Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

This article is part of the weekly sponsorship. Many thanks to our friends at Squarespace for sponsoring us this week. Having your own presence on the web is very important today. Sure, you may have different social media accounts, but there’s nothing like having your own website with a personal domain that establishes a serious identity online. Having your own website comes with a lot of advantages and perks. You can make all kind of useful information available to the visitors of your website. However, building a good website is not an easy task and not everyone can manage setting…

A little over a year since the release of Pushpin 3 which was a major overhaul of the app and much needed for iOS 7, Pushpin today has been updated to version 4.0. Pushpin 4.0 is an evolutionary update to the Pinboard client for iPhone and iPad that introduces a bunch of new features to the app and fixing a long list of bugs. The biggest addition with this release is support for offline reading. Using Pushpin, you can now download complete webpages and read them offline at your own pace. You can set your bookmarks to download for offline…

We heard from a lot of our readers who asked about Android apps on Beautiful Pixels. No, we haven’t stopped writing about Android apps here, in fact we’ve been pretty excited about what designers do with Material Design and how they utilize Google’s new design philosophy in their apps. We’ve been playing with a few Android apps over the last few weeks and some of them have left us very impressed. Weather Timeline is one of the apps that managed to blow us away. It’s a weather app for Android that doesn’t just look good, it offers a brilliantly crafted…

Day One is, without a doubt, the best journaling app out there for iOS and Mac. The talent at Bloom Built has continued to add improvements and new features to the app with every release over the years and today, it exists as an absolutely stellar app for journaling your life through your iOS and Mac. Both the Mac and iOS app offer a beautifully designed UI that’s a joy to use and we’re big fans of Day One here at Beautiful Pixels. Last week, the team announced the public release of Day One Sync, a feature that lays the…

BLACK is a Black & White analog film emulator for iPhone (and WP8 devices). It offers filters that were created to exactly mimic original and popular analog filters that existed back in the day. Using the app is really easy. You can import photos from your Camera Roll to your app, choose and apply the filter or preset that you want and then export the image to the usual places. The app offers the following presets to use on your photos: Greyscale Kodak TRI-X 400 Lomography Lady Grey 400 FUJI Neopan 400 Shanghai GP3 100 Ilford HP5 AGFA APX 400…

Ever since its launch in early 2013, Horizon has been a brilliant calendar app for your iPhone. It combined your calendar with the weather, so that you always know what the weather is going to be like for your events. With the release of version 2.0 last year, Horizon added Natural Language Parsing and a shiny new icon designed by the talented folks at The Iconfactory. Today marks the release of Horizon 3, a totally fresh app rebuilt from the ground up that brings along some great new features to help you schedule your appointments easier and better. Horizon 3…