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 52 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. Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
Actually Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is just a strange game. You start a new campsite in nature and you hope that you will become friends with the animals in the area, so that they come to camp with you. Friendship in this game consists of giving presents. If you give the animals enough fish, fruit or insects, your ‘friendship level’ will increase.
It is also nice that you can design this world according to your own taste. Both with all the furniture you place, but also with the clothes you wear. Later it will also be possible to make new clothes yourself, but you will already receive sweaters and coats from your four animals on a regular basis and there is new clothing for sale on the market every day.
→ Download Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp from the App Store (free)
2. Top 2000 Radio 2
Since 1999, the Top 2000 has almost been a tradition at the close of the year. Radio 2 plays nonstop records from Christmas Day until New Year’s Eve turns into the New Year. In the months leading up to the Top 2000, people could vote for their favorite songs, after which a list is drawn up.
The Radio 2 app is currently entirely devoted to the Top 2000. You can easily listen live and watch via the webcam. However, via the menu you can go directly to the full list and you can see which song is being played at what time. Very useful if you really don’t want to miss your favorite song. In addition to the list, it is also possible to watch fragments of the Top 2000 A Gogo via the app.
→ Download the Radio 2 app from the App Store (free)
3. Apollo for Reddit
By now, there are tons of apps available to read Reddit, including the official app, all of which are more than fine. Yet Apollo is head and shoulders above that. This is not only due to the extensive list of features that the app contains, but also due to the sleek finish of the app, and that Apollo feels like a real iOS app.
Apollo works in the same way as Apple’s own apps. For example, by swiping left or right you can vote on a post, save it or share it via the Share menu. In the list of subreddits, you can swipe left to delete them, the same way you delete an email or anything in the Settings app. Apollo also uses tabs at the bottom, something that is done in more iOS apps.
→ Download Apollo for Reddit from the App Store (free)
4. Forest
If you’re struggling not to touch your iPhone during the holiday season, you should give Forest a try. This app encourages you to reduce smartphone usage in a playful way. In the app you plant trees that only grow if you do not unlock the iPhone.
If you can’t resist the temptation of a notification, then you’re back to square one. All this data is neatly kept, so that you can make a nice overview of all the moments when you consciously left your iPhone for a while.
→ Download Forest from the App Store (2.29 euros)
iPhoned picks the 12 best iOS apps of 2017
It’s been said that apps are dead, but 2017 proved otherwise. Indeed, piles of good new apps have appeared in the App Store. Both useful tools and great games.
We look back to what we enjoyed the most in the past year and what we can no longer do without. Read below what we think are the best apps of 2017.
→ Read our rundown of the best iOS apps of 2017