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 Spark – fast and smart email for your iPhone and a major update to MindNode – Delightful Mind Mapping. These titles are only a sampling of what is available. Read on for our weekly picks of the best new apps and app updates that you shouldn’t miss.
Apple’s App of the Week
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Apple’s highlighted collections
Apple this week updated the iOS App Store and is now featuring bizarre sport games and apps to start your career.
Top iPhone and iPad Apps in the App store
- Top Free iPhone: Facebook Messenger [Free] Instantly reach the people in your life—for free. Messenger is just like texting, but you don’t have to pay for every message (it works with your data plan).
- Top Paid iPhone: Minecraft: Pocket Edition [$6.99] Minecraft is a game about placing blocks and going on adventures.
- Top Free iPad: AlphaBetty Saga [Free] AlphaBetty – a fun, new word game from the makers of Candy Crush Saga and Farm Heroes Saga – King’s first, social, mobile word game!
- Top Paid iPad: Minecraft [$6.99] Play the biggest update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition so far! It’s the overhaul of a generation. Download it now and see for yourself!
- Top Grossing iPhone and iPad: Clash of Clans [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.
New and Notable Apps
Sago Mini Boats [$2.99] Pack your bags and set sail with Harvey the dog. Pick a destination, select a boat and sail the high seas.
Terminal Velocity™ [$2.99] In the far future, armadas from surrounding systems have suddenly waged war on Earth, destroying crucial installations and major cities – Earth is quickly brought to its knees.
Arpeggist [$4.99] Arpeggist is a MIDI Note arpeggiator with a very flexible step matrix editor for programming and a unique “rolling dice” random arpeggio generator.
Take Me There — Get Directions Fast. [$0.99] Take Me There lets you effortlessly get directions to your most frequented locations.
Relook [$3.99] Now you can easily turn photos or selfies into magazine quality portraits. Relook’s Bright–3™ skin layering and multi-phase frequency separation techniques ensure exceptional natural looking results.
Motor Hero! [Free] Conquer the risky platforms, and ride your way to victory!
Spark – fast and smart email for your iPhone [Free] Spark makes it easy to work through your inbox faster than ever before. No matter if it’s one new message or hundreds, you can do it in a couple of minutes. Moreover, Spark is fun, friendly and fully customizable!
Dungeoneers Quest [$2.99] Dungeoneers is a party based, first-person, dungeon exploration game.
Google Photos [Free] Google Photos is the home for all your photos and videos, searchable and organized by the places and things that matter.
MooVee – Your Movies Guru [$1.99] MooVee helps you effortlessly manage your movies, on your iPhone.
Updates you don’t want to miss
iWatermark+ [$3.99] The Essential Watermarking App for Professionals, Business and Personal Use.. Version 2.4 includes the following changes:
- Added: Two major new watermark types — “Resize Photo” and “Apply Filter”.
- Added: “Embossed/Engraved Text is Transparent” setting.
- Tweak: Use proper file name extension when exporting a video.
- Added: “Pick” button on a “Signature Scan” panel (in addition to an
existing “Scan” button).
MindNode – Delightful Mind Mapping [$9.99] MindNode makes mind mapping delightful. Mind maps are a visual representation of your ideas, starting with a central thought and growing from there.. Version 4.0 includes the following changes:
- Notes – a great way to add more content to your ideas
- Connection Labels – enhance your cross connections with context
- Stickers – a custom set of colored and tinted icons
- Apple Watch app – view your important documents as an outline
- New Styles and new content inspector – add shapes, borders and strokes to your nodes
- Improved Layout – Better manual layout and new Smart Layout options
- Personal Theme – makes it easier to create your personal style
- New custom user interface font
Minecraft: Pocket Edition [$6.99] Minecraft is a game about placing blocks and going on adventures. Version 0.11.1 includes the following changes:
- Skins! Change your in-game look by uploading your own skin or choosing one from our downloadable packs
- Just so you know, the skins update is compatible with Minecraft: Skin Studio, available from the App Store
- One more thing about the skins: you need to pay to unlock some, but loads of them are free, so don’t stress about it too much
Moleskine Timepage – Calendar for iCloud, Google & Exchange [$4.99] The most elegant calendar for your pocket and wrist, Timepage is a calendar designed to make every day more enjoyable. Version 1.0.1 includes the following changes:
- iCloud 2 Step Verification Fix – If you had difficulty connecting your iCloud account, please add the account again.
- iCloud Shared Calendar Support
- Sync improvements for Google & Exchange – Please note the initial account sync may take some time and more improvements are on the way.
- Background sync improvements
- Setting for turning sounds on/off
- Setting to disable event animation on the timeline
- Event animation on the timeline is slower when enabled
- New white theme
- Setting for showing or hiding “weeks from now” on the timeline
- Improved text colour on Seaweed Green theme
- Improved layout of events on 42mm Apple Watch
- Various bug fixes
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 2.3 includes the following changes:
- Introducing Fantastical 2 for Apple Watch. It’s Fantastical, on your wrist!
- Various fixes and improvements
ETA – your GPS driving assistant for travel times, traffic and directions [$1.99] ETA is your personal driving assistant providing you with quick access to travel times and driving directions to all your favourite destinations. . Version 2.0 includes the following changes:
- A new app for Apple Watch: ETA is now available on your wrist!
- Traffic display: View current traffic conditions and travel recommendations at a glance
- Multiple routes: Browse all the options available to get you to your destination
- More navigation apps: Plot your route with Navigon, MotionX and CityMapper
- A brand new look and feel: ETA has been redesigned and optimised for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus
- More languages: ETA is now available in Welsh! (thanks to AppLingua for the translation)
Bea At Your Service – Palm Desert [Free] The Bea At Your Service App is an easy-to-use, free mobile app created to stay informed and connected with us every day through a variety of great features.. Version 3.0.17 includes the following changes:
- Completely New User-Interface
- Added new features
- Improved security
Stat [$0..99] Git integration with Finder!. Version 8.1 includes the following changes:
- New Folder status icons for Finder.
- New Auto Refresh! Finder extension now automatically updates icons in Finder if changes are detected.
TeeVee 3 – Your TV Shows Guru [$2.99] TeeVee 3 helps you effortlessly track your favorite TV Shows, on iPad & iPhone.. Version 3.3.1 includes the following changes:
- Fixed several Trakt sync crashes
- Fixed crashes for searching on iPad
- Other improvements
tibbr [Free] Already used in more than 100 countries, tibbr® brings people, files, business apps and actions all together in one place, so work gets done faster.. Version 6.0.0 includes the following changes:
- Added Questions support
- Support to view post activity
- Support for session timeout when configured on server
- Support for T&C when configured on server
- Defect Fixes
Know of a new app or app update that is not on the list? Then share your personal favorites in the comments.
