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Quip app on itunes1/15/2024 ![]() ![]() iPhone / iPad Flick Kick Field Goal 2014 (Free) It works across Android, iOS and desktop computers too. The schtick: it groups documents and messages about them in a chat-like "thread of updates", making collaboration clearer. Quip is a much-talked-about new word processing app that – from this week – is available in the UK as well as the US. It supports one-to-one and group chats, saving important messages to a Pinboard, and making shared photos and documents easily accessible. iPhone Fleep (Free)Īs explained last week, Fleep is the new thing from two of Skype's founding engineers: an app that sits somewhere between chat and email. This is from BitTorrent the company – a file-syncing application tying into the wider BitTorrent Sync service, so you can access your folders and files on the go, and send photos and videos to those folders as well. No, not an actual BitTorrent filesharing client – Apple still doesn't allow those on the App Store. But you can't yet play that here in the UK, so Monster Match is worth a look. ![]() The inspiration is fairly clear: Puzzle & Dragons, currently one of the most lucrative mobile games in the world. It sees you finding and battling more than 225 beasties by matching gems, with plenty of nuances in balancing the various abilities and levelling up. Monster Match got me hooked on holiday last week with its combination of match-three puzzling and Pokemon-style monster-collecting. Promising "fresh new content you'll love based on what you already like", it gets you to sign in with Twitter or Facebook, then analyses your posts to figure out what you might want to read about. The latest company aiming to provide a sleek news-aggregation app is INQ, with this port of the Material app that's been going down well on Android. Yes, there's American Football action here, but the focus is just as much on building a team of players through (digital) card-collecting, with in-app purchases funding your roster ambitions. iPhone / iPad Madden NFL 25 (Free)ĮA's moves to make some of its biggest game franchises freemium continues with Madden NFL the latest to get the treatment. Also worth checking out: Lego Mindstorms 3D Builder, which teaches you how to build the bots, and Lego Mindstorms Fix the Factory, a puzzle game introducing one of them. Robot Commander is the one you use to control the five robots that can be built using the kit: walking, slithering, grasping, and then making you a cup of tea (I'm guessing with that last one: don't be disappointed). Lego has actually released three apps for its new Mindstorms EV3 robotics kit this week. iPad Lego Mindstorms Robot Commander (Free) This is an app to access Cambridge University Press' individual versions of plays including Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night's Dream, with lots of innovative AND useful features to dig deeper into the texts. Shakespeare goes freemium! Although thankfully not in the 'in-app purchases to unlock dragons in Hamlet' sense. While it's free to download, it does need a year's subscription for £54.99 per computer once the 14-day trial runs out. The idea being you can fire up your desktop applications, control them via the touchscreen, and work with iPad apps – copying and pasting text for example. Parallels' new iPad app provides remote access to your desktop computer, whether it's a PC or Mac. For now, read on for this week's iOS selection (and when you've finished, check out previous Best iPhone and iPad apps posts).
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