Ladies and gentlemen, the Weekend! This means it’s time for another Apps of the Week roundup, and we have some great picks for you this week. There is an endless meme and image scroller, a simple nutrition guide, and an impressive, FDA-cleared stethoscope app. And as always, we’ve selected a fun [evil laugh] new game for you to check out.
Gooday – Make your day good
Here’s an app for the meme team out there. It’s called Gooday, and it promises to deliver images that will brighten your day. The most impressive thing about this app is its breadth of categories, which includes cute animal pics, fun facts, photos of the year, trivia, infographics, and of course, memes. Now there is an NSFW section, so that’s worth keeping in mind, but otherwise it seems like a harmless meme/image app that would be fun to scroll through during downtime. I like that you can favorite memes for later viewing, and the random Wikipedia feature—did you know that ‘Mental Vortex’ is the fourth album by the Swiss thrash metal band Coroner, released on August 12, 1991? Now you do.
Fooodpedia
This is foood with 3 Os…pedia, and it’s a useful app that provides you with nutritional information on well-known, common foods. How many calories are in turkey meat? How many carbs are in avocados? This app has the answers, and it will also let you set macronutrient goals and track your nutritional intake. Look, I get it, there are hundreds of bigger, better apps that already do this, but the selling point here is that this is just a standalone app, with no strings attached. You don’t have to set up a username and password to register for anything, there are no embarrassing questions to answer about how much Taco Bell you eat on a weekly basis, and there are no ads or IAPs. It’s just a simple, useful nutrition guide.
Stethophone
Bro, what? That was my real reaction when I first came across this app. It turns your iPhone into a legit electronic stethoscope that enables detection, amplification, filtering, and sharing of heart and lungs sounds. No, seriously. The app tells you where to hold your phone—typically somewhere on your neck or chest—you press your phone up against your body, and let it do its thing. You can pop in AirPods to listen to the sounds in real time, or save the recording to send securely to a doctor for analyzation. It even provides visualizations that help medical professionals recognize patterns and anomalies to help with a diagnosis. Whew, this is wild. I should probably add a disclaimer here that I am not a doctor, and I do not offer any medical advice, but this app is FDA-cleared and smarter people than me seem pretty hype about it, so I thought I would pass it on. But again, not a doctor.
Level Devil – NOT a Troll Game
You know how sometimes I like to highlight calming, relaxing games you can enjoy on a Saturday afternoon while sipping iced tea in a hammock? Yeah, this is not one of those times. This is a game you scream at while taking shots of cheap vodka at 4 in the morning. Level Devil is exactly what you’d expect from a title that claims it’s “not a troll game,” and whose tag line is “just a nice, normal game.” It’s a platformer with three touch buttons—forward, backward, and jump—and very minimal graphics, and it seems innocent enough, until you make your first move. I’ll leave it at that, as I don’t want to spoil it, but just make sure you take your blood pressure medication and remove any sharp, dangerous objects from the room, beforehand. The concept is actually super clever. You want to rage out of frustration, but you end up laughing at the ridiculousness of it all. Everyone should experience this game, if only for a brief moment. “Guaranteed good feelings after playing,” the App Store page says. Haha, yeah, right.