Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Early last year, we told you about Billy — the fabulous iPhone app to keep track of your recurring subscriptions across various services and websites. Built by the lovely folks at Yummygum, Billy was rebranded as ‘Bobby’ just a month later and this week marks the release of Bobby 2.0, a major update that introduces some much-needed features and improvements to the app. iCloud Sync and Touch ID The most notable addition in this release is iCloud Sync. All subscriptions you’ve added in the app are now automatically synced to iCloud, so in case you lose your device or move…

Earlier this week, our friends at Bjango released iStat Menus 6 — a massive update to the popular menubar-based system monitoring app for Mac. This is a big update since the release of iStat Menus 5 over three years ago and includes an impressive list of new features and improvements — as is expected from Bjango. We’d gotten a sneak peek at the iStat Menus 6 app icon a few days ago. If you’re hearing about iStat Menus for the first time, there’s a lot you’ve been missing out on. iStat Menus is an incredibly powerful and feature-rich system monitor…

Tapbots have released Version 2.2 of Calcbot 2 — their popular calculator app for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. This update comes over two years after the last one and brings along a refreshed user interface and the new app icon displayed above on the right. Calcbot 2 also supports iOS 11 now, including iOS 11’s Drag and Drop feature. 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…

Newsify — the beautiful RSS Reader has released Version 4.9 on the App Store this week and introduces a new App Icon, along with support for iOS 11 and watchOS 4. We first wrote about this app back in 2012 and it’s good to see this fresh new icon on the app. Newsify is available Free with Ads 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…

Of the many new features and enhancements that Apple has introduced in iOS 11, its SMS Spam filtering capability is what I’ve been most excited about since the announcement at WWDC 2017. SMS Spam has bothered me over the last several years and it was disappointing to see Apple completely ignore the native SMS app at WWDC every year. Unlike email, where you can at least access your inbox via 3rd party apps, SMS is something that is only available in the native Messages app. And if you’re in India, the nuisance has increased exponentially in the last couple of…

The stunning camera you see above has been intricately crafted by Cassidy Williams entirely in CSS. Although it was inspired by this White Leica shot on Dribbble, Cassidy has taken it to the next level by adding some lovely animations to to, without the use of any JavaScript. Check it out on CodePen here 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…