Although an all-singing, all-dancing DSLR will still comfortably exceed the limitations of your smartphone's lens for features and functionality, it's fair to say that our handset's cameras have improved significantly over the past couple of years. Apple always endeavors to improve the photo and video-capturing credentials of the iPhone with each new release, and despite its age, the iPhone 5s remains among the most competent on the market. With this in mind, one developer has come through with a unique, exciting app that takes full advantage of the iPhone's video-taking capabilities by letting you organize and shoot from up to four different iPhones in one, and with some neat editing features besides, it's one of the best apps we've seen in this category.
We like great apps here, and when they happen to go absolutely free, we like them even more. Today, a feature-rich PDF management app, which lets you view and annotate PDF files on your iPhone and iPad, has just hit that zero-dollar price tag, and as ever, we've got all of the details and download link coming up after the fold.
Finding useful, functional apps is a pretty arduous task at the best of times, and while iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users are spoilt for choice given the many hundreds of thousands of great apps gracing the iTunes Store, searching for an app for every occasion can be both enjoyable and tedious in equal measure. As such, many developers create apps offering a multitude of functions under one roof, and one, which offers over 200 different features in a Swiss Army-esque package, has just gone free!
Amazon has updated its Instant Video app for iOS users, and hopes to reel viewers in with a feature allowing the first episode of a TV show to be watched for free. The episode will be ad-supported, and at this time subsequent episodes will not be, but it does perhaps foresight a business model that Amazon may seek to explore in the future.
If you're into those life simulation titles such as the famed Sims series, then you might be interested to learn that a vaguely similar title - available on iPhone, iPad and Mac - has just gone free for each device. With a total saving of around $13, this is is a deal not to be missed, and as ever, you can catch the details and download links after the break.
One area where Apple’s otherwise wonderful product, the iPhone, falls short in is the file management department. iOS natively does not offer any form of file management solution, owing to the restricted nature of the OS anyway. Then, from the several third-party solutions available over at the iTunes App Store, the good ones are mostly paid. And we’re not talking just $0.99 either; some capable file managers for iPhone and iPad can even touch a solid $10 before you can make them yours. There are free options available, but it’s a pain to find good ones out of the thousands available.
The most appealing thing about the iTunes App Store over all its competitors is the fact that a number of pretty great apps keep going completely free from time to time, something which is rather uncommon in almost every other platform. We mentioned this earlier as well, that it helps the developers take advantage of the sale boost to increase their app’s popularity and hopefully get better sales statistics when the price goes back to normal. However, on the flipside, for bargain hunters like us, that provides a wonderful opportunity to get great apps for the wonderful price of free. Since we’ve lately taken it upon us to share these great catches with you as well, continue past the break for our today’s pick of apps that are available to download absolutely free.
Apple announced third-party keyboard support for iOS 8 at the Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this month, and for the very first time, we now get an opportunity to see how a user will go about installing a keyboard downloaded from the iTunes Store.
Yo, the brainchild of an Israeli developer who managed to scoop an impressive $1 million in VC funding for his app that simply lets you say "Yo!" to your friends, has enjoyed a very encouraging start in its first couple of days as an iOS and Android instant messaging app. But even though its position at fourth on the App Store's list of freebies is good news for Yo founder Or Arbel, the launch has proven a bit of a double-edged sword, with a number of security bugs allowing a hacker to, for example, discover the phone number of a fellow Yo user.
It's often the case than when browsing through our iPhone's Camera Roll in trying to find a particular snap to show a friend, we put about as much effort into dodging those silly / embarrassing shots as we do in locating the photo we intended to share. But given how painful it can be to continually fish these images out and back them up externally before removing them, a new app lets you simply obscure snaps that you don't necessarily want the world to gawk at.
