Lory Gil

Writer of all things app related, traveler of the space-time continuum, baker of really great cookies. Follow me @appaholik

Coloring for Grown-Ups will turn your sad life into a child’s activity

Lory Gil ∙ Updated February 6, 2018

Coloring for Grown-ups is a clever website dedicated to colorable pages of real-life adventures for the over-twenty-somethings out there. The site has been around for a few years and the co-founding duo, Ryan Hunter and Taige Jensen, have managed to produce three physical coloring books filled with adult-minded illustrations for the kid in you.

The Coloring for Grown-Ups app recently found its way into the App Store. It is filled with dozens of pages of illustrations dating all the way back to the first web publications. We did some coloring ourselves, and have a hands-on review of Coloring for Grown-Ups for you now…

Space Colors review: things get colorful when you are deep in space

Lory Gil ∙ Updated October 10, 2018

Space-based shoot-em-up games are a dime-a-dozen and as fun as can be. I love heading out in my virtual ship and pew, pew-ing everything that moves. No mining, no building relationships with other worlds. Just shootin’ and flyin’ for me.

Space Colors is a shoot-em-up style space game where players must follow mini missions in order to earn points and collect credits. Fly through space in a colorful adventure across the galaxy. Check out our game review of Space Colors below…

Match colorful cubes as fast as you can in Cubical

Lory Gil ∙ Updated March 17, 2019

If you are a fan of the puzzle-solving genre, you are probably swimming in a happy sea of games these days. What with great new games like Rules! and Primitives Puzzle in Time there is never a moment when you won’t be using your skills in logic and reasoning.

Cubical is another puzzle game to fill your time. It features color matching in a fast-paced timed environment. Push your reflexes to the limit as you match as many cubes as possible before running out of time…

The best business card scanner apps for iPhone

Lory Gil ∙ Updated June 7, 2023

My Old Man doesn’t own a smartphone (I know, how do I live with it?). One of the drawbacks of being a decade behind the rest of us, technologically, is that his wallet is stuffed full with business cards, and I mean stuffed. It is a wonder he can even fit that thing in his pants pocket.

What he needs, besides a smartphone, is a business card reader so he can toss those bulky cardstock piles, but still keep the information he needs in his pocket. If you are looking to empty your wallet and minimize the bulk in your pockets, we’ve got a list of what we think are the best business card reader apps for iPhone for you below.

Apps of the week: Godus, Zombie High Dive, Alter, and more…

Lory Gil ∙ Updated March 17, 2019

This has been another great week for apps and games. We got to have some fun with great ports of some of our favorite games and find out about new apps that make our lives a lot better. There were also quite a few fantastic updates that really made our preexisting apps take on a whole new life.

Whether you are hoping to play god, want a little culture, or have a hankering to explore the deep ocean, we have a list of apps and games for you to check out this weekend…

Rules! is a twitch game that challenges your memory skills

Lory Gil ∙ August 8, 2014

When you are racing against the clock in order to win the game, the stakes are high and success depends on how fast you can react to a current situation. That’s why “twitch” games are so fun.

Rules! is a twitch game that challenges your mind instead of your fingers. You must follow the rules to pass each level, but you must also remember what those rules are or you’ll be lost in time…

Crystals turns geometric art into 3D wallpaper

Lory Gil ∙ August 7, 2014

Cool-looking wallpaper is a big deal now that iOS 7 has made it possible for users to experience the parallax effect on our Home and Lock screens. I’m always looking for new and interesting apps that will allow me to alter and manipulate existing images into something unique for my background.

Crystals is a polygon creation app that lets you manipulate triangles and turn them into interesting fractal patterns. You can then use your intricate new design as a wallpaper for your iPhone or iPad…

Blend Music Player brings a new music listening experience to the iPhone

Lory Gil ∙ Updated November 19, 2018

Since the dawn of the App Store, developers have been creating new ways for us to visually enjoy a music-listening experience. Apple’s stock Music app may sound good, but it lacks the flare and beauty that third-party developers have been able to capitalize on.

Blend Music Player is one of those apps that looks good, sounds good, and offers a number of features that go above and beyond Apple’s Music app…

Blood Bowl review: ‘Fantasy Football’ takes on a whole new meaning

Lory Gil ∙ Updated January 27, 2019

The Warhammer series dates back to the mid 1980s when the role-playing adventure game and the tabletop miniatures game won the hearts of fantasy fiction fans. The football-inspired board game based in the Warhammer Fantasy setting made its debut in 1987 and became a PC video game by the mid-1990s.

Blood Bowl for the iPad is the mobile adaptation of the original PC game. You can play as either Humans or Orcs as you compete in this season’s tournament for supremacy. Just watch out for the opposing team. Killing your opponent works better than stealing the ball does. We’ve got a game review of Blood Bowl for you today…

Challenge time and space in Primitives Puzzle in Time

Lory Gil ∙ Updated February 12, 2018

Have you ever been in the process of trying to solve a puzzle or physics game and realize you’ve made a mistake and wish you could just go back to that moment in time and chose a different path? Me too. Usually, those revelations just end in me hitting the replay button and starting over.

Primitives Puzzle in Time is a simple puzzle game that actually lets you virtually go back in time to the moment you made the mistake. Instead of starting over, go back to that moment you realized you made the wrong choice and try again…

In Celleste, protecting the cows is your top priority

Lory Gil ∙ Updated October 13, 2018

Cows are simply adorable. Many people will overlook the big-eyed dopey beasts as being little more than tomorrow night’s dinner. But, take a closer look at one and you’ll see that they are beautiful in their bizarreness. You just want to take one home as a pet. At least, I do.

Celleste is an arcade tapping game that has you playing god in a battle to protect these sweet and innocent cows. While they are searching for a safe place to graze, bugs are looking to graze on them. Protect the spotted beasts against evil critters with a taste for beef…