The app stores are teeming with new releases, but who has the time to go through them all? We do. We bring you a selection of the most interesting, creative, and innovative new apps each week. If you have any favorites or suggestions, feel free to let us know in the comments below.Satromizer [iPhone, iPad]The Satromizer is the ultimate artist’s app. The pixel-disfiguring multitouch image-glitch tool turns any task into a creative exercise. Originally released on the iPhone back in 2008 as an image distortion tool that reveled in the aesthetics of error, app developers Ben Syverson and Jon Satrom are now taking the next software step to a fully fledgedSatromizer operating system (sOS)for the iPad. It can be integrated into any app which, while it may kill your productivity, is a welcome disruption to remind you that it’s not just about checking your email, it’s about “having an experience.” The sOS also includes a bug game, a glitchy word processor, a desktop drum machine, and an MP3 sample corrupter. Watch the app’s creators describe it in their own (hilarious) words in the video below .TiltShift Generator [iPhone, iPad]
Get that “Everything looks likes toys!” look without the hard work, just download this application from Takayuki Fukatsu and Takuma Mori, then start manipulating away. It allows for high-quality post-processing as well as radical depth-of-field effects, making for a winning photo-editing tool.Bubble Harp [iPhone, iPad]
Interactive artist Scott Snibbe’s application allows you to tap your way to creating unique cell-like patterns in a black and white membrane by simply moving your finger(s) around the screen to form shapes into elegant bubbles. Use it to create visuals at your friend’s next show and BAM! you’re an interactive artist. Snibbe also has two other apps worth mentioning: Gravilux, where you can draw with stars to make cosmic patterns by changing parameters and adding anti-gravity, and Antograph, which allows you to draw with spirals and trails of tiny ants.NESynth [iPhone, iPad]
Sample sounds from the old-school 8-bit bleep blip days of gaming’s past, and get lost in the sound effects. This app also features NES Mode, in which you use a classic NES controller to make the sounds, so you can truly get your geek on.And as a little bonus app is this game from Tinchy Stryder called Billionaire Bandit. If you’re partial to a bit of gambling in the pub, or maybe you’ve hit Vegas and tried your luck, then you’ll have pumped some of your earnings into slots machines (even Marge Simpson can’t resist them). Now you can play them without losing cash while listening to Tinchy’s tunes.
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Get that “Everything looks likes toys!” look without the hard work, just download this application from Takayuki Fukatsu and Takuma Mori, then start manipulating away. It allows for high-quality post-processing as well as radical depth-of-field effects, making for a winning photo-editing tool.Bubble Harp [iPhone, iPad]
Interactive artist Scott Snibbe’s application allows you to tap your way to creating unique cell-like patterns in a black and white membrane by simply moving your finger(s) around the screen to form shapes into elegant bubbles. Use it to create visuals at your friend’s next show and BAM! you’re an interactive artist. Snibbe also has two other apps worth mentioning: Gravilux, where you can draw with stars to make cosmic patterns by changing parameters and adding anti-gravity, and Antograph, which allows you to draw with spirals and trails of tiny ants.NESynth [iPhone, iPad]
Sample sounds from the old-school 8-bit bleep blip days of gaming’s past, and get lost in the sound effects. This app also features NES Mode, in which you use a classic NES controller to make the sounds, so you can truly get your geek on.And as a little bonus app is this game from Tinchy Stryder called Billionaire Bandit. If you’re partial to a bit of gambling in the pub, or maybe you’ve hit Vegas and tried your luck, then you’ll have pumped some of your earnings into slots machines (even Marge Simpson can’t resist them). Now you can play them without losing cash while listening to Tinchy’s tunes.