iOS Apps
Strum – New Music Video App – From Smule
Strum is a brand new app from Smule Inc, it allows you to transform simple videos into filtered films with vignettes, viral vids or holiday greetings. There are also advanced audio filters that automatically compose music to match your video and there are over 20 different visual and audio styles from simple background melodies to outrageous remixes. It comes from the Smule stable and is free and also comes with a free Stone filter for a limited time (that’s a saving of $2.99/£1.99). Click here to give it a try.
Fotoable – Temporarily Free
Fotoable is an app to help you organize your images within your iPhone. It’s currently free, usually it retails for $0.99/£0.69. Click here to download.
A+ Signature – The Photo Annotator – Temporary Price Drop
We published a brief review this app sometime ago, December 2011 in fact, if you missed that you can read it here. We’ve also used this app in our work too as you can see below. It’s quite useful and it’s currently available for only $0.99/£0.69 instead of the more usual $1.99/£1.69. Click here to download if you’d like to try it.
Hipstamatic – Temporary Price Drop
The developers of Hipstamatic, Synthetic LLC, have dropped the price of their incredibly popular app ‘for the holidays’ – we’re not entirely sure of the duration of this offer, so if you haven’t picked it up yet we suggest you do, right now. Usually this app retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today, it’s yours for only $0.99/£0.69. Click here to download.
Etchings – Updated
Etchings is a popular app for iOS photography enabling you to create etched illustrations from any image. It has just been updated to high resolution, up to 3300×3300. There’s also a ‘luscious’ new iPad UI and output and speed improvements. As well as all that, there are four new base filters, Matcha, Sedona, Nocturne and Lumen. There’s a Florence FX Pack with six beautiful new effects too available for purchase. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app, if not, you can download it here. It retails for $0.99/£0.69.
Photo Table – Temporarily Free
Photo Table is a multi-touch slideshow and collage designer app universal app. It allows you to move images around a virtual table and control these images with touch friendly gestures. This app usually retails for $9.99/£6.99 but today you can pick it up for free. Click here to download.
Flickr iOS App – Major Update
Many thanks to our Columnist Richard Gray, for tipping us off about this one. This is a major update to the flickr app and a major redesign too. We’ve listed the ‘best bits’ about this app update below, courtesy of Richard: This is a free app and update – click here to download What’s In This Update? – Full res uploads, that’s ALL the pixels from the original image. When people are printing their pictures for exhibitions or books, this matters. It also means people don’t have to worry about backing up. Once uploaded to the flickr servers, they have a full-res backup. – A pretty cool new…
ProCamera – Temporary Price Drop
ProCamera is an excellent app for mobile photographers and is currently sporting a lower price of only $0.99/£0.69 instead of the more usual $1.99/£1.49. We’ve published several tutorials on this app to help you make the most of it, if you’ve missed those you can read them here. If you would like to download ProCamera at this low rate today, just click here.
ShutterSnitch – Updated
ShutterSnitch is a great app allowing you to wirelessly transfer images to your iPad from your Eye-Fi card, PTP/IP enabled device or a Canon, Nikon or other file transmitter that supports uploading to an FTP server over your wireless network. This app has just been updated with WebDAV added to locations as well as the addition of a setting to show the network SSID in the status bar. There’s also the facility to sort the filmstrip on rating too now. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app. If not, you can download it here. It retails for $15.99/£10.99 and you can download/update it here. …
Instagram – New Filter Update
Willow is the name of the new filter in this latest Instagram update and it’s a monochrome effect filter. There’s also a few other improvements including the quality of the tilt-shift effect and you can scroll infinitely on user profiles and other grid views. As well as all that, there’s also a Foursquare button on location pages that opens the Foursquare app. This is a free update, to a free app. You can download/update it here.
