Apps

Apple on Thursday issued its first ever synchronized iOS and Android app release in a remote control and setup app for its Beats Pill+, the first Bluetooth speaker to come out of Beats since the company was acquired by Apple in 2014.

A growing number of e-commerce businesses today are assisting their customers over SMS and mobile messaging. There are even SMS-based services, like Magic, Operator, GoButler, and others targeting the emerging “conversational shopping” market. Now, e-commerce platform Shopify is aiming to help its merchants better serve their customers via mobile messaging with the launch of…

If you're an iPhone owner who has been wishing for a way to involve Google in basically everything you do on your Apple device, the search giant has good news -- an all-new iOS keyboard with Google inside.

It's about time, Lin...

There are a lot of iOS users who are waiting patiently for Microsoft’s Office productivity suite to finally make its App Store debut. Although Microsoft is maintaining its silence on the subject, recent reports have claimed that Office for iOS will arrive this year. Some developers have taken advantage of that speculation and begun making their own “Office” products. No, I don’t mean the genuine productivity suites that have been available for some time — many of which are very good. I mean the knockoff...

An iPad app released Wednesday makes it easy to combine a drawing on the tablet with an audio memory -- such as your child's description of his or her artwork. The app,...

As many of my friends and colleagues will tell you, I’m someone who’s perpetually running late. As a result, I’m constantly sending out text messages that offer some variation on, “Running 5 minutes late, sorry!” A new startup called Twist promises a smarter, easier approach to sending those messages. When you’ve got a meeting, you can enter the destination, time, and contact info of the participants. Then, as the meeting time approaches, everyone will get automatic messages about when your ETA. ...

With a reported 50 percent of all smartphone owners not knowing how much mobile broadband their handsets use each month, data usage tracking tools are becoming valuable utilities. Boingo just added one to its Wi-Finder for iOS app, which can help save you money.

We first covered On Voicefeed back in January, describing it at the time as a “turbo-charged alternative to Apple’s Visual Voicemail”. Now, it has rebranded and rolled out some new…

Got a new iPad 2? Nice! Here are all the apps that have been discounted just for you. • Notability for $.99 (normally $1.99) • The Early Edition for $.99 (normally $4.99) • Articles for iPad - The Wikipedia App for $.99 (normally $4.99) • Pocket Informant HD (Calendar & Tasks) for $5.99 (normally $14.99) • Inspire Pro - Paint, Draw and Sketch for $.99 (normally $7.99) • FX Photo Studio HD for $2.99 (normally $4.99) • GrooveMaker Club for iPad for $3.99 (normally $6.99) • GrooveMaker Cool...

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. NOAA Weather Radio (iTunes) Previously $3.99, now $1.99. NOAA Weather Radio for iOS not only streams NOAA weather stations but offers a wealth of weather info and recently updated with 5x zoomable animated radar maps. Get it for $1.99. (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. USB Disk (iTunes) Previously $4.99, now Free. USB Disk for iOS gives you a fast and easy way to transfer documents and images to your device. Features include an easy-to-use document viewer, the ability to drag and drop files in iTunes for transfer, restores your last viewing position within a document, and more. Get it for Free. (via Apps-aholic) iOS Android 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. BeWeather & Widgets Pro (Google Play) Previously $2.99, now 99¢. BeWeather & Widgets Pro for Android offers stylish, highly customizable widgets and high definition weather animations with data from Weather Underground. Get it for 99¢. (via Apps-aholic) iOS iOS

I’ve become pretty familiar with the sinking feeling that kicks in when I realize I’m going to be late, and I’m sure I’m not the only one. San Francisco startup Twist set out to make those ensuing “Oh man, so sorry, I’m running a little behind” exchanges obsolete when it launched its arrival signaling iOS app in July, and it turns out the company has been working on a few things behind the …

Remote controls: those representatives of a longstanding love-hate relationship between humans and certain kinds of hardware. But all of that is changing. Smartphones and...

Rise is a very, very simple alarm clock app for the iPhone. It has support for a single alarm that you set to trigger once or once a day. That’s it....

Shady mechanics beware. RepairPal, a company dedicated to helping drivers find reliable auto shops, has closed its $13 million Series B round, led by two automotive industry big shots: Cars.com and Castrol‘s innoVentures investment and innovation firm. The funding will help it introduce new services and extend its network of trusted mechanic shops....

Bowers & Wilkins’s $400 Z2 is the apparent successor to the company’s Zeppelin Mini, but instead of a 30-pin dock connector, the Z2 features a Lightning-connector dock and AirPlay wireless streaming. Supporting the latest iPhone, iPod touch, and iPod nano models, the Z2 is available in black or white glass-filled ABS. (The black model is available now; the white model won’t ship until June.)...

There’s no shortage of third-party alarm clock apps for iPhone, there’s Suno and Rise for starters. But another one has just hit our radar that may be worth your $1.99....

Google Maps is the most frequently used mobile app in the world, according to GlobalWebIndex data on global smartphone users in Q2 of 2013. The top three apps after Google's popular mapping tool are Facebook (44% of smartphone users), YouTube (35% of users) and Google+ (30% of users). See also: Use These 10 Apps During Downtime Statista's chart below tracks the 10 most frequently used smartphone apps in the world, based on percentage of smartphone users that have used the app in the past month.

It may not be official, but with the start of September, summer is pretty much out the door. No one likes to see those sunny days fall by the wayside, so we're sure there was a bit of gloom hanging over the workweek. Fortunately, we've got a whole slew of iOS apps for you to take your mind off your troubles. Just push 'em way deep down inside—it's the healthy thing to do....

Sometimes the simplest ideas make the most useful apps. Distress Signal is aimed at people in need of the emergency services but without the ability to speak to them on the phone. Maybe you’re in a country where you don’t speak the local language, or maybe you’re in a situation that makes speaking impossible....

In a year that saw Apple finally pass the one million milestone in terms of live applications in the App Store, it’s fair to say there’s a deluge of file-managers, smart calendars, budgeting tools and funky cameras to sift through to get to the real gems....

Depending on who you listen to, ideas are either bulletproof, cheap, and powerful or like an unmentionable part of your body. Everyone has ideas. Every conference, meetup, hackathon, startup weekend event is filled with people who have ideas but lack the ability to build them. Countless people are trying to raise funding or get a technical co-founder with little more than a few bullet points on a piece of paper.