Gebni, Gyminize, IRL and other apps to check out this weekend
March 03, 2018 by RSS Feed
This week’s edition of our Apps of the Week roundup features an app for scoring cheaper takeout, a new digital workout buddy, and a new social networking app that focuses on real world connections. And as always, we’ve selected two great new games for you to check out.
Gebni
This isn’t a new app, but it’s one I had never seen before running across it this week and I thought it looked interesting. Gebni allows you to save on restaurant delivery and takeout orders using smart menu pricing tech. Think of it like Hotel Tonight (or any other travel app offers savings based on availability)—the app translates real time demand for various meals into customer savings. Those savings can range anywhere from a penny to $5, depending on the time and type of food. The UI is sharp and there are a ton of features. Gebni is available for free.
Gyminize
Still looking for the perfect workout app? Check out Gyminize. You can create your own workout plans—using either the 60 pre-installed exercises or your own moves—track your workouts, take progress photos, track your measurements, and much more. Set achievements, view your history, and personalize your feed with widgets, stats and other data points to give you a big-picture look in a glance. Unfortunately some features require a monthly $3 subscription fee, but for some folks this app might be worth it. Gyminize is available for free (with some IAPs).
IRL
IRL is a new take on social networks. Forget about posting status updates and filtered food pics, this app is all about doing what you like with the people you like. With IRL, making plans is chill and informal. You decide what you want to do and invite the people you want to bring with you. Get inspired with personal recommendations based on your interests and locations, discuss plans with friends via chat, and even embed polls to put it to a vote. If you’re struggling to find stuff to do this weekend, check out this app! IRL is available for free.
Temple of Spikes: The Legend
Temple of Spikes: The Legend is a full-featured, story-based hardcore platformer with 50+ hours of gameplay and an addictive speed runner mode. The story: in January 1980, a young and ambitious treasure hunter finds an ancient sanctuary hidden in the depths of an impassable jungle. While exploring the temple, he discovers untold riches and powerful ancient artifacts. However, getting out of the temple with the treasure turns out to be quite a challenge. Can you do it? Temple of Spikes: The Legend is available for $5.99.
Tekken
Tekken, the world;’s most successful fighting game franchise, has finally landed on mobile. Join Paul, Kazuya, Xiaoyu, Law, Panda and all of your other famous fighters to engage in an intuitive, deep combat system featuring fighting techniques from all around the world. Collect over 20 characters, upgrade and unlock over 20 unique moves, play story mode missions, online versus battles and even live event challenges. As a freemium app, of course this thing is littered with ads and IAPs, but if you can look past that, the game itself looks solid. Tekken is available for free (with some IAPs).
More app news to check out
- Instagram may soon bake voice & video calling functions into its app that no one asked for
- Google confirms it's working on iPhone X compatibility for the Inbox by Gmail app
- Facebook is now testing Voice Clips as a status update option
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Apps of the Day for the Week of March 25th
March 02, 2018 by RSS Feed
Here are 5 “App of the Day” apps selected by Apple for the week of March 25, 2018. We are listing these apps as a service to our readers. While we have not independently reviewed them, we hope you find this list useful and interesting.
Scholly – Scholly, Inc – Free – IAPs, subscription – This app helps high school students apply for, and presumably win, college scholarships. The developer claims “with a free Scholly account, gain immediate access to Scholly’s scholarship-winning essays, tips and advice. Create a paid account and unlock access to Scholly’s award-winning, personalized scholarship matching and application tracking platform. It’s only $2.99/month.”
“Designed to ease the scholarship searching and application process, our patented scholarship-matching engine delivers a smarter, targeted list of scholarships that are uniquely suited to you. The Scholly mobile and web platform turns the long months of searching for free money for college into minutes. To help you win scholarships, Scholly also gives you free access to winning scholarship essays and advice. This app connects you to the Scholly web platform, allowing you to access your account wherever and whenever is most convenient for you.”
Tone – Perfect Pitch Training – Crescendo Technologies – Free – If you’re a singer, musician, or anyone who’s always dreamed of having “pitch perfect” hearing, this app is a must. The developer states:
“Tone is a fun and simple game to help you improve your ears and sing with perfect pitch. Simple, intuitive interface. Choose your pitches and octaves. Difficulties ranging from easy to expert. Practice mode. Share your score and compete with friends!”
Surfline – Surfline/Wavetrak – Free – IAPs – As you might expect, Surfline is for surfers. It’s a weather app specifically designed to help surfers find the best surfing conditions. According to the developers “Surfline gives you access to the best real-time surf reports, long-range swell analysis, and weather forecasts for all your favorite surf spots. Access more than 300 live surf and beach cameras in hi-definition, 24/7/365.”
A Color Story – A Color Story LLC – Free – IAPs – The more visually astute among us will love this app. Actually, everyone who likes robust vibrant images and photos will love it. As stated by the developer “A Color Story focuses on fresh photos and video, bright whites, and colors that pop. Rather than forcing you into a single look, the app has: over 100 carefully crafted filters, incl. purchases; over 40 movable effects, incl. purchases; over 20 FREE tools, including curves; custom filters saved from your editing steps; NEW! Instagram grid preview and planning; NEW! batch editing.
Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen – NutritionFacts.org – Free – If you’re like us you’d like to be on this planet as long as possible. While we can’t do anything about some everyday risks, we can definitely choose a more healthy lifestyle. This app can be a part of that effort. Here’s what the developer says “Keep track of the foods that Dr. Greger recommends in his new book How Not to Die.
In the years of research required to create the more than a thousand evidence-based videos on NutritionFacts.org, Michael Greger, MD, FACLM, has arrived at a list of what he considers the most important foods to include in a healthy daily diet. Yes, greens are good for you, but how much should we try to eat each day? Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen details the healthiest foods and how many servings of each we should try to check off every day.”
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Apps of the Day for the Week of March 25th – TheiPhoneAppReview.com
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Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 03/02/2018
March 02, 2018 by RSS Feed
Sketcha , Sketch Me! Sketch&Cartoon , Blink - Quick Memo and more
iPhone:
Blink - Quick Memo ( $0.99 → Free ) IDEAMP Co.,Ltd. Blink’s minimal and clean design will help you get things done faster. Tap on an open space on the page and type what you want to record. The item will then be added to the top of the page. Tap on any item to give it one of two colors, which can indicate priority or whatever else you wish. Double-tap to archive items. Tap and hold to bring up additional options like editing, sharing, and the ability to move items to the top of the list.iPad:
Sketcha ( $2.99 → Free ) Yue He
Sketcha has it all. It’s loaded with features that will help industrial designers get the job done right. You’re able to generate and manage as many different sketches as necessary. The tools at your disposal include layers, masked sublayers, tons of brush settings, tools for drawing patterns, the ability to import images, multiple paper textures, and so much more. Sketches can be exported in JPG, PNG, and PRSK.Universal:
Sketch Me! Sketch&Cartoon ( $1.99 → Free ) pierre gougelet Sketch Me doesn’t require a lot of tinkering. All you need to do is import a photo from your library or take a new one from within the app. Then tap on one of the 19 effects and enjoy the results. If you choose to, you can adjust other parameters like contrast and brightness. Sketch Me also includes 18 shapes that can be applied in order to show off the distinct effects.
W.E.L.D.E.R. ( $1.99 → Free ) Ayopa Games LLC W.E.L.D.E.R. presents you with a 64 letter tile grid, and you must swap tiles vertically, horizontally, or diagonally to create valid words of four letters or more. New tiles will slide in from the top, creating all sorts of possibilities. You are provided with 25 swaps at the beginning of the game, but you can earn more by scoring big points. The game includes three modes, a variety of special tiles and power-ups, iCloud support, word definitions, and achievements and leaderboards via Game Center.Source link: http://appadvice.com/apps-gone-free
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Impale Penguin Vikings and Hipster Ice Giants in Lichtspeer
March 01, 2018 by RSS Feed
Lichtspeer ($3.99) by Lichthund and published by Noodlecake Studios is an action game that's packed full of retro neon lights, futuristic yet ancient German mythology, and plenty of lightspear-throwing fun. If you like physics-based action games, kind of like Dandara, then you'll get a kick out of Lichtspeer.
Ever since the rise (and fall) of Angry Birds, there was an upsurge in physics-based games that utilize the slingshot aiming method that the franchise made popular. While there haven't been as many of these games out lately compared to years ago, they're still fun, especially when you have something like Bowmasters. I tried Bowmasters for a while, but the constant ad shoving in your face bothered me. I had also seen Lichtspeer on the Nintendo Switch eShop several months ago, and while I didn't buy it on the platform, I found it incredibly intriguing. Now that it's on iOS, I had no excuse to not check it out. Boy, this one does not disappoint.
Dandara
Raw Fury AB
Bowmasters - Multiplayer Game
Playgendary GmbH
Alto's Adventure
Snowman
Alto's Odyssey
Snowman
Lichtspeer's graphics are visually impressive as a whole. The game features a minimalistic aesthetic with the 2D, low-poly art style. The various environments also feature unique backdrops that look great, and have a kind of Alto's Odyssey look and feel to them. Despite the low-poly style, the character models for your warrior and various enemies, including the Hipster Ice Giants, are detailed and can be easily separated from the rest. The colors in Lichtspeer range from bold and vibrant brights to muted, earthier tones, and then there are the bright neon lights of your lichtspear weapon and pyramid lasers. Animations are smooth and fluid, with no issues of lag on my iPhone 8 Plus.
The game's music is just as unique as the game itself. Players will find an upbeat and quirky EDM soundtrack that plays in the background, and the sound effects are nicely done. So whether you hit your target or miss, the game wants to make sure you know.
Lichtspeer has several different areas on the world map, and each one has a handful of levels to get through. But on top of it all, each level is broken up into several stages, and you must clear one stage to move on to the next part. Once you finish them all, then your total score gets tallied up as LSD, which stands for Lichtspeer Standard Denomination. You'll have to complete the first world to get access to the shop, where you can purchase and upgrade your Lichtpowers.
With the scoring system, Lichtspeer follows an arcade formula. You get points based on the number of enemies you killed, but you earn bonuses for headshots, consecutive hit and kill combos for multipliers, and not using up a continue. Plus, there are set goals for each level that you'll want to strive for, so it keeps things fresh.
The goal in Lichtspeer is simple: you're a lone warrior who holds the Lichtspeer, and must use it to clear out the waves of enemies coming at you. Defeat them all, and then you can move on. There are also boss battles that present a true challenge, and are not for the faint-of-heart. Despite the simple premise, Lichtspeer is a hard game. Prepare to die — a lot.
The controls are simple and seem made for touch screens, though I have yet to play it on the Switch. To aim your Lichtspeer, just drag your finger on the right side of the screen. You'll see the trajectory line for your Lichtspeer. Release your finger to throw it, and hope you aimed well. Then rinse and repeat for every enemy on the battlefield.
Your starting Lichtpower is the Trispear, which splits your single spear into three when you tap the screen with two fingers (left and right side). You may want to spend your LSD earned from each level (all stages) to upgrade it to become more effective (eventually splitting into five spears) and reduce the cooldown timer. Other powers may be purchased as well, such as the Licht Hammer, Lichtray, Das Shield, and more. There's a total of 10 powers that you can have, and they prove to be quite useful in battle. Getting enough LSD for all of them, on the other hand, may take some time.
Toss spears at all kinds of crazy creatures in ancient Germanic future.
The Good
Lichtspeer is an amazing physics-based arcade game that everyone should play. The visual style is unique and looks fantastic on Retina screens, and the sound is top notch. The controls work out well enough, so it's pretty simple and intuitive overall. There's a lot of variety in terms of environments and enemy types (Hipster Ice Giants and Penguin Vikings, hello?), so you'll never not have a good time here. The humor is excellently done too, and the Lichtpowers kick things up a notch.
The Bad
The game can be a bit unforgiving, because if you even let one enemy get through to you, then you've failed. When this happens, you have to start that section over from the beginning, which can get pretty tedious if you died a good way through the wave. I wish that there was a life system instead, making it a tad easier, but I suppose that would defeat the purpose of the game, which is to be challenging. After all, it is a simulator where you're a warrior facing off against hordes of enemies.
The verdict
While I'm still fairly early on in Lichtspeer (it's pretty hard, alright), I'm enjoying it a lot and find it hard to put down once you get the hang of things. I've died plenty of times now, but if you pay attention to the attack patterns of the waves, you'll notice when and who you should strike first. It takes some time and practice, but it gets easier once you recognize the sequences. Plus the graphics are beautiful, the music and sound is quirky and delightful, and the controls feel natural. It's a bit unforgiving, but pushes you to get better.
Lichtspeer is available on the App Store as a universal download for your iPhone and iPad for $3.99. There are no in-app purchases.
9.5
OVERALL
Graphics 10
Sound/Music 10
Replayability 9
Game Controls 9.5
Gameplay 9
Lichtspeer
Noodlecake Studios Inc
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Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 03/01/2018
March 01, 2018 by RSS Feed
Monogram Plus , Thundergut's Revenge , Honey Stickers and more
iPhone:
Monogram Plus ( $0.99 → Free ) Joseph Goldstein Monogram Plus allows you to be you. It’s able to customize all five complications on your watch face with emojis, text, or images. Simply launch the app, choose whichever face you have set, and then fill in the blank. Make sure Monogram Plus is installed on your Apple Watch, and deep press on the watch’s face in order to customize the complications. Your chosen emoji, text, or image will then appear! You can also choose the color of your complication, and force the complication to refresh.Universal:
Thundergut's Revenge ( $1.99 → Free ) Tangent Worlds Mac Thundergut is back for vengeance! This time he’s abducted your mentor and only you can save him. Play as an archer hero and take down everything in your path. Simply pull back with your finger to adjust the angle and power of your shot, and release to fire. You’ll see a temporary path for each shot, allowing you to make slight yet quick adjustments on the fly. The game includes two playable characters, three worlds, and 30 levels.
Honey Stickers ( $2.99 → Free ) HYPER! Interactive, LLC Honey Stickers allows you to show your affection in a wide variety of ways. It includes 80 stickers in total, allowing you to add things like sweetie, bright eyes, amore, stud muffin, and more to your conversations. Just peel and stick.
Mind Magnets Info Organizer—Visual Grid Checklists ( $0.99 → Free ) Adams Immersive Mind Magnets can be used as a shopping list, task manager, habit tracker, and even a mind-mapper. Its simple two-button interface allows it to be anything you need it to be. Simply hold your finger on the screen to create a new item. The new item can take on one of three different shapes and 27 different colors. After an item has been created, you can drag and drop it anywhere on the screen. This allows you to group items together however you like.Source link: http://appadvice.com/apps-gone-free
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