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Download our free app and learn something new every day. Schools should call 0113 278 9096 to claim their free trial As featured on and learn about our volume app subscription licence. BBC Click www.brainpop.co.uk/mobile | @BrainPOP_UK | [email protected] Sep 2013 WELCOME WELCOME TO APPS MAGAZINE Your essential apps guide every issue From Uber redefi ning how we hail a taxi to indie releases like Monument Valley becoming big- name games, this issue we celebrate a year of brilliant apps. In terms of functionality, style and innovation, the bar is constantly being set higher and higher. With that in mind, we’ve spent much time and care picking our top 50 best apps of the year (page 14). However, while these downloads represent the best of 2014, the rest of the issue is dedicated to looking ahead Theteamrecommends… to 2015 with reviews of the best NICK ROBERTS JACK PARSONS new apps and games. This includes Editor in Chief Deputy Editor Nintendo’s second outing on iOS, Camp The Angry Birds are The best apps off er Pokémon (page 23), and the mobile back and on top form an elegant solution to in a crossover with everyday problems, adaptation of the popular Mac Transformers (page 39). It’s and PhotoMath (page 33) does photo-editing app Pixelmator possibly the franchise’s best just that. Snap a photo of a game since its last Hollywood number problem and the app (page 27). partnership with Star Wars. will solve it instantly. Don’t forget to enter our DOM PEPPIATT ERLINGUR EINARSSON competition on page 10 to win a fantastic prize! Contributor Production Editor Sadly its not a full- NBA Game Time (page Enjoy, on game, but Camp 25) has its fl aws, but Pokémon (page 23) I’m now hooked on is still great fun for fans of watching games on my mobile Nintendo’s pocket monsters. since the live stream update.

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ENTERTAINMENT 19 APPS WORK 14 APPS 022 Entertain 032 Pennies under fives Unlike other money Keep your toddlers happy with management apps, Pennies this selection of apps makes finances fun 023 Camp Pokémon 033 PhotoMath Pikachu comes to iOS with mini- This pocket marvel solves games and photo features sums with a snap 024 Pause 033 Drafts 4 This interactive magazine is An all-in-one app for writing music to our ears and sharing posts 024 Alien Blue GAMES 22APPS Reddit launches official app EVERYDAY 22 APPS 036 Amazing THE MUST-HAVE APPS FOR indie games iPHONE, iPAD AND ANDROID 026 Scrapbook the web The best games you’ve 14 never heard of Collect and collate the most interesting things online 037 Agents Of Storm 027 Pixelmator A tropical spy adventure ENTERTAIN A powerful image editor 038 Rival Stars 22 028 Timeline Nelson Basketball UNDER FIVES A card-trading slamdunk A voyage of discovery 029 TinType 039 Sleep Attack TD A twisted take on tower defence The new app from Hipstamatic 029 Merlo 039 Angry Birds Transformers Analyse your Twitter stats Birds in disguise as robots in 030 Fort McMoney disguise works surprisingly well A social experiment for iPad 040 Zero Age 030 Google News A beautiful, puzzling follow-up And Weather 040 CounterSpy All the daily news you need, in one handy digest Stealth over substance? 44

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APPS +PEOPLE +GEAR 006 The sports news explosion The sports fanatics are invading the field with some great apps 008 Q&A After making waves as a Spotify rival, Tidal explains why its streaming app is about sound quality 009 How to throw the best party From invites and fodd to music and games; there’s an app for that 010 Win! Mobi SD card Boost your phone memory with this top prize 011 My home screen Top apps for saving money SHOP ‘TIL YOU DROP WITH THESE 012 Gear round-up 20 ESSENTIAL DOWNLOADS This month’s essential gadgets 09 THROWAPARTY

PLUS LEARN MORE ABOUT YOUR APPS! 36 042 Add effects to 26 AMAZING photos with Pixelmator Utilise creative effects, templates and SCRAPBOOK INDIE GAMES styles to transform your lacklustre THE WEB images into something really special HOW WE REVIEW OPERATING SYSTEM PRICE Certain apps only work on specifi c O iPhone+ | iOS 5.0 | Free | v4.5.2 We list the most operating systems; check your device up-to-date price meets the specifi cations here. O Android | OS 2.2 | Free | v4.6.3 possible, but check before VERSION purchasing. Note FORMAT We always review the latest versions that free apps Some apps are specifi c to iPhone or of apps when going to publication, but may still require iPad, however if listed with a plus bear in mind issues we outline may be some in-app symbol, apps will work on both devices. fi xed in updated versions. purchases. 5 APPS + PEOPLE + GEAR

GET EXCITED ABOUT… Credit: Torsten Bolten SPORTS APPS HAVE ALREADY WON!

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A recent report from Flurry in the United States has the big games live through your cable provider with services highlighted the desire to watch sports on every device users dedicated to specifi c sports. Sky Go lets you watch all sports own, and the trend is growing all of the time. As an example, provided you subscribe to the premium channels, thus the time spent on football apps has grown by a whopping working as a perfect hook to suit those who want to watch 250 per cent in the past year alone and all sports apps show sports on the move as well as at home on the big screen. a comparable rise of 210 per cent. And this is not a fl uke. The Offi cial F1® App lets you pay a subscription to monitor There are many reasons why fans will want to use an every technicality of each race and apps like NBA GAME app in place of traditional TV broadcasting; results can be TIME let you stream basketball matches, with many other obtained in real-time, more information can be shown on apps available for alternative sports. The world of sports is the screen and the individual can tailor the experience to a highly complicated business and it would seem as though their exact needs. No matter what the sport or team, there apps that off er advantages over traditional TV solutions, is likely an app available that will fulfi l a fan’s requirements. including price, depth of coverage and convenience will only This has led cable companies to look for solutions to make get more capable in the near future, and that they will also their services a larger part of this new way of following grow in number very quickly. In the world of sports, the sporting events. LiveScore is a perfect example of an app humble app is already the winner. designed to cater for those who need to know the latest live scores and results no matter where they are, and is one LIVESCORE that potentially takes even more attention away from cable O iPhone+ | iOS 5.1.1 | Free | v2.2.0 companies and broadcasters. However, you can now follow OAndroid | OS 2.0.1 | Free | v2.0.5 6 IN TOUCH LIVESCORE EXPLORED

REAL-TIME SCORES SUBSCRIBE TO A MATCH Real-time scores will be You can subscribe to any displayed during any match. match or event by tapping the All all you need to do is tap the yellow star at the top and then panel to see more information selecting a star next to any such as who scored, who has game. Once this is done, you will been sent off , and much more. receive alerts as soon as goals or The level of information on hand runs are scored. is staggering.

SET YOUR PREFERENCES EVERY MAJOR SPORT You can set the refresh interval Football, hockey, basketball, to run from 30 seconds all the tennis and cricket are all covered way up to three minutes. This in the app and you can easily is handy because you may subscribe to matches and follow want to change the frequency any team in seconds. The simple depending on if a match is interface makes everything easy currently being played. to understand and to set up.

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WRC NFL GAME PASS OFFICIAL F1® APP FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE To highlight just how There are focused apps Lap times, classifications, live Why not take part in the thoroughly some apps cover available for pretty much timing, radio transmissions action instead of just a sport, the World Rally every sport you can think of and and live tyre information are just watching it by using one of the Championship solution offers NFL Game Pass is a very good the tip of the iceberg in how deeply many fantasy sports apps available? videos, news, race countdowns and example. You can stream games this app can cover a Formula 1 race. Fantasy Premier League 2014/15 is so much more within an interface live or view them on demand, The amount of real-time info one of the very best, as it lets you perfectly styled for the world of provided you buy a subscription, packed into it is incredible and this update your selections and keep rallying. It is both informative, and also capture every single play download will suit any hardened F1 track of results, no matter where entertaining and complete. as it unfolds. fan down to the ground. you are. O iPhone | iOS 6.0 | Freemium | v1.1.1 O iPad+ | iOS 7.0 | Freemium | v3.3 O iPad+ | iOS 6.0 | Freemium | v6.162 O iPad+ | iOS 6.0 | £1.49/$1.99 | v1.2.1 O Android | OS 4.0 O Android | OS 2.3 O Android | OS 4.0 O Android | OS 4.0 | Freemium | v1.0.2 | Freemium | v4.0916 | Freemium | v6.164 | £1.29/$2.04 | v1.1.6 7 APPS+PEOPLE+ GEAR QUESTIONS &ANSWERS

In the early days of the TIDAL’S MUSIC internet, music services needed to serve up audio in small sizes, leading to STREAMING IS compressed MP3, AAC or OGG fi les. But thanks to Wi-Fi, MAKING WAVES 4G and a new called Tidal, it’s now possible to stream lossless CD-quality FLAC fi les from a library of 25 million songs. We Tidal has HD music videos too. Are videos Off fering CD-quality spoke to Tidal’s CEO Andy Chen to learn more. still important? Yes, we have licensed 75,000 videos available sound and playlists Where is the demand for high-fi delity audio on the Artist pages. Music videos let users not coming from? only hear, but experience the music. Videos created by experts, It’s coming from anyone who has invested allow artists to express their art further and in Hi-Fi or purchased headphones for their represent a key part of music culture. Tidal is a new smartphone that are above the quality packaged with the phone, and it’s coming from Why have you decided to have curated streaming service people who appreciate quality. It’s a lifestyle playlists and who creates them? choice and now, more than in recent years, This has been a key diff erentiator for us since taking on Spotify there is a demand for quality. Consumers will we launched our original service in 2010. We pay a premium provided they receive increased originate from a record-store chain and we service – a luxury experience if you will. have always believed in personal advice and service, the one that only an experienced What is the diff erence in sound quality? music expert can give. This is why Tidal Compression is about what is left out of editors hand-pick all the music displayed and the music from the original recording. The recommended in our various sections, from diff erence in the listening experience is album presentations to playlists and in-depth noticeable straight away. A lossless music track articles, features and interviews. We have a is six times the size of an MP3 and four times global team of ten to 15 journalists plus guest TIDAL that of most standard streaming services. This editors, freelance journalists and, of course, Digital music services usually offer compressed amount of information will not go unnoticed by artist playlists as well. audio. Not Tidal.ItsendsuncompressedCD the listener. quality tracks through the air. O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free You go beyond the music with articles and O Android | OS 4.1 | Free So is it about educating people that 4G now features too - why do you think users want allows for better quality? to learn more about those behind it? Faster connections certainly help, as they The stories behind the music elevate the were the boundary that caused the decrease experience to another level. Tidal is a service in quality from physical to digital in the fi rst that believes in quality and better performance. place. With Tidal, you can also listen offl ine, so Our customers seek out the best and so if you commute to work, you will benefi t from therefore are interested in the music and we wonderful lossless audio without the need to give them the chance to discover more about be connected to the internet. artists and how the music was made.

How much data will Tidal use up and are At £19.99 per month, Tidal costs more than there any tips for better streaming? Spotify and Google Play Music – why? We recommend a minimum broadband speed of We off er a better-quality service that 2MB to stream fl awless lossless. Make sure you diff erentiates us from our competition have an optimal connection and of course, good with Hi-Fi sound quality, HD videos and headphones or audio equipment. curated editorial. “TIDAL EDITORS HAND-PICK ALL THE MUSIC DISPLAYED AND RECOMMENDED IN OUR VARIOUS SECTIONS” 05 BEST MUSIC-STREAMING SERVICES SPOTIFY RDIO MUSIC PANDORA RADIO SONGZA BEATS MUSIC The leading music This service allows you Input a favourite artist’s Its music-concierge US-only and now a part streaming service also to follow others to name and produce up to service matches music of Apple, after a record- offers personal discover their favourite 100 free personalised to your current mood setting purchase, Beats recommendations. tracks and tunes. radio stations. US only. instead of genres or artists. Music has albums and playlists O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 of all genres hand-picked by | Free | v2.0.0 | Free | v3.0.5 | £0.69/$0.99 | v5.6 | Free | v3.3.1 music experts. O Android | Varies O Android | Varies O Android | Varies O Android | OS 5.0 O iPhone+| iOS 7.0 | Free | Varies | Free | Varies | Free | Varies | Free | v5.1.0.3 | Free | v2.3.0 8 IN TOUCH THROW THEHOW TO…BEST PARTY FROM INVITES TO MUSIC AND GAMES, THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT

Parties are great fun to go to, but something of a chore to arrange: getting 01 Prepare invites everyone in one place, making sure they have enough food and drink, and If you’re not going to use a dedicated of course keeping the atmosphere lively with some well-chosen tunes and invite app, then Facebook is probably activities. No matter what type of party you’re organising — from a late-night the default choice for most people house party to a mid-afternoon barbeque — there are a selection of handy but Google+ is worth a look as well: apps you can load up to help the occasion run as smoothly as possible. it can create great-looking event pages and it ties into Gmail and Google Calendar too.

02 Send out invites When you’ve got your event all set up as you’d like then you can invite people through email, Google+ circles or a link. Through the event options you can control who else can be invited and how visible the event is to outsiders.

03 Build a playlist There are several dedicated DJ/ playlist apps around, but Spotify is the best choice in terms of features — it has the benefit of a huge music library and an accessible interface, and most of your friends should already have it installed.

04 Get suggestions Be it beforehand or at the party itself, you can create a playlist through the app, then make it collaborative. That means anyone who you share the playlist with (who’s also a registered Spotify user)canaddsongsandmakechangestoit.

05 Play games Games are an essential part of any party and there are tons of apps to choose from. Heads Up! is one of the newest, simplest and most fun, enabling you to use your phone as a prompter for a guessing game covering all kinds of topics.

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14 BEST APPS OF THE YEAR SWYPE HOTSPOT SHIELD Ever travelled abroad and been LEFT Guide There have been few changes to frustrated about being unable to Ida through a the iOS keyboard in recent months, watch your favourite on-demand silent world from colour changes to QuickType services such as BBC iPlayer? of stunning with iOS 8. Now, a third-party HotSpot Shield takesthatfrustration away architecture app called Swype has launched an app which with its extremely easy-to-use VPN service, and geometry shakes the keyboard feature up even more. requiring little technical know-how. Access a And it’s quite innovative. Although a concept VPNfromanumberofcountries, allowing you that has been embedded in the Android OS MONUMENT VALLEY tomanipulateyourtruelocationtoaccessthe for a long while, it’s slightly alien to iOS users, If we were rating apps solely content you need. so let us explain: you draw (or swipe) patterns basedondesign,Monument O iPhone+ | iOS 4.3 ver your keyboard to connect letters to make Valley wouldbeatthevery | Freemium words. As you swipe, the keyboard suggests topofthislist–nocontest. O Android | OS 2.0 words based on where you’re swiping. It feels Inspired by the visual work of artist MC | Freemium bit weird at fi rst, but that said, once you get Escher, Monument Valley isastunningtrip he hang of it, it’s brilliant. And you defi nitely through simplicity and beauty. Guide Ida eed to use Swype regularly to see the real throughafantasyworldbymovingand enefi t – it learns the words and phrases you manipulating buildings on the screen to ommonly use to give you even more accurate helpherexplore.Thisisthemust-have word suggestions when you’re swiping. Swype game of 2014. eplaces your onboard iOS keyboard so you O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | £2.49/$3.99 on’t need to use the app every time you want O Android | OS 2.3.3 | £2.49/$3.99 o type something. In fact, just launch it once to onfi gure it for use and you’re all set to swipe. “ his app is a game changer! You swipe patterns over your keyboard O iPhone+ | iOS 8.0| £0.69/$0.99 ” O Android | OS 2.3 | Free to connect letters to make words SEASONAL CITIES Seasonal Cities brings a fresh angle to th of travel apps: to many world basedonthetimeofyear you’revisiting.Theappis LEFT Maths updated quarterly to ensu game Threes! you’re seeing the most was a up-to-date information surprise hit abouttheplaceyou’re this summer visiting. One of its coolest features, though is a handy weather THREES! function that adjusts Threes! is a beautifully designed game that keeps suggestions for you for you – and your brain – on your toes. The aim of activities and venues the game is to move the tiles around the basedontheweatherup interface in order to connect tiles that add up to three or are multiples of three. It’s a quick game to play – over tothreedaysahead. when there are no moves left, usually after a few O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 minutes – but what a use of a few minutes! O iPhone+ | iOS 6 | £1.49/$1.99 | Freemium O Android | OS 4.0 | £1.49/$1.99

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SILENT TEXT 2 Concerned about FLIPBOARD the privacy of your personal data? Flipboard is another app that Silent Text 2 is one of the best privacy apps out has been doing the rounds for a there, allowing you to while, but hear us out… it’s had a have fully encrypted great redesign from the ground conversations without requiring any specialist up this year, which is why it is fully worthy of technical know-how. The a mention on our humble end-of-the-year list. app is really easy to setup and once you’re ready to Flipboard is out-and-out a social magazine go, it’s like using iMessage app. You tell the app what things you like and – but your messages are dislike (for example music, technology and completely private. O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 football) and it curates a beautiful magazine | Freemium featuring news and magazine articles talking O Android | OS 4.0 about all of these things. Connect with your | Freemium socialnetworkstoseewhatyourfriends are talking about and sharing. In previous LINGUA.LY versions, Flipboard was beautiful but now Lingua.ly is an app it’svisuallystunning.Theinterfaceisclean with a promising and somewhat innovative andveryvisuallyfocusedaroundimages. method for learning a new The new Flipboard alsointroducesacool language. Instead of using traditional methods, Lingua.ly newfeaturewhereyoucan‘collect’articles displays real-time news thatyoulikeandusetocreateyourown stories from other countries personalisedmagazineswith.Ifyouliketo and helps you to translate them – tap on individual read news and interesting feature content words and it shows you the online, Flipboard is definitely an app you translation. Store a word for should be downloading. later by ‘collecting’ the word. O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | Free O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free O Android | OS 4.0 | Free O Android | OS 4.0 | Free “Flipboard’s had a great redesign from the ground up this year” TWODOTS Remember that highly addictive game, Dots?It’s back, but this time around it’s been reincarnated with some exciting new challenges. With the same minimalistic design, TwoDots allows you to attempt big challenges over 185 levels, but this time, you can compete with LEFT This is your friends in a unique game Game Centre. We think you’re for those with a going to be even visual eye more addicted. O iPad+ WATERCOLOURS | iOS 6.1 | Freemium If you love colours, Watercolours might be the game you’ve been DRINKAWARE lookingfor.It’sauniqueconcept: RIGHT With excessive drinking costing the NHS find a route to connect and mix billions of pounds per year, the DrinkAware Enjoy new app was launched to make people think colours and make a new colour! There are lots challenges about their drinking habits. The app helps you of levels and the difficulty increases as you contextualise and relate to how much you’ve had to such as trying drink by converting it into burgers; for example, two progress.It’sawell-designedgameand easy to to avoid pesky glassesofwineequalstwoburgers.DrinkAware also use–definitelyworthlosingsometime in! battleships in helps you set future goals to reduce your overall O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | Freemium alcohol intake. TwoDots O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free OAndroid | OS 2.3.3 | Freemium ANGRY BIRDS: KIWANUKA DRAWNIMAL PIANO TILES THE WOLF TRANSFORMERS Kiwanuka is a beautiful Drawnimal is a super- Piano Tiles is a highly AMONG US puzzle-based game cute app aimed at the addictive game - so The birds are back in a requiring you to guide little ones in your life think carefully before The Wolf Among Us is a brand-new adventure, the citizens of the Crystal Realm and one that will keep them you install it if you want to keep brilliant game where and this time, they have to freedom. Careful timing and entertained for hours on end! a hold of your precious free every decision you make to fight the crazed robots who thought are the name of the The app focuses on offline play, time! The aim is simple: don’t tap moulds the story. The game is have invaded! Transform to game here. Kiwanuka combines placing an animated animal’s the white tile. Sound easy? It set across five episodes and avoid hazards such as falling gorgeous visuals with face in the centre of your isn’t, but you’ll have heaps of brings Vertigo’s comic book cars, power up with additional enchanting sounds to bring you device’s screen, giving your little fun trying! With 20 game modes series to life, where a murderer weapons and enjoy tag team a Lemmings-style game for the one the chance to draw the rest and colour options, see how you stalks fairytale characters living mutliplayer fun. touchscreen generation. of the animal’s body around the stack up against your friends. in New York. O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 O iPhone+ | iOS 5.1 screen on a piece of paper. O iPhone+ | iOS 5.1.1 O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | Freemium | £1.49/$1.99 Unconventional but effective. | Freemium | £2.99/$4.99 O Android | OS 4.0 O Android | OS 2.3 O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 O Android | OS 2.3 O Android | OS 2.3.3 | Freemium | £1.49/$1.99 | £1.49/$1.99 | Freemium | Freemium 16 BEST APPS OF THE YEAR READLY SPOILER SHIELD Ever been a few episodes behind the It was only a hot new TV show and had to avoid matter of time social media until you’ve caught up with the rest of the world? Us too. If you want before someone to keep up with the latest cat videos launched the but avoid TV spoilers, download Spotify of magazines, and that Spoiler Shield. Choose from a list of shows and sports in-app and time has now come. Readly is a Spoiler Shield will cover related platform that allows you to pay posts with a shield. Simple! O iPhone | iOS 7.0 | Free a fl at fee per month and read as O Android | OS 2.3.3 | Free many magazines as you want – yep, more magazines than your GOOGLE NEWS AND WEATHER local newsie. Bookmark pages, Google News And Weather allows you to share articles with your mates personalise the news you see in one place. – you can even share your Never forget your umbrella with an always subscription with up to fi ve on-screen location-based weather forecast and view news from 65,000 publications worldwide – easily different devices. Sounds like a customise what you see according to your location page-turner. or by a news category such as fashion, technology, politics or sport. O iPhone+ | iOS 5.1.1 | Free O iPhone+ | iOS 7 | Free O Android | OS 3.0 | Free O Android | OS 4.0 | Free “Readly allows you to read as many magazines as you want” BLLOON

The second reading-based freemium app has made it onto our end-of-year list and for good reason: Blloon aims to get young people into reading, off ering a library of 1,000 books available to download and read direct on your iPhone or iPad. The concept is simple: you’re allowed to read 1,000 pages of a book per month. If you want to earn more pages, you pay either £3.99 per month for 500 extra pages or £6.99 per month for 1,000 pages. If you don’t fancy paying, you can earn pages for referring friends to the app. Simple! The app itself is really well designed, a lot of time has obviously been spent developing the app. Front covers of downloaded and recommended books are displayed in a tiled fashion on the main interface of the app, and you can organise your books into piles based upon a particular theme or topic as well, such as an author or style of writing such as English literature. Blloon currently has over a million books in its library with plans to increase this in the future. O iPad+ | iOS 7.0 | Free

RIGHT Blloon offers a visually interesting alternative to the Kindle app PARALLELS ACCESS POCKET DRIVE+ NOTIFYR NORMAL: BATTERY MOMENT Leave your Mac at home Pocket Drive+ Never miss a ANALYTICS Let’s face it, our iOS with Parallels Access, transforms your iPhone notifi cation from your devices are addictive. the companion for into a wireless drive. It iPhone again with Speaking of battery Moment tracks your Parallels Desktop. Access your works straight out of the box Notifyr, which displays all of drain, how annoying is iPhone or iPad usage each day, computer from your iPhone or – no complex setup is needed. your iPhone notifi cations and it? If Nokia only made displaying visually how long you iPad – open applications and edit All you need to do is download incoming calls in real-time on batteries… Anyway, Normal is a use your device for and pin- complex documents on-the-go. the Pocket Drive+ app onto your Mac’s desktop. It’s a great fantastic tool for pinpointing in points with painstaking accuracy Parallels Access also features a your computer. Pocket Drive+ solution if you don’t want to real-time which apps are at which times you picked up unique Lock ’n’ Go magnifying allows you to store an install OSX Yosemite on your hogging your battery life and it and use your device. Use glass to make finger gymnastics unlimited amount of fi les and Mac. Notifyr connects to your projects how much battery life Moment to impose daily limits a thing of the past. seamlessly transfers them Mac using Bluetooth Low you’ll save by closing that app. It on device usage or simply to O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 between your devices for easy Energy, preventing unwanted also tells you whether your use become more aware of your | Freemium access anywhere. battery drain. of the app is causing the drain! own habits. O Android | OS 4.0.3 O iPhone | iOS 6.0 O iPhone | iOS 7.0 O iPhone | iOS 8.1 O iPhone+ | iOS 8.0 | Freemium | £2.99/$4.99 | £2.99/$4.99 | £0.69/$0.99 | £2.99/$4.99 17 BEST APPS OF THE YEAR JUTSU COUCH TO 5K There are many exercise With the new year apps in the iOS App Store, approaching, you’re however, Couch to 5K is the first developed collaboratively by probably thinking doctors and fitness experts to aboutwhatnew ensurethatyou’reexercisingina year’s resolutions you’re going safe and controlled environment. A voice coach talks you through each tomakefor2015.Yourfirst step of your workout and uses a mix resolution should be: download of running and walking to help you finally achieve the goal of running Jutsu.Itthrowsoutflatandboring 5K. spreadsheets and checklists. O iPhone+ | iOS 6.1 | Free Instead, Jutsu helps you track your progress with an attractive PREMIERLEAGUEAWAYDAYS andengaginginterface,and If you’re a die-hard UK football fan, Premier League encourages you to upload photos Away Days is simply a must-have app. Designed for totrackyourprogressvisually.As travelling away team fans, the app off ers a comprehensive guide to the local areas surrounding all 20 youhiteachlevelofyourgoal,you stadiums in the Premier League. With the app’s help, you can share your successes with can fi nd somewhere nice to eat, as well as the best places to sleep and park and get access to exclusive discounts – all your friends. of which are redeemable in-app. O iPhone | iOS 7 | Free O iPhone | iOS 7 | Free “Yourfirstresolutionfor2015shouldbe:downloadJutsu” DARK SKY Are you ready to fall in love with a new weather app on your iOS device? By the end of this text, you’re going to be asking: “Yahoo Weather who?”. Dark Sky is an intelligent, innovative weather app that uses the GPS technology in your phone to display minute- by-minute predictions of the weather around you and in-depth forecasts for the weather in the coming days and weeks. Furthermore, it does this all in a really attractively designed, visually focused interface. Dark Sky off ers many innovative features, but our favourite is the ability to send you a push notifi cation when it’s about to start raining in your location. Admittedly, the ability to access a list of the nearest undercover shelters would also be really useful, but we’re not here to pick straws. Chase storms from the comfort of your armchair with Dark Sky’s beautiful weather radar animations – perfect for tracking the path of a storm, where it’s been before and where it’s heading in the future. Don’t let it rain on your parade – download ABOVE Around for years, the latest updates Dark Sky. show Dark Sky has only improved with age O iPhone+ | iOS 7 | £2.49/$3.99 COOK WITH M&S SESAME HANDY MORITO VIVINO Love M&S food? Learn Sesame is every Bored of getting fl our Morito is an award- Can’t tell a Chardonnay to cook the M&S way wannabe chef’s dream. prints on your iPad or winning tapas from a Chablis? Vivino is with Cook With M&S, Search for and store all iPhone when you’re restaurant in London the ultimate wine app. bursting with inspiring recipe of the recipes that you want using it to watch or display a with a whole host of famous Use the on-screen scanner to ideas, and full-screen step-by- to cook, or regularly cook, in recipe as you cook? Enter fans. If you’re looking to scan a wine label and learn more step recipes inspired by some one place, and manage your Handy, the touch-free recipe broaden your culinary horizons, about its origins and flavours, of M&S’s best-selling meals. recipes in an easy-to-use player app. Using innovate Morito off ers 24 easy-to-follow get wine recommendations or Sort recipes by type, diffi culty, interface. Sesame connects hand-gesture technology, tapas recipes taking you to the find out where you source a calorie content and the amount with Safari, allowing you to Handy integrates with core of Morito’s innovative bottle from locally. Upgrade to of time needed to cook, save recipes into the app YouTube, allowing you to culinary culture. Illustrated Pro for £2.99 and keep track of allowing you to fi nd the perfect directly from any website and search for, play, pause and with mouth-watering your favourite wines in your recipe to suit your needs in a even syncs your recipes rewind your favourite recipe photography and a handy very own virtual cellar. matter of seconds. between devices using iCloud! videos with a few simple bookmarking feature, Morito is O iPhone | iOS 6.1 | Freemium O iPhone+ | iOS 7 | Free O iPhone+ | iOS 7.1 waves of the hand. a must-have app. O Android | OS 2.3.3 O Android | OS 4.3 | Free | £2.99/$4.99 O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | Free | Freemium 18 BEST APPS OF THE YEAR

PAUSE FLIC Pause is a quarterly curated There’s nothing more annoying music magazine, pulling in the best news, than the alert that your ures and reviews from iPhone storage is almost full. usted and Actually, there is one thing voices in the ness: Pitchfork, more annoying: going into your Camera The Guardian, Roll and realising that your Photo Library ers. The biggest pp is that you is full of photos that you don’t want, thus othemusic filling up your mobile storage. Thankfully, daboutin-app. there’sanewsolutionontheblockandit | iOS 7 | Free justhappensoneoftheslickestandeasiest ways to tidy up your photos. Brought to RIGHT Pause has youbythecleverchapsoveratLifeHack, a slick and well- Flic offersaconceptanduserinterface designed interface inspiredbythepopulardatingappTinder to help you to quickly and easily clean up the PLANE FINDER Photo Library on your iPhone and maximise Plane Finder has your storage. The idea is simple: each photo been covering the isdisplayedinturnonscreen–swipeleft skies for a couple of years now, but it got a toTrashandswiperighttoKeep,justlike massive update this year Tinder!Thereistheopportunitytoreview that qualifi es it for our your Trash Can before you finally delete 2014 list. The updated Plane Finder introduces a them to avoid any mishaps. But why stop brilliant new augmented there? Old habits die hard, so Flic will also reality feature – simply remindyouonamonthlybasistocleanout point the app at any plane in the sky and it will tell your photos. you what plane it is, the O iPhone | iOS 8 | £1.49/$1.99 fl ight number and even tell you about the airline piloting the fl ight. “ O iPhone | iOS 7.0 Convert any kind of measurement you | £2.99/$4.99-IAP can think of, from temperature to torque” SWING COPTERS WORDEO AfterthecrazethatFlappy Bird Wordeo takes unleashed last year (anyone want the Snapchat to buy an iPhone with Flappy Bird concept of on?), Flappy Bird’s developer is sharing photos and videos with friends back with a new, but expands it to a equally addictive much bigger scale game! The aim is than before: create cool and personalised to fl y through each videos with your own level, avoiding the text and video UDACITY recordings, or use obstacles as you go. video clips from Reading through this list and thinking “I can But fl ying a man in a Wordeo’s vast video do even better than this?” Well, now you propeller hat isn’t as library. If you’re stuck can. with Udacity, the virtual classroom for inspiration, type in designed to help you learn new skills in easy as it looks… a message and programming. Using interactive tutorials from Wordeo will suggest leading experts from Facebook, and Google among O iPhone+ | iOS 6 | Freemium video clips based on others, you’ll soon be producing apps which might your text. appear on this list one day! OAndroid | OS 2.3.3 O iPhone+ | iOS 7 O iPhone+ | iOS 7 | Free | Free O Android | OS 4.1 | Free | Freemium CAPO TOUCH VERT 2 VENMO STAR WALK 2 UBER Capo Touch for Mac is a Vert 2 is one of the Venmo takes the hassle Star Walk is back and It’s the app that firm favourite of high- most extensive and out of dealing with your this time it’s available for everyone’s been talking profile musicians and detailed conversion bank and turns it into a iPhone! Boasting a about, but Uber really now it’s here for iOS. Capo Touch apps we’ve seen for iOS. fun social occasion! Send beautiful design and function does make getting places a offers an innovative way to Convert any kind of money to friends quickly and – you point it at the sky and it doddle – and that’s not just with learn new music by slowing measurement you can think of, securely – Venmo off ers bank- identifies constellations – Star its slick and easy-to-use down songs from your iTunes from temperature to torque in a grade security – and withdraw Walk 2 is faster and smoother interface. Choose your pick-up library and detecting and beautifully designed and money to your own bank and is bursting with new location, choose a driver and displaying the song’s chord customisable interface with the account. Connect with other features such as the ability to watch them drive to you. Once progressions. It was one of added benefi t of being able to friends using Venmo and see view 3D models of nebulae and you’re in the taxi, keep the app Apple’s 30 Amazing Apps for its perform conversions offl ine. who they’ve been sending fresh constellation artwork. open – Uber calculates your fare 30th anniversary and we can Vert 2 is an essential for any money to – all in a clean and O iPhone+ | iOS 7.1 using GPS, and you can even pay understand why. frequent traveller. fl uid user interface. | £1.99/$2.99 using the app. O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 O iPhone+ | iOS 6.1 O iPhone | iOS 7 | Free O Android | OS 4.0 O iPhone | iOS 6 | Free | £6.99/$9.99 | £1.99/$2.99 O Android | OS 4.0 | Free | £1.99/$2.99 O Android | OS 4.0 | Free 19 TOP 10 SHOPPING APPS

SHOPPING LESS 20 TOP 10 SHOPPING APPS AMAZON eBAY LEFT The Amazon appissoeasytouse, Members are Said to be the most popular it should come with an addiction very actively shopping app – in the UK at least warning.Notonlydoesitletyou scouring – eBay makes it easy to search for search manually for items, you shops and bargains new and old. It’s lightning canalsoscanthebarcodesofgoodsandallow supermarkets fast and simple to use, instantly showing you Amazon tofindamatch.Thismakeslooking for top deals a mix of Buy It Now and auction items, but its foritemsswiftandpainlessbutit’sthe1-click beauty lies in letting you refi ne results further: purchasingprocessthat’sthekiller:beforeyou you can sort them by best match, price, timing, BASKET BUDDY knowit,theitemyoudesireisbeingparcelled buying format, condition, postage, location and Basket Buddy relies on the up and dispatched. so much more, making it more likely to get the hotukdeals.com community O iPhone | iOS 6.0 item you want at a time and price that suits. toflagupthebestshopping | Free Search terms can be saved and pulled up at a deals near you. As well as O Android later date and you can also receive notifi cations letting you submit your own deals (without | Varies when certain items are listed. You can watch, thehassleofsigningin),itdisplaysamap | Free bid on or immediately purchase goods (they ofyourlocationandusesaseriesofdots can be placed in a shopping cart and bought to highlight bargains such as discounts off RIGHT all at once) and you can, of course, sell your Thorntons chocolate or cosmetics at Boots. The offi cial own items. A brilliant selling wizard takes you One downside: it still hasn’t updated its Amazon app through all the necessary steps, letting you pre-iPhone 5 screen size. makes it easier snap and add photos, write a description and O iPhone | iOS 4.0 | Free to shop online set a price. When the process is complete, you O Android | OS 1.6 | Free on the move can keep an eye on your listing, mark when an item has been sent and leave feedback for the “ buyer. For eBay customers, it’s a must. You can also scan the barcodes of goods and O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free ” O Android | Varies | Free allow Amazon to fi nd a match LOYALLI If you like to REDEEMIA earn loyalty points but find Opening various deal-of-the- having lots of cards in day apps such as Groupon or your wallet too cumbersome, Loyalli is Living Social, or going from the answer. It keeps retailer to retailer in the track of your tallies and it lets you collect points hunt for bargains can be a pain. by scanning a QR code However, with the Redeemia within a registered app, the best deals in your venue. Large chains are still rather lacking in chosen location are collated, support, but we were ensuring everything is in one pleasantly surprised to place. Each deal is tagged see how many smaller shops are registered to and categorised and you the service. only see those from the O iPhone | iOS 5.0 | Free categories you want O Android | OS 3.1 to see, hiding the | Free others. Off ers can be bookmarked for later “Search terms can use or instantly taken up and used. be saved and pulled O iPhone | iOS 5.0 | Free up at a later date” OAndroid | OS 2.2 | Free ETSY MORE WHERE’S THIS MYSUPERMARKET TOPCASHBACK Etsy is like having a little, Produced solely for FROM? This app lets you create For those who regularly twee store in the palm Android at this stage, grocery lists that shop online, visiting of your hand, letting you the More app from We should know where instantly carry updated TopCashback before you buy hand-crafted items from a MyVoucherCodes.co.uk uses our meat comes from prices for the major go direct to a site can earn you wide range of independent locational technology to fi nd and with this free app, supermarkets. It also lets you much money. The app shows boutiques and individual the best deals in your area. It there is no excuse. You input the set price alerts to prevent you you the discounts available by creators. Items and sellers are off ers real-time booking and EU ID code from a meat product from overpaying. Items can be tapping through TopCashback rated for the buyers’ peace of discounts at restaurants, and it tells you exactly which inputted manually or by using first and you can also keep a mind and goods can be added to hefty discounts in stores and company has handled it and the barcode scanner. Shopping tally of your account. Physical a single cart and bought all at a range of last-minute concert where in the UK it is. You can lists can be compared across shoppers shouldn’t feel left out, once. You can also share tickets. Best of all, lots of big see animal welfare and hygiene supermarkets so you always either: you can scan a number of anything that takes your fancy names are involved, ranging info and discover when the know where the best place to high-street till receipts for and ask questions. from stores like M&S to company was last audited. shop will be. cashback too. O iPhone | iOS 7.0 | Free restaurants like Pizza Hut. O iPhone | iOS 5.0 | Free O iPhone | iOS 7.0 | Free O iPhone | iOS 6.0 | Free O Android | OS 2.3.3 | Free O Android | OS 4.1 | Free O Android | OS 2.2 | Free O Android | OS 4.0 | Free O Android | OS 2.3.3 | Free 21 ENTERTAINMENT ENTERTAIN UNDER FIVES KEEP YOUR LITTLE ONES HAPPY WITH THESE FUN APPS TOCA TAILOR PEPPA’S PAINTBOX LEGO DUPLO TRAIN THE CAT IN THE HAT CBEEBIES PLAYTIME FAIRY TALES The best way to keep A lot of toddlers out If your children are ready BBC usually knows what your little ones busy is there love playing with to start reading then this it’s doing when it comes All of the Toca Boca apps to keep them in the choo-choos and Lego classic has been updated to kids’ entertainment. are worth a look, but company of a well-known Duplo Train brings that for the modern age. Dr Seuss’ The CBeebies Playtime app has Toca Tailor Fairy Tales is character and Peppa Pig enjoyment to the virtual screen. famous book comes to phones a host of games for your one of our favourites and one matches that description. This From the graphics to the game and tablets complete with youngsters, letting them you can try out for free. It gives painting app lets your kids mechanics of loading up and gorgeous drawings, animated interact with the TV characters your kids the freedom to create doodle with colours, drop in driving the train, it’s all very well effects and sounds — on the iOS they see on the screen, while fairytale-themed outfits for two backgrounds and paint with fun done, with no adverts or in-app version kids can even record their looking to improve your child’s different characters, all with materials like bubbles and mud purchases to worry about either. own voices as they read along to skills and knowledge. simple swipes and taps, and — with no mess to clear up. Chunky graphics and simple practise their reading. Engaging and colourful, there are plenty of looks and Free from ads and in-app meplay make this A children’s classic adapted it features virtual materials to choose from. purchases, this really lets your nner for any with care and imagination to the CBeebies Lots of fun for young kids who kids get creative. ng train fan. fit the digital format. characters your enjoy creating their own fancy kids already love. dress outfits. O iPhone+ | iOS 4.3 O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 O iPhone+ | iOS 5.1 | Free | v1.0.6 | Free | v2.0.0 | £2.49/$3.99 | v2.7 O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 O iPhone+ | iOS 5.0 O Android | OS 2.2 O Android | OS 4.0 O Android | OS 2.1 | Free | v1.91 | Free | v1.0.2 | Free | v1.0.6 | Free | v2.0.0 | £2.45/$3.99 | v1.46 O Android | OS 2.3 | Free | v1.9

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Above The Pokémon Company missed a trick with not using the iPad’s in-built gyroscopes for some kind of Pokémon Snap reference. This hide-and-seek game is the closest you’ll get

Left The overworld is navigated by dragging your fi nger across the screen and tapping where to land. The prettiness belies its emptiness

Below The collectible aspect of Pokémon comes into play as pins that are rewarded after every POKÉMON CAMP game – these can be viewed in a special collectible book PIKACHU AND CREW COME TO iOS

PROS/CONS Back in April, The Pokémon Company and V Authentic and loyal Google Maps teamed up to bring Pokémon out to the franchise of their hand-held console homes and into the V No in-app purchases wider world. It was an endeavour that proved or adverts W Content is thin, runs hugely successful: the AR mini-game ran for about a week, out quickly and went viral across the world within one day. W It’s not Pokémon Pokémon Camp proves Nintendo’s willingness to share its Snap (we want property with other platforms, and while we doubt it’ll ever Pokémon Snap iOS!) give over the full RPG experience to iOS (you’ll have to make do with illicit GameBoy ROMs for that…) Pokémon Camp is the next best thing. It’s not perfect, but it’s a step in the right direction. The game retains Nintendo’s customer-facing sensibilities, too: at the time of writing, the app features no but the appeal does begin to waver after about an hour. You adverts and no in-app purchases. It’s refreshing. can be spurred on by the collectible nature of the pins and The app is a well-presented series of mini-games, all rewards you can unlock, but mostly… it’s something to give given a unique and loyal Pokémon fl avour. You can hunt for to your kids if they’re hankering for the next Pokémon game wild Pokémon scattered around the map (your only enemy or wanting to kill a few minutes here and there. If the game a very forgiving timer), test your type-on-type knowledge in will be kept alive with updates – eventually updating the Battle Matchups, play a ‘Who’s That Pokémon?’ silhouette- gametothefull718-strongPokémonroster–thenperhaps guessing game or test yourself matching up evolutionary we’ll be happy to go back to the app. lines. There’s a refl ex-testing Pokéball throw, a special cave A step in the right direction, entertaining and fun, but for Mega Evolutions to be examined and a pseudo-hub area possibly not the Pokémon experience you’re after. that makes accessing each domain intuitive and easy. This is clearly a game aimed at children – we’re big O iPad+ | iOS 6.0 | Free | v1.0 Pokémon fans, and we did enjoy playing Pokémon Camp – http://bit.ly/pokemoncampios

01 POKEMON: TCG 02 POKÉMON TV 03 PUZZLE & DRAGONS 04 MINOMONSTERS 05 GEOSOCIETY+ ALTERNATIVELY If you prefer Less interactive With a slew of This is basically A taming and Pokémon’s entertainment franchises Pokémon iOS battling sim battling side to and more a bulking up the without the – it’s just a Five other games to the collecting side, condensed Pokémon collect-and-fight genre, polish or any kind of shame it lacks all of then the Trading Card channel, Pokémon TV Puzzle & Dragons is as actual license. Not a what makes Pokémon scratch that gotta- Game is definitely for gives you access to all addictive as it is fun. You bad pretender to the great. An example of catch-‘em-all itch… you – be prepared to the official anime. Filled can play as dragon throne, though we how to do RPGs wrong. sacrifice all your spare with fan service, it’s an versions of Batman, would say be wary of Bad creature and world change to IAPs for authentic Pokémon Angry Birds or popular how short the whole design and offensive more cards, though. experience. anime heroes. experience is. writing. Stay away. +++++ +++++ +++++ +++++ +++++ O iPad+ | iOS 7.0 O iPad+ | iOS 5.0 O iPad+ | iOS 5.1 O iPad+ | iOS 4.3 O iPad+ | iOS 4.3 | Free | v2.23.0 | Free | v1.1.8 | Free | v7.2.1 | Free | v3.2.8 | £0.69/$0.99 | v1.3.7 23 ENTERTAINMENT

PAUSE SHUFFLER.FM’S DIGITAL MAGAZINE IS MUSIC TO YOUR EARS Anyone serious about music knows happened a lot sooner yet inexplicably hasn’t. it’snotjusttheendproductthat’s It’s a curated magazine – issued once a quarter important – if you follow a band or – that takes the form of a beautifully designed a sound closely – but that music is and presented app, and its best feature is that it about context; it’s about its place in society. Pause plays you the music you’re reading about. is a revelation – something that should have That sounds simple enough – why not just boot up Soundcloud and read the Guardian, right? But where Pause shines is in its presentation of music: boot up an obscure article about Japanese neo-pop and it’ll siphon a slither of the genre right into your ears, and with no option to skip you’re forced to listen to what you’re reading. Pause is its own sound track, and the quality of the content it amalgamates is impeccable: there really is nothing but the best of the best in there. It works like a great digital magazine, too: even if something catches your eye, you’ll fi nd yourself reading into other areas because the app design is so seamless, and the music so perfectly integrated, you’ll be sat there thinking “oh, I’ll just read for the rest of this song” for hours A perfect Sunday afternoon app. e fact that it’s free makes it el like we’re stealing. Best in class.

Above Pause has everything anyone with an O iPad+ | iOS 70 | Free | v3 0 5 eartothegroundofthemusicscene THE FRONT PAGE OF THE ALIEN BLUE INTERNET – FOR YOUR iP

Reddit recently bought the Alien quicker (and the Imgur integration Blue app – before then, it was will please serial posters), gifs an unoffi cial piece of software work better, videos play in-app created by and catered by fans (with the option to load in the of the online forum. Alien Blue for iPhone browser or YouTube if desired) and iPad is the fi rst offi cial client Reddit has and a built-in gallery mode allows outside of its own website – except for its browsing your preferred subreddit separate Ask Me Anything app – but the easier than it is on the web. groundwork Alien Blue has laid down is a The app features a wealth of fantastic way to change all that. options that tailor your browsing The app has become free since Reddit’s experience to you: personalisation takeover, and working with the site’s themes, post fi lters and listing own internal staff has bolstered the options, interchangeable reading responsiveness of the service: images load views and media previews – you know, just in the unlikely eventuality you don’t have the bandwidth or time to see that 1,900 x 2,200 kitten gif in its full glory. The paid-for Pro option also allows multiple accounts – an option given free in other apps – and a kind-of subreddit radio for discovering new time-sinks, as well as image gallery support. rarely use our Mac browsers y more – all our redditing is ne through Alien Blue.

Above Alien Blue is the best Reddit browser O iPad+ | iOS 7.0 | Freemium | v2.9.1 Above The gallery view mode makes browsing on the App Store by far http://bit.ly/alienblueios through image-based subreddits a joy 24 ENTERTAINMENT

SPEAKALEGEND TELESTORY THEXFACTORUK SpeakaLegend has a Young children love The offi cial X Factor HAVE FUN WHILE trick up its sleeve that telling stories, but app has been lifts it high within the many also do not like somewhat laden with YOU READ crowded children’s writing everything adverts in the past, app market. Your child can actually down. In an attempt to heighten but the newest version is much interact vocally with the mythical the creative process, TeleStor y more professional and displays creatures and the end result is an off ers an easy way for children the latest happenings in a clear amusing experience that really to create stories that include and slightly less cheesy way. Add does feel genuine. There is a quest themes, animated scenes and to this the ability to vote for free that adds a sense of purpose scripts, and at no point does it feel – up to fi ve times a show – from to the title and we enjoyed it diffi cult to use. On top of all this, within the app and it is now a immensely. Younger children may the end result can be broadcast worthy addition to the popular struggle a bit to interact deeply, over ToonTube, which adds to the entertainment franchise. but there’s always a sense that the excitement of creating an original The X Factor app has now 01 SHERLOCK: legends are real, which is magical. story. It’s a clever little app. reached the stage where it is INTERACTIVE ADVENTURE A brilliantly interactive Creative children will adore the worthy of your time. As well as the text and audio experience that kids will enjoy way this app works and the version, this amazing app is every single time. features on off er. jammed with 3D animation, O iPad+ | iOS 7.0 period articles and key character | Free | v7.0 profiles. It brings Sherlock’s world to life. O iPad+ | iOS 7.0 O iPad+ | iOS 7.0 OAndroid | OS 4.0.3 +++++ O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 | Free | v1.4 | £1.99/$2.99 | v1.1 | £1.99/$2.99 | v1.0.3 | Free | v7.0.1 02 iPOE 2 Giving readers three spooky short stories by gothic writer Edgar Allan Poe, this app is underpinned by a lovely musical score and wonderful interactive illustrations, lending the tales a 21st-century twist. +++++ O iPhone+ | iOS 5.1 | £2.49/$3.99 | v1.8.4 NBA GAME AFRICA 03 ALICE FOR THE IPAD This game is aimed Alice For The iPad was one of TIME 2014-15 squarely at young the debut iPad interactive titles WALL OF SOUND and yet its 52 abridged pages You will have to be a children who may like that include 20 animated screens is still fan of the NBA league Many developers to paint or play with an undoubted must-read. +++++ to get the most from have tried to improve shapes and the colourful interface O iPad | iOS 3.2 | £5.99/$8.99 | v3.01 this app and also be the basic Music app stands out immediately after prepared to pay to stream the that is bundled in opening it. It is the ease at which 04 THE FANTASTIC games live. The price may seem iPhones and most have failed. The each part can be manipulated, FLYING BOOKS OF MR high, but is not extreme for this developers of Wall Of Sound have however, that makes it feel MORRIS LESSMORE kind of content, which potentially recently updated their off ering so natural and we are certain Voted app of the year in 2011 off ers a lot of enjoyment. for iOS 8 and it now feels like a that children of all ages and by this very magazine, this However, the performance can be solution that was tailor made for capabilities will enjoy the calming offering continues to enthrall. choppy at the best of times and the platform it is running on. The but interesting and involving Innovative and funny, it uses animation and words to great cinematic effect. the design of the app in general is interface is sublime and the way experience. There are enough +++++ not overly inviting. It needs some it seamlessly combines your local activities in Africa to keep a child O iPad | iOS 5.1 | £2.99/$4.99 | v1.4 big improvements. library with the ability to discover amused for some time, and great Some crucial features within new music is very clever. The app care has obviously been put into 05 EVEN MONSTERS this app do not perform as you works on multiple levels and is its creation. GET SICK would like them to. great to look at. A colourful and intuitive This is the first app in the Even A brilliant music app that helps children’s title that is great fun Monsters series and since it is free, it proves to be a wonderful O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 you to discover new music and easy to play. introduction to the series. It has lovely | Freemium | v6.1 within your library. animation and six mini games. +++++ OAndroid | OS 2.3 O iPad+ | iOS 6.0 O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free | v4.0.12 | Freemium | v5.1003 O iPad+ | iOS 8.0 | Free | v2.0 | Freemium | v1.0.1 O Android | OS 2.1 | Free | v1.1 25 EVERYDAY SCRAPBOOKING APPS COLLECT AND COLLATE CONTENT FROM ACROSS THE WEB MORE EASILY PINTEREST PIC COLLAGE KEYNOTE EVERNOTE DIPTIC Pinterest’s stock has Promising to create “a Keynote is Apple’s The ultimate cross- Diptic provides a host of risen so high it even has party with your photos”, comprehensive platform note-taking different ways to get Facebook worried, as it there are few apps that presentation app and application is designed creative with pictures: make ‘pinning’ images from are better than Pic Collage at you get it for free if you upgrade to be as free-form as possible: you can choose from a variety of around the web incredibly easy. helping you combine your to iOS 8 or buy a new iOS 8 you can type out written notes, template categories and then Whether you want to compile images together with templates, ready device. It enables you to collect images, video and web change the size, colour, texture your own boards or get frames and other combine text, images, video, links and create customised and canvas style. You can also inspiration from others, embellishments. You can pull in backgrounds and other notebooks brimming with add filters to your images, which Pinterest is one of the best pictures from Facebook and elements into a cohesive whole, content. Evernote is the ideal can be imported from Facebook, ways to go about it, and is well Instagram as well as your phone so is easily adaptable for storing digital collecting tool. Flickr or Instagram. designed and speedy. or tablet and share your your favourite things from Not specifically geared toward Packed with layout Give Pinterest a try and you’ll creations on the same social dth b. creating scrapbooks, but and filters for find ‘pinning’ content quickly media networks too. t for creating nevertheless it’s a versatile doing more with becomes addictive. One of the simplest and most sentations but and powerful tool. your pictures. fun to use scrapbooking tools eat tool for O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 on mobile. scrapbooking. O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | | Free | v4.0 | Freemium | v7.6.0 £0.69/$0.99 | v7.2.2 O Android | Varies O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 O iPhone+ | iOS 8.0 O Android | Varies O Android | OS 2.2 | | £1.99/$2.99 | Varies | Freeium | v5.6.29 | £6.99/$9.99 | v2.5 | Freemium | Varies £0.63/$0.99 | v2.5.3 O Android | Varies | Freemium | Varies

26 EVERYDAY PIXELMATOR A POWERFUL IMAGE EDITOR THAT FEELS LIKE AN EXPENSIVE DESKTOP APP

PROS/CONS ForthosewhowatchedtheApple’siPadAir2 can be resized. A retouch tool lets you make jaw-dropping V It is absolutely reveal, Pixelmator will be familiar to you. It was repairs while also letting you brighten, darken, smudge, packed with image one of a handful of apps that Apple chose to sharpen and soften images. Red-eye can be removed and editing tools that don’t get in the way. showcase the power of its new tablet addition colours can be saturated or desaturated. You can set images V There is full support and it gained a round of applause for its ability to remove up the way you want them and include or remove guides. It for iCloud Drive. objects from images while automatically blending the even lets you use a pressure-sensitive stylus. Files can be saved as background. It’s a great skill, but it’s only one of many party Before long, you’ll be able to make even the poorest of Photoshop. W When layering, tricks it can pull off . images stand out, and if you do become stuck, there’s a solid new images are not Pixelmator is a professional image editor, putting a bunch help function to help. The developer has also made good automatically resized. of tools and eff ects at your fi ngertips. You start by creating use of the new iOS 8 features, allowing for seamless cloud W You must have iOS 8 and slower, older a project using a blank canvas or one of the many impressive integration and the importing of images from other apps. iPads will struggle. templates,whichrangefromcollages,framesandcardsto ImagescanbesavedtoiCloudDriveorthePhotoLibrary. posters,phototechniquesandvintagestyles.Yourimageis Theycanbeexportedimmediatelytoanotherapptoo. putattheforefrontwithallofthevariousoptionsconfined ere is a reason Apple showed off this toatoptoolbar,eachofwhichdropsdowntorevealamenu. p; Pixelmator is amazingly powerful and It’saneatandtidyapproachtophotoediting,hidingan ofessional, for a low price. impressive feature set, central to which is the ability to paint anderase.Therearedifferentpencils,crayons,markets, O iPad | iOS 8.0 | £2.99/$4.99 | v1.0 inks,paintbrushes,spraysandsmudges,eachofwhich http://bit.ly/pixelmatorios “Before long, you’ll be ablel et oto make Below A host of simple tools even the poorest of images stand out ” allow you to manipulate images

Above As well as manually adjusting colours, you can choose from a variety of presets HOW TO… Quickly take away unwanted objects from Identify problem Retouch image Repair tool Select an area Hey presto 01 Thanks to the 02 Go to the Tools 03 Now you want 04 Simply rub your 05 The element your images position of a curtain icon at the top and to select the Repair finger over the area you is removed and pole, it looks like a bolt is select Retouch from the tool, which will remove wish to have removed the background stuck in this lady’s ear. drop-down menu. unwanted elements. from your image. automatically blends. 27 EVERYDAY

Above The map is scarcely populated and seems something of an afterthought

Right Swipe your way through the timeline and tap on the components to see more

Below A collection of period TIMELINE NELSON paintings help convey what naval life was like SET SAIL ON A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY WITH YOUR iPAD

PROS/CONS Timeline Nelson isastunningapplication,as V A wealth of insightful much an open love letter to the iPad as it is to content to dip into the life of Lord Nelson and the British Navy V Well-presented and during the 18th and early-19th century. It is very easy to navigate only since the advent of tablet devices that subject matter W A lot of content is rehashed across such as this becomes instantly more digestible and fun to multiple sections explore (it is, after all, far more engaging than a museum W A Wi-Fi signal is display you idly stroll around) and there is plenty to dip into needed for the Expert Interviews and marvel at. If you have reservations about spending out on this app then dispel them immediately, because the 12 sections that are selectable from the main menu provide hours of entertainment. The timeline itself dances through the all manner of queries, such as ‘how did sailors go to the loo?’ decades like a twirling Tardis, taking in the formation of the and ‘did sailors bring back souvenirs?’ by an enthusiastic Royal Navy under the stewardship of Charles II and all of ensemble of experts. the great voyages of note from the 1650s through to the The only blight on an otherwise impeccable seafaring 1800s, providing bite-sized info nuggets along the way. record is the map, which seems something of an You can fi lter content from the timeline into standalone afterthought given its lack of content. However, ultimately sections such as Ships, Battles and People to get a cleaner, this is just a drop in an otherwise dense and deeply less cluttered perspective on key players, vessels, weapons populated oceanof knowledge. and life on the ocean wave. Tapping on in item within the A point is dropped for the persistent rehashing of timeline brings up more detailed and in-depth insights, content,buteverythingisimpeccablypresented. makingthisafascinatingandwell-roundeddigitaldocument that perfectly encapsulates naval culture. The standout O iPad | iOS 7.0 | £6.99/$9.99 | v1.02 sectionisundoubtedlytheExpertInterviewsthatanswer http://bit.ly/timelinenelsonios SHOWCASE How Timeline Nelson places the user in the thick of Timeline Images Interviews Overviews Battles 01 Explore everything 02 Over 150 images, 03 Experts are grilled 04 Read up on the 05 Delve into the sea historical in the context of time from period paintings to on the events, key key cultural shifts and skirmishes that shaped maritime and pick out key facts to photos of historical relics players and the people’s events around the history and defined the action… read about. fuel interest. living conditions. Navy’s emergence. British Navy. 28 EVERYDAY TINTYPE BY HIPSTAMATIC GIVE YOUR SELFIES A DISTINCTIVE, METALLIC 19TH-CENTURY LOOK Tintype is a photographic process involving iron (not actually tin) and lacquer that was widely used in the mid-to-late-19th century. A negative image was placed on a tin sheet with the refl ective parts used to simulate the greys to give the image a very distinctive look. This app aims to recreate that look (and that of daguerreotypes) thanks to a basic tintype eff ect that is applied when you import photos or take new images through the app and a range of adjustments can be made to alter the graininess of the backing plate and the eye intensity, to give them a darker or lighter look. Above Use the Above The app The style of the fi lter used obviously makes simple toolset to works best with it better suited for portrait images – as that adjust your image portrait images is what it was traditionally used for – but that doesn’t stop you from using it to add a new be better suited as a fi lter in an existing and dimension to other images too. wider-spanning photo-editing app, but the The interface is fairly straightforward and distinctive look it provides just about justifi es easy to grasp and once you have applied the the modest asking price. desired eff ects the image can be saved and An easy-to-use photo editing app that shared to the usual array of social media gives your portraits a distinctive retro look, mediums to wow the crowds. It would probably but the features on off er are limited.

Left Simply important portrait images gives O iPhone | iOS 8.0 | £0.69/$0.99 | v1.0.1 them an instant, distinctive metallic look… http://bit.ly/tintypehipstoios MERLO THE APP THAT SCRUTINISES YOUR TWITTER ACCOUNT If you are a prolifi c Twitter second overview of your activity and you can user then Merlo is the perfect even swipe a timeline to traverse back through accompaniment for providing in- your entire tweet history and see which posts depth analysis of your account have proved most popular with your audience. usage. Through a simple toolset, you can With its simple interface, Merlo is profi cient uncover several truths such as when the at providing at-a-glance info to help you best time to tweet and retweet is, how many monitor your account and get a heads-up on followers you have gained and lost over a how you can improve your output to reach specifi ed timescale, and more. All of your more people. However, at present the app Twitter stats are presented in eye-catching only works with one account, which is an charts, daily reports provide an up-to-the- opportunity lost for it to act as an all-seeing eye across all of your work and personal accounts. This should be rectifi ed with future updates, so you should perhaps consider holding back for now until the app fully realises its potential, but the early signs are positive that this could evolve into a highly effi cient tool for the Twitter fanatic. Anefficienttoolforkeepingclosetabson your Twitter activity, but its focus on a single account limits its appeal.

O iPhone | iOS 7.0 | £1.49/$1.99 | v3.0.4 http://bit.ly/merlostatsios Above A timeline Above A range of lets you browse your tools helps you reach Right Eye-catching charts let you previous tweets a greater audience track your Twitter activity over time 29 EVERYDAY

Left Explore the area and talk to the real-life residents to gather information on the project Below Track your progress, see areas of the map to explore and check up on ‘missions’

youseeanddoandthenengageindebates with other players to try to win them over to your side about how the project should develop. It requires a lot of time and isn’t really FORT MCMONEY somethingyoucanpickupanddipintoand some users may find with somewhat unstable on certain models of iPad (the first-gen iPad TAKE PART IN AN ENGAGING SOCIAL EXPERIMENT ministruggledtorunefficientlywiththeapp’s ThiscuriousiPadoddityisa sands reserves. In the app players must explore demands).Butit’sauniqueandengaging documentary game designed the social, economic, political and cultural experiencethatplayslikeagamebutwithfar- to engage players in a virtual history of Fort McMurray by traversing the reaching social and cultural connotations. reimagining of Fort McMurray in environment and meeting residents, where Worthexploring,ifonlytoseehowgames Alberta, Canada. Consisting of three episodes, each week you can vote in referendums and andsocialissuescanbefusedtohelp each played in real-time over a four-week surveys that will aff ect the city’s virtual future. garner public opinion. period, the aim is to help shape the destiny Putting aside the app’s gamey feel, it’s an of the world’s largest industrial project and interesting social experiment in which you O iPad | iOS 70 | Free | v101 responsibly develop the world’s largest oil- cangatheryourownevidencebased GOOGLE NEWS & WE ALL THE DAILY NEWS YOU NEED, IN ONE HANDY DIGEST If you prefer to pool your news digest by tapping on the Headlines from a multitude of diff erent option. From there you can simply sources then Google News & swipe down on the main screen Weather provides a simple, to get news updates throughout accessible interface through which to access the day. it. You can eff ortlessly add locations to get the It is a fi endishly simple way of latest local headlines and at-a-glance weather staying informed on the topics reports and news topics can be added simply that matter to you, and the by tapping the ‘+’ icon and entering keywords. interface is king for providing all With all your preferred topics in place, tapping the information you need in an the list icon in the top-left corner of the simple, easy-to-read format. You interface will enable you to select an individual also have full freedom to edit your topic or get a complete overview for your news topics and prioritise what appears in your feed and even switch the background theme to suit your current light conditions and make it easier on the eye. It’s a great way to stay informed with the minimum amount of daily eff ort – which is always a welcome accomplishment. lored news beamed to you oughout the day in a simple d engaging interface.

O iPad+ | iOS 7.0 | Free | v1.0.232 http://bit.ly/googlenewsweatherios Above Google’s simple interface is key for OAndroid | OS 4.0 | Free | v2.0 Above You have full freedom to select the helping you digest the latest news headlines http://bit.ly/googlenewsweatherand order in which your news headlines appear 30 EVERYDAY

TRANSLATOR TYPIC – KEYBOARD PHOTO EDITOR If you need to speak There is no doubt BEERTAB to people who do not that Typic off ers an BeerTab is a database REPLACE THE know your language exceptional way to you can use to keep for work or personal add eff ects to photos track of the beers you IOS KEYBOARD purposes, it can be diffi cult. This and to personalise your snaps in have tried over time, app is a brilliant solution though a variety of ways. The interface but it does so in a visually enticing which lets you quickly swap is wonderful and there is an and complete manner. You can between languages and translate addictive quality to the editing scan barcodes of beers you try on the fl y, and it really does live up process, but you will need to spend and also set locations for inclusion to expectations. The price is low, more to get the full benefi ts from in your list, and then add some which is surprising because of the the app. Despite this, there is a ratings to cover taste, aroma and number of languages included. huge number of elements included other factors. Also, the sharing Some double-checking research and with considered use, you may features are impressive, with the proved the translations are very be satisfi ed with what is here. It ability to create websites for each accurate. This solution is a huge is a better-than-average photo- beer and to share with friends. A 01 SWIFTKEY time saver editing solution. complete app. As well as letting you swipe- invaluable time This app will help you add a Enthusiastic beer lovers will type on the iPhone, SwiftKey picks up on the words you use ver for those who variety of personal touches to enjoy the visuals and feature as well as your writing style, making lly need it. your photos. set within this app. accurate suggestions to really speed up your inputting. +++++ O iPad+ | iOS 8.0 O iPad+ | iOS 7.1 O iPhone | iOS 8.0 O iPhone | iOS 8.0 | Free | v 1.0.2 | £1.49/$1.99 | v1.1 | £1.49/$1.99 | v4.1 | £1.49/$1.99 | v1.0.4 02 SWYPE Similar to Swiftkey but with a greater emphasis on swipe typing – you can swipe-input on the iPad with it – this app has five themes and very accurate prediction. +++++ O iPhone+ | iOS 8.0 | £0.69/$0.99 | v 1.0.1419 03 FLEKSY TICTAIL ROOMS – CREATE FISHBRAIN Fleksy takes swipe-typing further with the inclusion of task gestures such as swiping SHOPPING SOMETHING FISHING REPORTS left to delete. It’s the fastest inputter but you do need to put the effort in for It’s thumbs up all For an app dedicated TOGETHER it to learn. round for Tictail to a sport that is quite +++++ Shopping due to a Facebook has been specialised, Fishbrain O iPhone+ | iOS 8.0 | £0.69/$0.99 | v 4.0.3 variety of factors, experimenting with does a very good job which come together to make the various mobile apps of covering the main needs you 04 MINUUN shopping experience feel as if you recently. Rooms is may have. From locating good Like Fleksy, this has swipe are actually feeling the goods. the latest attempt and actually a places to fi sh to catching up on typing and swipe gestures, but The products on sale appear to quite novel one. You get to create the successes of fellow anglers, it has a powerful learning tool that eventually looks to predict every be of high quality and are often a space (room) in which you can exaggerated or not, everything word, letting you be a true sloppy typer. very unusual, which helps, but we present your ideas and then invite is available and fairly cleanly +++++ O iPhone+ | iOS 8.0 especially liked the layout of the others to enjoy the content. It’s a presented. The app itself could | £0.69/$0.99 | v 1.2 app and the way you can zoom clever mix of social networking and look a lot more modern, but in the in to see each product in great media-centric blogging and works right fi sherman’s hands it will be 05 KEYMOJI : EMOJI detail. There are also no barriers very well. After a short learning useful every day. KEYBOARD to spending money in this app, curve, you may fi nd yourself Avid anglers will love all of the Keymoji gives you a keyboard which may or may not be a good immersed in the experience. There features this app includes. It that will suggest, in real-time, thing for you is a lot of potential on off er here. works well. emoji alternatives to the words you type with definitions being rilliant download Facebook has created a unique suggested by users of the app. hlighting many experience here, which could O iPhone | iOS 7.0 Potentially annoying but definitely fun. usual products. become very popular. | Freemium | v3.0.0 +++++ O iPhone+ | iOS 8.0 | Free | v 1.3 OAndroid | OS 4.0.3 O iPhone | iOS 7.0 | Free | v1.2 O iPhone | iOS 7.0 | Free | v1.0.1 | Freemium | v3.0.2 31 WORK PENNIES BORED WITH MONEY MANAGEMENT? PENNIES MAKES FINANCES FUN

PROS/CONS The key to a good iPhone budgeting app is history, making it easy to keep tabs on where your money V Makes money the simplicity at which you can input data and is going. The app also issues reminders to help you keep on management monitor it on the move – and Pennies nails this track with your budgets and you can swipe up or down on accessible to all ages by providing a quick and easy means of setting the screen to see how much you have left to spend for the V Colour-coded system helps you stay on top up a new budget and a monitoring your spending over the current day and how much cash is left in your kitty overall. of your finances specifi ed timescale. Doing away with all of the stuffi ness, Although more hardened penny-watchers may crave W Lacks much of such as charts, graphs and diagrams, that generally turn more detail from a budgeting app, the simplicity of Pennies the detail of other budgeting apps people – especially younger people – off of budgeting apps, makes managing your money less of a chore and, as we W Lacks a ‘help’ service Pennies keeps things simple and accessible, making this have mentioned, makes this the ideal choice for youngsters to remind you of the the perfect app for children and young adults who are just whocarelittleaboutthefinerdetailsandjustwanttoknow features starting to take an interest in managing their own money. how much money they can spend. Entering a new budget is easy, where you name the Superbly simple and accessible, Pennies is perfect for budget, enter figures and then, boom, it’s all there in black at-a-glance money management for all ages. andwhite.Well,notactuallyblackandwhite,forPennies utilisesahandycolour-codingsystemtoletyouknow O iPhone | iOS 7.0 | £1.49/$2.99 | v1.1 instantlywhereyoustandwithyourmoney.Greensignifies http://bit.ly/penniesios you have cash to spare, blue shows you’re on track and red alertsyouthatyouarecurrentlyoverbudget.It’sahead- smackinglysimplesystemthatprovidesinstantawareness astowhereyoustandwithyourincomingsandoutgoings. Youcanaddseveraldifferentbudgetsandaniconinthe top-leftcorneroftheinterfaceletsyouviewyourbudget

Above You can see how much Above You can go back in and you can spend per day through editaspectsofexistingbudgets the duration of the budget at any time HOW TO… See how easy it is to set new budgets in place with Select type Name it Setastartdate Enter amount Add expenses 01 You can create a 02 Next,createa 03 Using the wheel 04 After setting start 05 The app will Pennies new weekly, monthly or name for your budget so system, select the date and end dates, select break it down into daily one-off budget to suit you can check it, at-a- you want the budget to thecurrencyandenter allowances. The + icon your needs. glance, at any time. come into effect. budget amount. adds a new expense. 32 WORK

Left Everything is perfectly laid out so you can write, format and share text on the fl y Below The menu in the top-right provides a list of services to post your notes and lists to

cloud storage facilities such as Dropbox and Google Drive and much more. The list can also be fi ltered down into Basic, Social, Markdown and Services – so you don’t even have to spend DRAFTS 4 more seconds than is completely necessary rooting out and picking the preferred method of handling the note. It’s a formidable app that WHY USE SEVERAL APPS FOR WRITING AND SHARING POSTS? can save you hours of your time by acting as Ittookjustonesimpleactionto productive workflow with the minimum amount the perfect portal through which to update sellthisapptousandundoubtedly of effort. Where Drafts 4 really excels, though, andmaintainallofyourblogsandsocialfeeds. make us love it forever. At its is by allowing you to deal with your notes in a Highly recommended. heart, Drafts 4 is a simple note- far-fl ung way with the simple tap of a button. e perfect solution to taking app that is perfect for jotting down quick Once you have your text on-screen, a quick ortlessly send your thoughts thoughts and creating to-do lists. It also boasts tap of the icon in the top-right corner will bring your preferred destination. a smart typeset complete with a fully editable up an extensive list of actions and services. set of quick keys to aid Javascript and bash blog You can email or message out your text, post O iPad+ | iOS 8.0 | £2.99/$4.99 | v4.0.3 entriesintoshapeonthefly,speedingupyour ittooneofmanysocialnetworks,uploaditto http://bit.ly/drafts4ios

Left Point your PHOTOMATH iPhone camera at Billed as the world’s fi rst ‘camera the sum IFYOUSUCKATSUMSTHISAPP calculator’,thisapp works by and the pointing your phone at a math answer HAS THE ANSWER problem, framing the suspect sum will fl ash in the red borders and then within seconds the up within answer will flash up on-screen like a gift from seconds credibly clever gods. What’s more, if the convoluted than a simple add (such as expanding ced equations) then eveal the various dtoreach the answer. eat way for children rainier to their teachers tually are and handy for ho fail to get their heads e new-fangled ways of g maths that they have in your iPhone’s camera fl ash in-app to illuminate ols nowadays. the sums in low-light areas and get a complete works quickly and effi ciently list of recently scanned sums to refer back lthough seemingly only from to at any time. Probably best not tell the kids inted pages and text. If you try about it, though – let them work it all out for o scan hand-written sums then themselves for now. it struggles considerably to work A fast and eff ective problem solver that it out and if you try pointing it should get even more clever once it at another screen then it fl atly supports handwriting recognition. refuses to work at all. Features are limited beyond its primary point- O iPhone | iOS 7.0 | Free | v1.1.0 nd-solve skill, although you can toggle http://bit.ly/photomathios 33 WORK

FLEKSY GOOGLE CAL LIST - KEYBOARD ANALYTICS CALENDAR EVENTS A lot of useful If you have the need The name of this TAKE BETTER features are promoted to monitor site traffi c app makes it obvious in the Fleksy Keyboard when on the move, as to what it is NOTES description. With the offi cial Google designed to do and advanced text prediction, multiple Analytics app is more than likely we should start by saying that themes and useful gestures, all the most effi cient way to do so. it does succeed in its main aim. the building blocks are there, but The new design of the app is Lists of your calendar entries are it can be somewhat buggy. We exceptionally clean, and so all of presented in an obvious fashion, struggled to open it in some apps the information you need, such as but many apps also off er list views and the prediction was not always referrers and real-time visitors, is as just one of many options. Some as accurate as we would have presented in perfect clarity, and customisation is available, but liked. If these bugs could be fi xed, it is always accurate and up-to- again no more than on competing it really could be the best date. For a free solution, Google apps that off er more features so iOS keyboard around. Analytics is absolutely superb. we would suggest that it is best 01 EVERNOTE Lots of potential, but this This is by far the best way to for those who have specifi c needs. Evernote syncs across devices keyboard can be unstable when nitor website Competently average. and lets you jot pictorial, audio used within some apps. ffi c throughout A decent calendar app that and written notes with ease. A new Notifications Centre widget has e day. could off er more fl exibility and been included for iOS 8 users, allowing O iPad+ | iOS 8.0 extra features. for instant note-taking. | £0.69/$0.99 | v4.0.3 O iPad+ | iOS 6.0 | Free | v1.1.0 +++++ O iPhone+ | iOS 70 OAndroid | OS 4.0 OAndroid | OS 4.0 O iPad+ | iOS 7.0 | Freemium | v7.6.0 | £0.61/$0.98 | v3.3.3 | Free | v2.2.7 | £0.69/$0.99 | v4.6.2 O Android | Varies | Freemium | Varies 02 WUNDERLIST With this app, you can not only create lists, sync them and set reminders, but you can collaborate on to-dos as well, attaching images, presentations and PDFs and send them with notes. +++++ O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Freemium | v3.1.1 WUNDERLIST: TO- ÅNGSTRÖM - CLIPS - COPY O Android | OS 4.0 | Freemium | v3.0.6 DOLIST&TASKS UNIT CONVERTER AND PASTE 03 CLEAR From a simple premise The minimalist There will be times If your idea of a good list is to be of being merely interface and when you need to able to quickly chalk them off as another task manager, methods used to copy information done, then Clear is for you with a gesture-based design for ticking off Wunderlist has quickly convert many while using your or removing items. grown into a service that is near diff erent values within this app are phone. From interesting web +++++ the top choice for personal and quite intuitive and for those who links to quotes, it can be quite a O iPhone+ | iOS 8.0 | £2.99/$3.99 | v1.5 professional users alike. You can convert often, it could be worth convoluted process and one which download lists created by others a look. You do have to pay for the ultimately stops you saving what 04 DAY ONE and also collaborate on projects full unit pack, but at £1.49/$1.99, it you need to. Clips, however, will Specifically made with travel in and send attachments, with the isn’t expensive and should be good store anything you copy and then mind, Day One is a perfect app to make notes about your latest update adding even more value for most users. However, display it in a Notifi cation Centre journeys with great search tools and features and professionalism to there is a lot of competition in this widget for referencing later. The the ability to share or publish entries. the experience. It is a fantastic area, and the way it works, which process could not be simpler, but it +++++ O iPhone+ | iOS 8.0 productivity solution. requires numbers fi rst and then still manages to make the clips you | £2.99/$4.99 | v1.15.1 ruly excellent letters to specify the units, may have saved noticeable. A simple ution to manage feel odd to some. A good eff ort. and worthwhile solution. 05 SIMPLENOTE of your tasks. A competent converter, even if leverly designed It may look rather dull, but all it does have a slightly unusual p manager that entries can be tagged and pinned as well as organised O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 way of working. rks perfectly. into neat structures. | Freemium | v3.1.2 +++++ O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | Free | v4.0.12 OAndroid | OS 4.0 O iPhone | iOS 7.0 O iPhone+ | iOS 8.0 O Android | OS 4.0,3 | Free | v1.2.1 | Freemium | v3.0.6 | Freemium | v1.3.2 | Freemium | v1.1.2 34 Learn in style

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AGENTS OF S shipsintothe n their journey ThebigdrawformanywhenitcomestoAgents Of Storm ispedigree:thisgamehasbeenmade by Remedy Entertainment, the developer behind Max Payne and the very splendid Alan Wake. But it’s also heavily ‘infl uenced’ by Clash Of Clans, bringing yet another freemium strategy builder game to the App Store that, as you would expect, wants you to eventually start parting with your cash. The game requires you to build up a force formidable enough to blast away at enemy bases to complete a level, working out the best way forward. You can zoom in on the action and get up close as your attackers blast away Below There is a lot and hope to remain intact. In between battles, you are while you can collect currency in the shape of Blue Jade and of hand-holding to in given short introductions to various stern-yet-cool-looking Gold, the game relies primarily on diamonds. These are given the opening levels, characters before being thrown back into the action. to you for completing objectives, but you can also buy them. but you soon get the In order to progress, you need to make good use of the And, as you’d expect, they are needed if you want to get the hang of it all shop to build the right equipment for maximum damage. But most out of the game. Still, there is a lot of fun to be had. There is a focus on single-player but you can hook up with friends on Facebook compete in tournaments. It doesn’t matter if you’re a newbie to this kind of game, either: its learning curve is spot on. Players are slowly introduced to the game’s elements - the air strike unit doesn’t unlock until level six – and there’s a sense of reward when a level is complete that drives you on. Underpinning the whole game is a swish look, thanks to its use of Metal, Apple’s new iOS 8 graphics tool, although theaudiogrates.Thishashelpedtocompleteatidy,fun packagethatiswellworththedownload. If you enjoy strategy builder games, then the challenging missions here will more than satisfy you.

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01 CLASHOFCLANS 02 STAR WARS: 03 DINO ON FIRE 04 JUNGLE HEAT 05 BOOM BEACH ALTERNATIVELY Clash Of Clans is COMMANDER Easy to grasp, If you want to Building defences, a 2D isometric This COC clone instantly play a Clash Of attacking and game that lets is very much enjoyable to Clans game in ensuring your Here are other you train troops, build a playing on the play and with lovely the heat of the jungle, resources are intact. Yes, community and earn affection people have graphics, it is very hard then this aptly named it’s essentially Clash Of combat strategy currency by carrying for Star Wars but it’s not to fall in love with game provides the fun. Clans but at least its made games to consider out successful attacks slow and takes the Dino On Fire as you build The AI isn’t always up by the same developer as on your enemies. genre to the dark side. and defend your to expectations. that 2012 classic. +++++ +++++ hopefully soon-to-be +++++ +++++ O iPhone+ | iOS 4.3 O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 invincible village. O iPhone+ | iOS 5.1 O iPad+ | iOS 7.0 | Freemium | v4.3 | Freemium | v2.2.5 +++++ | Freemium | v1.2.1 | Freemium | v18.121.1 O Android | OS 4.0.3 O Android | OS 2.3.3 O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 O Android | OS 2.2 O Android | OS 4.0.3 | Freemium | v6.322 | Freemium | v2.3.5 | Freemium | v1.0.3 | Freemium | Varies | Freemium | v18.136 37 GAMES

Above You are eased into the Above Great plays will be game mechanics by a helpful rewarded (and go down very well coachwhoshowsyoutheropes with the cheerleaders!) RIVAL STARS BASKETBALL

CARD-BASED BASKETBALL ACTION SHOULDN’T Above Some on-court skill is required too, as you thread WORK, BUT IT MOST CERTAINLY DOES passes and score baskets

Comingfromthemakersofthehugely PROS/CONS real enjoyment comes from levelling up your players and addictive Flick Kick games, it is something of a V Great fun and purchasing fresh packs of player cards in order to boost your surprise to discover that the ‘fl ick’ mechanics exciting to play team’s performance. take something of a backseat here, making V Plenty of The challenge comes in the form of a single-player competitions to get fl eeting cameos to a game that is dominated by card-based stuck into campaign and an online multiplayer contest where you can combat on the basketball court. The aim is to assemble a W Can get quite challenge pretenders on the other side of the world and team of power players with high attacking and defensive repetitive steal their best cards by going all Harlem Globetrotters W stats needed to trump the individual player stats of your Way too many on their ass. As is becoming the norm for free games, ad goddamn ads opposing team. Once engaged in a match you have to movies frequently pop-up and you have to wait a period pick a player card to face off against one of your opposing of time to get the ‘energy’ needed to play matches (or team’s cards and if your player’s attacking skill trumps their purchaseitimmediately),butit’sadecentgamethatis player’s defensive skill, or vice-versa, your team goes on a showboating with excitement. ‘hot streak’, banging in more baskets than your opponents. An interesting evolution of PikPok’s ‘fl ick’ series that Occasionally the action switches to a ‘Power Play’, whereby will leave you giddy with excitement. you actually get to control the action on the court. This is where have to fl ick and swipe to steal the ball from your O iPad+ | iOS 7.0 | Freemium | v1.0.6 opposition or piece together passes – where you can fl ick http://bit.ly/rivalstarsbasketios to shoot from distance or swipe to slam if you make a OAndroid | OS 4.0 | Freemium | v1.0.6 pass to a team mate near the hoop. It’s great fun, but the http://bit.ly/rivalstarsbasketand HOW TO… use the game mechanics to beat your rivals and Pick a player Get hot Power play Dunk it See it out 01 Make sure that you 02 Win the face-off 03 At certain points 04 Pass the ball 05 It is all about dominate the pick a player with a high and your team will go you hit the court to steal toward the opponent’s picking the right player hardwood attack or defensive stat on a hot streak and grab the ball or lay off passes basket and slam it home card at the right time to to take on an opponent. the momentum. to your team mates. to continue your streak. edge the outcome. 38 GAMES

Left At the end of each world lurks a lumbering yet formidable boss to take down Below New forms of defence are unlocked as you progress to deal with the onslaught

Thegamethrowsupaninterestingand varied array of defensive towers as you progressandtherangeofcreaturesthatyou SLEEP ATTACK TD have to repel grows ever faster and more ferocious, so you’ll really have to keep an eye on every route and use the rotational capabilities A NEW TOWER DEFENCE GAME THAT WILL HAVE YOU IN A SPIN of the environment to your advantage. It all Oureyelidsdroopedwhenwe stemtheflowandpreventarudeawakening. makes for a fresh-feeling, frantic game with discovered that Sleep Attack was So far, so samey. However, here you can twist plentyofhumour,charmandchallengetokeep yet another tower-defence game the environment so that the pathway to the youcomingback. – they have been done to death on middle of the maze-like level that the enemies The price is easily justified with the amount the App Store – but this one dares to do things have to traverse is altered so as to force them ofenjoymentitprovidesandtheoriginal diff erently by adding a new twist, literally. down your preferred path of destruction. The qualitiesthatitdeliversbythebed-load. The aim is to defend a slumbering creature trade-off is that you may unwittingly open up a from all manner of approaching night terrors shorter route for other enemies to follow while O iPad+ | iOS 4 3 | £1 99/$2 99 | v1 0 1 by placing armaments in strategic places to you concentrate on one particular wa ANGRY BIRDS TRAN THE BIRDS HAVE TRANSFORMED INTO A NEW BEAST As much as we have adored the shooting structures and pigs in Angry Birds games over the years, the middle distance to amass a we had to choke back a bile burp at coin and pig-kill total that you use the thought of playing yet another to upgrade your Transformer and projectile-based incarnation. So we were unlock buddies respectively. The absolutely delighted to discover that Rovio game looks awesome with the have ditched the exhausted format of old in Autobirds blasting down in each favour of something a bit fresher. The result is level via a thunderous dropship an Angry Birds game in name association only, and carnage aplenty erupts as you because this one is a rail shooter. unleash hellfi re. However, it turns The aim is to dash through the levels on foot out there is a price to pay for this (or wheels once you have unlocked the ability being a ‘free’ app in the form of to transform your panel-clad bird into a vehicle) intrusive movie-based ads and a fair amount of grinding is required to kill the required amount of enemies needed to unlock further levels on the sprawling game map. Needless to say we’re not big fans of the IAPs, but at least the game presents a bold new direction for our irate feathered friends. There’s not a lot to link this to the series of old, but as a standalone game this presents plenty of explosive action.

O iPad+ | iOS 7.0 | Freemium | v1.1.18 http://bit.ly/angrybirdstransformios Above The game map is impressively large, but O Android | OS 4.0 | Freemium | v1.1.31 Above Transformintoavehicle to evade plenty of grinding is required to uncover it http://bit.ly/angrybirdstransformand topplingperilsthatfrequentlyfall yourway 39 GAMES IF PIXAR AND LUCASARTS COUNTERSPY MADE A JAMES BOND GAME py’s development team there is to do and are motivated to push further ex-Pixar and LucasArts on by little more than the promise of unlocking which spills into its design, new plans or formulas – passive perks that can ns and style. The staff ers be bought at the start of each level and have ers, though; CounterSpy little bearing on overall progress. ame, and it shows. The We found ourselves playing through to on-stealth plarformer to the end just to see the level design of each olve the console version’s tier of the Imperialist and Socialist military e issues. installments – the game’s art direction is by far a stealth shooter, and the its strongest facet (bolstered by amazing spy- rated levels mean you’ll themed soundtrack and sound design). never play the same path The game’s fl aw is that the further you get twice, but there’s little in, the more resistant enemies become: substance over the it’s not harder per se, it just takes longer. It style. After a few levels, unfortunately means the game dwindles you’ve exhausted all from a bright fl ametoadullglow. Initially intuitive and smart, but it soon becomes stale.

O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 | £2.99/$3.99 | v1.0.105 http://bit.ly/counterspyios OAndroid | OS 4.2 | £2.99/$3.99 | v1.0.110 http://bit.ly/counterspyand ZERO AGE iPAD’S NEWEST AND MOST COLOURFUL INDIE PUZZLER Following on from the success order to overcome various of Monument Valley comes Zero obstacles – that much you’d have Age – the newest release in a seen before. But then the game puzzle-game vogue that focuses introduces the ‘beam’ mechanic: on artsy visuals and ambient sound. These unlocking a system that can two superfi cial layers mean nothing, of course, make players transform blocks, without strong gameplay underpinning them, creating platforms where before and that’s where Zero Age excels – it’s as there was only space, or giving playable as breakout hit Monument Valley, a block a horizontal trajectory it off ering some of the most creatively satisfying previously didn’t have. Combined, 3D puzzles on the iPad. these mechanics create a nigh- Puzzles must be solved by the player unsolvable puzzle with just two manipulating diff erent types of blocks in interactive shapes: no mean feat this day and age. Zero Age is held back only by its fi xed camera angles – though you can fl ip between them, they mostly give you an unnecessary MC Escher-esque slant on the action you never asked for. Otherwise, the game is a gorgeous and complete beauty of a brainteaser that’ll have you stuck for hours. Beautiful visuals complemented by even better puzzle design. One for the devoted puzzle masochists.

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ZERO LIVES There is an ever- growing number of METERMAIDCITY! TACTICAL HEROES mobile games that concentrate on simple There are some TERRIFY YOU Many games boast aesthetics to provide a relaxed games that become of being tactically experience for the player and addictive over time competent, but few Zero Lives is one of the latest. despite lacking frantic manage to deliver. Unlike many of these games, gameplay or advanced graphics. Here, however, we have one that however, this one does nail the Meter Maid City! is a perfect off ers some moments of true magic balance between simplicity and example of this, because your main as you attempt to outfl ank the strategy and there is virtually task is to drag tickets from the enemy and win each battle. Many no learning curve to navigate. bottom of the screen to cars that parts are obvious to understand, but The more you play, the more are illegally parked. It shouldn’t be 01 DARK MEADOW this only helps you to concentrate complex the challenges in the fun, but it really is and the cute A visually beautiful, dark murder mystery with crisp writing and more deeply on your. There is a lot game become, so it is likely that city you drive around helps to add array of frightening monsters to to learn, but it is fun throughout and you will be playing Zero Lives for a lot to the fun atmosphere. Meter fend off. The voice acting sends a shiver could be a game you play for months some time as you try to progress Maid City! a fi endishly clever and down your spine. +++++ before you get bored. further and further. original game. O iPhone+ | iOS 4.0 A tactical game which allows A simple game which requires Once you start ticketing cars, | £0.69/$0.99 | v1.1.1 people of all abilities to enjoy deep thinking at times. A you will fi nd it hard to stop. O Android | OS 3.2 | Freemium | Varies the experience. calming experience. Highly addictive. 02 YEAR WALK O iPad+ | iOS 6.0 O iPad+ | iOS 7.0 O iPad+ | iOS 7.0 This stunningly brave first- | Freemium | v1.1.1 | £1.99/$2.99 | v1.1 | Freemium | v1.1 person adventure is a trek through a Swedish wilderness with puzzles that will tax your frightened mind and horrific creatures to chill you. +++++ O iPhone+ | iOS 8.0 | £2.49/$3.99 | v1.1 03 LIMBO LIMBO is a classic horror platform game, intriguing gamers with its mix of black- and-white visuals and challenging puzzles as you help a boy to discover his missing sister’s fate. +++++ O iPhone+ | iOS 6.0 SPLOT FIND THE LINE NHL 2K | £1.49/$1.99 | v1.1.2 Splot is visually You would think that This highly anticipated 04 WALKING DEAD: impressive and will be sliding your fi nger update to the popular THE GAME perfect for children around until a line mobile franchise With writing that has won who enjoy colourful drawing appears comes with some awards and gameplay that toys cartoon-style graphics. You would be easy, but as you progress excellent changes and others that with your emotions, the have to run along platforms and through this game, you realise feel too similar to the previous episodic Walking Dead lets you plot your own path as it offers up five different collect prizes while keeping out of that there is more to it than meets version. It is still a fun experience tales of zombie apocalypse survival. danger. While similar to many other the eye. You need to have some with an engaging career mode and +++++ O iPhone+ | iOS 4.3 platformers, it is an enjoyable patience and be alert throughout, is probably the best ice hockey | Freemium | v1.7 romp and has an immersive particularly when the drawings are game on phones and tablets, but O Android | OS 2.3.3 quality, and it will keep you coming complex, because each line can it does feel as though complete | Freemium| Varies back time and time again. If you show diff erent objects depending player control is lacking at times. 05 PAPA SANGRE II like platform games and want on where you stop. A decent update to the Forget visuals, Papa Sangre II is something new, it’s worth a try. An original and immersive game franchise, but we would like to a survival horror which relies A fun platformer with unusual ich is very hard to see even more changes. entirely on sound (voiced by graphical qualities which make t down. Find The Sean Bean), getting into your head like few other games with monsters and it stand out. e is great fun. O iPad+ | iOS 6.0 traps aplenty. | £5.49/$7.99 | v1.0.0 +++++ O iPad+ | iOS 6.0 O iPhone+ | iOS 7.0 O iPad+ | iOS 6.1.3 OAndroid | OS 4.0 | £1.49/$1.99 | v1.11 | £2.49/$3.99 | v1.02 | Freemium | v1.1.0 | £5.89/$9.44 | v1.0.0 41 TIP Common photo edits The Adjust Colors and Retouch options from the Tools section enable you to fix common problems. You can use levels, alter saturation, enhance contrast, fix red-eye and much more. ADD CREATIVE EFFECTS TO PHOTOS Utilise eff ects, templates and styles WITH PIXELMATOR to transform your lacklustre images into something really special Editingonaportabledevicecanbeamixedexperience.Users want advanced effects to rival dedicated image-editing software, but the limitationsofthedevice,especiallyitspowerandsize,restrictwhatcan realistically be achieved. MANAGING LAYERS Thesolutionisforappstoofferasetofeffectsfortheusertoquickly achieve complex images with just a tap of their finger. The Pixelmator > Control how the layers work app follows this ethos, and happens to follow it in fine fashion. Open the layers Brush away areas Through a combination of templates, effects, edits and styles, users Accessthelayersbyswiping TapthePaintbrushiconandselect caneasilygetcreativewithimages.Inadditiontothe‘taptoapply’ from the right. Close by Paint and Erase. Pick an Erase swipingtotheleft.Onceopen, brush and work over parts to formula,itoffersanumberofeditingoptionstocontroltheeffect.One scrollupanddowntoview. reveal the layer underneath. ofthemostimpressiveisthelayersfunction.Withthis,youcanapply edits on separate layers and then make adjustments whenever you like, knowingthatyouroriginalimageissafe. e’veseenforone-clickeditsaswellas s. To help get you started, we will walk ffect to an image. We’ll cover templates, g with layers and applying effects. swillonlyinvolveasingletapbut ffectstogetthemexactlyasyoulike. any edit, so also be sure to look at the ow they work. spossibletoachieveaneffectinminutes, ocreateinsoftwarelikePhotoshop!

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PIXELMATOR >Createvintagephotoeffects 1 PICK A TEMPLATE 2 ADD AN IMAGE 3 OPEN THE EFFECTS Open the app, tap Create Image and tap a Tap the plus icon to navigate to a photo and Swipe from the right to open the layers, tap on template to download. We picked Aged Photo. once loaded, pinch out to zoom out. Use the your photo layer and pick Duplicate. It will have a Tap the Settings icon, pick Image Setup and tap corner points to drag inward and resize the blue frame to show it is the layer being worked Rotate. Tap Rotate Left and then Apply. photo to fit. Pinch in to zoom back in. on. Tap the paintbrush icon and pick Add Effects. 4 APPLY AN EFFECT 5 NEW LAYER 6 ANOTHER EFFECT All the effects appear along the bottom of the Return to the layers, tap the original photo layer Tap the Light Leak options to add the Nebular screen, arranged in categories. Tap one, in this and pick Duplicate. Tap and drag the duplicate option. Tap and drag on the screen to alter case Vintage, to see the options. Tap the effect layer above the layer the effect has just been the direction and spread of the effect. Tap you want to add to the image and then select applied to. This ensures everything can be Apply to finish and then Done to return to the Apply, and presto! edited in the future. main screen. 43 BOOKS BUSINESS EDUCATION ENTERTAINMENT

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O iOS 8.0 | Freemium O iOS 5.1.1 | £2.99/$4.99 O OS 4.0 | £1.90/$3.17 GREATEST O iOS 7.0 | Free O OS 4.0 | Freemium OOS Varies | £2.98/$4.99 iPhone/ iPad iPhone/ iPad/ Android iPhone/ iPad/ Android iPad GOODREADS LOGMEIN KHAN ACADEMY PROCREATE A library of over A great app for book Paints, inks and Remotely access your 3,000 videos enables recommendations, abstract shapes are desktop from your users to learn pretty Goodreads also has all readily available, mobile so you can much anything they want, no APPS EVER wishlists and social links. so you can achieve just the take your business on the go. matter what their interests. O iOS 5.0 | Free effect you’re looking for. 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OOS 2.2 | Free O iOS 7.0 | £4.99/$6.99 O iOS 4.3 | £9.99/$13.99 O iOS 5.0 | Freemium O iPhone+ | iOS 8.0 | £2.99/$4.99 | v2.1 iPhone/ iPad/ Android iPhone/ iPad iPhone/ iPad/ Android iPhone/ iPad/ Android FRANKENSTEIN HOW TO TIE A TIE DUOLINGO VLC STREAMER The classic horror ANIMATED GUIDE Learn a new The streaming WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE APP? story is brought Top tips and AR language for free, service allows you back to life in this projection for tying from grammar basics to share media from interactive adaptation. 30 nifty knots – to translating entire websites. your desktop to your device. O iOS 4.3 | £2.99/$4.99 perfect for any occasion. 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