Apps

Planets

Planets from Q Continuum is the app that’s going to take you to the planets and stars. It’s educational, but it’s a lot of fun too, combining features of astronomy with a planetarium, and the presentation makes for an engrossing exploration of the constellations and planets.

Fantasia Painter

Fantasia Painter from Nokola is one of the many photography apps for Windows, but what makes it different from the rest is that it’s also a powerful painting app. So if you’re not content with just applying filters to images and want to be more creative, Fantasia Painter lets you do that.

Mercari

Buying and selling stuff online has become commonplace on computers, but it’s still somewhat unwieldy on mobile devices. But if you want to buy and sell with your tablet or smartphone, you can give Mercari a try: this is a classifieds app that allows you to shop for clothes, gadgets, books and many other things.

Adobe Slate

Adobe Slate from Adobe lets you create a narrative with your images (and can also be used to create simple web pages) using themes and templates. Adobe Slate isn’t just a photo sharing app as it’s also great for jazzing up newsletters, reports or simply tell a story with your photos, making this a versatile addition to your device.

VivaVideo

VivaVideo from QuVideo is a free video editor, so what makes it different from the rest? For one thing it allows you to make videos with storyboards and even use slow motion effects, and you don’t need to do a lot of editing. With it you can quickly make a video story you can share with friends even if you’re not an expert.

GIF for Facebook Messenger

GIF for Facebook Messenger from Riffsy is the app that does exactly that: let you send GIFs. Messenger is a cool app and mostly functional, but the fact you can’t send GIFs has always been one of its shortcomings. Now, that isn’t going to be a problem anymore as you can send GIFs with a single tap.

PowerSchool Mobile

If you’re a teacher or school administrator and using the PowerSchool student information system, you’re going to find the PowerSchool mobile app for the Android and iOS useful. What the app does is provide a way for parents, teachers and students to stay in touch and share information. Unlike other education apps, this has been specifically tailored for this system so it’s more intuitive to use.

Giphy For Messenger

Giphy for Messenger is all about making it easy to search GIFs and using them in the Messenger app. This isn’t the only app that can do the GIF thing, but it’s one of the most popular because once you download the app and integrate it with Messenger, you can search the Giphy database for all their GIFs, and that’s a lot.