Apps

Google has finally brought its note-taking app to iOS, more than two years after launching it on Android.

A look at the best productivity apps ever made for the iPhone, based on our list of the best 100 iPhone apps of all time.

Whether it's working out more or taking up a new hobby, Google wants to be the service to help you reach those #squadgoals.

Microsoft was quick to optimize its Office suite of apps for the iPad Pro and Apple's Pencil stylus, but the company held off on any inking support in Office for iPhone. Starting today, Microsoft is updating Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iPhone to include a new drawing tab option. Just like the Windows and iPad variants, Office on iPhone will now let you use your finger to write, draw, and highlight documents....

The Notes app bundled with the iPhone is great for quick little notes, but it hasn’t really changed since the original iPhone, and offers very few options other than a selection of three fonts. For those that want an app more powerful than Notes, but not as advanced as something like Pages for the iPhone, Just Type by Shubham Kedia might just be the perfect notes app.

Whether a startup entrepreneur or a seasoned corporate employee, people all over the world choose to work from home. But sidestepping the traditional workplace can take...

Ah, the smell of erasers and chalk dust is in the air, which can mean only one thing: it's back to school time in many parts of the world. While I'd be lying if I didn't...

Looking for a quick last-minute gift? Not feeling up to fighting the holiday traffic, crowds and checkout lines? Just too lazy busy to shop? Then you may want to consider giving the gift of an iOS app. You can gift any paid app from iTunes on your computer or from the app’s description page on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Just scroll down past the screenshot and look for the “gift this app” button. All you’ll need is the recipient’s email address to complete the transaction.

In this day and age, if a productivity app is not syncing to the cloud enabling you to continue to from anywhere, it has no real grounds to be associated…

Learning is rarely fun; it’s even less fun when being taught within the confines of a lecture hall or classroom. While this may be true, there’s no reason why you…

Froyo? That's just what the myPhoneDesktop app eats after a hard day of wirelessly zapping links, text and images from your computer to your iPhone or iPad—a taste of the mouthwatering functionality Google demoed on Android last week. As it becomes clearer that smart phones and tablets aren't people's lesser computers but simply their other computers, one of the greatest frustrations—and something Google tantalizingly promised to address with Android 2.2—is how isolated all of these devices are...

In this week's app roundup: searches, made quicker; the spinning globe, re-realized; notifications, turned charmingly annoying; drums, played outside your phone; textbooks, sold; alarm clocks, re-imagined; helicopters, controlled; pictionary, with LEGO and much, much more. 4 Eyes: It's a quick search tool for your iPhone. You know how in your desktop web browser you can program search shortcuts like 'wiki' for a wikipedia search or 'yt' for YouTube, 4eyes captures the same idea. You hit pre-programmed...

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. Voice Brief (iTunes) Previously $2.99, now Free. Voice Brief for iOS reads aloud from your email, news feeds, socal networks, and more. It's a text to speech assistant with customizable sources and a music player style interface. Get it for Free. (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. Downloader Elite (iTunes) Previously 99¢, now Free. Downloader Elite for iOS lets you grab web content easily with tap-and-hold downloading from its built-in browser, and includes players and readers for a variety of formats as well as a file manager. Get it for Free. (via Apps-aholic) iOS Windows iOS

With iOS 6 right around the corner, Google’s official YouTube app for iPhone couldn’t have come at a better time. It’s a great app — much better than Apple’s built-in YouTube app — and it’s headlining this week’s must-have apps roundup. It’s accompanied by Poster, a great new blogging app; Journal for Evernote, and Google Drive.

If someone told you that you could get all your favorite blogs (in fact, your entire RSS feed) read to you while you go through your day, what would you say? “Sign me up?” “Black magic?”

Storytree, the 500 Startups-backed company originally focused on capturing and sharing family memoirs online and via mobile, is today announcing a new application called SimplePrints. Inspired by Storytree’s previous efforts in preserving memorable moments, the new app allows you to build photo books using your iPhone photos or those stored online.

On one hand, the $8 MyScript Notes Mobile from Vision Objects is yet another of the growing number of iOS note taking apps. However, it attempts to separate itself from the pack by focusing on handwriting as its main—well, actually, it’s only—form of input....

If you’re a creative with a penchant for eking out the best tools to help you produce the goods, 2012 saw a slew of handy apps that could help you in your endeavors....

Google on Monday updated its native Drive app for iOS with several improvements and new features, including support for upload multiple photos and videos and QuickOffice integration. You can download the latest version of the app now directly from the Apple App Store (23.2MB)....

There are literally hundreds of different ways you can potentially send a file. When it comes to sending something like a presentation from one mobile device to another those solutions often get a bit complicated, especially if you trying to send a file from one mobile phone to several different phones located nearby.

Mailbox, a popular new e-mail sorting service for Apple's iOS, has been acquired by cloud-based storage provider Dropbox, it was announced on Friday.