Currenci is a really simple currency converter app for iPhone that also offers an equally simple Today Widget in the Notification Center on iOS 8. Currenci is designed to be a straightforward app and does a pretty good job of helping you with your conversions. Currenci features a slick, all-white UI with colored highlights. You can select between eight different colors for the highlights in the Settings. The main screen displays your selected currencies in a simple list, along with the country’s flag and the value. Tapping on each reveals a numeric keypad where you can input your value and…
Author: Preshit Deorukhkar
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
Every so often, we come across an app here on Beautiful Pixels that manages to impress us thanks to its sheer simplicity. Timr is one such app that recently found its way onto my iPhone. It’s a super simple timing app for iPhone and iPad that offers both a countdown timer as well as a stopwatch features through the same user interface. The app features a single circular dial in the center of the screen. If you press the start button, it works as a stopwatch. If you rotate the dial to the desired time and then press the start…
Mobiles Wall is a site dedicated to being a one-stop source of wallpapers. It offers wallpapers for a host of devices, including all iOS devices, a plethora of Android devices with different screen dimensions as well as Windows phone devices. There are plenty of good wallpapers on the site to choose from, but today we’re talking about its iOS app here. The iOS app allows you to browse all the wallpapers posted on the website and save them directly to your Camera Roll. You are presented with a carousel of Latest or Popular wallpapers at the top and a radial…
Calorific is an absolutely stunning app for iPhone and iPad that helps you see what exactly 200 calories look like. The app has beautifully shot photographs of different food items, fruits and vegetables to indicate how much of each make up 200 calories. The app has a neatly laid of out grid of Retina quality photographs of over 180 different food items for your perusal. The background used for each of the items has a calm shade of different colors, which make the app gorgeous to look at. Tapping on any of the items shows you the photograph with the…
Pretty much every camera app for iOS that has come out lately focuses only on one major feature — to improve upon the photos you’ve taken. This could be either be done using advanced post-processing capabilities of the app (like VSCO Cam) or simply using photo filters like every Instagram clone out there. Thankfully, Hydra is different. Hydra is a camera app for iPhone and iPad that focuses on pre-processing, meaning it helps you take stunning photographs. Hydra achieves this using some under the hood magic of its own. When you take a photo using the app, it captures up…
Alternote is a beautiful new note-taking app for Mac that’s powered by Evernote. Currently in Public Beta, Alternote sports a host of features that make it an absolutely handy app to have on your Mac for note-taking, jotting down ideas, free-form writing or pretty much any kind of writing. Alternote uses Evernote as its backend, so you need an Evernote account before you start using it. Not only do the new notes your create in Alternote sync to Evernote, all your existing notes and notebooks are available for you too. The interface is a simple three-pane window with your notebooks,…