Apps

If you posted your #2015bestnine on Instagram last year, you could be part of a new dating app.

Snapchat is reportedly finalizing an acquisition of Vurb, a search app for smartphones, for well over $100 million in stock and cash, according to The Information. Exactly what Snapchat plans to do with the five-year-old startup isn't clear; Vurb markets its app as a convenient tool for searching, discovering trending topics, and carrying out tasks like making reservations and hailing Uber / Lyft without hopping between several different apps. Here's a writeup The Next Web did on the service last year....

Here at Mashable, our garden grows with some digital assistance. We have previously rounded up 10 great options to help you get more greenery, and now we're topping up...

We are mere days away from 2011, and still happily ensconced in the holiday madness of 2010. This jolly season, which usually kicks off at Halloween, is a fast-moving fog...

Card.io, the toolkit for mobile app developers which lets users pay for items by holding their credit card up to the phone’s camera, is today launching a consumer-facing app. It’s something like Square, but without the dongle. It’s also not aimed at merchants, as Square is. Instead, the new Card.io applications, available for both iPhone and Android, are meant for person-to-person payments. Splitting lunch, borrowing money, paying for gas – that sort of thing.

Sharing things using your mobile phone is nothing new, but apps like Path are putting a new spin on sharing by only allowing you to have a network of fifty…

While the iPhone owners at Gizmodo seem unable to locate the white iPhone 4s on the revamped Apple Store app, you can at least reserve products for purchase, engrave stuff, and schedule Genius Bar appointments. Version 1.1 of the app builds on the original (and basic) app, with the aforementioned services plus you can now request your item to be gift-wrapped. Stores can be located on the map and if you make appointments they can now be added to iCal, which seems like a real no-brainer. It's still free,...

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. Graphs (iTunes) Previously 99¢, now Free. Graphs for iOS helps you to learn more than you ever wanted to know about various types of graphs. Whether you want to learn more about bar graphs, pie charts, or another flavor of graph entirely, you are able to do so via easy to use tutorials and exams. Your understanding of graphs will be expanded with Graphs, our App Deal...

Being a parent in the smartphone era is a serious blessing. We have an arsenal of essential parenting tools that didn't exist a few years ago -- and they're right in our...

One month after Fab announced seven million members and removed the signup roadblock to view items for sale, the e-commerce site for design aficionados is now rolling out a completely…

This post is about Apple’s Passbook. It’s not about mobile wallets, or Google Wallet, or Square, or anything else. I realize the space is vast and dynamic, but I only have an iPhone, and I’m here to write about Passbook. With that disclaimer out of the way, I’d like to share some thoughts about Passbook, a thesis I’ve developed around “cards vs. apps,” the big opportunity this…

This week’s roundup of iOS apps is full of Hurt. Trust us....

It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck -- we take care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite new and updated apps. This week Twitter released a new application for sharing video content on the web, and another company released one for sharing your opinion on literally everything in the world.

The annual conference in Austin, South by Southwest, is known for helping to launch "breakout" apps over the years and many developers choose it as the place to launch their products. It's also a great place for networking with investors and partners. While the focus is usually on iOS, we rounded up the best Android apps that were either launched or heavily promoted this year, some of which are just starting to take off.

Earning money for your personal shopping sounds like it would be a big scam, right? But with a new gaming app from a Denver-based startup, you can legitimately get cash when you buy certain products. The Ibotta app fits into the gamification of shopping space. Ibotta (free for iOS and Android) lets you earn real money for specific item purchases at participating retailers.

Backed by Peter Thiel and other notable angel investors, Silicon Valley startup Everest is trying to help people ‘unlock their potential’ and fulfill their dreams with an iPhone app that enables them to break down their personal goals into an unlimited amount of smaller steps....

If you’ve ever had a hankerin’ to sit down and craft your own biography—or to collect the stories of your parents or grandparents before they pass on—StoryPress, a free iPad app from GhostGear Labs, is just the place to start. It helps you record oral histories that sound nearly as polished and professional as the Story Corps pieces you sometimes hear on NPR....

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…

Andrew Yates is the head of iOS at Buffer, a smarter way to share your Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn posts. You can contact him on Twitter, where he is @ay8s....

YPlan has only been around for less than a year, but the company is rapidly covering new ground. After expanding from the UK into New York city last month, the social planning service is today launching an Android app.

A growing obsession with digitally archiving everyday life has given rise to countless apps facilitating your diaristic tendencies. Rising above the clutter is Bokeh, a new service that strips lifelogging to its essentials with a pared-down app that stresses less is more....

Gifting startup Jifiti, which is attempting to merge the concept of thoughtful shopping involving carefully selected items with the convenience of a gift card, has added another $1 million to an earlier round announced this summer, the company is announcing today. The news comes as Jifiti launches its first white-labeled application, powering a gift registry for IKEA Portland. To date, IKEA…

YPlan, an app for planning a last-minute night on the town, has announced an expansion into San Francisco, following successful launches in London and New York....

Loveflutter is rebooting somewhat today with a mobile-first approach aiming to be a more "quirky" Tinder. Or, more accurately, with a dating app that, along with interest-based matchmaking, asks you to present a quirky fact about yourself in an attempt to lead with something other than your photo.

PlaceMe uses every sensor in the phone to track your activity. Now PlaceUs is doing the same except it’s tracking the combined activity of a family or small group of friends.