Author: Rajat Sharma

It’s raining financial apps here on Beautiful Pixels! We recently covered the impressively comprehensive Finances 2, which makes your personal bookkeeping remarkably easy. Our only regret was that the app wouldn’t be useful to someone who just wants to track daily expenses, instead of having to worry about the difference between single and double-entry bookkeping. Well, worry no more, dear readers – Spendee, an excellent expense tracking app, has you covered. As Preshit already stated in his review, Spendee’s USP is its exceedingly well crafted UI – they make use of a gorgeous palette, really sharp glyphs for categories, gorgeous…

The financial world is complicated, and no one knows this better than someone who’s worked in the field, without the benefit (and, if I’m to be honest, the proclivity) for Finance. The sheer number of terms floating out there is enough to make even the most hardened of linguists struggle, not to mention remembering subtle differences, such as the one between ‘Gross’ and ‘Net’. It is inarguable, however, that getting a handle on one’s personal finances is no longer a luxury, but a necessity. We live in the world rife with app subscriptions, periodically-renewing service contracts, infrequent but large lumpsum…

We review a lot of things here at Beautiful Pixels — from Text Editors to Calendar Apps, and everything in between. Wallpaper apps don’t make much of an appearance on this site, because what matters with such an app is less how it is designed, but rather how beautiful its contents are, specifically, the quality of the photographs that it offers up. Vellum, developed by the creator of the most excellent Mextures photo editing app, is an app that gets the design right as well… for the most part. The lineup of images available is extensive, and very well curated.…

FlightTrack is Going Away <Sad Trombone> We have some bad news to report : FlightTrack — the very beloved and probably the best flight-tracking app, is being shut down. Mobiata, the developers who are part of Expedia, will be moving some of FlightTrack’s features to the Expedia app itself. What does it mean for those of us who use FlightTrack? Well, the app is, as of 16th of February, off the shelves in the App Store and the Google Play Store. From the 1st of March onwards, the supporting servers will be switched off, meaning that the app will no…

The popularity of the smartphone has taught us one thing — Apps are the way of the future. The web will always be around, but the most future-proof interaction paradigm for today’s users is a smartphone app, backed by a solid web-based back end. The jobs of the future, for instance, will increasingly tend to this philosophy. People, however, don’t need to learn to code only to earn a livelihood, however. There are always the people who have a niche requirement, and find nothing on the market to fulfil it. Learning to code, therefore, can be as important in the…

One of the banes of my existence is my complete lack of ability with design. Sure, I can appreciate good design just as well as anyone else, but actually coming up with something for myself is an exercise in futility. I can think of no better example to illustrate this than my fashion sense — Send me in to a clothing shop by myself, and I’ll walk out with two things depending on the occasion – checked shirts and jeans for non-casual wear, and a black T-shirt and jeans for casual wear. That’s literally it. I’d be completely lost if…