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Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 03/19/2016

March 19, 2016 by macjeff

Docs & Works - Scan Papers, Fill Forms and Sign Documents with Ease! , Primo Do , Sago Mini Monsters and more

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The app allows you to work with all of the essential document types including PDF, Word, Excel, Text, HTML, Pages, Numbers, and images. Documents can be imported from the cloud, web, via email, and even scanned. Docs and Works features robust annotation tools including the ability to highlight text, type or write overlay remarks, and add stamps and shapes. Signatures both written and scanned can be attached to documents, and PDF forms with editable fields can be filled out.

The app can be as basic or as advanced as you want it to be thanks to its myriad of features. Tasks can include a due date, list, notes, priority, recurrence, reminders, and an unlimited number of tags. You can also organize tasks into folders, and view them in list or calendar form. The app also includes 20 themes to choose from, passcode protection, custom icon badging, and search.

Sago Mini Monsters allows your child’s creative side to shine. They get to start off by painting the face of a colorful monster. It will then grow horns, eyes, and a mouth. Just tap and drag each piece to switch it out with another. The monster can be fed with the food that floats to the top of the goo from which it came. Once the monster has had its fill it will need its teeth brushed. Other objects will also randomly float to the top of the goo, which can be applied to the monster before it gets its photo taken.

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Blocs Wave, ProtonMail and other apps to check out this weekend

March 19, 2016 by macjeff

Its the anticipation of Apple’s upcoming iPhone SE event killing you? Don’t worry, we have a great list of apps for you to check out this weekend to help you pass the time. We have a new app that helps you create music, a new email client, and a new game that allows you to create your own Disney amusement park.

Blocs Wave

Blocs Wave is a music creation app designed to inspire new musical ideas, whether you’re an amateur beat-maker or a tenured professional. You can tweak sounds using beautiful touchable waveforms, as well as record vocals and instruments. The entire user interface was designed to help you bring your ideas to life within minutes. This app is available for $4.99.

ProtonMail

With all of the talk these days about hacking and FBI backdoors, it’s no wonder that there’s been a rise of interest in encrypted email service ProtonMail, and its newly launched iOS client (actually, it’s been out for a while, but just became available to everyone this week). The app checks off most of the boxes for a standard email client, but it also features invisible, automatic end-to-end encryption, that ensures only the sender and recipient can read messages. This app is available for free.

Milkeddit

In the market for a new Reddit app? Check this one out. It’s called Milkeddit and it has an impressive list of features right out of the gate. These include multiple account support, 3D Touch support, rich timelines with intuitive gestures, powerful mute filters and search, photo gallery view, and much, much more. It also offers a number of customization options, various themes, and a dark Night mode for late-night reading. This app is available for $1.99.

Talkzer

Talkzer is essentially Instagram, but with audio clips instead of photos. You simply post a 20 seconds audio clip to your timeline, and all of your followers can listen to it and interact with you. You can in turn follow friends, family and even celebrities, and comment on their posts with your own audio clips, creating a conversation of sorts. There is a private messaging feature, and of course you can share posts to Facebook and Twitter. This app is available for free.

Disney Magic Kingdoms

I know it might seem odd to see a Gameloft free-to-play title on this list, but Disney Magic Kingdoms has made a huge splash this week. Like a Disney-branded version of Roller Coaster Tycoon, this game allows you to create your own amusement park using popular Disney Park attractions like “Space Mountain” and characters from all of your favorite Disney movies. This game is available for free.

More apps you should check out

• Introducing the iDB app for iPhone
• Puzzler Sputnik Eyes goes free as Apple’s App of the Week
• Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog speeds on to Apple TV
• Miitomo, Nintendo’s first smartphone game, soft-launches in the App Store
• Deezer Music launches Apple Watch app
• New TomTom Go Mobile app gives you 50 miles of free offline navigation each month

These apps have been updated

• WhatsApp for iPhone gains enhanced in-app alerts
• Waze for iOS picks up ‘Planned Drives’ feature
• New Periscope update makes it easier to watch a broadcast with someone you know
• Outlook for iOS adds Touch ID protection for your emails, contacts and calendars

Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 03/18/2016

March 18, 2016 by macjeff

Radian - Puzzles with a Twist , Pokerrrr - The Poker Dealer / Poker Battle with Friends , Clone Magic and more

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Radian is one of those puzzle games that’s easy to learn but difficult to master. The objective is simple enough, requiring you to spin rings of blocks in order to match them to the core color and remove them. All connected blocks will be removed when matched, not just those in vertical or horizontal rows. This allows you to create big combos and earn more points by reducing your amount of spins. The game includes 100 handmade puzzles, an arcade mode, and an infinite mode.

Pokerrrr is free today to celebrate the release of the developer’s latest app, Donkey League Poker. Check it out now in the App Store. This is about as close to playing with real cards as you can get. The game plays a little differently depending upon what types of iDevices you have sitting around. If you only have iPhones, one will act as the host device. Everyone else will connect to it and will be able to see the community cards on their own screens along with the cards in their hand. Cards can be interacted with and peeked at with a swipe. If you have an iPad, it’s pretty much the same process except that the community cards will be shown only on the iPad and all other of the players will be able to utilize their iDevices as just their hand of cards. The game includes a handful of customization options as well.

Clone Magic is all about having fun with your photos. You’re able to take new photos manually or by using the self timer. You have to take at least two quality photos for the effect to work, but you’re able to use up to six at once. Then just outline the subject in each of your photos, and Clone Magic will grab your outlines and put them over the top of your base photo. You can crop and apply filters to your final creation before sharing it via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or email.

Subtraction Flashcard Match Games creates a fun environment for your child to practice subtraction in with its eye-popping visuals and positive encouragement. Your child can work on matching problems to their answers or matching problems to other problems. The difficulty can be adjusted by changing the number range and by showing the cards or keeping them face down. The game also includes a bubble popping reward after each round.

Leo and his father headed to the grocery store to pick up some items for breakfast. During their impromptu trip they came across a very large carton of eggs and just had to buy them, but what was inside was more than they bargained for. The app includes 23 pages full of interactive surprises, and the ability to follow along with a professional narrator.

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Best app deals of the day! 10 paid iPhone apps on sale for a limited time

March 18, 2016 by macjeff

Everyone likes free apps, but sometimes the best ones are a bit expensive. Now and then, developers put paid apps on sale for a limited time, but you have to snatch them up fast. Here are the latest and greatest apps on sale in the iOS App Store.

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Telepaint

March 18, 2016 by macjeff

Telepaint ($2.99) by Acid Nerve is a cute little puzzle game involving buckets of paint and colorful messes left behind. If you are looking for a fun and challenging puzzle to check out over the weekend, then Telepaint is worth a look.

I’ve been going through some fairly stressful events in the past few weeks, so I’m super happy that I still have the option of turning to video games to help take my mind off of things. Though a lot of my gaming is done on my 3DS handheld, I still put a bit of time and effort into my mobile iOS games, considering the fact that my iPhone 6s Plus is practically glued to my hand. And during my tenure here at AppAdvice for the past several years, I’ve gone through hundreds of different iOS games, but always love finding new ones, particularly puzzles, to pick up and play. During my perusal of the App Store releases this week, I stumbled on Telepaint, and am super happy that I did — this game is just fantastic.

Visually, Telepaint is downright beautiful. It has a combination of retro, pixelated graphics that take you back to your childhood, as well as an old-school television screen overlay, complete with flickering lines. The game also makes use of traditional RGB colors and static that were always seen on old televisions, so the developers sure didn’t miss a thing when creating the unique aesthetic. Animations in Telepaint are buttery smooth and fluid, with no lag on my iPhone 6s Plus. The upbeat and quirky chiptune soundtrack is a joy to listen to as well, and it’s important to hear it since the game does have a bit of rhythmic puzzle solving going on, so the music helps. And the fun sound effects (that sync with your movements) are just icing on the colorful, explosive cake that this game is.

Like most puzzle games, Telepaint features six different worlds that have its own amount of levels within. At the moment, there are over 100 stages to paint your way through, so you do get a good value for the buck. Several levels will be unlocked at a time, so you don’t have to be super linear about it, but later levels won’t be available until you solve the current ones. Hopefully more are added in the future, though. The objective in each stage is to help the paint bucket reach the paintbrush, and while things start out pretty easy enough, the complexity of the puzzles will rise, leading to some tricky and messy situations. You’ll have to avoid dangers like spikes and explosives, while grabbing keys to unlock access to the paintbrush, using anti-gravity switches to get around obstacles, and much more. As you get further into the game, new mechanics will be introduced as you go, adding to the challenge.

The controls in Telepaint are easy, but will take a few tries to get used to. Your cute paint bucket character will walk forward automatically when a level starts, so you don’t have to worry about that. However, the only way it will turn around and change direction is if it runs into a wall, so you’ll have to figure out ways to achieve that. To get the paint bucket across hazards like spikes, you will have to make use of the colored portals that are scattered on the levels — just tap on a portal square to activate it, but make sure you open up another portal for it to go through on the other side as well, otherwise there’s going to be trouble. The colors of the portals don’t matter, but you can only have two portals open at one time. The moment you tap on a third portal, the first one will close. The portals also close automatically once the bucket passes through them, but you can tap on them again to use them if needed. The trick is to determine the obstacles on the stage first, then figure out the order of portals for you to go through to reach the paintbrush safely.

Since the animation of the bucket walking can be somewhat slow, just tap-and-hold on the fast-forward button at the bottom to speed things up. If your bucket dies, just tap the rewind button to restart the stage. You can also pause or access the menu with the pause and stop buttons on the screen. If you pause, you’re still able to activate the portals, so it’s nice to take advantage of that for planning ahead of time. As you bucket passes through each portal, it leaves a splash of color (according to the portal color) behind, so the end result of the mess is pretty funky and cool.

I’ve been spending a bit of time with Telepaint today, and must say that I’m impressed by the quality of this title. Not only do the graphics look amazing, but the game runs at an incredibly smooth 60 fps, though you can change it to 30 fps in the options for better battery. The music has a nice beat to it as well, so it’s downright fun to listen to. The simple, one-touch controls for the portals is intuitive, so you don’t have to worry about anything being complicated, besides the puzzles, of course. Since there isn’t a point or star system in place, the replay value may be a bit low, but there are plenty of stages to keep you busy for a while. I also hope to see more levels in the future, because this is a game that I plan on keeping on my device for a long time.

I highly recommend checking out Telepaint if you’re a fan of portal-based puzzle games with a lot of charm. This is definitely one of my favorite games this week. Telepaint is available on the App Store as a universal download for your iPhone and iPad for just $2.99. There are no in-app purchases.

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