This category features posts related to apps for every type of mobile device and covers ideas for this 21st century industry. Here you’ll find games, social media, education and life hack apps that will be worthwhile for to download onto a smartphone.
Need help around the house? Maybe cutting the grass or cleaning up your dorm for a special occasion. How about a handyman to mount a TV or build a fence? No matter the need there’s always people with the skills that can help. Kutoto is a service marketplace that connects people and/or small businesses needing tasks or small jobs done with local providers who can do it for them. At the same time, it provides an easy way of earning extra income to people who have the spare time to pick up these jobs.
If you need to outsource your errands, tasks or chores, the location-based iPhone app connects you with trusted local people (providers). With many sites offering platforms to offer and request services, Kutoto goes a step further with a thorough background check, interviews and trained professionals to ensure you’re meeting and working with someone you can have confidence in. The team told us about their first request posting using the app:
With Mother’s Day just 12 days away, ideas on how to make it a memorable adventure is daunting to say the least. But what if we told you could earn some brownie points with your mom if she also takes care of your younger siblings before the special occasion even comes about? Here’s what you do; swipe open the App Store or visit Google Play on your mom’s smartphone. Grab the free and new app dedicated to making the life of busy moms on the go easier. Load it on her home screen and get ready for the biggest hug of your life as she discovers WOWMUM.
WOWMUM instantly locates nearby baby and child friendly places sorted by Eat, Play and Pamper categories. The tricked out and niche map app showcases over 13,000 “WOWSpots” that are child-friendly locations (in the UK), providing a destination of need near every corner your mom stops at. Whether she’s looking for baby changing facilities, indoor and outdoor play areas, toy shops or a place to get the little one’s hair done, the mommy friendly app places friendly icons on a map to find what’s needed easily and effectively.
Getting to where you need to be in the best way possible is a smooth journey with Corral Rides. Utilizing multiple travel sources the app aggregates data to provide the best options in one app. Simply enter your destination and the app spits out pricing and schedules for available options with Lyft, Sidecar and Uber availability as well. NextBus integration also lets users figure out if you’ll need to get a move on or can saunter to the next transit commuting option.
Developed by Snir Kodesh and Noam Szpiro, former Ooyala engineers, the app is best used in San Francisco because of the third party API’s it uses, but can also be used to find travel routes easily by dropping two pins on the map. You can download Corral Rides on the App Store for free.
Yesterday we found out about Google’s new animated GIF search feature and the transparent filter option, but their functionally designed Android app, Google Keep makes us think Google has found a way to apply design with subtle details that now make a difference. The note-taking web and Android app captures what’s on your mind and stores it in the cloud, Google Drive to be specific. The information then is synced to all your devices.
The application keeps track of your notes (written or audio based), lists (which can be organized by color) and photos. Google Keep is available on Google Play for devices running Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich and above.
SellanApp crowdfunds for your app idea to make it a reality on the App Store. You might have a great idea, but don’t want to hire or become a designer, developer, ux expert and branding professional to make your idea into a product. SellanApp makes ideas happen by helping those that need help with development connect with developers.
Like Kickstarter, those that love an app idea pledge various amounts in order to get it developed. The idea producer provides rewards to the pledger or a share in the potential revenue the app will generate, if not both. While funding grows for ideas, developers can then decide on the app concepts they want to develop if it meets their pocket book needs.
Using augmented reality effectively has been buggy, cumbersome and sometimes inefficient – it just seems that very few are capable of implementing it in a useful way. Tokyo Newspaper, also known as Tokyo Shimbun, and Dentsu Tokyo created an app that is simple enough to use with augmented reality that it’s targeted at kids.
In an attempt to engage kids and have them interact with newspapers the smartphone app ‘translates’ articles into child-friendly versions to keep their interest. Utilizing pop-up headlines, cartoon characters and script more effective for children, kids not only digest the commentary but also enjoy it.
Muffle Guard is a recently launched new web application that helps big companies control what their users tweet. Muffle aims to help mitigate PR disasters whilst also helping companies capitalize on PR positives. For instance a politician is surely going to have a team delivering tweets directly or indirectly on their behalf. Muffle helps delay, block, flag and analyze tweets to manage an accounts Twitter reputation.
Currently in beta, Muffle accounts can maintain a tweet history, provide keyword detection, buffer tweet times, stop all new tweets from occurring, fire off email notifications, hide tweets, provide sentiment analysis of tweets and more. Larger companies or those with multiple users managing a Twitter account need a platform to ensure no rogue actions harm a brands reputation. Muffle Guard protects against huge damages from ever occurring by providing a customizable admin network to mitigate the reputation that was so hard to earn.
While GIF’s were the source of countless funny and quirky moving images online, Vine is quickly becoming poised to be the next medium to capture and share memorable moving moments. Jumping on the popularity of the new app, Vinepeek and VineRoulette let you see how people are using the service to possibly inspire or just down right entertain.
Vine, “the Instagram of Video” can be that app you get where no friends have joined yet, but you can do some cool things with, then again you just might not know what to do or film. The new creative medium outlet lets you take six-second clips of anything you want, but you of course probably to do something better then just film your pen on your desk. Vinepeek and VineRoulette let you see what others have done and sneak a peek at what could be possible.
There are spam filters for you digital mail, but there never seems a way to stop the useless junk mail that comes to your physical box. PaperKarma tackles the mission to help you take control of your home or business mailbox and to receive only what you want. Businesses don’t want to spend needlessly on paper products that will just be trashed anyways, so why should you keep receiving them?
The iPhone, Android, and Windows app is a product of Readabl Inc. from Seattle. They work closely with source distribution companies to help you unsubscribe from catalogs, magazines, credit card offers, etc. and optionally – i.e., if you explicitly choose to – convert you to the corresponding online (email) versions. According to their website PaperKarma was started to deal with the environmental impacts attached with trashing junk mail and the frustrations that accompany seeing things you know are just a waste of time.
Cincinnati-based startup ChoreMonster knows that getting a child to clean up, wash dishes or do any other chore for that matter is a chore on-to-itself. The new free and clever little app aims to make tedious tasks fun and rewarding for kids and less of a hassle to deal with for parents.
Parents quickly and easily create scheduled chores with point values for their children, and once it gets completed they get points. Once the kids get enough points they can “purchase” items such as hugs, money or possibly a camping trip with the points they collect. Kids can review their chores on their own app/site, checkout their rewards and keep track of their points. During all of this kids also earn random monsters for added fun and stickiness. Parents hopefully won’t have to yell at their kids to do something, while kids won’t have to hear from parents what they need to get done.
