Best Windows apps this week
One-hundred and ninety-one in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 8.x and Windows 10 in the past seven days.
The Anniversary Update will be out in a couple of days bringing exciting new features to Windows 10.
Unfortunately, for the second time in a row, there is no app of the week.
As always, if I missed an app or game that has been released this week that you believe is particularly good, let me know in the comments below or notify me via email instead.
Discounts this week
The following apps and games are discounted by at least 50 percent this week:
- Media Player Gold, a multimedia player for $6.99
- 8 Zip, a compression app for $0.99
- Nextgen Reader, RSS feed reader for $2.49
- Recording Studio Pro, music app for $4.99
- ScreenShot Tool Pro, screenshot taking app for
- Daily Budget Planner, personal finance app for $4.99
- Total Manager Pro, a file manager for $4.99
- DjVu PDF Viewer, reader for PDF and DjVu documents, for $1.49
- Video to Audio Converter, for $5.99
- DigitalArtist, a PDF editor and graphics package for $6.50
App of the week
None this week
Other apps
Cubiline is an interesting Snake-like game in which you navigate a growing line of cubes over a 3D cube.
The line grows when you pick up colored blocks, and the game ends when you hit your own tail.
Cubiline features several modes of play that include arcade and a co-op mode.
The application provides pilots with pre-flight, in-flight and post-flight tools.
It offers among other things an aircraft checklist, nav log access, airport and FBO information, flight tracking or fuel price information.
You may use it as a standalone app, or sync data between the app and the FltPlan.com website.
Myths of Orion is an adventure game in which you try to recover three powerful books to return peace to the realm of Orion.
The game features the usual combination of "find in picture" tasks with basic puzzles that you need to solve to progress in it.
It features four difficulty levels, suitable for beginners and advanced players, beautiful graphics and an interesting story that unfolds slowly while you play the game.
Royal Trouble HD is another adventure game. Help Princess Loreen and Prince Nathaniel escape from the dungeon.
Solve puzzles, manage your inventory, and play mini games to escape captivity and find out why the two have been captured in first place.
The app is available as a limited preview right now and not available to all users as a result.
It brings the popular messaging platform WeChat to Windows 10.
The app offers all the features you'd expect from its kind: manage contacts, write and reply to chat messages, use emoticons, and more.
Notable updates
AutoCAD 360 updated. App supports keyboard shortcuts now (Ctrl-Z, Esc, Enter, and more). You may also edit Color and Layer properties using the Properties Palette.
Viber update brings feature parity with Android and iOS apps by introducing sticker previews, an option to share sticker packs and to restore free and purchased sticker packs.