The best iOS apps of 2016 according to Lifehacker

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-13 00:26

2016 was rich in interesting iOS applications, and Lifehacker, together with the cashback service, selected the best from them. Let's take them back together and check if you missed something.

Prisma

The loudest app of the year, making a splash on social media and becoming a real phenomenon. Now it can redraw not only photos, but also videos using neural networks. By the way, there are much more filters too. With Prisma, you can feel like an artist and turn the most ordinary photo into a masterpiece. The main thing is not to abuse!

Airmail

At the beginning of this year, the beloved Mailbox closed and there was a real boom in mail clients. One of the most popular turned out to be Airmail, familiar to us from the desktop version for macOS. The mobile application has the same minimalistic interface and is not inferior in terms of capabilities to the “adult” version. Support for 3D Touch, integration with Spotlight and iMessage search, as well as a huge number of options for fine-tuning for yourself.

Tinycards

The new Duolingo app uses a proprietary language learning method to memorize a variety of information. Tinycards playfully introduces facts from a wide variety of fields and checks how you remember them. It's practically an encyclopedia, only much more fun.

Opera VPN

The topic of blocking was hotter than ever in 2016. Opera has added VPN support to its browser and has even released a separate app with this feature. It allows you to hide your location and gain access to blocked resources in your region. On top of that, Opera VPN also removes ads, and it's completely free.

Music Memos

Apple's suite of branded apps has been expanded with a new music app that will be appreciated by anyone who composes music. It is a very handy tool for capturing a musical idea in a moment of inspiration and not letting it slip away. At the same time, if you play a melody on the piano or guitar, Music Memos will automatically select the beat and bass part for it, based on chords, key and bar. The recorded Song can be edited and exported in one of several ways, including GarageBand and Logic Pro X projects.

Ink Hunter

Thanks to augmented reality, ideas that seemed until recently fiction are embodied. So, with Ink Hunter, you can try on a tattoo as if it were a piece of clothing or an accessory. The application in real time projects a sketch of the tattoo on the body and allows you to take a photo from any angle. Moreover, you can even see what the aged tattoo will look like.

H _ _ r

To focus on something, you need to either find a quiet place or block out the noise with more pleasant sounds. It turns out that there is a third way - to distort the noise around you by changing the sound background beyond recognition. H _ _ r applies effects according to the selected preset in real time. There are several modes for all occasions: sleep, office, relaxation and others.

Microsoft Pix

In 2016, Microsoft delighted us with interesting apps for iPhone and iPad. The most memorable is the Pix camera, which boasts not only trivial filters, but also such advanced features as an intelligent algorithm that determines the best settings for pictures and automatic post-processing. The application is so smart that it will even take a "live photo" itself if there is some interesting movement in the frame.

Boom

Apple still torments music lovers with the lack of a manual equalizer in iOS, but third-party developers, as always, are in a hurry to help. The creators of Boom, a popular equalizer for macOS, adapted their creation for use on the iPhone and iPad, and since third-party applications cannot change the sound of the standard player, they had to equip the equalizer with a player. Boom has many presets and a special processing algorithm that adapts to different types of headphones. The import of songs is supported not only from the local media library, but also from cloud storage.

The rock clock

Dwayne Scala Johnson is known not only for his severity, but also for his daily routine: the wrestler wakes up at 4:45 am. If you want to be like him, you can sync your schedule with wrestler mode and wake up to the sounds and motivating videos he recorded with this alarm clock. Dwayne thinks Snooze is for the wimps, so The Rock Clock simply doesn't have it. Keep in mind.