Puk by Laser Dog Games isn’t your everyday casual mobile game. Calling it a fast paced game is a massive understatement. It looks amazing and utilizes only 2 colours for the most part. Puk isn’t something you play for hours at a stretch. It will be there for that quick fix of gaming that will either leave you rewarded or extremely frustrated. The sounds in the game did remind me of Hundreds and what is it with game developers and minimal games involving circles these days? At first glance, Puk is all about projecting small white hollow spheres onto solid…
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.
It’s that time again. Here’s another minimal weath.. No. This is not a minimal weather app. This is not even just a weather app. It goes way beyond that. The creators of Dark Sky, the scarily accurate weather app, are back with Forecast. Forecast is an amazing new global weather service. Forecast takes the Dark Sky vision to another level. It supports iOS devices, Android devices and the web. If you’re on iOS you can add the web app to your homescreen as well. Coming to the web app, the interface is pretty deceptive. While it may seem like it…
The iPhone comes with a decent calculator app that gets the job done for most people. That has never stopped me from looking to the App Store for a more beautiful replacement. PCalc and Soulver have been popular for power users. I’d been happily using Calcbot until Rechner came along, but then I was completely blown away by Llumino. Llumino is a new kind of calculator with a strong emphasis on fluid animations. Right from the get go, you see the strong Metro influence within the app. The button layout is similar to any other calculator app and there is…
People use their iPhones more when they travel. Everyone has that flight tracker they love and a local discovery app. Most of the actual guide apps usually contain the same information about popular spots. There aren’t that many apps that are actually created with help from a group of people living in a particular place. This is where CityDoping comes into the picture. The team that brought us the lovely Sarah Jenkins’ New Italian Pantry is back with CityDoping New York City. CityDoping NYC (henceforth CDNYC) has been created by people who love to travel and are from across the…
The Mac is often left out when it comes to UI Design and pixel greatness in apps with most designers & developers focussing their efforts on mobile apps these days. MacPaw is one developer that creates great Mac apps. We’re huge fans of Gemini and are glad they gave their insanely useful app, CleanMyMac a UI overhaul with CleanMyMac 2. The first thing that legacy CleanMyMac users will notice is the brand new look. CleanMyMac 2 is visually stunning. It has great icons and epic animations. One would expect an app that cleans up space to be boring and just…
Podcast apps cater to a niche market. There are many free apps on every platform that have basic functionality. A paid podcast app caters to a smaller crowd. I subscribe to 32 podcasts and try and listen to every episode of each show. While iOS has a native podcast app (albeit a shitty one) it gets the job done for most people. I have been using Instacast on iOS since version 2 and love it. It has push notifications for new episodes, auto downloads and a variety of other power features. It is also the best overall podcast app on…