Here are Whatsupgeek's favorite apps of October! Certainly, Halloween month has brought many awesome new apps that everyone must definitely try out! From Microsoft's product Parchi to Adobe's Capture CC and Illustrator Draw. Few driving apps and Minecraft's yet another game chapter has released this month.Before that, wanna know what were the previous best? Here's the list.
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- Top apps of September
- Top apps of October
Adobe Capture CC and Adobe Illustrator Draw
Quickly capture, edit and share uniquely crafted design assets — including brushes, colors, filters and shapes — to use in apps like Adobe Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC. It’s Brush CC, Color CC and Shape CC, all in one place.
It's features include:
- COLORS: Extract color themes from photos and the world around you. Play with presets based on color theory — or use a color wheel and RGB sliders for manual changes.
- SHAPES:Instantly convert what you see, or have drawn, into vector graphics. Use the slider to adjust the contrast and create fills. Later, toggle +/– to add or remove details.
- BRUSHES:Turn inspiring photos or graphics into high-quality ribbon-, scatter- or vector-type brushes. Refine them with color, size and repetition adjustments.
- LOOKS:Pull color and light from your favorite moments to make video-enhancing filters. A 3D histogram and intensity slider let you visualize and fine-tune your Looks.
- CREATIVE CLOUD LIBRARIES:Your library of assets will automatically sync to your Creative Cloud account, giving you instant access in compatible applications.
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Drivemode
Drivemode is a driving app with a “no look” interface that allows you to focus on the road ahead, not your phone, while accessing music, navigation, calls, texts and more. The beauty of Drivemode is that it works in any car, eliminating the need for a pricey upgrade, and it is free. When you are in driving mode, it works with your navigation apps, like Google Maps and Waze and your music apps, like Spotify and Google Music Player. With Drive mode, it is easy to do things like change songs, update your destination and make or accept calls using only broad swipes and taps.
It's features include
- Turn on "Drive mode" automatically by pairing with Bluetooth in your car.
- Update your navigation destination in one touch when a text message with street address is received
- Destination recommendation engine using your driving history, calendar events and text messages
- Customize your communication settings to ignore or auto-reply to calls and messages to avoid texting and driving and promote safe driving
- Incoming messages can be read aloud, so you don't have to look
- Music Player (compatible with most music apps such as Google Play Music, Pandora, Spotify, Samsung Music Player) can be controlled without covering your navigation screen
- Automatic navigation selector and recommended destinations (compatible with most navigation apps such as Google Maps and Waze)
- Overlay phone call, transparent screen allows you to see your navigation & map when a phone call comes in
- Contact voice search mode
- Night driving mode
- Works great with a car mount or car dock on your dashboard for driving mode
Click here to Download
Plume
You used to schedule your activities according to the weather, now you can do the same with pollution!
Is it the best time to go for a run? When should I go for a walk in the park with my children? How will pollution evolve in my city over the next few hours?The Plume Air Report informs you in real time of the pollution level in your city, how it will evolve over the next 24 hours, along with tailor-made.recommendations on the best time to do your favorite activity.
It works pretty much everywhere! As of now we cover over 150 cities worldwide (New-York, London, Paris, Shanghai, Beijing, New-Delhi, Tokyo...) and we keep adding new ones every day.
WonderWall
Wonderwall is a gallery for the best nature and landscape photography. Every day one handpicked photo is added to the collection. This app allows you to browse through the photos and set them as wallpaper within 1 touch. And by implementing Google's Material Design principles, Wonderwall works super convenient.
It's features include:
- Gallery: Browse through all the HD wallpapers
- Autoset: Let Wonderwall set wallpapers for you
- Source: Get the latest daily one, or receive a random wallpaper
- Interval: How often do you want a new wallpaper?
- Category: Limit autoset to pick wallpapers from a specific category. Also works with favorites!
- Data usage: You choose to let autoset download wallpapers over Wi-Fi only
- Favorites: Star your favorites so you always find them back
- History: Retrieve that one wallpaper you once had and easily set it back
- Submit: Your own photograph on Wonderwall? It's possible
- View by category: You only want wallpapers with a waterfall, some mountains or a bridge? Wonderwall's categories make this possible!
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Minecraft: Story Mode
In this five part episodic series, play as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' and embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond. You and your friends revere the legendary Order of the Stone: Warrior, Redstone Engineer, Griefer, and Architect; slayers of the Ender Dragon. While at EnderCon in hopes of meeting Gabriel the Warrior, you and your friends discover that something is wrong… something dreadful. Terror is unleashed, and you must set out on a quest to find The Order of the Stone if you are to save your world from oblivion.
- Created by award-winning adventure game powerhouse Telltale Games, in partnership with Minecraft creators, Mojang
- Featuring the voices of Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, Ashley Johnson, Scott Porter, Martha Plimpton, Dave Fennoy, Corey Feldman, Billy West, and Paul Reubens
- You will drive the story through the decisions you make: what you say to people (and how you say it), and what you choose to do in moments of thrilling action will make this YOUR story
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Cloud chasers
Guide a small family through five deadly deserts to reach the gateway to the world above the clouds. It's a dangerous journey filled with a multitude of unique narrative encounters. Make your decisions wisely, manage your resources, use equipment to your advantage and fill up your precious water reserves by flying through the clouds with your trusty glider.Explore a randomly generated steampunk world that will not only tell you the story of a wondrous desert planet and its inhabitants, but also show the topic of migration from a completely new perspective.
- CLOUD GLIDER:Fly through the clouds with Amelia’s glider to gather the last bits of water before they get transported to the above. Water is your most precious asset on your journey through the desert.
- DESERT SURVIVAL:Enhance Franciscos and Amelias chances of survival by managing your equipment, upgrading your glider and trading for the right items.
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Parchi
Parchi, a Microsoft Garage project, is a quick note taking app – think paper-pencil, sticky notes, edge of a paper, the last page of every notebook, you get the idea. Use Parchi the same way you would use paper-pencil to capture notes
❋ Capture small bites of information
❋ No need to define a structure at the time of taking the note
❋ Just jot it down
It's features include:
- #tag based - Add inline or use the #tag UI
- Quick notes – Take notes from the lock-screen, remove it or add it back
- Text, list and pictures
- Reminders, Colored notes, Mark as favorite or Pin to lock-screen
- Quick search through the hamburger, #tags, text and various filters
- Share notes – Share a single or multiple notes over WhatsApp, Email, SMS, or any other app of your choice
- Group operations – color, delete, complete and favorite multiple notes in one go
- Smart Content – Take quick actions on Phone Numbers (Call | Add to Contact), URLs (Open | Copy URL) and Emails (Email | Copy)
- Backup your notes so that you never lose them even if you uninstall the app or change phones
- Send Feedback – Send your feedback from within the app – swipe RIGHT to open hamburger and send feedback
- Small APK size
