Apps that help you shop are a common commodity on the App Store these days, most of them being at their core simply a list with prices and some bells and whistles to try and set them apart from the competition. Punch in what you want to buy, maybe some details like price and location, […]

Bad girls and journal lovers out there will want to take a look at the new Bad Girl’s Journal from developer Bad Girl Swirl. Inspired by the best-selling “Bad Girl’s Guide” book series by Cameron Tuttle, this journaling app is unlike any other in the App Store. Sure it will let you keep a diary […]

Fans of vertical-scrolling shooters, 8-bit graphics, and graphic bloody gore should find plenty to love in Headshots Alley, the new arcade shooter from developer Gamewell Games. Adhering to a thin veneer of a story where some woman is being accosted in the alley outside your apartment, you grab your shotgun and start endless marching down […]

Tracking contact info is tricky business with a smartphone, especially with all of the contact info there is to track these days. Email, phone, fax (those are still around right?), Facebook, Twitter, instant messengers… with hundreds of people and dozens of pieces of information to keep track of, it’s a wonderanyone can ever get a […]

The holidays are upon us, so what better way to celebrate than to put a Santa hat on your dog? Santafy Me by Integrity Corporation is a fun photo app for holiday-izing your loved ones, be they human or otherwise. The first thing that struck me about the app was the home screen. There’s nice […]

One major drawback to the iPhone is its lack of native support for more video formats than just Quicktime files. There are apps out there to let you play them but they suffer from their own issues such as performance problems and the inability to play all the files you throw at them. Video Converter […]

Anyone out there ever wanted to combine elements of chess, checkers, and even Stratego, with a little bit of luck thrown in for good measure? Well those of you looking for such a bizarre mashup need look no further than developer Dreamgames new iOS title, Stealth Checkers. With an initial setup like checkers but featuring […]

Those interested in tracking their sleep patterns and learning how their daily activities affect their sleep have a new weapon in the war against sleeplessness: Sleep by MotionX. Sleep tracks your sleep patterns through the use of the device’s accelerometer and wakes you up during a period of light sleep so you feel refreshed and […]

The iPhone is capable of amazing feats of supercomputing, at least compared to the first five computers I ever owned combined. One minor gripe is that to do almost anything you need to switch to a dedicated app: Twitter, Facebook, navigation, phone calls, etc. Pioneer Corporation (yes THAT Pioneer corporation) attempts to wrangle all of […]

Apartment hunters, home-buyers, and people just generally curious about how much crime happens around them in San Francisco have a new app to explore the violent crime around them. SF Gard uses violent crime statistics from the SFPD in order to create a heat map of danger zones throughout San Francisco. The map is compiled […]