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 to existing apps. You can find the best iOS apps from week 13 here.
The best iOS apps of week 13 at a glance
The App Store works overtime every week to handle the never-ending stream of new apps and updates. You don’t notice that much, however, because only a fraction of it is worth installing. If your iPhone can use some new apps, you’ve come to the right place.
IFTTT works even better with iOS. You can now create App Store and Calendar connections. This provides a lot of useful applications. This offers a lot of new possibilities, to make life with your iPhone just that little bit nicer. For example, with IFTTT it is now possible to receive a message when a new game is in the top ten free apps in the App Store. This way you can be sure that you will not miss a new hit.
The most popular app at the moment: the Mindfuck app from Victor Mids. Play tricks on people and learn how they work. Perhaps the best of these is ‘Mindf * to’. You take a selfie or a photo of someone else and you will see the result upside down. The person in the picture appears to be smiling at you until you rotate the picture. Your mouth and eyes are turned around and the face suddenly looks devilish. Another experiment is ‘the intuition test’.
Telegram has released a free update that allows users to call each other. For this, both the caller and the recipient must have updated their app. The chat app will roll out the feature in Western Europe first, the rest of the world will follow. This means that we can already use it in the Netherlands and Belgium. You open a chat within the app and tap the recipient’s name. In the menu that expands you will now see the ‘Call’ button. If you tap that and the other answers, the connection will be made.
Hobby gardeners can roll up their sleeves again, because the Albert Heijn Moestuintjes campaign has started again. With the AH Moestuintje app you can be sure that your radishes and other mini crops are well taken care of. After shopping, you can put your green fingers to the test again. It is okay if you have no experience with this, because the app gives you all the info you need.
With a SoundCloud Go or Go + subscription, users can stream music offline and without advertising. SoundCloud’s two paid music services are now also available in the Netherlands. That’s a year after it was launched in the United States. A subscription for the standard Go subscription costs 5.99 euros per month and for Go + you pay 9.99 euros. That is, if you take out the subscription directly with SoundCloud. If you do it via the iOS app, it will cost you 7.99 euros and 12.99 euros per month respectively due to a surcharge from Apple.
Facebook is rolling out a new feature for its messaging app. It is now possible to share your live location with friends. This can of course already be done via Find My Friends, but that does not work if your friends have an Android device. Facebook Messenger’s location feature works on both platforms.
Logging in with your DigiD has become a lot easier from today. The Dutch government has released a DigiD app with which you can log in quickly from now on. When you log in to DigiD, there is a good chance that you have forgotten the password. The government recognizes this and therefore releases a DigiD app for iOS and Android. Once you have set it up, you can use the app to scan a QR code and log in securely with it.
To encourage you to use the Apple Store app, Apple includes a free app every now and then. This time it is Panols, a must for every panorama photographer. Panols is an app that makes panoramic photos shareable on the social photo network Instagram. By cutting a photo you can still upload them as three square images to Instagram. That way, they will appear on your profile as a wide panoramic photo.
The music platform 22tracks has released a new app, after the earlier version disappeared from the App Store during the relaunch of the platform at the end of 2016. In October last year, the helm of 22tracks changed. Since then, the music service has been using songs from music service Spotify to stream, in the years before, songs were all uploaded to 22tracks themselves. The music platform’s app disappeared from the iPhone because there was no integration with Spotify, but now it’s back.