Basil 3 by Kyle Baxter is a fantastic recipe manager for iOS. It is lightweight and looks elegant for the most part while working great across iPhone and iPad. Basil has everything I’ve come to expect from a modern recipe manager, like support for saving a recipe from popular websites to grocery lists. Basil also does a few things that set it apart from the crowd. When recipes are added from websites, Basil identifies the strings for time in the recipe directions and converts them into clickable timers. The ingredients list is also a check list, so you can tap…
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.
Relay FM is home to a lot of my favourite podcasts. Myke Hurley and Stephen Hackett founded Relay FM over a year ago and it has come so far in such a short time. Even though I’ve been a loyal Pocket Casts user, I was super excited to use the official Relay FM app that hit the App Store a few days ago. Unfortunately, the new app leaves me really disappointed. If you look at the screenshots on the App Store alone, the Relay FM app looks pretty great. However, it is let down in performance and navigation. I understand…
It is always great to see how developers try and showcase their design with weather apps. 3DWeather by idea2inspire is a very interesting and good looking weather app for OS X. Unlike most weather apps for OS X that live in your menu bar, 3DWeather has a variety of options for you weather viewing pleasure. While 3DWeather is one of the most uninspired names out there, the interface and animations are quite the opposite. I love the flat and blockly look of all the objects in each of the themes available. Up to 10 locations are supported and while I…
Instapaper is one of the oldest and best apps on the App Store. Even after Marco sold it, the app has been continuously receiving great updates and becoming better overall. It is my go to “read it later” app. Today, Instapaper was updated to Version 7.0 and it is made for iOS 9. Instapaper 7 finally has article thumbnails and this makes the app a lot more visually pleasing. The iPad app has been redone for a more consistent interface across iOS and it even supports split screen multitasking on the iPad Air 2. Picture in picture video is also…
1Password isn’t just an essential password manager. It is an essential service if you use the internet. 1Password 6.0 for iOS 9 makes the app even better thanks to full support for iOS 9 features. The visual overhaul adds a good amount of Bits Blue as they call it to the app along with nice new glyphs for categories and updates to the rich icons. 1Password 6.0 also includes a new Diceware Password Generator that allows long password creation with real words. iOS 9’s spotlight search is also fully supported to find things quickly without launching the app and tapping…
Cloak is our favourite VPN service. It looks great and Just Works™. Today Cloak 3.0 for iOS released with a brand new look and some great new features with some overdue user experience improvements. Cloak 3.0 finally lets you enable or disable Cloak (VPN) from within the app. Even small things like turning Cloak off on some untrusted networks can now be done from within the app. I use Cloak often to access some sites that only display products to US or Japanese locations so I switch Transporter destinations often. This is also now possible right from within the app…