Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

We love Bear. This “exceptionally elegant” notes app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac has managed to make make a name for itself with its outstanding feature-set and impressive user experience. Ever since its debut late last year, the folks at Shiny Frog have released version after version filled to the brim with phenomenal improvements that make Bear a highly recommended note-taking and writing app for iOS and macOS. Today, Bear for iOS has been updated to Version 1.3 and this release comes packed with two noteworthy features. Bear App for Apple Watch Bear is now available for Apple Watch. This…

Readdle — known for their fantastic document-based apps like PDF Expert, Scanner Pro, Printer Pro, Documents, etc. have been adding some great new features to Spark — their popular email app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch over the last few months. Today, the company is introducing two highly-requested features in the app — Send Later and Follow-Up Reminders. Send Later With the Send Later feature, you can now compose emails and specify when you’d like Spark to send it to the recipient. Similar to how the Snooze function worked, you can pick the exact date and time for…

When it comes to Twitter, third-party developers have been doing a far better job of building beautiful and feature-rich apps than what the company has managed. For as long as Twitter has had an API, we’ve seen some outstanding Twitter apps available for iOS, macOS, and even Android. A majority of my early days on Twitter were spent using Twitterrific — built by the kind folks at The Iconfactory. Twitterrific was a phenomenal app back then, giving you a completely different and much better experience when using Twitter. Earlier this year, The Iconfactory announced Project Phoenix — A Kickstarter campaign…

Pixelmator for iOS has long been one of the finest drawing and sketching apps available on the App Store. Coupled with the Pixelmator app for Mac that does a terrific job of editing your images, the duo is known to be a fantastic alternative to some of the expensive image editing suites out there. The Pixelmator Team today has released Pixelmator for iOS 2.4 “Cobalt” on the App Store. This release comes fully compatible with iOS 11 and brings along some great new features that highlight the app’s capabilities, especially on an iPad running iOS 11. Pixelmator 2.4 now supports…

Sketch has become one of the most popular tools in a designer’s toolkit. This vector-based designing app has been the go-to recommendation for several designers I know and has over the last few years made a name for itself by making some bold moves — like pulling itself out of the Mac App Store and moving to a subscription model for regular updates. Today, the team at Bohemian Coding has released Sketch 47 — a major release that introduces two remarkable features: Libraries and Smooth Corners. Libraries This new feature in Sketch allows you to create and share Symbols across…

Darkroom is a really impressive photo editor for iPhone with a powerful set of features. The app was recently updated to Version 3.0 that brought along this neon-inspired update to the icon pictured on the right. Darkroom is available for Free on the App Store. About these At a Glance posts: ‘At a Glance’ is a new type of post we’re introducing on Beautiful Pixels. These will usually be short posts with little to no text content, and will feature a quick look at something new we’ve spotted that we think our readers will enjoy.