Microsoft’s Metro UI has been met with mainly praise barring a few people who just can’t stand it. I absolutely love the Metro UI in with its emphasis on typography. While Metro may seem a tad pointless in apps like Email, it really shines in graphic-heavy interfaces and hence Track 8 by Ender Labs is a wonderful Metro music player for the iPad. While there are other Metro UI apps in the App Store like Maha for Twitter and Muzik, Track 8 is easily the best one of the lot and my favourite music player on the iPad. The references…
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.
Every programmer probably uses or has used Stack Overflow at some point. Stack Overflow changed the face of development forever. BigBig Bomb have really created something special with StackTrace. StackTrace is a stunning iPad app that lets you explore Stack Overflow’s wealth of knowledge. This app has really raised the bar for all apps in terms of UI. Every subtle animation and transition is brilliant. When you first launch the app you are greeted with a view that gives you the option to add different languages as tags. Each tag/language has its own box with statistics and a separate colour…
The last year has seen tons of social networks come up and very few have actually been worth anything. MLKSHK is like tumblr and dribbble together with some reddit thrown in. It lets you share (collect in shakes) GIFs, videos and images and like other people’s posts. STRW is a beautiful mlkshk client for iOS. It has a very nice swipe-able pane UI with some pleasing colours. When you launch the app you are greeted with probably the best log in screen on an app ever. You are prompted to enter your details while there is a nice ocean wave…
National Parks by National Geographic is a stunning interactive guide to the parks in the US. It also arrived just in time since National Parks Week just kicked off on the 21st of this month. It is the perfect companion app if you are planning on visiting one of the parks or just want to learn something about them. When you run the app you are greeted with an absolutely beautiful loading screen that has a slideshow at the bottom with pictures from the parks that are breathtaking. When the app finally loads (It takes a noticeably long time to…
One would have never imagined an app that would let you tweet while learning morse code at the same time. Shacked Software have created a stunning Twitter client that lets you tweet in morse code with TeleTweet. It gives you that nostalgic feeling of sending and receiving telegrams in morse code. While it may seem like it has little practical use, it teaches you morse code in a fun way with something you end up doing a lot, tweeting. The interface is as steampunk as it can get with authentic sound effects and beautiful visuals. The main window has a…
If you’re a designer, you probably already know about and are on dribbble. Dribbble is a community for designers to showcase their latest work and get feedback from others. It is an amazing source of inspiration for anything related to design. There have been quite a few dribbble apps for iOS and they look great. Balllin’ was my pick for the best dribbble iOS client until today. Misecia of NowPlayer fame have just released Backboard, a beautiful dribbble app with nice gesture controls. Backboard features a nice overlapping pane interface akin to Sparrow’s and Facebook’s iOS apps. It doesn’t go…