Category: App Review

April 18, 2019

Most of us juggle an immense amount of information these days — enough tasks, to-do’s, and scattered scraps of mental data to fill up a 40-gallon fish tank. (Just imagine all those tiny little thought-fishies swimming around! Glub, glub, glub.) […]

March 25, 2019

Telegram, the WhatsApp rival that gained 3 million followers when Facebook had a day-long outage this month, has come out with a significant privacy-focused update. As of the latest version of Telegram — available on iOS, Android, and via a […]

March 22, 2019

WhatsApp Business has started to roll out its services on iOS, more than a year after it launched on Android. The app, which is separate from the original WhatsApp, allows businesses to easily communicate with their customers. According to WABetaInfo, […]

March 19, 2019

Instagram took its next step to becoming a full-fledged commerce business today, announcing that it is bringing a checkout feature to its mobile apps. With checkout, you can store your payment information with Instagram to make purchases more quickly. In […]

March 12, 2019

Easier on the eyes, the dark mode is. Slack added the “darker, higher-contrast theme” option to its iOS and Android apps Monday, so checking out your work messages on the move won’t be quite so bright. Shrouding the messaging service’s […]

March 8, 2019

Hot on the heels of the massive Cambridge Analytica scandal that erupted around a year ago, when Facebook was busted for sharing the personal data of tens of millions of users with a shady political consulting firm, a large campaign […]

February 26, 2019

After going public back in 2017, Snapchat’s growth slacked due to the company’s inability to come up with something new for Android customers. Two years later, Snap’s CEO Evan Spiegel has finally admitted that his company has to refresh its […]

February 20, 2019

A large portion of Apple’s revenue is generated by services, and buying apps from the Store is just one way you help the iPhone-maker succeed. We’ve recently heard that iPhone users in the U.S. are spending more and more dollars […]

February 14, 2019

One could make a very compelling argument that 2008 was the most important year in the history of smartphones. Not 1992 when IBM unveiled the first smartphone ever, not 1998 when Symbian planted its roots, and not 2007 when Apple […]

February 14, 2019

Some apps may track your activity over time, even when you tell them to forget the past. And there’s nothing you can do about it. Roughly 17,000 Android apps collect identifying information that creates a permanent record of the activity […]