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The 12 hottest apps of the month
Day One is widely considered to be the best journaling app in existence, and early this month a brand new 2.0 version was released for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
A lot has been added in the new app, most notably a new user interface, the ability to have multiple journals, faster sync, a map view, photo timeline, custom reminders, timezone support, and more.
If you like journaling — or just logging what's going on in your life — this is the app for you.
Price: $4.99 for iPhone/iPad, $29.99 for Mac
Available on: iOS App Store, Mac App Store
The business news site Quartz released an interesting news app that explains the day's headlines in a chat interface and sends breaking news notifications. As you interact with its prompts, GIFs, charts, and helpful infographics are used to break down the news into quickly digestible chunks.
It's an interesting idea for showing the news.
Price: Free
Available on: App Store
Vevo, the company that distributes most of the music videos you see on YouTube, released a pretty slick Apple TV app (and mobile app update to match) that learns about the music you like and shows you videos it thinks you'll like based on your tastes. It's a well designed entertainment app for the big screen that any music video lover will enjoy.
Price: Free
Available on: Apple TV
If you aren't already using 1Password to manage all of your passwords and sensitive information, you're doing yourself a disservice.
The app recently became especially appealing for families looking to share passwords. 1Password for Families lets up to 5 people share a password vault in the app for logins, banking info, and other data.
Price: $5 per month (extra $1 per person after 5)
Available on: Agilebits website
Skype's iPhone and Android apps finally got the ability to do group video calls this month, giving it a leg up on Apple's FaceTime. Up to 25 people can join a call and the feature doesn't cost extra.
Price: Free
Available on: App Store, Google Play Store
The new Airfoil is the ultimate command center for streaming audio from and to any source on your Mac. It's perfect for sending a music app's audio to a Bluetooth speaker and another app's audio to an AirPlay device in the other room, for example.
Price: $29 with free trial
Available on: Rogue Amoeba's website
Snapchat added a fun lens that lets you put a special birthday message over your selfies. Other people will see a birthday cake emoji next to your name in the app and be able to send you a celebratory message on your birthday too.
You can enable this new feature in Snapchat's settings.
Price: Free
Available on: App Store, Google Play Store
To kick off this month's onslaught of new email app updates, Airmail was released for the iPhone. It's definitely geared toward power users who want a lot of control over how they manage their inbox. There are in-depth snoozing options, appearance options, and buttons you can customize to make your own workflow.
Price: $4.99
Available on: App Store
Spark has already filled the gap for many that was left by the demise of Dropbox's email app, Mailbox. Previously only available on the iPhone, the app made its way to the iPad this month with a bunch of cool features, like message snoozing, actionable notifications, a smart inbox that sorts email for you, and more.
A Mac app is in the works.
Price: Free
Available on: App Store
Polymail came out of nowhere a few weeks ago with a teaser for its attractive-looking email app. Its design looks clean and there are some interesting features that have us intrigued, like the ability to track an email conversation and send emails later at a scheduled time.
Right now the app is in private beta, so sign up at the link below to get early access.
Price: Free
Available on: Polymail website
Google's Inbox is a unique approach to email apps that's worth checking out if you use Gmail.
One of the things that people loved the most about the now-defunct Mailbox was that it let you snooze (or save) emails for later. Inbox added a very similar feature recently that lets you swipe on an email to snooze it until a set time. You can even snooze emails until you reach a certain place, which is perfect if you'd rather see an email later when you get to work.
The only downside to Inbox is that, unlike the aforementioned email apps, it only works with Gmail.
Price: Free
Available on: Google Play Store, App Store
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