Readers’ App Reviews – April 2014
Check out apps made by fellow readers in April 2014! By Ryan Poolos.
LETTERARIUM
Steampunk meets boggle in their additing word game.
Letters fall into the machine and its up to you to make the given word with the letters you have. As time goes on you’ll get more and more letters to choose from.
Watch out for bombs and keep an eye on the clock, this machine has a schedule to keep!
Phyics and steampunk graphics throughout the game at the flare to make this a unique word game experience.
- Author: Richard Rabassa
- Most useful tutorial: Sprite Kit Tutorial: Space Shooter
- App Store Link: Check it out!
Travel Memo
Travel Memo is a handy app to save places you like to visit.
Have you ever been somewhere and found a sweet hangout or a delicious burger bar off the beaten path that you’d love to find again if you ever come back? Travel Memo can help!
Travel Memo lets you tag locations and put them in groups. Great for that vacation spot you visit once a year but always forget all the good restaurants. Or awesome for marking the best coffee shops around the convention center of your favorite conference.
- Author: Le Huy @AresHuyLe
- Most useful tutorial: Storyboards Tutorial in iOS 7: Part 1
- App Store Link: Check it out!
iCanMorph
iCanMorph is an app that turns shapes, colors, text, and even your own photos into works of animated art.
With over 575 animated effects available, iCanMorph will keep you busy blowing your mind with some amazing effects like breaking up your pictures into hundreds of blocks and building a pyramid.
iCanMorph uses special particle drawing to be able to do all these animations at a solid 60 fps on retina devices.
- Author: Michael Kucinski
- Most useful tutorial: Trigonometry for Game Programming [Sprite Kit Version]: Part 1/2
- App Store Link: Check it out!
Honorable Mentions
I had some apps I couldn’t review. Don’t feel bad, it wasn’t a popularity contest or even a rating contest. Forum members get priority, among other factors. I make time to try out every app that comes across my screen, one day I’ll find time to write about them all too!
CypherText
Meteor Run
YourSquare
Capture the Tank Strategy Game
Shooting Battle Fighting Game
Flying Tiny Bird In Candy-Land Saga
Tunnel Dash
Prom Salon – Girl Games
palCine
Twerky Bird
Hungry Ray
Flash Tunnel
Tappy Fly
Bricks
Tiny Flap Pig : Jump
Blokz
Patterns for smart kids
You & Me: Story Maker
Nearbie
Flapalope
Trave Memo
FlyingEagles
Super 4096
Do You Know Your USA?
Battle-Sheep
Flying Bacon
Lightz
Balloon Sho-oter
iGroup IM
PicDate
TinyTale
PiggyJ—ump
BAD DUCK
Pins
CheckShare
Wanted Bounty Hunters
Flappy Love Story
Where To Go From Here?
As expected, I really enjoyed your apps – it’s great fun to see what fellow readers make each month.
If you’ve never made an app, we’ve got you covered! Check out our free tutorials to become an iOS star. What are you waiting for – I want to see your app next month!
If you’ve already made the next great app, let me know about it! Submit here!