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"From music-themed dating apps to browsers and Family Guy fun and games, we covered a lot of ground with new iOS apps in April. Here's our pick of the bunch for the month.\r\nCarousel [From Dropbox]\r\nDropbox launched a new photo- and video-sharing gallery app called Carousel last month, combining content from your Dropbox account with that on your mobile devices. You can read our full hands-on review here.\r\n\r\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGWp57xtc10\r\n\r\nCarousel lets you hold private conversations around your photos with friends, and add their photos to your own special events too.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Carousel\r\nFamily Guy: The Quest for Stuff\r\nFamily Guy\u2019s first mobile game captures the show\u2019s irreverent hilarity as you strive to rebuild Quahog.\r\n\r\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEZKlDrx16o\r\n\r\nAt its core, The Quest for Stuff resembles\u00A0The Simpsons: Tapped Out, another free-to-play city-builder game from Fox. Both titles have you rebuilding their respective towns after the main character accidentally destroys it. In Family Guy\u2019s case, a drawn-out brawl between Peter and Ernie the Giant Chicken levels the city of Quahog, giving Peter the task of recruiting his friends to clean up.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff\r\nTastebuds\r\nThe principle behind Tastebuds is simple: If you\u2019re an avid music fan you probably want to date people who share your taste in music. Following a long period as a Web-only affair, if you'll pardon the pun, Tastebuds finally launched a native mobile app, kicking off with iPhone.\r\n\u00A0\u00A0 \r\nYou indicate your sexual orientation, gender, city, date-of-birth, and insert a profile picture. The app then scans your local music library, adding your \u2018favourite\u2019 artists to your Tastebuds account, and matches you with other users.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Tastebuds\r\nSecret\r\nYou'll either love or hate Secret, but its garnered a lot of attention since it launched in the US, so its international arrival last month is certainly worth a mention.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSecret has skyrocketed in recent months, as members of the technology industry post gossip \u2013 the truth of which is by no means guaranteed \u2013 about startups in Silicon Valley and beyond. There are no names on Secret, making it difficult for anyone deduce who has posted the most recent rumors, or the chances of them being true.\r\n\r\nThe mobile app, however, does tap into users\u2019 address books to disclose whether they know the author, or if they\u2019re a friend of a friend. In that respect, the app isn\u2019t limited to the technology industry \u2013 anyone can use it \u2013 although the former is where the app appears to have been adopted most strongly.\r\n\r\nBesides the US, it's now available in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Secret\r\nAnimoto Video Maker\r\nAnimoto\u00A0Video Maker was already a popular shooting and sharing app for smartphones, but April also heralded a new version optimized for iPad.\r\n\r\nAnimoto hosts your video creations in the cloud, and is targeted at consumers, small businesses, educators, photographers, and anyone really, offering a range of pricing plans. The app is easy to use, with guided, step-by-step features. Within a minute or two, you can create\u00A0a pro-quality video based on new shots or videos stored on your camera roll.\r\n\u27A4 Animoto Video Maker\r\n\r\nUdacity\r\nUdacity made its online learning platform more accessible by launching for iPhone users last month. Udacity was originally an iPad-only app, but the company finally brought its video lessons\u00A0\u2013 which include 12 full courses and 26\u00A0free and \u2018open\u2019 courseware \u2014 to smaller screens.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn addition, Udacity also introduced an offline mode that lets users download videos which can viewed\u00A0sans Internet access.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Udacity\r\nWist\r\nFollowing a \u2018soft launch\u2019 in a handful of US cities late last year, Wist finally launched its personalized travel recommendations app globally in April.\r\n\r\nDuring set-up, it asks for permission to access your location. Then you stipulate whether you\u2019re looking for coffee, food or drinks. You can also filter down into whether it\u2019s just for you, friends, business or \u2018a date\u2019, among other criteria such as distance and whether it\u2019s open just now.\r\n\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0 \r\n&amp;amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe one caveat is that you are required to log in using your Facebook credentials. However, if you can stand that, Wist is slick and beautifully-crafted \u2013 it\u2019s easy to see why it\u2019s proven popular in its short tenure in the App Store so far.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Wist\r\nOpera Coast\r\nThose looking for alternative browsers on their iPhone now have another option - Opera\u2019s Coast app, a gesture-heavy browser which it first introduced for iPad.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nCoast features a\u00A0dark, minimalistic look with a strong focus on tiles. This means that instead of having to type in a URL every time you want to access a site, you can just tap on tiles.\u00A0When you\u2019re in a site and want to exit it, all you have to do is tap on the \u2018home\u2019 button, while to access the sites you already have open, just tap on the bottom right.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Opera Coast\r\nPause\r\nShuffler.fm, the curated music-discovery service designed to help users navigate the music shared by online publications and blogs, rolled out an iPhone version of Pause, its recently-launched standalone multimedia music magazine.\r\n\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0 \r\nHitting the App Store back in February for iPad, Pause is essentially a curation of Shuffler.fm\u2019s already-curated music service, so this is all about the cr\u00E8me de la cr\u00E8me of the best new music.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Pause\r\nBreeze\r\nPerennially popular GPS fitness tracking service RunKeeper expanded beyond running last month with Breeze, a new standalone app for the iPhone 5s. \r\n\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0 \r\nBreeze is all about tracking how many steps you take in a day, and uses the 5s's M7 co-processor to garner this data. It's a really slick, well-polished app. Though it may be a little late to the scene, with the likes of Fitly, Moves, Nike+ Move and more on the market already.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Breeze\r\nBlab\r\nIn July 2013, entrepreneur Michael Birch\u00A0spent $1 million\u00A0to buy back Bebo, a company he founded and sold to AOL for $595 million. And in February this year, the company announced\u00A0the debut of its video messaging service Blab, which finally launched in April.\r\n\r\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOTynta6SOo\r\n\r\nTo send a Blab, you hold to record and let go to send \u2014 just like creating a video on Vine or Instagram. However, Bebo is keen to distance itself from those two services, by focusing on being about friend-to-friend communications, rather than a public network.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Blab\r\nSuperb\r\nSuperb completed its pivot away from social dining service Grubwithus after launching its new iPhone app for finding new places to visit with friends. An early version of the app with basic functionality was already in the App Store, but the firm\u2019s latest release added the messaging and social features needed to complete the product.\r\n\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0 \r\nConceptually, Superb functions as a 'Tinder for places' by showing you cards of nearby places and then having you swipe left to dismiss or swipe right to mark as 'to do'. Once you\u2019ve expressed interest in a place, you can see which of your friends has also marked it. Then, you can message them in the app to schedule a time to visit together.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Superb\r\nFantastical\r\nFantastical has been a perennially popular app here at TNW Towers. Kicking off as a Mac app initially, developers Flexibits launched a version of its slick calendar application for iPhone way back in 2012, before giving it a slew of new features last March and then basically overhauling it for iOS 7 six months later. As of April, it comes optimized for iPad too.\r\n\r\nIndeed, you\u2019ll notice the new Fantastical 2 dashboard is a fresh interface for iPad that displays calendar, day ticker, and list in a single display. It uses the larger screen real estate of the iPad well here, letting you toggle between the day ticker, half-screen week view, and full-screen week view.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nBased on our initial dabblings with Fantastical for iPad, users won\u2019t be disappointed. It\u2019s slick, very easy to use, and although it more than makes full use of the available screen real estate, it doesn\u2019t feel cluttered. But at $9.99 - soon to rise to $14.99 - it's not cheap.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Fantastical 2\r\n\r\nIf you\u2019re on the hunt for more iOS apps, check out some of the best ones from March, or put your feet up and peruse our pick of the bunch from the whole of 2013. Alternatively, you can also check out some of the best Android apps from April too."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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