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What’s new on the app stores on Monday 6 February 2012

A selection of 13 apps for you today:

Greggs

Ah, those moments when you MUST have a piping-hot sausage roll or three, but don’t know where to go. The official iPhone app for UK bakery chain Greggs can help, with its GPS-enabled Shop Finder feature. It also promotes discounts, includes the complete menu, and social sharing features.
iPhone

Time Ducks

Frogger meets Braid meets slot machines. Intrigued? Danish developer Tough Guy Studios has released this lovingly-created line-drawing game that involves getting animals across the road, while rewinding and fast-forwarding time at will.
iPhone / iPad

Parent Bingo

Parenting can be a stressful experience. iPhone app Parent Bingo aims to help by boosting “a parent’s first line of defence – their sense of humour”. The idea: mark off parental experiences on a digital bingo card, and share with friends.
iPhone

Seesmic Ping

Social startup Seesmic’s latest Android app wants to help people schedule their posts to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, choosing when and where status updates should be made available.
Android

FourFourTwo Gallery

Magazine publisher Haymarket has a new appy spin-off from FourFourTwo magazine. This Gallery app for iPad offers football photography, from action shots to the sillier side of the game – as well as more than 200 covers from the mag itself.
iPad

Infected

Out on iOS since December 2011, Glu’s freemium action game Infected is now on Android. It sees you roaming the streets of New York killing zombies. Well, it’s more the zombies who are roaming, given that this is a tower defence-style game.
Android

iDaTank

After for a quirky yet lovely-looking Japanese robo-exploration game? Look no further than iDataTank, which has enough character to perhaps become a breakout indie hit on Android.
Android

Mr Legs

It must be the week for intriguing indie Android games. Mr Legs is the work of a new studio called James Games, and sees its long-legged hero plucking cherries on the streets of Londonium, with a characterful visual style.
Android

Rogue Racing

Another freemium game from Glu, but this time iOS-only – for now at least. Rogue Racing is a Need For Speed-style street-racing game, but reviewers on the App Store are already complaining about the gameplay and in-app purchases implementation.
iPhone / iPad

Disney Second Screen: Lady And the Tramp Edition

It’s US-only, but Disney’s latets second-screen iPad app is designed to be used during or after watching Lady and the Tramp, accessing galleries, flipbooks and playing challenges.
iPad

Pet Shop Story: Valentine’s Day

The new fashion for iOS freemium social games seems to be launching calendar-focused spin-offs. Lots had Christmas editions, but now TeamLava’s Pet Shop Story has got in first with a Valentine’s Day version. A pet shop with a “Kitty Kissing Booth”? Sounds illegal.
iPhone / iPad

My Country: Sports Edition

There’s also the genre-based spin-off, as seen in this new Android game from Cooper Media: a sporty offshoot from its My Country freemium game. The idea: build the perfect sports village, with tennis courts, stadia and swimming pools. Bonuses feed back into the main game too.
Android

ARWedding Japan

And finally, (virtual) hats off to the Japanese couple who have released an augmented reality Android app just for guests coming to their wedding reception: “Just hold the camera up to the QR code to see your gift!”
Android

What’s new on the app stores on Monday 6 February 2012

A selection of 13 apps for you today:

Greggs

Ah, those moments when you MUST have a piping-hot sausage roll or three, but don’t know where to go. The official iPhone app for UK bakery chain Greggs can help, with its GPS-enabled Shop Finder feature. It also promotes discounts, includes the complete menu, and social sharing features.
iPhone

Time Ducks

Frogger meets Braid meets slot machines. Intrigued? Danish developer Tough Guy Studios has released this lovingly-created line-drawing game that involves getting animals across the road, while rewinding and fast-forwarding time at will.
iPhone / iPad

Parent Bingo

Parenting can be a stressful experience. iPhone app Parent Bingo aims to help by boosting “a parent’s first line of defence – their sense of humour”. The idea: mark off parental experiences on a digital bingo card, and share with friends.
iPhone

Seesmic Ping

Social startup Seesmic’s latest Android app wants to help people schedule their posts to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, choosing when and where status updates should be made available.
Android

FourFourTwo Gallery

Magazine publisher Haymarket has a new appy spin-off from FourFourTwo magazine. This Gallery app for iPad offers football photography, from action shots to the sillier side of the game – as well as more than 200 covers from the mag itself.
iPad

Infected

Out on iOS since December 2011, Glu’s freemium action game Infected is now on Android. It sees you roaming the streets of New York killing zombies. Well, it’s more the zombies who are roaming, given that this is a tower defence-style game.
Android

iDaTank

After for a quirky yet lovely-looking Japanese robo-exploration game? Look no further than iDataTank, which has enough character to perhaps become a breakout indie hit on Android.
Android

Mr Legs

It must be the week for intriguing indie Android games. Mr Legs is the work of a new studio called James Games, and sees its long-legged hero plucking cherries on the streets of Londonium, with a characterful visual style.
Android

Rogue Racing

Another freemium game from Glu, but this time iOS-only – for now at least. Rogue Racing is a Need For Speed-style street-racing game, but reviewers on the App Store are already complaining about the gameplay and in-app purchases implementation.
iPhone / iPad

Disney Second Screen: Lady And the Tramp Edition

It’s US-only, but Disney’s latets second-screen iPad app is designed to be used during or after watching Lady and the Tramp, accessing galleries, flipbooks and playing challenges.
iPad

Pet Shop Story: Valentine’s Day

The new fashion for iOS freemium social games seems to be launching calendar-focused spin-offs. Lots had Christmas editions, but now TeamLava’s Pet Shop Story has got in first with a Valentine’s Day version. A pet shop with a “Kitty Kissing Booth”? Sounds illegal.
iPhone / iPad

My Country: Sports Edition

There’s also the genre-based spin-off, as seen in this new Android game from Cooper Media: a sporty offshoot from its My Country freemium game. The idea: build the perfect sports village, with tennis courts, stadia and swimming pools. Bonuses feed back into the main game too.
Android

ARWedding Japan

And finally, (virtual) hats off to the Japanese couple who have released an augmented reality Android app just for guests coming to their wedding reception: “Just hold the camera up to the QR code to see your gift!”
Android

World’s top tech firm brought to book by minor monologuist over working conditions in factories that make its gadgets

These days Mike Daisey is run off his feet. “I don’t even have time to listen to my voicemail now. That’s a phenomenon I have not experienced before,” he told the Observer with an amazed laugh. Perhaps he shouldn’t be so surprised. In the past fortnight, Daisey has gone from being a gifted but obscure solo act in the US theatre to the public face of a backlash against one of the iconic corporations of the 21st century.

Daisey’s latest work, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, has triggered off a spasm of soul-searching about the sometimes appalling labour conditions in China under which many of America’s most cherished products are made. Specifically, the shiny, sleek iPhones, iPods and iPads produced by Apple.

The Agony and the Ecstasy was devised after exhaustive research talking to exploited and abused workers in China, for almost 18 months. Daisey played to small but appreciative crowds across the US, winning critical praise but stirring little trouble, not even with the target of his ire: Apple itself.

But everything changed in January when a discussion and partial performance of Daisey’s monologue appeared on the National Public Radio show This American Life. It rapidly became the most downloaded episode of the show’s history and an online petition calling for Apple to reform its practices began. Within 48 hours it attracted 140,000 names. Then the New York Times ran an exhaustive investigation of Apple’s supplier network in China that revealed industrial accidents, brutal working conditions and child labour. Daisey had briefed the newspaper’s reporters and they had watched his show last year. Suddenly, Apple’s Chinese supplier network was huge news.

That has turned him into an unlikely nemesis, sending tremors of fear through one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world. It is an amazing shift. After all, for 15 years the New York-based Daisey has crafted his art as a gifted monologuist, winning praise but little mass appeal on a variety of topics from his first job at Amazon to his views on Oprah Winfrey, or recounting a trip to the South Pacific.

But now, arriving apologetically late and harried in a trendy Brooklyn restaurant near his home in New York, Daisey is a man in intense demand. He has appearances lined up on CNN and other TV shows. On his blog he has been updating the story regularly and fending off criticism from Apple’s defenders, including comedian Stephen Fry and Forbes columnist Tim Worstall.

Daisey is delighted but exhausted, having been up until 5am composing a response to a public attack from Worstall. “I am tired but I am encouraged to see traction. The only way you can fight for a thing like this is when you know the truth is on your side,” he told the Observer.

Daisey’s sudden catapult on to the world stage as the public face of criticism against Apple is an astonishing development, especially for such a rarely practised art as the theatrical monologue. It has also likely made his Steve Jobs piece one of the most remarkable performances of recent years, not least because of its leap from the stage to real world activism. “It’s the first time maybe in a generation that the American theatre has affected change.”

The play’s premise is simple enough. It blends Daisey’s own backstory as a nerdy geek who loved – and continues to love – Apple products, with the story of how Jobs ran the company with a mix of tyranny and genius before he died last year. But then it heads into dark territory as Daisey recounts how he became obsessed with photographs that emerged from inside the giant Foxconn factory in which many Apple products are made.

His fascination with how his beloved gadgets were built ends up with a subversive trip to southern China and interviews with ordinary workers who describe the physically and mentally crippling conditions in which many toil. On the trip Daisey was stunned that he, as a playwright, was the one digging up the truth. “I wanted journalists to tell the story. I am a monologuist and it’s not the same thing. But I had to act as a journalist,” he said.

Daisey is scathing about many of the journalists who cover Apple. He claimed they were often cowed by the firm, given strictly controlled access to the latest product launches but subject to intimidation over writing about anything that might hurt Apple’s public image. He recites the story of one tech journalist who agreed to appear on a panel with him, only to be contacted by Apple and warned off doing so. “Apple has built an incredible institution of secrecy and people understand that when Apple threaten them they mean it. Everyone knows that,” Daisey said.

As a performer, though, Daisey is immune. Yet he confesses he still has a complex emotional relationship with the company. He still uses an iPhone and does not tell people to boycott the company, just spread the word about Chinese labour practices in the hope that they change. When people email him to ask what phone they should buy – and they do in large numbers – he tells them to make an “ethical” choice they are comfortable with. He himself no longer upgrades his devices and is considering buying secondhand in the future.

Apple for its part says many of the stories emerging from China are not true and that it already is acting to monitor its suppliers’ behaviour and bring in greater transparency. Other defenders of the firm point out that many other electrical goods firms are equally as culpable as Apple, if not more so.

For Daisey, perhaps because he loved Apple’s caring and cool public image so much, that is not good enough. “It is like watching a friend lose his way. It is hard to imagine the Apple of a generation ago making this ham-fisted error.” He believes the firm could have acted years earlier to improve its supplier network in China and would have reaped a PR bonanza, rather than the current global whirlwind of bad publicity.

“Now all they have to do is clean up the mess, but if they had got ahead of it they could have looked fantastic,” he said.

Daisey himself is not stopping his charge. His monologue is still on stage and will remain so for at least the rest of the year. He may take it to bigger venues for one-off shows, aiming at 2,000-3,000-seat venues so the ticket prices can be driven down. He is also seeking to turn the monologue into a film. As a final way of spreading the word, he is soon to release a transcript of it and allow anyone in the world to adapt his show or put it on in as their own live performance. “People can tell this story to other people. This is exactly how the environmental movement really took hold. People realised these values mattered and they began to tell the story from person to person and that’s what caused change,” he said.

Though Daisey has other ideas for future monologues he knows the success of the Jobs show and the issue of Chinese labour practices that it illustrates is going to dominate his life for the foreseeable future. As he got up to leave the restaurant he left behind a half-eaten sandwich. He was headed to a car that would whisk him to a TV studio for another interview. “It’s like that feeling you get when you climb a mountain and you get to the top and it turns out you are in the Alps, and there’s a whole series of mountains ahead of you. Then you sharpen your stick and keep walking,” he said.

Plants vs. Zombie and Angry Ninja Birds removed, but other misleading apps remain

Played Plants vs. Zombie yet? It’s available for iPhone and iPad for £1.99 – a snip, given its promise of “proffessional characters and levels design. Fun and colorful animation. Full retina display support. Very intuitive and addictive game with simple touch control. Many bonuses and extra points!”

It’s strange to see a company as experienced as PopCap Games mis-spelling the word professional in an App Store listing, though. And hang on, isn’t it Plants vs. Zombies? What happened to the rest of the undead?

As you may have guessed, this game has nothing to do with PopCap. Plants vs. Zombie is the work of a developer called Anton Sinelnikov.

He’s also the man behind an array of other familiar-sounding iOS games, including Angry Ninja Birds, Temple Jump, Numbers With Friends, Tiny Birds and Zombie Air Highway. Not to mention non-game apps with alluring titles like Lovely Girls, Sexual Offenders HD, The Horse Woman (“Warning: Adults 21_ ONLY!”) and Victorian Sexy.

It’s the games that are causing a stir among mobile developers though, especially those whose games Sinelnikov’s titles and icons have been clearly inspired by.

He’s not the only iOS developer playing this game. Another firm, Top Best Adult Entertainment, boasts a portfolio including MoonCRAFT, Little Pet Pony, Bens 10 BattleTime and Talking Bunny Bugs.

Links to both these developers’ portfolios have been doing the rounds among iOS developers in recent days, often accompanied by suggestions that Apple should be doing more to stop them.

There is evidence that the company is. Imangi Studios founder Keith Shepherd – it makes Temple Run, which is the game that seemingly inspired Temple Jump – has tweeted that “Apple has pulled ‘Plants vs Zombie’, ‘Angry Ninja Birds’, and ‘Zombie Air Highway’ from the same seller but not ‘Temple Jump’ yet.”

In earlier tweets, Shepherd had pointed to reviews of the latter indicating that some people have bought it expecting Temple Run – currently one of the most popular and lucrative games on iOS – and posted one-star reviews on the App Store to express their disgust.

The existence of these kinds of apps is provoking an important debate about how Apple moderates its App Store, and by extension its rivals with their stores too.

Apple may have the reputation of being pretty hands-on with its approval process, but it has tended to leave IP infringement to be policed by developers. They make a complaint, and Apple removes the infringing apps from its store if that complaint is upheld.

The process has seen Atari criticised in recent months for forcing the removal of games like Vector Tanks, which it sees as too similar to its classic title Battlezone. Yet this is the same process that Imangi and other developers will need to use to petition for the removal of so-called “scam-apps”.

There are safeguards built into the App Store – chief among them its rating system. Temple Jump’s average rating here in the UK is 1.5 stars from 18 ratings, while Temple Run’s is five stars from more than 86,000 ratings. It doesn’t seem that hard to spot which is the kosher title.

Should Apple be playing copyright cop before apps are released onto its store? It’s a can of worms, especially when such moderation would pre-empt any legal process.

Far better to ensure that its takedown process is fair and speedy: although judging by our interview with P2 Games in December 2011 about its struggles with apps ripping off brands like Peppa Pig, there is still work to do on this front.

Plagiarism is a hot topic in the iOS development community at the moment, with a separate debate around Zynga’s new game Dream Heights, and its perceived similarities to independent developer NimbleBit’s Tiny Tower.

Rather than sue or demand a takedown in that case, NimbleBit chose to call Zynga out on Twitter with some side-by-side screenshots, sparking a return volley from Zynga chief executive Mark Pincus, who compared Tiny Tower to older (non-mobile) game SimTower.

That debate is ongoing, as is a lawsuit between Spry Fox and 6waves Lolapps over similarities between the former’s Triple Town and the latter’s Yeti Town.

Here’s why apps like Temple Jump, Angry Ninja Birds and the rest are different, though. For developers, the Zynga/NimbleBit row is about harm that may be caused to the smaller developer, if it loses players (or potential players) to Zynga’s new game. The players will likely have a good experience whichever one they play.

In the case of Temple Jump, it’s not just Temple Run developer Imangi that is losing business. Apple’s customers are being harmed if they pay for an app that isn’t what they think it is from developers like Top Best Adult Entertainment or Anton Sinelnikov.

If, as Shepherd tweeted, these apps are disappearing from the App Store, that is likely to be the main reason: harm to consumers, rather than to developers.

With so much money swashing around the iOS ecosystem though – $700m paid out to developers in the final quarter of 2011 alone – Apple will need to keep its big red takedown button to hand for the forseeable future.

Betting exchange may weave mobile-specific social and location features into its apps in the future

Betfair has relaunched its iPad app in response to what it says is strong demand from its customers for more tablet-focused features and interface.

The app, which is now live in Apple’s App Store, makes it faster for customers to place bets on currently-popular sporting events, while also drilling down into other sports, and quickly depositing and withdrawing funds from their accounts.

The update comes after a strong year of mobile growth for the betting exchange. In its last set of interim financial results, covering the six months to 31 October 2011, Betfair said that more than £800m was traded through its mobile service, up 96% year-on-year.

That resulted in £9.1m of revenues for Betfair itself – 7.3% of its overall exchange revenue. The company now has more than 160,000 active mobile users, who placed 16.2m bets in that six-month period from within its apps and mobile site.

Betfair now has a 60-person team working specifically on mobile, up from 5-10 two years ago according to head of product Anil Bhagchandani. The investment appears to be paying off.

“Not only are people moving over from website to mobile, but there is incremental value from that,” he says. “Customers who were purely website and who then start using mobile almost always stay longer, bet more and have a higher ARPU.”

Betfair’s mobile ambitions started with an app for J2ME handsets, but it has since launched apps for iOS, Android and BlackBerry, as well as the HTML5 site.

“For most of the last year, we were trying to get apps across each of the platforms roughly as functional as each other and the website,” says director of technology Phil Dixon.

“”We may now take one or two of the platforms and begin to experiment and explore. iPad might explore different usage paradigms, for example, and on Android we may have a bit more flexibility to try different navigation.”

The new iPad app is a good example, developed in response to detailed feedback from Betfair’s tablet-owning customers – Apps Blog sat behind the one-way glass at the company’s focus-testing room in its London headquarters to watch one “VIP” user say in no uncertain terms what was lacking in its previous tablet apps, and how he’d like to use the updated version.

Dixon says Betfair is firm about not taking sides in the native apps versus HTML5 debate – it’s investing in both – and adds that the company’s API is likely to play an important role in future growth.

Developers can build their own apps using the API that tie into the Betfair exchange, with a handful available by the end of 2011, with more on the way. Android app ZoomBet is one prominent example, with its focus on speedy betting.

“Because we don’t have an adversarial relationship with our punters, it’s in our interests to broaden the ecosystem as much as we can with the API,” says director of technology Phil Dixon.

“We figured people are going to have niche ideas that we would never have or never pursue. The more apps out there that are very specifically relevant to consumers, the better.”

Betfair is also considering how it can make more use of mobile-specific features in its apps in 2012 and beyond, with location and social aspects to the fore in its thinking.

“My view is that the mobile is similar to what the exchange did to the web in 2000: there is going to be this game-changing way of betting which no one has figured out yet,” says Bhagchandani.

Outside the gambling industry, the key game-changer right now appears to be social: witness how Facebook is encouraging several industries to adopt its idea of frictionless sharing.

However, making more of social is a thornier task for companies like Betfair. It’s an inherently social service, in that it matches strangers with opposing views on the same sporting event, but its customers may not all be champing at the bit to share their activity with friends and family.

“There is a powerful angle there, but I don’t know what it is yet,” says Dixon. “It’s probably not streaming all my bets out to my Facebook feed! There are too many reasons why that’s wrong. And Facebook has not really engaged with gambling, although that’s changing.”

However, he adds that splicing social and location features could have great potential for a sports-betting service in particular, possibly inspired by the check-in mechanic popularised by Foursquare and Facebook in recent times.

“Think if you were in a stadium, and you knew that 2,000 people there were having a punt on Chelsea right now. Or if you walk past a pub and you’re an Arsenal fan, and 14 people are there having a punt on the match, would you like to join them?” he says, by way of illustration how this might work for Betfair.

What’s new on the app stores on Friday 3 February 2012

Super Bowl XLVI Guide

The NFL has launched an official Super Bowl app just in time for its season finale, as the New York Giants take on the New England Patriots. It includes a guide to host venue Indianapolis and an NFL Huddle feature to keep tabs on social media buzz around the event. The link above is for Android, but here’s the iOS version.
Android / iPhone / iPad

RBS 6 Nations Live Challenge

In a big day for fans of chasing odd-shaped balls round a field, rugby’s 6 Nations tournament also has an official app. Here, the focus is more on testing your knowledge: answering trivia questions before matches, then predicting the results of conversions and penalty kicks during games. Facebook is integrated to see how you compare to your friends’ scores.
Android / iPhone / iPad

Avid Studio

Avid’s tools have been used by professional film and TV editors for a long time, but now the company wants to take on Apple’s iMovie on iPad. Avid Studio is aimed at regular users looking to edit their home movies and share them on YouTube and Facebook. However, it can also export to the PC version of Avid Studio.
iPad

Marie Claire Runway Spring/Summer 2012

IPC has launched a new offshoot from its Marie Claire magazine – Marie Claire Runway – focused on fashion. It’s a standalone print mag, but also an iPad app that costs £2.99 versus the print issue’s £6. Expect footage from fashion shows and editors’ verdicts on the key trends.
iPad

Camden Crawl

Going to London’s Camden Crawl festival in May? There’s an app for that, with schedules, artist info, maps, social features and “money saving offers”. The latter will have to be good to convince people to pay £2.99 for the app, we sense.
iPhone

Remarks – Write notes and Annotate PDFs

Readdle’s latest iPad app does what it says on the tin, enabling you to take a PDF file and add annotations, highlighting, underlining and scribbles. Social features mean you can also collaborate with other Remarks users.
iPad

Gameloft Live!

Mobile games publisher Gameloft has launched a standalone Android app for its Gameloft Live! community, with mesaging, discounts and other social features built in. It’s fair to say Microsoft is an inspiration: there are 3D avatars and a “gamer score”.
Android

Doodlecast Pro

Doodlecast was a fun app for children that let them draw while recording their voice, turning the results into a video to be shared with family. Now the idea has evolved into a professional tool for presentations: “Perfect for teachers, students, business people and anyone needing an elegant way to share ideas…”
iPad

TallyTots

iOS kid-app TallyTots has made the leap onto Android, offering 20 mini-games to teach children the numbers one to 20. Chipmunks, apples and racing cars are all promised, along with a song.
Android

Guess Who? for iPad

Sadly nothing to do with the famous boardgame, but still a very interesting app. Based on Kyoung Kook Lee’s print book of the same name, this gets children to guess which characters are coming up on the next page, while listening to music and recording their own voices.
iPad

Despicable Me: Storybook

More iPad fun for kids comes with this book-app based on the animated movie Despicable Me. The core storyline is augmented with a soundboard, interactive blueprints and other playful features.
iPad

Sir Benfro’s Brilliant Balloon

Lovely-looking iOS game Sir Benfro’s Brilliant Balloon sees you flying the “naturalist, scientist and explorer” through forests, oceans and down into the depths of the Earth in search of bizarre beasts.
iPhone / iPad

BlipSnips Social Video

Android’s equivalent to SocialCam on iOS makes its debut. BlipSnips claims to be an easy way to shoot, tag and share video footage, including pushing it out to Facebook and Twitter while tagging friends on those social networks within the video itself.
Android

Babylon Translator

Text-translation firm Babylon has taken its app to Windows Phone, translating words between more than 75 languages, with a currency converter thrown in for good measure.
Windows Phone

Sector 33

The latest game to follow in the wingtips of Firemint’s Flight Control is Sector 33, which gets you merging arriving planes into a single traffic stream over California. The developer knows a thing or two about airspace, as well. Who are they? Oh, NASA…
iPhone / iPad

What’s new on the app stores on Thursday 2 February 2012

A selection of 21 new apps for you today:

Longform

iPad app Longform is a bit like a Flipboard for longer articles. It aggregates longform journalism from magazines and websites around the world, then slaps them into a tablet-friendly interface, complete with offline mode.
iPad

Everpix

The latest hotly-tipped cloud service is Everpix, which focuses on photos. It automatically uploads shots from your iPhone Camera Roll, while also fetching others from Facebook, Instagram and Flickr. “View, rediscover, and share your best photos all in one place, effortlessly,” promises the App Store listing.
iPhone

Norton Safety Minder

The rush of security firms onto Android continues, with Norton launching Safety Minder, which encourages parents to “know your kids’ smartphone habits and help protect them from threats”. It sounds frankly a little creepy in places though. “See whom your kids text with and what they say, choose whom they can exchange messages with, view all the apps installed on their smartphone, and more…”
Android

Chopsticks Novel

Penguin’s latest book-app describes itself as “a breathtaking cohesion of images, songs, videos, letters, love and loss”, offering the tale of a romance between piano prodigy Glory and her neighbour Frank.
iPhone / iPad

Dream PetHouse

Zynga’s latest iOS social game focuses on animals, as you build a treehouse to keep an array of digital pets happy. Warning, includes in-app chipmunks.
iPhone / iPad

Vimeo

Video site Vimeo has launched an official app for Windows Phone, redesigned for Microsoft’s Metro interface. Users can watch videos, add them to their queue, and upload their own footage from their smartphone.
Windows Phone

Pocketstock

This is interesting: a stock photo agency allowing people to shoot and upload photographs directly from their iPhone, via it’s app. Users need an account with the Pocketstock website first, though.
iPhone

Cornered! App Edition

Horror film Cornered! has been launched as an iOS app, offering five minutes of footage for free, and an in-app purchase option to unlock the full movie as a stream or a download. Extras include posters, film-set blueprints and production photos.
iPhone / iPad

Tunnel for iPad

An iPad book-app all about tunnels? Why not? It’s the work of Japanese engineering photographer Hoichi Nishiyama, based on a print book published in 2005. 56 hi-res shots of tunnels and related machinery, soundtracked by dub-techno artist Mystica Tribe.
iPad

Fly With Me

EA makes its bid for the Tiny Wings crowd with new title Fly With Me, which was apparently dreamt up by a team of four people in its EALA studio.
iPhone

Saboriman: The Lazy Salaryman

More fun from Japan with this English language-learning app, with its cartoon hero an idle office-worker. The idea: Saboriman’s daily life teaches key English vocabulary and phrases, with plenty of humour along the way.
iPhone

Dr. Seuss Beginner Book Collection #1

Oceanhouse Media’s latest Dr. Seuss book-app bundles five stories together, including The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, and Mr. Brown can MOO! Can You?
iPhone / iPad

Magic: The Gathering Toolbox

Card game Magic: The Gathering has oodles of unofficial apps on iPhone, but this one comes from the game’s publisher Wizards of the Coast. It’s a companion app for the main game, not a standalone title or conversion. “Track game state, search cards, build decks, read articles, learn about events, and more…”
iPhone

Walking Heads

Audio tour startup Walking Heads has launched an iPhone and Android app providing a guide to Glasgow’s musical history. Radio DJ Jim Gellatly provides the voice narration for a tour of the city’s venues and musical hotspots.
Android / iPhone

Limahl 1983

80s popster Limahl has a new iPhone app, although it’s harking back to his glory days. Limahl 1983 is based on his new single of the same name.
iPhone / iPad

Cyworld (Global)

Social network Cyworld is hugely popular in its native South Korea. Now it has a global Android app so the rest of the world can get a peek, with a news feed, club and photo-sharing features.
Android

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Popular Nintendo DS game Ghost Trick makes the leap to iOS, with Capcom’s conversion continuing the original’s ghoulish action. It’s a free download initially, but the game is split into chapters, with some available as in-app purchases.
iPhone / iPad

Jigsaw Mansion 2

Social games publisher Mindjolt SGN has launched its latest iOS game, a sequel to Jigsaw Mansion. It offers traditional-puzzle solving action, including the ability to turn your own photos into digital jigsaws to be shared with friends.
iPhone / iPad

Reckless Racing 2

Well-received iOS driving game Reckless Racing gets a sequel, with a top-down perspective and detailed career mode complementing online multiplayer races.
iPhone / iPad

InstaCam

This unofficial Instagram client for Windows Phones lets you sign in and view photos from your Instagram buddies, although as far as we can tell, you can’t upload your own. However, there are Instagram-style filters to apply to your pics and then share them on Twitter and Facebook separately.
Windows Phone

Kimi Raikkonen ICEONE Racing

F1 driver Kimi Raikkonen? There’s an app for him: a 3D racing game by 24MAS that sees you driving in a bunch of different vehicles on tracks around the world.
iPhone / iPad