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NARR8 For Android & iPad Adds Animation & Interactivity To Comic Book Reading

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Comics know no age or genre, which is one of the reasons of their appeal. If you’re a fan of comics, and not just specific series by giants like Marvel or DC, but of the art itself, NARR8 (read ‘narrate’) for Android and iOS will definitely keep you occupied with its collection of amazing graphic novels made by skilled artists and story writers. Most of you probably aren't new to the concept of digital comics, but NARR8 brings something more to the table. Elements like animations, music and sound effects make sure that your experience is more than interactive, much like in Madefire for iOS. NARR8 has been around on the iPad for a while now and recently made its way to Android smartphones and tablets. Read More

Add Rage Faces & Memes To iPhone Keyboard With RageBoard

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Rage faces have been all the rage since memes became mainstream from being a mere niche interest of 4chan, tumblr and reddit users. Lately, they have been quickly gaining popularity in messaging apps, but you have to go through a lot of steps before you can insert one into your next text. iOS apps like SMS Rage Faces allow you to copy rage faces to your clipboard and then paste them into your messaging app, but it’s a bit too much of a hassle. What if, like inserting Emoji, you could insert rage faces into messages directly from your iOS keyboard? Well, there’s a jailbreak tweak on Cydia for that! Read More

Customize iOS Notification Banner, Alert & App Switcher Animations With Animer

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Cosmetically speaking, iOS has remained largely the same since it was introduced back in 2007. If you believe this makes Apple’s mobile operating system boring and stale, you can always jailbreak your device, use Dreamboard or Winterboard and make it look like the illegitimate child of Android, Windows Phone and iOS itself. We don’t honestly like that sort of mutation, but we do like and recommend playing around with smaller user interface tweaks to make more subtle changes. With that thought in mind, we’ll be discussing yet another tweak today that helps you personalize certain system animations in iOS. Check it out after the jump. Read More

View & Manage All Cloud & Local Files In One Place With Files App For iOS

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When it comes to accessing all your important files on your iPhone, solutions like iCloud and various other third-party apps let you import data from numerous sources. However, most such services lack the simplicity and convenience that would keep users coming back to them repeatedly. If you have to spend a lot of time just trying to learn using a file viewer, then there is definitely something wrong with it. Files App is a new iOS app that is perfect for everyday use, and can import files from just about any location or service you can think of. It also has viewers for most of the popular file formats including music, photos and videos. If you are feeling lazy, the app even offers the option to transfer files wirelessly via any desktop web browser. Read More

Transfer Clipboard & Song Playback Position Between iPhone & Mac With BeamApp

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We’ve covered about a dozen different apps that let you send files from your iPhone to your Mac and vice versa; some free, some paid; some gorgeous, and others ugly. What they all have in common is that they work over Wi-Fi. The apps are useful if you don’t want to connect your phone to your Mac with a cable, or if you don’t have your cable at hand. BeamApp is a free Mac app available in the Mac App Store with an iOS companion app that allows you to send and receive items from your clipboard to your Mac over the internet regardless of whether they are on the same Wi-Fi network or not. The content you can bean could be email addresses, navigation directions, phone numbers, or a URL. When a website URL is sent from your iPhone to a Mac, BeamApp for Mac opens it in your default browser. In addition to sending and receiving content from your clipboard, you can also send the current song playing in the iPod app on your iPhone to your Mac. Read More

Sun Is A Weather Web App for iOS With Detailed Forecast & Colorful UI

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Many people favor minimalistic apps for simple tasks over those that seem to include everything but the kitchen sink, and no genre is coming up with more apps in this style than weather. Just a few days ago we covered the Sky app for iOS, and now there is a worthy competitor for it out for iPhone users. This new release matches Sky in its conciseness for the choice of name, and surpasses it in most areas of functionality. Sun is just an iOS-optimized web app, rather than a new entry in the App Store, but it is good enough to give any native app a run for its money in terms of smoothness and interface. There some striking similarities between Sky and Sun when it comes to the interface, but Sun offers a lot more than the former. For starters, Sun features a very thorough weather forecast in form of a graph. The app is highly customizable in terms of background colors and the choice of units, and its chameleon-like Home screen icon displays the current temperature as well! Read More

Vinson Is A White-Label Mobile TV App For iOS With VOD & Live Channels

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There are many iOS apps that are popular mainly for their interface, like Any.DO and Clear. On the other hand, some apps are based on a very good concept, but lack any finesse in their looks. Vinson is a new release on the App Store that might not be the most practical app around, but it deserves a lot of acclaim just for its interface and concept. Vinson is a white label mobile TV solution aimed at iPhone and iPad users, letting them stream live TV channels and on-demand videos in a neat UI. The app comes with a touch of social media integration, allowing you to share your favorite moments of any TV show with your friends. To cap it all off, you can jump to any point in time in a Video, thanks to the app’s amazingly detailed navigation options. Read More

View Notifications, A Status Bar Icon Or Receipt When Someone Is Typing An iMessage For You

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So you send someone a message and are now anxiously waiting for their reply. If you happen to be using iMessage, you get an indicator – a message bubble with an ellipsis in it – but only when you have the Messages app and the specific message thread open. Thanks to the ever-vibrant development community, there are a couple of Cydia tweaks you can install to be informed of an actively-written message while you’re using other apps. Check them out after the jump. Read More

LivePapers Offers Customizable, Interactive Live Wallpapers For iOS Home & Lock Screen

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Stunning galaxies, beautiful live fish ponds, abstract shapes and patterns, “green rain” from The Matrix,  self-playing 2D platformers with random level generation, etc. are just a mere fraction of the thousands of interesting “live wallpapers” available on Android. As someone who jumped ship from a Galaxy S II to an iPhone 4S a few months ago, it’s one of the many small little things I sometimes miss on iOS. Read More

Bondsy For iPhone Is A Social Network For Buying & Selling Items

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As useful as online shopping can be, it has also paved the way for many new forms of fraud and embezzlement. Although purchasing/selling stuff online is now a lot more secure than it was in the past, many people still feel a bit uneasy when they have to hand over their money or expensive goods to a complete stranger. At times, relying on Craigslist or eBay is the only option, but won’t you prefer trading with people you know in real life? Bondsy is an iPhone app that lets you post an ad of any product, but the twist is that only your friends and acquaintances can see it. Another advantage of Bondsy is that the ads created through it can also be posted to any social network or website without any editing. Read More

Mokriya Releases Arguably The Best Craigslist App For Android & iOS

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If you are looking for a neatly-built and user-friendly Craigslist app for your Android or iOS-powered device, try taking Mokriya for a spin. Fresh to the Play Store and iTunes App Store, Mokriya is an officially licensed Craigslist client for Android and iOS that offers super-easy ad posting, convenient browsing and advanced searching options. The app’s uncluttered interface is arguably the best we've seen in a Craigslist mobile app in a long time. Besides exploring the extensive Craigslist directory organized under a wide array of categories, you can use the app’s various filters and search tools to instantly find items matching your exact criteria and preferences. Almost every ad listed in the app is supplemented with a wealth of information including contact details of the owner/dealer, photo galleries, descriptions, location maps and plenty more. Read More

Chat & Share Dropbox Files With Nearby iPhone Users With ProxToMe

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Sharing photos with nearby people using Bluetooth isn’t much of an issue even on iOS, since the App Store offers plenty of apps for this purpose. When it comes to sending and receiving other files though, things get a little tricky. Sharing music, videos and documents takes some extra effort, but recently some easy ways of doing this have finally started to emerge. ProxToMe is a new iOS app that allows you to connect with other users of the service who are nearby to chat with them and send them any file stored in your Dropbox account. The app uses Bluetooth to find the nearby users. Any files that you receive can be stored in the ProxToMe folder created by the app in your Dropbox. Read More

Audible For iOS Updated With iPad Support, Better Design & Navigation

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An iPad might be better suited to typing and reading rather than listening to music, but a lot of people still use it as an audio player. Apart from music, there are many other things you can listen to on your iDevice. Podcasts have an app of their own, while the most popular vendor of audiobooks, Audible, offers its dedicated client for iOS as well. Until now though, the official app from Audible.com has been iPhone-only, with only a letterboxed version available for iPad and iPad mini. Finally the folks over at Amazon seem to have realized that people listen to audiobooks on tablets as well, and have made Audible a universal app. Apart from iPad optimization, the app’s latest update also brings changes in the UI, a new filter for sorting your collection, and easier ways to log in to your account. Read More

#NoCrop Lets You Share Any Photo On Instagram Without Cropping It

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It is not easy to upload photos to Instagram without losing some of the details in them. This is owing to the fact that Instagram only supports a fixed aspect ratio, forcing people to crop most images before they can be shared. This is particularly troublesome if you want to upload a panorama to your account, since a large portion of it will have to be left out. Even iPhone’s default aspect ratio for photos doesn’t match the one Instagram’s cropping tool supports. This can be quite an issue for many who don’t want to transfer images to their computer for the sole purpose of making their dimensions match Instagram’s requirements. Thankfully, you can now easily accomplish this task right on your iPhone with #NoCrop. Read More

View Endless Streams Of Vine Videos On Your iPad With VineTube

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Countless examples have shown in the past that merely being a brainchild of some giant company doesn’t ensure an app’s success. Google, Microsoft and Apple have all been forced to shut down certain services that the masses simply refused to use. Some might have expected Twitter’s Vine to meet the same fate, but people have taken to it pretty quickly. More and more Vine videos are showing up on almost every Twitter user’s timeline, despite the fact that the app is presently available only for iOS. We are sure Vine’s popularity will soar when its Android version is released, but we've got to wait for it for now. Even the iOS app isn't optimized for the iPad yet, which is a source of frustration for many tablet users. Creating and uploading videos in Vine’s letterboxed version isn’t much of an issue, but you just can’t enjoy browsing through the service’s video collection without a dedicated tablet-optimized client. In Vine Flow, Android already has a pretty decent app for discovering and viewing Vine videos, and now, there is an app by the name of VineTube that basically brings the same idea to the iPad, albeit with a slightly different implementation. Read More

Cloze Brings Its Combined Email & Social Media Feed To iOS

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For a brief period of time, email was the most important part of most people’s online life, but then social networks came along and changed everything. With Facebook and Twitter’s rise to fame, most of us regularly check our social network accounts for messages, in addition to our email inboxes. Since email and social media are now almost equally important, it makes sense to manage and view them in one place. Cloze is a web service that that gathers data from your social network and email accounts to come up with an integrated feed consisting of updates from people that really matter to you, and its iOS app has just made its way to the iTunes App Store. Cloze calculates a person’s importance based on your past interactions, but you can also manually alter this rating to customize your stream. Posts from other contacts aren’t ignored either, and have a separate section of their own. The app has options for both viewing items and corresponding with contacts, making it a one-stop shop for your everyday correspondence. Read More

Snappn Is An iOS App Discovery Tool With Ratings Based On Reviews By Professionals

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Since there's a staggeringly large number of apps available for iOS, app discovery tools are always coming up with novel ideas to help users find interesting and useful apps for their iDevices. Some of these offer app recommendations based on your current collection, while others ask your friends about their favorite apps or go through social media feeds to look for items that may be worth a download for you. Snappn brings yet another dimension to the field of app discovery for iOS. It gathers reviews from iTunes, blogs, news websites and industry publications to come up with an average rating for apps, making it great for assessing any app’s popularity and finding out if its really as good as your friends have been telling you. As an added bonus, Snappn also features videos related to most apps, which can come handy if you can’t really figure out a specific area of the app’s usage. Read More

Sky Is A Minimal iPhone Weather App That Changes Background Color With Temperature

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Most people who rushed to the evasi0n jailbreak soon after its release got hit by the Weather app’s crashing issue. Although the evad3rs have since fixed the issue, losing access to the stock Weather app forced many people to look for alternatives. Maybe this is why some really good weather apps have been showing up in the App Store lately. Sky is the latest to join an already impressive collection of weather-related apps for iOS. The app doesn’t offer much in terms of features and customizations, but is perfect for anyone who admires minimalism. Most people want a weather app that gives them adequate information in a single view, and Sky does just that. The app displays any area’s current temperature, an icon depicting the current conditions, and a dynamic, colored background. Read More

Retouch Faces In Photos With A Tap Using Beauty Box For iPhone

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Instagram and many other iOS photo editors come with some fine image effects, but these filters might not be much help if you want to retouch photos of a human face. To make yourself look better in a photo, you need apps like Perfect 365 that have been designed specifically for this purpose. However, you have to choose the app wisely if you are looking for good results with minimum effort. Perfect 365 offers a lot of editing options, but it doesn’t work too well for all photos (like side-poses), and you also have to do a lot of manual work before you start seeing the fruits of your labor. Beauty Box Photo, on the other hand, requires virtually no effort at all to achieve this. It works pretty much like any ordinary photo editor available for iPhone, but the effects it offers are meant specifically to retouch faces in photos. Read More