Apps

iOS’s Music app, much like iTunes on computers, has traditionally been the destination for all audio-related content—you’d go there to find the music synced from your iTunes library, plus podcasts and audiobooks....

Following the public release of iOS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 earlier today, Apple has pushed a host of notable updates for many of its additional iOS apps in the App Store. Apps like Podcasts got iCloud sync and iOS 6 support, while smaller updates have been seeded to bring simple iOS 6 compatibility. Other popular apps from the iLife and iWork iOS suites received updates today too. Here’s a list of all the iOS app updates Apple released today:

In grade school, kids might not quite be ready to own a tablet or smartphone, but that doesn’t mean they can’t get something out of using mom's or dad’s device every once...

Visua Musio is a new iPad app, surfaced by Creative Applications Network, which lets you make “visual music animations” by adding shapes to an empty canvas. That canvas becomes your…

Math is the foundation of all learning, from literature to music and everything in between. This week, we have Math Doodles and the Motion Math Hungry Guppy to satisfy any...

ClassDojo, the behavior management platform for the education sector, has launched its first native mobile app (iOS) to help teachers bring order to their classrooms. Just to recap, ClassDojo rolled…

We know parents are sharing their smartphones and tablets with their kids, some as young as two years old! Good thing there are high quality educatio…

The week might end, but new apps do not. And we've got all kinds of greatness coming at you this week—a shopping app, a TV guide, and more....

The future doctors, engineers and chemists of the world will undoubtedly spend most of their college days knee-high in beakers and microscopes, researching and inventing...

Kicking off this week’s must-have apps roundup is a new music app called MUSaIC, that promises to help you rediscover your all those albums you forgot you had. We’ve also got a great new photography app called Etchings, which turns your photos into etched illustrations; a big update to Dolphin, one of my favorite third-party browsers on iOS; and more.

I can’t lay claim to the world’s greatest art aficionado title, but I’m no culturally bereft Luddite either, which is why apps such as this can really serve a purpose….

Being a parent in the smartphone era is a serious blessing. We have an arsenal of essential parenting tools that didn't exist a few years ago -- and they're right in our...

A high school student's plate isn't just filled with classes, but also sports, clubs, SATs and a social life of proms and pep rallies. Don't head into the classroom...

The kids are heading back to school, and you might be yearning for the days of spankin' new Jansport backpacks, Trapper Keepers and sharpened #2 pencils. Luckily, you're...

Entertainment Shark Net is a new iOS app that locates nearby Great White Sharks with a Foursquare-esque check-in platform. The aim of the free app is to enable a direct, personal...

Kicking off this week’s must-have apps roundup is a brand new update to Instagram — the world’s most popular photo sharing service — that introduces an improved user interface and new features. We’ve also got a new Food Network app that every foodie should have, the official WWE app for wrestling fans, and a great educational app for the iPad that promises to teach your little ones how to write capital letters quickly and efficiently.

If Darth Vader had a favorite iPad app, it would be the new Solar Walk 2.0. Hands down one of the most stunning creations for the iPad, Solar Walk is an app that puts a...

Wee Society, a new effort emerging from a small design and branding studio based in San Francisco, has just published its first app, a children’s interactive book called Wee A B See. And it’s the first of many products – not just apps – which this new company plans to produce. Now, you may not have heard of Office, as the studio is called, but you probably have come across their work. It’s the team that brought you that new, simplified Google Chrome icon, for example, they also developed the Disney’s ...

What do you get when a team of Emmy winning children’s TV producers are introduced to the iPad? You get a company that has a whole new vision for the future of television. That company, PlaySquare, is working on something they’re calling “touchable TV.” It’s the idea that the child shouldn’t just be watching television, they should be interacting with it. And it’s not a second screen experience, where the iPad app serves to complement the show a child is viewing. It’s a television network on the iPad, w...

It's Friday, meaning it's time for the best iPad apps of the week. This week, we're wowing you with a navigational app for boaters, one that will teach you something, and another that will test your knowledge of pop culture. IBM Think: How did we get from the invention of the wheel to the personal computer? It's been a long road, marked by very important developments along the way. Based on IBM's Think exhibit staged in NYC last year, this app maps innovation in a beautifully-designed package. Free...

There's no point in fighting it. Technology is working its way into the lives of digitally native tots earlier and earlier, and it might be a more positive evolution than...

Raphael Halberthal and Tom Galle know your kids are more tech savvy than you, so they think your kids should be able to use tech for something most adults find common...

Interactive ebook publisher Inkling has updated its previously iPad-only iOS app with support for the iPhone and iPod touch. Inkling 3.0 optimizes the layout for smaller screens and adds automatic syncing between devices, storing notes in a dedicated Notebook. The new app also lets iPhone users download only a chapter at a time in order to save space and data. It's free on the iTunes Store, but you'll need to create an account and spend between $5 and $200 for each book, depending on whether you're...

Inkling started life as a textbook publisher for iPads, before recently rolling out an HTML5-powered eBook Web app. And now, it has finally launched a version optimized specifically for the…

Did you know the first metal detector was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1881 in order to extract a stray bullet from President James Garfield's back? This is the kind of interesting innovation revealed in IBM Think, a free app that maps out the roots of technological advances. With a 10-minute HD video and interactive illustrations, it shows the origins of a lot of the technology we use today. Science has come a long since Galileo first made his claims of a sun-centric universe, but that doesn't...