The app stores also got their fair share of new software. As you know, we visit them every month to pick out the best new apps for you to try out. Well, now that 2017 is almost out the door, we thought we'd take a look back and pick out the very best apps that came out these past 12 months. You know — in case you missed some!
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Best 2017 apps for iPhone and iPad
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PicsArt Animated
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With a wide selection of splash effects and numerous types of title entry and text slides, you can use this app to make some pretty cool intros. Yup, the title did say it all.
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With a wide selection of splash effects and numerous types of title entry and text slides, you can use this app to make some pretty cool intros. Yup, the title did say it all.
Intro Movie Maker
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Price: free
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A fun little app, which lets you make your own presidential executive orders, signed and presented by President Trump himself. You can doodle or you can attach an image. When you are done, you get a clip of the President doing his thing. Go ahead, bedazzle your friends!
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A fun little app, which lets you make your own presidential executive orders, signed and presented by President Trump himself. You can doodle or you can attach an image. When you are done, you get a clip of the President doing his thing. Go ahead, bedazzle your friends!
Donald Draws Executive Doodle
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Price: $4.99
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When shooting a slow-motion video indoors, you may sometimes notice that the artificial lighting has messed your clip up — lightbulbs flicker and slo-mo picks that up, so you end up with a flickering video. This app will try to fix this by evening out the exposure frame by frame.
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When shooting a slow-motion video indoors, you may sometimes notice that the artificial lighting has messed your clip up — lightbulbs flicker and slo-mo picks that up, so you end up with a flickering video. This app will try to fix this by evening out the exposure frame by frame.
Seed De Flicker
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Price: free
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This is a personal expense manager with a twist — it's stylized like a game. As you track your money-spending you also get to build a city. Might actually get you to use one of these apps regularly.
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This is a personal expense manager with a twist — it's stylized like a game. As you track your money-spending you also get to build a city. Might actually get you to use one of these apps regularly.
Fortune City
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Price: free
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Pablo lets you make "Light paintings". In other words, it keeps the camera's shutter set to really, really slow and exposure to really low. Then, you need to hold the phone steady and have moving lightsources in front of it – like cars on a highway, fireworks, or just you waving a flashlight in front of it. The result is a picture with light trails and patterns just smeared over.
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Pablo lets you make "Light paintings". In other words, it keeps the camera's shutter set to really, really slow and exposure to really low. Then, you need to hold the phone steady and have moving lightsources in front of it – like cars on a highway, fireworks, or just you waving a flashlight in front of it. The result is a picture with light trails and patterns just smeared over.
PABLO.
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Price: free (subscription)
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Skoove is an advance piano-teaching app. It'll teach you to play your first melody at first use and will then proceed to feed you 250 interactive lessons. The app will listen to your playing and keep track of your progress, and will also feed you information about proper playing technique throughout your adventure.
Subscription is a bit on the expensive side, but you could say that piano lessons are much more expensive. It starts from $13.95 per month and goes down to $6.95 per month if you pay for a full year in advance ($83.99).
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Skoove is an advance piano-teaching app. It'll teach you to play your first melody at first use and will then proceed to feed you 250 interactive lessons. The app will listen to your playing and keep track of your progress, and will also feed you information about proper playing technique throughout your adventure.
Subscription is a bit on the expensive side, but you could say that piano lessons are much more expensive. It starts from $13.95 per month and goes down to $6.95 per month if you pay for a full year in advance ($83.99).
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Price: free
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Love C&H comics? You can now create your own avatar, styled after the famous baldies. The app is full of emoji, which you can copy and paste into your chats.
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Love C&H comics? You can now create your own avatar, styled after the famous baldies. The app is full of emoji, which you can copy and paste into your chats.
Cyanide and Happiness Emoji
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Price: free
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An awesome synth app for mobile musicians. You don't compose melodies directly, instead you arrange weird, multi-tentacle creatures on your display who play various musical notes as they move around. An interesting app to toy around with, good thing it's free.
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An awesome synth app for mobile musicians. You don't compose melodies directly, instead you arrange weird, multi-tentacle creatures on your display who play various musical notes as they move around. An interesting app to toy around with, good thing it's free.
Seaquence
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KineMaster was one of our favorite apps for the "Alternatives to iMovie" pick. Back then, it was only out for Android, but now makes it to iOS. Cool movie editor, check it out!
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KineMaster was one of our favorite apps for the "Alternatives to iMovie" pick. Back then, it was only out for Android, but now makes it to iOS. Cool movie editor, check it out!
KineMaster
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Price: free
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This app presents an awesome concept in an easy-to-use format. Invio comes from Interactive Videos — a type of clip where the audience chooses what happens next from a list of available choices. As a creator, you've got the right tools to get the job done, and as a viewer... well, you have to watch said videos through the app.
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This app presents an awesome concept in an easy-to-use format. Invio comes from Interactive Videos — a type of clip where the audience chooses what happens next from a list of available choices. As a creator, you've got the right tools to get the job done, and as a viewer... well, you have to watch said videos through the app.
Invio
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Price: free
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Giphy is a well-known library for GIFs and dank memes. It now offers moving stickers for you to add to your chats as well.
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Giphy is a well-known library for GIFs and dank memes. It now offers moving stickers for you to add to your chats as well.
GIPHY Stickers
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Price: free
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A video-editing tool, which focuses on helping you produce quick, 90-second videos straight from your phone. You've got video and image mixing, text overlay, and a music library to choose soundtracks from. This app ties directly into the next one, which is...
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A video-editing tool, which focuses on helping you produce quick, 90-second videos straight from your phone. You've got video and image mixing, text overlay, and a music library to choose soundtracks from. This app ties directly into the next one, which is...
Dubsuite
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Price: free
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A new app by Apple, this one uses your camera for some entertaining selfie shots or videos. You can have a live animation effect applied as you shoot, and you can have auto-generated captions under your video. The speech-to-text engine is also impressively good, so the captions are usually on point.
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A new app by Apple, this one uses your camera for some entertaining selfie shots or videos. You can have a live animation effect applied as you shoot, and you can have auto-generated captions under your video. The speech-to-text engine is also impressively good, so the captions are usually on point.
Clips
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Price: free
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This app is like Tinder for amateur musicians or just music fans in general. You create a profile where you list your preferred genres, the instruments you play (if any), and you can even post what type of connection you are looking for. Users swipe left to pass, right to match, and up for “ask me later”.
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This app is like Tinder for amateur musicians or just music fans in general. You create a profile where you list your preferred genres, the instruments you play (if any), and you can even post what type of connection you are looking for. Users swipe left to pass, right to match, and up for “ask me later”.
Vampr
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Price: free
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Rep is an app for those who want to be influencers on social media and brands that want to reach more customers with their products. The app allows you to register as a possible marketing partner, no matter how many followers you have on your various profiles. On the other end of the line, brands get to see all the registered profiles and their stats for post likes, engagement, viewership, etc. Then, they choose to partner with the ones they like. Great idea, we'll see how good it goes.
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Rep is an app for those who want to be influencers on social media and brands that want to reach more customers with their products. The app allows you to register as a possible marketing partner, no matter how many followers you have on your various profiles. On the other end of the line, brands get to see all the registered profiles and their stats for post likes, engagement, viewership, etc. Then, they choose to partner with the ones they like. Great idea, we'll see how good it goes.
Rep
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Price: $3.99
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A cool new app, which “reads” news summaries for you once every hour. You've got BBC, NPR, CBC, VOA, Fox 5 and more media stations to pick from.
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A cool new app, which “reads” news summaries for you once every hour. You've got BBC, NPR, CBC, VOA, Fox 5 and more media stations to pick from.
Funnel
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Price: free
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The famous Google Assistant is no longer a Pixel-exclusive feature — it now lives on a few top-of-the-line Android smartphones and, surprisingly, popped up on the Apple App Store during Google I/O. You can now test the latest-and-greatest of Google AI straight on your iOS device!
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The famous Google Assistant is no longer a Pixel-exclusive feature — it now lives on a few top-of-the-line Android smartphones and, surprisingly, popped up on the Apple App Store during Google I/O. You can now test the latest-and-greatest of Google AI straight on your iOS device!
Google Assistant
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Price: free
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Filmr is all about making videos and prepping them for social media sharing quickly and easily. It allows you to crop, rearrange, reverse, trim, add music, and limit a clip to a specific timeframe, then share it to one of many profiles.
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Filmr is all about making videos and prepping them for social media sharing quickly and easily. It allows you to crop, rearrange, reverse, trim, add music, and limit a clip to a specific timeframe, then share it to one of many profiles.
Filmr
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Price: $2.99
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Halide is an awesome camera app with gesture-based manual controls. You've got focus peaking for more precise shots, live histogram, RAW support, and an intelligent automatic mode if you don't want to bother with all the thingamajigs.
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Halide is an awesome camera app with gesture-based manual controls. You've got focus peaking for more precise shots, live histogram, RAW support, and an intelligent automatic mode if you don't want to bother with all the thingamajigs.
Halide
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Price: free
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TimeLens lets you make extremely long time lapses — they could span hours, days, or even years. How? Teamwork! The app connects you with all the people that have it and have started a timelapse in your location. Then, it helps you stand at the exact spot others before you did and allign the exact shot they had. Take a photo, pocket your phone, and go about your business. That's gonna make for some impressive timelapses over the months! Well, assuming the community picks up.
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TimeLens lets you make extremely long time lapses — they could span hours, days, or even years. How? Teamwork! The app connects you with all the people that have it and have started a timelapse in your location. Then, it helps you stand at the exact spot others before you did and allign the exact shot they had. Take a photo, pocket your phone, and go about your business. That's gonna make for some impressive timelapses over the months! Well, assuming the community picks up.
TimeLens
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Price: $1.99
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A small app that lets you quickly create a cool intro or stinger out of a few different templates. Cool for vlog episodes or random social media videos.
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A small app that lets you quickly create a cool intro or stinger out of a few different templates. Cool for vlog episodes or random social media videos.
Intro Maker
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Price: free
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Hey, face swap apps may be the thing of yesteryear, but Microsoft has decided to join the fray. The app lets you take a photo of your mug, then puts you in the scene of whatever target photo you choose (as long as there is a person in it).
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Hey, face swap apps may be the thing of yesteryear, but Microsoft has decided to join the fray. The app lets you take a photo of your mug, then puts you in the scene of whatever target photo you choose (as long as there is a person in it).
Face Swap
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Price: free
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Stickers are cool, but being able to slap your own face on them is cooler. This app allows you to generate iMessage stickers from selfies — have at it!
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Stickers are cool, but being able to slap your own face on them is cooler. This app allows you to generate iMessage stickers from selfies — have at it!
Ginger Sticker Maker
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Price: free
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This app places a "hologram" inside your viewfinder — a 3D animated object, which can take part in your video or picture. The objects you can use can be downloaded from an ever-expanding online library.
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This app places a "hologram" inside your viewfinder — a 3D animated object, which can take part in your video or picture. The objects you can use can be downloaded from an ever-expanding online library.
Holo
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Price: free
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Got a puppy and you've got no idea how to train it? This app is full of awesome tips on how to teach tricks – from obedience training to funny postures, to useful commands. The app promotes clicker training and features an actual clicker sound, in case you don't have a physical device. If we may weigh in, though, we'd recommend using an actual clicker instead of your phone, because you might accidentally teach your pup that he is getting a treat every time you have your phone in your hands.
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Got a puppy and you've got no idea how to train it? This app is full of awesome tips on how to teach tricks – from obedience training to funny postures, to useful commands. The app promotes clicker training and features an actual clicker sound, in case you don't have a physical device. If we may weigh in, though, we'd recommend using an actual clicker instead of your phone, because you might accidentally teach your pup that he is getting a treat every time you have your phone in your hands.
Puppr
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Price: free (subscription)
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Enlight is a pretty popular, and for good reason, photo-editing app. However, it's starting price of $5.99 (heads up, it's now $3.99) may have put off a bunch of people from giving it a chance. Enter Enlight 2, which comes with a few free features and then... a subscription fee if you want to unlock its full functionality.
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Enlight is a pretty popular, and for good reason, photo-editing app. However, it's starting price of $5.99 (heads up, it's now $3.99) may have put off a bunch of people from giving it a chance. Enter Enlight 2, which comes with a few free features and then... a subscription fee if you want to unlock its full functionality.
Enlight Photofox
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This app turns your face into a sticker that you can use in all major chat platforms. What's cool about it is how fast and accurate-ish it works — it's pretty good at detecting human figures and separating them from the background, so if you find yourself a nice, one-color wall to take a selfie up against, you will have a "you" sticker in no time.
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This app turns your face into a sticker that you can use in all major chat platforms. What's cool about it is how fast and accurate-ish it works — it's pretty good at detecting human figures and separating them from the background, so if you find yourself a nice, one-color wall to take a selfie up against, you will have a "you" sticker in no time.
Sticky AI
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An app that makes cinemagraphs / magic photos (a photo where only part of the image is moving) in real time. You just record your video, then "draw" over the parts of the image you want to be moving. Done
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An app that makes cinemagraphs / magic photos (a photo where only part of the image is moving) in real time. You just record your video, then "draw" over the parts of the image you want to be moving. Done
Loopsie
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Price: free (IAPs)
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Pretty much as the name describes — this app is an advanced logo maker. If you want to get more symbols, backgrounds, and editing tools, you need to spend some cash on the in-app purchases.
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Pretty much as the name describes — this app is an advanced logo maker. If you want to get more symbols, backgrounds, and editing tools, you need to spend some cash on the in-app purchases.
Logo Maker Shop
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Price: free
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BeatApp lets you record a voice message and mix it with a beat, add reverb, and even vinyl scratches, then share it in a chat app.
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BeatApp lets you record a voice message and mix it with a beat, add reverb, and even vinyl scratches, then share it in a chat app.
BeatApp
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Price: $2.99
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SWRLY is a camera app, which simulates the Petzval lens — one of the first “portrait” lenses designed. It is defined by a sharp center and a surreal swirled blur around the edges and this app tries to simulate the effect precisely. It also comes with a bunch of filters and image-enhancing tools to give your imagination a slight push.
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SWRLY is a camera app, which simulates the Petzval lens — one of the first “portrait” lenses designed. It is defined by a sharp center and a surreal swirled blur around the edges and this app tries to simulate the effect precisely. It also comes with a bunch of filters and image-enhancing tools to give your imagination a slight push.
SWRLY
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Price: free
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Enlight has been one of the most popular photo editing apps out there for years. Now, the developer has come out with their own camera app to supplement it. With a unique strobe mode, filters, HDR+, and onboard editing, it's an awesome app for sure, with the caveat that its advanced features are locked behind a subscription.
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Enlight has been one of the most popular photo editing apps out there for years. Now, the developer has come out with their own camera app to supplement it. With a unique strobe mode, filters, HDR+, and onboard editing, it's an awesome app for sure, with the caveat that its advanced features are locked behind a subscription.
Enlight Quickshot
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Enlight is a super-popular photo-editing app and has been for years. Now, its developer delves into video with Videoleap. You've got tons of high-end tools like keygrame animations, green screen use, unlimited undos, special effects, color correction, equalizers for audio, so on and so forth. You can try it out for free, but most pro options are behind a paywall.
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Enlight is a super-popular photo-editing app and has been for years. Now, its developer delves into video with Videoleap. You've got tons of high-end tools like keygrame animations, green screen use, unlimited undos, special effects, color correction, equalizers for audio, so on and so forth. You can try it out for free, but most pro options are behind a paywall.
Enlight Videoleap
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For months, we've seen cool ARKit apps that allow the user to measure objects in the real world with nothing but their iPhone. Now, these are slowly becoming available. Here's a free one for you to test — a ruler tool, that can measure lines, angles, and distance from a virtual pin to the actual device.
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For months, we've seen cool ARKit apps that allow the user to measure objects in the real world with nothing but their iPhone. Now, these are slowly becoming available. Here's a free one for you to test — a ruler tool, that can measure lines, angles, and distance from a virtual pin to the actual device.
AR MeasureKit
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Price: $0.99
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The name of this app is pretty much all the description you need — you can use your phone's viewfinder and "place" a virtual representation of our solar system on your chair, bed, carpet, or wherever. Then, just explore its wonders at will.
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The name of this app is pretty much all the description you need — you can use your phone's viewfinder and "place" a virtual representation of our solar system on your chair, bed, carpet, or wherever. Then, just explore its wonders at will.
Augmenter Reality Solar System
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Price: free
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JibJab has long had a popular app that lets you put your mug in a bunch of funny greeting cards — either animated or static — and share them through various sources. JibJab Camera overlaps in functionality quite a lot. The difference here is that while the old app generates cards with your avatar, the Camera app lets you take your funny avatar and place it in the real world using the phone's camera.
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JibJab has long had a popular app that lets you put your mug in a bunch of funny greeting cards — either animated or static — and share them through various sources. JibJab Camera overlaps in functionality quite a lot. The difference here is that while the old app generates cards with your avatar, the Camera app lets you take your funny avatar and place it in the real world using the phone's camera.
JibJab Camera
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Dubface uses ARKit to put a virtual, 3D character in the world and let you shoot a video of it. The kicker? You can take a crazy selfie and have the character “wear” your face. The animations are pretty hilarious and this will make for fun short clips to share.
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Dubface uses ARKit to put a virtual, 3D character in the world and let you shoot a video of it. The kicker? You can take a crazy selfie and have the character “wear” your face. The animations are pretty hilarious and this will make for fun short clips to share.
Dubface
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Price: $2.99
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A powerful picture editor with tons of features. What makes it special is the developer's “one price, no extra fees” philosophy and promise of extra (free) content coming in the future. Sounds good for a $3 app!
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A powerful picture editor with tons of features. What makes it special is the developer's “one price, no extra fees” philosophy and promise of extra (free) content coming in the future. Sounds good for a $3 app!
Afterlight 2
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Price: free
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Fancy yourself a videographer, or just want to dabble in the art? This app lets you set up scenes — create 3D models in AR, place them in the space where you want to shoot your scene, and start experimenting with the different angles.
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Fancy yourself a videographer, or just want to dabble in the art? This app lets you set up scenes — create 3D models in AR, place them in the space where you want to shoot your scene, and start experimenting with the different angles.
Blocker by AfterNow
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Price: free
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Edge a solid browser and a reasonable Safari alternative. It syncs with your desktop Edge for passwords, favorites, and browsing history, which is a bonus if you are on a Windows PC and refuse to use Chrome. There's also an integrated QR code reader and voice search. Incognito mode is, of course, present.
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Edge a solid browser and a reasonable Safari alternative. It syncs with your desktop Edge for passwords, favorites, and browsing history, which is a bonus if you are on a Windows PC and refuse to use Chrome. There's also an integrated QR code reader and voice search. Incognito mode is, of course, present.
Microsoft Edge
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A social app that lets anyone engage in a short debate with other users. You post your topic presented in a 60-second video and wait for replies. Then, pick one of the people that replied to you to engage with. From then on, you take turns at recording two 30-second videos per person, essentially throwing points and arguments left and right. After that, your discussion is over and recorded — you can choose whether you want it uploaded to Micgoat.
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A social app that lets anyone engage in a short debate with other users. You post your topic presented in a 60-second video and wait for replies. Then, pick one of the people that replied to you to engage with. From then on, you take turns at recording two 30-second videos per person, essentially throwing points and arguments left and right. After that, your discussion is over and recorded — you can choose whether you want it uploaded to Micgoat.
Micgoat
Best 2017 apps for iPhone and iPad
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This app lets you create animated GIFs. No, not just with your camera, but with actual drawings. How good are your drawing chops?
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This app lets you create animated GIFs. No, not just with your camera, but with actual drawings. How good are your drawing chops?
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This app lets you create animated GIFs. No, not just with your camera, but with actual drawings. How good are your drawing chops?
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This app lets you create animated GIFs. No, not just with your camera, but with actual drawings. How good are your drawing chops?
PicsArt Animated
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This is an app for Android 7 Nougat. The new OS has a built-in file manager, but it's buried deep in the Settings. Explorage lets you add shortcuts to the native Android file explorer as Quick Toggles in the notifications shade or as icons on the home screen (but they are imported as widgets).
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This is an app for Android 7 Nougat. The new OS has a built-in file manager, but it's buried deep in the Settings. Explorage lets you add shortcuts to the native Android file explorer as Quick Toggles in the notifications shade or as icons on the home screen (but they are imported as widgets).
Explorage Quick Settings Tiles
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Sort of like IFTTT, Stringify lets you create automatic actions, which trigger from specific events. These span from different apps to different IoT appliances. For example, you can set your home lighting to come on when you are in the area of your house. Or, you can have a post automatically be shared to all your social media accounts when you post it via Twitter (for example). Really, there are a ton of combinations you can make, this app is a tinkerer's dream.
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Sort of like IFTTT, Stringify lets you create automatic actions, which trigger from specific events. These span from different apps to different IoT appliances. For example, you can set your home lighting to come on when you are in the area of your house. Or, you can have a post automatically be shared to all your social media accounts when you post it via Twitter (for example). Really, there are a ton of combinations you can make, this app is a tinkerer's dream.
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This app seeks to replace your default app drawer with a much more powerful, app-sorting tool. It has 6 tabs, which automatically become homes for your apps, sorting them by theme — Communication, Internet, Games, Media, Utility, and Settings. You are free to change an app's place, if you don't like where it was sorted, of course. The drawer supports icon packs to let you add some extra bling to its looks.
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This app seeks to replace your default app drawer with a much more powerful, app-sorting tool. It has 6 tabs, which automatically become homes for your apps, sorting them by theme — Communication, Internet, Games, Media, Utility, and Settings. You are free to change an app's place, if you don't like where it was sorted, of course. The drawer supports icon packs to let you add some extra bling to its looks.
Smart Drawer
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Price: free
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A fun little app, which lets you make your own presidential executive orders, signed and presented by President Trump himself. You can doodle or you can attach an image. When you are done, you get a clip of the President doing his thing. Go ahead, bedazzle your friends!
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A fun little app, which lets you make your own presidential executive orders, signed and presented by President Trump himself. You can doodle or you can attach an image. When you are done, you get a clip of the President doing his thing. Go ahead, bedazzle your friends!
Donald Draws Executive Doodle
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BatON tries to get battery information from your Bluetooth devices — not many of them have a battery gauge, so the app will try to give you percentage charge information. To do so, the device in question needs to either have a Hands-free profile or GATT profile (supported by Bluetooth 4 LE devoces).
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BatON tries to get battery information from your Bluetooth devices — not many of them have a battery gauge, so the app will try to give you percentage charge information. To do so, the device in question needs to either have a Hands-free profile or GATT profile (supported by Bluetooth 4 LE devoces).
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This app is all about getting that perfect shot of the sun, moon, and milky way — at the right time, aligned in the right way with your landscape. It predicts where said heavenly bodies will be in the next few hours of the day, and overlays its prediction over your viewfinder via augmented reality. All you have to do is plan ahead and wait.
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This app is all about getting that perfect shot of the sun, moon, and milky way — at the right time, aligned in the right way with your landscape. It predicts where said heavenly bodies will be in the next few hours of the day, and overlays its prediction over your viewfinder via augmented reality. All you have to do is plan ahead and wait.
PhotoPills
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Price: free
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This app is like Tinder for amateur musicians or just music fans in general. You create a profile where you list your preferred genres, the instruments you play (if any), and you can even post what type of connection you are looking for. Users swipe left for pass, right for match, and up for “ask me later”.
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This app is like Tinder for amateur musicians or just music fans in general. You create a profile where you list your preferred genres, the instruments you play (if any), and you can even post what type of connection you are looking for. Users swipe left for pass, right for match, and up for “ask me later”.
Vampr
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Price: free
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Rep is an app for those who want to be influencers on social media and brands that want to reach more customers with their products. The app allows you to register as a possible marketing partner, no matter how many followers you have on your various profiles. On the other end of the line, brands get to see all the registered profiles and their stats for post likes, engagement, viewership, etc. Then, they choose to partner with the ones they like. Great idea, we'll see how good it goes.
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Rep is an app for those who want to be influencers on social media and brands that want to reach more customers with their products. The app allows you to register as a possible marketing partner, no matter how many followers you have on your various profiles. On the other end of the line, brands get to see all the registered profiles and their stats for post likes, engagement, viewership, etc. Then, they choose to partner with the ones they like. Great idea, we'll see how good it goes.
Rep
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For addicted redditors, this app will download new Reddit content from your favorite subs (images and GIFs included) while you are on Wi-Fi and have them available to read offline when you are on the road.
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For addicted redditors, this app will download new Reddit content from your favorite subs (images and GIFs included) while you are on Wi-Fi and have them available to read offline when you are on the road.
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Sammy's In-Traffic reply is off of closed beta and on the Play Store! It's a fun little app that will detect when you are driving and block calls / texts by auto-replying to them with a pre-set message and an adorable smiley.
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Sammy's In-Traffic reply is off of closed beta and on the Play Store! It's a fun little app that will detect when you are driving and block calls / texts by auto-replying to them with a pre-set message and an adorable smiley.
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This is a personal expense manager with a twist — it's stylized like a game. As you track your money-spending you also get to build a city. Might actually get you to use one of these apps regularly.
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This is a personal expense manager with a twist — it's stylized like a game. As you track your money-spending you also get to build a city. Might actually get you to use one of these apps regularly.
Fortune City
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A fun app that aims to teach you something new, odd, or otherwise interesting thing each day. It is sort of like a condensed Wikipedia, which presses the "random article" button for you each day and reminds you to read it. Of course, you can go ahead and read through as many articles as you want.
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A fun app that aims to teach you something new, odd, or otherwise interesting thing each day. It is sort of like a condensed Wikipedia, which presses the "random article" button for you each day and reminds you to read it. Of course, you can go ahead and read through as many articles as you want.
Curiosity
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Hey, face swap apps may be the thing of yesteryear, but Microsoft has decided to join the fray. The app lets you take a photo of your mug, then puts you in the scene of whatever target photo you choose (as long as there is a person in it).
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Hey, face swap apps may be the thing of yesteryear, but Microsoft has decided to join the fray. The app lets you take a photo of your mug, then puts you in the scene of whatever target photo you choose (as long as there is a person in it).
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This app places a "hologram" inside your viewfinder — a 3D animated object, which can take part in your video or picture. The objects you can use can be downloaded from an ever-expanding online library.
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This app places a "hologram" inside your viewfinder — a 3D animated object, which can take part in your video or picture. The objects you can use can be downloaded from an ever-expanding online library.
Holo
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A really cool app to add some bling to your videos with. As you open up a clip to edit, you can add a filter to it as well as a bunch of various “in your face” effects. Applying them is easy, too. Just play the video and tap the desired effect's button when you want it to kick in. Then, tap again when you want the effect to go away. Your choices get recorded instantly and the clip will now have these effects applied to it.
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A really cool app to add some bling to your videos with. As you open up a clip to edit, you can add a filter to it as well as a bunch of various “in your face” effects. Applying them is easy, too. Just play the video and tap the desired effect's button when you want it to kick in. Then, tap again when you want the effect to go away. Your choices get recorded instantly and the clip will now have these effects applied to it.
Vizmato
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This app acts like a "favorites folder". The first time you open it, you choose the apps you want it to house. From then on, all you need to do is tap and hold on the Super Shortcut icon. A menu will open, a-la Android 7 App Shortcuts, and you will get to launch one of your pre-selected apps. Works on Android 5 Lollipop and up.
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This app acts like a "favorites folder". The first time you open it, you choose the apps you want it to house. From then on, all you need to do is tap and hold on the Super Shortcut icon. A menu will open, a-la Android 7 App Shortcuts, and you will get to launch one of your pre-selected apps. Works on Android 5 Lollipop and up.
Super Shortcut
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As the name suggests, this app will let you add gestures like swiping up, tapping, or holding on the fingerprint scanner.
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As the name suggests, this app will let you add gestures like swiping up, tapping, or holding on the fingerprint scanner.
Fingerprint Gestures
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An app that makes cinemagraphs / magic photos (a photo where only part of the image is moving) in real time. You just record your video, then "draw" over the parts of the image you want to be moving. Done
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An app that makes cinemagraphs / magic photos (a photo where only part of the image is moving) in real time. You just record your video, then "draw" over the parts of the image you want to be moving. Done
Loopsie
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This Google app has been available for iOS for a while now, making use of the Live Photos platform and giving users the ability to quickly transform their moving pictures into GIFs or short videos. In order to work the same way on Android, the app needs you to first record a 3-second video with its built-in viewfinder, then proceed with editing as you would.
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This Google app has been available for iOS for a while now, making use of the Live Photos platform and giving users the ability to quickly transform their moving pictures into GIFs or short videos. In order to work the same way on Android, the app needs you to first record a 3-second video with its built-in viewfinder, then proceed with editing as you would.
Motion Stills
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Made by Microsoft, this app is an AI that listens to your pronunciation in various languages, then judges you. Should be good for improving your foreign language spoken word, but we do hope Microsoft continues to work on it instead of abandoning it like its many interest projects in the past.
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Made by Microsoft, this app is an AI that listens to your pronunciation in various languages, then judges you. Should be good for improving your foreign language spoken word, but we do hope Microsoft continues to work on it instead of abandoning it like its many interest projects in the past.
Engkoo
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Microsoft has had this project under the name Arrow Launcher for a while now. It seems it became so good with the latest update that the company felt it deserves the MS name. It only has one homescreen and the idea is that everything you might need is just a swipe away — swiping left, right, up, or down calls out the different modules of the launcher and the central screen only holds your favorite apps.
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Microsoft has had this project under the name Arrow Launcher for a while now. It seems it became so good with the latest update that the company felt it deserves the MS name. It only has one homescreen and the idea is that everything you might need is just a swipe away — swiping left, right, up, or down calls out the different modules of the launcher and the central screen only holds your favorite apps.
Microsoft Launcher
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This app lets you set up swiping gestures on your fingerprint sensor to control your brightness. Pretty useful!
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This app lets you set up swiping gestures on your fingerprint sensor to control your brightness. Pretty useful!
DigiLux
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Sometimes, you swipe a notification away without wanting to. What app was it? What did it say? No way to know... Well, this app is sort of like a “notification time machine”. It will keep a log of whatever was in your notifications shade, so you don't lose a message again.
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Sometimes, you swipe a notification away without wanting to. What app was it? What did it say? No way to know... Well, this app is sort of like a “notification time machine”. It will keep a log of whatever was in your notifications shade, so you don't lose a message again.
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This app will play a quirky little animation inside your virtual navbar whenever you interact with it. It's got tons of different styles of movement, too, separated in categories. Some are locked behind a paywall, but you have enough in there to test the app for free.
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This app will play a quirky little animation inside your virtual navbar whenever you interact with it. It's got tons of different styles of movement, too, separated in categories. Some are locked behind a paywall, but you have enough in there to test the app for free.
NavBar Animations
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An awesome graphic design app finally makes the jump from iOS to Android. It lets you create designs quickly, all via tap and swipe gestures, and speeds the process up even further with a massive library of pre-set templates. You've got pre-stored crop settings for the most popular social media sites out there and you can save your own on top of that. The image editor even offers advanced features, such as layers and transparency, and it all feels pretty natural and fluid.
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An awesome graphic design app finally makes the jump from iOS to Android. It lets you create designs quickly, all via tap and swipe gestures, and speeds the process up even further with a massive library of pre-set templates. You've got pre-stored crop settings for the most popular social media sites out there and you can save your own on top of that. The image editor even offers advanced features, such as layers and transparency, and it all feels pretty natural and fluid.
Canva
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Edge a solid browser and a reasonable Chrome alternative. It syncs with your desktop Edge for passwords, favorites, and browsing history, which is a bonus if you are on a Windows PC. There's also an integrated QR code reader and voice search. Incognito mode is, of course, present.
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Edge a solid browser and a reasonable Chrome alternative. It syncs with your desktop Edge for passwords, favorites, and browsing history, which is a bonus if you are on a Windows PC. There's also an integrated QR code reader and voice search. Incognito mode is, of course, present.
Microsoft Edge
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Google's own mobile data micromanager will help you track your usage and reduce unneeded drains. Over time, you will also get personalized recommendations on what you can do to further save on your data usage.
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Google's own mobile data micromanager will help you track your usage and reduce unneeded drains. Over time, you will also get personalized recommendations on what you can do to further save on your data usage.
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This app lets you create animated GIFs. No, not just with your camera, but with actual drawings. How good are your drawing chops?
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This app lets you create animated GIFs. No, not just with your camera, but with actual drawings. How good are your drawing chops?
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This app lets you create animated GIFs. No, not just with your camera, but with actual drawings. How good are your drawing chops?