Free Apps Friday: Uno Calculator, Groovemaker 2, Relative History

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

Stagefright Detector: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “The Stagefright Detector app scans your Android device to determine whether you are affected by the Stagefright vulnerability and provides you with practical advice on how to protect yourself and your device, such as immediately installing any patch from your carrier or OEM and disabling MMS auto-fetch in your default messaging app until your device is patched.”

Bass Booster: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Once you get into exploring its awesome depths, you will be surprised to see how hard-hitting and legitimately utilitarian it is for all music lovers.”

Uno Calculator: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Powerful, scientific calculator with History and a powerhouse of practical math functions”

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.”

Music Tagger: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Music Tagger is a material design music tag editor that introduces features like lyrics editing & album art editing to make the process of tagging your song files quick and easy.”

iOS

Smart Resume Pro: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Build and submit a professionally typeset resume in minutes. Simply fill in your information, and Smart Resume Pro produces a clean, properly formatted PDF resume you can email directly, post online, or print out.”

PDF Printer: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Open and read any office document. Convert popular content e.g. Photos, Notes, Web Pages to the Portable Document Format. Create and share PDF documents on the fly.”

Status Board: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Status Board lets you easily create a beautiful status display for your company (or yourself!) by just dragging and dropping powerful, customizable panels.”

FX Photo Studio: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “FX Photo Studio is the biggest collection of photo filter effects available on iPhone, with stickers, borders, fonts, textures and frame effects to help you snap the perfect photo.”

GrooveMaker 2: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “GrooveMaker 2 is the latest version of the revolutionary iPhone/iPad/iPod touch app designed for creating non-stop electronic, dance and hip-hop tracks in real-time. Now anyone can get results that sound like they were made by a professional DJ every time!”

Plex: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Plex organizes all of your video, music, TV, and photo collections, and streams them to all of your screens.”

Status Board: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Status Board lets you easily create a beautiful status display for your company (or yourself!) by just dragging and dropping powerful, customizable panels.”

Windows Phone

Piano Tunes: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Listen to beautiful piano tunes, and learn how to play them.”

TouchMountain: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Take control of your phone camera. 1Shot gives you a choice of simple or advanced settings. App includes a high resolution photo viewer and an option to apply various filters.”

Relative History: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Relative History imports your genealogy information by using the industry-standard data interchange format, GEDCOM. Once imported, you can easily browse and search it.”

5 Minute Home Workouts: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Easy to follow 5 minute home exercise routines divided into 6 categories: Abs, Fat Loss, Chest and Arms, Butt and Legs, yoga and Pilates.”

Receipt Tracker: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Receipt Tracker, a Microsoft Garage project, is an expense tracking app that uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to automatically extract information from receipt photos.”