The week is over and that means that a fresh app overview is waiting for you! In our opinion, you should not miss these new apps, games and updates. You can find the best iOS apps of week 17 (2018) here.
The best iOS apps at a glance
The App Store works overtime every week to handle the never-ending stream of new apps and updates. However, you will hardly notice this, because only a small part of it is worth installing. If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch can use some new apps, you’ve come to the right place.
1. Google Tasks
E-mail, take photos, process texts, send messages and more: Google has created an app for almost everything you do on your iPhone. A good tasks app was always missing from this list, but that is finally changing with Tasks. To prevent your task list from turning into chaos, you can divide each task into a list. For example, create a special list for your weekly shopping list, which is then separate from the general to-do list.
Since Google Tasks works closely with Google Calendar and Gmail, the app works especially well if you’re already using those two services. This makes it easy to switch between the three different services and they can mutually reinforce each other. For example, you can place a task directly from your mailbox in Google Tasks via the new Gmail.
2. Sleep Cycle
With Sleep Cycle you can keep track of your sleep rhythm every night, the app also serves as a smart alarm clock that wakes you up at the best time. Apple Watch wearers also have a number of exclusive functions, such as recording your sleep statistics more accurately. The latest update adds an alarm clock and snore prevention.
It goes like this. If you leave the Watch on your wrist at night, Sleep Cycle will wake you up by vibrating the watch via the Taptic Engine. That way you wake up, but the alarm clock does not sound. Handy if you have to get out earlier than your partner in the morning. This alarm clock also uses the same smart technology as the one on your iPhone. By measuring your sleep, Sleep Cycle knows when you are in deep sleep. The alarm clock then selects a time when you sleep the least deeply, so that you wake up more easily.
3. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
This is the year of Harry Potter. Not only will the creators of Pokémon GO have to come up with an augmented reality game based on the hit books and movies, but you can now enter Hogwarts yourself as an apprentice with Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery.
The game takes place before Harry Potter comes to the school, but your own character follows a similar path to the ‘boy who lived’. People already know him. That’s because his brother did something terrible in the past. Fortunately, your character will soon get some friends, but unfortunately also enemies that bother him. Hogwarts Mystery is also full of familiar faces from the movies.
4. Grasshopper
Grasshopper teaches you to program. While this may sound difficult, it is actually a lot of fun and simple. Grasshopper works just as pleasant and pleasant as Duolingo. You learn JavaScript through short puzzles and games. With this programming language you can, among other things, (partially) build websites and apps. The first exercises are very practical in nature. For example, you have to copy the flag of Gabon, so that you get to know a basic principle of JavaScript: functions.
After this, your knowledge will be put to the test by means of a quiz. The quizzes and games naturally get more and more difficult over time, and all parts of the language are reviewed. Once you’ve got the hang of it and have mastered the fundamentals – such as ‘strings’ and ‘variables’ – you can continue with two in-depth courses. Gradually you collect trophies and you are immediately rewarded for your work.
Teach me words
Teach Me Words is a fun app to teach the youngest words. This can be done in two ways. First of all by expressing what is on a picture. For example, you will see a picture of a pig. By tapping the pig, there is a grunt and a voice says it is a pig. You can also do ‘guess the picture’. Then the voice asks, for example, ‘where is the bear’ and the child has to choose the bear from four pictures.
In the free version you only get the category ‘animals’ for free. If you want to use all other categories, you pay 3.49 euros once. For that you get pictures of vehicles, music, fruit, clothing, colors and home. In any case, you can try the app for free and you can find it in the App Store via the button below.