Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

We haven’t posted about wallpapers in a while here on Beautiful Pixels, so here’s a spiffy new series to get you going. If dark wallpapers are something you desire, you should take a look at Black. Black is a project by Jean-Marc Denis, who is currently the Design manager at Facebook and has previously worked at Google on Inbox and VR projects and is also known for his work on Sparrow — the immensely popular mail client back in the day. It is a stunning set of wallpapers that make use of shapes and lights to create textures or patterns…

Moon is probably one of the best examples of apps that are part of prestigious ‘one-thing-well’ club. As the name suggests, Moon is a simple app that helps you keep yourself updated with not just the current moon phase, but also how it will look on a certain date. There’s something calm and serene about Moon’s UI. You tend to keep looking at the moon in the dark sky lit by millions of little stars and other objects. You can swipe the moon to the left to read info about its current state and how many days to the next…

Amity is a lovingly crafted interactive messaging app for iOS and Android that adds a lot of fun elements to your chats. Debuting just a few of days before iOS 10 was out with the all new iMessages platform, Amity boasts of its own unique approach that make your old, boring, text-only chats much more lively and interactive. It also has the added benefit of being available for Android devices as well, so a lot more of your friends can join in on the action. Every chat inside Amity includes some interactive features. For example, you can Nudge someone or…

Prisma’s Filters Now Available for Video Prisma took the market by storm after its debut back in June, and since then, it has continued to add improvements to the app. Prisma turns your photos into a work of art by re-paiting over it in different styles, depending on which filter you choose. Today, the team behind the app have released Version 2.6 that brings all that magic to you videos. Just like with photos, you can now choose and apply Prisma’s colorful effects to videos up to 15 seconds. All the processing happens offline, so you no longer need to…

Water App Adds Achievements in v2.0 Water — the beautifully simple app by NFN Labs that reminds you to keep drinking water through the day was recently updated to Version 2.0 that introduces Achievements to the app. As you keep hitting the goals in the app, you can now unlock achievements as you progress and share them with your friends and family. You earn some cool badges in the app and the developers say that these will be updated over time. You can grab it for $1.99 on the App Store.

Apple today has officially rolled out iOS 10 — its biggest iOS release ever just a few hours ago. iOS 10 has several great features worth discussing, but there’s no doubt that the most talked about features are going to be iMessage Sticker Packs and iMessage Apps. With iOS 10, the company has extended the functionality of its rather plain and boring iMessage service with the introduction of a built-in App Store where users can find, download and install iMessage Apps and Sticker Packs. Here at Beautiful Pixels, we’ve been playing around with several of these over the last few…