Ladies and gentlemen, it’s the weekend. You know what that means — it’s time for another edition of our Apps of the Week roundup. We once again have some awesome picks for you including an app for taking better moon shots, an app for learning computer science, and an AI-infused, hyperlocal weather client. And as always, we’ve selected a fun new game for you to check out.
Moontake
For as good as the iPhone cameras are, there is one particular area where they don’t excel: moon pics. Everyone loves taking photos of a beautiful moon to share on social media, or to look back at years later, but most of the time, all you are left with is a small white dot. Moontake aims to change that by…you know I’m not really sure what it does. It just sort of enhances the moon’s details and sharpens/clarifies the image — the developer is adamant it doesn’t use any AI modeling or cheap tricks. Hey, I know what I’m doing this weekend!
CSology
If I was going to make the Guinness World Records for anything, it would be for the number of times I’ve told myself I was going to learn how to code. In fact, we can add another one right now: I’m definitely going to check out CSology, an app designed to teach Computer Science. It’s based on the UK’s curriculum from Key State 3 (Years 7-9), Key State 4 and Key State 5. I don’t know what any of that means, but it sure sounds official. There aren’t a ton of lessons available yet, but it sounds like this is just the beginning of a larger catalogue.
Weather forecast by Rainbow AI
It takes more than a cool, colorful icon and sharp user interface to get me excited about an app these days — ah who am I kidding, no it doesn’t. Weather forecast by Rainbow AI has both of these things, and also promises to deliver hyperlocal, down-the-minute rain forecasts. I haven’t been able to verify the claim, as it hasn’t rained in my area in months, but if they can get it correct even 50% of the time, it will be an improvement over Apple’s current weather app offering (is it just me, or has it not improved at all with the Dark Sky acquisition).
Pizza Hero
Pizza Herooooooo! I don’t know why, but the title is giving huge 90’s rock-inspired TV show theme song vibes (think Captain Planet). Anyway, the game is a shoot ’em up roguelite with a fun and nostalgic twist. You literally play as a slice of pizza that must defend the world from an invasion of enemies, and of course you have your pick of 18 damaging toppings — pepperonis = grenades, mushrooms = homing missiles, and blue cheese = force field. Other features include 4 procedurally generated worlds, 16 upgradeable stats, and 50+ achievements. Here’s me this weekend: the camera zooms in on me as I, wearing sunglasses, camouflage, and a belt of giant mushrooms, jam a magazine of pepperonis into my grenade launcher and say “one large death pie, extra sauce, coming right up.”