Author: Mikhail Madnani

Wants and Needs by Pixolini is a very interesting app. It aims to help you organize your life by getting the things you want, need, and are thankful for put into perspective. Everyone has things they want but don’t need like a Zelda Majora’s Mask Limited Edition New 3DS XL. Having used the app for a few days, I’m really impressed. The app has a very simple interface. It makes abundant use of the colour orange throughout and has nice typography (barring one huge misstep with titles). The main view has a graphical representation of your wants, needs, and thanks…

Twitterrific has been my goto Twitter app on iOS for a while. It is the best looking app on the platform and it has gotten a lot better functionality wise with the last few updates. Twitterrific 5.9 brings the app up to speed with most media improvements Twitter has brought to the platform. Twitterrific now supports multiple image (up to four images in one tweet) upload in a single tweet. The image viewer now supports a lot more media formats and opens Instagram images natively instead of using the in app browser. Even videos now play within the app in…

Yellow Monkey Studios, the team that brought us the amazing Huebrix, is back with a new game for iOS devices. Socioball is an elegant puzzle game with a unique social element. Socioball utilizes isometric tile grids for its levels. The aim of each level is to guide the ball from the start tile to the goal tile. You have no direct control over the ball and essentially complete its path by making use of different kinds of tiles. These tiles range from spring tiles to teleport tiles and more. Once you are satisfied with your path, tapping the arrow tile…

When I first used Due a few years ago, it was the greatest reminders and todo app ever for me. The app was easy to use and the auto snooze functionality that nagged you with notifications till you marked them as done was great. iOS 6 didn’t have background sync, so when iOS 7 hit, everyone including myself was curious about an update to Due that would hopefully add a new look and background sync. Due 1.10 did bring a new look, but no background sync. I’ve always used multiple apps together for getting things done. OmniFocus is the best…

Before the release of iOS 8, I used It’s Playing Pro for anything video on iOS. The app played almost everything I threw at it and basically worked well. Back then, Firecore, the team behind the Apple TV jailbreaks, had a video player for iOS called Infuse. I’ve had my eye on this for a long time but only bothered with it when the major iOS 8 and iPhone 6 app update hit a few months ago. Infuse 3 brings support for more video formats, DTS HD audio, and more streaming options. Infuse 3 impressed me from the start. Everything…

The pace at which Android design has been improving since Android 4.1 is pretty mindblowing. Google has consistently been pushing out quality updates to their widely used apps on Android and iOS in the last few months. Last year we featured our favourite iOS 7 redesigns. This year iOS design has taken a back seat to bringing some much needed improvement to the core OS features. Android on the other hand has finally gotten a proper design language that many developers are actually following in their apps. Android 5.0 and Material Design across Google’s apps were the highlights of mobile…