Author: Mikhail Madnani

There’s always this one thing on restaurant menus that has an item you’ve never heard of in it. You end up asking the waiter or someone you are with about said item. In many cases, the pronunciation is unique. Ramps app aims to fix all of this for you. It is a simple app that tells you a little bit about obscure foods in a nice visual manner. The app has the foods listed either in grid format or thumbnail format, with each item getting its own drawn image. The illustrations are really nice and overall the app does its…

While most email clients have a ton of features and complicated interfaces, Let.ter by Mutahhir Ali Hayat and Matthew Guay aims to be very different. It is a minimal markdown composer for email. It does One Thing Well™. Let.ter focusses on a great writing experience for email as opposed to your traditional email app that just bombards you with new email and has your inbox filled with loads of unread email.

Clear with Reminders Clear for iOS was teased with this video a long time ago. It has come a long way since then. We now have Clear on iPad and iPhone as a universal app and even Clear for Mac. Everything syncs perfectly and Clear is still the best way to manage lists on any device. Today, Clear has been updated with Reminders and new sound packs. Reminders was one of the most requested features for the app and it has been implemented brilliantly. While creating an item in a list, you tap the “Add Reminder” subtext to bring up…

The original 1Password for iOS, while functional, was an eyesore and it stayed that way for a long time. 1Password 4 came along and changed everything. It was awesome. But once iOS 7 hit, it felt stale and using the old keyboard was quite jarring. Today, AgileBits have released 1Password 4.5 for iOS and 1Password 4.3 for Mac. Both are free updates to existing owners of 1Password 4.

Unread 1.2 Unread is my favourite RSS app on iPhone. It has some of the best in app navigation ever and the reading experience exudes pure class. Today Unread 1.2 is out and it brings a lot of shiny to the app. Unread now supports Fever (Thank you Jared) and NewsBlur as well. It has an all new Tweetbot 3 style image viewer with all new image options including viewing alternate text (xkcd fans this one is for you). For people who enjoy scrolling through headlines, you can now enable mark as read on scroll which is genius. A few…

Skala Color Last month, I got some interesting details about Bjango’s new app Skala from Marc Edwards in The Dialogue. Everyone has been waiting for a beta for a while now. To help us cope with the wait, Bjango releases Skala Color today. Skala Color is a color picker that has been built for OS X and can be accessed in any native application that accesses the standard colour pickers on OS X. Skala Color has been built keeping in mind all the formats you will need for iOS, Android, Web and OS X development. Once you install it and…