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The Best iPhone Apps of 2015. There was no shortage of incredible new apps in 2015, but which of them are actually worth keeping on your iPhone?

The Best iPhone Apps of 2015

We took a look back at the best new apps of the year—if you haven’t downloaded these yet, trust us, you should. Periscope Apple recently declared Periscope the App of the Year, and we have to say we agree. This live video–streaming app was launched just after SXSW and is a way for users to watch live events in a totally different way. We are already looking forward to watching live feeds of the Olympics. Hopper Booking your 2016 vacations already? Apple Music and Apple News Anytime Apple launches a new feature or product, the Internet freaks out, and Apple Music and Apple News were no exception. Apple News launched this fall, offering a way to combine all the articles from your favorite websites in one place.

Kardashian and Jenner Lifestyle Apps It seems the Kardashians and Jenners are always in the news, but it’s not often that they appear on tech blogs, too. Addicts Have A New App to Help Them Stay Sober. Sam Frons isn’t shy about discussing her recovery from alcoholism.

Addicts Have A New App to Help Them Stay Sober

“Hi, I’m Sam, and I’m an addict” is a fairly standard opener for her during presentations at work. Frons is CEO of a new app set to debut this month for addicts. Unconvinced about Alcoholics Anonymous, she built the app she wanted for her own recovery. Frons was three years into her own recovery before she stepped foot in her first A.A. meeting. Frons says she was “really adamant” about not going. Frons is not the only skeptic of the 80-year-old program. ISIS establishes a new app to spread terror plans - report. The ISIS (Islamic State militants group) has reportedly launched a new app that features news and videos showing executions and battlefield victories and spread its agenda.

ISIS establishes a new app to spread terror plans - report

ISIS is Adding teeth to its growing internet and social media presence. The Android-based application is essentially a news portal run by the Amaq News Agency – a group believed to be tied to the Islamic States. the ISIS group has launched an application that features news and videos showing executions and battlefield victories and spread its agenda. Forbes Welcome. This New App Aims To Build An All-Inclusive Queer Online Community. This New App Sends Notes From Beyond the Grave. Would You Try This New App for Orgasms?: Beauty Blog: Daily Beauty Reporter: allure.com. Technically, the OhMiBod app doesn’t actually cause toe-curling bursts of satisfaction on its own (we’re not sex robots you can just volume up with a remote control after all), but the vibrators it links to?

Would You Try This New App for Orgasms?: Beauty Blog: Daily Beauty Reporter: allure.com

That’s a different story. OhMiBod, the New Hampshire company that launched its original music vibrator in 2006, recently announced several new additions to its personal-device family. This new pollution app will tell you when it's safest to go outside in London. The Plume Air Report uses hourly data from sensors around London to track the air pollution at any given time of the day.

This new pollution app will tell you when it's safest to go outside in London

It uses 11,000 stations in 30 different countries by examining pollutant sources including nitrogen dioxide, ozone and carbon monoxide. Clever App Turns Everyone Into a Roving Weather Reporter. Being a meteorologist is like being an umpire: People only notice your work when you’re wrong.

Clever App Turns Everyone Into a Roving Weather Reporter

Yet we’re all obsessed with the weather. Well, according to the people behind a new weather app called Sunshine, anyway. But are they wrong? Checking the weather is the first thing many people do each day, but Sunshine CEO and co-founder Katerina Stroponiati says 73 percent of the population doesn’t trust the reports. Even if weather reports are spot-on, there’s another problem: They’re usually drawn from satellite imagery and data from weather instruments at airports.

With a free app for iOS, Sunshine wants to be the gold standard for weather accuracy. Click to Open Overlay Gallery Using crowdsourced reporting, readings from the barometric pressure sensor in the iPhone 6 and latest iDevices, and predictive algorithms that overlay all that information on a map to deliver 18-hour forecasts, Sunshine generates what Stroponiati calls “weather forecasting at the street level.”

I Got A Marijuana Prescription And Pot In Minutes Without Leaving My Couch. Don’t worry, be appy with the AA’s new app. The app gives members up-to-date parking information To help the journey pass as smoothly as possible, the app also provides AA members with real-time traffic information.

Don’t worry, be appy with the AA’s new app

As a result, you can adjust your route on the hop, to avoid the worst of the jams. The app's utility doesn’t end when you reach your destination. It gives members up-to-date parking information, including details about prices and space availability. So you can head to the best spot, secure in the knowledge that you’ll find a space, with a clear idea of the cost. New Peeple App — Like Yelp for People — Won't Bring Haters. © Time Inc.

New Peeple App — Like Yelp for People — Won't Bring Haters

All rights reserved. Fortune.com is a part of the Time.com network of sites. Powered by WordPress.com VIP Email address or Password is incorrect. New App Sup Alerts You When Your Friends Are Nearby, Plus 6 More Apps For Seeing What Your Buddies Are Up To. As of 8 a.m. this morning, there’s a new app out there to add to your never-ending list of apps on your phone aka more reasons to delete those photos from two years ago.

New App Sup Alerts You When Your Friends Are Nearby, Plus 6 More Apps For Seeing What Your Buddies Are Up To

Sup, is a social discovery app that’s geared toward millennials who want to know where their friends are at all times. For example, if you’re out having drinks at a bar alone, but want to see if any of your friends are nearby to join you, there’s an app for that, and that app is Sup. Where Sup differs from similar apps is that it doesn’t display an exact location on a map, but a radar of your general location.

A New App Will Allow You To Take Your Instagram Stalking To The Next Level. By Joseph Lamour 21h ago Good news: if you’ve been wondering how you can do a deep dive on an Instagram account without accidentally liking an image, you’re in luck!

A New App Will Allow You To Take Your Instagram Stalking To The Next Level

A new app will allow you to look at Instas of your boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend with no worry. Instasnoop is the perfect app for you if you have an iPhone and absolutely no shame whatsoever. Users sign into the app with their usual Instagram login information. Then, in addition to not worrying about liking a pic of your boo’s garbage ex, you can zoom in on the pictures, staring deep into the eyes of someone you never want to run into unless they’re on fire and you’re the only person with a bucket of water for miles. A new app will pay you $11 a month to let it track every video you watch. Would you download an app that is solely designed to track and report everything you watch?

OK, how about if it also paid you $11 per month? Peeple app lets you rate human beings like restaurants - Calgary. We turn to websites and apps to determine what movie we should see, which restaurant to visit and even which doctor might provide the best care — but should we rely on ratings for people? An app being developed in Calgary called peeple aims to do just that. How libel chill is quashing negative online reviews "You're going to rate people in the three categories that you can possibly know somebody — professionally, personally or romantically," said peeple CEO and co-founder Julia Cordray.

A new app will pay you $11 a month to let it track every video you watch. Would you download an app that is solely designed to track and report everything you watch? OK, how about if it also paid you $11 per month? That's the offer that a new app released on Tuesday is making. Created by data collection startup Symphony Advanced Media, VideoPulse tracks any and all video consumption of its users through a Shazam-like passive listening program that hears what you're watching and tracks it. Symphony is trying to solve what has become a much-debated issue within modern media — how to properly measure who is watching video. The emergence of companies such as Netflix and Hulu have pulled viewers away from traditional television, a shift that has called into question the accuracy of traditional Nielsen TV ratings and other such audience measurements.

The program already counts around 15,000 users and is being tested by a variety of media companies including NBC, Viacom, Warner Bros and A+E Networks. StockLight: iPhone, iPad, Android ASX app shows you company directors’ trades. Jason Kotchoff, creator of investment app StockLight. THEY say you should follow the money — now a new app is making it easier to keep track of what the top end of town is doing with theirs. By law, company directors are required to disclose to the Australian Securities Exchange whenever they buy or sell shares in their own companies. The problem is, these announcements are often difficult to interpret, confusingly worded, and buried in PDF documents where most are unlikely to see them.

StockLight, an investment research app created by software developer Jason Kotchoff, has brought together all of this previously public, but difficult to collate, information into a single feed. Refugee crisis? There’s an app for that! Calais drivers get new download to report stowaways. A new app has been created to allow truck drivers to report refugees attempting to enter the UK illegally hiding in their vehicles. It also notifies local police about any suspicious behavior among drivers traveling from Calais. The app, called BF Intelligence, allows drivers to report heavy traffic and delays to other drivers in the area. Information is shared between drivers, unless there are reports of suspicious behavior – when information can be passed to local authorities. Designed by Jeffrey Scott in Sussex, southern England, BF Intelligence is free to download for motorists, but users can access extra features at a small cost.

Scott came up with the concept after visiting Calais and seeing drivers alert each other to dangerous migrant behavior by beeping their horns. New Israeli app Frank lets friends rate you anonymously. George Costanza invented "It's not you, it's me. " Bumble: the new female-friendly dating app. Dating apps work. New app lets you give to charity while working out.

The ‘porn’ app secretly blackmailing users. New Web App Changes ‘Asylum Seekers’ And ‘Migrants’ In News Coverage To ‘Humans’ Described by its makers as the ‘the Chrome extension for humanity’, Rehumanize replaces potentially insensitive descriptions of asylum seekers with the word ‘humans’. Apple wants to guide your news consumption with News app.

NEW YORK — Apple wants to be a central part of how you consume news. The iPhone maker has forged partnerships with CNN, National Geographic and others — more than 50 companies so far, representing hundreds of outlets. What does Facebook know? New app uses what you 'like' to predict your personality - Gadgets and Tech - Life and Style - The Independent. The application, called 'Apply Magic Sauce', estimates details including a user's intelligence, political and religious views, life satisfaction and sexual preference. New App Adds Money to Your Savings Account Behind Your Back. New 'Companion' Safety App Gives Everyone A Friend Who Will Virtually Make Sure they Never Walk Alone. "Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, And you'll never walk alone.

" Chanted by Liverpool fans around the UK these words have also become the fitting tag line of an amazing new app called Companion. Shakespeare Gets Remixed For a New App. Samsung Electronics UK and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) have teamed up to create an app called “RE: Shakespeare.” With this product, users can play interactive games, watch videos, perform in a music video, and remix Shakespearean words for an original track. According to the press release, it focuses on the play Much Ado About Nothing and contains “thematic links to and quotes from 19 other Shakespeare plays.” Ashton Kutcher-backed doctor app will bring drugs to your door. Amazon Underground Trumpeted as New Android App Monetization Model. Royal Shakespeare Company launches app to bring playwright to the hip-hop generation.

Psych student’s app aims to help ‘thousands’ with anxiety, depression. Craves. Tinder co-founder Whitney Wolfe on Bumble: her new feminist dating app that lets women make the first move. Welcome to Forbes. Welcome to Forbes. New York City's taxi industry insiders made an app to compete with Uber. Downloading new app WomSAT could help save wombats from 'brink of extinction' You can now shoot crappy video (on purpose) with the new VHS Camcorder app. Wipe right: toilet app Looie forces movement of 'sharing economy' towards privatisation. Giphy’s new app lets you record life’s shareable moments and immortalize them as GIFs. Whim: A new dating app that requires in-person meetings - Fortune. What Do You Know About United's Allegedly Creepy New App for Flight Attendants? LinkedIn’s Lookup App Helps You Find Your Coworkers More Easily - Fortune. 'Knock Knock' Is A New App That Could Maybe, Finally, Kill The Business Card.

A new app and blood test can predict suicide risk with startling accuracy, study says. The Vatican's new philanthropy app could ruin everything. 11 important metrics for app monetization. An app that effectively expresses apologies. Microsoft working on an app that reads the news to you.