Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 02/16/2018
February 16, 2018 by RSS Feed
Anchor Pointer , Mini Calculator Keyboard - Pluskey , Qmoji and more
iPhone:
Anchor Pointer ( $1.99 → Free ) Alexander Deplov We really enjoy using Anchor Point because of its simplicity. Just tap the Add Anchor button to pinpoint your location, and attach a name and icon to it. The location will be stored in your personal list where you can also share it with your friends. When you want to make your way back to your anchor point, just follow the compass or view the directions on the built-in map.Universal:
Mini Calculator Keyboard - Pluskey ( $0.99 → Free ) Shira Shapira The days of switching between apps to calculate are over. Pluskey puts a calculator right into your keyboard along with a few commonly used emojis. Your calculations will appear in a black bar just below the text field. Tap on the black bar to insert calculations at any time.
Qmoji ( $0.99 → Free ) Thanh Long Bui Kaomojis can be used to express yourself in vastly different ways than regular emojis. The best part is, you can send them to anyone on any device since they are entirely text-based. Qmoji includes 64 kaomijs to choose from, all of which can be added to your conversations via a third-party keyboard extension or as stickers!
Storm & Skye - An Animated Magical Adventure Story for Kids ( $3.99 → Free ) digimoo studios Storm and Skye is about courage, friendship, and pure imagination. The duo set out on their big adventure to explore a rundown car wash. What they find is a whole new world with dragons and knights. This audio animation storybook is about 45 minutes in length, and features rich visuals that come alive with the stellar narration. Storm and Skye includes short chapters that are meant to mimic real physical children’s books. This way your child can enjoy a chapter or two and then later on pick up where they left off.
Shoonya Farm Animals:Languages ( $3.99 → Free ) Shoonya Shoonya Farm Animals will educate and entertain. It includes three different modes: Create, Play, and Watch. The three modes offer different ways to teach your child the names of 14 farm animals as well as common phrases in nine languages. The nine languages include English, Spanish, German, Arabic, Hindi, Punjabi, Marathi, Telugu, and Gujarati. Shoonya Farm Animals also includes interactive elements that will help develop fine motor skills.Source link: http://appadvice.com/apps-gone-free
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Should You Take Part in the Caravan War?
February 16, 2018 by RSS Feed
Caravan War could easily have been the name of a segment on "Top Gear" in which the presenters destroyed a caravan every week in increasingly ostentatious ways. For better or worse, Caravan War is not a game about destroying caravans. Well, it is. But not that kind of caravan.
Viewing the action from an isometric top-down perspective, you have to fill your little world with buildings - a Headquarters, for conducting trades, a Mill, for producing stuff to trade, an Academy, for training guardians to protect your cargo, a Garage, for storing vehicles, and so on.
Then you have to create more buildings and upgrade the ones you have. To keep the wheels turning you have to trade, which means creating a caravan that can survive a journey through the fantasy badlands, and send out convoys whenever you've got enough cargo to sell.
It also means ambushing the caravans of other players, to steal their gold and cargo. But to pull off an ambush, you need a good number of well-trained bandits and a selection of souped-up towers to place in your enemies' way, in classic tower defense fashion.
And the only way to get an army of well-trained bandits is to upgrade your Tavern and your Bandit Camp and keep earning achievements so that you can get hero cards (and gems.)
Oh, and you should probably complete a few campaign missions to unlock that new tower so that you can nab some extra cargo and make enough money to buy a new weapon for your caravan.
And so on and so on.
Caravan War is an interesting take on the casual strategy genre that's richer and more involved than many of its stablemates.
The Good
Caravan War is a rich and detailed tower defense management game mashup where you're always balancing different priorities to keep your little fantasy empire thriving.
Whereas a lot of free to play strategy games hold your hand to a ridiculous degree, slapping a red sticker on every upgrade or unlock that becomes available so that you never have to use your judgement, Caravan War largely leaves you to do the rounds of your little kingdom alone.
And there's a lot to check. Not only can you upgrade your buildings but you can give promotions to your Guardians and Bandits, and tweak the formation of your caravan, among other things.
Your progress never stalls due to the free to play nature of the game. Even after you've completed the campaign missions, you can avoid an unmanageable confrontation by skipping to the next target caravan every time you send out a scout (for a small fee in gold).
The Bad
While there's nothing particularly wrong with the visuals, the 2D isometric graphics can look a bit dated on a device that's capable of gleaming polygons. The design of the world is generic, and the text is sometimes illegibly small unless you zoom in to read it - even on a large smartphone.
This all takes the shine off an otherwise exciting mashup of tower defense and management, imprisoning a novel concept in the staid uniform of a much more ordinary game.
If you can look past the game's ordinary appearance, you'll find a rich and rewarding free-to-play strategy game underneath - but you shouldn't have to look.
The Verdict
Caravan War is an interesting take on the casual strategy genre that's richer and more involved than many of its stablemates. The gameplay contains enough different threads that you always have something to do, and the difficulty is only ever as challenging as you want it to be.
Unfortunately, a slightly drab appearance detracts from the overall package, and there are more exciting alternatives in the App Store. But if you don't mind putting up with generic visuals, there's plenty to like in Caravan War.
7.6
OVERALL
User Interface 8
Lasting Appeal 8
Does It Well 8
iPhone Integration 7
Is Engaging 7
Caravan War
Hiker Games Joint Stock Company
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Find Your Purrfect Date on Cat Island
February 15, 2018 by RSS Feed
Purrfect Date ($4.99) by Bossa Studios is a dating sim that focuses heavily on cats, while also being wrapped in a shroud of mystery, humor, and drama. If you enjoyed other cat-lover games such as Cat Quest, Super Phantom Cat 2, and Cat Bird, but want a title that has a super interesting story filled with felines, then Purrfect Date is for you.
While I consider myself more of a dog person at this point, I still love and adore cats (just slightly less than dogs). But overall, I'm just a huge animal person, so I definitely can't resist any game when cute animals are involved, no matter what species. I've had my fair share of cat-themed games, with my most recent favorite being Cat Quest, but I can't help but check out a new cat-filled game if it's released. And Purrfect Date is one that does not disappoint, especially if you just love cats.
Surgeon Simulator
Bossa Studios Ltd
I am Bread
Bossa Studios Ltd
Cat Quest
The Gentlebros Pte. Ltd.
Super Phantom Cat 2
Beijing Veewo Game Co., Ltd.
Cat Bird!
Raiyumi Inc.
Visually, Purrfect Date is gorgeous with the unique, hand-drawn visuals throughout the entire game. Cute and cartoony graphics greet players from the get-go, and in some ways, they remind me of my Saturday morning cartoons when I was a child. Both the humans and cats that you come across in the story are all unique, distinctive, and have their own personalities that you'll be able to discover by playing. Purrfect Date also utilizes a bright and vibrant color palette that is sure to appeal to the audience, but some scenes are also darker and gloomier, which helps set the tone. The soundtrack is endearing and whimsical, which I found to be a delight to listen to while playing. The game also has realistic sound effects that play to match the situation and dialogue that you're in, which adds some depth.
While Purrfect Date classifies itself as a dating sim, it's not as straightforward as you originally think it is when first diving in. It's also more of an interactive visual novel, with a bit of romance with felines.
You take on the role of a researcher who just landed a job on the appropriately named Cat Island to work with Professor Pawpur. You're there to help research and take care of the cats that live on the island. Just from this, it already sounds like a cat lover's paradise, right? But things take a dark turn pretty early on in the first chapter, as you discover the possibility of Were-Cats. Turns out there's more to Cat Island than you originally thought, and it's not a serene, feline loving paradise.
Since Purrfect Date is more of an interactive visual novel, there's a lot of reading involved. The story advances through the dialogue, and there's a lot of exchanges between your character and associates, as well as cats. However, you can choose to be either a male or female for each chapter, and there's a few different appearances to pick from for each. There's also a wide variety of cats to find on the island, and your Cat-A-Log device is able to scan and provide information on every feline you come across. The information includes breed, age, and color — you know, all the highly important details when it comes to identifying cats.
As you play, you'll have to make decisions that affect the outcome of the story's ending. There are 18 different endings that you can get, so there's a bit of replay value if you want to find out what all of the endings are. In each chapter, you'll have the opportunity to do research for the antidote for Were-Cats, recon with NPCs that you've met to investigate further, and even develop romantic relationships with the cats themselves. The only mandatory action is research, though.
Each time you decide to do romance, research, or recon, it will take up some energy, which is represented by hearts. You can rest to replenish your energy if needed, but that does mean missing out on another activity. Players can choose to do romance and recon as much as they want, with each opportunity filling up on of the progress bars. However, once you do research three times, then that chapter will close and the story advances. So ideally, you'd want to make sure that you're done with everything else before continuing with research, as there's no way to go back after you make your decision.
Since you are a newly appointed researcher in each chapter, that means you'll have to pick only one cat if you choose to date them. You can do the romance action up to five times in a chapter, and three recon and research actions. Again, while the only mandatory thing you need to do is research, the choice of romance or recon affect the results of your research. Therefore, you'll need to choose wisely, especially when it comes to the tougher decisions that affect your relationship with your feline friends.
The makers of I Am Bread and Surgeon Simulator have a new crazy concept game for you to try.
The Good
Purrfect Date is an interesting and unorthodox mashup of dating sim and interactive visual novel. The handcrafted graphics are cute, the sound design is realistic, and controls are simple, since everything's done through taps. The story gets you hooked in right away, and I love the humor and dark twist in plot. I mean, Were-Cats, who knew? I certainly wasn't expecting that when I was starting the game, but now I need to know more.
The Bad
If you aren't a big fan of reading, then I hate to break it to you, but that's a requirement for Purrfect Date. Everything is revealed through the dialogue, and while you can skip through it, you'll be missing vital parts of the story, or even just the humorous puns and whatnot.
And if you hate cats, well, this game is not for you.
The verdict
As a cat fan, Purrfect Date is a nice surprise on the App Store. I didn't know about the game before this week, but it's certainly a fun, interactive visual novel experience. Plus, dating the cats (crazy cat lady style) is fun and silly, which is to be expected from the same people who developed Surgeon Simulator. And honestly, the visuals are charming and appealing to everyone, and the sound is great.
8.7
OVERALL
Game Controls 9
Graphics 9
Sound/Music 9
Replayability 8.5
Gameplay 8
Purrfect Date
Bossa Studios Ltd
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Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 02/15/2018
February 15, 2018 by RSS Feed
Warmlight - Manual Camera , aTimeLogger 2 , Shape Game & Colors App Preschool Games for Kids and more
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Warmlight - Manual Camera ( $4.99 → Free ) Apalon Apps Warmlight allows you to manually control every aspect of your shot. You’re able to set the focus and exposure separately with just two taps. Sliders allow you to control the focus level, ISO, shutter speed, exposure level, and white balance. Grids and levels can be placed over the top of your view to help ensure your shot is perfectly aligned. Color presets can be applied to the live feed, and captured photos can be edited in a wide variety of ways.
aTimeLogger 2 ( $4.99 → Free ) BGCI Thanks to its intuitive interface, aTimeLogger ensures you won’t waste a lot of time tracking your time. The main menu provides you with a large grid of activity icons, but if you can’t find one that suits your activity, go ahead and create your own. To track an activity, just tap on an icon to start the timer. At the end of the day you can view all of your stats and generate custom reports.
Shape Game & Colors App Preschool Games for Kids ( $2.99 → Free ) Eggroll Games LLC Various amounts of cards will appear on the screen face down. Your child can tap on them to reveal what’s on the flip side. They must then find all of the matching pairs of shapes and colors to complete each game. When tapped on, your child is able to hear the object or color pronounced. The app also includes a Show Me mode where the cards are all face up, making it easier to play.
Tofu Go! 2 - The Onsen Adventure ( $0.99 → Free ) db-db-db One lucky piece of tofu has escaped the grasp of the chopsticks, and it's your job to help him survive for as long as possible. Tap and hold on the screen to compress the piece of tofu, and release to jump over obstacles and gaps. The longer you tap and hold, the higher he will jump. Just be sure not to waste any time since the chopsticks are in hot pursuit.Source link: http://appadvice.com/apps-gone-free
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The 7 Best iPhone Apps of 2018 (that you don’t know about)
February 15, 2018 by RSS Feed
The 7 Best iPhone Apps of 2018 (so far)
The talent and creativity demonstrated by dev teams around the world continues to impress and amaze us here at TIAR. With the hardware advancing in a steady pace of technological advancement, the app folks (guys and gals) are always finding new things to do that couldn’t be done before, or at the very least, took too long to do before.
It’s easy to cite apps from Apple (iMovie, Garage Band, etc.) or Google (Maps, Translator, etc.) but what about those talented teams that are offering up some very worthy, but somewhat unheralded, creations?
Every generation of more powerful processors or increased memory takes something that was only viable in a lab setting to production fruition. Be it a slick new trick in a game, ever increasing realism of VR and AR, or new professional capabilities fueled by AI.
Here are 7 recently developed or updated apps that exemplify this fact and provide the fodder for our unbridled enthusiasm.
Insight Heart $1.99 – Learning anatomy can be an incredible challenge even when you’re highly motivated, such as when studying for an exam.
So if you’re just merely curious how do you even stand a chance? With the best apps, that’s how!
Insight Heart, from ANIMA RES, gets a standing ovation for using AR to make everything you ever wanted to know about your own heart entertaining, interesting, and astoundingly addictive.
Go ahead, download it and see a beating heart right in front of your face. You will be hooked beyond anything you’ve experienced playing Pokemon Go, Candy Crush, Temple Run or even Facebook.
The only bad thing about this app is that it’s so good it leaving you thirsting for more. Currently you can see such things as a normal heart rate, a myocardial infarction, arterial hypertension and atrial fibrillation in real time.
There’s obviously much more that can be done not just with the heart but with other organs and systems as well.
Playground AR: Physics Sandbox $1.99 – As mentioned above, new hardware opens the door for new software to do incredible things that couldn’t have been done before.
One area that really underscores this is Augmented Reality (AR). It’s a fascinating area of work that was brought to the public’s awareness with Pokemon Go.
Fortunately there are developers, such as Marc Sureda, who see far beyond that and are pushing the boundaries of AR in ways that give you a glimpse into what’s to come.
Playground AR is a joy to play with and let’s you explore AR literally from the comfort of your livingroom.
Build virtual objects on real surfaces, including various types of machines and, just to make the experience completely satisfying, try to land your RC helicopter on it! Pretty cool.
Streaks Workout $3.99 – If you have a personal trainer maybe you don’t need this app. But for everyone else who’s trying to stick to their New Year’s resolution to get into shape or lose a few, this app is perfect.
This app, from Crunchy Bagel Pty Ltd, is not about training for the next body building competition, it’s about staying on track with an exercise plan that makes sense for your too-crowded schedule.
Don’t have time to pump iron 4 hours a day? OK, they get it, how about 6-30 mins of a random selection of several exercises that you’ve already chosen?
The key is not to act like you’re prepping for a marathon next month but rather to stick with a plan that gets your heart pumping most days of the week.
The app itself uses a very well designed UI to make it easy to find what you want and keep track of your progress all the way.
This app isn’t a drill instructor turned iPhone workout app but it will keep things fresh and, hopefully, improve the odds that you’ll actually stick with it.
Carbo – Notes & Sketches $7.99 – Yep, we hear you, $7.99, not cheap, but then again this app does things that we haven’t seen other apps do.
For the visually inclined among you this app will make the cost of an iPhone or iPad well worth it.
Developed by Creaceed SPRL, Carbo lets you sketch and doodle but instead of just capturing a jpg of your overflowing talents, you get a vector representation that not only makes your doodles easily editable but also reduces the storage needed for each one quite dramatically.
By digitizing your handwriting, notes, doodles and sketches you have the ability to easily capture whatever is on your mind without having to worry about format or mixing types of input. There are also special output styles that add very nice touches to your work to spruce them up a bit for sharing.
It cleans up your drawings, turns your handwriting into editable text and much more. If you’re a free-form type of person and feel constrained by other tools, check out Carbo and let us know what you think.
Tayasui Blocks $1.99 – Are you into the whole lo-res block graphic thing? Well, if not, this app will get you there.
Brought to you by Yann Le Corolla, this app is incredibly creative and is designed to bring out the creativity in you.
You can use the colorful blocks to build just about anything, from watermelon ice pops to entire universes.
Then, once you have your creation ready, you can share it with the world. Of course sharing goes both ways so you can also enjoy, and be inspired by, the creations of anyone else who’s using the app.
Zoom in to see small details or zoom out to see the big picture. Color your blocks and orient them in any direction.
Build, create and then, when you’re done, release some pent up frustration and blow it all up! There are a number of weapons provided to you including TNT and a ray gun.
Sky Guide AR $2.99 – People have always been awed by the stars in the sky and will no doubt continue to look up and be awed for millennia to come. To truly enjoy what you’re seeing, though, you need to know what’s you’re looking at.
Sky Guide AR, from Fifth Star Labs LLC, is a marvelous app that makes it easy to learn as much about our celestial neighbors as you like.
As you’re seeing the actual images of the constellations around the stars that make them up, you can listen to the wonderful audio track from the app that adds remarkably well to the experience.
In addition to stars and planets there are details on hundreds of satellites including the International Space Station.
Whether you’ve made the effort to get to a special location that’s known to be great for star gazing, or you’re out in the middle of nowhere on a cloudless night away from as much light pollution as possible (and we can’t encourage you enough to do just that), the app works fine without any wifi, cell signal, or GPS.
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