Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 04/13/2017
April 13, 2017 by RSS Feed
Complete calendar, event planner & time tracker , Farm Story Maker Activity Game for Kids and Toddlers Premium , and more
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Complete calendar, event planner & time tracker ( $9.99 → Free ) HedgeHog CircleTime presents time in its most natural form. It allows you to traverse time by spinning its circular dials forward and backward instead of endlessly swiping vertically. The dials reflect the time between arbitrary days, and display events as colored arcs. Events are also listed at the bottom of the screen in a scrollable table view. CircleTime is able to sync your events and projects via iCloud, notify you of upcoming events, and and track time.
Farm Story Maker Activity Game for Kids and Toddlers Premium ( $2.99 → Free ) Eggroll Games LLC There’s so much to do on Lily’s farm. Your child is able to choose from nine different base scenes and populate their favorites with over 100 fun and cuddly stickers. The stickers can be placed anywhere in the scene with a drag and drop, and they can be resized and rotated with common gestures. Tap on a sticker to bring it to life. Stickers are sorted be category, so it’s easy for your child to find exactly what they’re looking for.
Star Wars™ Pinball 5 ( $1.99 → Free ) ZEN Studios Ltd. You're able to join the Galactic Empire or the Rebel Alliance and battle with your friends for leaderboard dominance. Launch your ball onto the table by pulling back on and releasing your finger from the lightsaber. Tap each side of the screen to control your flippers. The table features multiple camera angles to choose from, and quotes and music pulled right from The Empire Strikes Back. Multiple additional themed tables are available via in-app purchase.
Open Bar! ( $2.99 → Free ) Gingear Studio Inc Open Bar will provide you with instant gratification. The moment you launch the app you’ll begin to appreciate its slick design and animations. The basic idea of the game is to drag and drop bars onto the board in order to create completed lines of the same color. The bars can be rotated with a tap, and merged when crossed over one another. Each puzzle can be completed in three moves or less, and you’re able to use a hint at any time in case you get stuck.Source link: http://appadvice.com/apps-gone-free
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Color Your Way to Zen in Polycolor’s Relaxing Puzzles
April 12, 2017 by RSS Feed
polycolor ($0.99) by alper iskender is a zen-like puzzle game about shapes and colors. If you’re in the mood for unwinding after a long day and enjoyed recent titles like Trilogic and KAMI 2, then chances are high that you will like what Polycolor has to offer.
Life gets pretty stressful (especially mine right now), but I have found that the best way for me to relax is with video games of some kind. No matter what platform I choose to de-stress with, it definitely helps take my mind off reality and help me calm down. On iOS, my preferred game genre is puzzle because they’re relaxing yet stimulating at the same time. I’ve mentioned it many times before, but while I like to relax, I prefer to keep my brain stimulated with some challenge so it doesn’t turn into mush. And while I feel like I’ve tried every puzzle game out there, I’m still always looking out for more, and Polycolor is one that intrigued me when I saw it on the App Store. After spending some time with it, I can say that it’s definitely a clever puzzle to unwind with.
Visually speaking, Polycolor features a super minimalistic design that will appeal to people of all types. Everything is rendered in a flat, 2-D aesthetic with plenty of straight lines all around. The game utilizes a dark gray background that makes the vibrant hues of fuchsia, yellow, and cyan blue stand out clearly, and the white lines make it clear where the spaces are that you have to fill in with the three colors. The game has very few animations, as it is mostly just transitions to the next level, but the few times you see animations, they’re pretty fluid. Polycolor also has a soothing, ambient soundtrack that plays in the background, and the whimsical sound effects are a nice touch. Even though Polycolor does not look like too much on the surface, I think the developer did well with the game’s overall visual and audio design.
Just like many other puzzle games, Polycolor is level-based and has four chapters with 18 stages each for players to make their way through. Even though the game bills itself as a relaxing game, you still have to go through the levels in chronological order, so the stage you’ve unlocked is the one you must clear before you can move on. Fortunately though, the game does not impose any time limits, so you can play each stage at your own pace. The goal of Polycolor is simple: each stage showcases an object that is composed of various polygonal shapes, and you must fill it in with color, but without having one color in two neighboring spaces. Eventually, you must change colors in a set number of moves before it’s cleared. It sounds simple enough, but as you get further in the game, things become a bit trickier.
Polycolor has simple controls that are fairly intuitive and responsive. In the beginning stages, the game shows you the three colors along the bottom of the screen, and you can tap on the one that you want to use. However, after the tutorial, these colors no longer show up at the bottom, but you can alternate between all three colors when you tap on a space to fill it in with color. The order goes pink, blue, and then yellow. If you forget the color that is currently selected, you can tell by the thin colored bar at the top of the screen. You can also tap this area to bring up the in-game menu, with options for going back to the title screen, toggling sound or music, or restarting the stage. If you have all of the spaces colored in, but the game does not tell you that it’s complete, it’s because there are two spaces that are next to each other and have the same color. When this is the case, you can go back and change the colors until you get it, or just restart from the beginning. Once all spaces have color and no adjacent spaces are alike, Polycolor tels you and allows you to move on to the next puzzle.
As stated before, Polycolor is a pretty minimalistic game. I am still in the early stages, but so far the game has proven to be a rather relaxing experience overall. I like the simple and clean visual style, the tranquil music is great and helps you focus on solving the puzzles, and the concept is basic but still challenging. I just wish that the game still kept the colors at the bottom because I feel it’s easier to switch between the colors this way — perhaps it should be considered as an option. Another thing I found weird was the loading times between stages — it seems a bit long for what it is, and I hope that the developer optimizes these loading times in the future. And finally, I would like to see are more levels added eventually, as it would increase the longevity of the game. Other than that, I think Polycolor is a pretty solid release so far.
I recommend giving Polycolor a try if you are in the mood for a calming puzzle experience. You can find Polycolor on the App Store as a universal download for your iPhone and iPad for just $0.99. There are no in-app purchases.
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Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 04/11/2017
April 11, 2017 by RSS Feed
Asthmatic - the first asthma weather forecast , My Town : Hospital , WikiLinks — Smart Wikipedia Reader and more
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Forager - The Diet Meal Planner and Tracker! ( $6.99 → Free ) John Schmidt Forager’s rapid fat loss diet meal plan lasts 30 to 90 days. The program is designed to help you lose eight to 10 pounds each month through diet alone. Each meal is customized to your body, health, and fitness goals, allowing you to simply choose the foods you want and have Forager take care of the rest. The app includes more than 80 foods, a shopping list, a supplements list, and built-in calorie and macronutrient counters.Universal:
Asthmatic - the first asthma weather forecast ( $1.99 → Free ) Sarah Van Neyghem Most asthma-related health apps focus solely on pollution. Not Asthmatic. It factors in temperature, humidity level, ozone level, indoor climate, pollution, and other possible triggers in order to help determine what precautions you should take. The daily rating makes it easy to simply glance at the information and get on with your day, or you can analyze all of the data up to five days out.
My Town : Hospital ( $2.99 → Free ) My Town Games LTD The hospital is filled with seven rooms across two floors and all kinds of exciting activities for your child to enjoy. Everything is fair game. Just tap and swipe to see what happens. My Town: Hospital includes 12 characters to interact with, hundreds of sounds and objects, and no time limits or stress points.
WikiLinks — Smart Wikipedia Reader ( $5.99 → Free ) Boris Conforty WikiLinks allows you to start off with an idea and branch out from there with its exclusive mind-map navigation system. Each search suggests different paths to take and allows you to retrace your steps at any time. Instead of jumping back and forth between searches and articles, tap and hold your finger on any link to get a quick preview. WikiLinks is loaded with other great features as well, including fullscreen image browsing, suggested YouTube videos, offline viewing, and iCloud support.
Reminders Widget ( $1.99 → Free ) Crater Tech LLC Reminders Widget enhances the way you use reminders. It taps into the native Reminders app in order to pull any entries you’ve already created. You can then access all due or overdue reminders from a convenient Today widget. The widget also allows you to create new reminders, sort reminders, scroll through groups, and complete reminders.
Orderly - To-do Lists, Location Based Reminders ( $0.99 → Free ) Tekton Technologies (P) Ltd. Orderly is all about prioritizing tasks to ensure you complete the most important ones on time. When creating a task list you’re able to title the group and add as many items as necessary. The menu bar icons at the top allow you to quickly change the background color, text, and font to make the list stand out. A priority level, reminder, and proximity reminder can be attached as well. All of your task lists will appear as little notes on the app’s home screen presented in order of importance.Source link: http://appadvice.com/apps-gone-free
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6 iPhone chat apps you should download today
April 11, 2017 by RSS Feed
Everyone uses their phone to chat with friends and family. Sure we use our phones to make calls, which remains the central feature of every phone, but there are so many other features that are becoming more widely used than the calling itself.
Messaging has become an extremely popular and inexpensive medium to stay in touch with loved ones. Just look around you when you’re in a restaurant or bar, it’s very likely that half of the people will be busy messaging someone on their phones.
From big businesses to 13 year olds, everyone uses messaging platforms for different reasons.
Thanks to a ton of app developers out there, our choices are endless when it comes to chat apps. Luckily, most of them are free and have a ton of useful and unique features. Here we’re listing 6 of the best:
There is a reason why over 1 billion people worldwide use this app and why it was bought by Facebook for $19 billion. It is extremely easy to setup and use and is designed to be similar to the native messaging app on your iPhone.
Because it’s free to use and also ad-free and feature rich, it has become a favorite for the majority of people. Users can send texts, videos and image messages, documents and voice notes to other users around the world either separately or in-group chats.
Recent updates have added features such as voice and video calling too. Making international calls couldn’t get more easier!
It is great for privacy as there is complete end-to-end encryption between users. The WhatsApp Web feature lets users send and receive messages from their computer browser.
Skype is the second most used chat app across the globe. Besides offering free voice and video calls, it also includes a paid option that lets you call on any number, even non-Skype numbers and landlines anywhere in the world.
Moreover, you can also use the app for chatting purposes if it’s not convenient for your contacts to have an audio call with you, or if you are in a rush and simply want to get a message across. It lets you send text messages, photos, audio and video files.
What’s more, since the past two years, Skype has become even more alluring for workplace communication with its new feature Skype for Business. According to Microsoft, it is “a complete, enterprise-grade communications solution at global scale as part of Office 365.”
The app is also a good substitute for FaceTime due to its cross platform functionality (available for all mobile devices, PCs and even TVs) allowing you to message or video call anyone in the world using any device. It has support for group video calls too, for up-to 25 people.
This is an official Facebook app for users who don’t really want to waste time on Facebook, but want to use it to stay in touch with other people. This is one of the best and most useful messaging apps available on the internet simply because of Facebook’s large user base. You can message any of your hundreds of friends on Facebook and also those in your phone’s contact list.
You can send voice messages, photos, videos, smileys and many unique stickers and emojis. Voice calls are absolutely free all over the world. You can even use Messenger without a Facebook account by just adding numbers and contacts manually. The app is free but there are paid stickers available.
You can activate your location to let your friends know if you are nearby and you can alter app settings accordingly to let your friends know if you are available to talk or not. You can just click on a contact while talking to them and the app will direct you to their Facebook page from where you can take a glimpse of whatever is going on in their lives.
Kik has over 300 million users and is one of the best messaging apps available. You can send text messages, pictures, videos and even self-drawn sketches. You can edit pictures in the app itself and send them as memes.
The best thing about the app is that it protects your privacy. You don’t have to share your phone number or email address with anyone, just your user-name. You can have one on one or group chats and can also make new friends.
This is a free all in one messaging app. Unlike other apps, it’s not a dedicated messaging service, but instead it combines all the features of the various social accounts (such as Messenger, Skype, Facebook) and presents them to you in one platform.
This app also lets you send pictures and audios but the multimedia messages are first uploaded to IM servers after which the link is then sent from one user to the other.
Multimedia files can be automatically re-sized if you want to save data. The ’pro’ version comes with a ’neighbors’ function that allows you to find and communicate with new people in your area, who share similar interests. The app has Peer2Peer encrypted messaging to always assure privacy.
Twitter isn’t an app specifically made for messaging or chatting, but it is good at it. Everyone knows you can send out 140 character tweets which is a really interesting (and creative) way to communicate with your friends and family.
What’s unique is that you can even connect with people you don’t know if they share your interests. In theory, you could even message your favorite celebrities or other influential people and they could reply.
Besides sending directed tweets to communicate, you can also DM (direct message) them. Direct message lets you have a private chat with anyone and gives you the ability to also send multimedia files. A unique feature is that it gives you the option of live streaming videos too with the periscope button which you can share with everyone who follows you.
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Escape a Nightmare in Onirim, a Solitaire-Style Board Game
April 10, 2017 by RSS Feed
Onirim - Solitaire Card Game ($0.99) by Asmodee Digital is yet another board game that has been turned into a digital game for your mobile device. If you liked other titles such as Potion Explosion, Sushi Go!, and Exploding Kittens, then Onirim is a perfect addition to your digital board game collection.
Board games — we all love them, but let’s face it, sometimes it’s just hard to play them because you can’t get enough people gathered up in person to play them when you want to due to conflicting schedules or you just don’t want to plan everything out. This is the problem I personally have with board games, so I just end up not playing them as much as I’d like to, even though I enjoy them and the interaction I get with others while playing. This is one of the biggest reasons why I end up playing more video games over board games, because I can enjoy them myself without much fuss. So naturally, when I see popular and current board games getting brought over to digital versions, I’m intrigued, as it’s my chance to try out a board game I otherwise wouldn’t have even heard of. Having the digital versions also has helped me discover these games and go out to buy the physical versions to play at social gatherings too, so it definitely helps having a virtual board game as a “sampler,” per say. And as a fan of solitaire-style card games, Onirim certainly piqued my interest.
Visually, Onirim is gorgeous with the original painting-like artwork style, which is pulled directly from the Onirim base game. So if you’ve played the real game before, then you will recognize everything in an instant. The art looks hand-drawn and is beautiful to look at, even for newcomers, and the nightmares are somewhat mesmerizing and hypnotic. The color palette of Onirim features dark and gloomy colors that contrast nicely with the bright and vibrant colors of the colored cards themselves, so everything stands out as you play. Animations are fluid and smooth in the game, so there is no lag on my iPhone 7. The game also has a hauntingly atmospheric soundtrack that is a nice addition to a once physical-only board game and is also fun to listen to. The sound effects feature realistic card sounds, which just makes it feel even more realistic. Asmodee Digital has been doing a great job with their virtual board game releases, and Onirim is just another fantastic addition.
If you have played Onirim before, then you will be familiar with this game’s only mode, which is the base game in solitaire mode. Unfortunately, for die-hard Onirim fans, Asmodee Digital does not plan on adding expansions to this version of the game, so you are only going to have the base game solitaire mode available on your iOS device. However, the base solitaire version is great for quick-play sessions, so this does not bother me too much. For anyone who is a newbie to Onirim, the game is a unique take on solitaire. Players will be a Dreamwalker that is lost in a mysterious labyrinth, and the only way out of it is to discover the oneiric doors before the dream runs out — otherwise, you’re trapped forever.
With this in mind, the goal is simple: work against the game and find the eight doors before the deck runs out of cards. There are two doors for each color of card in the deck, and the ways to earn them are by playing three cards of the same color in a row, or discarding a key card in your hand when you draw a door card. However, there are also the devious Nightmare cards that are lurking in the deck as well, which trigger tough decisions when drawn (discard your hand, discard top five cards of the deck, discard a door or key card if available). The goal is to get all eight doors before you’re out of cards in the deck, which is much harder than it looks.
Controls in Onirim are simple and intuitive, though it does take a bit of time to get used to everything if you’re new. To play a card, just tap-and-drag it to the playing area, which is like a ribbon. After you have played enough cards, you can scroll through it horizontally if you want to see what you played. If you’re not able to play the card, it just goes back to your hand. Like solitaire, you can’t play a card if it has the same symbol (sun, moon, or key) as the last card you put in the stack. To discard an unnecessary card, just drag it to the discard pile in the bottom right corner. Any time a card is moved from your hand, you draw another card from the draw pile so you always have five cards ready. If you throw a key card away, you’ll be able to see the next five cards in the deck and rearrange them to a better order, as well as discard one (hopefully a nightmare). When you draw a Nightmare card, you’ll have to make a tough choice, and if you draw a door card, it will go into the “reshuffle” pile, you draw another card, and then anything in the reshuffle stack goes back into the deck. Everything in Onirim is automated, so it’s easy to learn the game even if you’re completely new to it.
For newcomers, the game does take a bit of getting used to, but once you understand the rules, it becomes rather addictive and hard to put down. And because of the intricate rules, there is quite a bit of strategy and depth to the game. There is also a statistics section that lets you know how you’re doing in the game since you’ve started, in case you’re wondering about your game records.
I’ve been playing Onirim over the weekend and have been thoroughly enjoying it, despite still not winning a game just yet (have come close though!). I love the beautiful visual style and music, and the fact that everything is mostly automatic makes it easy to see what’s happening and understand. It’s a bit disappointing that the developers don’t plan on adding the expansions to this version, or even adding more game modes in the future. But if you’re looking for a great solitaire game for quick sessions, then Onirim is a pretty good fit for the price of a dollar.
I recommend giving Onirim a try if you are a fan of the physical game or just enjoy solitaire-style card games in general. Onirim is available on the App Store as a universal download for your iPhone and iPad for just $0.99. There are no in-app purchases.
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