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

Highball is an elegant and gorgeous iPhone app that lets you collect and curate a library of favorite cocktail recipes. A product from the genius folks at Studio Neat, Highball is a fantastic example of a lovingly built iPhone app. The main screen has a simple stack of colored cards that each house a cocktail recipe. Tapping on any of the cards reveals the card in full, with the ingredients and method, type of glass to be used and the color of the drink. A nifty quantity button at the bottom can be tapped to set how many glasses you…

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Följ is a beautifully crafted website for browsing the photos on Instagram, Flickr or 500px together in your browser. Designed by Thomas Vimare and developed by Aurélien Amilin, Följ lets you sign in with your accounts and get a combined feed of all the photos from these services. Signing in is optional though, as you can still browse the popular photos from each of these services through the elegant interface. Följ lets you sign in with any or all of the services it supports, so you can choose which photos you want to see in your feed. The interface is…

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Marquee is a simple iPhone app that you can use to explore, search or browse information about movies. It has a very minimal interface that puts the focus on information like movie posters, movie details, actors & actresses, etc. It’s a great way to discover new movies, watch associated trailers and find how which theaters are playing which movies (US only). Marquee has four main sections — Movies, Explore, Trailers & Theaters. In the Movies tab, you can browse the list of movies that are currently running In Theaters, Upcoming Movies and the Popular ones. Marquee displays the posters of…

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I’ve tried several different 3rd-party keyboards for iOS since the release late last year. Although every single one of them promised something interesting or unique and most of them actually did, I never did stuck around with one for more than a few days. This was largely due to iOS 8’s kludgy way of handling 3rd party keyboards, but in part, also responsible for this was the fact that no keyboard offered a satisfactory experience for typing anything. However, ever since I’ve gotten my hands onto Giffage, I’ve been a happy soul. Giffage is a GIF explorer and 3rd-party keyboard…

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Mezzo is a simple & beautiful music player app for iPhone. It ships with a bunch of interesting features which, combined with the User Interface, make using the app a much better experience compared to the default Music app on iOS. Mezzo works with the existing music library on your device, so all your songs, artists, albums and playlists are available in the app. Mezzo features queue management, so you can add a song to the queue by swiping left to right on it or remove it from queue by swiping the other way. The Now Playing screen features the…

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Tumblr today released version 4.0 of their iOS app, a terrific update that brings a whole lot of goodies and freshness to the app. The app has had a spectacular user interface for a while now and this release only makes it a stunning app to post to & browse all the micro-blogs on Tumblr. This release adds a Today widget on iOS 8 that lets you browse the hot topics that are currently trending on Tumblr in the form of thumbnails and keywords. The most welcome change in this release has to be the ability to create video posts…

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