Software

If you look at the iPhone's do-it-all home button with envy, this app is a treat. It adds a super-powered menu button to all of your home screens and even to most of your apps. If you're stuck on Android 2.3 or earlier, Easy Touch (iPhone style) is a solid launcher that taps into some of your phone's hidden powers. However, if you're on Ice Cream Sandwich or later, the app will just get in your way.

Once you go through this app's lengthy tutorial, it sticks a 1X1 button widget on each of … Read more

There aren't many better ways to share multiple photos at once than a cool collage. Photo Frame Free helps you make one. It's fairly easy to use and set up, but the obnoxious ads and played-out menu may be a deal breaker for you. Both are hard to ignore.

This app makes you stare at a plain, grey menu while you're working on your photos. Most of the color borders that you can put around your collages are equally bland. The frames themselves offer plenty of different ways to organize your photos, though. Unfortunately, at least half … Read more

Keeping track of your business is the best way to ensure profits and accountability. This free app lets you monitor remotely, but it's really limited in its reach. EagleEyes won't let you view cameras from any old manufacturer, but it's a decent app to have if you use a specific type of surveillance software.

EagleEyes only works with AVTech surveillance equipment, so look for another app if you don't use that. If you do use AVTech, this app gives you enough features and seamless operation in the free version. If you want full control, you'll … Read more

Now that Twitter is no longer blocking third-party apps, it's time to love your Twitter feed again thanks to this app. Carbon for Twitter adds all sorts of speed and style to your Twitter profile. It doesn't even sacrifice any of the features you love to do it.

This app lets you view your Twitter profile, so you need to log into Twitter to use it. It gives your Twitter a darker layout which is so much easier on the eyes and on your gadget's battery. Carbon for Twitter seems to load new Tweets faster than Twitter'… Read more

You probably back up your computer once a month, so why wouldn't you do the same with your smartphone? Helium App Sync & Backup does it for you if you don't want to do it yourself. It includes an app backup in addition to backing up your sensitive files, but it's a major pain to set up. It takes most of the appeal of automatic backup away.

Helium App Sync & Backup is made mostly for rooters, but it will work with some unrooted phones, too. To be sure it works with yours, check developer options in … Read more

Ready to break out of the rut of normal physics games? This brickbreaker-esque game will keep you busy through hundreds of levels, even though they all feel the same. Bubble Worlds is polished enough to win a few fans, but the difficultly level goes from zero to 60 too quickly. It's enough to turn a lot of gamers off.

In this game, you shoot bubbles to try to free trapped bananas. When you match three or more bubbles of the same color, they pop and send any connected bubbles flying. It sounds bizarre, but it's actually easy to … Read more

Do you have more passwords than brain space to remember them? This free app is here to help. It can remember dozens of passwords, banking details and more. B-Folders Secure Organizer goes above and beyond the call of duty by adding some neat bonus features and powerful encryption, too.

It's hard to decide whether the app's plain menu is a curse or a blessing. On the one hand, it makes the app quick and light. On the other, it's an eyesore and small buttons could lead to a few accidental taps. Luckily, there are no ads or … Read more

If there is such a thing as a textbook successful mobile game, this one would be it. Benji Bananas has a cute mascot, addictive gameplay and a physics engine that is easy to figure out but difficult to master. Sounds like any other games you know? This game seems so tailor-made for superstardom that it's a wonder the app hasn't already soared to the top of the charts. It would definitely be worthy of its place if it did.

To rule the day in this app you need to swing from vine to vine collecting bananas in a … Read more

As long as smartphones have been able to snap pictures, there has been a crowded crop of photo editors. This one slims down a lot of the bigger offerings into a few neat features. The only problem is that some of the features in BeautyCamera don't work like you'd expect them to. The app gives cool results when they do, though.

Like many photo-editing apps, this one lets you pull photos from your hard drive or snap from within the app. You can preview filters that way, but the app's camera lacks top-tier quality. The filters themselves … Read more