Zomato

Zomato

Zomato is your best option to search for and discover great places to eat. It's a beautifully designed, easy-to-use social restaurant finder app that lets you explore all the dining options in your city. Browse through updated menus, pictures, and user reviews to decide where you want to eat, and use the map feature to guide you there.

Features

• Search easily for Restaurants, Cafes, Pubs and Bars by location, cuisine (e.g. Chinese, Italian, Indian), name (e.g. Starbucks, Domino's Pizza, Amaya), or browse through beautifully crafted Collections to discover something special.

• Explore every restaurant in your city, including the ones around your current location, and use search filters to find the one that suits you best. Use the food app

• Build a trusted network of foodies you choose to follow. See their reviews, pictures, and recommendations, and discover new restaurants through them.

• View menus, pictures, phone numbers, directions, user reviews, and all the other information you need to choose a restaurant for Dine-out, Delivery, Nightlife or Takeaway. Maintain an easy-reference list of your favorites using SpeedDial, build a Wishlist of places you want to visit, and keep track of where you've been using the 'Been There' list.

• Rate and review restaurants you've been to, and share photos of your foodie moments directly from the app.

Verdict

Zomato is possibly the ultimate application for the foodie! Restaurant menu, location, contact details and even user reviews are available in an instant. The application will also identify your location and offer a choice of restaurants in the area, if that is what you want. It is time to make the smartphone search for food.

Google maps

Google Maps

The Google Maps app for iPhone and iPad makes navigating your world faster and easier. Find the best spots in town and the information you need to get there.

Features

• Comprehensive, accurate maps in 220 countries and territories
• Voice-guided GPS navigation for driving, cycling and walking
• Public transport directions and maps for over 15,000 cities and towns
• Live traffic conditions, incident reports and automatic rerouting to find the best route
• Detailed information on more than 100 million places
• Street View and indoor imagery for restaurants, museums and more

Verdict

With its long list of features, zippy performance, and syncing of data across other devices, Google Maps is a must-have application for anyone running Android

The Times of India

The Times of India

The Times of India, India’s largest media house, brings you the best news experience on the go. Download the TOI app on your iOS device and stay updated on news from across the world, anywhere, anytime.

Features

• Live TV - watch Times Now channel live on your iPhone or iPod touch
• Live Audio - If your connection is slow or you just want to listen to the news, tune in to the Live audio of Times Now on the go!
• Breaking news alerts pushed to your home screen
• Local news from 45 Indian cities
• Stunning photo galleries
• Theme choice for stories
• Font size of your choice
• Top videos from news, business, sports, entertainment and lifestyle categories

What it lets you do

• Read news offline - just visit sections once with an active connection
• Comment on articles and photos so that others can see them
• Change your reading theme from day to night
• Choose the story font size that suits your reading experience
• Post comments as a logged in user
• Tap on a photo to zoom in to greater detail
• Save your Favourite articles, photos and movie reviews
• Share articles via email, Facebook or Twitter

Verdict

The TOI app offers everything that an avid news reader is looking for – breaking news, latest headlines, trending news stories and in-depth coverage of sports, entertainment, business and technology. From India news to world news, political news to cricket News, technology news to Bollywood news and movie reviews of Bollywood, Hollywood and regional films – get the most relevant coverage of celebrity news.

Tumblr

Tumblr

Tumblr, the social blogging app that allows you to share photos, videos, links and more, recently updated its app to sport a brand new interface and many other features. Is it for the better or for the worse? Let's take a look.

Features

• Post anything, from anywhere.
• Share photos, gifs, video, music, quotes, chats, links, and text. Find and follow the things you love, and get all your latest news from your dashboard.
• Bonus: Add a 'create a post' widget to your home screen.
• Advanced controls: Save drafts, queue posts, customize tweets, and more!
• Messages: View and reply to messages.
• Multiple blogs: Seamlessly manage all of your blogs.

Verdict

You now have total control over how your blog looks in the app. Colors, fonts, pictures, whatever—however you want to look, you can look that way. Download this thing and make your blog look amazing already.

Soundcloud

Soundcloud 

SoundCloud lets you hear more music & audio. Find new and trending music. Collect tracks and playlists. Follow friends and artists. Discover podcasts, comedy and news.Wherever you are. Whatever you’re doing. The SoundCloud app lets you hear more.

Features

- Explore Trending Music and Trending Audio feeds
- Search directly for tracks, artists and other users
- Follow friends and artists to hear what they share
- Browse tracks by genre
- Listen to your stream wherever you are using WiFi or data
- Play, pause and skip tracks from the lockscreen
- Login or register with Facebook and Google+
- Anonymous listening: download the app and play popular songs or audio without creating   an account.

Verdict

It’s easy to dive straight in and start discovering music & audio. Try the Explore section to find trending music & audio of just about every genre you can think of. As you explore, you will wish for more

Wattpad

Wattpad

Millions love Wattpad - the world’s unlimited, ever growing library of FREE books and stories. 3 million stories total, with 250,000 new stories added every month.With 1.3 Million registered users it is Ranked in top 5 BOOK APPS for 3 years! 

Features

• Read and create your own fanfiction stories.
• Synchronize your Wattpad library between your phone, tablet and wattpad.com
• Write stories and publish them for others to read.
• Connect with your favorite writers, including Margaret Atwood, Paulo Coelho, and thousands of aspiring writers from across the globe.
• Get book and story updates directly from authors
• Read offline and customize your reading settings to personalize your experience

Verdict

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Over 7 Million unique visitors per month. Users spend an average of an hour a day on Wattpad. Over 2 BILLION minutes spent on Wattpad via web and mobile. 1 comment every second. Many popular titles have over 10M reads and more than 10,000 comments. Has to be a great app!

Viber

Viber

With Viber, everyone in the world can connect. Freely. More than 300 million Viber users text, call, and send photo and video messages worldwide internet for free. Viber Out can be used to make calls to non-Viber land-lines and mobile numbers at low rates. Viber is available for many smartphones and platforms. 

Features 

・Text with your friends
・Make free calls with HD sound quality
・Share photos, videos, voice messages, locations, stickers and  emoticons
・Groups with up to 100 participants
・Download stickers from the Sticker Market, making messaging fun!
・Push notifications guarantee that you never miss a call or  message, even when Viber is off
・Support for the Viber Desktop application on Windows, Mac, Linux  and Windows 8

Verdict

The Viber app lets you text, call and share photos and videos for free using a well-designed interface.On Viber, your phone number is your ID. The app syncs with your mobile contact list, automatically detecting which of your contacts have Viber

Wikipedia

Wikipedia

Official Wikipedia App for Android and iOS. Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia containing more than 32 million articles in 280 languages, and is the most comprehensive and widely used reference work humans have ever compiled. The app has been rewritten from scratch and is better than ever before.

Features

• Speed: Our new, native app allows you to browse and edit Wikipedia faster than ever before.
• Editing: You can edit Wikipedia! Logged in or logged out, we thank you for all your contributions.
• Recent pages: We provide you with your reading history, so you can tap as many links as you like without ever getting lost.
• Saved pages: You can save select pages for offline reading and browse them even when you don't have a data connection.
• Share: Use your existing social networking apps to share in the sum of all human knowledge.
• Language support: The app allows you to seamlessly switch to reading Wikipedia written in any language.
• Table of contents: Jump to article sections with the Table of contents button (three horizontal lines button)
• Wikipedia Zero: Data charges waived for participating mobile operators.

Verdict

For me, Wikipedia has been very useful. You can find a ton of information on Wikipedia, having to do with a huge variety of subjects. Sometimes you do need to verify that the information is actually correct, but 9 times out of 10 it is. I use Wikipedia for almost everything when I am doing research projects.

m-Indicator

m-Indicator

There are many applications related to Mumbai train and bus services and all of them have something missing. This application fills many of the gaps that other apps had.

Features

• Ability to search buses from one area of Mumbai to another area of Mumbai. The applications available on android market provide search only from one bus stop to other bus stop. This is a great feature of this application. If you want to go from Andheri to Chembur, you can search all the buses which passes from Andheri and Chembur both.
• It provide estimated bus fare and distance which all other applications lack at this time.
• If there is no bus available from one stop to other stop which is very common, it breaks the journey. It shows which bus to take from source bus stop, where to switch bus, and which bus to board to reach final bus stop. This is the best feature about this app, I think.
• It shows all local trains available from one station to other within a time range. It also shows that from which platform you need to board on train at what time, and when you will reach to destination.
• In many cases we want to go from one station to other which are not on same line. If you need to go from one line to other line, the application will suggest the right stop on which you should switch the line. This feature of this application is very powerful which many other android app of this category lacks.

Verdict

Accurate information available about trains and buses of Mumbai.

Must have when travelling to unknown places.

Shazam

SHAZAM

Shazam is the best way to identify music and TV. In seconds you’ll know the name of any song, or more about what you’re watching - touch to Shazam to start your journey. .

Features

Once you Shazam music, you can easily: 

• Preview and buy tracks on iTunes 
• Sing along to the beat with real time lyrics 
• Watch music videos on YouTube 
• Share your discoveries on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Google+   and Pinterest 
• Listen to full tracks with Rdio, Spotify or Deezer 
• Connect to Rdio to create a playlist of your Shazamed tracks,     or add tracks to any Rdio playlist 
• See song recommendations from others like you 

Turn on Auto Shazam, and the app will continuously identify music and TV, while respecting your 

battery life and privacy 

Verdict

Shazam is a cool program and does its work decently well. If it can shore up its ability to identify lesser-known music, it’ll be fantastic. Accurately identifies songs by sound. Quick links to iTunes Store and YouTube.

You heard a song and you want to know about it..so just Shazam!

VSCO Cam

VSCO CAM

The Standard of Mobile Photography

VSCO Cam is the premier way to shoot, edit and share your photographs.

It is the tool of choice for creating beautiful mobile imagery.

Features

VSCO GRID
VSCO Cam is integrated with VSCO Grid, a free photo publishing platform. Find and follow photographers from around the world, view a curated selection of the finest images online and post your images. Beautiful imagery trumps social clout, therefore number of followers, comments and likes are absent from the platform.

CHOOSE YOUR STRENGTH
Adjust the strength of Presets and Tools using the Precision Slider.

EFFICIENT EDITING
VSCO Tools allow for fine tuning, with the goal to complement, not define, your photographs. Exposure, Temperature, Contrast, Crop, Rotate, Fade, Vignette and more allow you to define your look.

BEFORE & AFTER
Compare your original image with the edited version by simply holding down on the image in Edit view.

INCREASED CONTROL
Separate Focus and Exposure Rings plus White Balance Lock allow for increased creative control.

STAY ORGANIZED
Organize, favorite and filter your images using the quick filter navigation.

BROWSE THE LIBRARY
Multiple thumbnail sizes allow for a customizable image browsing experience.

THE INFORMATION AGE
Easily view your image data including location, date, preset used and more.

FULL RESOLUTION*
Import and export your images in high resolution without sacrificing any quality.

SHARE
Easily share your images with friends and family via Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Weibo and Camera Roll.

CONNECT
Join the VSCO community, discover other photographers and submit your images for inclusion to the VSCO Weekly Selects by using the hashtag #vscocam.

Verdict

VSCO Cam is a great camera and editing app with a half-baked online sharing experience bolted onto the side. The editing tools and filters are better than what you’ll find in many other apps, and the experience is free.

Snapchat

SNAPCHAT

Snapchat is a photo sharing app in an already over crowded messenger app market. But, Snapchat had a trick up its sleeve that would distinguish it from the rest and make it an instantaneous hit among teens. Snapchat lets you send photos and videos called snaps, that can be viewed only once and then self destruct after some time.

Snapchat is growing at a tremendous pace, even overtaking Facebook in the process to be become the top photo sharing platform. Currently, over 400 millions photos are shared on Snapchat everyday.

Features Verdict

• The design of Snapchat can be termed silly at best.
• After logging is a screen which lets you take photos and videos.
• Photos can be taken by clicking on the large circular button on the bottom of the screen and videos can be taken by holding the same button.
• The square button on the left of the circular button takes you to the feed or you can simply swipe from left to right to access that screen.
• The other button on the right of the circular button ( or swipe from right to left) takes you to your ‘My Friends’ screen.
• It has introduced various additional features like Snapchat Stories, replay, smart filters, visual filters, special text and front-facing flash.
• By adding a snap to your story, the snap can be viewed unlimited times over 24 hours. You can choose who gets to view your stories by adjusting the settings.

Verdict

It is a way too much fun than any other messenger app which shares pictures with caption included in them. For someone who is constantly wanting to share their moment with a friend or a group of friends, this app fits perfectly in their pocket. 

Vine

VINE

 Vine is a short-form video sharing service.The service allows users to record and edit seven-second long video clips, which can be then published through Vine's social network and shared on other services such as Facebook and Twitter. Vine's app can also be used to browse through videos posted by other users, along with groups of videos by theme, and trending videos.

Features

• Enables users to record short video clips up to around six seconds long.
• In-app camera with filters.
• Camera records only while the screen is being touched.
• Enables users to edit on the fly or create stop motion effects.
• Include grid and ghost image tools for the camera, curated channels (trending topics/users).
• Ability to "revine" videos on a personal stream, and protected posts.
• "Loop count" meaning every time someone watches a vine,the "loop count" also includes views from vines that are embedded onto other websites.

Uses

• Vine has attracted different types of uses, including short-form comedy and music performances  and stop motion animation.
• The service has also been used for journalism.
• Vine has also gained ground as a promotional tool.
• Music-oriented videos have also had success on the service. 

Categories

Verdict

Vine offers simple, immediate video making and sharing, provided you can cram your creation into less than 6 seconds. Fast, easy, video shooting and editing. Close connections to Twitter. Easily share-able. Private Vine Messages. For Vine makers and Youtubers it is a large chain to exhibit their talent. While the viewers can have a fun filled laughter. Best way to pass time. Go for it!

Dropbox

DROPBOX

Dropbox is a online data backup service for file hosting operated by Dropbox, Inc., that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software. Dropbox allows users to create a special folder on each of their computers, which Dropbox then synchronizes so that it appears to be the same folder (with the same contents) regardless of which computer is used to view it. Files placed in this folder also are accessible through a website and mobile phone applications.

Features

#Your files, anywhere 

• Starting at 2 GB for free and up to 16 GB with referrals.
• Pro accounts with up to 500 GB. Business accounts start at 1 TB for 5 users.
• Your files are always available from the secure Dropbox website.
• Dropbox works with Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad, iPhone, Android andBlackBerry.
• Works even when offline. You always have your files, whether or not you have a connection.
• Dropbox transfers just the parts of a file that change (not the whole thing).
• Manually set bandwidth limits -- Dropbox won't hog your connection. 

#Simple sharing

• Invite friends, family or teammates to a folder. It'll be as if you saved the folder to their computers.
• See other people's changes instantly.
• Create photo galleries viewable by anyone you choose.
• Send a link to any file or folder in your Dropbox.

#Dropbox mobile 

• Bring your files with you when you're on the go.
• Edit files in your Dropbox from your phone.
• Easily upload your photos and videos to Dropbox.
• Share freely with family and friends. 

#Your stuff is safe 

• Dropbox keeps a one-month history of your work.
• Any changes can be undone, and files can be undeleted.

• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and AES-256 bit encryption.  

                                                            

Verdict 

Dropbox's continuous backup feature make for fast data backups and effective sync and sharing capabilities. In addition, the share and sync features make it a data backup service with students, co-workers and friends. However, it lacks an unlimited data plan and a full system restore, which are features you'd get with the best online data backup services.

CamScanner

CAM SCANNER

The CamScanner is the primary interface for students to digitize their written work. It is available for both Android and iOS, and comes in a few different flavors depending upon what features are desired and what platform is used. Both Android and iOS platforms have a free version.

Features

To scan a document, first select the tag like say a business card or a note, and then click on the camera icon. You can opt for the system camera or use the camera layout of the app, which provides decent options like focus, flash, grid, and even allows you to determine the size of the image. You will find the option to switch to the system camera in ‘Settings’ under ‘Scan Settings’. However, if you opt for the system camera then you can’t use the batch scan feature. After you have clicked the image, the next step is to crop it.

Having an app that allows you to scan documents and convert them into PDFs is always handy. It is far better than taking pictures using your phone and sending them across, especially if you want to send documents for official purposes. These apps use the phone's camera to take a picture of your document, crop, edit, create a PDF, and then easily share it. They also provide additional options like merging files, adding password protection, watermarks, etc. There are several apps that allow you to do this and here's the CamScanner, which is packed with features and is quite popular.

Verdict

Over 60,000,000 users around the world are enjoying the convenience CamScanner brings to their work and lives. Its easy to use and eases your work too.