Apps

Just in time for the public release of Apple's new iOS 7, a series of new iOS 7-savvy apps will hit the iTunes App Store sporting new looks and new technology under the surface.

A perfect cocktail of poor planning, laziness, tech glitches and fate combined to reduce years of digital Apple iPad artwork to little more than fading memories.

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. This week, we found an app that brings Iron Man's Jarvis to your iPhone and another that reveals celebrities' favorite recipes. SEE ALSO: Top 25 Free iPhone Apps of All Time Also on the list: The sequel to a popular Disney game, and a whole new way to keep up with your favorite RSS feeds.

RSS mobile app Reeder has completed its long-awaited return to the iPad, coming good on a promise that developer Silvio Rizzi, the man behind the service, made back in July after Google closed Reader....

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. This week, Twitter made waves with updates to its Android and iOS apps, an iPhone app helps you speed up your reading and an app from Apple lets you tune in to its 2013 iTunes Festival, which kicks off in London on Sunday.

As August draws to a close, we thought we’d take a retrospective look at some of the more notable apps to hit our radar over the past month....

The best weekend of the end of summer is nearly here! Or already here, if you're the kind of person who knocked off work before 6pm. Or not here at all if you work weekends. Anyway, in honor of Labor Day, we labored all week to find you the best iPad apps. Dig in!...

It's Friday night, and you know what that means: we've got a fistful of apps for you and your iPhone. Which is a lot like a fistful of dynamite, without the explosions. A fistful of dynamite apps! Yeah!...

INQ, the U.K.-based, Hutchison Whampoa backed company that used to build social phones, has extended its social magazine app Material to iOS, and updated the Android app to add an offline view feature and the ability to edit topics. The latter has had more than 50,000 downloads since its beta launch in February.

ReadQuick has been helping iPad users read quickly for the best part of a year already, but with the latest update to hit the App Store you can now speed-read your way through your articles-to-read list on your iPhone too....

LinkedIn today announced an update that makes it “easier than ever” to read and find sources on Pulse. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play and Apple’s App Store....

This is a guest post by Martin LeBlanc, the founder of IconFinder, a search engine for icons. You can follow him on twitter here...

Many apps are already adopting the new look of iOS 7 before it launches. You may find some new favorites as developers scramble to update.

In a must-read post for the tech industry, Twitter experience designer and serial startup founder Paul Stamatiou writes: “Android is Better.” His op-ed serves as something of a wake-up call for the industry, where developers building the next generation of mobile applications still heavily prefer the iPhone, not only as their personal smartphone of choice, but also as the launch platform for their…

The WatchESPN app for iOS received an update on Thursday that adds a new way to watch in-app content, while Digg's RSS reader for iOS added features like a new "Unread" mode.

Do you love animated GIFs? Hey, who doesn’t? We certainly do, and as it turns out, Flipboard does too. The personally curated magazine for iOS has just introduced a new update that allows you to check out animated GIFs, right within the app.

Digg today announced a slew of news for mobile users, plus the ability to only show folders and feeds in the menu only when they have unread items. The iOS app has been bumped to version 5.1 (grab it now from Apple’s App Store), Digg Reader has been ported to the mobile Web, and Digg for Android is coming “very soon.”...

Nary a soul on the internet can resist a good GIF, but Flipboard browsers on iOS devices have been deprived until now. Today Flipboard has hooked up iOS users with GIF support, a feature Android users have long enjoyed.

Flipboard added GIF support to its iOS app today. This addition comes more than a month since its Android counterpart allowed users to watch GIF images over and over again....

Flipboard is getting a lot more animated in its latest iOS update. In an app update rolling out today, Flipboard will begin supporting animated GIFs right inside of magazines, so readers will no longer have to jump into a web browser in order to watch them. The update is also trying to make some of Flipboard's default magazines a bit smarter: the US News, Business, Tech, and Sports sections will now open with the day's "leading news" stories, rather than just displaying a compilation of what's been...

Drippler, the makers of mobile apps for iOS and Android which serve as a hub for personalized news about your device, its features, as well as new mobile applications, is launching a revamped version of its service for Android, now optimized for Android tablets. The Drippler app has been installed over 7 million times to date, and this release is aimed at expanding that footprint even further. It…

The Huffington Post has introduced an iPhone-optimized version of its social video-streaming network, HuffPost Live, almost a year after it first unveiled the service for the Web....

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.

Swell creates playlists of audio news and information from places like BBC, NPR, ABC, and Ted Talks based on your personal tastes.

Two popular iOS titles received updates on Tuesday, with WhatsApp Messenger getting cloud storage backups with Apple's iCloud, while content reader, storage and syncing app Pocket squashes a Twitter related bug.