Another year, another couple thousand new apps for you to wade through in a befuddled haze. Which ones should you download? Which ones should you actually pay for? And which ones deserve to take up prime real estate on your home screen? Whether you’ve spent the last 365 days asking yourself those very questions, or need a refresher on which apps from the last year deserve a second look, we’ve got you covered. Without further ado—our 20 favorite new apps from 2015:
Layout
Before Layout, you had to search through the app store for something to help stitch your photos into a collage that was then sharable to Instagram (Pixlr was often my choice). But Instagram finally came to its senses and created an app to make collages less of a nightmare. You can move frames with a simple click and drag, and move photos around so you get the exact collection of shots you want. The app then serves up sharing options direct to Instagram, Facebook, and pretty much anywhere else you can think of.
Outlook
Outlook needed an upgrade for a long, long time, and Microsoft finally delivered by buying one of the best email clients out there, Acompli, and bringing all its features and design to Outlook. It’s arguably one of the best Gmail clients for iOS (yes, it’s better than Gmail’s) and Microsoft plans to further integrate Sunrise, an amazing calendar app, directly into Outlook. In 2016, the app could become the go-to choice for keeping your email organized.
Periscope
Periscope is arguably the heaviest hitter on this list. The app launched in March, and with the support of Twitter, quickly became the No. 1 livestreaming app out there. It’s been adopted widely by individual users and media outlets to offer instantaneous coverage from a smartphone to the rest of the world. Other competitors, like YouTube Live and Meerkat, offer intriguing alternatives. But Periscope, with its straightforward interface and growing community, is probably the most successful app of the year.
Apple Music
Apple Music didn’t exactly set the music streaming world on fire, but it created one hell of an app and made up for years of lost time. It also introduced Beats 1, a delightfully old school way of discovering music in a sort of FM Radio/podcast hybrid. Apple Music also has deep integration into the iTunes Store, so if you already have an impressive library of paid tunes, Apple Music plays along nicely. Perhaps the most shocking development with Apple Music is that it’s also available on Android. So everybody wins (except Apple designers).
VHS Camcorder
This is one of those beautiful, simple apps that doesn’t need much describing. It makes video on your phone look like it was shot on some shitty camcorders from the 80s. Revolutionary? NOPE. But fun (and kinda brilliant) nonetheless.
Source-http://www.gizmodo.in/
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