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Timely (Android)

Timely is a replacement for your default clock/alarm/stopwatch application and it does an awesome job! Not only does it look great, but it works great as well. Aside from the usual, basic features, Timely also provides you with settings that should, in theory, wake you gently and without any stress. I cannot confirm this because my alarms need to be a sonic equivalent of a boot to the head to work.

Timely will also allow you to sync your alarms between multiple Android devices and manage all of your alarms at once. It comes with a lot of alarm sounds, but you can use your own as well.

The interface allows for little customization, except for the theme color. Believe me, you can lose your eyes tweaking that thing. Anyways, that’s all for Timely. USE IT!

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Chatous (Android, iOS)

Chatous is a chat service based around hashtags and keywords. It pairs you up with people with similar interests, and then you chat. Unless they "skip you".

You will mostly get skipped, however, no matter what keywords you pick, because the network is largely populated by male audience looking for pussy.

Try it. Or not.

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Puzzlecraft (Android, iOS)

In a sea of city building games, Puzzlecraft didn't stand out even a little bit. But upon playing it, it ended up being a nice surprise. It has in-app purchases, but can be played without having to resort to those. Advancing through the game is paced at a reasonable speed and it will take a week or two of casual playing to actually finish the game.

The premise of the game is simple - you farm and mine resources, use the resources to advance your city and craft more tools, and then use those advancements to mine resources even more efficiently. Farming and mining is very similar to those "connect the colors" games where you have to use your finger to trace as many adjacent resources of the same type. 

If you need a casual time waster, Puzzlecraft is for you. 

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Materialist (Android)

Materialist is a To Do list app focused on simplicity in both options and design. You can add stuff to your list, you can check off completed tasks. That's it. Even though I expect a little bit more from my To Do apps, I can appreciate the simplicity presented here, especially since it's so well packaged.

Task management apps are becoming tasks themselves. Add this, sync that, due date, alarms, notifications... Sometimes it's more of a chore to add stuff to the list than to actually do it. This is where small projects like Materialist come in, and they'll always find a grateful audience.

According to the developer, this is his first project that will probably get more updates and options in the future so this review is in no way complete. Long story short: if you're sick of complicated task management applications, do yourself a favor and check out Materialist.

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musiXmatch (Android, iOS)

MusiXmatch is a really nice lyrics app for almost any platform imaginable. It even has a Chrome extension that supposedly works on YouTube (it does, but with mixed results). The Android version, reviewed here, found almost every single song I threw at it, and a huge percentage was even synced properly, karaoke style. 

The thing that separates musiXmatch from the lyrical pack is the option to float lyrics on your screen in a similar fashion Facebook messenger allows you to have chats open at all time. The app minimises into a small circle on your screen and lyrics are always just a tap away.

Not much else left to say, musiXmatch is great if you listen to a lot of unknown music and you want to check out lyrics while you're listening. It's also great as an example of a properly designed application, even though its settings can be a maze from time to time.

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KingForADay (iOS)

Creator of KingForADay thinks that everybody has something to share and has decided to prove it through his interesting application. Each day, a different user of KFAD is crowned king and everyone else using the application can write only to him/her. That means that you get a LOT of attention, which is great, for some people. Other can experience how it feels to be popular online. It's not that bad a feeling, but would probably burn me out if it were the default.

KFAD has a small user base, but it's growing. It will be interesting to see if growth actually hurts the application because kings could get overloaded with messages. Right now, it's a tight community full of kind and talkative people.

The developer is very responsive and you actually get a built in option to contact him at any time. He will most probably reply... IMMEDIATELY. The android version is planned in the future, but right now KFAD is available only on iOS. All in all, an interesting concept that will surely get much attention.

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Clover (Android)

Clover is one of the few applications dedicated to making browsing 4chan on your Android device much easier. Perhaps not the best, but definitely more usable than the usual browser experience. You can easily add or remove boards and adjust the board list to your preferences.

Thread pinning is also a nice feature as it allows you to follow threads you are interested in without backtracking through the endless mess that 4chan usually is. It even displays the number of posts written since the last visit.

Settings are sufficient and it's safe to say you won't be missing anything. The only improvement Clover desperately needs is an updated design, as it looks a bit old. Ish.

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Snapseed (Android, iOS)

Snapseed is an app for editing photos on the go.  It doesn't have thousands of options one would expect from such an application, but the small tool set it provides works really well and gives pretty good results.

Instead of just putting the whole photo through a filter, you can also place different dots (for saturation, brightness and contrast) around the picture and tweak just particular sections of it. Snapseed will try to determine which part of the picture you want to affect based on where you placed the dots. It also provides a couple of different effects, including, but not limited to: HDR, Grunge and Drama. 

In conclusion, Snapseed is great, much greater than what my screenshots show. So ignore those and get the app, you won't be sorry!

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Makeover (Android, iOS)

While playing with models provided by the app, everything worked amazingly well. When trying out with my own picture (not provided here), things got a bit trickier. Although the app does a good job detecting your eyes and mouth, you still have to tweak it A LOT if you don't want it to look horribly wrong.

It was really fun testing out all the different shades of lipstick, but I won't be keeping it around. THIS ONE IS FOR GIRLS.

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Augment (Android, iOS)

If you've ever heard about augmented reality, but haven't experienced it first hand, Augment is for you. Although not perfect, Augment will allow you to place 3D models in your environment, in real time.

It has a large enough model database to entertain you for an afternoon or two, and also allows importing custom models (but some of those features require registration). 

Setting up the application and everything else is done really simple so no point in explaining. If you're bored or enthusiastic about technology (especially if both), definitely give a chance to Augment.

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Swipe for Feedly (Android)

Swipe for Feedly is a lock screen replacement application focused on bringing you all your favorite news even before you unlock your phone. As it says on the tin, it is swipe based. Swipe right for unlocking the phone, swipe left for the next article, and swipe up to read the whole article. Future versions promise to bring saving articles for later by swiping down.

Apart from managing subscriptions, the application is ridiculously lacking in options. I'm not sure what those should be, but surely something is missing. Setting the application as the default lock screen doesn't exactly work perfectly, at least on HTC M8. It took more than a few tries before it appeared for the first time.

Final verdict would be that this is totally for you if you're so addicted to news that you can't even unlock your phone to see what's happening. If not, this is just a cool gimmick to show your friends. Mine didn't like it much, though. If you're wondering, the question that came up a lot was "But why?".

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Fling (Android, iOS)

Fling is an experimental social network based around the idea of randomness. You take a photo and/or write a short message and send it to a random selection of people in the world. They can reply with a photo or a message. That is all. The application is poorly designed, even if we ignore the color theme. To send a message, you have to flick it upwards with your finger, and it often won't succeed. Maybe it was due to my device, but I had real issues with sending messages.

But all that aside, a social network's worth is in its user base. Fling, being somewhat unknown and unpopular, suffers from "NOBODY REPLIES EVER" syndrome. And even if they do, it's a selfie. This could turn into a social commentary of today's youth, but no. Prepare to get a lot of selfies. Not a single penis, though. Commendable. 

Fling is an interesting idea ruined by a small (minded) user base. Kids these days. SELFIES SUCK.

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PocketCasts (Android, iOS)

Pocket Casts is a paid app for both Android and iOS. As its title suggests, it’s dedicated to all things podcast, and boy does it do a great job. All of your favorite podcasts are synced online, on their servers, so that your phone doesn’t have to constantly refresh the list. This will save you some battery power, especially if you listen to tons of podcasts.

Managing podcasts is really simple and you get to apply individual settings to each of them (if necessary). Maybe you want some of them downloaded immediately, some not. You can set automatic deletion of certain listened podcasts, and decide to keep the others. Simply - you can do whatever you want. And if you have limited internal storage, don’t worry - Pocket Casts lets you choose where to place your downloads.

Aesthetically, the app itself is pretty, but some material design wouldn’t hurt it. Yeah, I’m a sucker for material design. In conclusion, Pocket Casts is an amazing podcast app. Gotta buy ‘em, gotta buy ‘em, Pocket Casts.

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Journal by Journey (Android)

After trying out countless diary apps for my phone, Journal is the only one that kept me writing. The app is free, but you can pay for some extra perks such as markdown and a dark theme. I paid mainly because I wanted to support the developers because this thing is awesome.

Journal syncs itself to your Google drive which allows you to use multiple devices with the same account. And you get to password lock the application so that nobody can read your stuff.

Besides syncing, the app offers multiple views at your journey, such as list view, calendar view and even an atlas view with all your posts shown on a map, which is especially nice.  Each post can be tagged with keywords, an action (running, for example) and it can also remember current weather conditions.

The best recommendation, however, is that of addiction. This is the only diary app that has kept me writing, as I've already stated. I've been using it for almost a year now, which is ALMOST A YEAR longer than any other similar application. So there, if your new year's resolution is to write a diary, start with Journal by Journey.

Oh, and it was recently released as a Chrome desktop application, so you can write on your PC as well. It does have a web view on its home page, but you can only view posts there, not write new ones. Not sure why. (?)

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QuizUp (Android, iOS)

QuizUp is a multiplayer only quiz game with an insane amount of available topics. Brilliant in design, it allows you to test your knowledge against random people all over the world or challenge your friends (the app also connects to your Facebook and Google Plus accounts and automatically lets you know which friends already play Quizup).

Each 10 question round brings experience points regardless of victory or defeat, the latter obviously brings much less, and then you advance in levels, get achievements and rise on international and national ladders. You get a fresh ladder each month, but there is a global ladder as well.

While the game is completely free and without any ads, there is an option to buy XP boosters which double, triple or quadruple your experience gain for an hour. Of course, buying your way through games is only for complete n00bs and you shouldn't do it.

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UnlockYourBrain (Android)

UnlockYourBrain is an educational lock screen replacement app for Android. The basic idea is that you choose topics you want to learn, and the app then provides you with questions each time you want to unlock your phone. Some studies claim that it can double your number skills in 14 days, which I cannot confirm because zero doubled is still zero.

Upon installing a few German packs, the app took over my lock screen and started teaching me words. After a few repetitions of the word, I got a multiple choice answer and had to pick the correct meaning to unlock your phone. Simple enough.

Although it seems like a great idea, it’s hard to say how much German I have actually learned over the last few days. In practice mode I can easily answer all questions, but I still think I wouldn’t know these words if I saw them somewhere else. Maybe it’s because I always unlock my screen in a rush without paying much attention to the screen, but don’t we all?

UnlockYourBrain probably has huge potential for people who want to learn something new. It also has a huge memory footprint. Although it is a nice concept, it probably won’t last much longer on my device. Maybe I’m just not the right audience for it.

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Onavo Count (Android, iOS)

Onavo Count is one of those apps for obsessive types that like to keep track of spent data. I can’t say for sure how precise it is, but it seemed to be accurate enough according to my ISP (~20mb difference) and it supposedly varies in precision from device to device, so you’ll have to give it a go yourself.

It has multiple screens, each with handy and well designed overviews and graphs. Some data is questionable (how you compare with other users of same applications) and perhaps a “bit” privacy intruding, so keep away if you’re highly concerned with privacy.

Settings are what you'd expect - you can set warnings, notifications, data caps and plan types. The biggest issue this app brings to the table is RAM, usage as it can grow up to 50mb of memory, so it’s obviously meant for higher end devices and has you weighing design versus speed. If you’re a statistics addict or like pretty apps, make sure you try Onavo Count.