Apps

Will the iPhone X’s notch be a problem for day-to-day landscape mode use?

Anthony Bouchard ∙ October 14, 2017

I’m avidly waiting for Apple’s new iPhone X, just like many others, but one of the controversial qualities about the upcoming handset is the ‘notch’ at the top of the display; this is where Apple keeps its TrueDepth camera system and many of the iPhone’s other vital sensors.

Because the iPhone X has a gorgeous edge-to-edge OLED display, I’m thrilled to see how developers will adapt apps to work with the notch. Apple will unquestionably govern for how developers will be allowed to interact with or 'hide' the notch, so it should be fascinating to see how creativity will manifest itself.

FiLMiC Pro can now shoot in iOS 11’s new HEVC format

Christian Zibreg ∙ October 12, 2017

FiLMiC Pro, the best video recording software on iOS used by filmmakers and pros, was updated on App Store with the ability to shoot in High Efficiency Video Coding (also known as H.265), a video compression standard supported in iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra.

Spark adds Send Later and follow up reminders

Christian Zibreg ∙ October 11, 2017

Spark by Ukrainian developers Readdle is the best free email client you can get for your iPhone, iPad or Mac, and now it's gotten even better with two significant feature additions.

Microsoft is starting to roll out Cortana inside of Skype

Christian Zibreg ∙ October 11, 2017

Microsoft has begun rolling out Cortana inside of its Skype apps, the company said yesterday.

Touchdowners is an addictive game loosely based on American Football

Samuel Rentz ∙ October 11, 2017

Based loosely on the sport of American Football, the object of Touchdowners is to touch the football down at the end zone opposite of your starting position. It may sound simple enough, but it takes a little more finesse than you may imagine.

Twitter is working on a bookmarking feature

Christian Zibreg ∙ October 10, 2017

Twitter is finally working on a “Save for Later” feature that will make it a lot easier to bookmark any tweets that you may want to reference in the future.

Pixelmator picks up support for iOS 11 drag and drop & importing HEIF images

Christian Zibreg ∙ October 10, 2017

The popular Photoshop alternative, Pixelmator for iPhone and iPad, was updated on App Store this morning with support for iOS 11's drag and drop features on iPad and opening images saved in Apple's new HEIF file format.

A new TV show from HBO will be interactive via an iPhone app

Christian Zibreg ∙ October 9, 2017

A recently announced TV show from HBO and Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh will let viewers influence the outcome of certain events via an iPhone app.

Sudoku Master Edition is a cleanly designed option for puzzle fans

Samuel Rentz ∙ October 9, 2017

Sudoku has been a favorite puzzle pastime for many people for a long time. There is no shortage of Sudoku apps on the App Store, but many of them feature clunky designs that are not very aesthetically pleasing.

Fixmoji lets you designate your favorite emojis in iOS without a jailbreak

Anthony Bouchard ∙ October 6, 2017

If you use iOS' Emoji keyboard regularly, then you should know by now that Apple dedicates the left side of the interface to recently-used Emojis. While useful for some, others often wish they could dedicate this section to manually-designated ‘favorite’ Emojis instead.

Enter Fixmoji, a new third-party keyboard app developed by former jailbreak tweak creator Raviraj Minawala. This keyboard lets users configure a separate database of their favorite Emojis and access them anytime on demand.

Twitter and Twitterrific apps now play nice with iOS 11’s Smart Invert mode

Christian Zibreg ∙ October 5, 2017

iOS 11's Smart Invert, which reverts the colors of the display while attempting to leave the colors of images and media intact, has been gaining some much-needed support from popular apps.

Instagram rolling out cross-posting Stories to Facebook

Christian Zibreg ∙ October 5, 2017

After testing it with a small subset of users in Portugal last month, Instagram is now widely rolling out a new feature that lets you cross-post your Instagram Stories to Facebook Stories.