APPS SPECIAL...... Top apps to add fun and functionality to your phone

Top apps to add fun and functionality to your phone  If you are looking for the latest apps that can make you virtually more social, help you navigate, stay alert and add fun to your life, these options are worth your time and money Blackpills Free Blackpills is a video streaming service. Like Netflix, it has a variety of shows (fiction only) across a number of genres, but unlike Netf lix it's all original content. The app is designed specifically for mobile, and consists of short episodes of around 10-15 minutes. It promises a new episode every day and a new original series every week. UVLens Free With UVLens, you need never get a sunburn again. The app tells you the UV index throughout the day, so you can plan the best time to be outside. Based on the current index, and what you tell it about your skin (the tone, etc), the app estimates how quickly you'll burn and what you should wear. Walkr Free and inapp purchase There a re ma ny apps aimed at motivating you to walk more, but Walkr is gamified. Like a pedometer it tracks your steps, but Walkr also has you exploring a galaxy.Your steps are converted into energy that fuels your spaceship, allowing you to explore new solar systems. There are also missions to undertake, and compare your progress with friends. Komoot Free and in-app purchase If you are an outdoor adventurer who likes hiking, cycling or climbing, then Komoot can help you plan routes and more.Enter a start and end point, an activity and a fitness level, and the app will present you with an appro priate route. You can also manually change the route and view the total distance, estimated time it will take and terrain info. GlassWire Free You may have a lot of reasons to keep track of your data use, and GlassWire makes that easy. The app shows your overall data consumption (split between mobile data and WiFi) and the amount of data each app has used. You can view data use from the past five minutes to the past 90 days. Pocket Sense Free and $0.99 in-app purchase With this app, you can set an alarm to go off if your phone is removed from your pocket, taken off charge, or moved from where it's sat. You can toggle any or all of those things to sound an alarm, so you will know the second someone tries to steal, move or use your phone. Its alarm sensitivity can be adjusted. Hooked Free and optional subscription Books are definitely not passé. But Hooked presents all its stories like text message conversations.In most cases, this form, in a weird way, makes the stories seem more real than just reading words on a page. The stories are short or split up into chapters, so you can consume them in bits. Looxie Free If you want to see how someplace looks right now -be it as vague as a country or as specific as a bar -you can just make the request on this new app. If there are any users in that location, they'll be prompted to send you a photo .
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