Check out the new and notable apps we think you should be downloading this week.
HoPiKo
Price: $3.99/£2.99 • Version: 1.0.1 • Size: 70.3 MB
HoPiKo is a highly stylized love letter to tough-as-nails retro platforming. Save gaming as we know it by bouncing between platforms at breakneck speeds, dodging the deadly nanovirus and saving your friends.
Purify Blocker
Price: $0.99/£0.79 • Version: 1.1 • Size: 11.6 MB
As of iOS 9, Apple now allows content blockers to disable ads and trackers on web pages. This can decrease load times and let you browse a more distraction-free internet. For our money, this is the best blocker out there!
Dub Dash
Price: $1.99/£1.49 • Version: 1.0 • Size: 58.7 MB
Like a rhythm-action game on steroids, Dub Dash combines music and in-your-face neon graphics into a harmonious obstacle-avoiding arcade experience. Be warned, though: you’ll need lightning fast reactions for this one!
Photoshop Fix
Price: Free • Version: 1.0 • Size: 88.3 MB
Say goodbye to imperfections! Retouch, restore, heal and adjust images with powerful desktop-class Photoshop technology on mobile. You can use the tools to fake that perfect selfie or refine your favorite landscape shot until it’s just right, all with minimum fuss.
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Moleskine Timepage
Price: $4.99/£3.99 • Version: 1.3 • Size: 73.7 MB
Timepage elegantly combines a calendar app with weather, map and contact functions. The minimal, classy approach is to a one-stop daily briefing is typically Moleskine. Just updated with support for Today widgets, plus new watchOS 2 and iOS 9 features.
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Tiny Empire
Price: $2.99/£2.49 • Version: 1.1.0 • Size: 80.3 MB
We enjoyed Tiny Empire when we reviewed it in full recently, and now the Angry Birds-inspired artillery game is on sale. Blast orcs with bombs, shoot meteors at aliens and make sure to protect your soldiers.
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NetNewsWire
Price: $3.99/£2.99 • Version: 4.0.0 • Size: 11.3 MB
Keep up with the latest news! The recent 4.0 update to this app makes it easier than ever to stay tuned in to the sites you love most. Easy to use, with a great user interface, it’s one of the better newsfeed readers for iOS.