Each week, a new round of apps and app updates land in the iOS App Store. This week is no exception with the debut of Angry Birds 2 and a huge update to Fantastical 2 for iPhone – Calendar and Reminders. These titles are only a sampling of what is available. Read on for our picks of the best new apps and app updates this week that you shouldn’t miss.
Apple’s App of the Week
- Worms3 [$4.99 → Free]The follow up to the award-winning, best-selling Worms 2: Armageddon is here! Worms™ 3 has been designed and developed exclusively for iOS.
Apple’s Highlighted Collections
Apple this week updated the iOS App Store with its weekly highlights that showcase Indie games, Impossible Missions and apps for summer romance. Apple also discounted Sago Mini apps to $0.99 in a limited time promotion.
Top iPhone and iPad Apps in the App store
- Minecraft – Pocket Edition (Top Paid iPhone and iPad) [$6.99] Minecraft is a game about placing blocks and going on adventures.
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Angry Birds 2 (Top Free iPhone and iPad) [Free] The Angry Birds are back in the sequel to the biggest mobile game of all time!
- Clash of Clans (Top Grossing iPhone) [Free] From rage-filled Barbarians with glorious mustaches to pyromaniac wizards, raise your own army and lead your clan to victory! Build your village to fend off raiders, battle against millions of players worldwide, and forge a powerful clan with others to destroy enemy clans.
- Game of War – Fire Age (Top Grossing iPad) [Free]Join the ULTIMATE battle for domination of the Kingdom in Game of War – Fire Age!
New and notable apps
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PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX: $4.99: It’s Your World. EAT IT!
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Warhammer: Arcane Magic: $9.99: Engage in epic battles and tactical gameplay that challenge both novice and veteran in Warhammer: Arcane Magic, a turn-based digital board game set in Warhammer Fantasy Battles.
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Red Game Without A Great Name: $2.99: Fly, Die, Retry!
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Tap Delay: $4.99: ap Delay combines the warm sound of vintage tape echo machines with a modern, step sequencer-like tapped delay engine which continues the tradition of the tape echo machines into the 21st century.
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Race The Sun: $4.99: You are a solar craft. The sun is your death timer. Hurtle towards the sunset at breakneck speed in a futile race against time
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Angry Birds 2: Free: The Angry Birds are back in the sequel to the biggest mobile game of all time!
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You Against Me: $0.99: A simple game… You. Me. Claim, steal, lock, score, win!
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Gallery Doctor: $2.99: Free up valuable iCloud and iPhone storage with Gallery Doctor, the only iPhone cleaner that automatically identifies the unwanted photos on your device.
Updates you don’t want to miss
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Power – Glance at battery life: $0.99: With Power you can easily see, in real-time, your iPhone battery life with a single tap or swipe on your Apple Watch. Power. Version 1.1 includes the following changes:
- Notifications while your iPhone battery drains or charges (at certain percentages)
- A new page introducing ‘Notifications’
- A new page to remind users to install ‘Power on Apple Watch’
- Fixes missing juice when battery is less than 5%
- Fixes green battery juice at 20% when it should be red
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Facetune: $3.99: Professional photographers and graphic designers constantly photoshop models to perfection, and now so can you! Version 2.5.4 includes the following changes:
- 64-bit support
- Facebook Messenger export support
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
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Fantastical 2 for iPhone – Calendar and Reminders: $4.99: The award-winning, best-selling calendar app has been redesigned and reimagined for iOS 8, including new features such as reminders, a new week view, and much more. Version 2.4 includes the following changes:
- Drafts! While adding a new event or reminder, swipe down on the red header and it will save as a draft. Now you can browse your schedule, add another new event or reminder, or resume your draft at any time!
- Full support for Japanese, including natural language event and reminder creation
- Accessibility improvements
- Time zone override setting is now respected for Apple Watch app
- Snooze notification improvements for Apple Watch app
- Various fixes and improvements
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Fantastical 2 for iPad – Calendar and Reminders: $9.99: The award-winning, best-selling calendar app has been redesigned and reimagined for iOS 8, including new features such as reminders, a new week view, and much more. Version 2.4 includes the following changes:
- Full support for Japanese, including natural language event and reminder creation
- Accessibility improvements
- Fixed an issue where the Today widget would appear incorrectly
- Fixed a crash when using Dictation to create a new event or reminder
- Various fixes and improvements
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Legend of Grimrock: $4.99: With over 1 million copies of the series sold on PC, the ultimate dungeon crawling RPG is now available on iOS! Version 1.1.1 includes the following changes:
- Major update: Play Legend of Grimrock on the go on your iPhone
- With this update, you can now play Legend of Grimrock on your iPhone.
- You can transfer your characters between iPhone and iPad using iCloud.
- The game works on iPhone 4 but iPhone 5 or a newer model is recommended to fully enjoy the Grimrock experience.
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This War of Mine: $14.99: In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers.
- Fixed Inventory Panel (game was sometimes crashing during scavenging)
- Brazilian Portuguese is now used in game whenever players use this language as their primary system language
- Fixed missing Turkish letters
- Increased stability and performance
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Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition: $4.99: Now you can experience the uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic on the go!
- Improved messaging on unsupported devices with additional fixes coming soon!
. Version 1.3 includes the following changes:
. Version 1.0.1 includes the following changes:
Know of a new app or app update that is not on the list? Then share your personal favorites in the comments.
