Readers’ App Reviews – July 2015
Check out apps released by fellow readers in July – like an emoji memory game, a corkboard note-taking app, and much more! By Ryan Poolos.
Ovrlay
Ovrlay is a very cool app that will allow you to overlay anything you’d like such as a floor plan for your offices on top of Apple’s native maps.
Adding an Ovrlay as easy as it should be. Simple find the location and add your image. Then you can pinch, zoom, and rotate your image until it lines up just right with the map. You can even highlight places within the overlay just as bathrooms, stairs, main rooms, etc. There is even the ability to add routing information to the overlay to enable navigation through the overlay.
You can share your overlays with the world and other users can find overlays of their favorite buildings throughout the world.
- Author: Sarat Chandran @ovrlayapp
- Most useful tutorial: iOS 7 by Tutorials
- App Store Link: Check it out!
PayBacks
PayBacks is a very good looking small loan journal to help keep track of money between friends.
PayBacks lets you track small loans easily so you remember who owes how much for what and when. You can track money you’re owed or that you owe. You can set reminders to make sure you remember to pay or collect. And you can remind your friends if they’re forgetful.
PayBacks is a simple app that looks great. Perfect for remembering the small change.
- Author: Alex Buga @alexbuga
- Most useful tutorial: Dynamic Table View Cell Height and Auto Layout
- App Store Link: Check it out!
Geeksbox
Geeksbox is a social network for geeks!
Geeksbox is a basic social network built for geeks. Post your latest cosplay costume, homemade arcade machine, urban garden, whatever! Other geeks can rate, review, and comment on your latest posts.
What makes Geeksbox special is the community of geeks its built around. Its not for anyone, its a network focused entirely on those who like what you like. You can even filter it down more to just the things you really like.
Geeksbox is a free app, so download it and start geeking out!
- Author: Germán Sánchez @geeksbox
- Most useful tutorial: iOS 8 by Tutorials
- App Store Link: Check it out!
Index Card 4 – Corkboard Writing App
Index Card is a simple app that helps you capture, organize, and compile your ideas. Authors of all kinds can benefit from organizing their thoughts, and Index Card is a great way to start on the iPad.
Index Cards are fully formatted supporting rich text and images. You can search titles, bodies, notes, etc. Using the built in Storyboard feature, you can organize notes into a linear story.
Its easy to share your work with exports to RTF, PDF, 3-Card Layouts and more. Share native files with other Index Card users as well. Index Cards even has a presentation mode for when you AirPlay to a TV.
Index Cards is packed with features and more to come. Definitely worth a look if you need someone to collect your thoughts.
- Author: Dennis Vogel @DenVog
- Most useful tutorial: Custom Collection View Layout video tutorial series
- App Store Link: Check it out!
Intellie Notes
Intellie Notes is a clean note taking app for your Mac that focuses on keeping things simple.
In Intellie Notes you don’t clutter up notes with tags and folders, instead you assign colors to notes. You decide what you’d like colors to mean for your own organization. This makes it very easy to scan for the note you’re looking for without reading. And you can easily filter by a particular color if you know what you’re looking for.
Intellie Notes uses iCloud for its syncing to make sure your notes are tracked across multiple devices automatically.
- Author: Chandan Kumar @intellielabs
- Most useful tutorial: MVVM Tutorial with ReactiveCocoa
- App Store Link: Check it out!
Honorable Mentions
Each and every month I get more submissions than I have time to review. I download every app and see what its about, but I can’t write about them all. I love seeing all the apps submitted by readers like you. Its no a popularity contest or even a favorite picking contest. I just try to get a glimpse of what the community is working on through your submissions. Take a moment and checkout these other great apps I didn’t have time to showcase properly.
Oquonie
Escape Games 274
Boss Money
Luke Carelsen
Tiny Hugs – Endless Adventure
Medieval Monsters
Shy Selfie
MathsMatch
Tumble! – Experiments
Postys – Video digest.
Woodventure – mahjong connect
Lumps of Clay
BugRunner
Yet Another (Watch) Puzzle Game
Loops – A Game About Reflexes
Math Brain for Your Apple Watch
Who Likes the Rain?
By Marco mignano View More by This Developer
Delta: It’s All About Four
Slide – A Game About Timing
Viable
Escape Games 302
Escape Games 303
Where To Go From Here?
Each month, I really enjoy seeing what our community of readers comes up with. The apps you build are the reason we keep writing tutorials. Make sure you tell me about your next one, submit here!
If you saw an app your liked, hop to the App Store and leave a review! A good review always makes a dev’s day. And make sure you tell them you’re from raywenderlich.com; this is a community of makers!
If you’ve never made an app, this is the month! Check out our free tutorials to become an iOS star. What are you waiting for – I want to see your app next month!