15 of the best new iOS apps from February
Tocomail
Available for iPhone, iPad and the Web, Tocomail officially unveiled its child-focused email client this month.
While email may not traditionally be associated with something that younger kids do, Tocomail reimagines the medium very much with children in mind, giving parents ultimate control over their emailing activity.
➤ Tocomail
PAUSE
Shuffler.fm doubled-down on curation this month, with an all-new multimedia music magazine for iPad.
PAUSE is a curation of the already-curated music service, so this in theory should offer the crème de la crème of the best new music. It highlights the best songs, videos, albums and charts, as well as some of the best music writing.
➤ PAUSE
QuizUp
QuizUp, the game that lets you challenge friends and strangers to test your general knowledge, finally arrived for iPad this month.
While the latest incarnation offers mostly the same experience, the company did update the app with a redesigned Topics page, added emphasis on your friends in the overall rankings, and a few other bug fixes.
➤ QuizUp
Rewind Radio
Looking for ways to rediscover music from days of yore? Well, Rewind Radio for iPhone could be up your street.
Rewind Radio lets you search for music by decade (going back to the swinging sixties), specific year, or season. So, for example, you can select ’1974′, ‘the 1980s’ or ‘winter 1992′, and then it will stream random music from that period.
The one caveat is that it only plays 30 seconds of each song for free – unless you have a Rdio subscription,
Distiller
Distiller for iOS serves as your companion for all things ‘whisky’.
Distiller delivers personalized whisky/whiskey recommendations from around the world, while letting you search manually too. It claims to analyze tens-of-thousands of data points across flavors, price, reputation, and even how well suited it is to ‘gifting’.
Handpressions [US only]
Handpressions lets you capture, store and print your kids’ hand and footprints directly from your iPad.
Though it remains US-only for now, you can create individual profiles for everyone in the family, tracking the growth of their hands and feet as they progress from babies through to, well, whenever they start complaining about your obsessive growth-tracking.
Final Fantasy VI
Square Enix launched Final Fantasy VI for iOS this month, and she’s a beaut.
Indeed, as we noted in our launch report, Final Fantasy VI is a true work of art – though it will set you back $15.99.
If you’re on the hunt for more iOS apps, check out some of the best ones from January, or put your feet up and peruse through our pick of the bunch from the whole of 2013. Alternatively, you can also check out some of the best Android apps from this month too.