Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Book&Shop is a really simple iPhone app that’s designed to help you scan barcodes off books that you’re interested in purchasing or reading. It’s a single-purpose iPhone app that’s crafted well enough to find a place in one of the folders of your iPhone. When you first launch Book&Shop, it launches directly into the scan mode, so the camera is readily looking for a barcode. Two buttons at the bottom allow you to toggle the flash ON/OFF or manually type the Standard Book Numbering (SBN) code. As soon as it detects a barcode, it pulls up information about that particular…

Pio is a slick audio recorder app for the iPhone that offers some very nifty advanced features. It is a great app to have when you’re looking to record interviews, lectures, meetings or similar moments when you not only want to record the audio, but you also want to remember specific moments in the recording for a later time. Pio has a really simple interface that lets you quickly start recording onto a file. The app allows you to neatly sort and save all your recordings into custom projects. When you begin a new recording, Pio assumeS it is an…

There’s no shortage of beautifully designed Dribbble clients for iOS on the App Store. There are some really well designed Dribbble apps out there, especially for the iPhone and Shotsgram, the new kid on the block, is a lovingly crafted, full-featured Dribbble app for iPhone and Apple Watch that offers a wonderful experience of browsing the ahem beautiful pixels being posted on Dribbble every day and is a great way to get inspired. Unlike most other Dribbble apps out there that usually show a grid of thumbnails, Shotsgram makes use of a very familiar timeline of all the shots for…

Just about a year ago, we wrote about LookUp, a brilliant dictionary app for iPhone. In his review, Mikhail praised the simplicity of the app & its card based interface, and stated that “[LookUp] doesn’t feel like any other dictionary app for iPhone.” Although the app has structurally remained the same, it has undergone some really wonderful changes over the last one year and it was time to revisit it. The biggest feature added to LookUp recently is the Apple Watch support that lets you quickly look up a word right from your wrist. The Apple Watch app is just…

Tagsdock is a new 3rd-party keyboard for iOS 8.x that lets you quickly and easily tag your photos and videos on apps like Instagram, Vine or pretty much anywhere. It’s a system-wide keyboard that once enabled, gives you access to a hundreds of readymade hashtags that you can use with a single tap. When you first launch the app, you are provided the steps to enable the keyboard from Settings. Once enabled, you can invoke Tagsdock in practically any app that offers a text field, but it’s obviously most useful in apps like Instagram, Vine, Facebook or Twitter. Tagsdock contains…

I’m really loving this new trend of news apps where you can quickly glance at what’s been happening around the world as well as the most important news that you should be aware of. I love using apps like Circa and Timeline and the newest app to make its way to my folder is BuzzFeed News. Before I begin, I should point out that this is the BuzzFeed News app, so you’re not going to find the kind of content that’s typically associated with BuzzFeed in here. This app is a great way to catch up with the interesting or…