![]() Stress & Anxiety Companion (£3.99) I’ve been wondering lately about smartphones and stress: the combination of notifications and the ability to check your email wherever you are being a worrying thing for our personal wellbeing. Still, it’s well worth a look if you’re into your mobile photography: some carefully-crafted filters (with more available as in-app purchases) and a neat slider system to see how your shots will look before sharing them. iPhoneįotograf (£1.49 + IAP) Fotograf was another app to suffer from the odd bug post-iOS 8 - awkward, considering it was released to take advantage of some of its features. Its neat design presents the channel’s reports and documentaries, as well as photos and text articles. Vice News (Free) Vice News is one of the channels being advertised in the UK on billboards paid for by YouTube, but its new iPhone app provides it with another route to The Young Folk’s eyeballs. Each of the 11 guides will cost 69p via in-app purchase from next winter. It’ll also tweak its recommendations depending on the next few days’ weather when you’re using it, to account for sunshine, rain, plagues of locusts etc. ![]() Seasonal Cities (Free + IAP) There are lots of travel apps for iOS, but this one has an interesting twist: its city-guides are rewritten every three months to take account of the current season. These apps are very much a case of personal taste, so please do post your feedback on the ones you’ve tested, and how you’ve found them, to help other readers reach a decision based on their own needs. iPhone / iPadĪ quick note on all the keyboard apps, which seem to be suffering the odd teething problem with iOS 8: from text-box and browser URL bar issues to other niggles. It’s fast with neat gestures for punctuation, has a choice of colours and sizes, and offers more than 800 oh-so-2014 emoji alongside standard characters. iPhone / iPadįleksy Keyboard (£0.69 + IAP) Fleksy has been available for iOS for a while now as a standalone app, but now it’s progressed to a full keyboard replacement. A choice of themes should suit most touchscreen typists. Tracing your thumb over the keys rather than tapping on them works very well – just as it did on Android – with Swype also promising to learn from what you write to hone its predictions. Swype, which also made its iOS debut alongside Apple’s new software. It also uses the swipe-on-letters technique pioneered by. SwiftKey Keyboard (Free) The most popular keyboard-replacement app on Android made the leap to iOS in time for the launch of iOS 8, with its emphasis on the way it learns your writing style – with Facebook, Twitter and Gmail logins able to give it a head start – to make its predictions even smarter. But if it’s iOS you’re after, read on for this week’s selection. ![]() More interested in Android apps? They’re covered in a separate weekly Best Android Apps roundup. As ever, the prices provided in brackets are for the initial download only: when an app uses in-app purchases, this will be listed as (Free + IAP).
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