Read It Later and Instapaper have been the only 2 main ‘read later’ apps (before Readability) and the latter has been winning on iOS at least because of its beautiful interface. Read It Later has supported more platforms and devices and hence more apps but has only been a let down to some users because of its interface. All that changed today when Read It Later was rebranded as Pocket. Pocket (Read It Later V4.0) took what was wrong with the Read It Later interface and made it absolutely gorgeous. Everything looks so much better now, using the old Read…
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.
The App Store has a plethora of music composing apps. Most of them were rendered useless when Apple announced Garageband for iOS. While most pro musicians would tend to use the higher end music composition apps like Korg iMS-20, the casual musician or the non musician now has tons of apps that make it unbelievably simple to create something that sounds beautiful. PropellerHead have created a tool that is both visually pleasing and simple to use for the layperson with Figure. Figure has a very simple metro interface with a nice sandy beach theme. PropellerHead have really gone all out…
Calling Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP (Henceforth #sworcery) a work of art would be the understatement of the century. It isn’t very often that a game comes along & absolutely blows my mind. When most people talk about the visual aspects of games, they are usually talking about intense animations and lifelike gameplay. This game is the opposite of that. It is a pixel-art masterpiece that takes you back to games like The Legend of Zelda. #sworcery makes you explore a beautiful pixel-art world while solving other peoples’ problems. The emphasis is on the audio visual style here. Craig D.…