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Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 09/02/2022

September 02, 2022 by RSS Feed

My Contacts - Contacts Backup , Wozi - Vocabulary Builder , Beer Lab and more

iPhone:

My Contacts - Contacts Backup ( $1.99 → Free ) Gaurav Babbar My Contacts lets you backup your contacts and export them without uploading any information to the server. Contact data is exported in file formats Excel, CSV, and Vcard. All you have to do is select your desired format and the app takes care of the rest.

Beer Lab ( $0.99 → Free ) Tim Harrison Beer Lab can help even the most inexperience beer enthusiast make a delicious craft beer at home. The app includes eight beer template recipes that you can tweak to your liking. You’re able to scale recipes by adjusting the ABV and IBUs. There are step-by-step instructions for the brew in a bag process. The app lets you add detailed notes to each recipe. Those who own a Grainfather brewing machine can even send the recipe from the app to their machine.

WorkOther - Add Watch Workouts ( $0.99 → Free ) XiaoDong Lin This app lets you make any daily activity into a workout. Turn lawn mowing, walking the dog, or golfing into a workout. There is a fat burning heart rate indication feature to promote weight loss. WorkOther is integrated with HealthKit.

iPad:

iColorama ( $2.99 → Free ) Enrique Garcia This photography app is absolutely loaded with content. You’re able to apply filters and effects to specific areas of your photo by adding masks, or you can choose from the more than 100 presets to make quick work of it. iColoroma also includes more than 400 brushes to utilize, and a detailed how-to guide that will allow you to take advantage of its many features.

Wozi - Vocabulary Builder ( $0.99 → Free ) Xinyang Li Wozi gives real-life examples of how to use commonly used words in the real world. As you flip through, each word is pronounced and displays an accurate meaning. You’re able to customize a personalized word selection and review plan based on your learning situation and preference.

FocusDots: Tomato Focus Timer ( $1.99 → Free ) particlemade Keep focused on tasks with this simple time management app. Decide on a single mission you wish to complete and start the timer. There are 11 different themes to choose from. The app also offers inspirational quotes and daily summaries to motivate you.

Power Hover ( $3.99 → Free ) Oddrok Oy Hop on your hoverboard and navigate your way through a world filled with beautiful but dangerous obstacles. You’re able to steer the board with taps on each side of the screen. Aim for the batteries to collect energy and earn a perfect rating. You're also able to take on challenges, unlock new boards, and unlock new characters. The game includes more than 30 single player levels.

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Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 09/01/2022

September 01, 2022 by RSS Feed

Lost Treasure 2 , Writey Calligraphy Handwriting , PhotoQR: QR Codes in Photos and more

Lost Treasure 2 ( $2.99 → Free ) Syntaxity Inc. The Lost Treasure 2 takes you to the newly discovered archipelago of islands located in the Pacific Ocean. Explore 89 game map scenes as you make your way across multiple islands. Use your newly acquired archaeology skills to uncover hidden treasures, clues, and solve puzzles. A built-in hint system will assist you when you’re stuck, and a dynamic map will ensure you won’t simply go running around in circles.

Writey Calligraphy Handwriting ( $1.99 → Free ) REZA FIROUZBAKHT Writing on an iPad or iPhone takes some practice, and that’s exactly what Writey was designed for. Grab your Apple Pencil, choose a course, and follow the guides to improve your digital handwriting. The app includes three handwriting courses: Roman Alphabet, Regular Writing, and Cursive Writing. It also includes a dark mode.

PhotoQR: QR Codes in Photos ( $2.99 → Free ) Actowise LLC PhotoQR: QR codes in Photos is for those times when you come across a QR code or barcode on your iPhone screen but don’t want to hunt down another device to scan it. The app does it all for you. Just take a screenshot, open the app, and scan the latest photo.

Smash the Code ( $0.99 → Free ) Piotr Sochalewski This is the type of game that will kick start your brain and get those juices flowing in the morning. You’re provided with 10 attempts to guess the secret four-digit code. After each attempt you’ll receive a hint. Use the hints to progressively work your way to the correct code. The game includes single and hot-seat multiplayer modes, and online leaderboards.

Ice Cream Truck ( $2.99 → Free ) Anastazja Bagdziun-Markacheva Ice Cream Truck is certified child friendly. You won’t find any outside links or in-app purchases here. Just pure entertainment. The app includes five different activities, allowing your child to drive the truck, sell ice cream, make frozen yogurt, stack scoops, and whip up cotton candy. Each activity includes loads of interaction methods, which means your child should have no problem staying busy for hours and hours.

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Tightrope Theatre review

September 01, 2022 by RSS Feed

Tightrope Theatre is a platformer full of micro-levels where you pilot a jester on a unicycle as they try to complete an array of increasingly complicated and dangerous stunts. It feels nice to control and offers up some decent mechanical variety, but there are times when its tiny challenges will test your patience.

Hop to it

Unlike some platformers that take you on some grand adventure, Tightrope Theatre's conceit is that you are a circus performer. As such, you are constantly confined to small performance areas that usually consist of tightropes, bumpers, barrels, spikes and more with your task being to get from a starting platform to an ending one.

All of these levels are condensed such that they all fit comfortably on a single screen, with no scrolling or other camera movement necessary to let you see your starting point, the goal, and everything in between. This condensed nature also means levels are so tightly compacted that there's only really one path through a level that you simply have to make sure you execute on.

Go with the flow

A big breaking point for platformers is how well they control. This is doubly true for an experience that asks you to thread some pretty narrow needles as Tightrope Theatre does. Luckily, your ability to steer your unicycle feels nice and tight despite the fact that there is a bit of momentum to your movements (seeing as you're sitting atop a wheel and all that).

The controls are also quite simple, which helps for a touch screen platformer. You just have directional buttons for left and right and a jump button that you can tap for short hops or press when you need to get enough airtime to clear gaps.

Practice makes perfect

Across all of Tightrope Theatre, there aren't special powerups or more complicated abilities you earn as a performer. Instead, the collections of levels get built around different environmental features, asking you to master each one across 60 individual levels before moving on to the next one.

As the challenge ramps up in Tightrope Theatre, you can find yourself dying a lot, but the game knows this and luckily auto-restarts you so you hardly have any downtime. If you fail a level too many times, you can also take advantage of a skip button that allows you to keep making progress to see the game through to the end.

Tightrope Theatre is a free game, with the only purchase available for it being a $2.99 fee to remove ads. This is a welcome and recommended purchase if you plan to play the game in its entirety, as ads really disrupt the flow of the game. Even with removing them, though, Tightrope Theatre can feel a bit tedious as its challenge ramps up while the tools you're given to overcome them remain unchanged.

The bottom line

Tightrope Theatre doesn't try to do anything too ambitious, and for the most part that's fine. Its levels are generally clever and varied enough to keep you entertained even if you basically do the same things through all of them. That said, you can certainly run up against levels that feel too tedious to master, and the skip button--while appreciated--doesn't fix that problem so much as it steps around it.

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Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 08/31/2022

August 31, 2022 by RSS Feed

Timer for kids & family , Hairy Phonics 2 , Iced In and more

Timer for kids & family ( $1.99 → Free ) Natalia Jakubczyk-Gajewska This simple visual timer makes it easier for kids to understand how much time is passing by revealing a picture. There are over 100 pictures and 20 music themes to choose from. You’re also able to add your own pictures from your library.

Hairy Phonics 2 ( $2.99 → Free ) Nessy Learning Limited Phonics is a way of teaching children how to read and write. Hairy Phonics 2 will help your child hear, identify, and use different sounds so they can distinguish between different words. This app focuses on the nine most common vowel digraphs. Kids will sound out words and play games to improve their understanding of each digraph.

Iced In ( $1.99 → Free ) Dennis Mengelt Push blocks of ice around until they rest on a switch to rescue each penguin. As you progress the levels get harder. There are 50 puzzles included.

GraviT ( $1.99 → Free ) Dennis Mengelt GraviT is a simple yet challenging puzzle game. Rotate puzzles left or right until each colored block falls into place in its matching outline color. There are 50 challenging unique levels. The game picks up where you left off so you don’t have to worry about losing your progress.

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Pocket Skate review

August 30, 2022 by RSS Feed

I have a big soft spot in my heart for action sports games. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater was a seminal series for me growing up in a lot of different ways and I'm always ready to take a look at something that takes some inspiration from it. Pocket Skate is one such game that very much operates in this arena, but doesn't quite feel like it comes together to satisfy in the same way.

Stunt and score

Pocket Skate is a skateboarding game where you get to use a specific location as a playground for stunts and combos for all of 60 seconds. Your goal on its face is simply to score as many points as possible by linking together and landing various kinds of air tricks, grinds, and manuals, though some locations offer up sub challenges like "wall ride the lockers" or "do a 900 on the vert ramp."

You control your skateboarder using one side of the screen to steer the direction of your board and the other to propel your board forward via taps, doing ollies by swiping off the ground, and initiating air tricks by swiping in the air. There are also more complicated maneuvers like grinds and transfers that are managed similarly to give you just about every kind of skate trick you can think of at your disposal.

Touchy grind

This concept for a skating game is 100% sound (After all, it is the basic template of a Tony Hawk's Pro Skater title), but the way you control your skater can prove more meddlesome than feels necessary. Tapping to kick your board in particular seems like an odd decision that can lead to accidentally jumping when you don't mean to and other control issues.

There's also the fact that Pocket Skate only has a handful of skating venues and only one of them actually features additional challenges beyond trying to score big. Even if you are just trying to up your score, there are things to work toward like unlocking new tricks to do and new skaters to control. These incentives don't feel as fulfilling to do if you aren't also trying to complete sub challenges, though, which can lock you into repeatedly skating in one area in particular.

Simple skater

Outside of one minute runs, you can also free skate, which just places you in its locations with no time constraint. Outside of that and a training mode (which doubles as the in-game tutorial) though, there's not a whole lot here.

To be clear, Pocket Skate doesn't have to be some sprawling, fully-featured skating game to grip me. But, what is in the game needs to have enough substance and variety to it to keep me wanting to play and replay it, and I'm not sure that between some of the odd controls and limited challenge opportunities that it does that.

The bottom line

Pocket Skate follows a very promising template of how to make a compelling skating game, but its small scope gives the few issues it has very little room to hide and very few opportunities to look beyond them. So, despite being largely competent, Pocket Skate's minor wrinkles prevent it from being the smooth ride it ought to be.

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