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

We’ve showcased a lot of Dribbble apps here on Beautiful Pixels and Dribbboard is another client that landed in our inbox a few days ago. Crafted in Thailand by Sarun Wongpatcharapakorn, Dribbboard is a dribble app for iPhone that is designed with a neat and clean UI and works just like many other apps out there. Dribbboard uses a simple, three column tab bar at the bottom — Popular, Following and Me. You can browse Dribbble’s popular feed in either a list view or a grid view, depending on the option you like the most. Tapping on ‘Shots’ at the…

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Notoriety is an elegant and minimal notes app for iPhone from the house of Wander Bit. Much like the thousands of other takes on a minimal notes experience, Notoriety puts the focus on your content and offers a customizable, minimalistic design for your use. Notoriety lets you quickly create a new note and then add tags to that note. You can browse all your notes together or browse them by tags. To help you get started, there are a few default notes that are filed under the ‘Tips’ tag. All your tags are displayed on the main screen and you…

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Alto’s Adventure is by far one of our favorite apps to come out on the App Store this year. The game, Built by Snowman and released in February this year, is an endless runner for iPhone and iPad with a perfect combination of visually spectacular gameplay & superbly done audio. Here’s what Mikhail had to say in his review back in March. Alto’s Adventure doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it is easily one of the best games available on iOS. It takes stunning visual direction and combines it with addictive gameplay mechanics and a catchy soundtrack perfectly. Alto’s Adventure is…

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Mac

On my iPhone, I rely on Due to handle my reminders. It’s a lovely little app that quickly lets me create reminders about anything using natural language. Sometimes, for reminders over the next few minutes, I just tell Siri to set a timer for X minutes. And on the Mac, I have Gestimer now. Released just last month, Gestimer has changed the way I handle reminders on my Mac. Gestimer is a little menubar app that lets you quickly create reminders with a single drag gesture. It sits comfortably at the top, waiting for your attention. When you want to…

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Altershot is a really nifty tool for iPhone and iPad for enabling better looking status bars in your screenshots. We all take screenshots on our iOS devices and many a times, we have poor network coverage (Hello, Airtel) or our battery is almost about to die, so the Red zone easily stands out. Altershot helps you get rid of all these. Altershot pulls up all the screenshots from your Camera Roll and makes them readily available for editing in the app. You get one tap editing tools in the app, such as: Status Bar ON/OFF Color – Black/White One Color…

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Mac

In today’s day and age, privacy has become a much talked about topic and it has become very critical to know when apps are tracking your usage or activity and exactly what information is being sent. Thanks to Apple’s efforts over the last few years, if you’re using an iOS device, you know exactly when an app requests permission to access your Microphone, Camera, Photos, Contacts, etc. Unfortunately, OS X on the Mac is a lot more open compared to iOS and hence, apps can and have had access to a variety of resources, at least before Apple introduced Sandboxing…

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