Check out the new and notable apps we think you should be downloading this week.
Piloteer
Price: $2.99/£2.29 • Version: 1.1 • Size: 80.0 MB
A difficult, rewarding game of jetpack acrobatics. Prove that jetpacks are the future by completing a series of stunts and challenges. The hand-drawn 2D graphics and ragdoll physics combine for hilarious gameplay.
Divide By Sheep
Price: $2.99/£2.29 • Version: 1.0 • Size: 130 MB
A math-based puzzler with a dark sense of humor. Help sheep survive the Grim Reaper’s plans using logic. Despite looking like a cute kids game, it’s actually pretty gory. Good thing there’s an option to disable blood!
BuzzFeed News
Price: Free • Version: 1.0.2 • Size: 18.1 MB
A social news curation app from the popular entertainment website – Buzzfeed aims to make the news easy to follow. Featuring hand-picked tweets, videos, gifs and yes, even regular news articles from around the web.
Retype
Price: $2.99/£2.29 • Version: 1.0.1 • Size: 55.1 MB
An excellent image-editing app that’s perfectly suited to mobile use, with powerful features and an interface that’s easy to get to grips with. For the casual photo editor, it’s overkill – but for detailed edits, it’s a must-have.
Lingvo Dictionary
Price: $5.99/£4.49 Free • Version: 3.17 • Size: 23.8 MB
What doesn’t Lingvo do for language lovers? With dozens of dictionaries in multiple languages, the app provides quick translation, flashcard-based learning, definitions and grammar info. It even translates from photos!
Omega: the first movement
Price: $1.99/£1.49 Free • Version: 1.3 • Size: 97.8 MB
Fight your way through a unique musical storyline in this rhythm-based action battle game. Tap to the beat to attack, defend and perform special moves!
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Scanner Pro 6
Price: $2.99/£2.29 • Version: 6.0 • Size: 56.6 MB
The latest update to this classic document scanning app brings a major redesign and several new features, like automatic scanning and an intelligent ‘scan radar’.
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