Apps

ABBA Singbox: An iPhone game that lets you sing ABBA songs alongside Frida and Agnetha, while Björn and Benny do their thing. The only way life could get any better than this is if actual Swedes were singing besides you. Because, trust me on this one, nobody—yes, nobody—sings like drunk Swedes. The $3 official ABBA app comes with Dancing Queen, and you can buy three other classic—Mamma Mia, Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) and The Winner Takes It All—for $2 each. Expensive, you said...

I know that TwoDots, the followup to last year’s megahit Dots, has been out for a little while, but I have a pretty good excuse for not having reviewed it yet: I’ve been playing it this whole time. It’s taken…

Apple made no small amount of changes to its mobile platform with iOS 7, and among those was the removal of its native voice recording app — a development that surprised both users and voice memo app developers alike.

In this age of excess, there's one thing we could all use a little more of: Nature! It's life giving and life affirming. It's all around us. And yet, most of us still don't know it all that well. No longer! Leafsnap will turn you into a tree-identifying citizen of the future. Do you know your maples from your elms? I don't! Because despite whatever resolutions we might make to "get outside more," "get better at identifying trees" isn't an item you'll find at the top of many twenty-first century to-do...

I’m soaring through the air, dodging fallen trees and rocky overhangs, and evading plumes of sooty black smoke while trying to collect as many runes as I possibly can — and I’m loving it. Who would have thought being a dragon…

After braving through the virtual push and shove of snagging the summer's most coveted festival tickets, it's time to slather up the sunscreen and head out to the crowd. We know you've endured the tedium of poring over lineups to create the perfect itinerary, so now's the time to make the most of your summer festival experience.

The cloud is good, yes!, but it's easy to understand how it could make security-minded folks a bit woozy, what with all those personal files just sitting there waiting to be compromised. If that thought makes you feel woozy, perhaps you should look into LaCie's Wuala service, a secure online storage locker built on technology developed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. It now has an iOS app. You can get 1GB of space for free, or 25GB for $50 a year, which all things considered is not that...

A new mobile application called Phantom is offering a way to post personal photos and videos to blogs and social media sites, like Facebook or Twitter, which “self-destruct” like they do in Snapchat, while also offering controls that limit the number of people who can view the content, and more.The idea to allow for ephemeral sharing on Facebook and other sites is interesting…

Watchup, the startup aiming to create the tablet version of the daily news broadcast, has released version 2.0 of its iPad app, adding features for both casual and power users. The Watchup app pulls news videos from a range of sources, such as the Associated Press, PBS NewsHour, and the Wall Street Journal, and it stitches them together into a continuous playlist. Initially, users had to…

Going by the number of calendar alternatives in the iTunes App Store, nobody seems to be satisfied with the built-in calendar on the iPhone. Plenty of people have tried to create the best replacements, but we think Week Calendar is best suited for the job as it combines the best features of a desktop calendar with the best parts of the mobile experience. Platform: iPhonePrice: $2Download Page Like most alternatives, Week Calendar offers multiple views for your events and tasks. Like some of the best...

Apple on Thursday kicked off a limited-time-only promotion for select iOS productivity apps, including popular titles like Scanner Pro, Fantastical 2 and Writer Pro.

Part news reader, part browser and part social feed, Futureful is proving to be an interesting example of how smart design really is capable of bringing something fresh to the content discovery table....

Instacolor: Far from being lukewarm, Instacolor takes the best bits of Instagram and combines them with the location-specific guidelines of the unpopular Color, helping you find other photo-sharers in your proximity, in real time. Out now, it costs $1. Capture: The quickest video camera you'll find on iOS. Once you launch the app, it starts recording instantly, like seriously instantly-so there's no valuable seconds of horseplay missed. So technically, it's just a home screen button that automatically...

Tom Hanks has made it well known that he's one of the few remaining typewriter diehards, but today he's taking that passion digital. He's releasing an iPad app called Hanx Writer that recreates the typewriter experience on a tablet: keys clack, the paper moves side-to-side, and new sheets need to be rolled in each time you start a page. "Hanx Writer is just my little gift to the future Luddite hipsters of the world," Hanks tells USA Today. Hanks' app does make some updates for the modern age, adding...

USA Network, the channel that’s home to shows such as Burn Notice and Royal Pains, has launched an iOS app today that allows users to stream its television shows from their iPhone or iPad....

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. Documents To Go (Full Version Key) (Google Play) Previously $14.99, now $4.99. Documents To Go for Android may just be the only app you will ever need for viewing and creating documents on your Android device. Supporting Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Docs, and the ability to view PDF files, Documents To Go makes managing your important documents easier than...

Car-calling service Uber on Wednesday unveiled new API and affiliate programs that allow developers to integrate Uber services -- including destination finding, pickup times, fare estimates, and trip history -- into their own apps and earn Uber credits.

S For whatever reason, this week saw more awesome iPad apps coming to our attention than we've seen in a while. And what's more, a lot of them are only for iPad—iPhone needs be damned. So if you're someone who's Pad is king, you're going to like what we've got in store this week....

I was always confused at why Apple bothered making a contacts 'app' since it was nothing more than a shortcut for what was already inside the contacts tab in phone app. There was no imagination to it! Buzz Contacts is a contacts app that's actually useful: it's faster, better and looks reaaaally good. Buzz Contacts puts the traditional iOS contacts system on its head, making it infinitely more useful and faster. Its focus is getting you to contacting your contacts as fast and elegantly as possible,...

Are users itching for a better way to search through the information contained within their mobile apps, bypassing the web and traditional search? Developer Steve Taylor decided to find out, and is now launching an iOS application called In-App which is essentially a Google-like search engine where links automatically open up your apps when tapped.This is made possible via “deep…

S Gah, you want one of these EVERY DAY? Okay, okay. Here's an app that's supposed to relax you with thunder. "Thunderspace". Apparently it's good? Here are some people listening to it: Perfect. (No, really, it's good, probably.) $1, iTunes

Unravel the mysteries of Stonehenge. Did aliens build it? Was it built by Druids as a place to sacrifice virgins? Oh Stonehenge, how you taunt us with your gray boulders and alignment with the sun. Luckily I no longer have to fear what I don't understand. The new Stonehenge Experience app will answer all my questions about alien sacrifices and sun dials. Like the name implies, Stonehenge Experience helps you explore the British remains in an interactive fashion. See how the stones lie in relation to...

Do you really know yourself if you’ve never had your heart broken? Tinder is often labeled a hookup app, but its CEO Sean Rad believes that going on lots of dates can teach you what you need in a soulmate. You can hear his perspective on Tinder’s impact in our backstage video interview at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Some believe Tinder and the globalized dating scene overwhelm us…

After an earlier introduction, the newest calendar app for iOS is here. Cal, a sister app to Any.do for task management, is freely available in the App Store. Like its sibling, Cal is easy to use and well designed.

At some point recently I realized the bulk of the apps I actually use on a daily basis are very simple. They don't have a lot of features and they don't have a lot of customization options. It turns out the featureless apps provide a system that works well for me. Two years ago our own Adam Pash talked about "everything bucket" apps, aka, the apps where you're supposed to throw every thought into them. A lot has changed since then, but feature bloat is still common. Now, nearly every major service is...