Apps

Margaret Molloy is the Global CMO for strategic branding firm Siegel+Gale. Follow her at @MargaretMolloy....

Pebble's newly launched smartwatch app store came pre-populated with over 1,000 apps and watch faces to sift through. AppleInsider spent a few weeks with Pebble 2.0 before it debuted on Monday and dug up a few of the most useful apps to get new Pebble owners started.

An unscrupulous developer has managed to turn a useless Android app into a temporary hit on the Google Play store — again. As noted by Android Police, a $3.99 app called Virus Shield recently skyrocketed up the "top paid" chart. It was eventually pulled down by Google, but not before tallying over 10,000 downloads according to its Play listing. Created by a developer under the guise of Deviant Solutions, Virus Shield promised to prevent "harmful apps from being installed on your device." (Antivirus...

EBay today is expanding its lesser-known “eBay Sell For Me” service to mobile with the launch of a new app called “eBay Valet” that promises to let eBay do the selling for you. That is, it takes every step of the selling process – from determining an item’s value to listing it online to shipping it when sold - and handles it for you.Like its…

Kanzee is a social network and accompanying app that allows people to share and swap clothes with each other. It’s a simple concept and that’s why I like it. It also solves a problem that many a fashionista have encountered (myself not included) — how to get new outfits or accoutrements for specific events without purchasing them.

A company called Canopy launched last year to bring a more curated and community-driven experience to shopping Amazon products, with an organized catalog of recommended items, and a number of tools for finding and saving favorites. Today, Canopy is bringing that same experience to mobile with the launch of the Canopy iOS application.Like its web-based counterpart, the iOS app offers a…

The Touch ID-based cross-platform Mac unlocking tool MacID has been updated to version 1.1, temporarily going free for a limited window, while Airbnb has added new conditional rules to its iPhone app, and Target has updated its iPhone shopping with new Store Search and customization options.

Bumble, the dating app founded by ex-Tinder employees, announced that its female users have started more than one million conversations on the platform.Bumble is a dating app that prescribes to the Sadie Hawkins style of dating. Men and women swipe left or right on each other, just like on Tinder, but once a match is established, only females can initiate conversations. This takes the…

Algorithms can’t tell you what to do tonight. You need a local who knows the scene, hears about all the events, and can tell you what’ll actually be fun. That’s why DoStuff hired over a hundred cool kids in cities across the country to power recommendations in its new event discovery iOS app. Hold on to your liver, it’s adventure time.You might know the company from…

Tinder just released a pretty major update that allows hopeful singles to send GIFs to their matches using the dating app. Thankfully, you can't just send any old GIF to a total stranger; you're limited to whatever's available through Giphy. So consider this a last ditch move when you're really struggling to come up with that first message. If you lack any semblance of creativity or inspiration, Tinder will even help you out and surface which GIFs are currently trending. GIFs are located next to the...

Apple is working on a new version of its Apple Store app for iOS that will provide customers with personalized product recommendations based on their purchase history, according to a report published Thursday.

Featured in our favorite iOS applications this week is the free content sharing app from Posterous that lets you post any mix of text, photos, and videos instantly to the web, directly from your iPhone. Phoster is also featured in our must-have application list this week: it’s a universal app for both iPhone and iPad that lets your create stunning posters and invitations. With loads of templates to get you started and various effects and decorations, you’ll be able to produce stylish results in no time ...

February 14, love it or hate it, is just around the corner. Valentine’s Day is yet another holiday that has been over-marketed and over-commercialized, judging by the...

Feeling overloaded by social recommendation apps? Get ready for another one hitting the market, although this one says it will come with a twist: LoveThis, the social recommendation service that launched last year with $2 million in funding, today has launched an iOS app to let friends recommend across 10 categories, from books and films to places to eat. But unlike apps like Amen or Foursquare that rely on people using the app to suggest or tag things, this one says it will also take into account recom...

For many of us, our iPhones are essential parts of our business lives. We literally can’t get work done without them. For the large majority of people though, the iPhone…

Family Tracker's not a new app, but this iOS4 update rescues it from near-uselessness. Thanks to the addition of multitasking, you can now track the GPS locations of family members all day, every day. Privacy invasion? Nah. That's just love. It's a good bargain, though, compared to AT&T's similar service that can cost $15/month. Family Tracker has a one-time payment of three dollars. Locations can be viewed from a browser, so you don't even need an iPhone to play the most dangerous game—though your...

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. MoneyPad (iTunes) Previously $2.99, now $1.99. MoneyPad for iOS allows you to keep track of your financial information in multiple ways. Keep track of your spending and income, bills, budget, and monitor multiple accounts via a user-friendly interface. It may just replace your checkbook, not to mention hours of manual budgeting. Get it for $1.99. (via Apps-aholic) iOS...

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? Pick: Instagram is fun, but eventually you might tire of it. Japan's take on the photo...

It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck -- Mashable takes care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite new and updated apps.

It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck -- here's our app roundup.

This week’s roundup of iOS apps will help you read a little better, play a little harder, and look to the skies....

A former novelist hopes to make it easier for readers to discover short fiction with a new iPad magazine app called Paragraph Shorts.

Even though Apple and Google hate each other now days, that hasn’t stopped Google from making some really great apps for the iPhone. Google’s latest creation just hit the App Store today and it’s focused on local discovery. Field Trip has previously been an Android-only app, but Google is bringing it to the iPhone today for free. The app is kind of like Google Now. It runs in the background and then automatically alerts you of interesting information in your area based on location data.

Evernote Hello, the iPhone app that makes it easy to remember the people you meet, has been updated with a number of new features. The app now has a passcode lock option, making it more secure, and a number of improvements have been made to business card scanning, including the ability to control your camera’s flash.

Personal styling and retail platform Trunk Club is going mobile. After finding that around 40 percent of its website traffic is now coming from mobile devices, and around 75 to 80 percent of that comes from iOS devices in particular, the company is today introducing its first consumer-facing native application for iPhone. The app will allow users to access its personalizing clothing service…