Sleep Better from fitness startup Runtastic tracks your sleep cycles, and tries to wake you up at the right point to avoid morning grumpiness. What we say: Step-tracking apps have been popular for a while, but 2014 saw a flurry of interest from developers in monitoring what happens when we’re not active – i.e. Autodesk SketchBook was one of the best yet, with plenty of depth yet an accessible interface for the scribblers among us.
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What we say: Apple’s iPad has tended to hog the limelight when it comes to artists and illustrators working on tablets, but Android is building up its own library of drawing and painting apps too. Handy whether you’re revising your rusty skills in a language you learned years ago, or exploring one for the first time. What we say: Another great educational app for people learning in their own time: Lingua.ly focused on language learning through a clever, simple system of digital flashcards. It monitors trending tracks in the blogosphere and serves them up to you as streams, with useful social features to peek at what friends are listening to as well. What we say: There’s a world of passionate music bloggers out there, but if you don’t have time to keep track of them all, Hype Machine is marvellous. It proved a neat, accessible way to edit your documents on the go (or, as in my case, on the sofa). But this year, Google split out its Google Drive services for smartphones, including this standalone Google Docs app for its word processing tool. What we say: Google Docs has been available on Android for years, yes. Those two examples don’t even hint at the power once you get stuck in though. Automatically save your Instagram shots to Dropbox, trigger emails when specific RSS feeds are updated, and so on. What we say: IFTTT is an excellent tool for connecting up different web services using simple “If this then that” instructions. As on other devices, it creates and stores passwords for the various sites you use – proper, strong passwords – and then helps you log in using a single tap on the screen. What we say: With online security always high in mind in 2014, the time was ripe for an app like 1Password on Android.
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This year brought an official Parallels Access app for Android devices, accessing files and applications on Windows and Mac computers as part of an annual subscription.
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What we say: Parallels is already well known to people using remote-access software on other devices – for example to get to their work computer from home. Expect video lectures to stream or download, and a wealth of knowledge to tap in to. What we say: Coursera is one of the companies trying to shake up the world of online education: in its case, by providing more than 600 courses from universities around the world.
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Yahoo News Digest is a neat app that sucks in news from various sources, and packages it up in “atoms” of quotes, images, videos and background context, delivering it twice a day. What we say: Yahoo’s take on news aggregation came after it bought (then shut down) British startup Summly in 2013. What we say: Will a few DJs at new year’s eve parties this year be wielding Android tablets? Perhaps, if developer Algoriddim has any say in the matter: its djay 2 app was an impressive steel-wheels replacement for Android, with the ability to mix songs from your own collection or Spotify’s wider catalogue. 7 Minute Superhero Workout gets you to punch to blast aliens and crunch to recharge your exosuit. Best known for its Zombies, Run! game, this year it turned its attention to superheroes.
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What we say: Developer Six to Start has taken an inventive approach to fitness applications, blending health and games to get people up and moving. Its HERE mapping app debuted on Android as a beta this year, showing off Nokia’s experience in mapping, navigation and transport/traffic information.
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What we say: Microsoft may have ditched the Nokia brand for its smartphones, but Nokia the company remains a separate enterprise back in Finland. Focused initially on text messaging and voice-over-IP calls, it made a big feature of its design, with security including end-to-end encryption of calls. What we say: Launched towards the end of the year, Wire was a potential Skype-killer backed by one of Skype’s own co-founders, Janus Friis. Tynker is one of the apps that aims to help them practise at home: a collection of “coding puzzles” teaching kids about programming, with a sandbox mode to make their own games. What we say: All primary-school children should now be learning computer programming skills (or at least “algorithmic thinking”) as part of the curriculum.