Apps

A look at the best lifestyle apps ever made for the iPhone, based on our list of the 100 best iPhone apps of all time.

While Android Pay replaced Wallet for retail payments, Wallet still has some life left as a possible PayPal competitor.

Apple on Wednesday published its annual Best of 2015 feature for the App Store, highlighting the company's own picks as well as overall bestsellers.

What Stripe did for easy payments, Robinhood is doing for free stock trading. This week the brokerage startup launched its platform so developer can bake its zero-commission stock trading into their products.Stop for a second and think about how big a deal this is. Before now, there were two types of stock apps. Ones that actually let you make trades but charged you a fee of around $7…

This week's list includes Vevo's redesign, an app to help you take better selfies in the dark and a GIF keyboard app.

Apple Pay might soon let you send person-to-person payments, but you don't need to wait on Cupertino to split the cost of a pizza without cash. AppleInsider took a look at some of the most popular money transfer apps available now for iOS.

Robinhood steals stock trading from rich guys in suits and gives it to normal people who couldn’t afford to pay $7 per transaction. The zero-fee stock trading app is bonafide hit. Less than a year after launch it has hundreds of thousands of users, over $1 billion in transactions, $66 million in funding, and an Apple Design Award. In fact, it’s the first finance app to win that award.

Have you ever wondered why being financially responsible can be so difficult? Maybe it’s because most money management tools are too complicated and overwhelming for the average user.Penny, a new personal finance app, is fixing this by giving users personalized financial advice via a simple chat interface.As soon as you open the app for the first time, Penny starts talking to…

This week's list includes an app to help you create (and remember) better passwords, a social lending platform and a keyboard app that's much more than a keyboard.

Google has revamped its Wallet app on the iPhone. The new iOS app will now support peer-to-peer payments, making it "easy to send money to anyone in the US with an email address," according to Google. The Android version of the app got similar features earlier this month, repositioning Google Wallet as a competitor to services like Square Cash and Venmo....

Earlier this month, Google launched Android Pay in a move that turned the company’s existing Wallet app into a peer-to-peer payments service. That new app went live on Android when the new pay service launched on September 10, now today it has landed on iOS, too.

Though the majority of today’s payment transactions are digital – credit card swipes, online bill pay, tap-and-pay at point of sale, etc. – there are still a few places where cash has yet to die out. You still often need a handful of small bills to tip service professionals like valets, baristas, the great band at your local bar, and more. Taking these sorts of small…

Fingerprint sensors are going to be big on Android this year with support being built right into Marshmallow. A number of Android phones already have a head start on including these sensors — some better than others — and it looks like we can expect apps to start adding support now that they're rolling out wider. Among those apps is Bank of America, which announced today that it's added support for fingerprint scans on Android, allowing people to set up a fingerprint within the app to log them in....

Square Cash on Apple Watch lets you transfer money to your friends for free.

Life is expensive. Here are six apps to help you approach money as an informed and organized consumer on a budget.

Starting this Friday, Catholics in San Francisco will be able to donate to their local church by using an iPhone app, bringing modern technology to the millennia-old practice of tithing.

In case you thought paying $7 to $10 to trade a stock in the US was bad, it costs $65 in Australia. So now that its zero-fee stock trading app is thriving stateside with hundreds of thousands of users, Robinhood is planning to go international, starting in Australia. A $50 million Series B cash infusion from NEA will fuel that expansion, as well as hiring and development of…

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The Apple Watch won't launch until late April, but a couple dozen apps have already arrived.

In preparation for Apple’s first wearable device, mobile developers have been busy creating all kinds of applications designed especially for the Apple Watch’s small screen. The watch, which is said by early testers to be so usable that they found they were no longer pulling out their iPhone as often, allows you to interact with a variety of apps and notifications, ranging…

The problem lies with the banks, but there are things you can do to stay alert.

A trio of important app updates were released onto the iOS App Store Wednesday, adding a new Pro service for BitTorrent's Sync file sharing, interface refinements for Sonos Controller on iOS, and bill reminders for Intuit's iOS budget tracker, Mint.