Apps

You shouldn’t have to squint at Like and retweet counts to discover the best content your social network has to offer. So with one simple design choice, Google+ for iPad (and Nexus 7 ) has created a better tablet feed reading experience than Facebook or Twitter. As Google announced at I/O, on tablet, Google+ posts with more engagement are shown larger. The Google+ iPad app launched today feel more like Flipboard, where surging seas of information turn into smooth sailing thanks to visual cues to what’s ...

At 2PM today, I received a garbled text from my baby brother (OK he’s 21 and 6′ so not really a baby), that said “HAPPY IRI$H day, Where r YOU?…

Jolicloud is a service that has taken some time to find its way. In Silicon Valley speak, you might know those maneuvers as “pivots”, but it seems like Jolicloud has…

A team of security experts has created a new iOS app that provides "military grade" encryption to messages and conversations. Wickr strips the metadata from audio, video, and image files, and lets the user set a Mission Impossible-style self-destruct timer on anything sent. The app overwrites deleted data with unreadable text to the point that any deleted data becomes impossible to forensically recover. While iOS's built-in ability to take screenshots could be an obvious workaround on the recipient's...

Spotify: Released to much fanfare, Spotify is as close to a great streaming service we can get. The iPhone app lets you listen to all of Spotify's 13 million track library and with an offline mode, can even do it without a connection because you can wirelessly sync your local files to your phone, create and sync playlists and more. GIF Shop: It's a camera app that stitches together pictures to create the GIFs that populate the Internet. You know GIFs! At Giz we call GIFs the Internet's greatest treasure...

The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. ProCapture (Google Play) Previously $3.99, now 99¢. ProCapture for Android adds an assortment of advanced features to your Android's camera, such as the inclusion of camera shooting modes like Timer, Burst, Reduced Noise, and more. Whether you want to combine up to twelve photos together with the app's powerful Panorama mode, or want to take better exposed photos by...

After lovingly unboxing your new iPhone 5 today, the first thing you’ll do is install all your favorite iOS apps. But what if you don’t have any? What if this is your first iPhone? Well, we’ve compiled a list of must-have apps for iPhone 5 to get you started. We’ve got Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube clients; news readers; note-takers; word processors, and more — and everything in the list has already been updated to take advantage of the iPhone 5’s larger display....

On election day, pollsters interviewed hundreds of thousands of people to find out who they were voting for, but some local news stations used a different means of getting answers: Banjo for iPhone and Android. What began as an app to combine feeds of where your friends are checking in on various social networks has evolved into a useful tool to transport yourself to any place in the world and see location-tagged public posts. On the day of the Aurora shooting, news teams plugged the city into Banjo and...

The popular cross-platform messaging client WhatsApp is giving its iPhone application away for free for a limited time. The app ordinarily costs $0.99 and gives users a way to get around SMS fees by letting them send messages to other members of the service over the internet, in an identical way to competitors like Kik, Viber, Facebook Messenger (which recently dropped its account requirement for Android), and many others. The Android version of the app will remain free to download, with a $0.99 yearly...

This week’s roundup of iOS apps includes new and improved ways to make the holidays more enjoyable, and maybe a bit less lonely....

Facebook is testing out Wi-Fi based calling in Canada with its latest update to its Messenger app. The calling is only avoidable for the iOS app, but both IOS and Android users still get the benefit of being able to record voice messages.

Twitter-owned video sharing app Vine was updated early Wednesday, bringing in-app Twitter and Facebook sharing as well as an age rating for possible adult content.

Foursquare's newly updated iPhone app signals a change for the location-based social networking service that will help better position it against Yahoo's Yelp, and also debuts a handy hidden feature that allows power users to check in to locations more quickly.

Your dog is your best, most loyal friend, and you want to make sure he's getting the best care he can get. As technology addresses real-life needs more and more each day, companies and non-profits are creating apps to make sure every Fido, Spot and Princess receives the attention he or she deserves. SEE ALSO: 8 High-Tech Accessories for Your Pet We've compiled 10 of the best apps for dogs in the gallery above.

A new app called Tu Go, developed by Telefonica for O2, may be rough around the ages, but still ranks as one of the most promising pieces of software we've seen come from a wireless provider. Available now for iOS and Android, the app lets O2 UK customers use their mobile number with any other iOS or Android device they own — so long as it has Wi-Fi, of course. Once installed and authenticated, you'll be able to place voice calls and send text messages from Tu Go, just as you would on your primary...

Twitter has become much more than 140-character blurbs, and now Tweetbot is using that additional content to turn our media-rich feeds into a stream of photos and videos for users to quickly scroll through. An update released today for Tweetbot on iPhone and iPad introduces a new timeline view that displays images and videos — including content from Instagram, Vine, and YouTube — inside of the Twitter feed. The display uses tweets as captions for the content, and it omits any tweets that don't include...

Twitterrific, one of my favorite Twitter clients on iOS, got a new update this week that adds Readability integration for bookmarking tweets you want to catch up with later, as well as support for image hosting service Droplr. The update also comes with a ton of bug fixes and improvements.

Ever since Google announced that it would be sending its Reader service out to pasture on July 1st, there has been a gold rush of replacement RSS readers coming to the surface. Many of the better options, such as Feedly or NewsBlur, have catered to the hardcore, RSS-consuming reader that follows a number of blogs posting many articles a day. These users primarily value speed and efficiency over visual aesthetics (though, both Feedly and Newsblur have put in efforts to improve their appearances)....

China Mobile has suspended account registrations for its Jego service, less than a month after it was quietly launched as a competitor to Skype....

GroupMe's a lifechanger. You should use it. Today it got emoji (good) that for some insane reason use its logo in place of a human head, and then attach things like beards and devil horns and headphones to it (uhh)....

Just because you have a great idea doesn’t mean your startup will succeed, and there’s a simple reason for this: concepts don’t make companies....

Skype has enabled HD-quality video calls from its iPad app for those with a 4th generation device, five months after Microsoft’s own Windows Phone 8 Skype app got HD support....

Having previously only been available for iPad, Doodle.ly (not to be confused with Doodley) is now available for iPhone and iPod touch too....

Flat. With one word, Apple didn’t just change its look on mobile, but mandated an industry-wide face-lift. With iOS 7′s launch later today, chrome, navigation buttons, and textured title bars are getting replaced with more content, gesture-controlled navigation, and single-colored panels. Here’s are some before and after look at the redesigns of the top iOS app launching today, plus our thoughts.

As Apple's App Store nears 50 billion downloads, the company reveals the all-time most popular apps for iPhone and iPad.