Tag: apps
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Looie Lets You Pee In Peace
Nothing is more frustrating than being out, needing to pee, and having nowhere to go. Cops can fine you for public urination, not to mention it’s a little gross to relieve yourself on other people’s property, so we can totally see a place for a service like Looie. It uses a location-aware app as well…
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Hotel My Phone App Lets You Use Someone Else’s Phone As If It Were Yours
So you’ve run out of battery or left your phone at home, and you need to call or send someone a message. You can borrow your friend’s phone, but there’s little you can do if you can’t remember the number of the person who you want to reach…unless he’s got the Hotel My Phone app, that…
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Wakie App Lets You Get Wake-Up Calls from Strangers
You can hit snooze on your alarm, but you can’t exactly hit snooze on someone, can you? That’s what the developers of Wakie are counting on to make sure that you’re awake when your alarm goes off. It’s an app that makes alarms social in the sense that it works by having a complete stranger…
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Need Cuddles? There’s An App for That and It’s Called ‘Cuddlr’
Sad? Lonely? In need of a hug? Well, Cuddlr does you one better by not only finding you someone to hug, but someone you can actually cuddle with. The concept is interesting but an app that lets you meet up with strangers so you guys can cuddle is a bit…off. Cuddle is a location-based app…
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Do You Check Your Phone Too Often? Checky App Will Help You Keep Track
How many times do you check your phone in a day? You might not know the exact number now but there’s an app for that if you’re curious. It’s called Checky, and it was developed by Calm.com to help users keep track of their phone-using habits by monitoring usage. The app also keeps track of…
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Taco Text App: Tacos In Your Inbox
Text a taco and make someone hungry! The Taco Text app was created for one reason and one reason only: to make people all over the world hungry for tacos. The app’s developers, XOXCO, must be Taco Bell’s favorite people as of the moment. Who knows how many people have been driven to seek out their…
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Reddit’s Ask Me Anything App: Interviews at Your Fingertips
Reddit’s AMAs are always an interesting read. Whether they’re new interviews or one that you dug up from the archives, there’s always something to learn from the experiences and sage advice of some of the biggest personalities in the world. Being one of Reddit’s most popular subreddits, it makes sense that they’d come up with…
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Use ‘Somebody’ to Send Messages to Friends Via Strangers
If you think about it, social media takes away from actual socialization because of the lack of in-person interactions. Aiming to inject a little bit of that back into social-centric apps is Somebody. The app literally lets you use somebody (while using Somebody–get it?) to send a personal message to your intended recipient, wherever they…
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Simple, Repetitive, Calming: Personal Zen Provides Some Much-Needed Stress Relief
When life gives you lemons, pull out your phone, fire up Personal Zen, and start playing. It’s an app that aims to reduce its players’ stress levels by having them to perform simple, repetitive actions that’ll take their mind off of their problems and hopefully relieve them of the stress that life often brings. When we get anxious…
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Hanx Writer is a Typewriter Simulator App by Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks is awesome, no doubt about that. He’s a great actor, a master of his craft, and it’s no secret that he loves them typewriters. So much so that he has spearheaded the development of the Hanx Writer. It’s a typewriter simulation app for your iPad so you can type on your tablet and feel…