Apps

Amazon's Cloud Drive Photos app ranks among the simplest and best ways to back up your mobile photo collection. Today it's been updated on iOS with two big features: Cloud Drive Photos now runs natively on the iPad, and it will finally upload videos you've recorded for safekeeping on Amazon's servers. Clips up to 20 minutes in length can be backed up (file size is also limited to 2GB), and if you enable auto-upload, Amazon will dig back through your entire iOS camera roll to ensure that all of your...

In the midst of hype for new gadgets from the Consumer Electronics Show, Apple on Tuesday issued a press release to announce that sales from the App Store topped $10 billion in 2013, with $1 billion spent by customers in December alone.

Popular photo sharing service 500px has updated its iOS app to finally allow users to upload photos directly from their phone. To date the app — which is also available for Android — has been read-only, with users forced to use the regular Web interface to add new images....

Before Apple’s iOS 7 update began organizing your photos into “moments” based on time and place, there was Flayvr. The Tel Aviv-based startup has built automatic organization technology which takes your smartphone’s photos and videos and places them into albums that you can quickly share with your friends and social networks. Today, the company has raised another $2…

With thousands of apps at our fingertips, they can quickly overcrowd our screens. Solve your problem by taking 15 minutes to clean out the jumble of app clutter and find an organizational structure that works for you.

Six months after its launch, award-winning iPad app Storehouse has formed a strong community of storytellers, including the likes of GQ Germany, RTÉ, and its most recent participant — National Geographic.

YouTurn is probably wincing that I compare their app to the extremely popular Hyperlapse. In my defense, there are similarities that simply must be noted — primarily that the app creates super-fast videos of events.However, YouTurn, who is showing their concept on the floor at TechCrunch Disrupt, has a slightly different angle and it revolves around taking road trips in your car and…

iOS 8 offers powerful new tools to developers such as extensions, which allow third-party iPhone and iPad apps to be more flexible and interconnected than ever before. AppleInsider offers a look at some of the best iOS 8 extensions available to download on the App Store right now.

What if you swiped through Instagram rather than scrolling? What if posts were anonymous until you commented and the author replied? What if you’re already too old to know what kids like?Swipe raises these questions, and it’s that last one that may have prompted top early stage firms Sherpa Ventures, First Round Capital, Lowercase Capital, and Binary Capital to invest $6.5…

Why do your friends’ selfies look so #flawless? Because they’re using these apps.

Snapchat's making it a bit easier to keep your account (and all the snaps contained within) secure. The app's most recent update on Android and iOS adds the ability to enable two-factor authentication. Once switched on inside the settings menu, login verification requires that you enter a 6-digit code upon signing in from any device you haven't used before. Snapchat will text this temporary code to the phone number linked with your account, a popular security move that should substantially lessen the...

Earlier this week, designer Majd Taby was running me through the new version of his photo editing app, Darkroom. He had just submitted it to Apple for App Store approval — a sometimes arduous process. During the demo, Taby got two notifications. The first was that the app was officially being reviewed. The next one came 20 minutes later: Darkroom 2 was approved. "Holy shit," Taby laughed. "That was a weird thing to happen during a meeting."...

So, you've downloaded iOS 9, now what? Update all your apps, of course.

The company that built the “computer in the cloud” from scratch to take the heavy lifting away from our devices, Upthere, has launched their apps into beta, letting in those who signed up for an invite in slowly.Upthere Home and Upthere Camera for iOS, Android and Mac are now live, and I’ve been playing with them for a better part of the last week. The service is free during…

This week's list includes an app that makes your doodle come alive, an emoji-based Charades game and an app for sharing your favorite vertical videos.

Snapchat released an update to its iOS app today that lets you overlay emojis on top of video snaps. So if you'd like to place, say, a "Face With Tears of Joy" or "Ghost" emoji on top of your video, just record the clip and tap the emoji button at the top of the screen, located next to the text option. From there, you can find the select emoji, drag it around the screen, and resize it with the pinch-to-zoom gesture. You can choose static ones or emojis will subtle animations that can interact with...

Prisma, the photo manipulation app that uses neural networks to regenerate users' images in the styles of famous artists and paintings, marks a big upgrade today. The iOS Prisma app is being updated to allow offline processing of images for the first time, taking away much of the frustration around needing an internet connection and waiting for overloaded servers to catch up. The initial update won't include all of Prisma's filters, but it does at least lay the foundation for making the app self-...

We're so vain.

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...