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 39 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. Super Mario Run
A year after Super Mario Run appeared in the App Store, a major update is coming. Super Mario Run gets a completely new world, which you can go through in single player. The world is unlocked when you have cleared all six existing worlds. Nine new levels will follow, with a final boss.
In addition to the new world, there will also be a new mode called Remix 10. In this you play ten different short pieces from existing Super Mario Run levels in quick succession. A new character can also be unlocked in Remix 10.
→ Download Super Mario Run from the App Store (free)
2. IKEA Place
With IKEA Place, the iPhone and iPad have perhaps the best ARKit app yet. Because everyone knows IKEA, but we have never seen how you can test furniture in this app. IKEA Place does exactly what its name suggests: placing furniture in your living room.
Thanks to ARKit, these furniture are portrayed lifelike. Realistic shadows and location determination show objects convincingly and in the correct scale. Once you have put an IKEA cupboard away, you can walk in and around it. Even if the piece of furniture disappears from view for a moment, the position is remembered.
→ Download IKEA Place from the App Store (free)
3. Drag’n’Boom
In Drag’n’Boom you control a small dragon that has a lot of power. By dragging the finger on the left side of the screen, you let the dragon fly through the air. If you drag on the right side of the screen, you let the beast shoot fireballs.
With these actions you have to speed through the levels and collect as much gold as possible. Unfortunately there is no great variation in enemies or attacks, but this game still plays wonderfully.
→ Download Drag’n’Boom from the App Store (free)
4. PLNAR
Everyone knows situations in which it would have been useful if you had a measuring tape with you. With PLNAR and iOS 11, that problem is a thing of the past, because this app lets you use your iPhone or iPad as a tape measure. By first scanning a room, you can then calculate the distance between different points.
The app can also be downloaded for free for the first 30 days of its existence. That means that from now on you can download the app for free for another three weeks. You do have to select centimeters in the settings, because the app measures in inches by default.
→ Download PLNAR from the App Store (free)
5. OPUS: Rocket of Whispers
In OPUS: Rocket of Whispers you play as two survivors who want to give their deceased loved ones a space funeral. The game is therefore about building a rocket, which leads to a unique gameplay. Sometimes you are outside looking for parts for the rocket, other times you focus on conversations and build things into your base.
Little by little, both the world and the story open up to you. Although OPUS seems free, you have to pay $ 2.29 to unlock the full game.
→ Download OPUS: Rocket of Whispers from the App Store (free)