Readers’ App Reviews – August 2012
This is a post by Reader’s Apps Reviewer Ryan Poolos, an iOS Developer and founder of Frozen Fire Studios. Checkout his latest game, Cyborg Livestock. Checkout his latest website, iHelp. August broke a new record, over 50 apps and games submitted for review! We are thrilled with the support the excitement and very proud to […] By Ryan Poolos.
Space Defenders
Space Defenders is a fast paced arcade game thats sure to turn you into an addict.
Space Defenders is extremely simple but breeds primal addiction. You simply tap to aim your cannons at enemy space ships trying to kamikaze your ship. Powerups to multiply your active blasters help you watch your back and your front.
Hunt down all the elusive achievements as you blast your way to victory!
- Author: Janis Mucenieks
- Most useful tutorial: How To Make a Space Shooter iPhone Game
- App Store Link: Check it out!
Easy Words
Easy Words is a beautiful translation and language learning app. However, Easy Words has a very unique and powerful approach to learning a new language.
Easy Words comes with pre-made vocabulary tests and word banks but also allows you to build profiles for each language you’d like to learn. You type the words in your native language and then it will translate it and save it for you in your own custom word bank.
It has support for finding synonyms as well as organizing your words into groups. Once you start to build up a good list of words you’d like to learn you can use flash cards, multiple choice, and fill in the blank to test yourself.
- Author: Igor Ananiev @devgeek27
- Most useful tutorial: Core Data on iOS 5 Tutorial: Getting Started
- App Store Link: Check it out!
Reveal The Maze
Reveal The Maze takes labyrinth games to the next level.
Reveal The Maze is all about navigating through over 70 levels spread across 4 different worlds while your field of vision is severely limited. The controls use are familiar using accelerometer like most labyrinth games.
The goal is to collect all the stars in each level. You can collect power ups throughout the game from candles to fireworks to gain the edge. But watch out for blackholes!
- Author: Murat Kurt @www.twitter.com/revealthemaze
- Most useful tutorial: How To Make a Tile Based Game with Cocos2D
- App Store Link: Check it out!
Dilemmas
Not a great decisive decision maker? No Problem!
Dilemmas is as beautiful as it is simple. Set up to 3 options, shuffle the choices and pick. Problem solved!
And for those of you lying to yourself, you can even reshuffle and try again until you get the one you want. :P
- Author: Juan González @juang294
- Most useful tutorial: How To Create a Simple iPhone App on iOS 5 Tutorial: 1/3
- App Store Link: Check it out!
Paint Invaders
The paint has gone rogue and its time to put it down!
Tilting to aim your turbo paint guns and tapping to fire, you’ve got to blast the evil paint blobs before they ruin the whole factory. You’ve got to match up colors so it can take some excellent maneuvering while controlling up to four simultaneous paint guns.
As you begin to reclaim your factory you can upgrade your paint guns and take out even more rogue paint.
- Author: Eddie Espinal @espinallab
- Most useful tutorial: How To Make a Space Shooter iPhone Game
- App Store Link: Check it out!
Photobook+
Photobook+ is a beautiful app that makes creating photo albums on the iPad easy.
Creating photo albums has never been easier. Start each page with unique layout from tons of choices. You can add pictures with beautiful borders and text using any font and color. Place maps right beside your photos with custom markers and even hand drawn overlays.
After you’ve created your gorgeous photo album you can share it via PDF, Facebook, and Twitter. You can even backup and restore your albums using iTunes file sharing.
- Author: Marco Metting @PhotobookPlus
- Most useful tutorial: Beginning Twitter in iOS 5
- App Store Link: Check it out!
Honorable Mentions
Here are the apps that didn’t get reviewed. Remember it wasn’t a popularity contest or even a rating contest. Forum members got priority among other factors. Your apps were great and I’m sorry we didn’t have time to review them all!
WeatherFrog – Accurate World Weather Forcast
Shimmer – Augmented Reality Viewer
Comic Zombies Free Ad-Supported
Dosage HD Medication Information
ConnectBiz POS – Point of Sale Systempint
Where To Go From Here?
That’s it for August! Looking forward to what you guys can come up with for September.
As always, it has been hard to pick which apps to showcase. In the end priority was given to active readers and forum members. This column isn’t a ranking or contest. We only highlight the apps to point out our readers, who have put in a lot of hard work on these apps – and it shows! Be sure to check out the honorable mentions to see the rest of the awesome apps!
If you are a reader of this site and would like to be considered for this column, click here!
I hope you enjoyed this column, and I look forward to seeing what you guys come up with this month! :]
This is a post by Reader’s Apps Reviewer Ryan Poolos, an iOS Developer and founder of Frozen Fire Studios. Checkout his latest game, Cyborg Livestock. Checkout his latest website, iHelp.