Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Flexibits today released Fantastical 2.8, a big update to the popular calendar app for iPhone and iPad. This release, which now requires iOS 10, introduces full support for rich notifications, allowing you to quickly glance into event notifications and reminders in much more detail. This is great when you have addresses set in your events, as you can pull down on the notification and get a map preview of the location without the need to open the app. Fantastical 2.8 also ships with a sticker pack of cute animated calendar icons, some of which include callout messages while others are…

LookUp has long been our favorite dictionary app for iPhone. We first wrote about it back in 2014 and since then, it has continued to evolve into a mature dictionary app with an exceptionally crafted UI as well as a fantastic feature set. The release of LookUp 3.0 back in September brought along a lovely visual refresh of the main screen along with an iMessage app. Today, LookUp 3.2 is out on the App Store and here’s what’s new in it. iPad App Today’s big update brings LookUp to your iPad. The app makes great use of the bigger screen…

Every time you move a content from one app to the other, compare data side by side or multitask in any other way, you need all the windows arranged accordingly. Magnet makes this process clean and simple. In one drag to the edge, you size a window into half of your screen. And by dragging windows to the corners, you snap them into quarters. Slide them to the bottom edge of your display to create thirds. Taking advantage of such arrangements eliminates app switching and greatly enhances workspace efficiency. Magnet supports keyboard shortcuts as well, for every command it has…

With my recent move across continents, my life has become a bit, shall we say, ‘sedentary’. Okay, very sedentary. In Delhi, I used to get at least 15,000 steps in on a daily basis, I was at work for at least 8.5 hours a day, and ate properly. It wasn’t a glamorous lifestyle, but it was certainly a healthy one. These days, one day feels like any other, and if I were to be brutally honest with myself, my productivity has taken a bit of hit. This is a consequence of ennui (for the most part), but I’m being a…

Update II: We are revoking our recommendation of Tiny Stats, as the product has recently changed ownership and has been facing issues over the last month or so. Our paid account with Tiny Stats was randomly cancelled without warning and we stopped receiving reports for the site. When asked, we were told that there were some technical difficulties, and that they’d look into our account. However, we’ve not heard back from them in 10 days. As a result, we do not recommend Tiny Stats to our readers. Update: Tiny Stats have reduced the pricing by over 75%. Take a look…

Currency — Simple Converter Currency is the absolutely gorgeous currency converter for iPhone that we wrote about back in 2013. Four years later and almost 3 years since its last update, the app has finally been updated to support iOS 10 as well as the larger screens on iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 7. This release also includes updated design assets and UI tweaks, refreshed animations, support for 4 decimal places, Taptic feedback, keyboard sounds and more. Currency is one of my favorite currency conversion apps for iPhone and I’m glad to see it rise again. This is…