Top iOS Apps of the Week

July 11, 2012

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1.) Snapseed ($4.99)

Snapseed is an intuitive and fun photo editing app for iOS which offers a number of useful image adjustments, as well as high-quality photography effects. Snapseed is developed by Nik Software, which has long been in the business of creating photography plugins for Photoshop, Lightroom, and Aperture. It has a very smooth interface which has all the effects stacked into one corner with vertical scrolling to navigate through options. On the top-right corner you have a button which lets you shift between the edited and unedited picture to compare them. You also have a selective adjust option which allows you to enhance a particular portion of the image by highlighting that particular section. After you’re done editing you have various options such as sharing it on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, saving it to your Camera Roll etc. It is hands-down one of the best photo editing apps available on the iTunes store and is priced at $4.99.

2.) Total Downloader ($2.99)

Total Downloader is one of the best download managers available for the iOS. It has an inbuilt browser which is efficient and fast. While navigating a website, say, you come across a video which you want to download. Now Safari doesn’t allow video downloads and here’s where Total Downloader comes into action. Simply play the video and a download option will pop up on your screen. Click on it and it automatically downloads the video while you continue your browsing. The Downloader supports multiple downloads and has an inbuilt gallery which can be password protected. Downloaded videos, pictures etc can then be shifted to your photo gallery.

3.) Photosynth (Free)

A panorama shot of Amer Fort, Jaipur captured through Photosynth

Photosynth is a panorama imaging app from Microsoft that delivers great image processing. Just open the app and click on start. It clicks images as you pan your phone around. It supports both vertical and horizontal panning and clicked images show up on the screen as stills. Once you’ve completed the panorama, just click on done after which it starts stitching the photos into a complete panorama shot. All clicked panorama are saved into an inbuilt gallery and and viewing your images from within the app are just beautiful! You can view your panorama from all angles and if satisfied, share it on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc and export it to your Camera Roll. It also has a best of Bing maps features which brings you the best panorama images from around the world.