The best new apps you may have missed

There are a lot of apps out there.

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We're here to make sure that the best gems don't fall through the cracks. 

This time we've got some great personal finance apps, updates to Slack, cool Google app updates, and much more.

Here's everything you may have missed in June from the app world:

 

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Winnie is an app that helps parents find kid-friendly places to go.

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Winnie

Winnie is like Foursquare or Yelp, but designed specifically for parents. It can show you nearby places that are safe to take kids, and parents with the app can give each other tips about where to go and what to do.

Price: Free

Available on: App Store

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The Android version of Facebook Messenger can send and receive SMS messages from regular phone numbers.

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Facebook quietly SMS text messaging into the Android version of Messenger, which means the app can serve as an all-in-one texting machine.

Once enabled in Messenger's settings, SMS texts can be seen in purple.

Price: Free

Available on: Google Play

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WalletHub is the first app that offers free daily credit scores and reports.

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WalletHub analyzes your credit score on a daily basis and gives you tips on how to improve it and avoid being penalized. The app also monitors your credit for potential risks like identity theft or fraud.

Price: Free

Available on: App Store

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Musical.ly's new live streaming app is already a hit.

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Musical.ly star "Baby Ariel." Facebook/OfficialBabyAriel

Musical.ly is already a hit with teens, and the music-based social network's live streaming app looks like another success. It's currently near the top of the App Store's charts.

The Live.ly app integrates with Musical.ly and lets people broadcast themselves and interact with an audience. Viewers can share "emoji" gifts and comment on broadcasts in real time.

Price: Free

Available on: App Store

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Stock Market Sensei uses machine learning to analyze stocks and help you make better investments.

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This new Android app analyzes the market to predict the highs and lows of stocks on a given day. It can even send alerts when it thinks there is a good opportunity to trade.

It's basically Dark Sky for stocks.

"We think there is a divide between the quality of analysis tools available to large investment companies versus the average investor," the app's creators told TI. "So, we are trying to even the playing field by making our machine learning stock analysis platform publicly available."

Anyone can use the app for free to see past predictions and there's a 30-day free trial for the app's premium features.

Price: Free with in-app purchases

Available on: Google Play

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Google has a photography app that makes the iPhone's Live Photos look better.

Google's Motion Stills app takes Live Photos on the iPhone (you know, the ones you tap to animate like GIFs) and turns them into stabilized, smoother GIFs worth sharing.

If you have a newer iPhone that supports Live Photos, the app is definitely work checking out.

Price: Free

Available on: App Store

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Slack's chat bots are more interactive.

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Slack supercharged the capabilities of its many third party chat bots to let coworkers interact with them like normal apps.

The idea is that you're able to approve and submit an expense report without leaving Slack. More examples can be found on Slack's blog.

Price: Free

Available: Everywhere Slack works

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You can make phone calls in Slack too.

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Slack isn't just replacing how people chat at work — it wants to replace how they talk on the phone too.

Anyone can make one-on-one voice or video calls in Slack now. And paid teams can make group calls. Just look for the phone icon while you're in a chat with someone.

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Twitter lets you add stickers to photos and search for them like hashtags.

Twitter took a page out of Snapchat's playbook and gave people the ability to place stickers and emojis over photos. It took the feature one step further by turning them into visual hashtags — so if you search for "eggplant" on Twitter you'll see photos with the eggplant emoji.

Price: Free

Available: iOS, Android, and the web

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Uber is hiding surge pricing on UberX rides now.

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You're probably used to Uber telling you when surge pricing is in effect and exactly how much it will cost you.

For UberX rides, that surge pricing is now hidden.

Uber has instead started showing upfront, exact pricing for UberX rides (like it had for UberPool). UberX rides previously showed you an estimated range of how much the ride would cost.

Available: iOS, Android

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Google's two-step authentication is much easier to use.

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No more text message codes. Google

You should be using two-step authentication on all of your online accounts. Luckily, Google has made its two-step process much easier.

When you log into your Google account on any device, you can use your phone to quickly authenticate yourself after you enter your password. It's a much simpler process than having to enter a code from a text message from Google.

To set it up,  go to your Google account's settings, select "Sign-in & Security," choose "Signing in to Google" and then "2-Step Verification." From there select "Google Prompt" as default and pick the phone you want it to work with.

Most Android phones will already support the feature, but you'll have to use the Google Search app for it to work with an iPhone.

Price: Free

Available: iOS, Android

You can use Google search to find out why you have certain symptoms.

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Google made it so that you don't have to go searching through countless health forums and medical websites to find out why you feel sick. Just search for your symptoms to see results.

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