Welcome to BBCentral's App Picks Of The Week!
Each week, we'll let you know all about our top 5 favourite BlackBerry 10 apps, and how to get them.
Have an app you'd like to suggest? Are you an app developer and would like to see your app here? Drop us a comment below and let us know what apps we should check out next!
This week, we're taking a look at:
- Flipp
- Business Cards
- Tilt Now
- The Sandbox
- iGrann
Flipp
Flipp is the easiest way to browse flyers / weekly ads and save money. In fact, you can save up to 40% each week using flyers alone!
By: Wishabi, Inc
Price: FREE
Install Size: 4 MB
In-App Purchases: No
Built for BlackBerry Certified: No
Current Rating: 4 Stars
BlackBerryCentral Rating: 3.5 Stars
Review
Flipp is a great way to keep track of flyers and find local deals. We liked that the app has a quick tutorial when you first open the app - and the layout is super easy to get familiar with. Viewing flyers is simple, and worked best on the Passport. Even though the app is an Android port - it seemed to function as if Natively for us! If you're a local bargain hunter - be sure to give Flipp a try.
Description
With all your favorite stores at your fingertips, you can quickly search for the items you need, highlight the best deals and clip items straight to your shopping list. More than 300 retail stores can be found on Flipp including: Target, Walmart, Best Buy, IKEA, Macy's, Sports Authority, Big Lots, Kroger, Sears and many more. See what others are saying about Flipp: Good Housekeeping: Apps We're Loving… “I know that moms are time-pressed and busy, and apps need to be seamless, intuitive, and helpful for them to take notice. Flipp is all of these things.” CNET: “Lots of apps promise to serve up store coupons, but this is the first I've seen to actually recreate store circulars and add interactive elements. Cool stuff.” Visit us at www.flipp.com for tips, contests and more.
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Clip items from any flyer straight to your shopping list.
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Highlight items on sale for the best deals and savings.
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Save your favorite stores for easy reference.
Download Flipp for BlackBerry 10
Business Cards
Business Cards is an efficient way to store your paper cards instead of carrying them around. If you often collect cards with your occupation, this app is a great Native solution to cataloguing instead of carrying multiple cards around.
By: Saper-ek.
Price: Free
Install Size: 4 MB
In-App Purchases: Yes
Built for BlackBerry Certified: Yes
Current Rating: 4 Stars
BlackBerryCentral Rating: 5 Stars
Review
Business Cards is the perfect solution (in our opinion) for those who end up with multiple cards at the end of the week. Instead of carrying multiple cards which often get ruined, or lost - throwing the details into an application which can automatically organize them for you is a far better option. The app has a great layout, and the agenda style background gives it a premium feel. The search function also comes in handy, if you have multiple entries. Definitely a recommended app for the professional on the go.
- Stores both front and back
- Add name, category, company and note to a card
- Add a hand note to a card
- 4 views: alphabeticaly, by category, by company and shared view
- Additional My Card view for storing and sharing Your personal business card
- Filter and search cards
- Share images of stored cards via BBM, Facebook, email, MMS, etc.
- Scans the card to help You add a new contact
- Set the card photo as a contact photo
- Call or e-mail person from card from within the app
- Complete backup and restore
- Clean and efficient interface
- Theme selector: select dark, light or wallet theme
Description
Business Cards is a digital cards locker. Never again will you regret throwing a business card away. Don't look for that one business card you once had and forgot about it in all your drawers, shelves, books. Don't let business cards lay all over your home. Thanks to this application all your business cards are stored right at your BlackBerry 10 device ®.
Download Business Cards for BlackBerry 10
Tilt Now
Tilt Now is a top utility, assistant that gives you a quick highlight of your entire day.
By: Emberify
Price: $1.99 CAD
Install Size: 4 MB
In-App Purchases: No
Built for BlackBerry Certified: Yes
Current Rating: 4 Stars
BlackBerryCentral Rating: 4 Stars
Review
Tilt Now is an awesome way to keep track of your day to day tasks, weather, calendar and more - simply by tilting your device. With multiple themes available, easily changed settings; Tilt Now is a great app that offers some cool customizations for all users. We like think of it as a third-party Hub, where keeping up to date on things is a breeze. I loved the layout, and if you're interested in a cool native app - be sure to check out Emberify's Tilt Now!
Description
Tilt Now is a top utility assistant that gives you a quick highlight of your entire day. Tilt Now is the next iteration of the Tilt UI built by BlackBerry Sweden (Aka TAT- The Astonishing Tribe). It brings awesome user customisations like 7 colour themes, custom priority levels, permanent Tilt toggle, Email integration and enhanced place recommendations! Tilt Now provides you highlights for:
1. Email
2. Places
3. Priority notes
4. Battery Statistics
5. Weather
6. Calendar
With Tilt Now we give the user the right information at the right time so they can focus on the world around them. Using Tilt Now the user can have a quick glance on the daily highlights without any distractions.
Download Tilt Now for BlackBerry 10
The Sandbox
The Sandbox is finally available on BlackBerry! Trust us – you haven't seen anything like this yet! Imagine crafting your own universe (complete with amazing Pixel Art), composing your own music, and much, much more.
By: Bulkypix
Price: FREE
Install Size: 24 MB
In-App Purchases: Yes
Built for BlackBerry Certified: Yes
Current Rating: 3.5 Stars
BlackBerryCentral Rating: 4 Stars
Review
The Sandbox is an interesting game, with a lot of built in levels and tasks. The two best things about the game, are that it's Native - and creative. Users can play in a free-style mode, which lets them get creative using water, sand, stone and more to create interesting and colourful feats of pixel architecture. The game works well on the Passport - and it's great to see another developer supporting the platform - and releasing a free to play game.
Description
Once you discover mud and sand, you're on your way! Grow plants, raise mountains, generate life and gain access to advanced tools for crafting more and more complex elements. Before long, you'll be able to access non-organic elements like metal and light bulbs, allowing you to populate your universe with creations both natural and technological. An entire universe in the palm of your hand! Discover an new element recently added to The Sandbox: Humans ! an intelligent life-form that will add an extra dimension to your worlds! They will wander around, eat, build, and even work if you induce them with one of the 4 magic powders: Miner, Woodcutter or Builder! Want more puzzles to solve ? Check the additional Humans Campaign ! Enjoy 15 NEW levels to help Tom the castaway find its way back home.
UNLEASH YOUR IMAGINATION
- Seven exciting campaigns -- a whopping 96 game levels in all!
- Millions of possibilities. Infinite landscape designs.
- Countless different chemical reactions.
- Nothing is beyond your reach! - Embrace your inner Pixel Artist to create or recreate amazing masterpieces
- Compose your very own chiptunes melodies within the game
- Bring life to your creations and watch them evolve, eat, reproduce and die
Download The Sandbox for BlackBerry 10
iGrann
The first full native and free client for Instagram™ on BlackBerry 10 is here. It is not just an Instagram™ viewer, it is a fully featured app
By: Adrian Sacchi
Price: FREE
Install Size: 3 MB
In-App Purchases: Yes (Pro-Version Available)
Built for BlackBerry Certified: Yes
Current Rating: 3.5 Stars
BlackBerryCentral Rating: 4 Stars
Review
iGrann is a superb BlackBerry 10 app if you're an instragram user. While Instagram has not made a version of the application available on BlackBerry World - Adrian Sachhi was quick to produce the first full Native Instagram client. It's fast, easy to sign in and has a familiar and simple User-Interface. It's the best available Instagram Client in our opinion, and definitely worth checking out!
Description
With iGrann you can:
- Register an account
- Browse Feed, Photos & Videos
- Upload Photos
- Add Photos to Map
- Auto Share to Facebook and Twitter
- Share Photos & Videos
- Tag Photos
- Apply native filters and frame to photos
- Like and Unlike Photos & Videos
- Comment Photos & Videos
- Receive Notifications
- Explore Popular Photos & Videos
- Browse Profiles
- Follow and Unfollow Users
- Search Users & Hashtags
- View News
- ReGrann Photos
- Edit your Profile
- Download Photos & Videos
- And much much more!
