Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Apple is officially set to roll out iOS 10 — its biggest iOS release ever in just a few hours, but several thousands of users had already gotten their hands on it thanks to the company’s Public Beta program. 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…

LookUp is a beautiful and elegant dictionary app for iPhone and Apple Watch that we’ve featured twice already here on Beautiful Pixels. Today, the app has been updated to Version 3.0 that introduces a lovely dashboard, a refined definition screen and a brand new iMessage app. LookUp 3.0 now sports a dashboard where you can discover fresh new words, quotes and phrases every day. The artwork that accompanies these words looks great and goes a long way in improving the overall experience of using the app. The definition screen has been refined and now features improved typography and a much…

Taggle Our thanks to the folks at Taggle for sponsoring Beautiful Pixels this week. Taggle allows you to clean up and organize your photo gallery with the use of #tags. It is incredibly easy to use and thanks to the power of multiple tags, it becomes very easy to organize and find what you’re looking for. There’s also a nifty Locked Gallery in the app that allows you hide your precious photos of screenshots with a passcode. Taggle is available for Free for iOS and Android.

There are hundreds of timer apps out there based on the Pomodoro Technique conceptualized and developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. For the uninitiated, the Pomodoro Technique aims to make you focus on work in a better way and thus, much more productive by working in 25-minute blocks, followed by a 5-minute break. These simple timer apps are available across all major platforms, and remind you to take periodic breaks from work to relax your mind and focus better when you get back to work. Tadam is one such timer app that I’ve been using over the last…

Ulysses Launches Vesper Import Tool Hot on the heels of Simplenote for iOS adding markdown support earlier today, the folks at The Soulmen have today released an tool for importing your notes from Vesper into Ulysses. I’ve always looking at Ulysses as more of a writing app rather than a notes app, so I’m not really sure why you’d want to import your notes into it, but if you still want to, there’s an easy way now. Check it out here.

Simplenote has long been my favorite notes app on any platform. I’ve been using it for years now and always recommend it as a hassle-free, no-bullshit app. Three years ago, I wrote: Simplenote has always kept the focus on content — your content. With a bare minimum chrome in its apps, Simplenote has stayed away from flashy gradients, big UI elements and detailed icons and instead, has offered a minimal, mostly white user interface to its users. Three years on, Simplenote has evolved to a great extent, but the above still holds true. It is still very much a simple…