New apps for iOS, Android and Windows

Each and every week, Zari News rounds up the biggest mobile apps for tablets and smartphones as well as windows phone. This week’s highlights include an app for creating personalized maps and a major update for BBC iPlayer Radio and some extra.

1. Mapstr
Available on: iOS
Price: Free
Publisher: Hulab

2. BBC iPlayer Radio
Available on: iOS, Android, Windows Phone
Price: Free
Publisher: BBC

– Listen live and on-demand, with easy-to-access playback controls
– Download programmes and podcasts to enjoy anywhere, even offline
– Browse schedules and categories quickly and easily
– Enjoy amazing audio quality over Wi-Fi or 3G/4G
– Discover video and audio clips, including many live performances

Downloaded content can be stored for up to 30 days.

Available on: Windows Phone, Android
Price: Free
Publisher: Microsoft

Microsoft Hyperlapse is a new technology that creates smooth and stabilized time lapses from first-person videos.
Want to show your friends what you saw on that 12-mile hike you took last weekend, or let them experience how it felt to fly down the mountain on your recent ski trip? With Microsoft Hyperlapse, you can time lapse those experiences, distilling them into easily consumable, enjoyable experiences.

Features:
• Instant gratification: Capture the video, see the hyperlapse. It’s that simple.
• Import existing video: The other option: With Microsoft Hyperlapse Mobile, you can create a hyperlapse of any video you’ve already shot on your phone, instead of moving to a special application and shooting a video just for hyperlapsing.
• Multiple speeds: Microsoft Hyperlapse Mobile supports hyperlapsing a video multiple times, at different speed rates, from 1x to 32x times the normal speed – or all of the above!
• Selfie lapses: Let your friends see your face – sped up of course – while you take your first skydiving lesson or fly through the jungle on a zipline.
• Share: It’s easy to post your hyperlapses on popular social media and video sites.

4. Trring
Available on: Android
Price: Free (with in-app purchases)
Publisher: Innovplex
Trring is an awesome lock screen app, using which you can launch any app or call your friend/relative i.e., Speed dial (available in Pro version) or you can even toggle settings like Wifi, Bluetooth, etc. straight from the lock screen. Trring uses old rotary dialer style, means you can do all the above actions just like you would dial a number in a rotary dialer phone.

Features :
1. Customization : Different dialer styles, Fingerstop styles, different colors for Clock
2. Toggle settings like Wifi, Bluetooth, Mobile Data, Sound Profiles, etc.
3. Pocket Detector : Turn off lockscreen while in pocket.
4. Easy to add/remove/swap position of apps in dialer
5. Lock/Unlock sound

Features in Pro Version :
1. Speed Dial : Call your friends/relatvies straight from lockscreen
2. Notification Bubbles on app icon (like iPhone notification )
3. All of the toggle settings available, free version only includes 4
4. Music controls on lockscreen like Play, Pause, Next, Previous, etc.
5. More designs available for dialer

So, take a trip down your memory lane and feel nostalgic..!! 🙂

5. Tagstr

Available on: iOS
Price: Free
Publisher: Duplia
Tagstr is an emerging social network that combines elements of Pinterest and Twitter, allowing iPhone users to share photos, videos and audio files grouped by hashtag.

Many Facebook News Feeds are repositories of useless information, but Tagstr lets users engage with one another around the content that matters to them.

Founded by British entrepreneur Michael Venn, the service has secured a boatload of funding this year, so expect to hear more about it in the near future.

Available on: Android, iOS
Price: Free
Publisher: OpenSignal
The world’s largest free Wi-Fi database, based on over 650 million hotspots.

Features:
✓ Map of nearby free Wi-Fi hotspots
✓ Foursquare and WifiMapper comments – get more information about the hotspot venue
✓ Help improve the database – tell the community about the Wi-Fi
✓ View a history of all the wifi points you’ve connected to and see how well they performed (Android only!)
✓ Help crowdsource: by using the app you help map more free wifi points

Join the world’s largest Wi-Fi community!

Save on roaming when travelling by going to free hotspots in every major city in the world.

Smaller towns and rural areas have less data. Use the app and help fill the maps! Maps refreshed weekly, but we’re moving to daily. All the data is crowdsourced from users of WifiMapper and OpenSignal.

Find nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and save on data. WifiMapper can tell you what kind of venue it is and even if they have good coffee – and you can share your comments!

Available on: iOS, Android
Price: Free
Publisher: Read it later
Pocket is a useful app for iOS and Android devices that allows users to save all forms of web content in a palatable format for reading offline.

The service, which is great for commuters and travelers, recently received a major update on iOS, introducing text-to-speech functionality, essentially turning any web article into a podcast.

This update brings the app in line with its Android counterpart, which gained few bug fixes this week.

Available on: iOS
Price: Free
Publisher: Resident Advisor
If you’re a fan of electronic music, you’re going to want to know where the best clubs in your city are located and when your favorite DJ is in town.

RA Guide harnesses Resident Advisor’s extensive database of more than one million artists, venues and event listings to bring you this information for over 120 countries.

Users can also purchase tickets for any event that floats their boat in-app.

Available on: Android, iOS
Price: Free
Publisher: HeadTrainer, Inc
Brain training apps were around long before the smartphone revolution, but HeadTrainer offers a new spin on the concept.

The software is designed to improve the user’s sporting abilities by testing their focus, visual-spatial awareness, decision-making, memory and processing speed.

Each test takes the form of a sports-themed mini-game, designed in collaboration with a team of neuroscientists and sporting professionals.

Mapstr takes our app of the week gong for plugging a gap in the mapping world. Adding bookmarks to Google Maps on your phone is clunky, but that doesn’t matter any longer.

The services differentiates itself from the likes of Yelp and Foursquare by providing a personal experience, rather than a social one, and its maps become increasingly relevant the more you tag them.