Daily App Digest – June 20, 2012

Trip Weather – Forecast for Every City of Your Tour 1.4 for iOS is a new app which provides you with a weather forecast of any place around the world. It is very useful if you are planning to travel to different cities or countries as it gives you the whole forecast for all your cities in one view. The app uses the most reliable weather content provider for businesses and travel industry. The full weather forecast is shown for two weeks, if you want to see more the monthly average temperature will be shown.

It has user-friendly interface. The best thing about this app is that you see the all forecast for different places and dates no matter how many of them you choose. It is very easy to use: you need only to type in cities, arrival and departure dates of your journey and the whole weather forecast is formed at once. You can save your trip and the forecast will be renewed every five minutes if the Internet is available.
$0.99/£0.69/download

Podotree, developer of the popular Chicken Out! app, is proud to announce the upcoming launch of their ground-breaking development platform, Decanter. Supporting iOS, Android, and Windows operating systems, Decanter will bring the delight of pop-up books to mobile by allowing storytellers who are not tech savvy to create interactive storybooks without any coding. Supporting the most vibrant and intricate of designs, Decanter seamlessly translates stories to mobile devices, granting anyone the ability to self-publish beautiful experiences that can be enjoyed by all.

Using a simple all-in-one toolkit, Decanter will grant creative individuals the ability to quickly develop visually dazzling and interactive storybooks for the digital era. Circumventing the stress, time, and learning restrictions that accompany coding, the platform will allow users to design interactive storybooks by simply dragging and dropping their original artwork into a dashboard. Simple, speedy, and cost-efficient, Decanter will enable storytellers and illustrators from all backgrounds to create beautiful and interactive storybooks without sacrificing the quality or performance of their product.

$1.99/£1.49/download

Astral 3D worlds 1.0 for iOS is a 3D visual stimulation tool for iPhone, which is designed to clear your mind, provide thoughtless relaxation and reduce stress.

The app includes animations of space journeys, galaxies, mystical tunnels and shape-shifting objects. These are randomly generated, which means that every time the app is used, the effects seen will be different. The animations are visually hypnotic to help users relax.

Research says that 90 percent of a human being’s total energy is utilized by the mind in constant thoughts. In this world of high competition, extended work timings and irregular sleep patterns have lead to a lot of stress. Meditation is a way to relax and de-stress oneself. You can now meditate and free your mind from all thoughts in just 5 minutes each day and gain more energy for the rest of the day. This can now be done anytime, round the clock with Astral 3D worlds.

You can clear your mind from thoughts by concentrating on any of the visual effects for a few minutes. A tool available in your mobile serves the purpose better, as it is much more convenient and easier to use than a laptop or PC.

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The new version of Picti 1.0.6 for iOS is ready for sale. This app is totally faster and will please its fans with fixed bugs and crash issues. Picti also received new wrapper in App Store to be more attractive and clear with the main idea to join photo streams.

It appears that the clue to the app popularity is in abilities to track down photos from 6 social networks. This means you can choose a friend and look through all his photos in Facebook, Instagram, Myspace, Flickr, Picasa and Vk using just one app and it’s Picti.

Each and every photo in Picti provides likes, comments, tag and geotag to tap. Picti is really a tool for managing photos all over the social networks. The latest photo updates are brought as a newsfeed that includes information about who uploaded the picture when and in which social network it was published.

$0.99/£0.69/download

Independent award winning children’s app publisher, Appracadabra, is pleased to introduce their second app Theater – Appracadabra 1.0 for iOS. With Theater, children can stage their own magical play and be the star actor. Take your pick from a cast of rag doll actors, lots of props and different sceneries. Don’t forget to put your own face on the rag dolls!

‘Theater’ is great for kids aged two and up. It offers countless different combinations that guarantee free play, a sparkling imagination and lots of smiles. The intuitive gameplay and absurd twists make this abundant app easy to navigate through and challenging at the same time. No rules, no end, just play.

Make up the story as you go, inspired by absurd things around you. Build a magical forest, with strange deer, knights in shining armor and you as Little Red Riding Hood. Or transform into a strongman at sea & watch fish jumping while splashing around with the Big Bad Wolf – the possibilities are endless!

$3.99/£1.99/download

EuroSmartz, the Number One Apple iPad and iPhone business app development company, today announced support for the Brother RJ-4040 within the app Print n Share – enabling convenient and fully supported "on the go" printing using a small mobile and lightweight printer.

Print n Share is one of the most popular productivity apps on the app store and makes it easy to print all documents, web and email content via WiFi or 3G to any printer – not just AirPrint printers. For the majority of legacy, non AirPrint WiFi printers, Print n Share does away with the need to run a Mac or PC in the background in order to print from an iPad or iPhone – the communication is handled directly from the device to the printer.

With Print n Share you can also access and transfer files from many different Cloud services or from your computer. Also by using Open in… on an iPad or iPhone customers are able to transfer and print files from other apps in just two taps. Alongside these useful features, you can access various email accounts, as well as view, edit, organize and print your contacts, photos, calendar and much more!

$8.99/£6.99/download

Thrillcall, a live event discovery service with exclusive daily offers, today announced its New York City (NYC) launch and partnership with numerous New York venues, giving music fans localized "flash" mobile offers and a complete list of local shows.

Thrillcall, already used by concertgoers in Los Angeles and San Francisco, provides live music offers on its mobile app with insider access to incredible shows every night. Along with mobile purchasing for NYC’s most popular venues, Thrillcall has teamed up with the Big Apple’s renowned festival SummerStage presented by AT&T and the CBGB Festival, to offer music fans VIP access and tickets to this summer’s eclectic lineup.

Thrillcall will hold its official NYC launch party Thursday, June 28. This will include intimate performances by two of New York’s acclaimed artists – a special event not to be missed. This will be the first NYC show sold exclusively through Thrillcall. Show details and tickets will only be available via the Thrillcall app, starting Monday, June 25.

"The live music scene is growing rapidly in New York, but people don’t want to plan weeks or months in advance to get good tickets," said Matthew Tomaszewicz, co-founder of Thrillcall. "We are teaming with a number of venues, artists and promoters to bring exclusive live music offers to New Yorkers. Now last-minute planners can discover local concerts, receive exclusive offers for awesome shows and make a fast and hassle-free purchase."

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ndie developer Shigeki Takeguchi has announced, updated Full Screen Capture – MobWeb.Goody 1.10 is designed to improve user experience and usability compared to preexisting Capture Apps. This simple and straightforward interface aims to indicate the contents of a webpage you wish to capture clearly. A bookmarklet for Mobile Safari is also ready to be installed for MobWeb.Goody users. It lets you open a webpage you are browsing on Mobile Safari with MobWeb.Goody easily.

Full Screen Capture – MobWeb.Goody allows you to capture the entire web page on your mobile phone and save the image in an album or share. As easy as one two three, simply enter the website’s URL you wish to capture and with a press of a button and you’ll have the whole page screen shot image in portrait view whether it’s public or protected (authentication page).
$0.99/£0.69/download

Vetasoft Sprl today is pleased to announce the release of Alien Vision 1.0 for iOS. The project was created to see the world in another way, like an alien vision. Alien vision is an unique experience to have fun with a way to see the people around you. You will change your perspective about the reality, be ready to share your video with your friends and give them the opportunity to understand what the Alien Vision is.

"Alien Vision Simulator is an unpretentious entertainment application, if you want to see another reality or maybe the reality, we never know, now you can do it, you can also record the alien vision and share it with your friends." says Massimo Baglio of Vetasoft.

$0.99/£0.69/download

M2M (Mobile 2 Mobile) Games is proud to announce the launch of the third installment in its incredibly popular Astrowings series. Astrowings3 brings a plethora of pleasing new features to the well-loved franchise, and has the potential to win new fans as well as impress current ones.

Astrowings3: Icarus continues the adrenaline-pumping, vertically scrolling, bullet-hell-heavy tradition of its popular predecessors, and offers plenty of new material to satisfy players. In a final battle between the old guard of Olympus and a band of rebellious newer gods, the player fills the role of Hera. The warrior goddess is also the commander in chief of a space-borne fighting fleet. The themes of mythology and futuristic technology are a perfect fusion, complementing the epic scale of a war in which victory means everything.

$0.99/£0.69/download

Octavian 2.0.0, the new release of Bitnotic’s music theory app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, now features interactive chord progressions and a dictionary for looking up scales and chords. Octavian makes music theory instantly accessible to musicians of all skill levels. At just US $2.99 and available immediately on the iTunes App Store, Octavian is an essential musical reference tool for any musician, student, composer, songwriter, pianist, keyboard player, or hobbyist.

The flagship features of this release are:
* Chord Progression Sketchpad – Create chord sequences such as IV-V-I and listen to them interactively. Tailor the harmony with inversion, transposition, and 7th chords for each step
* Dictionary – Enter notes on the keyboard and find out which scales and chords they form
* Favorites – Mark up to 4 scales and chords as favorites and instantly access them
* BPM – Control the playback rate of piano playback

$2.99/£1.99/download

Early Ascent, LLC today announced that the popular Reading Raven learn-to-read app is now available for iPhone (iPod compatible) in the Apple App Store, where it has quickly established itself among the top 10 free educational apps. Since the iPad version was released in February this year, Reading Raven has become a favorite for parents, educators and special ed teachers who are looking for fun and engaging learning apps for children in the preschool through first grade age groups.

The app focuses on building foundational reading skills for young kids through a variety of interactive and multi-sensory games and activities, which serve as a springboard to mastering more complex reading and learning concepts.

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JanduSoft today is pleased to announce Guess the Character 2.0 available for iPhone or iPad, their game of logic and observation created especially for fathers to play with their children. Based on the famous "Guess Who?" board game, Guess the Character challenges 1 or 2 players to determine which one of 24 different cartoon character faces is the opponent’s (in the single player game, the computer or mobile device acts as the player’s opponent). This is done by process of elimination, choosing something to ask from a list of yes-or-no questions, such as, "Do you wear eyeglasses?" After each question is answered, characters are eliminated from the board, and the first player to correctly guess the opponent’s character wins.

The gameboard consists of a 6 x 4 grid of tiles, each picturing a cartoon character face. At the start of each game, the player can choose to be any of the 24 characters. Playing by turns, each player has an opportunity to ask 1 of 5 questions from a list presented at the start of their turn. Having chosen their question, the game confirms the player’s selection by re-stating the question in a dialog box with two buttons: Ask or Cancel. Once the player decides to ask the question, the game responds immediately with a red "X" flashing over the face of each character eliminated as a result of the new information contained in the answer. Accompanying sound effects add drama to the gameplay, as players must touch each blinking red "X" to officially eliminate that character.

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We are excited to announce that we have teamed up with the Official Worldwide Movement for Pay it Forward which is backed by millions of people across over 120 countries around the globe. We are committed to the belief that everybody doing just a little can make a big difference and as a result Mobileaze will be donating 10% of all net proceeds to the PIF Experience organization. You can learn more about the great things their organization is doing at the link below.

The Pay it Forward app will send you a daily suggestion with an act of kindness that is designed to be simple, fun and effective. Keep track of your progress as you go and share your progress with your friends and family.

We have redesigned and rebuilt the Pay it Forward app from the ground up. Creating a whole new experience built with a focus to make paying it forward easy, fun, and social.  We have some exciting new features on the roadmap that are already in the works including leader boards and maps as well.

$0.99/£0.69/download

Gig Bag Apps, makers of popular drum reference app theDrumDictionary, are pleased today to announce the release of Click, a new metronome app for iOS. Click provides flexible features such as a wide tempo range, a large selection of time signatures, plus many other audio and visual options, all while maintaining an emphasis on clear visualization. A metronome has one job: to help a musician practice and play in time, but this can be accomplished in many different ways. Click takes advantage of the flexibility of a digital interface to provide a variety of metronome styles together in one app.

Click stands apart from other iPhone metronomes as the first to offer many visualization options in one app: a large beat counting display or fullscreen flash, along with the more traditional "pendulum" look, with and without beat counting. Once set to the desired tempo and time signature, Click can enter into a fullscreen mode, making it easily visible from a music stand or even from across the stage for the whole band to play along with. "Click focuses on providing an easy-to-use experience that can be quickly setup and then gets out of the way, so musicians can focus on what’s important: making great music," said Gig Bag Apps founder, Ryan Dillon.

$0.99/£0.69/download

Announcing that Edward Ellis, an independent mobile app developer, has just released a brand new product for iPad users. Sign Off 1.0 gives users an easy way to finally say goodbye to the iPad’s default email signature. Users who want to project a professional image for their services or brand are no longer tethered to the "Sent from my iPad" email signature. This app lets them create as many custom "Sign Offs" as they want, and even allows for copy/pasting a signature when forwarding or replying to emails.
$1.99/£1.49/download

Voice Secretary give you the power to make reminders for your unique schedule by simply speaking your Todos. Plus, forget boring default text message! With Voice Secretary, you use your own voice to record reminders, saving you time from typing and alert use your own voice. And "Nag" will not let you miss one reminder.

$2.99/£1.99/download

Hey You is an innovative and uncomplicated way to get in touch with new people like you. Hey You provides localization via GPS, 3G or Wifi to indentify your physical position relativ to other people who wants to get in touch with new people. Hey You provide also the implementation of iMessage(tm) from Apple(tm) to chat for free.

$3.99/£2.99/download

This is a brand new style of poker puzzle game where you must create as many poker hands as you can from a grid of cards! Once you use a card in a hand, it’s replaced with a new card from the deck!

There are four modes of play:

Blitz – You have 2 minutes to create as many hands as you can before time runs out!

Progressive – Create hands in order of hand rank from 1 pair all the way up to 5 of a kind. Plan carefully because your score is based on how many moves it takes you to reach 5 of a kind!

Chip Attack – You’re given 1 minute to create hands as quickly as you can. Each hand you make gives you additional time, and increases your multiplier. You get more time for better hands.

Puzzle – You have 1 5×5 grid with no replenishing cards. See if you can remove every single card for the ultimate bonus!
$0.99/£0.69/download

Have an ultimate soccer game experience with Soccer Arena. You can invite your friends or you can challenge anyone in the world online. Or you can play with your friend on the same device interactively.

Features

– Online gaming between iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch
– Game Center support
– Customizing team colors, name and logo
– Playing against the device for practice. 
– Mutual playing on the same device

$0.99/£0.69/download