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There’s Finally an Official Star Wars App To Feed Your Obsession 24/7

There’s no shortage of Star Wars-related games on the iTunes and Google Play stores, but today finally sees the launch of the first official Star Wars app that will now serve as your one-stop portal for everything from news, to trivia, to even sound effects. Never again will you have to scramble to find a…

Turn Your Drawings Into 3D-Printable Models With MakerBot’s iPad App

One of the biggest reasons there isn’t a 3D printer in every home—yet—has nothing to do with price or availability. It’s the fact that if you want to design and print your own objects, you need to know how to use relatively complex 3D modelling software. So MakerBot has updated its free PrintShop iPad app…

Homescreen Voyeurs Rejoice, This App Lets You Gawk at Other iPhones

Admit it, whenever you see someone using their iPhone you’re always trying to sneak a peek of what apps they’ve deemed important enough to put on their homescreen, and what kind of wallpaper they’re using. Now thanks to an iOS app called #Homescreen that allows users the world over to share and stare at screenshots…

Apple Store’s New Credit Card Tech Is Its Most Reliable Yet

Because it was invented some time in the 1940s. In the wake of what appears to be a global iTunes/App Store outage, Apple Store employees (at least those in the UK, where this picture was taken) are resorting to some severely old school methods of payment. Yes, that is a manual, carbon copy credit card…

The Solution to Awful iOS App Store Navigation is… Pinterest?

There are more than 1.4 million apps available on iOS and finding them can be an absolute nightmare. Now, Apple and Pinterest have announced a new collaboration which will allow users to pin and download apps directly to and from Pinterest boards. The new tool, launched today and called App Pins, allows you to stick…

App Developers In Crimea Are Getting Cut Off Thanks To U.S. Sanctions

When one country annexes another, there’s some things you expect to happen, like airstrikes or strongly-worded letters to the UN. One consequence you probably wouldn’t have predicted is that you’ll no longer be able to spend $0.99 on certain apps. In a (rather belated) response to the Russian annexation of the Crimea last year, President…

Apple Is Pulling a Bunch of the Neatest iOS 8 Apps

Remember when Apple went after that handy note-taking widget, a popular app that’s one the first truly useful widgets for iOS 8? Turns out, Apple’s been pulling all kinds of apps that take advantage of new features in iOS 8—even after they’ve been approved to be in the App Store. And developers are starting to…

Opera Wants to Make All Apps Subscription Services

Opera wants to shake up the app store as we know it. Instead of one-time paid and free apps, it wants to build a store where each and every app works as a subscriptions service. The idea, it claims, is pretty straigtforward. App developers would simply charge users a set weekly, monthly or annual fee,…

The Best Free Android Apps in Amazon’s Hallowe’en Giveaway

The Amazon Appstore already gives away one free app each day, but today it’s decided give away 30 apps, worth a combined total of $115, for free to anyone with an Android phone. Here are the pick of the bunch that you should download first. The offer runs until Saturday, and there are some great…

The Best Free Android Apps in Amazon’s New Two-Day Giveaway

The Amazon Appstore already gives away one free app each day, but today it’s decided give away 30 apps, worth a combined total of $100, for free to anyone with an Android phone. Here are the pick of the bunch that you should download first. The second of such app giveaways this summer, the deal…

The 9 Most Popular Apps No One Uses Anymore

When the App Store first appeared more than a year after the iPhone’s debut, we were in awe. The possibilities seemed endless! And the first thing most of us did with all that infinite opportunity? Use our phones to feign binge drinking. The App Store of 2008 and the years that followed was an entirely…

The Best Free and Cheap Apps in the App Store Sixth Anniversary Sale

Apple has gotten in thewonderful little habitof discounting some of its most beloved App Store fare for its birthday, and this year is no different. In honor of the sixth anniversary of the App Store, Apple developers have kindly discounted a whole slew of gems for you. We’ve picked out the best of the bunch.…

The Best Free Android Apps in Amazon’s Two-Day Giveaway

The Amazon Appstore already gives away one free app each day, but now it’s gone and decided to give away 30 apps, worth a combined total of $100, for free to anyone with an Android phone. Here are the pick of the bunch that you should download first. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nav_sap_mas_14_06_27_%24100_Bundle?tag=gizmodo08c-20 The “Epic Summer App Bundle” giveaway…

Apple Is Banning Apps That Reward Social Sharing and App Promotion

Apple has always been strict about what makes the cuts in its App Store, and the arrival of iOS 8 seems to be ushering in some extra rules. It seems Cook & Co. are looking to remove apps that rewards social sharing or provide in-game credit for watching videos. A number of developers have reported…

An Always-Listening App That Alerts the Hearing Impaired To Alarms

In an ideal world, every audible alarm would include a visual indication that something was wrong, so that the hearing impaired would immediately be notified too. Until that happens, a cheap $1 app called Deafalarm could serve as a viable alternative—keeping an ear out for alarms and alerting the user through text and vibrating alerts.…

Apple has begun testing a new “related search suggestion” in the App Store, which may actually help make finding things easier. Because, damn, it couldn’t be much worse right now.

Just Tap Your Phone On Every Wall and This App Will Draw a Floorplan

It’s not a bad idea to measure a room before you go out and buy a bunch of new furniture. And if you’ve got an iPhone, that becomes less of an ordeal because you can trade your tape measure for this slick app called RoomScan. It automatically generates floorplans by simply tapping your phone on…

God Help Us: There’s Now a Dedicated Selfie Section in the App Store

Just in case you were feeling a little too happy with humanity, here’s something to change your tune: Apple now has a dedicated Selfie section in the iOS App Store. Full of the likes of 1 Second Every Day, Snapchat, Frontback and all those other vital selfie sharing apps that we all need and use…

This App Guarantees You’ve Always Got a Deck Of Cards On Hand

When a deck is available, it’s probably the easiest way to start up a quick game of cards with a group of friends. But while many of us have a smartphone on hand 24/7, few of us have a deck of cards in our pockets as well. Which is why this app that creates a…

How a Rogue Developer Got Apple to Approve a Drone Strike App

After nearly two years and a ton of media attention, you can now download an iPhone app that alerts you every time a drone strike kills someone abroad. It only took the app developer six tries and several different names to get Apple to approve it. The app is called Metadata+ and, officially, it provides…