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Marco Polo

Our iPhones are smart. Just not when it comes to helping us find them. Now you can locate your iPhone using nothing but the sound of your voice thanks to Marco Polo. This app listens for you to shout "Marco" — or any other input phrase you like — and responds with either "Polo" or another message of your choosing, in one of 30 unique character voices. It works in silent mode, will pop up a notification to let you find your phone in the dark, and can even boost the volume if you've got it set too low to hear. At last, no more tearing apart the couch/bed/house just to check Twitter.

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WhiteAlbum

Depending on your age, you might not even remember a time when taking photos meant hitting the shutter button, getting to the end of the roll, and then waiting for your film to be developed before finding out what you have. WhiteAlbum is trying to bring that same feeling of ~~overwhelming anxiety~~ anticipation to modern times. The app lets you shoot 24 photos per album, and once they're taken, they're uploaded and turned into 4" x 5" prints that are then shipped back to you. The cost is $20 an album, which is probably about what you'd pay for a decent disposable camera and development service, but without the need to actually go anywhere.

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Unsubscriber

Keeping your inbox at zero is hard enough without being bombarded by mailing lists and newsletters (there's only one you really need). Trim away these distractions with ease using Unsubscriber. This clever app works with all your GMail accounts, letting you login and go through your subscriptions in a plain list. Just swipe left to unsubscribe, swipe right to keep a subscription, and before you know it, your inbox will be a whole lot cleaner — and easier to manage, too.

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Amazon Prime Now

You need that new record you ordered. You need it now, not in a day, or the two days it might take it to arrive if you use Amazon's base Prime shipping. If you're in Manhattan, you're in luck. With Amazon Prime Now, you can get stuff delivered straight to your door in an hour or less. Good for plenty of everyday products like paper towels, toys, headphones, Kindles (of course), books, and batteries, this new service is available from 6 a.m. to midnight, and offers free two-hour delivery for existing Prime members, with an extra $8 charge for one-hour service. While it's limited to select areas of NYC for now, Amazon says it will be "coming soon to a city near you".

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Watchville

Setting the time on your watch is simple enough — after all, your phone is probably showing a pretty close approximation right now. But if your timepiece demands more accuracy or features than your phone offers by default, take a look at Watchville. Designed as a must-download for watch aficionados, this handy app offers a number of time-focused tools, including an atomic clock, a leap year indicator, UTC time, and moon-phase setting tools. In addition, it shows aggregated news from a number of watch blogs, so if you're really into timepiece collecting, it'll keep you up to speed.

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Soma Water Filter

We love when everyday objects are reinvented in smart and refined ways. That's why the Soma limited edition water filter is a must for every home. The shatter-resistant glass carafe was artfully blown in Germany to look stylish on your kitchen table. Soma's filter cleans your water without using petroleum-based plastics or leaving behind nasty black flakes. Instead, the coconut shell filters are certified by the Water Quality Association and can be conveniently delivered to your door on a subscription. Best of all, every filter sold donates clean drinking water through charity: water.

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MeUndies Underwear

Just because they aren't as visible as the rest of your clothing doesn't mean your underwear should be drab and boring. So in collaboration with Young & Sick — the artist responsible for album covers for everyone from Foster the People to Maroon 5, MeUndies has created Faces, a new limited edition print that's wearable art for you to step your underwear game up with. This underwear not only looks great, but is made with Modal fabric which is twice as soft as cotton, a non-restricing waistband that follows the contours of your frame, and the superior quality you've come to expect from the MeUndies brand.

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Luxe Valet Parking

Valet parking is great. Now you can get the same experience wherever you are (in San Francisco, at least) with Luxe Valet Parking. This new service and app combination runs $5 an hour up to a maximum of $15 a day, and works like this: A Luxe valet meets you at the time and place you specify. They take your car and park it in a secure lot, and will even fill it up with gas or get it washed if you request. When you're ready to use your car again, they'll return it to you where ever you are — so even if a morning meeting turns into an unexpected dinner ten blocks away, you're covered.

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Keezy Drummer

Whether you're setting up an impromptu rap battle or simply want some background beats while you work, Keezy Drummer has you covered. This dead-simple app lets you create a beat in seconds by adding one of 12 percussion sounds to the 16 step measure as you wish, then layering up to 9 of them at a time for more complex sonic backdrops. You can also set the tempo in increments from 0 to 300 bpm, and your beat will continue to play in the background even after you leave the app, until you turn it off.

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Tidal

Just because you're streaming your music doesn't mean it has to sound streamed. Tidal is a new subscription service that delivers lossless audio — over 1,400 kbps — to your devices on demand. Its music library includes over 25 million tracks, so you're likely to find whatever it is you're wanting to listen to at the moment, and thanks to a team of editors that personally select and showcase the best new albums and tracks in each genre every day, finding new favorites is a breeze. And just in case you're feeling visual, the service also offers over 75,000 HD music videos, so you can turn your phone in a modern-day MTV whenever you feel like it.

Buy Now / $20/mo.

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Gmail Inbox

It's great if you live by the rules of Inbox Zero, but for most of us, our email client is more like Inbox Hell — a jumble of personal messages, important info, and marketing emails on which we should have long ago clicked "Unsubscribe". Gmail Inbox is a new, official Google app that aims to help clean up this mess by ditching traditional email client conventions. The app bundles similar emails together, shows the most important details from messages without the need to open them, lets you set reminders for or snooze emails, and even allows you to do things like check-in for flights and respond to calendar invitations, all from a clean, concise single-page view.

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Simpsons World

FXX's The Simpsons marathon might be over, but you can still watch every episode ever — on demand and at your own pace — with Simpsons World. Built into the FXNow app, this unique experience not only gives you every episode ever, but also graphs showing popularity, clips showing some of the writers' favorite moments, and more. If you'd rather, you can also access the content through a browser, but with the bonus ability to catch episodes of FX and FXX original series the day after they air, there's little reason not to grab the app.

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Shortcut

In a jam and don't have time to go get your hair cut? Have the barber come to you with Shortcut. This handy app connects you directly to a stylist who can come to your home, office, or hotel room on-demand to dish out fresh cuts and beard trims for you and up to three friends — the more people getting cut, the lower the per-cut price. And don't worry about running to an ATM: all Shortcut barbers carry Square readers with them, so you can pay up just as easily as you ordered.

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Flic

It doesn't matter if you've got a 128GB iPhone 6 Plus or an 8GB iPhone 4 — odds are you have some photos in your Camera Roll you could do without. Flic makes it easy to get rid of them, by prompting you to go through a whole month's worth of photos at a time, swiping right if you want to keep the current photo and left if you don't. There's an undo button in the corner for wayward swipes — the photos are only permanently deleted after the whole month's been sorted through and you've given them one last glance — but the simple interface makes clearing up your camera easier than ever.

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Acorns

Putting money back for the future is almost always a good idea — but for many people, it's damned hard to do. Acorns makes it easy, by rounding up the odd totals when you purchase stuff with your bank card, and using the change to make investments. Your portfolio is optimized based on your income and investment goals, and the rest is taken care of for you, with low fees, no commissions, and no minimum balance. Importantly, it's also fun to check and see how much you've put in and how much you're expected to earn, making it far more exciting than opening the Stocks app.

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RoomScan

Need to quickly get the dimensions of a room? You could drop some serious coin on a laser-based measure, struggle with conventional tape, or just use RoomScan. This brilliant app lets you walk around the room, doing nothing but just touching each wall with your iPhone or iPad. it draws the floor plans automatically, whether it's a small square room or a complex layout, and measurements are estimated to the nearest half a foot, giving you both the wall lengths and square footage.

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GIF Keyboard

Forget Emoji — if you really want to get your wordless message across, a GIF is the only way to go. Now GIF Keyboard lets you send them straight from your keyboard over iMessage, thanks to the keyboard friendliness of iOS 8. In addition to offering millions of great GIFs, the app also lets you save new GIFs from Safari with just a single tap — no cluttering up your camera roll — and customize your keyboard with your favorite GIFs, keeping you from having to dig for the perfect clever response.

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Manual

For many of us, our iPhones have long since replaced point-and-shoots. But no matter how advanced the camera gets, it's still missing something: DSLR-like controls. Until now, that is. Manual is an app that uses the new camera APIs in iOS 8 to give you complete control over things like shutter speed, ISO, white balance, and focus, while adding in goodies like a live monitor for your exposure values, a live histogram, a fill flash mode, and exposure bracketing, all in a slick interface that's easy to master.

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Transmit

Since its introduction well over a decade ago, Transmit has served as our go-to FTP solution on the Mac. Now, finally, it's available for our iPhones and iPads too. Transmit iOS brings the rock-solid transfer engine of the desktop version to your pocket, letting you open, edit, and save files over FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, and Amazon S3. Thanks to iOS 8's App Extensions, you can upload files from any app that supports Share sheets, and thanks to the new Document Picker, you can also open files remotely from your servers without even leaving the app you're in. Add in Touch ID authentication for added security, and you've got the best iOS file transfer client money can buy.

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SimCity BuildIt

SimCity has been available for mobile devices for a quite a while, but it never really felt like it was designed specifically for them. SimCity BuildIt does. Crafted with mobile gaming in mind, this all-new SimCity game offers all the features you'd expect, like a huge variety of buildings, 3D-quality graphics, and, of course, a group of vocal citizens that will tell you if they're not happy with the job you're doing, but adds mobile-specific pinch, zoom, and rotate controls to make on-the-go city management a snap. Available for iPhone, iPad, and Android.

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Ask Me Anything

Assuming you use the Internet, you've no doubt heard of Reddit's legendary AMA series, where well-informed or just all-around interesting people log on and answer questions from the (likely) unwashed masses. Now there's an official Ask Me Anything app, which lets you browse these interviews in a clean, well-designed, dedicated interface. Features include the ability to explore interviews by topic, vote questions and answers up or down, see every question answered in an easy-to-read format, get notified when popular AMAs are trending, and even ask questions when someone is marked as Active. It's just like reading them on the website, only better.

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