Free Apps Friday: Gymster, Yummly, Pizza Navigator

Are you looking to make your smartphone or tablet more useful? Each week, we collect the latest productivity apps for Android, iOS and Windows Phone; all of which are 100 per cent free! Here are this week’s highlights.

This is a hand-picked list of free apps we’ve noticed this week while assembling our regular App Deals roundup of new and discounted apps. We haven’t reviewed them and we don’t endorse them. As with the main App Deals column, apps can stop being free at a moment’s notice if they’re discounted, so grab them quickly if you’re interested.

Android

Temp Monitor: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “TempMonitor is the oldest CPU Temperature monitoring app on the android market. This app is built to do one thing: Temperature, and it does it well.”

Dreamify: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Dreamify transforms your photos into otherworldly masterpieces. Using Google’s Deep Dream, Dreamify puts you in control: select from a dozen presets, or toggle the algorithm parameters to innovate on your own. Share your faves with other users and friends on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks or via text or email.”

Paragraph Writing: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “This application guides the writer to focus on the main parts of the paragraph. For example: topic sentence, main idea, supporting ideas and concluding sentence. Then, by pressing on each idea, the writer can search the internet for more details about a specific idea.”

Transparent Launcher: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Do you want to give your phone an amazing look? Then download our Transparent Screen Launcher and transparent your phone.”

Pizza Navigator: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Looking for Pizza? Look no further. The Pizza Navigator will get you there! It will point you in the direction of the nearest pizzeria. Works with your phone, and your Android Wear compatible watch!”

Vurb: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Vurb connects your apps to bring your favorite people, places, and things together. Use Vurb Chat to sync up with your friends – all in one app. With Vurb, you can discover great places, make restaurant reservations, plan with friends, and order an Uber or Lyft. Best of all, you don’t have to hop from app to app to do it.”

iOS

Nameorize: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Quickly add names of new people you meet, fill up their description, and easily find their name later by looking them up by their features (description, looks, meeting location, common friends).”

callLog: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “calLog is multiple apps in one. Find out your phone calls time usage. Add detail information to your phone calls. Get a backup copy of your phone calls. Personal organizer app. Global address finder app. Location manager and notifier app. Phone customer service counter.”

Gymster: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Gymster is the all in one health and fitness application letting you pick your workout randomly or manually based on what equipment is available to you. No more scrolling through endless lists of exercises. “

Relax Melodies Premium: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Introducing the most popular sleep aid app! Start sleeping now and enjoy full nights of sleep like you haven’t in a long time! Here’s how it works:”

Translate Photo: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Translate Photo app extracts texts from any printed sources: documents, books, signs, instructions or announcements and allows to immediately translate them to any of 90 languages.”

Declara: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “With the Declara app you can discover, curate, and share articles that you enjoy everyday. The app intelligently connects you to collections, articles, and people so you spend less time searching – and more time engaging.”

Tiny Planet Photos and Video: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Tiny Planet Photos and Video turns your photos into a sphere so it looks like a tiny planet.
A unique effect to add to your collection of photo apps!”

Windows Phone

Mirror Cam: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Mirror Cam is a Camera App completely out of the norm. Create unique and artistic images, which takes a photography into a more abstract direction. Capture pictures in a way that nobody has even seen before.”

Elements: The Periodic Table: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Elements: The Periodic Table provides comprehensive and useful information about the chemical elements all in one place. Click on an element to know more about the properties, history, name origin, images, applications, hazards and electron shell diagram of each element.”

Realarm: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Bored of waking up by the same ringtone every day? Simply assign more sounds to alarm and sounds will alternate randomly! Realarm is the most powerful alarm app on the market.”

Yummly: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Yummly puts every recipe in the world in your pocket. The most powerful recipe search, the recipe sites you love, your digital recipe box, recipe recommendations just for you, and one-hour grocery delivery – all with you wherever you go.”

Real Guitar: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Real Guitar is one of the most realistic guitar simulator apps featuring a user-friendly interface and an awesome sound quality. All the notes have been recorded from the live acoustic guitar.”

Metro Drive: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Metro Drive is a cool and lightening quick, fully functional Google Drive client for windows and windows phone. Now you can open, edit and share your Google Drive files across your windows devices.”


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