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Best iPhone 5 Apps and Games 2013
In this post, we check out 20 of the best iPhone 5 apps
for creating music and videos, editing photos, catching up on news,
watching shows, being productive, and then having a break by slicing up
giants, racing like a loon, and solving devious puzzles.
1. GarageBand (£2.99/$4.99)
Software
instruments on which GarageBand relies are notoriously
processor-intensive, and so the iPhone 5's added grunt makes for a
stabler, faster, smoother music-making process. The wider screen is also
beneficial, giving you a few extra keys when composing and enabling you
to see more notes when editing MIDI. Download GarageBand from iTunes
2. iMovie (£2.99/$4.99)
One of the more ambitious apps on the iPhone, iMovie is a movie-making
studio in your pocket. The iPhone 5's camera is great for shooting HD,
and iMovie enables you to rapidly edit your creations and publish them
to YouTube, Vimeo or Facebook. Download iMovie from iTunes
3. Photogene for iPhone (£0.69/$0.99)
Photogene's interface is a mite quirky, but we prefer it to the rather
opaque iPhoto for image-editing. The app includes a number of basic
editing tools, export options, special effects and other features, and
on an iPhone 5 it flies. Download from Photogene for iPhone iTunes
4. Camera+ (£0.69/$0.99)
The
iPhone 5 includes the best iPhone camera yet, but Apple's Camera app is
pretty basic. Camera+ is therefore worth investing in if you're serious
about iPhone photography.
You'll get access to touch exposure
and focus, a stabiliser, a surprisingly reasonable digital zoom, in-app
cropping and effects, timers and burst-shooting. Download Camera+ from iTunes
5. iBooks (free)
Apple's iBooks might play second fiddle to Kindle in terms of selection
and pricing, but it offers a wonderful reading experience on the iPhone
5. The high-quality screen combined with its revised height (thereby
providing more words per 'page') makes it a no-brainer free download. Download iBooks from iTunes
6. Flipboard (free)
Although perhaps better known on tablets, Flipboard is an essential
download for iPhone 5 owners. With minimal set-up, it can become your
personal news magazine, filled with beautiful imagery and engaging
stories.
Again, the iPhone 5's taller screen enables you to see
more of anything at any one time, and the device's A6 chip ensures
perfect performance. Download Flipboard from iTunes
7. Reeder (£1.99/$2.99)
For any iPhone 5 owner wedded to text-based content, Reeder is a
must-have download. The client works seamlessly with Fever, Readability
and Google Reader, enabling you to easily keep up with your favourite
websites. On Apple's latest smartphone, Reeder is blazing fast and looks
wonderful. Download Reeder from iTunes
8. Tweetbot (£1.99/$2.99)
Many
smartphone owners would be lost without a Twitter client and Tweetbot
is the best there is for iOS. The iPhone 5's taller screen improves the
app from a usability standpoint, displaying more tweets and replies at
any one time, along with giving the posting screen room to breathe. Download Tweetbot from iTunes
9. BBC iPlayer (free)
BBC
iPlayer has long been the standout on-demand TV app on iOS, and it's
even better on the iPhone 5, where the picture fills the gorgeous
widescreen display. It's also fantastic to see the BBC regularly
trumpeting about AirPlay rather than, in the case of many of the
corporation's rivals, hobbling it. Download BBC iPlayer from iTunes
10. YouTube (free)
The
Apple-created YouTube app was unceremoniously ditched from iOS 6, but
Google rose to the challenge and created a replacement. On the iPhone 5,
the tall screen's great for browsing, and when flipped 90 degrees, it's
perfect for watching widescreen video. Like BBC iPlayer, YouTube also
supports AirPlay. Download YouTube from iTunes
11. Google Maps (free)
Google's
data was also ousted from iOS 6, with Apple instead using its own data,
with - to be charitable - decidedly mixed results. This free app is a
better bet; it's fast and beautifully designed, and the iPhone 5's
bigger screen is handy for browsing and also checking out step-by-step
directions. On the move, turn-by-turn on 3G also proves effective. Download Google Maps from iTunes
12. Fantastical (£2.99/$4.99)
Apple's
own Calendar app is fine, but Fantastical has two advantages: excellent
natural input for events, and an emphasis on a list view, thereby
making it easier to see upcoming appointments at a glance. Naturally,
the iPhone 5 means being able to view more of these at once, which is
fab (unless any of said events mention 'dentist'). Download Fantastical from iTunes
13. Soulver (£1.99/$2.99)
With
lots of people banging on about skeuomorphism in apps, it's perhaps
surprising more products like Soulver don't exist. It rethinks and
reinvents the calculator, making it relevant for modern computing, and
the result is half spreadsheet, half 'back of an envelope'.
On the iPhone 4, it feels cramped, but on the iPhone 5 there's plenty of room for its line-based calculations. Download Soulver from iTunes
14. 30/30 (free)
Task
managers are commonplace on iOS, but we have a real sweet spot for
30/30. It's beautifully designed, and the straightforward manner in
which you can set up task loops makes it perfect for Pomodoro-style time
management. IAPs provide extra icons or a thank-you to the author, and
the iPhone 5 screen really shows off the sleek interface. Download 30/30 from iTunes
15. Dropbox (free)
Apple's
vision of the future is files existing within apps, which is fine if
you only use few apps with few documents. For the rest of us, a file
system is still required and Dropbox brings this to iOS. On the iPhone
5, the taller screen enables you to see more items at once, but even if
Sir Jony Ive had given the device a two-inch square screen, we'd still
be recommending Dropbox. Download Dropbox from iTunes
16. Infinity Blade II (£4.99/$6.99)
Swipey
swordplay with RPG levelling up is what Infinity Blade II is all about.
The visuals are gorgeous and the iPhone 5's full resolution is
supported. Given the demanding nature of the app, you'll be grateful for
that A6 chip, too. Download Infinity Blade II from iTunes
17. Need for Speed Most Wanted (£2.99/$4.99)
The
best arcade racer for iOS, Most Wanted is a stupid amount of fun as you
speed about, smashing up cops, drifting for miles, and generally being a
menace on wheels.
On slower hardware, though, dropped frames
periodically pull you out of the experience; no such problems on the
more powerful iPhone 5. Download Need for Speed Most Wanted from iTunes
18. Super Hexagon (£1.99/$2.99)
The
perfect twitch arcade experience, Super Hexagon is a bit like playing a
wire loop game in fast-forward while being flung about the place on a
merry-go-round.
Although visually simple, the game is far more
fluid on the iPhone 5 than other iOS devices, and the widescreen display
keeps your thumbs out of the way as you wrench your tiny ship left and
right, avoiding infinite walls of doom. Download Super Hexagon from iTunes
19. Beyond Ynth (£1.49/$1.99)
iOS
isn't what comes to mind when you think of platform games, and virtual
controls often make us shudder, but Beyond Ynth bucks trends by being
brilliant at both.
This puzzler/platformer is all about helping a
bug traverse 2D levels. Its method of travel: increasingly complex
boxes. On the iPhone 5, the game looks lovely, your thumbs cover less of
the screen, and you see a fraction more of what's coming. Download Beyond Ynth from iTunes
20. The Room Pocket (free)
The most atmospheric iPad game of recent times loses little in its
translation to the widescreen iPhone 5. The demanding graphics means The
Room's perfectly suited to Apple's newest smartphone, and the game is a
masterpiece.
You're alone in a room with a strange box, left to
become immersed in a creepy, frequently chilling few hours of discovery.
Our advice: avoid the hints, wear headphones and play in a dark room.
Just don't blame us when you leap out of your seat. Download The Room Pocket from iTunes
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