Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Preshit Deorukhkar is the former Editor-in-Chief of Beautiful Pixels. He is now a Freelance Consultant, Principal at iXyr Media & SharpShutter Media. You can reach him on Twitter @preshit

The team at Reuters has been crafting beautiful apps for quite some time now. As one of the leading news & media houses in the world, Reuters has offered apps across all major platforms and their Reuters TV app has been my personal favorite since its debut last year. It offers a great way to catch up with what’s been in the news lately by telling it exactly how many minutes you have to spare. The app is beautifully crafted and rightfully made it to two of our year end lists — The Highlight 2015 — Apple TV Apps and…

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Momento is one of the oldest and most beautiful journaling apps available on the App Store. It made its debut on the App Store six years ago in late 2009 and sported a beautiful UI with refreshing colors. The app was gorgeous and comfortably made it to our list of most beautiful apps for 2009. In the six years since then, the team at d3i has released some incredible updates to the app making it a phenomenal journaling app for iPhone. Unlike Day One, Momento’s developers have chosen to just focus on offering a stellar the user experience on one…

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Google has just announced an all new look and feel for the Google Fonts website. The new design offers a much more streamlined and refreshing look at the 804 font families that Google currently offers for Free. On the new design, you can see a grid of font previews, so it’s very easy to preview and compare fonts now. You can easily choose categories and languages from the right, select the sorting choice and search for a specific family using the Search field. Similarly, it is very easy to switch between Sentence, Paragraph, Alphabet, Numerals or Custom text in each…

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Mac

Since its first release in 2005, the idea behind Image2icon has always been to give to every Mac user the best way to personalize their desktop. In its initial form, Image2icon was really basic and focused — it allowed you to Drag & Drop an image, select, and export it. Shiny Frog built upon this basic process a new set of features, allowing even the most unexperienced to achieve wonderful eye-candy icons. The new Image2icon comes with 30 icon templates that you can choose from, including watermarked folders, Blu-Ray and CD cases, as well as external drives. Every icon template…

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Sam Ruston, the indie designer & developer from UK behind award winning Android apps like Weather Timeline, Cookbook and Flip — Currency Converter has now brought us Flamingo — a really gorgeous Twitter app for Android. Much like his other apps, Flamingo sports a bold and striking UI. It’s got a very fun and cheerful feel to it and is one of the nicest Twitter apps for Android that I’ve played with. You can undertake a fair bit of customization from the app’s Settings, including choosing your choice of Theme and Colors, Layout and even an optional Night Mode. It…

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Mac

1Blocker is one of, if not the best content blocking apps for iOS available on the App Store. Meticulously crafted by Salavat Khanov, 1Blocker gives you granular control over what content you want to block and what content you want to let through. I’ve had the pleasure of beta testing it before its debut on the App Store and since its release, 1Blocker has added some great features and has continued to win accolades from its users. Today, 1Blocker comes to the Mac. Unlike some of the popular adblock plugins already available out there, 1Blocker for Mac uses “modern WebKit…

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