Tag: App spotlight

Courtesy of the developer(s) known only as Ponn, Readable Feed Reader is a well-designed, but bare-bones RSS feed aggregator. It can currently do little more than cover the basics, but is that enough?

Sharath Ravishankar · Aug 12, 2018 · Hot! with 6 comments

Here's an interview with Russell Ivanovic, head honcho of Shifty Jelly, makers of Pocket Casts. The app's been a staple for me for the better part of a decade, and now, there's a Windows app for it.

Sharath Ravishankar · Apr 1, 2018 · Hot! with 7 comments

Gone is Twitter's clunky, abandoned native UWP app. What we get now is an interesting, but not-quite-as-slick web app that's ripe for release, given Windows' upcoming support for Progressive Web Apps.

Sharath Ravishankar · Mar 25, 2018 · Hot! with 72 comments

SoundByte is a great-looking app for streaming audio from services like SoundCloud and YouTube among others. Here's a quick review of it, along with an interview with its developer, Dominic Maas.

Sharath Ravishankar · Mar 18, 2018 · Hot! with 35 comments

MyTube! is a handy third-party YouTube app for Windows made on the UWP platform. It manages to one-up YouTube's website on several turns, in ways that just might make it indispensable for some.

Sharath Ravishankar · Mar 11, 2018 · Hot! with 37 comments

Bardi Golriz's Appy Text is a well-designed minimal writing app that supports markdown. It acts as a solid example of how functional UWP apps can be despite their current limitations.

Sharath Ravishankar · Mar 3, 2018 · Hot! with 11 comments

If you're a fan of Material wallpapers, this might be something to check out. Tapet generates an endless amount of wallpapers with different colors and shades based on your preferences.

Steven Johns · Dec 30, 2016 · Hot! with 7 comments

Muviz is a free and pretty customizable Android app that hooks into whatever music or audio you're listening to and overlays a visualization of the audio over your navigation bar.

Steven Johns · Dec 3, 2016 · Hot! with 6 comments

The spotlight is on Navbar Apps: an app that allows Android users to skin their navigation bar in a number of different ways. We take a look at everything good - and everything bad - around the app.

Steven Johns · Oct 29, 2016 · Hot! with 1 comment