Tag: iphone app

App of the week: Turn your phones into a five second video battle with Clashem

If you have a short video on your phone that is worth sharing with the world, try enrolling it into a competition with Clashem and reach millions of people! Introducing users to a fast and unpredictable five second video battle, Clashem app will get you hooked instantly at the swipe of a finger. Not just uploading, you can judge other video battles as well. Simply watch two videos play simultaneously in one loop and decide which one wins! Easy peasy! And there’s something for everyone; insane sports, cute animals to stomach churning show-offs; Clashem has the entire package. Here’s everything to need to know about our app of the week, Clashem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJRsMmvi0ss

This energetic app is a product of Redbull’s media house and is sure to be your new addiction. It plays two random videos simultaneously in a loop and all you have to do is pick your winner. Swipe right on the videos you like and the other automatically falls off to the left.

All you have to do is upload a video from your phone’s camera roll and send it off to battle. You can even trim and edit your videos to cut out the craziest five seconds and share them with your fellow Clashem users.Users can also favourite videos by double tapping on the screen and save them to watch them later. One can even connect and share their videos on their Facebook and Twitter profiles.

What’s more, the Clashem app also has its own set of leader boards that include trending videos across the globe.

Clashem is available for download for free on the iTunes App store.

November 5, 2015
App of the week: Get an alert on your phone every time your favourite TV show airs with Hooks

It’s so difficult to keep track of important things these days because of the enormous amount of information that is thrown at us all thanks to social media. However, the brighter side is that there is now a mobile application for almost everything. Hooks is just one of those apps that make life simpler by sending you an alert for a personalised list of things you like. Here’s everything you need to know about our app of the week, Hooks.

If you struggle to keep a track of your favourite TV shows, sports teams, movies, YouTube channels and other topics of interest, our app of the week Hooks is what you need.

Just download this app on your phone and create alerts according to your preferences. Remember to enable the push notifications for this app and it’ll send you a reminder every time there is an update on your preferred topics.

What’s more, it has a list of popular features for you to choose from to keep you abreast of things trending at the moment.

It also recommends topics for you to follow based on your choices and preferences. This app is available on both Android and iOS devices.

September 1, 2015
App of the week: Sleep Science Alarm Clock

Waking up easy is all about the right timing. Sleep Science Alarm Clock app is your personal sleep assistant that tracks your sleeping pattern throughout the night. It uses a 30 minutes alarm window and wakes you in your lightest sleep phase, the phase that makes you feel like you are naturally well rested. You can also view the data and see how well you’ve slept, and if there’s a possibility of changing any outside factors to have a subsequent better night’s sleep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNBt-oeDWLw

Easy to navigate and personalize, Sleep Science Alarm Clock offers features like notes for jotting down your dreams and changes in your bedtime routines, graphs showing trends and statistics, sleep goal settings for checking your actual versus desired amount of sleep and it also captures the loudest sound during the night for those times when you wonder what woke you up.

Choose from a collection of music boxes, wind chimes, seashores, gentle rains, relaxing night breezes or night time sounds.

Sleep Science Alarm Clock only available on iOS devices as of now.

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June 3, 2015
App of the week: 6 seconds

Get your hands on the latest live radio streaming music app 6 seconds. This app gives you an entirely new music experience by turning live radio channels from across the world into a personalised music jukebox. It buffers songs in just 6 seconds from radio channels all over the globe. Yes, you read that right, 6 seconds is all it takes to hop on to the next song with unlimited skips from a wide range of genre. Here’s everything you need to know about the app.

Get the 6 seconds app on your phone. Select your preferred genre of music from the list available by swiping down on the arrow like top 40, hip hop, jazz and swipe right to listen to the available songs in the selected category.You can also mark your personal favourite songs whenever they are playing by tapping on the yellow star.

Search for your preferred artist or song by swiping up and typing the name in the search menu that pops up. This easy to use interface is also ideal for when you are on the go as it has no other drop down lists and sub-lists of various features.

Our favourite part about the app? All the music is free and it requires no subscription. Moreover, there are no advertisements crowding the interface.

This app is available on both Android and iOS devices

May 21, 2015
App of the week: Dubsmash and rightly so!!

Dubsmash is a German video app that allows you to lip-sync to short audio clips including movies, songs, TV shows, quotes and much more. This app is the latest sensation amongst many celebs including our favourite man Ranveer Singh. Why do we love it? Because it makes simple conversations fun! Here’s how to use the app.

This app is available for free on both Android and iOS devices and comes with a very easy-to-use interface. Download it, search for your favourite tune or your favourite dialogue from a movie/TV show and just lip sync while you record a selfie video. Dubsmash also allows its users to upload their own dubs with the dubloader feature.

You can download the app for Android devices here

And for iOS devices here

May 5, 2015
App of the week: Fashionfreax

If you’re looking for an outfit inspiration for that perfect weekend look, download ‘Fashionfreax’ on your smartphones. Click, upload and share your outfits with the world or just keep scrolling through different outfits and get inspired! Take a look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqQEYT0FRIU

With its easy to use interface (something very similar to Instagram), the app enables you to upload and share your outfits with different users. You can also follow your favourite fashion bloggers around the world through FashionFreax to get your daily dose of inspiration!

Android users download the app here.

Apple users download the app here.

April 14, 2015
Hello Emoji’s! Feeling a bit worldly today?

Apple rolled out its third major update to iOS 8 recently and we…..kinda love it. Amongst various minor updates that improved performance & fixed bugs, this new installment of the operating system has started making headlines especially for the new Emoji keyboard.

The first of its kind keyboard that allows you to change skin tones of human emoji’s along with various family options (including gay couples with kids) is now available to all iPhone, iPad, iMac & iWatch users with the iOS 8.3!

What’s more, is the range of new emoticons that incorporates flags of different countries (including India) along with different symbols and expressions.

The download is fairly hassle-free depending on the user’s internet speed!

April 9, 2015
App of the week – 4 Minute Workout: Beach Bikini Body

Getting in shape just got easier with this all-new fitness app. Get the 4 Minute Workout: Beach Bikini Body on your iOS devices and start getting into shape for the summer! Tone those muscles or shed a few pounds to get that perfectly-sculpted and very, very enviable bikini body.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4DzuC8zUKo

This app offers a collection of videos that act as your personal trainer, making the road to a fitter you way easier. Each video shows you how to perform different workouts for maximum results in very short spans of time.

You can also get personalised instructions and detailed muscle movements to ensure you do each exercise the right way. Choose from 13 Tabata interval training exercises by tapping the listing column and add these to your routine.

The app also offers a free calendar and a weight tracker for your workout log. You can also set a workout reminder to make sure you don’t miss a day of your full body workout. Follow this routine and after two weeks, and see the difference for yourself!

Can’t wait? Download this app HERE for your iOS devices.

March 31, 2015
App of the week: ‘Limbo’

Get your hands on Game Reactor’s digital game of the year ‘Limbo’ and be ready to get hooked. A black and white 2D puzzle-platform adventure game, ‘Limbo’ is about a young boy travelling through an eerie and treacherous world in an attempt to discover the fate of his lost sister. The game emblazons an atmosphere of spookiness and horror and is known to give its players sleepless nights. One attempt at finding your way out of the dense forests and you’ll never be able to let the game be. Limbo has been designed with original minimalistic graphics and special sound effects that complement the nail-bitingly exciting levels and make for a very absorbing game-play. Here is everything you need to know about this game.

‘Limbo’ is a black and white 2D puzzle game about the adventures of a young boy looking for his lost sister. Guide the boy through dark locations full of many traps and deadly hazards; climb onto short ledges or up and down ladders and ropes, push and pull objects and find a safe place for the hero.

The players have to help the boy run through ghost towns, jump over obstacles, cross rivers in boats, and avoid monsters, saving him from traps in order to eventually find his sister. Not only is this game available for download on Android and iOS devices, but you can enjoy playing this game on your PlayStations and Xbox consoles.

March 18, 2015
App of the week: Spending tracker

Keeping a track of your expenditure just got easier with the ‘Spending tracker’ app that allows smartphone users to keep a check on their monthly income and expenses.

With its simple and easy-to-use interface, ‘Spending tracker’ enables its users to calculate an estimate of their monthly expense from their current as well as carry-over salary for each month.

Displaying various options, the end user can calculate their expected expenses under various available categories or by simply adding their own categories. The app also offers different modes for those who want to calculate their weekly as well as yearly expenses.

Available for download on Android as well as iOS platforms, ‘Spending tracker’ also gives out a graphical representation to its users depicting their expenses versus income on tilting the phone into landscape mode.

Download this app for Apple devices here

and for Android devices here

March 12, 2015
App of the week: ‘Hopper’ lets you find the best time to fly

If you love to travel and are always on a look out for reasonable deals then you cannot afford to miss our app of the week on your phone. ‘Hopper’ constantly tracks air fares and analyses how the prices move to help you pick the best rates. Here’s everything you need to know about the app.

This free app constantly monitors upward and downward movements in air fares and helps you buy your tickets at the cheapest predicted price. All you need to do is download ‘Hopper’ on your phone and put in your travel details. By means of a calendar, the app will indicate the cheapest and most expensive time to buy your tickets. It’s ‘Price Prediction’ tool analyses the prices in real-time and lets you know the right time to plan your travel.

‘Hopper’ also has a ‘Watch This Trip’ feature that alerts you the instant the best fare is available for your travel dates via a push notification. Once you’ve booked your tickets, you can just click on ‘Stop Watching Trip’ to disable the alerts.

This app is only available for Apple devices as of now.

Download this app here

Banner image, featured images and in-post images sourced from http://www.hopper.com/

March 3, 2015
App of the week: FlashChat

You can now chat freely with anyone on the same Wi-Fi network by downloading FlashChat on your smatrphones. This app allows you to chat using a username of your choice anonymously with people connected through the same Wi-Fi network within a radius of one kilometer. What’s more, this messages sent through this app disappear after some time so you don’t have to bother cleaning up your conversations. Take a look at how this app works

FlashChat allows you to chat with your classmates, co-workers, family or anyone who is connected through the same Wi-Fi within a radius of one kilometre. The messages are instant and you do not have to add people through friend requests.

You can chat in groups or send messages privately with people sharing the same Wi-Fi network. The unique feature of this app is that your messages will disappear, even from the server, a short time after you leave the Wi-Fi network so you don’t have to worry about deleting your personal conversations.

This app is available on both android and iOS devices.

Download this app for Apple devices here

And for Android devices here

February 24, 2015
App of the week: Crossy Road

Get your hands on the most addictive game doing the rounds right now, Crossy Road. Released only two months ago, it has already been anointed as one of the most unputdownable by gaming junkies. With an adorable chicken as the mascot, swiping safely across roads full of moving traffic, rivers with floating logs and crocodiles was never so much fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRrTGhccsTI

If you thought the ever-famous game of 2013 ‘Flappy Bird’ was addictive, try ‘Crossy Road’. It has been compared time and again to the classic 80’s arcade game ‘Frogger’, only more exciting and challenging.

Inspired by the joke ‘Why did the chicken cross the road?’ Crossy Road requires you to be extremely agile and alert and you can’t linger anywhere for too long. But what seals the deal is the social component. You’re basically competing against your Game Center leaderboard friends in terms of distance covered.

Enabling its players to choose from a wide array of characters including Bunnies, Cats, Monsters, Unicorns and many more, the game unfolds different levels as you play along collecting coins.

The game is available for download on Apple and Android platforms.

February 10, 2015
App of the week: Glympse

Waiting for your friends at a restaurant? Send them a ‘Glympse’ to let them know that you’ve reached or just request a ‘Glympse’ from somebody who is always running late! ‘Glympse’ makes life easy by letting its users share their location in real time with the people they trust. It also lets you create groups with friends and family to make planning your get-togethers easy. Here’s everything you need to know about this app.

Download ‘Glympse’ on your smartphone and allow it to access your location. Click on ‘Send Glympse’ to let your friends and family know where you are. Unlike other location-sharing apps, ‘Glympse’ lets your friends track your location for a chosen period of time starting from a second to four hours. So say you’re picking up a friend from a bus station and she sends you a ‘Glympse’, you can track where the bus is and pick her up just when she is about to get off.

The best feature of this app is that you can share your location by means of other social media apps like Twitter, Facebook, Whatsapp and more. So the recipient of the ‘Glympse’ doesn’t necessarily need the same app on his or her phone to track where you are. It also lets you know if your friends viewed your ‘Glympse’ or when they are tracking you.

You can download this app through the following links;

Google play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glympse.android.glympse&hl=en

Apple app store: https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/glympse-share-gps-location/id330316698?mt=8

Windows phones: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-in/store/app/glympse/ec418e52-b788-e011-986b-78e7d1fa76f8

February 3, 2015
All you need to know about the new Snapchat 9.0.1

Here’s what all you can do with the new Snapchat 9.0.1. Discover the magic of the new features while you Snap along with you friends. Watch to find out!

January 28, 2015