Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Exactly two months ago, we wrote about Typed — a stunning Markdown Writing app for Mac from the house of Realmac Software, developers of apps like Clear and Ember. Today, the team from Brighton, UK have announced a crowd-funding campaign for Typed.com, a web-based service that promises to be a “better blogging platform”. Typed is designed to be used by anyone who wants to publish content on the web, without all the hassles generally associated with publishing online. Typed understands Markdown and offers a beautiful, clutter-free & slick interface for you to type your content in. Typed is also not…

With an expected expatriate population of 56.8 million by 2017, the need for borderless communication is essential. Moving for work, love, studies and expanding one’s horizon are some reasons for living away from one’s home country.  With an international team and loved ones spread out around the globe, there was a need for effortless communication solutions at Voca.  Voca is a communications app, featuring free VOIP calls, free messaging and low rate calls to both mobile and landline phones. Voca offers a simple way to manage relationships with friends and family no matter where they are and regardless of technical…

Shifts is a brilliant new iPhone app for anyone who works in, well… shifts. The app has been designed, developed and built by Snowman, popularly known as the developers of apps like Checkmark, Circles & Super Squares. Just like their previous apps, Shifts ships with scrumptious pixels. Shifts allows the user to create custom shift types and then apply them directly to the calendar days. These shift types are customizable using color, name & a gorgeous collection of icons. Once shift types have been set up, users can either manually add up to 2 shifts per day depending on their…

When iOS 8 was announced at WWDC ’14, one of its notable features was the ability to install third-party keyboards and use them in various apps in place of the stock iOS keyboard. Since its release, we’ve seen a lot of third-party keyboards being launched on the App Store, including the likes of SwiftKey, TextExpander and Themeboard. However, Next Keyboard is one third-party keyboard that I’m most excited about. Next Keyboard aims to be “the Perfect Keyboard for iPhone” and boasts some amazing features that easily set it apart from the rest. The developers of Next, who’ve previously brought apps…

Unlike Mikhail who is a huge game nerd, I only like and play a few simple games. I love games that I can play by pulling my phone out of my pocket, playing for a few minutes and then getting on with what I was doing previously. Games like these are also super fun when you’re waiting in a queue or for waiting for someone to arrive. Squares is one-such game. It’s a brilliantly minimal puzzle game for iOS developed by Matthias Hochgatterer, the indie dev behind the My Finances app. Gameplay is incredibly simple. You are presented with colored…

Reuk is a super simple camera app for iPhone that lets you take complete control of your camera’s settings. It puts the camera settings at your finger tips so you can tweak them to get the photo to appear just the way you want it to in the final result. With iOS 8, Apple opened up a few APIs that developers could use to adjust settings like the camera exposure, ISO, Shutter Speed, White Balance, Focus, etc. Reuk makes it extremely easy to tweak these settings for every shot you take through the app. These settings are placed just below…