The week is over and that means that a fresh app overview is waiting for you! As far as we are concerned, you should not miss these new apps, games and updates. You can find the best iOS apps from week 44 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 is worth installing. If your iPhone or iPad can use some new apps, you’ve come to the right place.
1. Halide Camera
Camera app Halide cleverly responds to a camera shortage of the iPhone XR. The XR has a single camera lens, but still supports Portrait mode thanks to smart camera software. However, it only recognizes people. This is possible with the dual camera lens of the iPhone XS. In a major iOS update, Halide shows that you can simply solve this defect with software.
The update adds a Depth button to the app’s Portrait mode. As a result, with an XR you can now also photograph objects or animals with a bokeh effect in addition to people. Furthermore, Halide now has Smart RAW, a modified version of RAW photography that improves these types of photos on the iPhone XR.
2. Old School Runescape
Your childhood favorite multiplayer RPG is finally on the iPhone and iPad. Old School RuneScape is now in the App Store. The game used to be extremely popular and was mainly played via a web browser. Over the years, the MMORPG game has changed a lot, creating Old School RuneScape in 2013.
Now you can play this original RuneScape version on your phone too. Explore the large open world full of other players and complete quests to become stronger. If you also play Old School RuneScape on the PC, you can switch effortlessly between the two devices. For smartphones, it is the same game as on the PC.
3. Shazam
Shazam has received an iOS update from owner Apple. From now on, the app supports Instagram Stories. This allows you to share songs in your Instagram Stories that you have discovered through Shazam. The new feature allows you to show Instagram followers what you are listening to.
The shared number states how often it has been searched through Shazam. People can also click directly through to the song to listen to it and check more details. Sharing to your Instagram Stories is easy via the share menu, after you have found a song via the music recognition app.
4. Watchify
Finally, there is an app that lets you use Spotify through your Apple Watch. Watchify ensures that you operate Spotify from your watch, after which the music plays on your iPhone. Think of it as a remote control. From the app you can set up songs in three ways: via the overview of songs, the most played songs or a playlist.
Also nice is that you can turn on podcasts. Spotify promised years ago to come up with an app for the Apple Watch, as yet without results. In addition, Watchify is free, compared to the paid Nuuzic, which does the same.