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Best 10 Smartphone Apps Releases in 2017 for Android and iPhone
As we know, smartphones have been revolutionizing the way we think, communicate and shop through their applications since July 10 2008, when Apple opened its App Store with 500 apps. Developers have been designing millions and millions of free and paid apps since today and continuously are pushing the envelope to its boundaries to make these smart gadgets smarter for us. As in 2017, over 2.7 million apps in Google Play and over 2.2 million applications have released in Apple App Store. I have picked the best out of millions of Android and iPhone apps released this year for you to download. The ranking of these apps is based on their usability and futuristic UI features.
1. Gratus
Price: Free / in-app purchases
Utility: Lifestyle
Developer: Francisco Franco
OS Compatibility: Android
Gratus is a unique reminder that collects and saves those adorable moments of your life, you feel grateful for and want to recall again n again. You save those ‘once in a lifetime’ kind of moments in your phone as reminders and Gratus will keep you reminding and making you feel good about those times. Developer has dedicated this app to his girlfriend and sister. (An ‘aww’ moment na!! *smile*)
Features:
- A user friendly interface encourages you to write
- Push notifications keep you updated
2. Flowx
Price: Free / in-app purchases
Utility: Weather
Developer: Enzure Digital
OS Compatibility: Android
Flowx is an upgraded version of ‘WeatherBomb’ app. Flowx is a powerful weather forecasts utility with its easy visual graphs for forecasts on a go. Sync up your installed weather app with Flowx to make it a complete weather utility.
Features:
- View weather forecasts in animated form with its swipe action
- View a full month’s weather on one page
- To meet your whole weather needs Flowx feature data types above 30 from Canadian GDPS and NOAA’s GFS
- Forecast graphs let you foresee and compare fluctuating weather for days and nights.
- Customizable widgets
- View different data types i.e. wind and rain in multiple layers form at once
- You can add and save any location you want to get weather updates
3. Adidas All Day
Price: Free
Utility: Health & Fitness
Developer: Adidas
OS Compatibility: Android, iOS
Keeping your daily fitness needs in front, Adidas developed ‘All Day’, with the help of fitness and health experts. From Yoga routines, fitness training sessions, nutrition plans, meditation videos to routine body’s activity trainer, Adidas All Day have everything you need to get an active body with healthy mind.
Features:
- All day Activity tracker let you improve and build new routines
- Workout planner counts walking steps and running distance with calories burned
- You can set reminders for routine yoga and gym sessions
- All day users can find various nutritional recipes for dinner, breakfast, lunch and snack breaks
- “Discoveries” panel deliver audio and video training sessions
The app is available only in United States right now. Adidas plans to launch ‘All day’ in other countries before this winter. fitness training sessions, all day fitness needs.
4. Wemogee
Price: Free
Utility: Messenger
Developer: Samsung
OS Compatibility: iOS
Wemogee is a revolution in communication’s area. Samsung designed this app, with help of speech therapists, for those cannot communicate properly. When a user type emoji’s in writing panel, Wemogee app automatically converts these emojis into text upon sending the message. The purpose of this app is to help do not know how to use appropriate words for communication. Wemogee understands the language of symbols and make easy for those suffer from ‘aphasia’ a communication disorder, to correspond with family and friends.
Features:
- Dual linguistics: supports English and Italian
- Dual modes: supports two modes emoji and textual
5. Empower
Price: Free
Utility: Wallet
Developer: Empower Finance
OS Compatibility: iOS
Empower is a smart finance management assistance that encourages savings along managing and tracking your bank accounts, credit cards and expenditures. Right now, it works only with United States banks and financial services. It can categorically track your payments with transferring an amount of your earning into savings account. Empower can synchronize your different bank accounts and make transactions between them. Empower app comes with bank level security and protect your all sensitive data via SSL.
Features:
- You can view summaries of all your bank account on one screen
- Set saving’s goal and leave the rest on Empower
- it can keep tracking your expenditures and gives you recommendations on savings
- Also, you can make free transactions between different bank accounts
- Empower help you to monitor credit scores like bit-coins account
- It keeps tracking and alerting you of unnecessary subscribed services
6. Wave
Price: Free
Utility: Business Management
Developer: Wave Accounting Inc.
OS Compatibility: Android, iOS
Wave is a virtual finance assistant for entrepreneurs and freelancers. It is to clean all paper work’s hassle from your life. This free cloud accounting software for your business assists you to create receipts, customize invoices, manage payments and pay taxes.
Features:
- Create recipes: Wave makes it easy for you to take images of your receipt, upload and save it on cloud for your record
- Create invoices: With inbuilt templates, customize invoices with your business logo and receive payment notifications
- Cloud Accounting: Wave stores your receipts and invoices on cloud so you never lose your data
- Cloud Synchronization: With Wave cloud accounting sync your Google, One Drive and SkyDrive and access your data from any computer
7. Yelp
Price: Free
Utility: Travel & Local
Developer: Yelp, inc
OS Compatibility: Android, iOS
Yelp is your smart tour guide that helps you to find native businesses, best foods, exciting new spots near you. Yelp enlists 100 million+ locations, businesses with user reviews and additional features to make it easy for you to find and select best place in the town.
Features:
- Discover local restaurants, view dinner menus, make reservations and order food with Yelp
- Discover local venders’ locations and numbers, hire services and give reviews with adding photos
8. ReachNow
Price: Free
Utility: Travel
Developer: ReachNow, LLC
OS Compatibility: iOS
Drive BMW series and MINI series vehicles in Seattle, Portland, Brooklyn and Oregon at your ease and affordable rent with ReachNow. ReachNow asks you to scan your driving license with basic information, choose payment options as per minute, per hour or per day and here you go!
Features:
- Instant Registration: Install ReachNow, Scan driving license, enter basic information and become a ReachNow member
- Choose Vehicle as per your requirements: from BMW series to MINI series, choose vehicle as per your choice
- Simple Pricing: ReachNow gives you liberty to choose billing methods between per minute/hour or per day
9. OverDrive
Price: Free
Utility: Educational
Developer: OverDrive, Inc.
OS Compatibility: Android, iOS
Entitled with 30 million+ libraries worldwide, OverDrive is not only an e-library but it reads books and stream videos for you when you are driving or doing your house course.
Features:
- Create bookmarks, add wish lists and synchronize libraries with OverDrive
- You can subscribe by providing an existent account with your school or library and borrow books without leaving your place
10. Filtru
Price: Free
Utility: Food & Drinks
Developer: Przemyslaw Bobak
OS Compatibility: iOS
Your very own smart coffee brewer, Filtru, is a coffee timer with brewing recipes. It guides you step by step through the whole procedure of coffee brewing. Filtru, also can track your caffeine consumption with ‘HealthKit’ plugin.
Features:
- Handy Coffee timer: Filtru guides you through coffee brewing steps with pouring interval tips
- Bluetooth enabled scales: Filtru will show precise coffee pouring speed with Bluetooth enabled scales
- Coffee Recipes: Filtru comes with 9 most famous coffee recipes with easy brewing steps
- HealthKit: HealthKit plugin by Apple keeps tracking your consumed cups of coffee per day
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