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AppShopper Releases New iOS App Discovery Tool With Social Elements

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AppGratis outlived AppShopper by a few months, but recently Apple decided to remove the former app from the iTunes App Store as well. Both the apps served the same purpose of letting iPhone users discover new apps with ease. AppGratis had a decent notification system, while AppShopper was great due to the number of filters it offered for browsing. There are other app discovery tools available for iOS, like Hubbl and Kinetik, but there can be no doubting the fact that a majority of users have been affected by the absence of the two most popular names in the app discovery genre. If you are among such users, your day might just get a little better after knowing that AppShopper has made a comeback in the App Store by the name of AppShopper Social. The app is better than ever, but hasn't changed so much that you won’t be able to enjoy all the familiar features you previously loved about it. Read More

View App Store Links In An Overlaid Screen Right Within iOS Apps

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Some might say that iOS’ ability to take you straight to the App Store whenever you tap an app’s link within a browser is an intelligent feature, but a lot of users are sure to disagree. Of course, most users click an app’s link with the intention of downloading it, in which case the feature is pretty useful, but there are times when you merely want to find out the name of the app your friend has sent you in an email/SMS, or just read up on some of its details. QuickStore is a new Cydia tweak that makes sure jailbreak users get the best of both worlds in this regard. It doesn't disable the links; however, you won’t be taken to the App Store either when you click them. With this tweak, it becomes possible to view any App Store page within an app or browser on your iPhone. You can even initiate a download from the popup window with a single tap before returning to the previous app. Read More

Set iPhone Apps To Auto-Update In The Background At Regular Intervals

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No matter how annoying that App Store icon badge seems at first, app updates are important. If you are in the habit of ignoring updates for a long time (like many iOS users), you might be missing out on some great new features of your favorite apps and games. A majority of users don't like updating apps out of sheer laziness. It only takes about three or four taps to initiate an app's update process, but some people just don't consider even this much effort worthwhile. For such procrastinators, Cydia store now has the perfect tweak. Auto App Updater makes sure all of your apps are always up-to-date, and you don’t even have to launch the App Store for the tweak to work! Auto App Updater works in the background and installs updates for any app you want. Read More

Yandex.Store Promises To Be A Great Alternative To Android Play Store

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Whether you’re tired of not being able to access several Play Store apps in your country due to Google’s regional restrictions or just looking for a worthy alternative to Play Store and Amazon Appstore, we have some great news for you! Yandex – Russia’s largest search engine (often dubbed as Russia's Google) – has just released an Android app store of its own fittingly titled Yandex.Store. With a UI and functionality quite similar to that of Google’s own offering, Yandex.Store is already home to more than 50,000 free and paid Android apps as well as games upon launch, with many communication, socializing and navigation-based apps aimed particularly at the local user community. That being said, you are also going to find the likes of Twitter, Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, SoundHound, TuneIn Radio, Skype, Opera Browser and many other other big names in the package. Just like Play Store, you can view detailed information about the apps before installation, and update notifications as well as automatic updates of installed apps are supported as well. Read More

App Map For iPhone Shows Most Used Apps In A Region For The Current Day

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Recently, we covered Hubbl, an app discovery client for iOS that allowed users to come across interesting apps by showing a sky-like view of recommendations. App Map is a pretty similar app, but it focuses on your location rather than providing a fancy view of app suggestions. This iPhone app allows you to view the apps that have been popular among other users from a particular region for the current day. You can use App Map to see the rankings of apps in your country, or any region of your interest. The app can also be used to find apps that are similar to the ones you have on your iDevice. The list of apps you are currently using will be made visible by App Map to other users of the service who are nearby. Don’t worry though, this will be done anonymously, and the app will not be accessing any of your app data. Read More

Fix “Can’t Connect to iTunes Store” Error & Access App Store In iOS 6

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It is customary for App Store, and most of Apple’s web pages, to go offline just before the release of a new iOS update or device, and this temporary outage rarely bothers too many people. Things have gone a bit differently with iOS 6, though. There was the usual pre-release outage of Apple’s web services (and even App Store, in some regions), but a lot of iPhone owners have been complaining that they cannot access App Store or services related to it after updating to iOS 6. Even if you have a working internet connection on your iPhone or iPad, the App Store just keeps loading for a long time, or comes up with an error after a while, saying “Cannot Connect to iTunes Store”. This error normally shows up when you are not connected to the internet, or if Apple’s servers are down. As App Store is working just fine for people on iOS 5, this implies that the servers are up, and there is bound to be some other problem. We can’t say we have found the exact reason for this bug, but fixing it is really easy, and doesn’t require you to do too much. Read More

Hands-On Review Of The Redesigned iOS 6 App Store

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The App Store is Apple’s crown jewel in iOS and with the release of iOS 6, it has received a major overhaul. From user interface changes to new features, the App Store has been significantly improved from its previous iteration. There have also been several under-the-hood changes and improvements to existing features. In what follows, we will take a look at all the new features and improvements App Store has received in iOS 6. Read More

Mapsaurus: Explore Android Apps Through An Interactive, Genre-Specific 3D Map

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Every time we come across a brand new Android app discovery tool in the Google Play Store, we’re left wondering if the apex has eventually been attained. At least, that’s precisely the notion that we got with the previously-reviewed AppAware, AppGenius, AndoridZoom, Playboard and several similar apps belonging to said genre. Seems as if we’re yet again about to be proven wrong, as another hugely promising app has just appeared on the horizon with a completely refreshing approach to Android app recommendation. At best, Mapsaurus can be cited as a fine amalgamation of Android app/game discovery, filtering, sharing and recommendation. While the official Google Play Store client, the famous AppBrain app and all aforementioned alternatives are good at doing what Mapsaurus does, none of them sports the visual flair, swipe gestures and interactive content filtering as Mapsaurus does. The app scans your Android device for installed apps, and offers comprehensive set of filters to help you with discovering other similar apps on an interactive 3D tree map. This way, it lets you bump into several other handy alternatives that you might not have even heard about. Read More

View iOS Apps Download Percentage & Disable Deletion While Loading

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Downloading a large-sized app on iOS devices can prove to be a total nightmare at times. The download might get paused if you inadvertently touch the app’s icon once, or your Wi-Fi might become inactive without warning if you keep your iPhone in sleep mode for too long. Even if you ignore all these problems, the whole App Store download experience is not one of the neatest features of iOS. Although the blue download bar gives you a rough estimate regarding the remaining download time, it is not as good as having a concrete download percentage. That’s what AppCent is here for. The new Cydia tweak will display the percentage of downloaded content instead of the Loading moniker. If you want to make the App Store download procedure even more streamlined, give I’m Downloading a shot. This second tweak disables the delete button for all incomplete downloads, ensuring that you at least give the app a try before trashing it. Read More

Download Reminder Displays Alerts On App Download Completion [Cydia]

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There are many apps in the iOS App Store that are less than 10Mb in download size, but most of the latest games, and even a few apps, cross the 100Mb mark. It isn’t much of an issue if you rely on iTunes desktop client for downloading apps to your iPhone, but if you use the App Store client on your iDevice, things tend to get a bit hectic. iOS doesn’t have any way of notifying users at the time of a download’s completion, and you might have to come back to your iDevice’s Springboard repeatedly in order to check if the download has finished. The issue becomes even more acute if you are using your mobile data connection, rather than Wi-Fi, as the connection might be interrupted at any time, halting your download without warning. So, what can you do to ensure that when a download is initiated, you can passively track it, without thinking too much about it. There is a solution to this problem available in the Cydia store. Download Reminder is a jailbreak tweak that displays a notification as soon as an app gets downloaded and installed successfully. Read More

Quickly Switch Between Multiple Apple IDs With AccountChanger [Cydia]

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I am pretty sure that many iOS users have faced the problem of getting update errors if they have used more than one account to download apps from the App Store. Also, it is a bit of a bother if your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch is shared by multiple users, and each of them like to use their own Apple ID to get apps. This problem especially becomes even more annoying when you have to update such apps, as you will have to keep logging in and out of all the accounts for the apps to update correctly. Now, you don’t have to worry so much about this problem, thanks to the new Cydia tweak AccountChanger. This simple tweak adds a new option to the App Store which brings up a list of all previously used accounts on your iDevice, and it becomes easy switching between them with a single tap. Read More

Speaktoit Assistant: Worthy Siri Alternative For Android, Now Available On iOS

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The iPhone 4S’ most advertised, and arguably most distinguishing, feature was Siri – the virtual personal assistant that you’d have either come to love or hate, if you’ve been interacting with her. Despite the beta tag that Siri carries, it works pretty smooth, and has been a cause of envy for most iOS users that didn’t have the iPhone 4S. On the jailbreak front, solutions like Spire Siri port piqued a lot of interest, but they remain heavily dependent on a lot of features (jailbroken device, for one, and working iPhone 4S keys for another). Then there have been apps like Dragon Dictation and Dragon Go!, but none really compared to Siri when it came to ease of use. Speaktoit Assistant, however, looks at changing that, and for good. Details past the break. Read More

Apps Explorer: Browse iOS Apps On Your Android Device

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We know that most smartphone apps released these days are most probably available across multiple platforms. If you’re an Android user, there's the Android Market or alternatives such as GetJar and AppBrain to browse for apps, but what if you, for some reason, wanted to find out whether your favorite Android apps also exist on the iTunes App Store without having to use your desktop computer's browser? Enter iTunes App Store Explorer Apps Explorer – a free and simple to use Android app that lets you explore Apple’s app repository for iOS-powered devices from your Android device. Apart from searching the iTunes App Store for required apps, you can also explore it by various categories including price, country, language, ranking and genre. The app is particularly handy for developers, beta testers and app reviewers who do not own an iDevice, but regularly find the need to have information pertaining to certain iOS apps on hand. Read More

Become A DJ On Your Own Dance Floor With Turntable.fm For Android & iPhone

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Turntable.fm, a recent musical start-up that already was very popular around the globe, released their iPhone app yesterday (Update: Now available for Android as well). Their previous desktop version allowed you to enjoy listening to your own favorite songs as well as the ones liked by other users. A huge amount of traffic was attracted towards the app because of its integration with Facebook i.e. before now, one could only start using the app once they had received an invitation on Facebook but now you can simply log using your Facebook account. This is an ingenius addition but it has resulted in a problem that we will discuss in detail later. You can install this app for free from the App Store and log in using your Facebook account as I told you before. A long list of rooms created by users from every corner of the world will be available on the home screen stating the number of listeners and DJs inside each room. To connect to and enter a room, you simply have to tap on its name. Read More

Dolphin Browser Released For iPad With Some Minor Changes

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A great alternative for Safari on iPhone and one of the best browsers on Android platform, MoboTap's Dolphin Browser, was released for iPad yesterday. Dolphin is the first gesture based browser on the iPad with some new added features compared to its iPhone’s version. You might have already read our review of Dolphin Browser for iPhone. This version for iPad is not that much changed except for some little tweaks. Along with the gesture-based browsing, this browser has a Webzine feature, which is basically a built-in elegant RSS reader. It also has a speed dial feature on the new tab/home page along with tabbed browsing. Details of the new features and changes after the break. Read More

Wake N Shake: The Alarm Clock App Which Won’t Let You Snooze

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Often in the morning when the alarm on our clock or cellphones starts beeping, we hit a button and snooze it for a while which results in us getting late for office or college. Wake N Shake is a merciless alarm clock app for iPhone that makes sure you wake up in the morning at the time you have set your alarm. Unlike an ordinary alarm clock, we cannot snooze this one by hitting a button after waking up or maybe accidentally touching it while sleeping. The only way to turn off the alarm clock is to shake your iPhone till the meter on the screen rises to the top. It requires a rigorous shake to shut down the alarm clock and when you are done with turning the alarm off, you are wide awake and ready to start the day. Read More

Kinetik – Discover And Share Apps For iPhone, iPad Or iPod Touch

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iOS has the privilege of having the biggest app collection among all mobile platforms. App Store is regarded as the hub for launching most new ideas and innovations. This accounts for the staggering 450,000+ apps available for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users. But every coin has two sides. There is also a drawback to this kind of variety available in the App Store. For one thing, you might get lost in the sea of apps while trying to find something you really need, or a really good new app could fail to make its mark because of the sheer number of competitors present in the Store. Kinetik is a friend to all such apps as, in addition to keeping you upraised with apps that are currently hot in the market, it introduces you to apps that your friends find handy. Read More