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What’s new on the app stores on Tuesday 22 May 2012

It had to happen eventually: a slow apps day, with just five new and notable apps to tell you about:

The Sandbox

There are plenty of Minecraft clones in the apps world, but The Sandbox does something different with the pixelly world-building genre. It’s a “physics sandbox” that aims to get you creating your own universe, from mud and sand to plants, walls, metal and, er, light bulbs.
iPhone

101 Ideas: Flying with Kids

Going on a flight with easily-bored children? This app wants to help you not tear your hair out. It offers 101 “fun activities/in-flight games” that the developers claim “all children will enjoy, from toddlers to young teenagers”. Which is a rather optimistic view of young teenagers, but worth a try.
iPhone

Calpol

Talking of ways to keep children quiet on flights… No, as good parents know, child medicines don’t make kids drowsy nowadays. It’s all about the pain relief. Now the makers of Calpol have an official app, including a dosage diary, local pharmacy and hospital info, and lullabies to play to poorly children.
iPhone

9mm HD

Gameloft has ported its grizzled-cop action title 9mm HD to RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook – the latest in an impressive flow of quality games for the tablet. Here, you’re hunting down a gang leader before he hunts you down, with guns all over the shop.
BlackBerry PlayBook

Crumbly

This may be US-only at the moment, but it’s an interesting spin on social location. The app aggregates check-ins and photos from friends on Facebook, Foursquare and Instagram with a view to showing you the most interesting places to visit in your current location. Or, as it styles itself, a “friend-powered compass”.
iPhone

What’s new on the app stores on Monday 21 May 2012

A selection of 26 new and notable apps for you today:

Moshi Monsters: Moshlings

There have been a couple of branded Moshi Monsters apps before, but this is the first actually published by Mind Candy, the maker of the hugely popular online world for children. It’s focused on the Moshlings characters from the site, with more than 60 to personalise with digital stickers and share with friends and family.
iPhone / iPad

Tom Daley Dive 2012

In good time for the Olympic Games, british diver Tom Daley has his own iPhone and iPad game, released by Chelsea Apps Factory and sponsored by Adidas. It’s a 3D diving game where you twist, duck, somersault and bellyflop into a pool. Well, three of the four.
iPhone / iPad

Telmap Navigator

Telmap has launched a free version of its satnav software Telmap Navigator for BlackBerry, with listings and reviews built in, as well as support for RIM’s BBM messaging service.
BlackBerry

Peppa Pig – Polly Parrot

Peppa Pig makes her second official app-earance on Android, courtesy of P2 Games. Here, you get four mini-games and a digital sticker book to play with, including the Talking Parrot game familiar from Peppa’s Nintendo DS outing.
Android

Tivoli Radio

Radio manufacturer Tivoli Audio has launched its own iPhone app, which offers a curated selection of streaming radio stations from around the world, from Swiss jazz to Irish folk.
iPhone

Shop Scan Save

Shop Scan Save is the latest shopping app aiming to save money – in this case, with a UK focus. The app offers deals on brands from KitKat and Lenor through to Lurpak, Jack Daniels and Bacardi Breezer, with 22,500 stores in its network.
Android / iPhone

Look & Learn: Animals Vol. 1

National Geographic has launched an app aimed at children, encouraging “a child’s awareness of the natural world through beautiful photography, animal sounds, and age-appropriate learning games”. The three mini-games are Animal Bounce, Animal Match and Animal Words.
iPhone / iPad

CNET Global

Technology news site CNET has a new Android app providing its news, videos and podcasts from around the world, as well as product reviews, comments, user reviews and social features.
Android

Everyme

Soon we’ll need a private social network for all the private social networking app. The latest looking to ‘do a Path’ is Everyme, which says it believes “most stories are meant to be shared with your closest friends and family, not with 500 random acquaintances”. Which means “intimate Circles” of contacts.
Android

Nectar

UK loyalty scheme Nectar has ported its official app to Windows Phone according to WPCentral, although I can’t get the Windows Phone Marketplace link to work. If it is live, expect a working link from Nectar’s official apps webpage, which is the link above.
Windows Phone

CNNMoney for iPad

CNNMoney has launched a new iPad app offering stock prices, personalised news feeds, alerts and business/financial news, joining its existing smartphone version.
iPad

23snaps

Photography app 23snaps wants to help parents capture shots of their children and share them securely with friends and family – essentially a private social network for baby snaps. With the added benefit (possibly) that you won’t be spamming your non-baby-interested friends on Facebook…
iPhone

Bejeweled HD

PopCap Games has released an all-new version of its Bejeweled puzzle game for iPad, with four modes of jewel-swapping action and visuals optimised for the latest iPad’s Retina display.
iPad

ClickCard*

Android app ClickCard* is the latest attempt at taking business cards digital, with a card that can open the phone dialler, email, Google Maps, websites, and social networking profiles.
Android

Chelsea FC

Just in time for the club’s Champions League triumph, Chelsea FC has an official app for Nokia phones, developed by InfoMedia. It includes news, videos, live match stats and commentary, and live streaming audio from games.
Nokia

Lee Clow’s Beard

Cult Twitter spoof Lee Clow’s Beard now has its own app, allowing you to “hear the beard” or “be the beard” – said beard belonging to advertising industry legend Lee Clow.
iPhone

Total Commander

One for power Android users, this: a smartphone version of desktop file-manager software Total Commander, with an impressive spread of file management features, and languages support.
Android

Orient-Express Traveller

The latest travel-browsing app for iPad comes from the Orient-Express, without a murder in sight. This focuses on tourist hotspots with photography, travel tips and social sharing features.
iPad

Tweetraffic

Tweetraffic is a nice idea, although it will need a lot of people using it to be at its most useful. It’s about sending and receiving traffic info, including reports of jams, accidents and roadworks for other users to see on a map.
iPhone

CrossDJ

The music technology team behind the CrossDJ software have launched an iPad version, promising a blend of professional-grade mixing features and intuitive controls.
iPad

Hojoki

With numerous cloud services entering the market, how to keep track of all your stuff on remote servers? Hojoki wants to help, promising to “make all your cloud apps work as one”. That means hooking into Google Docs, Dropbox, Evernote, Basecamp and other services.
Android

Pro Zombie Soccer

iOS undead-football hit Pro Zombie Soccer has made the jump to Android. “if you want an excuse to kick a soccer ball into space, realign an orbital weapons platform and launch a death-ray to explode the heads of the zombies sneaking into your soccer field – then THIS IS IT…”
Android

Gardeners’ World Magazine – 100 Best Plants

The BBC’s flagship gardening magazine has a new iPad spin-off: a selection of 100 best plants with all the information you’ll need to make them flourish in your own back-patch.
iPad

Convo

Convo is an app for Android smartphones and tablets offering a business-focused mobile social network, designed for teams to communicate while on the go. Looking for a piece of Yammer’s enterprise action, in other words.
Android

SmugMug

Photography community SmugMug has a new Windows Phone app, helping people to browse the day’s most popular images, and log in to see their own, and share shots directly from their handset.
Windows Phone

Apptoyz Alien Attack

The latest appcessory action comes from this Android game, which is designed to be used with the gun-shaped Apptoyz Appblaster peripheral. The game is an augmented-reality shoot ‘em up with hosts of aliens to shoot.
Android

What’s new on the app stores on Tuesday 8 May 2012

A selection of 12 new and notable apps for you today:

Simian Mobile Disco – Unpatterns

Dance duo Simian Mobile Disco have teamed up with artist Kate Moross to release an iOS app for their new album, a week ahead of its release. The app plays the album in full, while you manipulate a set of “moire patterns” on-screen.
iPhone / iPad

re:route

Recyclebank and Transport for London have teamed up for this iPhone app, which encourages people to walk and cycle around the capital more, by awarding points that can be redeemed from the likes of Marks & Spencer, Planet Organic and Champneys. It also shows you how many calories you’ve burned and how much CO2 you’ve saved by avoiding motorised transport.
iPhone

BlackBerry Screen Reader

RIM’s latest BlackBerry app will please accessibility campaigners keen to see smartphones made more usable for blind and partially sighted people. It makes core BlackBerry apps accessible through text-to-speech technology, including email, calendar and phone calls.
BlackBerry

Twitpic

“The first ever photo sharing site for Twitter comes to the iPhone,” trumpets Twitpic’s App Store listing. Yes, but it’s far from the first photo-sharing app – Twitpic is late to the party. And with Twitter’s own app already having photo-sharing built in, it remains to be seen how much demand there is for a standalone Twitter-pic-sharing app.
iPhone

Hawthorne Park Lite THD

Developer Atomicom admits that this game is more of a demo, released to get feedback from Android users for the company’s upcoming full racing game. Optimised for Tegra-powered devices, it’s priced high – £10 – to help the company raise the necessary funds for the new game.
Android

Dark Legends

Spacetime Studios brings its 3D massively multiplayer online game to iOS, using a free-to-play model and a vampire theme. The developer will make its money from sales of in-game “Platinum” currency.
iPhone / iPad

Bantr – Interactive Football

Here’s the latest app looking to provide a second-screen experience for sports fans. In this case, it’s football, with users choosing their favourite teams, checking into games, and voting on what they think will happen. It launches… just in time for the end of the season, although with Euro 2012 looming, it could get some summer use.
iPhone

Swiss Clock by doubleTwist

Best known for its Android media syncing software, doubleTwist has launched a curveball with this Swiss Clock app. It’s a live wallpaper clock with daytime and night-time modes.
Android

Tom’s Messenger

Having appeared on Android a few days earlier, Talking Tom Cat and friends now pop up on iOS with their new messaging app, delivering words to friends through the mouths of talking animals.
iPhone / iPad

Graphic Elvis The Interactive Experience

We’ve seen the life of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain turned into a comic-book app for iOS, and now Elvis Presley follows suit. A story by Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee, alongside artwork from a host of famous comic artists, is joined by a wealth of digital memorabilia.
iPhone / iPad

Dove Real Beauty Studio

Dove is the latest brand to get into the photo-sharing game with this “living ad campaign” encouraging women to upload their photos – which will then be shown on the company’s gallery and in its billboard ads across the US.
iPhone

WKD Big Head App

Oh, brands… WKD’s new iPhone app is on the FatBooth bandwagon from a while back, with head-manipulation the focus in this case. “Why not join the fun and give yourself or your mates a bigger bonce. You’re guaranteed at least a couple of laugh-out-loud minutes.” Indeed.
iPhone

What’s new on the app stores on Friday 4 May 2012

A selection of 14 new and notable apps for you today:

Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomy

Touch Press’ latest iPad book-app ties into the Royal Collection’s new exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci’s human anatomy drawings. Expect 268 pages of notebooks to browse, with English translations of his notes, spinning 3D anatomical models, interviews with experts and story chapters from Windsor Castle’s senior curator of prints and drawings.
iPad

Renault TV

Carmaker Renault has its own mobile TV app, faithfully promising to “show proper television, not glorified ads: documentaries and motorsport, travelogues and game shows – all hosted by top presenters”. More than 100 hours of on-demand shows are available. The link above is for iPhone, but here’s the iPad version.
iPhone / iPad

TomTom Speed Cameras

Satnav firm TomTom has a brand new app for iPhone focused on speed cameras – an existing premium feature for the company’s main navigation app. It’s free to download, but will cost £3.99 a month or £26.99 for a year (although that’s £1.49 and £16.99 for early adopters).
iPhone

The Daily for iPhone

News Corporation’s tablet newspaper has now been squeezed down for iPhone, promising the same content for a $1.99 monthly subscription. It’s free for existing subscribers to the iPad version though.
iPhone

Stardoll Access

Fashion-focused virtual world Stardoll has a new iOS app that lets its users access their MeDoll avatars and check their status, while also showing new virtual fashion items, messaging and friend requests.
iPhone / iPad

Python Bytes – Monty Python Series 2

Heuristic Media has launched the second in its series of Monty Python clips apps for iPhone, offering 21 sketches from the second series of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. For more on the Python’s app plans, read Apps Blog’s interview with Terry Gilliam.
iPhone

Track 8

Listening to music on your iPad and wishing it was… Well, a little more like Windows Phone or Windows 8? Track 8 is your friend. It’s a new iPad app that “brings the Metro experience to the iPad” – apeing Microsoft’s user interface with aplomb.
iPad

Welsh Rugby Union

Publisher Trinity Mirror’s latest iPad app is the official matchday programme for the Welsh Rugby Union – a digital version of the magazine sold at home matches in Cardiff. The app itself is free, but comes with an annual £23.99 subscription to actually get the programmes – at least seven are promised.
iPad

NBC Politics

This one’s for the US only, as the presidential election campaign ramps up. It includes news, videos and a daily tip sheet from NBC News, as well as candidate profiles and – when the time comes – live election results.
iPhone / iPad

Ecclesia

Electronica music artist Forss (day job: CTO of music startup SoundCloud) has followed in Bjork’s footsteps with an immersive, innovative iPad app to accompany his latest album. Expect 40 minutes of music and animation, inspired by churches and choirs.
iPad

Hallmark Go Cards

Greetings cards firm Hallmark has a new app to turn iPhone photos into physical cards, sent through the mail at $3.49 a pop (it’s US-only at the time of writing). So, a direct competitor for Apple’s own Cards, as well as Touchnote and other services.
iPhone

Zombie Granny

Having made a splash on iOS, puzzle game Zombie Granny has made its way to Android, with 45 levels to solve, bags of weapons and a level-editor to create your own challenges.
Android

Oceana AR FanPhoto

Heard of Oceana? The singer is doing the official UEFA Euro 2012 song, apparently. Now she’s the star of an augmented reality app that delivers “your own private concert” as a virtual Oceana sings her Endless Summer song, then poses for photos.
iPhone / iPad

Curious George’s Are You Curious

There is a growing number of apps for children on RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, with monkey Curious George the latest to appear on the device. This book-app is the work of Scrollmotion.
BlackBerry PlayBook

What’s new on the app stores on Thursday 3 May 2012

A bumper selection of 29 new and notable apps for you today:

Pete the Cat: School Jam

HarperCollins takes its popular Pete the Cat series of books to iOS, with this musical adventure. Children follow Pete as he looks for his guitar through a series of hidden-object scenes, before unlocking a Guitar Hero-style rhythm game. Plus there’s an augmented reality feature to pop up a virtual Pete when the camera is pointing at one of his physical books.
iPhone / iPad

National Rail Enquiries

UK travel website National Rail Enquiries has launched a free iPhone and Android app, providing timetables, live departures data, journey planner and push notifications for disruptions.
Android / iPhone

PayPal Here

PayPal’s latest Android app is pitched as “the simple way to accept credit and debit cards, PayPal and checks” for merchants, teamed with a physical card reader. For now, the service is invitation-only for small businesses.
Android

Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7

Warner Bros has already released one Lego Harry Potter game for iOS, covering years 1-4 of his Hogwarts adventures. This follow-up finishes the job in characterfully blocky style.
iPhone / iPad

Vixely

This is interesting: an all-new magazine for women making its debut as an iPad app rather than a print publication. It promises a familiar mix of sex, dating, health, fashion and lifestyle, and appears to have a US focus.
iPad

The Amazing Spider-Man AR

Sony Pictures has launched an augmented reality app for Spider-Man, which unlocks Spidey animations when the device is pointed at specific markers. It’s using Qualcomm’s Vuforia AR platform. The link above is for Android, but here’s the iPhone version.
Android / iPhone

we7 Free Music Radio

British streaming music firm we7 has been turning itself into a Pandora-style personal radio service, and this iPhone app is part of the pivot. Choose artists, genres and themes to create personalised stations, then save them for offline play, or browse some of the themed stations already set up.
iPhone

Spotify for iOS 4

Spotify’s latest iOS app – which includes the new iPad version – requires iOS 5 to work. What if you’re happy on iOS 4? The streaming music service is heading off any protests with a dedicated app for the older version of Apple’s OS.
iPhone

Rdio

While we’re on the subject of streaming music services, Rdio has just quietly launched in the UK, meaning Brits get a chance to see how it stacks up against Spotify, Deezer and others. A full range of apps is available too, with a £9.99 monthly subscription.
Android / BlackBerry / iPhone / iPad / Windows Phone 7

Tate Britain Quiz Trail

Visiting the Tate Britain museum soon? This iPhone app wants to gamify your experience with 30-60-minute themed “trails” through the exhibits. Multiple-choice questions make it an engaging modern equivalent of the paper questionnaires on clipboards that children have traditionally been sent round museums with.
iPhone

Pac-Man Kart Rally

Because every much-loved game character gets stuck in a kart at some point for the purposes of brand extension. Pac-Man’s new Windows Phone game takes Pac and friends onto the roads, Mario Kart-style.
Windows Phone

The Thames: London’s Crown Jewel

River Art Productions and the Thames Diamond Jubilee Foundation have teamed up for this app celebrating London’s iconic river, with images and information about the Thames and its surrounding architecture. It ties in with this year’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant route too, with 50% of the profits going to charity.
iPad

Elizabeth: A Personal Portrait of Her Majesty The Queen

More royal action: Trinity Mirror Media has launched its latest one-shot app for iPad: a celebration of the Queen, just in time for her diamond jubilee. The digital magazine includes images from the Mirror’s archives, as well as articles. It matches a separate print supplement.
iPad

MyCityWay London24

This is the latest location-based travel guide app for London, containing 30 “mini-apps” for news, hotels, kids, movies and showtimes, taxis and other useful information.
iPhone

Dino Life

Japanese social games giant GREE has big ambitions for the West, and they include new Android-exclusive game Dino Life. The genre is familiar village-building, and the theme is prehistoric. “Make home village good, make all cavemen happy, hatch and make many pretty dinosaur…”
Android

Brainsss

Here’s a neat twist on the tower defence genre: you play the horde of zombies rather than the human defenders. “Build a massive swarm of zombies and trash the human defenses…”
iPhone / iPad

The Blue Room by Bombay Sapphire Gin

Gin! Blue gin! On your iPad! Here’s a branded app from Bacardi to promote its Bombay Sapphire sub-brand, offering cocktail recipes, an “Imagination Room” to draw gin-inspired artwork, and a “Music Infusion Room” to make a gin-fuelled racket.
iPad

Moët & Chandon Ice Impérial

More branded booze-app action here, from champers brand Moët & Chandon. It’s a photo-sharing app: “Glamorise your photos with exclusive sunny filters…” Probably not likely to be bought by Facebook for $1bn.
iPhone

MyCityWay

MyCityWay is an extremely polished-looking travel guide for BlackBerry PlayBook, offering information on nightspots, shops, utilities and tourist destinations. Currently it supports New York, San Francisco, Austin, Seattle and Chicago, with 68 more cities to come.
BlackBerry PlayBook

Little Riding Hood (Woogi World Story Shaper Series)

Here’s a fun idea: Little Red Riding Hood reinvented as a multiple-choice story for children. “Little Green Riding Hood meets a robot on the way to her grandmother’s house in the swamp? Little Yellow Riding Hood calls to the ninja for help? You choose…”
iPhone / iPad

Trucks – by Duck Duck Moose

Talented kid-apps developer Duck Duck Moose is back with its latest iOS effort, focusing on trucks. Children can play with various virtual trucks, accompanied by a number of popular nursery rhymes.
iPhone / iPad

Build Cars with Edward and Arthur

And if that’s not enough vehicle-related appy fun for children for you, check out the lovingly-crafted Build Cars with Edward and Arthur app from Swedish developer David Sjölander, which gets kids to build virtual cars then race them.
iPhone / iPad

Magic Academy: part one

Developer Nevosoft has launched a new hidden-object game on Android on a free-to-play basis: players can try it for free, then pay in-game to unlock the whole thing. The theme: Harry Potter-esque magic students.
Android

Adobe Tutorial Player for Photoshop

Adobe has brought its Photoshop software to tablets, but this is more of a companion app for the desktop version. It “keeps track of your progress as you work in Photoshop and helps you when you are stuck”.
iPad

The King of Fighters-i 2012

Notoriously hardcore beat ‘em up franchise The King of Fighters returns to iOS armed with 32 playable characters, six game modes and multiplayer Wi-Fi battles. In-app purchases are used to unlock additional characters.
iPhone

CNNGo

CNN’s latest Android app is a travel guide focused on Asia and Australasia, offering photo galleries and local news, as well as the ability to submit your own reports to its CNN iReport service.
Android

Directing Puss in Boots

This iPhone app is aimed at children who want to create their own home movies, interspersed with clips from Dreamworks’ animated movie Puss in Boots. A niche, admittedly, but it looks good fun.
iPhone

Pocket Films

Indian short-films distributor 1takemedia has launched an iOS app to give its content a wider airing: short films and documentaries made in India, streamed to the phone.
iPhone / iPad

Tweets From My Cat

An iPad app to help your cat post tweets. Yes.
iPad

What’s new on the app stores on Tuesday 1 May 2012

A selection of 17 new apps for you today:

LG Cloud

LG is the latest consumer electronics firm to launch its own cloud storage and access service, which in this case focuses on computers, smartphones and TVs. The Android app shares photos, videos and music with the other device, with 50GB of free storage for owners of LG devices, and 5GB for everyone else.
Android

Jon-E Bionic

Strictly speaking, this is an e-book (or rather iBook) not an app, but it has many properties of an app. Developer Trailer Park says it’s the first “activity comic and colouring book” for Apple’s iBooks platform. That means children can colour in characters and scenes, as well as reading the story.
iPhone / iPad

Lego Lens

US-only for now, this is a Lego-branded “augmented reality experience” that involves finding Lego Creations made by people near your current location, and viewing them superimposed on wherever you are.
iPhone

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

Remember the days when the presence of Lara Croft and Tomb Raider was seen as a key indicator of the health of a gaming platform? Nokia’s first N-Gage may have killed that idea off. Even so, RIM has secured a port of the latest Lara title for its BlackBerry PlayBook, with a trademarm mix of adventuring and puzzle-solving.
BlackBerry PlayBook

Tom’s Messenger

Otherwise known as ‘the app where Outfit7 took its talking friends into the messaging space. Starring the still-popular Talking Tom Cat character – along with animal friends Ben, Angela and Gina – this app involves sending messages to friends mouthed by the characters. An iPhone version will follow, once Apple approves it.
Android

Jolicloud

Announced earlier in the year at the London Web Summit, Jolicloud is a new spin on cloud services, gathering your content from Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Instagram and other services into one place, then making it all searchable.
iPhone

VSCO CAM

The race is on to be the next Instagram, even if “the next Instagram” in terms of mega-lucrative exit is unlikely to be a photo app. VSCO Cam is at least good though: simple and elegant to use, with social sharing built in.
iPhone

Samsung Smart Washer/Dryer

Controlling a washing machine remotely from your Android smartphone? Inevitably, there is an app for that – as long as you have one of the compatible smartphones and washer/dryers, of course.
Android

Abby In Wonderland / Big Block Party / Color Carnival

Good news for Windows Phone-owning parents eyeing the explosion in iOS kid-apps with jealousy. Sesame Street has launched three apps for children on Microsoft’s smartphones, all starring Elmo and described as providing an “interactive read-aloud experience”.
Windows Phone

Vivi in Stile – Peroni

Alcohol brand Peroni has a new iPhone app, but it’s less about lager and more about getting out and about. Covering food, fashion and design, the app aims to “uncover hidden gems in your city and keep in the know about the most stylish places to be seen”.
iPhone

MarketShark – Stock Fundamentals

MarketShark is one of a growing number of apps aimed at stockmarket investors, although it claims to go deeper than purely monitoring price trends. Expect oodles of metrics, company comparisons and trend visualisation features.
iPhone / iPad

Garmin Pilot

The title brings unfendoffable visions of a cockpit app barking out “At the next cloud, turn right…” However, this is a professional suite of aviation tools for pilots, including flight planning, maps, weather data and navigation features. As yet, no sign of an option to read all this out in Mr T’s voice.
Android

Swingball Pro

Want to play Swingball but don’t fancy the inevitable black eye when your opponent gets a little carried away with their ball-swinging? This app takes the whole shebang digital, although it’s also aiming to encourage people to buy a real-world swingball set.
iPhone

Solid Explorer Beta

Android owners looking for file management apps are spoiled for choice, but Solid Explorer looks like an, ahem, solid candidate for the space. Not least because of its two-panel user interface for dragging and dropping files.
Android

East London Buzzstops

The name may make dedicated hipster-haters cringe, but East London Buzzstops is interesting: an app that aims to crowdsource recommendations for the “wilder, cheekier side of London”.
Android

What’s new on the app stores on Friday 27 April 2012

A selection of 21 new and notable apps for you today:

LinkedIn

Business social network LinkedIn has launched its official iPad app, which is very impressive indeed. It’s much more than a blown-up version of the company’s existing smartphone app, aimed at “coffee and couch” habits of people using their iPads in the mornings and evenings. The most useful feature: synchronisation with the iPad calendar to show LinkedIn profiles for meeting attendees.
iPad

Frankenstein

Profile Books and developer Inkle have teamed up for an appy take on Frankenstein, with interactive features including visiting Victor Frankenstein’s workshop, helping him build his monster, and taking part in the ensuing chaos. It includes the full text of Mary Shelley’s original book, as well as 65 illustrations.
iPhone / iPad

O2 Wallet

O2 is the latest company jumping into the peer-to-peer mobile payments space, with an app that helps you “Choose a friend. Choose the amount. Confirm and hit send. Done.” It follows the launch of Barclays Pingit earlier in the year, and like that service, isn’t restricted to the company’s own customers.
Android / BlackBerry / iPhone

Dell Mobile Shopping

Computing firm Dell has launched an official shopping app for iPhone and Android, enabling customers to compare products, buy and track them, and read ratings and reviews, while also accessing Dell’s support services.
Android / iPhone

Focus Big Book of Answers

The BBC’s Focus science magazine has a new spin-off app for iPad, which promises to “tell you everything you ever wanted to know about, well everything”. That means more than 500 facts and trivia titbits in sections including Space, Transport, Technology & the Digital World, Animals and Human Body.
iPad

The Dictator: Wadiyan Games

Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest film The Dictator is heading to cinemas, and there’s a freemium game for iOS from Paramount Pictures to promote it. It sees the General Aladeen character competing at running, swimming, fencing and boxing.
iPhone / iPad

Top Of The Pops Magazine Special: One Direction

British magazine publisher Immediate Media has turned BBC brand Top Of The Pops’ magazine into a digital edition devoted to boy-band One Direction. Expect interviews, love matches, “blush-inducing cringes” and posters – presumably to be saved as wallpaper rather than sticking the iPad on a wall. Separate editions for The Wanted and JLS are also available.
iPad

Flick Kick Ireland

PikPok’s marvellous Flick Kick Football gets greener with this Irish incarnation, with the action set in the Aviva Stadium. It’s out in good time for Ireland’s participation in this summer’s Euro 2012 tournament.
iPhone / iPad

DC Nation

Comics firm DC Entertainment has a new app for iOS aimed at younger fans. DC Nation includes more than 100 digital comics for 69p a pop, including characters like Superman, the Green Lantern and Batman.
iPhone / iPad

Echoer

Echoer is the latest social app with a local twist, aiming to highlight what people are saying near your current location, sorting them for relevance. The app is fresh from winning a Google People’s Choice award at the LeWeb 2011 conference.
iPhone

NHL PrePlay

This is North American only, but an interesting addition to the ranks of second-screen apps. It’s designed to be used when watching NHL ice hockey games on TV, with prompts to predict what’s going to happen next throughout the game, and earn points to compete against friends.
iPad

Onion Browser

Paranoid that your web browsing is being watched? Onion Browser uses the Tor network to anonymise browsing on iOS devices, encrypting the connection before it leaves the device, and ensuring that ISPs and websites can’t identify its IP address.
iPhone / iPad

Inotia 4: Assassin of Berkel

Com2uS’ immersive RPG series has a fourth incarnation on iOS, as you explore a fantasy world slaying monsters, collecting items and treasure, and recruiting mercenaries.
iPhone / iPad

Stocard – Loyalty Card App

Following success in Germany and Austria, loyalty card app Stocard has launched in the UK. Developed by two students at the London School of Economics, it aims to replace physical loyalty cards and coupons. It can be scanned at tills just like they can.
iPhone

Faerie Planet

Are their fairies – sorry, faeries – at the end of the garden? This augmented reality game for children aims to find out. It gets them hunting virtual creatures by pointing the iPhone or iPod touch at them, then sharing them with friends.
iPhone

Gifture

An Instagram for animated GIFs? Strange though the idea may sound, that’s Gifture. It gets you to capture a sequence of photos, add visual filters, and then share them to Twitter and Facebook as animated GIFs.
iPhone

Crunchyroll

Western anime fans craving a regular fix of Japanese animation will flock to Crunchyroll, which promises to show new episodes as little as one hour after they air in Japan – but legally.
Windows Phone

Bicycle Jacked Up!

The United States Playing Card Company is getting digital with this new app. The idea: you play games with a physical deck of cards, while scanning them with the iPhone “changes the rules with every hand” through a mischievous Joker.
iPhone / iPad

Conference Guide – BlackBerry World 2012

RIM has launched an official app for its BlackBerry World conference, where developers and partners will be gathering to debate all things BB. Session, speaker and sponsor details are all included.
BlackBerry / BlackBerry PlayBook

Scarface

The famous movie comes to mobile phones again, this time with an iOS game promising to “bring 1980s Miami to life”. Characters and voices from the film are included.
iPhone / iPad

NeedleDrop

NeedleDrop is a music discovery app for iPad that aims to emulate digging through vinyl crates looking for new releases, with daily updates showing music that’s fresh.
iPad