Apps

The award-winning developers at Snowman, behind hit games like Alto’s Odyssey and Alto’s Adventure, have announced their next game. “Laya’s Horizon” is the new title from Snowman, but you’ll have to be a Netflix subscriber to play it…here’s a first look.

Ivory is a new client for the decentralized social network Mastodon, which has been gaining a lot of attention recently amid the latest changes announced by Twitter. The app, which was developed by Tapbots (the same company behind Tweetbot), has now been updated with an easier and more intuitive onboarding experience for new users.

Widgetsmith, the popular widget creation app for iPhone and iPad, has added a new “Gradient Backgrounds” feature today to celebrate an incredible milestone. This feature “lets you elevate your aesthetic in a whole new way,” developer David Smith says. Here’s how it works.

Pedometer++ from developer David Smith is one of the most iconic iPhone and Apple Watch apps of all time, and a new update today takes things to a whole new level. Pedometer++ 5 is available now with Live Activities support, workout tracking for non-Apple Watch users, and much more.

The Pokémon Company has officially announced new details on the Pokémon Sleep mobile game that it first announced back in 2019. This game is essentially a sleep tracker that integrates a player’s time spent sleeping and the time they wake up into the gameplay.

The decentralized and open-source social network Mastodon has been getting a lot of attention recently amidst the controversies surrounding Twitter, as both platforms have a lot of similarities. And now iOS and macOS users will have another great third-party option for accessing the social network from their devices with Mammoth, a new free client for Mastodon.

SugarBot is an iPhone app that helps users maintain a healthy diet by tracking the levels of calories and sugar in what they eat. Starting today, users of the app will also be able to access it directly from the Apple Watch thanks to its latest update that comes with a watchOS version.

Four new Edison Mail widgets have been announced by the company, explaining that they are designed to reduce the number of times you need to open your inbox.

Edison says the updates are inspired by National Time Management Month, which is all about applying the “four Ds” of effective use of your time …

AI chat apps like ChatGPT and Google Bard may be the hottest thing in tech at the moment, but new data suggests that once-hot AI photo apps like Lensa have had their day.

Analytics company Apptopia looked at the download trends for Lensa AI and other leading AI photo apps, and found that after a very strong peak in mid-December, numbers have fallen to the initial levels seen in the summer of last year. Three factors are likely to have been at play …

Upcoming regulations in the European Union could force Apple to drop its long-standing rule that all iPhone and iPad browsers use the same WebKit engine as Safari. Mozilla chair and CEO Mitchell Baker recently sat down with The Verge for an in-depth interview, and Apple was one of many topics discussed.

A new breed of wardrobe apps could help reduce fashion waste, by enabling people to make the most of the clothes they already own, swap clothing with people with similar tastes, and ensure that clothing is resold rather than sent to landfill.

The apps are part of a growing environmental movement against “fast fashion,” in which cheaply-made clothing is worn once or twice and then disposed of …

Transmission is one of the most popular multi-platform BitTorrent apps. This week, Transmission 4 was finally released to the public, and it comes with some major improvements. These include a refreshed design and native support for Apple Silicon Macs.

RapidWeaver is a well-known website builder app for Mac. Last year the company behind the tool rebranded it to RapidWeaver Classic, as there’s a new app with even more features on the way called RapidWeaver Elements. While the new app has not been released, RapidWeaver Classic has now been updated to version 9.0 with multiple fixes for current users.

As previously announced, Microsoft has dropped support for the Microsoft Authenticator app on Apple Watch. The company blamed this decision on watchOS being “incompatible with Authenticator security features.” There are a couple of other options for Apple Watch users, though…

We’ve seen the use of AI tools for a lot of things recently, like generating text and images from simple sentences. But now there ‘s a new macOS app called MacWhisper that uses OpenAI technology to locally transcribe audio files into text.