Review of the Best 30 iPhone Apps for This Week (Nov. 24 – Dec. 1 2012)
30 November 2012
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November 2012 has gone, and the last month in 2012,
December is coming. During the lat week of November up to the beginning of
December this year, a number of iPhone or iPad vendors have launched a lot of
the best iPhone apps. Some of them are free, while the rest were set not to be
free, but still affordable though.
Below are the best 30 iPhone apps for the period of time between
November 24th and December 1st 2012. They are various,
ranging from iPhone productivity apps, iPhone crafty shopping, cars,
photography, and even extreme catch-and-run Tom-and-Jerry-like iPhone games.
In the present time, here is this week’s selection of the
best 30 iPhone apps for this week:
This digital magazine published by the Top Gear team is
concerned on the new supercar of Aston Martin (a snip at £1.2m). Expect lots of
photos, videos and information on the car's design and inner workings, as well
as "a blast of its mighty 7.3-litre V12" engine. And since it's free,
you'll save a few quid towards the car itself...
iPad
There are many buzzes this week on the Flexibits'
Fantastical, which is smarter, whizzier version of the default iOS calendar
app. This iPhone app includes voice dictation, a "DayTicker" view of
your daily schedule, lists of events gained from Facebook, and support for
iCloud as well, Google Calendar and Exchange. If you switched to Sparrow from
the iOS Mail app, this may be your next move.
iPhone
This free iPhone app is already available on iPhone,
crafts website. Etsy alone currently has a fully iPad-optimised version of its
app. It works for both buyers and sellers, browsing the 11m-strong catalogue
and buying for the former, and listing new items and following orders for the
latter.
iPad
The best iPhone photography app FxCamera has been hugely
popular on Android, with more than 20 million downloads. It's now made the leap
to iPhone, and looks to have the features to take on the established
competition there. There's a range of effects, the ability to record voice
messages to accompany images posted to Facebook, and other social features.
iPhone
Disney's latest iOS app for Winnie the Pooh and friends
looks lovely, with a characterful visual style, and lots of playful
interactivity for children to enjoy. It's less a book and more a wander around
Hundred Acre Wood, tapping and swiping the scenery and characters, with
additional colouring sections.
iPhone / iPad
This is most definitely a niche, but a rather marvellous
one. It's an augmented reality app for people who play Minecraft, helping them
project their blocky creations into the real world. And here's the thing that
is getting geeks (yes, me) excited: the ability to save Minecraft worlds to
real-world locations, for other people to find and explore.
iPhone / iPad
This is the latest iPad app from the Victoria &
Albert (V&A) Museum in London, drawing on its collection of theatrical
photographs. It's a guide to 100 post-war plays in Britain – you may have
guessed this already from the title – with the photos complemented by text
extracts, reviews from the Guardian and Telegraph, essays and audio interviews
from experts, and video commentary from Guardian critic Michael Billington.
[Disclosure: I spotted this go live on the App Store, nobody at Guardian HQ has
been leaning on me to cover the app].
iPad
Women's magazine Grazia has launched an official iPad app
for its UK edition, offering weekly digital issues for £1.99 a pop, or a choice
of longer subscriptions. The key feature, though, is that the articles are also
shoppable: you can tap on items to browse, buy or share with friends.
iPad
What's the secret to bucking the downward pricing
pressure on the App Store? Lots of knobs! No, not that kind – Apple wouldn't
allow it – the electronic music instrument kind. KORG has published several iPhone
Apps based on its famous instruments, with iPolysix being the latest. It's an
analog polyphonic synthesizer based on the real-world Polysix, with a new step
sequencer and all manner of kno... controls to twiddle.
iPad
Hot on the heels of similar iPhone Apps for Batman and
Superman, this children's app is the work of Night & Day Studios. Kids
choose characters and items from a carousel at the bottom of the screen, slap
them onto scenery from the famous Tom and Jerry cartoons, then save/share the
results. And if Tom and Jerry aren't your bag, there's a Looney Tunes version
out this week too.
iPad
UberSocial made its name as one of the better unofficial
Twitter iPhone Apps, and despite ructions around how third-party iPhone Apps
are being restricted by Twitter, its publisher UberMedia has released a new Pro
version for iPhone. It has a slick design, more rich media, and some power
features still lacking from Twitter's own iPhone app.
iPhone
Toca Tailor is excellent: a recently released children's
app that gets children making virtual clothes, including using the camera to
capture patterns from the real world. This is a new, completely separate free
version with a fairytale theme, designed to give kids and parents a taste of the
main app.
iPhone / iPad
Talking of parents, this is exactly the kind of app that
people will buy "for the children" while really intending to spend a
few hours browsing it themselves. Released by the Institute of Electrical &
Electronic Engineers, it's a comprehensive guide to robots from around the
world with 360-degree photos, tech specs, videos and other information.
iPad
Already available on iPad, 500px has just made its iPhone
debut on the App Store. It's a photo-sharing service but with more of a focus
on creatives and photographers than the likes of Instagram (although that
attracts plenty of creatives too). So it's more about browsing lots of amazing
photos and sharing them with friends, than snapping your lunch.
iPhone
Who's what? Well, this is an official companion app for
the books by author Martin that have been turned into an obscure TV show called
Game of Thrones. Yes, that one. Released by Random House, this app has more
than 540 character profiles, 380 place profiles and interactive maps – great
for figuring out who's who and where they are when reading or watching.
iPhone / iPad
More Random House here, in the form of Fodor's City
Guides, which have been turned into an attractive iPhone app. It covers
destinations including New York, London, Paris, Rome and San Francisco, with
listings for hotels, restaurants, bars, clubs and tourist hotspots, and data
drawn from Expedia, OpenTable and other sites.
iPhone / iPad
Anyone who's been covering the iPhone Apps space for a
while is probably suffering from social/location fatigue, but Yplan does look
interesting. Focusing on the capital only for now, it offers daily lists of
interesting events with buttons to book tickets, integration with Apple's
Passbook, and referral features to earn money when friends spend.
iPhone
Bauer Media's More! magazine is the latest publication to
experiment with augmented reality technology. In this case it's an
Aurasma-powered app designed to be used with the current issue of the glossy
magazine, offering videos and other content when pointed at the pages.
iPhone / iPad
Making a good educational app for children can be a fine
line between information and entertainment – a lot of attempts end up dry and
boring. Squeebles Maths Bingo walks that line well though, with a storyline
blending bingo and ice cream, and maths exercises for kids that lead to
sweet-snack creation.
iPhone / iPad
Spun is an interesting new spin on the city-guides genre:
"a constantly updated urban guide, insider tip sheet, and local news
jacked on steroids". So rather than a pure tourism guide, it's as much for
locals, as well as people who've emigrated elsewhere but want to keep in touch
with hometown goings-on. Covered so far are New York, Boston, Washington DC,
Philadelphia, Miami, Chicago, Austin, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and Los
Angeles.
iPhone
It's another storming week for new iPhone apps for children,
including this from Spanish developer Sanoen Publishing. Aimed at early
readers, it focuses on the jobs they might want to do when they grow up, with
vocab in six languages, and a range of reading modes depending on the child's
age and skills. The illustrations are full of character, too, so it's not dry.
iPad
This is a more serious affair: a marine navigation and
mapping app from Garmin, which can be used to plan and view routes, read
reviews of locations and hazards on the high seas from other sailors, and
transfer data to Garmin's separate chartplotter device.
iPhone / iPad
This popped up in last week's Android roundup, but it's
since been officially launched for iPhone too. It's a free video-chat app that
ties in Facebook to connect to friends. Besides basic video chat there are
photo-sharing features and the ability to watch YouTube videos or listen to
music with those contacts.
iPhone
Perch is another app focused on video chat, although it
does it with a twist requiring an extra iOS device. The idea: "By mounting
an iPod, iPhone or iPad in your home, you can easily send video messages and
record memorable moments as they happen." Which basically means wandering
up to the device and talking to record a message.
iPhone
One last festive children's app for you this week, from
French developer La Souris Qui Raconte. This one's "not recommended for
younger children who still believe in Santa Claus", mind, due to its
myth-scotching storyline about Santa really being a bloke called Fred who gets
his mates to help deliver presents. Quirky, colourful and great fun.
iPad
This is a very nifty app from British startup T &
Biscuits, aimed at students and academics. The idea: scan book barcodes to
create automatic citations and bibliographies when working on essays, with a
choice of several referencing styles (Harvard, Chicago, Oxford etc) to suit
even the most demanding lecturer.
iPhone
There is no shortage of nifty DJing apps on iPad, with
djay the current reigning steel-wheels champion in this household. Turntable DJ
Deck is talking the right talk though, billing itself as "the first
professional DJ deck for iPad" with a range of pro features.
iPad
Taking an iPad onto the yoga mat may sound like a strange
idea, but iYoga may convince you otherwise. It's a guide to more than 190
poses, with a motion-captured person showing you how to get each one right.
Poses can be strung together into routines, and it plays nice with Apple TV to
project everything onto a bigger screen if required.
iPad
This is an offshoot from mobile writing site Movellas,
gathering some of the poetry written by its community. That means more poems,
haikus and sonnets than you can shake a stick at, with the ability to post
feedback, save them to favourites lists, and get notified when a preferred poet
has new verse available.
iPhone
Finally, and on a vaguely-related note, SongSmith is an
iPad app for songwriters to "compose, organise, perform and share your
songs". That includes a composition editor for writing, the ability to
create and edit setlists for gigs, and lots of customisation and drag'n'drop
features.
iPad
Huge thanks for The Guardian who have provided this week’s
selection of the best 30 iPhone apps. You may agree or not, but here’s just
what we have. Thank you.
Source: Guardian
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