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

Vert Lite — Free Unit & Currency Converter We’ve written about Vert, the beautifully simple Unit & Currency Converter for iPhone & iPad, here on Beautiful Pixels twice in the past. The app which is available on the App Store for $2.99 now also has a Free version so that potentially interested users can try it out and upgrade via IAP. You can download it from the App Store here.

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Static — Social Media Stats at your Finger Tips Just over a year after its debut on the App Store, Static for iPhone was recently updated to version 2.0. Sometime last year, the app changed ownership and is now in the hands of Pandabox Ltd, who have added a plethora of new features with this update. Along with the obvious iOS 7 design tweaks, the app now supports graphs & push notifications as well as daily, weekly or monthly emails with a summary of your stats. Static also now supports FeedPress stats, although there’s a bug in the app related…

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We’ve featured quite a few recipe catalogue apps here on Beautiful Pixels before and we’ve got another one for your today. Cookbook, this time for you Android users, is a lovable recipe catalogue that comes with stunning photos and detailed recipes at your perusal. It features a simple layout that works as it should.

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Clear Timer is an absolutely gorgeous iPhone Timer app that blew my socks off when I first came across it. Developed by the fine folks at Beaker Media, Clear Timer offers a crisp & delicious UI that makes something as simple as a timer an absolute joy to use. The UX that it offers, along with its feature set very easily manages to make you productive & get things done.

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There are several different IM or Chat apps available for iOS, Mac and Android that integrate with Facebook and make it easy for you to chat with your friends. However, none of these apps have had the kind of polish and superb animations as Bubble Chat. Bubble Chat is a gorgeous iPhone app for Facebook designed by Jackie Tran and developed by Jiri Charvat.

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Fiery Feeds 1.1 Fiery Feeds, the lovely RSS app for iOS that we wrote about back in October, was recently updated to version 1.1. With this release, the developer has introduced some exciting new features in the app. Along with the iterative improvements, Fiery now supports the addition of accounts on Feedly, Feed Wrangler and MnmlRdr services. Fiery also has a separate iPad app available on the App Store that boasts the same feature set. The iPhone app as well as the iPad app are both available for $3.99 each. We do wish the icon hadn’t changed though.

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