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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Do you have some other apps in mind that should be on this list? Let us know about them in the comments section.
The 7 Best iPhone Apps of 2018 (that you don’t know about) – TheiPhoneAppReview.com
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