Best Windows 10 apps this week
Two-hundred-and-twenty-one in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 on the Windows Store in the past seven days.
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 list is a selection of the best deals. Make sure you check out the Store for all offers.
Some apps are discounted for more than one week. Only new apps and games are listed below. Check out the previous post in the series for past offers that may still be valid.
- Diarium, electronic diary, for $4.99
- Fenice for Twitter, a Twitter client, for $1.74
- InPixio Photo Eraser, remove elements from photos for $19.99
- Minecraft Windows 10 edition, for $9.99
- Network Data, track network usage for $0.99
- WiFi Survey, WiFi mapping tool for $0.99
- WiFi Tool, a WiFi analyzer, for $0.99
- Writers Pad, writing app for Windows 10 mobile, now free.
New Windows apps and games
All in Yoga ($2.49)
All in Yoga is an instructional Yoga application that divides the content into levels suitable for absolute beginners to pros. The video lessons are well produced, and the app gives you additional control over videos. You may add notes to videos, add them to the favorites, or re-order them.
Bubble Witch Saga 3 by King is the latest iteration of the popular arcade game series. The game, based on Puzzle Bobble, uses the same mechanics as the original game.
Shoot a colored orb to the top and try to match it with at least two orbs of the same color. All orbs of that color that are connected are removed from the level.
Your task in the game is to free owls These owls show up inside orbs as well, and firing an orb next to them using the same set of rules will release them.
Fliky is a third-party client for Flickr that supports authentication. You can use it to watch your Flickr feed, upload photos or videos to Flickr, use search and explore options, manage your photos, albums and groups, and read notifications.
The app is well designed and easy to navigate.
HP Cirrus is a new official HP app for Windows 10 that offers HP Care Pack Services information.
You may use it to look up the warranty status of your products, get recommendations on HP Care Service plans, calculate quotes for customer subscriptions, and get information on HP's Touchpoint Manager.
Riptide GP: Renegade ($9.99)
Riptide GP: Renegade is a hydrojet riding game with great graphics that you can play alone against the computer, or in local or remote multiplayer matches against up to four players locally and eight online.
The local multiplayer uses split-screen play, and works best on high resolution devices. The game features a career mode, challenges, multiple vehicles, upgrades, and all that good stuff.
The wallpaper application Unsplashed provides you with access to high resolution images uploaded to Unsplash.
You can browse the images, and set them as your system's lock screen or desktop background with just a couple of taps or clicks.
Features automatic wallpaper updates of the lock screen or desktop, and options to save photos to the device for other uses.
Notable Updates
uBlock Origin update with better small screen support, procedural cosmetic filters improvements, and other fixes.
Wodel, an unofficial Jodel client, gets Hometown and night mode feature, switched to OneDrive for syncing, got Cortana support, options to hide jodels, and more.
WhatsApp Beta updated with new video player and emoji.