Author: Mikhail Madnani

The iOS ecosystem has tons of music composition apps and many prominent musicians like Jordan Rudess have been known to use iOS devices on stage. With apps like Garageband and Djay, iOS devices prove to be brilliant music composition devices as well. There has been a dearth of really great music learning tools on the App Store until recently when apps like Guitar Pro, which is probably the most famous guitar tablature tool out there, have made their way to iOS devices. Most music apps on iOS that are for the pros end up costing a lot as well. Robick…

The iPad has become the quintessential replacement for the board games today. Apps like Scrabble allow you to use the iPad screen as the board with iPod touches or iPhones as tile racks connected over the network or bluetooth. We have seen many boardgames make their way to iOS in the last few years but most of them are either too complicated or just not executed well on a touch screen. Board games have always been about playing with someone else and the ones seen today encourage solo play or playing over the internet with an unknown person. This is…

While it is always great to see more and more big companies invest into mobile apps, these apps are rarely pleasing to the eye. Most of them are poor attempts at putting something out just to say you have a mobile app available. Cleartrip.com, one of India’s most convenient travel booking sites & known for their simplicity and reliability also finally released an iOS app a couple of days ago. The Cleartrip app is full of good typography and great subtle animations. The Cleartrip website has had a split screen search for round trips that I have always liked and…

Boxee is best known for making your videos more accessible to you on TV screens. There is no shortage of video sharing apps on the App Store and cloud services that let you share files with others. Cloudee by Boxee aims to be a service that lets you share your videos privately with your family and close friends. Cloudee is full of some great subtle animations and it has one of the best demo slideshows ever. I usually prefer apps that have a translucent overlay for instructions / help like PULSE News does but this slideshow is really nice. The…

Deal In is a simple service that lets you buy and sell products. It also lets you post pictures about products you have seen but have no idea where to buy so that others can help you find the item in question. The app has been developed by Cuberto and has some spectacular animations in it. When you launch the app you are prompted to sign in (Developers need to stop doing this) to use it. After that you are greeted with a nice and simple list of items with a bag at the bottom of the view. The fun…

After reviewing so many weather apps on iOS, I was more than happy to look at Sun. It pushes the boundaries of how web apps for iOS should look and feel. It works only on iOS devices after you pin the link to your homescreen. Sun uses a geolocation API to automatically locate where you are within the browser view. It offers a very simple and elegant look at the current weather where you are and allows you to add a few more cities. It is completely gesture controlled and the animation swiping from one city to another is insanely…