Readers’ App Reviews – January 2017

Drone Leader Solo

While it seems like everyone is working towards reusable rockets and getting to Mars, not one is talking about the important issues: asteroids and aliens!

Drone Leader Solo is an old school arcade space shooter. Its time to practice up on your ability to take down asteroids and aliens. You’ve got one ship with limited shields. Take down as many asteroids as you can. Watch out for the UFOs hiding in the bigger asteroids, they shoot back!

There are 4 weapon types available to give you some extra asteroid busting power. And of course some shield packs to charge back up. The longer you survive, the higher your rank. Can you make it all the way to Fleet Admiral?

• Author: Mark Hodgson @markh0dgs0n
• Most useful tutorial: 2D Apple Games by Tutorials
• App Store Link: Check it out!

Prompt Me

Prompt Me is an app that takes reminders and timers to the next level with two types of prompts available. Timed Prompts and Activity Prompts.

Timed Prompts are great for workouts or anything that requires repeated actions on a fixed time interval. You simply set the time, number of intervals, and number of repetitions. Prompt me handles the rest. You can receive your notifications with a tone, vibration, or even audible voice. Great for workouts like stretching or yoga.

Activity Prompts are like a todo list on steroids. They’re great for recipes or anything with a set number of steps. Each step can have notes, pictures, and even individual timed notifications so your recipe can automatically start a 20 minute timer when you check off the bake step and start another 5 minute timer when you start the cool step.

Prompt me is a new take on reminders and timers being used together in interesting ways. Give it a try and see how it might fit your life.

• Author: Stewart Lynch @StewartLynch
• Most useful tutorial: iOS 10 by Tutorials
• App Store Link: Check it out!

Mindle Reminder App

Mindle is new app that brings your quick notes, lists, and reminders all together in one app.

You can create either a note or a list. Notes are simple text and lists are simple todo lists. You can easily attach images to both notes and lists. There are easy to use settings for colors and notification tones.

Both notes and lists can have reminders attached to them. Time based reminders fire after a certain amount of time and can repeat automatically if you’d like daily, weekly, monthly etc. You can also create location based reminders that are great for grocery lists popping up automatically at the store or todo lists popping up automatically at work.

Mindle then brings all your notes and lists together in a dashboard. You can quickly scroll through all your notes and lists to see brief snippets, countdowns to reminders, and more.

• Author: shehzar warsi @shehzarsani
• Most useful tutorial: iOS 8 by Tutorials
• App Store Link: Check it out!

Where To Go From Here?

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