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Best new apps and games – April 22, 2017

Check out our hand-picked selection of the best new apps and games to hit the App Store these past seven days. There’s plenty to sink your teeth into until next week’s roundup – read on for details!

Guardians of the Galaxy

Price: $4.99/£4.99  • Version: 1.1 • Size: 1.54 GB


From Earth to the Milano to Knowhere and beyond, and set to the beat of awesome music, this five-part episodic series puts you in the rocket-powered boots of Star-Lord in an original Guardians adventure, told in the unique and award-winning Telltale style, where your decisions and actions will drive the path of the story you experience.

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Voila Recipes

Price: Free • Version: 1.0.1 • Size: 47.9 MB

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A compendium of real recipes to suit ingredients you actually have in the house. How often have you skimmed through a recipe book and been put off by the shopping list, required before you can even think about eating? Or found that none of the recipes cater for allergies or special dietary requirements? Voila is a directory of real, tried and tested recipes with a range of categories catering for every taste.

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Invert

Price: $2.99/£2.99 • Version: 1.0.1 • Size: 196 MB

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Invert is a minimalist puzzle game for fans of brain teasers, logic puzzles, and Rubik’s Cube fiddlers. In Invert you press buttons around a tile grid that flip a certain pattern of tiles. Your goal is to make all tiles the same color using as few moves as possible. Easy to solve, but hard to solve well.

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Yoop

Price: Free • Version: 1.2 • Size: 180 MB

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Yoop is a collaborative, music-making toy for everyone. Simple, fun, and beautiful, you don’t need to be a musician in order to Yoop. Exploring various sound packs, Yoop let you design perfectly timed tunes by building on recordings you make. Yoop solo, or link phones via Bluetooth and collaborate with your friends!

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Evergrow: Paper Forest

Price: $2.99/£2.99 • Version: 1.3 • Size: 332 MB

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Solve puzzles in the handcrafted forests of Evergrow through the eyes of an imaginative child and his parents. Discover their unfolding story told through the child’s ever-changing room. In each puzzle, the player must guide the rabbit to fill all tiles with grass while avoiding obstacles and using special tiles.

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iWork Suite [Price Drop]

Price: Various Free

Download Pages

Download Keynote

Download Numbers

Until now, if you’re rocking an older iPhone or iPad you would have to pay extra to download Apple’s suite of work apps – Pages, Keynote, and Numbers. That’s all changed now and if you don’t already have them, you can get the lot for free! This also applies to the feature-packed music maker GarageBand and the easy-to-use video editor iMovie. Dive in, or read our news article for more details on this change.