Author: Mikhail Madnani

With iOS 5, Apple gave us Reminders — an app that had tons of promise & potential. We were demoed a fantastic feature set consisting of both time-based and location-based reminders, and a syncing solution that’d “just work” across devices. However, the default Reminders.app on iOS has been unreliable at best for many people. Location based reminders barely work for me and my only real use of the official Reminders.app happens through Siri where I never end up looking at the actual app. A few weeks ago, a video for an app called Checkmark was brought to my notice. The…

We just can’t get enough of weather apps here at Beautiful Pixels. There’s no shortage of weather apps on the App Store but we love that each week out of all the mail we get, there is that one weather app that makes us smile. Weather Neue is that app this week. Weather Neue is a minimalistic weather app that shows you what you need to know. It isn’t an over the top weather station for you iOS device. The app has one main view and when you launch it, there are some nice animations thrown in. The temperature at…

Instagram, the popular photo sharing app on iOS and Android, has been in the news a lot recently. Apart from being bought by Facebook for a Billion dollars and releasing an Android app, the service was down for a fair bit of time thanks to the recent AWS outage. The iOS app has gone through a few updates recently and has received a few subtle changes as well. However, Instagram’s photo page on the web which had pretty much stayed untouched has finally undergone a very nice update this past week. Not only did it receive a beautiful visual overlift…

It isn’t often that you come across an app that instantly makes you create space for it on your dock. I’ve been using Launch Center for a while now and absolutely love it. When App Cubby announced their next app, Launch Center Pro, I was really excited. Launch Center accomplished about 70% of what it sought out to do and it looked quite nice. Launch Center Pro takes everything to another level. When you launch the app, you are greeted with a nice grid of icons that can all be edited with some elegant graphics and nice subtle patterns. To…

Nial Giacomelli is somewhat of a regular here. Having been featured for Episodes, Showtime, and Nibbble, Nial is back with Lumicon that is one of the most beautiful word games ever. Lumicon has some of the best typography seen in games and also has some amazing music. Glynn Smith’s sounds perfectly complement this elegant game. The game itself is not too complicated to understand and has Game Center integration. There are 3 difficulties and believe me, the advanced one really pushes you to your limit. You pop words formed by the letters dragged into the rows above for points. This…

Back when Clear was about to launch, there was a ton of hype around it because of the nice looks, sound and gestures in the app. Many have tried to replicate what clear does visually and failed. 30/30 timer by Binary Hammer is a simple beautiful app with a few familiar gestures involved. 30/30 is full of solid colours and you are presented with a nice big timer with tasks below it when you launch the app. All the text is very readable and looks nice and big on the iPad. The tasks are here to guide you on using…