Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Consume is a fantastic iOS app from the fine folks at Bjango that lets you monitor the usage of various service providers ranging from mobile and broadband to package delivery services. I don’t know about you, but I was very excited when Bjango first previewed the iPad version of Consume back in May 2010. I’d been using Consume on my iPhone for a few months back then and it was really a beautiful app full of stunning pixels in its UI — but the iPad preview was just so much better to look at. After many months, Bjango has released…

Today’s featured app is pretty much a no-brainer. A few days ago, Path relaunched itself as a ‘Smart Journal’ and the web collectively drooled all over its deliciously beautiful pixels. We first wrote about Path back in Nov 2010 when it first came out and Milind found the service to be “uninteresting”. The original Path app had a beautiful UI, but it never really took off as a service. With 2.0, the talented designers and developers at Path have absolutely blown us away with the result. For a change, Path 2.0 goes away from the new trend of ‘center-tab-as-a-button’ and…

Gradient is a fantastic little utility app for OS X that helps you design beautiful CSS3 gradients. And boy does it come up with some tasty gradient previews. Gradient App is a nifty tool for the Mac that lets you pick that colors quickly and easily and automatically generates the corresponding CSS code for it. The app boasts a feature where — using its custom color picker — it magnifies the pixels on the screen for you so you can pick virtually any color you want. It has a very simple and easy-to-understand layout so you’ll be making beautiful gradients…

There are plenty of restaurant recommendation apps on the iOS App Store already. Most of you are already settled onto your favorite app. But Ness… Ness is different. Ness, at its core, is an iPhone app that lets you look up restaurants in different places. The app’s website boasts that it’s a “personal search engine based on your unique tastes, preferences & personality”. Ness features a radically new approach through its UI. In fact, the UI will probably have your mouth watering even before you find that restaurant you’re looking for. Why? Because Ness has a neat grid of some…

CardFlick is a nifty app for your iPhone that lets your create and share your business card with anyone. CardFlick makes is super easy to have your own gorgeous business card — who doesn’t want to have one, right? The app lets your log in using your Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter credentials and automatically fills up the information in your card. There are a bunch of really beautiful card designs themes to choose from. The team also has a CardFlick Pro option if you’re looking to get a custom designed card into the app. Once you have customized the card…

Here’s another beautiful app I personally have little use for, but contains enough beautiful pixels from some wonderful design folks to merit a mention here on Beautiful Pixels. Duet.me is a beautifully designed iPhone app centered around a simple concept — Do things with the people you love. Brought to you by the folks at Crush + Lovely, Duet lets you propose small “duets” with people in your contact list. It can be something like heading to the park to skate together or something as simple as catching a movie from your favorite genre. You can then interact with the…