Apps

Minimalist iPad weather app, Morning, now available for iPhone

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 11, 2014

Morning by Tamper, the beautiful weather app for the iPad and one of Apple's App Store Best of 2013 apps, has been updated with native support for the iPhone. Now available in the App Store free to those who've purchased it, Morning version 1.5 brings its sleek, minimalist interface to the iPhone and iPod touch.

On the iPhone, Morning includes all the features of the iPad version, including more than two dozen UI themes.

On the iPad, this new version of Morning has also introduced a few new nice-to-haves, detailed after the jump...

1Password for Mac and iOS 50% off in wake of Heartbleed bug

Cody Lee ∙ Updated October 13, 2018

If you've been holding out on purchasing Agile Bits' popular 1Password app due to price tag, you may want to pay attention. In wake of the nasty Heartbleed bug that has compromised millions and millions of usernames and passwords this week, the developers have decided to discount both Mac and iOS versions of the app by 50%...

Marvel for iPhone turns your sketches into interactive app prototypes

Cody Lee ∙ April 11, 2014

Let's say you're an aspiring entrepreneur, and you just got this wonderful idea for an app that's going to make you a millionaire, what do you do? Chances are, your first move would be to draw out the app on paper so you could get a better visual of it. But something's missing, and that's where the Marvel app comes in.

Marvel is an iPhone app capable of capturing sketches of your app ideas and turning them into interactive prototypes. Simply take a photo of your drawing and apply ‘touch’ hotspots to the image using Marvel, and then link other photos to those hotspots. And in no time at all, you'll be tapping your way through your app...

‘Age of Empires: World Domination’ coming to iOS this summer

Cody Lee ∙ Updated April 2, 2017

Last summer we noted that development studio KLab had reached a licensing deal with Microsoft to bring its popular Ages of the Empire franchise to mobile devices. And today, KLab gave the game an official title and a vague release date. 'Ages of Empires: World Domination' is coming to iPhones and iPads this summer...

Ubisoft’s Trials Frontier racer now available in the App Store

Cody Lee ∙ April 10, 2014

Good news gamers, the official mobile version of Trials is now available. First revealed at E3 last year, Ubisoft's Trials Frontier is a mobile-exclusive entry in the popular stunt biking series, and it landed in the App Store this morning with support for both the iPhone and iPad.

For those unfamiliar with Trials, it's a long-running platform racing franchise famous for its crazy characters and physics-based gameplay. And this new mobile version adds in a mix of social features, allowing you to challenge your friends and compete against other racers...

Facebook removing messaging feature from iOS app in favor of Messenger

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 26, 2018

Feeling chatty? Love Facebook? Good, get ready to embrace Facebook's polished Messenger app if you haven't already.

That's because the social networking giant is reportedly gearing up to kill chatting in its main iPhone and iPad application (available free in the App Store) and force users to download the nicely done Messenger software, also a free download.

The writing has been on the wall ever since Facebook revamped the Messenger app and rechristened the full-featured messaging tab in its mobile client as 'Messenger'. Instead of showing your messages, tapping that tab yanks you out of the Facebook app to launch Messenger...

Twitterrific 5 for iOS enhanced with several usability improvements, bug fixes

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 10, 2014

If you've been reluctant to purchase Iconfactory's excellent Twitter client for iOS, Twitterrific, there's no longer any reason not to give it a whirl as the team last month took the freemium route by making the app free with ads.

Of course, in-app purchases are available to unlock specific advanced features such as push notifications, ad removal and tweet translation. Now available free in the App Store, the freshly updated Twitterrific version 5.7.1 brings out several improvements and bug fixes, detailed after the jump...

‘Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff’ now available in the App Store

Cody Lee ∙ April 10, 2014

We've been looking forward to the new Family Guy game on iOS since it was first mentioned last December, and we're happy to say that it is now available for download. Head on over to the App Store, and you can grab 'Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff' for free.

For those who have missed our various posts on the title, the game is a joint venture between Fox and TinyCo studios, and it involves you helping Peter Griffin and the rest of the Quahog residents rebuild their city after it's destroyed. Read on for a full overview...

R.B.I. Baseball 14 hits a homerun in the App Store

Lory Gil ∙ April 9, 2014

Fans of the greatest baseball game of the late-1980s can finally get a chance to play the MLB’s modernized version of R.B.I. Baseball on the iPhone and iPad. Instead of trying to sell you on an overpriced port, or letting you download it for free only to hit you with a pay wall a few games later, MLB.com has revised the game for a new generation of baseball fans with a reasonable price tag and no in-app purchases.

R.B.I. Baseball 14 has been “reimagined” with modern day graphics, touch screen controls, and an old-school aesthetic that will take you back to your childhood, but not bore your kid to tears wondering where the action is…

Mailbox lands on Android, coming soon to OS X

Cody Lee ∙ Updated February 13, 2018

Mailbox, the popular Dropbox-owned email client, announced this morning that it would be bringing its app to two new platforms: Android and OS X. The Android version will be available later today in the Google Play store, and the team says that the OS X version is "coming soon."

First launched on iPhone in February 2013, Mailbox is an email client that syncs up with Gmail, Yahoo Mail and iCloud. It's not feature-rich, but it stands out thanks to its gesture-based navigation and procrastination features, which let you delay various email actions to a later time...

Fire TV companion apps, Second Screen and Remote, hitting iOS soon

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated October 13, 2018

Tucked away as a side note in Amazon's Fire TV announcement last week is an interesting confirmation of a companion iOS app for the set-top box that's scheduled to launch later this year in the App Store.

The software will act as a second screen solution allowing Fire TV owners to fling Amazon TV shows and movies from their iPhone or iPad to the $99 set-top box, providing remote functionality with playback controls, support for Amazon's X-Ray technology that pulls media metadata from the web and more.

In addition to Second Screen, the official Fire TV app for smartphones and tablets will launch soon, providing virtual controls for touch-enabled games...

Apple seen testing push notifications for resolved Maps issues

Cody Lee ∙ April 9, 2014

Apple is apparently testing a new notification system for Maps, according to a report from MacRumors. The site has posted screenshots showing a new option that some users are seeing to receive a push notification when their reported issue with the app has been fixed.

It works like this: after choosing to 'Report a Problem' within the Maps app, users are given the option to be notified when engineers have fixed the issue. And once the problem has been resolved, Apple sends out a push notification to that user's device letting them know...