Apps

This is the last dog app guide you'll ever need.

The surging Pokémon-esque series hits iPhone as a fast-paced and fun ghost-battler.

Stop ordering Seamless and start cooking healthy meals.

You need help.

One of the most popular games available on a smartphone plays a bit like Tinder, though in Reigns, the stakes are higher than a hook-up. Entire kingdoms rise and fall with the familiar left and right swipes of the popular dating app....

Google is celebrating the National Parks Service’s 100th anniversary with a new 360-degree "interactive documentary."The company sent film crews out to various National Parks to capture the natural wonders around them along with commentary from park rangers. Five parks are featured: Kenai Fjords National Park, Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, and Dry Tortugas National Park....

Apple's opening of the iOS keyboard floodgates has created enough space for a small skirmish between Google's Gboard and Microsoft's Word Flow.

No, Tinder is not one of them.

Microsoft has released a big update for its Word Flow keyboard on the iPhone this week. The biggest addition is a new search interface that lets you find GIFs, emoji, images, contacts, and anything from Bing search results without leaving the keyboard. Microsoft's GIF search feature copies the animated pictures into your clipboard, allowing you to paste them in. Word Flow will even pick out GIFs from words you type, so if you say "deal with it" in a message you'll get a GIF icon that brings up the...

Prisma, the photo manipulation app that uses neural networks to regenerate users' images in the styles of famous artists and paintings, marks a big upgrade today. The iOS Prisma app is being updated to allow offline processing of images for the first time, taking away much of the frustration around needing an internet connection and waiting for overloaded servers to catch up. The initial update won't include all of Prisma's filters, but it does at least lay the foundation for making the app self-...

The new update, which first rolled out to Android users in July, makes it easier to Tweet in the dark.

Big surprise: It's yuuuge on personal branding.

For the 30 short stages of Hidden My Game By Mom, a mother hides a little boy’s Nintendo DS, and you must help find it. This is, at least at first, a traditional hidden object game, a genre indebted to Where’s Waldo and decades of Scholastic magazines. By tapping the 2D artwork, you move books and furniture or collect stools and brooms from the living room, gradually adjusting accumulating the right tools to find the hidden treasure. Except it’s not quite so simple, and after a few rounds, the...

This Two Dots sequel brings along new friends, along with free-to-play tweaks.

Facebook has yet another piece of software to lure teenagers into thinking its products are more hip than Snapchat. The new iOS app, called Lifestage, is a kind of video diary where you answer biographical questions about yourself. Instead of filling in answers with text, you record a small video snippet that others can view on your profile. Every time someone updates their page, it shows up in a feed prompting others to check it out....

This clever puzzle-platformer uses portals for the perfect touchscreen controls.

Considering the engineering and financial challenges of building a working Hyperloop, it's not a given that the technology envisioned by Elon Musk will ever come to fruition. However, it is certain (in my opinion, anyway) that any working Hyperloop pods are likely to be claustrophobic as hell. Now, I know some companies involved have tried to waylay these fears with talks of augmented reality windows and calming lighting, but I honestly don't think these will make a difference. You'll still know you're...

I was intrigued when I first heard that Telltale — the studio known for its adaptations of The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones — was publishing a video game based on the USA series Mr. Robot. As it turns out, the clunkily named Mr. Robot:1.51exfiltratiOn isn’t the kind of dramatic adventure title that Telltale is known for. It’s developed by Oxenfree creators Night School Studio, and it’s a $2.99 text-based iOS and Android game that runs over the course of a week....

Square Enix’s Go series of games does a remarkable job of taking what makes a franchise great, and then stripping it down to the very basics. It started with Hitman (stealth and assassinations) before moving on to Tomb Raider (exploration and adventure) and now comes Deus Ex. Like its predecessors, Deus Ex Go is a turn-based puzzle game that has you moving a character through levels that look and feel like a cross between a board game and a diorama. But even with a much smaller sense of scale, it...

Square Enix's third Go game follows the strong blueprint of Lara Croft and Hitman.

Glenn and Susie chat about the next iPhone, and the brand-new rumor of a third size for the iPad Pro.

One of the best fitness trackers for your car just got a lot easier to use thanks to a free 3G connection.

The no-frills FaceTime competitor is simple to use and gives you a peek at the video right from your lock screen.

Google on Tuesday released its new chat client Duo, promising high quality video between iOS and Android users with the free download now available on both the iOS App Store and Google Play.

Snapchat is reportedly finalizing an acquisition of Vurb, a search app for smartphones, for well over $100 million in stock and cash, according to The Information. Exactly what Snapchat plans to do with the five-year-old startup isn't clear; Vurb markets its app as a convenient tool for searching, discovering trending topics, and carrying out tasks like making reservations and hailing Uber / Lyft without hopping between several different apps. Here's a writeup The Next Web did on the service last year....