Apps

Presenting a clear comparison of multiple local and long-distance transport options by price and duration is no mean feat. But Waymate has even greater ambitions, allowing trip booking from within its service.

Postagram, the mobile app from Sincerely that turns your photos into postcards you can mail from your phone, just received its first big update in over a year, with the most notable change being the addition of free postcards. Previously, users would pay 99 cents to mail these personalized cards in the U.S., or $1.99 to ship worldwide, including the cost of postage. But now the company is…

Smartwatches are similar to smartphones and tablets. Gorgeous hardware is of little use to people unless it’s coupled with brilliant software. Pre-installed apps can be a good foundation, but most users want their favorite third-party services such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram....

SWell, one holiday week has drawn to a close, and another is nearly upon us. Frankly, that means a slow-ish week for apps. And yet! There were still some notable newbies to the app scene. Download these babies and let your phone feel as bloated as you do.Multi-Platform UpdatesTranslateSPowered by Translate.com, this free Android & iOS app accepts written, spoken, or photographed input, translating in over 75 different languages. The best part is the community translate option, where logging in through...

There are things you can see and things you can’t see when you gaze up into the sky. With a little help from an app or two, you can identify all of them.

Meet Ventoura: the latest startup seeking its fortune by building a peer-to-peer platform. This one is playing in the travel space, and has just launched an app where travelers can connect with others headed to the same destination so they have some drinking buddies when they land — a la Tinder Passport.

There are a number of ways to find a last minute travel deal, whether that’s from a big-name ticket booking engine like Kayak, or a service that specializes in finding last minute discounts like HotelTonight or newly launched Overnight. Today, an early player in this space, Last Minute Travel, is bringing that same ability to snag a cheap ticket to another area in the travel space…

Entertainment Sarah Collins is freelance journalist and student at Northwestern University. She also writes for Texas Monthly, A.V. Club Chicago, Chicago Parent, Venus Zine, and...

The week after flight search engine Skyscanner launched its Windows Phone app, the UK company has announced that it has now surpassed 5m app downloads across Android, iOS and Windows…

There's an ocean of apps out there. Whether you just got your iPhone and are feeling adrift or you're a salty old dog seeing what you might've missed, here are the absolutely essential apps. Twitter: Twitter thankfully didn't make too many changes when they gobbled up the already-great Tweetie 2 from Atebits—same clean interface, same Tweet swiping, and the same it-feels-so-good pull to refresh mechanism. Free. Facebook: The new, panel-based interface takes a little getting used to, but once you're...

Congratulations! You've made it to Friday again, which means another fresh batch of the best apps of the weeks. This time we're giving you something that might incite a little wanderlust, an exercise app, and much more. TV Guide: No need to lose sleep over your TV indecision. The new TV Guide app combines all your options into one place, showing you both what's streaming and what's on cable. It only lacks Netflix and Amazon Prime, which sucks, both otherwise you're going to have an easier time finding...

Thanks to an app released today by the MTA, millions of subway riders in New York City can check when their next train is arriving before paying their fare. The app, called MTA Subway Time, is only available as a web app or as a download for iPhone, and it gives users up-to-the-minute updates of how far away the next train is. Not every train in the city is trackable, however: only the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 42nd Street Shuttle are supported. There are seventeen other subway lines in New York, and all of...

Truphone, which offers smartphone owners a voice over IP (VoIP) service over an international virtual network, has announced a new service today that combines both its unique GSM network and Internet calling app....

Apple’s App Store recently hit its 50 billionth download. Since its launch in July 2008, the store has been the go-to place for mobile apps. To this day, mobile developers often choose to release their apps here first. Popular from the start, just seven months after the App Store’s launch, the store surpassed one million third party apps, many of those free.

The last thing the App Store needs is yet another Instagram-style photo filter app, right? Well, probably....

Holiday attractions booking startup, GetYourGuide, which raised a $14 million Series A at the start of this year from Spark Capital and Highland Capital Partners Europe to internationalise its content and zero in on mobile, has made good on the latter portion of its plan — with the launch of its first mobile apps.

Ulmon, the travel app developer behind the popular CityMaps2Go apps, has raised its first round of funding, a seed investment from Global Founders Capital, VC started in 2013 by Oliver and Marc Samwer of Rocket Internet fame and Delivery Hero's Fabian Siegel. The exact amount was not disclosed but TechCrunch understands it's under $5 million. Ulmon had 6 million iOS and Android downloads in 2013…

Foursquare users, your long wait for an iPad app is finally over.

Mobile signal mapper OpenSignal is launching a new app that maps Wi-Fi hotspots to help device users in need of a connectivity fix — expanding its network of crowdsourced intel into another, albeit related area.

As part of a recently launched iOS App Store promotion, select third-party retailers like Hotel Tonight, Uber, Grubhub and Ticketmaster are discounting in-app purchases processed through Apple Pay.

Becoming one with the locals in any country can be difficult, especially if you are unaware of their customs, language and etiquette style. Why add piling data charges to...

CityMaps, the social mapping company fresh off its $2.5 million Series A, is rolling out a big update today which not only brings the service to a fourth city (Boston), but also introduces a recommendations feature it calls “Featured Maps.” This option allows users to quickly see recommended places to eat, drink, shop and play as a new layer on the map. The update is live now in the iTunes App Store, and while I don’t have CityMaps available in my hometown just yet (it’s currently in New York, San Franc...

We’ve told you what the best Mac apps and Android apps launched in 2012 are. At the end of last year, we even provided you with a handy list of…

Tiny Tower: A free 8-bit style game that lets you channel your inner landlord. You build floors on a tower to attract "bitizens" to live in it and then control their lives (manage, hire, give a job, evict). It's like SimCity but actually fun. Fotopedia North Korea: Eric Lafforgue, a photograph, went inside the veil of North Korea and took thousands of pictures for Fotopedia to show the world a little glimpse of what the oddest country in the world looks like. He was under tight supervision, so he couldn...