SmartNews is a really good looking app for iPhone, iPad and Android devices that lets you browse and read news & stories while on the go. SmartNews presents you with hand-picked & curated trending news & stories from across the globe and makes it easy to keep up with what’s happening around you, right in the palm of your hands. All the content in the app is curated from a select set of partners and the articles are neatly categorized into different tabs that you can browse at the top of the UI. Each category is colored differently the list…
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
Stache is a visual bookmarking app that works seamlessly across your iPhone, iPad and Mac. We wrote about Stache back in May and I was very impressed with it. It works as a fantastic tool to bookmark your favorite websites or webpages quickly & easily. Today, the iOS version of Stache was updated for iOS 8 and brings a very nifty feature to your devices. Ever since I started using Stache, I found that I was using the Mac version of the app far more frequently than the iOS version. This was because it was far too easy to bookmark…
Banca — the beautiful currency converter app for iPhone and iPad has been my favorite converter app for a long time. It is the sister app to Unitica, another beautiful app by Aleksandar·Vacić. Banca is like that hunk from college that arrives late to a party, but arrives with a bang. Banca was recently updated for iOS 8 with version 6.0 that brought in two amazing features to the app. First, the app now has a Today extension that sits comfortably in your Notification Center. But don’t just dismiss this like the other apps. Banca’s Today extension is so good.…
Movist is a really simple and straight-forward iOS app for managing your favorite movies. If you watch a lot of movies, you can use Movist on your iPhone or iPad to keep track of the ones you own, the ones you want to own, the ones you’ve seen as well as the ones you’d like to see. Movist does one thing and one thing well. To begin, tap the search icon at the top right and search for a movie. From the results, you can perform swipe actions to add the movie to any of the four categories mentioned above.…
Here at Beautiful Pixels, we consider Pocket Casts to be the best podcasting app suite out there. Pocket Casts has an incredibly beautiful iOS app as well as a stunning Android app. The Shifty Jelly team has done a fantastic job with both the apps and soon, Pocket Casts will be available on the web as well. Pocket Casts Web is running in an invite-only beta mode at the moment and we got early access to it. We’ve been playing with it over the last few days and it has left us very impressed. Everything we’ve loved about the Pocket…
If you take (or work with) a lot of screenshots on your iOS device, chances are that you’ve cursed the native Photos.app more than once. By default, Apple offers no easy way to organize and manage screenshots. All your screenshots are treated similar to photos and are dumped in the same feed. Thankfully, 3rd-party iOS developers are here to make things easier. We’ve previously written about the early versions of Screenshot Journal, a lovely utility that helps you manage and work with iOS device screenshots. The developers have finally released an update to the app which was last updated in…