Apps

Instapaper is updating its iPad app today, bringing the tablet version in line with its iPhone update from September. Aside from a few visual tweaks that help it to better fit in with iOS 7, the biggest update is the new sorting options that allow a reading queue to be filtered by article length, date, or popularity. Though Instapaper hasn't changed drastically since it was purchased by Betaworks earlier this year, the startup has now issued updates for every platform that it's on — fairly quickly...

We’re back with our monthly retrospective retrospective look at some of the more notable iOS apps to hit our radar over the past month....

Pocket Casts, now my favorite podcast management client for iOS, now supports the new 64-bit A7 processor built into the iPhone 5s and the new iPads, thanks to its latest update that’s available to download today. The release also brings…

The apps world brought us redesigns, updates, and brand new offerings this week, none of which are pumpkin spice flavored. Put on your touchscreen gloves and get apping!...

As Apple's iPad takes printed publications to the woodshed, startup publishing platform Prss wants to enable a new generation of digital publications that "enrich content and inspire other people's lives, just by doing that."

Keeping up with the news used to be pretty simple. You picked up your favorite tabloid or broadsheet newspaper on the way to work, or tuned into a scheduled news bulletin at some point on the radio or TV....

Read ALL the articles! But on your own time. Read-it-later apps have enjoyed a huge jump in popularity as of late, and for good reason -- they allow us to prioritize our time, and choose when and where we want to catch up on the latest Miley Cyrus news. That way, we can at least have a semblance of control over some aspect of our lives. See also: 20 Apps That Look Great on iOS 7 Check out some of the most popular read-it-later apps in the above gallery.

As Apple's App Store nears 50 billion downloads, the company reveals the all-time most popular apps for iPhone and iPad.

Circa is already one of our favorite news reader apps for the iPhone, breaking stories down to only the essential facts, quotes or photos. Version 2.0 is being released today on the App Store with a new, iOS 7-influenced design, push notification system and article format for handling breaking news. What’s more, Circa is also launching its first Android app....

Fans of The Next Web Magazine may have noticed that things have been quiet on that front for a couple of months, but there’s a good reason for that – we’ve been quietly working behind the scenes on its evolution. Today we introduce SHIFT....

Apple doesn’t like to allow emulators into the App Store, so try submitting one for approval and you’ll quickly get a big fat no. But some cunning iOS developers have found a way to sneak emulators through Apple’s App Store approval process by making them look like innocent apps....

Sometimes an explanation requires more than just words. A new iPhone app called Shadow Puppet lets users generate narrated tutorial videos or photo slideshows straight from their phone. See also: Top 25 Free iPhone Apps of All Time Users simply select images from their library, arrange them in the order they wish to share them, and use the phone's voice recorder to narrate the slideshow as it plays.

Move over Instapaper, Pocket, and Readability—some new read-it-later iOS apps have arrived on the scene that not only help you read online content later, they also help you read it faster. The $5 ReadQuick by Action Now and Lickability’s $3 Velocity do this by helping you break a habit called subvocalization, which is just a fancy linguistic term for silently sounding out words as you read. According to Velocity’s short tutorial, the average person reads at a speed of about 200 WPM (words per minute),...

Instagram is now optimized for iOS 7. Version 4.2 of the app launched in the App Store on Wednesday, and it's designed specifically for the newest version of Apple’s mobile operating system. See also: 25 Most-Followed Users on Instagram [PICS] The updated Instagram received a new look -- similar to that of other iOS 7 apps -- as well as new features. Photos in your feed are larger, and both the photos and videos are displayed at an increased resolution.

There are many thousands of apps. Whatever your goal, as Apple’s erstwhile advertising campaign proclaimed, “There’s an app for that.” But some apps are simply must-haves—whether for their functionality, their interface brilliance, or just their entertainment factor. Here are ten apps your new iPhone shouldn’t be without....

While developers updated tried-and-true apps that let users listen to music, read and browse the Internet to coincide with the release of iOS 7, a brand new app from an established site helps users do something rather unusual on the iPhone -- buy art. Artsy, a website that features more than 50,000 works for users to browse and buy, launched its first app, which is designed for iOS 7, on Wednesday.

Apple released iOS 7 on Wednesday, and debuted a huge visual overhaul along with it. Heavily textured backgrounds and dark colors are out, while soft gradients, thin sans-serif fonts and bright, bold hues are in. After looking at apps designed for iOS 6, Apple's latest operating system immediately seems out of place. Fortunately, many developers spent the better part of the summer preparing their apps to look at home on iOS 7.

The wave of iOS 7 redesigns continued apace Wednesday afternoon, as Pocket, Nike+, and Google's Chrome browser were all updated with tweaked interfaces in line with Apple's fresh new mobile operating system.

The release of iOS 7 may be dominating the air waves right now, but...

From Evernote to Shazam, it’s a big day for app updates. iOS 7 is now available for download, and many of the App Store’s biggest players updated their apps accordingly. See also: iOS 7: Here's What's New iOS 7 represents a complete re-imagination of Apple’s mobile operating system. The OS, which is available for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, brings a new look and brighter colors to the devices. Check out the gallery above for a look at some of the apps that received major updates for iOS 7.

All that chatter about the death of skeuomorphism and the rise of flat design, iOS 7 is finally here. It's got a new look, which means your apps do, too. We're compiling all of your favorite apps in both their old and updated forms so you can see exactly what's changed and what's pretty much the same. Keep checking back; we'll be updating throughout the day....

Pocket's latest update is going to make it a whole lot more useful for iPhone and iPad users. On iOS 7, the read-it-later service will now be able to automatically download and update your saved articles in the background using Apple's new multitasking tools. Though downloading articles isn't a huge issue when you're on LTE, finding that your latest articles haven't been synced has long been a frustration for the commuter who finds themself without service and with nothing to read. The update doesn't...

With the release of iOS 7 comes a new look and feel for the operating system, and with only tweaks and changes having arrived since its first introduction back in 2007, it couldn’t come a minute too soon....

If I were to draw up a list of my all-time favorite iOS apps, Silvio Rizzi’s Reeder would be near the top. With an easy to use interface that embodied the user experience of Apple’s mobile operating system, Reeder made consuming large quantities of RSS feeds a daily pleasure....

Project “Grand Slam”, Yahoo’s mission to “bring a more coherent look and identity to Yahoo’s pages” in the words of CEO Marissa Mayer, is today flying over one of Yahoo’s flagship properties, the Yahoo iPhone app, where it has traditionally aggregated all of its different content features and provided a window for people to search the web. Today, to coincide with iOS 7, the Yahoo app is being…