Apps

Most smartphones today have built-in digital cameras, which allow you to take photos that rival what you might have taken with a high-dollar stand alone digital camera...

The iPad has finally made its international debut, meaning that thousands and thousands of new users will be enjoying Apple's latest device over the coming weeks. With the...

Sincerely is on a roll. The startup behind a ton of photo-printing and greeting card mobile apps, including Postagram, PopBooth, Sincerely Ink and Dotti, just launched the underpinnings its photo sharing network earlier this month with the debut of “Sincerely Magic,” and today, the company is launching its first-ever partnership with non-profits in a program called “Sincerely Giving.” If you’re debating about which app you’re going to use to send out your Mother’s Day cards with this year (and c’mon, th...

Adobe’s Photoshop Express didn’t fare too well in our recent round-up of iOS image enhancement apps. There are simply better options out there. Now Adobe has made a push to…

Pic Collage, the picture collage app (as the name suggests) developed by 500 Startups graduate Cardinal Blue, has passed a significant milestone this week after racking up 10 million downloads…

VLC used to be the premo app for anyone who wanted to play any sort of video (movies, tv shows, etc.) on their iPad. Sadly, it was pulled from the app store. Luckily, there's It's Playing. It's like VLC except you can download it RIGHT NOW. It's a video player app for your iPhone and iPad. And like VLC before it, it plays every video file from here to the sun: AVI, MKV, WMV, OGG, FLV and more. What's great is that you don't have to bother converting your video files before you put it on your iPad (like...

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. Voice Brief (iTunes) Previously $2.99, now Free. Voice Brief for iOS reads aloud from your email, news feeds, socal networks, and more. It's a text to speech assistant with customizable sources and a music player style interface. 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. Splashtop CamCam (iTunes) Previously $9.99, now $1.99. Splashtop CamCam for iOS lets you monitor your kids, pets, nanny, etc. from a Windows PC webcam from anywhere. Features include high-resolution video streaming and audio streaming, all in real-time. Get it for $1.99. (via Apps-aholic) iOS Windows iOS Android Windows

Kicking off this week’s must-have apps roundup is a new music app called MUSaIC, that promises to help you rediscover your all those albums you forgot you had. We’ve also got a great new photography app called Etchings, which turns your photos into etched illustrations; a big update to Dolphin, one of my favorite third-party browsers on iOS; and more.

We have a bit of a high-brow edition of this week's best iPhone apps. From an app that'll teach you all about wine, to a stalwart lit mag, we're flexing your brain muscle for you this time around....

Three months after releasing a standalone YouTube iPhone app, Google has brought it to Apple's iPad. The latest version of YouTube for iOS also includes another long-awaited feature: support for the iPhone 5's 4-inch display. Videos will now fill the entire screen on the latest iPhone and iPod touch hardware....

There are only two excuses for using the term “amazeballs!“: you’re Zooey Deschanel and you star in the hit TV sitcom New Girl, or you’ve just witnessed the Cycloramic app in action. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is even fascinated with the app, which takes a 360-degree video on its own, without the help or support of a tripod, special case or accessory of any kind.

With the end of 2012 comes the end to thousands of app releases this year. And out of everything we’ve seen over the past twelve months, we’ve narrowed our list of favorites down to present to you the most beautiful iOS apps of 2012....

Video professionals looking to bridge the gap between their Mac and iPad can turn to ProCutX, a new iPad app that allows editors to control Apple's Mac-based Final Cut Pro X.

Cinemagram, the app for creating cool GIFs, has been around for some time but this year it’s come under pressure from a very high-profile rival, Twitter’s two-month-old Vine service. Factcyle, the company behind the app, added video editing features in a significant update just two days after Vine’s launch in January, and now there are more changes with the introduction of tagging and the option to import GIFs....

The days of snail mail invitations are far behind us, with every backyard barbecue, birthday celebration and concert broadcasted through Facebook event pages or text message. Though you can let hundreds of friends know about your next party with the click of a button, the convenience takes away from the fun of planning: the invites. Phoster, a free iOS app, brings professional design to your posters and invitations and lets you stretch your creativity without the cost or effort.

Amazon on Friday released its Cloud Drive Photos app, and corresponding 5 gigabytes worth of free cloud storage, in what is essentially a competitor to Apple's own iCloud-based Photo Stream service.

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...

Instagram on Friday rolled out an update bringing two feature additions and various bug fixes, including support for photo and video taking while an iPhone is in landscape view.

Loom, the new cloud storage and syncing service emerging from the ashes of Y Combinator-backed Popset, is today opening its doors, and heading into beta. Though the company’s long-term vision for Loom is to offer users and developers a better alternative to Apple’s iCloud, the app that’s launching now on Mac and the iTunes App Store is only the first step. It allows users to sync their photos…

These apps might have plenty of uses outside of sexting, but their friendliness to the act is undeniable.

Yahoo's official Flickr app for iOS was given new filter capabilities in an update on Thursday that brings it into direct competition with Instagram, as well as Apple's built-in Camera app in the upcoming release of iOS 7.

There the times when you simply can’t (or don’t want to) hop on your computer to edit or put special effects on a photo. But that doesn’t mean you’re stuck with a shot you’re not totally in love with. You can give your photos almost that full-on Photoshop treatment with Photoshop Touch, the mobile app for iPhone, iPad, or Android....

Photo-sharing has a new contender for your eyeballs. Meet Dubble: an app for iOS 7 made by a U.K. startup that lets you spice up your selfies by randomly pairing them with a photo taken by someone else. The app digitally combines two separate shots into one photo by overlaying them over each other. The result mimics the double exposure effect that's possible on film photography.