch…

Apple on Friday released an update to its WWDC 2013 iOS app, bringing a number feature enhancements and bug fixes to the title ahead of the conference scheduled to kick off on Monday.

Photo Booth, the application for snapping distorted and stylized shots using your Mac's web cam, was improbably but undeniably a lot of fun. Camera Sutra brings that same real-time zaniness to your iPhone 4's front facing camera. The app takes advantage of one of iOS4's multitudinous new APIs for live image previewing, giving you a chance to see how you and your friends' faces look stretched, twirled, dented, infrareded out, and more—there are 13 effects in total—and then snap a picture of it to...

One of the cool things about the era of over-the-air updates is that developers can add tweaks and features specific to certain times of the year, without having to build them in from the start. That’s what EA’s The Simpsons:…

Along with Skype, WhatsApp is the grand daddy of the mobile messaging app space. But despite its relative great age it appears to be continuing to build usage momentum. Earlier today WhatsApp announced a new daily messaging metric record, following on from its recent “bigger than Twitter” boast. Its new daily high is 10 billion+ inbound (sent) messages and 17 billion+ outbound (received) messages.

Cosmic Discoveries, the latest app from the American Museum of Natural History, lets you explore nearly a thousand space-related images and blurbs, arranged neatly in a galaxy swirl-mosaic. Think of it as getting your mind blown, fun-sized.

A pair of app updates on Wednesday brought new wellness tracking tools and a refreshed look to Jawbone's UP fitness system, while community-rooted travel marketplace Airbnb received a more comprehensive makeover complete with rebranding.

Sunrise, the Google-friendly calendar app that focuses on design, may have some competition coming from iOS 7, but even with the added pressure, the Sunrise team is clearly making strides. Today, Sunrise was updated in the App Store to add support for foursquare check-ins, Crunchbase and Google Maps, along with some design tweaks.

Bed & Breakfasts are cool if you and the honey are going on holiday, but did you also realize you can rent out your own place for money? Airbnb lets you calculate how much your extra room is worth to travelers. But for most of you, you'll probably just use that feature once, then use the app to find places to stay when you're out of town. Or even in town! Nothing says adventure like renting out a room right down the street from that guy you always see at Safeway.