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Top-Designed iPhone Apps In the World, According to Apple
Past winners have included Paper by FiftyThree, Evernote, Cut the Rope, and Infinity Blade. App developers compete for the increased exposure and a glowing Apple logo trophy, as well as a comprehensive Apple goodie bag.
This year's winners range from an experimental literary puzzle game all the way to editing software that lets you create living photographs.
Storehouse – Visual Storytelling: a beautiful iPad app that lets users create highly visual and customized stories to share with people through Dropbox or Instagram.
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Threes: It's all about finding combinations and factors of three in this addictive app. Its tagline is "A tiny puzzle that grows on you."
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Leo's Fortune: In this platform adventure game, you are responsible for Leo as he bounces, slides and floats his way in search of his stolen hoard of gold.
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Monument Valley: This picturesque adventure game thrusts you into a world of impossible architecture that feels like a living M.C. Escher painting.
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PanoPerfect: One of the two student winners of the Apple Design Award, PanoPerfect gives users a place to easily share their iPhone panoramas.
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Device 6: This narrative experience combines puzzles, thrillers and literature to create one of the most experimental apps we've ever seen.
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Yahoo News Digest: Last year, Yahoo won an Apple Design Award for its beautiful Yahoo Weather app, and the company did it again this year with a polished news reader.
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Day One: This journal app encourages you to treat it like a diary, making it easy to chronicle everything from major life events to the briefest encounters.
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Blek: In this mesmerizing game, you gesture to create a line that worms its way along, repeating its motion gracefully. Aim for colored dots, avoid the black ones.
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Teachley: Addimals Adventure: The second student winner is an educational app from Teachley that teaches fundamental strategies for addition in a colorful way.
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Sky Guide: View Stars Night or Day: Just point your iPhone and iPad to the sky at night, and Sky Guide does the rest, highlighting constellations for you to discover.
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10 Best Windows Phone Apps For June 2014
Telegram
Apart from allowing you to add up to 200 members on a group chat, Telegram promises speed and powerful security features. The free app lets you share videos as large as 1GB and stores your media in the cloud for instant access.
CloudMesh
Need an app that will allow you to manage all your cloud storage services and local files? Try Cloud Mesh. Apart from letting you copy files between services, it also allows you to browse, copy, move, delete, share, pin, download, upload and search files.
Supported services include DropBox, Box, GoogleDrive, MeoCloud, Facebook, Phone Files, SD Card and OneDrive.
Cloud Mesh even allows you to have multiple accounts of the same cloud service and search between them all. There is an ad-supported free version and a paid Pro version as well.
Black
This is a B&W analog film simulator app for Windows Phone. The app offers users numerous black and white filter options. Users can use a simple swipe to apply the film effect that goes best with their pictures. Options include Kodak 400TX, Lomography Lady Grey and many others.
Files
Windows Phone finally has its first file manager and it is from Microsoft. The app happens to be a functional and straightforward solution for all your management needs, allowing you to perform all the basic tasks with relative ease and speed.
ToolKit
A package of 5 apps, Toolkit aims at helping users with most most basic everyday utilities like voice recording and unit conversions. It happens to be an essential download for most Windows Phone users.
Set 1 contains Ruler, Compass, Protractor and Level, while Set 2 brings along Flashlight, Mirror, Magnifier, OneTap. Set 3 has Unit Converter and NFC Writer, while Set 4 contains Timer, Stop Watch, World Clock, System Info.
Urban Air
Interested in knowing the air-quality of the city that you are in or visiting? This app should help. Users can use it to monitor multiple locations in a city by using a digital map.
Anti Mosquito!
An app that repels mosquitoes by generating sounds at very high frequency, which "are designed to deter those nasty insects." The application lets users pick from different sound frequencies, including 13, 15, 17 or 19 kHz.
By setting the most effective frequency, they can keep mosquitoes away. And in case you are wondering, most people can't hear these sounds since they are in such high frequencies.
InstaSize
The app boasts about its ability to post entire photos on Instagram without cropping. Other features include filters, overlays and text on pictures, the ability to add backgrounds, the choice of a wide range of fonts.
Slowly
A new app that will let users edit video clips and slow motion effects in their favourite positions. Users can also add multiple slomo regions and change the slowness of every region of the clip. However, users won't be able to preview videos in-app in full quality and sound in the slowmo regions will be muted.
#wpdev
A new app from Microsoft that is targeted towards developers. Apart from providing them with official developer resources, the app also gives them access to the latest blog posts, training resources, and partner resources.
Developers will also be connected to tech advisors and specialists who develop on the Windows Phone platform.
Survive on Android without pay for an app?
“I’ve been using Android for ages and never really needed to buy an app,” badapple89 wrote on Reddit. “Now I have $25~ to use up, what have I been missing out on that I need (and can’t get for free)?” he asked.
Badapple89 further added that he’s not keen on playing games on a smartphone, and doesn’t want to spend money on launcher apps either, which are popular purchases among Android users.
Many Android users joined the discussions, posting their suggestions for must-have Android apps worth paying for. Some commentators said that paying for apps is not always required or necessary, and that there are many free, or ad-based apps that do the job well.
Some Reddit users have also pointed out that they only pay for certain apps, and only up to a certain limit, and do so to support developers.
“For me the best apps give something simple and unique. Paying a buck or three to remove ads is a no-brainer, totally worth it in my view,” user shavenwarthog said. “Then again if you haven’t ‘needed’ to buy an app, you don’t need to start now.”
Interestingly, no Android user advised badapple89 to try to get any existing paid apps free of charge via shady methods.
The discussion on Reddit seems to highlight a specific “problem” developers may have with Android – that users are likely to find a way to make the most of their smartphones and tablets without paying for many apps.
Both the Google Play Store and the App Store offer a similar number of apps, although many developers still choose to make apps for iPhone and iPad first. Apple often brags with its App Store statistics including downloads and revenue for developers, although studies have shown that Google is catching up. Even so, Google has yet to reveal any specific details about app revenues that go to Android developers.
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