Author: Mikhail Madnani

Most of us subscribe to tons of blogs and sites and probably have many apps that handle our subscriptions. I also end up using Pocket a lot within apps that handle my subscriptions. Flipboard is one of the most popular apps that does this in the form of a magazine. The Early Edition 2, an iPad only app, aggregates everything and presents you with a newspaper layout. Newsify by Ben Alexander has some of the best features from the aforementioned apps and will probably be your next Google Reader. Newsify appeals both visually and functionally. It has a nice flat…

There are tons of weather apps on the App Store today, each trying to outdo the others in its own unique way. While most of them essentially look similar, there are some standouts that really shine, like Weather 2x, Weather HD and Aelios. MINIMETEO is another such app with a simple & beautiful UI. It’s a native iPad weather app designed by Alberto Antoniazzi and developed by Andrea Baldon. MINIMETEO has a very simple and pleasing interface. It is almost ‘Metro’ if you may. The app has very nice solid colours and a few sounds thrown in. When you launch…

When you think about online communities for designers, dribbble always springs to mind. There is some amazing work being showcased on that site but it covers design as a broad category. Even though there are many UI designers showcasing their work on dribbble, this aspect of design needs its own community. This is where meer.li comes in. Meer.li is a community for mobile designers to showcase their brilliant work. Meer.li lets designers show off their work and lets other people see how the mobile app design industry is developing. We’ve seen some spectacular work in the last few years on…

Browsing through the App Store today, you’ll find that iOS app developers have come up with some brilliant music apps for both the iPad and iPhone. We have seen tons of great iPhone apps for musicians and once Apple announced the iPad, everything changed. Musicians like Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater), who used their iPhones on stage now had access to a device with a larger screen that could run the same brilliant apps. Today we have enough music apps on iOS to satiate any serious musician. Most music apps are extremely useful but not all look spectacular. We did a…

The iPhone is so much more than your phone with the amount of apps available in the App Store. It helps you get things done and keep track of what you do. Managing finances is something everyone does. There are many great budget tracking apps in the App Store. xPence, developed by Andrei Nica, adds some beauty to something as mundane as keeping track of expenses on your phone and has a ton of useful features. When you launch the app, you are greeted with a category page that lets you add a tile with a category name and colour.…

People have been recommending music on twitter for a long time with hashtags like #nowplaying and through apps that let you share your recommendations on twitter like Soundtracking or NowPlaying. The problem with most song recommendations on twitter is the lack of a preview. Recollect.fm makes it insanely easy to recommend a song and also does it beautifully. Recollect.fm is tightly integrated with twitter and while some apps let you post a link to a song you recommend, this one goes beyond that and creates a stunning web page with large cover art and a song preview (if available) for…