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

It has been a while since I got my hands on this nifty little iPhone app called SettleApp. Since then, I have been in two minds whether or not to write about it here on Beautiful Pixels. SettleApp has a really simple premise — to help you keep track of your shared expenses and debts. Many a times, you end up spending for your friends when you’re out and then spend hours figuring out who owes exactly what. SettleApp makes this easy for you. The app looks great. It has a very minimal, bare-bones UI and barely any controls. When…

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Mac

CoverSutra used to be my favorite Mac utility back in the day, but the lack of development on it meant I somehow stopped using it over the years. Even Bowtie was a nifty little app that brought some lovely themes to your Desktop, but that too faded away into nothingness. Equilibrium is a new Mac App that aims to replace these apps in your life by letting you take control of your Music, be it iTunes, Spotify, Rdio or even Vox. Equilibrium App is a stunning Mac app that makes it easy to control your music either from the menubar,…

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das Referenz is the newest app by the folks at Raurief, who have previously released apps beautiful apps like Partly Cloudy and Scantastic. After winning us over with an impressive weather app and a stunning PDF scanning app, Raurief has now released an iPad app for browsing Wikipedia. das Referenz is an absolutely elegant Wikipedia app for iPad that vastly improves the experience of reading the abundance of content on it. das Referenz puts a heavy focus on Typography with the use of two type families that look incredible on the iPad screen. Unlike Wikipedia’s native cluttered layout, the app…

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I’ve tried out a few different Reddit apps for iPhone in the past, including two ‘beta’ apps that were quite good, but never got released on the App Store. A few weeks ago, I came across narwhal for reddit and since then, have been hooked onto this little iPhone app for browsing Reddit in my free time.

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Photo apps are immensely popular these days, especially the ones that let you edit and ‘enhance’ your photos by adding filters with a single tap. Although Instagram led this wave, apps like VSCO really pushed the envelope forward. Today, there are already plenty of photo apps out there that do the same thing. At first glance, that’s what I thought of Litely App. I was so wrong.

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Noisli is a beautiful and minimal background noise generator app that was available only as web app till today. We’ve previously writen about it back in October 2013 and it also featured in our year-end Feature — The Highlight: Website Designs. Noisli lets you mix-n-match several audio sources like rain, wind, fire, etc. to create your very own background stream to work with or relax to. Today, Noisli has released an official iOS app on the App Store that brings all the features of the website into a native package that takes advantage of iOS 7.

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