The amount of new and unique ways to consume news that keep popping up have made everyone grow tired of news consumption apps in general. I’m not going to bother discussing Google Reader anymore so let us look into the future. Apps like Flipboard, Google Currents and Pulse have changed the way most people get news on their mobile devices. All those apps have one thing in common. They all rely on reading the news material or text content. Now there are podcasts like Myke Hurley’s The News on 5by5 but Wibbitz completely blew me away. Wibbitz, the app, is…
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.
When it comes to calendar apps for iPhone, Fantastical and Horizon are at the forefront. Both of them have natural language parsing for event creation and Horizon goes the extra mile with weather integration. Agenda has been around for a long time and it has been one of the more flexible calendar apps out there. As of today, Agenda 4.0 (henceforth Agenda) for iPhone is available as a separate app and it packs way too many great features that will please every kind of user, especially power users. If you’ve used Agenda before or even Fantastical for iOS for that…
I love great looking word games as can be seen from the many featured in the games category. Paper by 53 has been on my iPad homescreen since the day it released. It is by far one of the best apps out there. I discovered Coolson’s Artisinal Chocolate Alphabet (I still can’t get over the name) from an RT by Matt Gemmell. After checking out the website, I was pretty amazed that most of the game design and artwork was created in Paper. The game can be played in two ways. The whimsy way has a nice story narrative that…
In the last few months, App.net and its ecosystem have grown faster than any network I have seen. In fact I have grown to love the network like I did Twitter in its early days. Now Twitter is full of stupid social media contests that spam hashtags and other stuff you would expect to see on Facebook. App.net on the other hand is full of great conversations and developers are pushing it to the next level. It isn’t a replacement for Twitter, but rather a network that can exist alongside Twitter. The problem with Twitter is that it isn’t letting…
Over a year ago I started using Saver for all my finance tracking and while that app was really good, the lack of updates since and the lack of a way to export your data made me look elsewhere. I’ve reviewed quite a few finance apps on Beautiful Pixels and while they are all great for basic tracking, I’ve been looking for something more. MoneyWell and MoneyWell Express by No Thirst Software fill that void perfectly. MoneyWell on the Mac and iOS has gone through a few changes in the last few years. In its current incarnation, MoneyWell for Mac…
Tools for musicians are plentiful on the App Store. There are a number of apps that help you learn basic theory and then there’s Jamn. Jamn is a great app for your iOS device that will help you learn music theory with its lovely interface. Jamn’s look is heavily inspired by the original iPod with a click wheel. If you’ve used Convertbot by Tapbots, you’ll know exactly what I mean. The main portion of the screen has a movable wheel with holes in places to show you chords in a key. For example, the key of C major will have…