It was 11 months ago that Fantastical made its iPhone debut and it blew everyone away. It got featured on almost all of our year-end lists in 2012. It was the best mobile calendar app until iOS 7 shipped. iOS 7 brought a new visual interface and many new interaction changes. Fantastical still worked fine but it started to show its age given the stiff competition. Flexibits announced that Fantastical 2 would be launching soon as a new app designed to take advantage of all the new shiny in iOS 7.
Author: Mikhail Madnani
Mikhail Madnani
Mikhail Madnani is the acting Editor-in-Chief of Beautiful Pixels. He’s usually the one making sure so many weather apps get reviewed when he isn’t playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2 or Hearthstone.
Delivery Status touch 5 Delivery Status by Junecloud is my favourite package tracking service. It works flawlessly and not only syncs across iOS devices, but also on OS X where it has a great dashboard widget. Delivery Status touch, the iOS client was just updated to version 5.0 that brings with it a boatload of new features and an elegant coat of paint. The look has been updated keeping iOS 7 in mind, but not forgetting iOS 6. There’s no loss of personality here. It also now supports background notifications on iOS 7 and can add estimated delivery dates to…
There are a multitude of great tools available for musicians on iOS and OS X. Guitar Pro has been my tool of choice for learning songs when I’m lazy or when a song is too difficult for me to learn by ear. I know there are a lot of apps that allow you to slow down a song or even change the pitch to some extent. In 2011 Capo, won the Apple Design Award and the app has been in my radar since then. Early this month Capo 3 was released with support for automatic beat detection with chords. Thinking…
Early this month, when every app developer was rushing to submit their new app updates for iOS 7, Readdle released Calendars 5. Calendars 5 is an all new Calendar app from Readdle that aims to replace your calendar and reminders apps. So what sets Calendars 5 (henceforth C5) apart? Well, for one, it is a Universal app. It looks great both on your iPhone and your iPad. Readdle has been known to do great pro apps for iOS and Calendars 5 is both flexible & beautiful. When it comes to Calendar apps, two things are important — Event entry and…
Reveal – A Beautiful Perspective for iOS Apps The lovely folks over at Itty Bitty Apps have finally released their long awaited iOS developer tool, Reveal. Reveal is something that iOS developers absolutely need. It brings the tools web developers have enjoyed using like Web Inspector and allows you to visualize your app hierarchy in 2D and 3D all packaged in a stunning interface. Fixing layout issues has never been this simple thanks to the real time visuals available. The stuff mentioned barely scratches the surface of what the app is capable off. Reveal is available for $89 and there…
When I think of essential apps on iOS, Launch Center Pro is the first one that comes to mind. Launch Center Pro (henceforth LCP) and Drafts are two apps that allow you to get more from your iOS device. LCP just hit 2.0 and boy is it an amazing update. Everything from the app icon to the glyphs in the app have been refined to fit perfectly on your iOS 7 device. On first launch, the app now has a nice welcome video that guides you through the app. Most apps have pointless videos that waste time but the LCP…