2013 mobile apps q1
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20 HOTTEST MOBILE APPS FOR 2013
20 HOTTEST MOBILE APPS FOR 2013
(so far)
Victor HernandezCNN ‘App-ologist’February 26, 2013
Welcome to my latest list of 20 of the hottest mobile apps that have caught my eye in recent weeks and months.
Some are associated with productivity while others are along the lines of discovery, photography, news & information, health and travel.
You won't be interested/want them all – but I'll bet you are intrigued by more than a few.
As always you’re encourage to leave your favorites and recommendations in the comments section.
Happy tech hunting!
- Victor
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Bills itself as the smart Twitter client for iPhone. Neatly dramatically changes up the Twitter formula – instead of displaying your timeline, tweets are grouped by interests.
Price: $1.99
iPhone
Bills itself as the smart Twitter client for iPhone. Neatly dramatically changes up the Twitter formula – instead of displaying your timeline, tweets are grouped by interests.
Price: $1.99
iPhone
NEATLY
Feel the weather and put some color on your forecast with Haze. A fun weather app with fluid animations and an audiovisual interface that is both simple and addictive.
Price: $.99
iPhone.
Feel the weather and put some color on your forecast with Haze. A fun weather app with fluid animations and an audiovisual interface that is both simple and addictive.
Price: $.99
iPhone.
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HAZE
CAM MEReady to go hands free? With this camera app you never have to worry about fussing with the timer setting again. Just wave and smile - boom, there it is.
Price: Free
iPhone.
Ready to go hands free? With this camera app you never have to worry about fussing with the timer setting again. Just wave and smile - boom, there it is.
Price: Free
iPhone.
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Touch screen typing takes some getting used to. Some faster than others. The newest Swiftkey update provides more accurate corrections and better predictions than other keyboard apps.
Price: $3.99
Android.
Touch screen typing takes some getting used to. Some faster than others. The newest Swiftkey update provides more accurate corrections and better predictions than other keyboard apps.
Price: $3.99
Android.
SWIFTKEY 4
If you prefer listening to reading, Winston may be the ideal news app for you. Users have have their Twitter, Facebook and areas of news interest read to you in a really fancy pants voice. My favorite feature is users can wirelessly connect to Apple TV via AirPlay to watch/listen on a bigger screen.
Price: Free
iOS.
If you prefer listening to reading, Winston may be the ideal news app for you. Users have have their Twitter, Facebook and areas of news interest read to you in a really fancy pants voice. My favorite feature is users can wirelessly connect to Apple TV via AirPlay to watch/listen on a bigger screen.
Price: Free
iOS.
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WINSTON
New web app New web app automatically automatically synchronizes footage synchronizes footage of an event from of an event from multiple cameras and multiple cameras and turns it into one tidy turns it into one tidy interactive video. interactive video. Reminds me a bit of Reminds me a bit of other collaborative other collaborative video apps but with an video apps but with an interesting twist – interesting twist – viewers of the content viewers of the content control the produced control the produced feeds. feeds.
Price: FreePrice: Free
Any camera. Just Any camera. Just upload to the service. upload to the service.
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SWITCHCAM
The crowdfunding The crowdfunding platform for creative platform for creative endeavors has been endeavors has been around for a few around for a few years... but what is years... but what is new is their iPhone new is their iPhone app. Now users can app. Now users can search and pledge search and pledge while on the go via while on the go via this sleek, easy to this sleek, easy to navigate mobile app.navigate mobile app.
Price: FreePrice: Free
iPhone, iPod Touch.iPhone, iPod Touch.
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KICKSTARTER
As someone always on As someone always on the prowl for killer the prowl for killer foodie mobile apps, foodie mobile apps, F.E.D. has leaped to F.E.D. has leaped to the top of my current the top of my current rotation. rotation. Recommendations are Recommendations are curated by industry curated by industry insiders; top-tier chefs, insiders; top-tier chefs, sommeliers, sommeliers, bartenders, baristas, bartenders, baristas, butchers, pitmasters, butchers, pitmasters, and food purveyors. and food purveyors. Also love the printable Also love the printable PDF cheatsheets on PDF cheatsheets on the website. the website.
Price: FreePrice: Free
iPhone. Website. iPhone. Website. photo: victor hernandez
FIND.EAT.DRINK.
This app allows users This app allows users to take back control of to take back control of their smartphone’s their smartphone’s camera roll. Flavyr camera roll. Flavyr instantly organizes instantly organizes photos by date and photos by date and seamlessly patches seamlessly patches video and photos into video and photos into the same collection. the same collection. Best of all, the app is Best of all, the app is intuitive and simple. intuitive and simple.
Price: FreePrice: Free
iPhone. Android. iPhone. Android.
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FLAYVR
Price: FreePrice: Free
iPhone. Android.iPhone. Android.
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EVERNOTE HELLO Evernote’s latest
update of their contact management app offers two big enhancements; business card scanner and the ‘Hello Connect,’ which allows two or more people in a room running the app to wirelessly sync up their contact info. Info swapping made easier.
Evernote’s latest update of their contact management app offers two big enhancements; business card scanner and the ‘Hello Connect,’ which allows two or more people in a room running the app to wirelessly sync up their contact info. Info swapping made easier.
This is the app I show This is the app I show to all of my to all of my touchscreen keyboard-touchscreen keyboard-hesitant friends hesitant friends nervous about giving nervous about giving up the physical up the physical keyboard. Originally keyboard. Originally developed for the developed for the visually impaired, the visually impaired, the patented tech makes patented tech makes typing text on your typing text on your touchscreen a brilliant touchscreen a brilliant experience. experience.
Price: FreePrice: Free
iPhone.iPhone.
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FLEKSY
Why go several places Why go several places if you can achieve if you can achieve your goals with one. your goals with one. Sunrise, a new Sunrise, a new calendar app built by calendar app built by two ex-Foursquare two ex-Foursquare designers, pulls in designers, pulls in your appointments your appointments from Google calendar, from Google calendar, Facebook events and Facebook events and birthdays and weather birthdays and weather outlooks. outlooks.
Price: FreePrice: Free
iPhone.iPhone.
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SUNRISE
In the month since In the month since Twitter introduced Twitter introduced Vine, a mobile service Vine, a mobile service that lets users capture that lets users capture and share short and share short looping videos, it’s looping videos, it’s taken off about as well taken off about as well as the social as the social networking giant networking giant could’ve hoped. Big could’ve hoped. Big brands, news outlets brands, news outlets and creative Twitter and creative Twitter users have flocked. users have flocked. The limitation for The limitation for producing creative producing creative content in six seconds content in six seconds is both the beauty and is both the beauty and challenge of Vine. challenge of Vine.
Price: FreePrice: Free
iPhone.iPhone.photo: victor hernandez
VINE
Neat twist on the Neat twist on the crowded mobile photo crowded mobile photo collage app space. Pixplit collage app space. Pixplit is a creative collaboration is a creative collaboration network where friends network where friends create social photos create social photos (called Splits) together in (called Splits) together in a single frame using their a single frame using their mobile phones. Post a mobile phones. Post a photo slice into a frame photo slice into a frame and wait for another user and wait for another user to fill out the picture, to fill out the picture, often from another part often from another part of the world. of the world.
Price: FreePrice: Free
iPhone.iPhone.
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PIXPLIT
Managing your Managing your procrastination is now a procrastination is now a little easier. This popular little easier. This popular reminder app was just reminder app was just updated to support a new updated to support a new feature called feature called Any.Do Moment, a quick Any.Do Moment, a quick and fun overview of your and fun overview of your day and the things you day and the things you have on your list. have on your list. What I love most about What I love most about this app is users are this app is users are greeted with a simple list greeted with a simple list broken into four sections: broken into four sections: Today, Tomorrow, Today, Tomorrow,
Price: FreePrice: Free
iPhone. Android.iPhone. Android.
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ANY.DO
If you attend a lot of If you attend a lot of concerts, you’ll want to concerts, you’ll want to check out Showscoop. check out Showscoop. This app bills itself as This app bills itself as “Yelp for concerts,” “Yelp for concerts,” giving users a chance to giving users a chance to rate live music shows rate live music shows they see and share those they see and share those ratings with others.ratings with others.
Price: FreePrice: Free
iPhone.iPhone.
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SHOWSCOOP
The app makes it easy The app makes it easy to search for and book to search for and book hotels, and leverages hotels, and leverages hotels’ desire to fill up hotels’ desire to fill up their rooms to help their rooms to help you get huge you get huge discounts – as much as discounts – as much as 70% off. The catch is 70% off. The catch is you can’t book until you can’t book until noon the day of. HT noon the day of. HT has been around for a has been around for a few years, but they few years, but they update the app all the update the app all the time introducing new time introducing new cities. cities.
Price: FreePrice: Free
iPhone. Android.iPhone. Android.photo: victor hernandez
HOTEL TONIGHT
Interested in a digital Interested in a digital keepsake of the baby keepsake of the baby bump? There’s an app for bump? There’s an app for that! Women can create that! Women can create a time-lapse video of a time-lapse video of their pregnancy – and get their pregnancy – and get health tips along the way health tips along the way – through a new iPhone – through a new iPhone app called CineMama app called CineMama available from the March available from the March of Dimes.of Dimes.Price: FreePrice: Free
iPhone.iPhone.
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CINEMAMA
Do you sometimes Do you sometimes forget to switch your forget to switch your ringer off once you hit ringer off once you hit the office or the office or classroom? This nifty classroom? This nifty Google app Google app automatically switches automatically switches specific phone settings specific phone settings depending on where depending on where you are. Pure brilliance you are. Pure brilliance via automated via automated convenience! convenience!
Price: FreePrice: Free
iPhone.iPhone.
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LLAMA
Bills itself as Pandora Bills itself as Pandora for your events. This for your events. This mobile app helps you mobile app helps you discover nightlife, discover nightlife, concerts, festivals, concerts, festivals, sports, theater and sports, theater and more around you. See more around you. See what’s trending what’s trending around you, search around you, search based on your tastes based on your tastes or find out what your or find out what your friends are up to. friends are up to.
Price: FreePrice: Free
iPhone.iPhone.
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EVENTSTER