Jumbo

It's becoming increasingly clear that basically nothing you do online is private, but Jumbo can at least help you get a handle on what's readily available to prying eyes. This free app will automatically delete old tweets, clear out your Google search history, and get rid of any old Alexa recordings. In addition, it can go in and change your Facebook privacy settings so that you're the only one who can see most of your info while turning off creepy facial recognition and restricting ads. In short, it's the best thing you can do for your social media privacy, next to deleting your accounts altogether.

AirMagic

Drones afford unique photographic opportunities. They also present a unique set of challenges. AirMagic is an AI-based app built specifically to enhance drone photos. It automatically detects the drone and camera used to take the images, applying lens corrections and other optimizations specific to that model, while also removing haze, enhancing the sky, boosting colors, and revealing details that were hidden. It's available as a standalone app for both Mac and Windows, and can also be used as a plugin for Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, or Apple Photos.

Spectre

Long exposures are useful for lots of different shots. They're also one of the hardest shots to pull off on the iPhone. Spectre aims to make it easy. Developed by the team behind Halide, it uses AI to make capturing stunning long exposures, with or without a tripod. During the day, you can use it to get professional-looking soft water or make the people and cars in busy places effectively disappear. At night, it turns streams of cars into streams of light and lets you get creative with light painting. Its AI automatically switches modes for the best result, and also works to keep things steady, even when you're not.

Progress Bar

Paraphrasing Steve Jobs, remembering that you'll be dead soon is the most important tool you have for helping you make the big decisions in life. Progress Bar helps push you along by putting that reminder right in your Mac's menu bar. Set the times you start and stop your day, along with your birthdate and life expectancy — in the US it's dropped for the third year in a row — and it will tell you the percentage left of the day, month, year, and most importantly, your life, giving you a not-so-subtle reminder to live your best life right now.

Endel

Instead of making you pick from a vague, spa-like list of background noises, Endel intelligently uses a range of factors to create its own. Its algorithm takes into account your location, time zone, weather, and heart rate to come up with sounds that are meant to help you focus, relax, sleep, or provide you with a tempo-based soundtrack when you're on the go. At the end of the week, it wraps all the data it's gathered into a nifty visualization, so you can see how you did, and where to improve going forward.

Minimal Calendar

It is what it says it is. Minimal Calendar is a phone calendar stripped down to its basics, rendered in gorgeous clean typography. The current year, month, and day are labeled with red type, while everything else is black, set against a white background. It supports basic functions like adding and editing of events, plus helpful reminders, and integrates with Apple iCloud, Google, Exchange, and all iOS supported calendars.

Hawkeye Access Eye-Tracking Browser

People with motor impairments may not have the easiest time controlling their phones with their fingers, and lord knows Siri can't do everything. Hawkeye Access is a new ARKit-based app that lets you control things using nothing but your eyes. After a brief calibration process, you'll be dropped into an interface with a cursor that moves around the screen with your gaze. Smile or blink to click, stare into the bottom, sides, and corners to navigate, and use your voice to enter search queries. Currently, the app contains a web browser with quick links to services like YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram, but given its utility, we wouldn't be surprised to see this functionality baked into iOS in the near future.

Adobe Photoshop CC for iPad

For image editors, Photoshop was one of the only things holding the iPad back from being a full-blown laptop replacement. Essential word being was. Adobe Photoshop CC for iPad will arrive next year, giving users access to all the retouching, compositing, and layering tools they enjoy on the desktop. It syncs all your .psd files via Creative Cloud and has a context-aware UI that gives you quick access to the tools you're most likely to need next.

FilmLab

Taking the place of a traditional film scanner, FilmLab adds to the list of photography tools replaced by your phone. Simply lay your slides or negatives on a light table or other backlight and open the app: it lets you check out negatives and proof sheets, with a live preview of what they'll look like as positives. Custom algorithms combine multiple photos to get the maximum detail from each shot, and built-in tools let you crop, rotate, flip, and adjust exposure and color balance before saving the digitally preserved shot out to your camera roll.

Libby

Your local library likely has thousands of ebooks and audiobooks for you to borrow. Instead of making a trip in person, Libby lets you borrow them right from your phone. It makes finding your branch, signing up for a card, and checking out titles easy. When you find something you like, you can listen through the built-in player, use the built-in reader, or send your selection to your Kindle to read it there. All your holds and loans are placed on a single shelf, and returning an item is as simple as borrowing one, with notifications for due dates coming soon.

Rally Rd.

Many classic cars have reached the point where they're not just a means of transportation, but an investment. Rally Rd. lets you purchase equity in these valuable vehicles, just like you'd buy stock in a company. Each one is hand-selected by a team of experts and securitized so you can purchase a percentage of the car's value, now and in the future, with nothing more than a tap. The cars are stored in a protected, climate-controlled facility with on-site maintenance and closed-circuit cameras, live feeds from which will soon be available to owners inside the app.

Oak

Meditation can have a powerful positive effect on your wellbeing. Oak makes it easy to learn. It offers guided mindful and Metta meditations, as well as unguided options, all with peaceful background tracks. It also includes yogic breathing exercises with animated instructions, a calming interface, badges to earn as you progress, and HealthKit integration.

Oculus TV

It won't have the resolution of a real screen, but Oculus TV does let you enjoy a virtual 180-inch portal anywhere you go. This new app for the Oculus Go works as a virtual streaming stick, so you can enjoy content from Netflix, Hulu, and other popular services, all displayed on the big screen in your virtual living room. More services are set to join in the near future, but don't expect it to replace your real-life set — your eyes probably wouldn't appreciate it.

AstroReality Earth Model

Have the world in the palm of your hands with Earth. The augmented reality experience starts with a highly-detailed 3D-printed model of our planet. Once it's paired with the AstroReality app, just point your phone 's camera at the mini-Earth and you can travel around the globe exploring geological changes, wildlife, and weather patterns along the way. It's voice controlled, so simply ask any questions you have and find out how many gallons of water is in the Atlantic Ocean immediately. The data goes back through our home's entire 4.5 billion-year history, allowing you to take a walk through its complete evolution — the good and the bad.

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Obscura 2 Camera App

There are tons of camera apps to choose from in the iOS universe, but there aren't many that top the convenience of the built-in Apple app. Obscura 2 is a manual camera app that makes an excellent companion to your go-to camera with an intuitive design that puts the main controls on the bottom third of the screen for easy one-handed use. Obscura also provides exposure, focus, shutter speed, and ISO options along with a diverse set of filters and an integrated photo library browser.

Signal

You don't need to be transferring classified material or leaking internal memos to use Signal. But it's nice to know you could. Available on every major platform, it uses rock-solid end-to-end encryption to keep all of your communication private. It covers everything from document transfers to video calls. And it's remarkably free, without ads, tracking, or unnecessary add-ons.

Alto's Odyssey

The follow-up to 2015's award-winning Alto's Adventure, Alto's Odyssey follows our board-bound hero and his friends on a new journey. Like the original, it's built around a one-touch trick system that's easy to pick up but hard to master, with gorgeous graphics depicting dunes, hot air balloons, lemurs, temples, and more. It also has its own headphone-worthy original soundtrack and is just as fun on the Apple TV as it is on your iPhone.

Haven

Modern home security devices are loaded with sensors. So is your old phone. Only one is basically free. Haven turns any old Android device (running 4.1 or later) into an intelligent monitoring solution. Crafted in collaboration with Edward Snowden, it's meant to help protect journalists, whistleblowers, or anyone else at risk of forced disappearance. You can set it up to detect sound, motion, or both, and tell it to record video once it's set off, catching any would-be assailant with either the front or rear camera.

HealthFit

Apple Watch collects all sorts of exercise data — but that's not a big help if you're already invested in another fitness platform. HealthFit is a simple app that unlocks all these metrics, letting you export .fit files that you can then import into Strava, Garmin Connect, RunKeeper, and others. The files include heart rate, GPS routes, swimming and running cadence, and segments, and can also sync your resting heart rate and heart rate variability data directly, depending on the platform.

Google Scrubbies

Dubbed an "appsperiment" by the minds in Mountain View, Google Scrubbies is a new research-driven app that lets you remix your video, DJ style. Just tap to record, use one finger to review, and then use a two-finger swipe to record, rewinding and replaying to create your ideal mix. It's joined by Storyboard, an Android-only app that selects multiple frames from a video and creates a comic-book-like layout, and the embarrassingly-named Selfissimo, which automatically captures selfies when you pose in front of your iOS or Android device.

Notcho

You love your iPhone X. You love your wallpaper. You hate the notch. We get it — and so does Notcho. This new app lets you create custom wallpaper that mimics the curves of the X's screen while drowning the notch in a sea of black. It comes with a library of images, in case you don't want to supply your own, and will let you preview your choice before exporting.