Best Windows 10 apps this week
Three-hundred-and-seventy in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 on the Microsoft Store in the past seven days.
Check out Mark's guide on using the free screen recorder tool in Windows 10. Microsoft is preparing to include a new launcher in the company's PowerToys tools collection.
As always, if I've 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.
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.
- Finebits AppPack, includes several apps, for $9.99
- Mind Maps Pro, mind map creation app, for $9.99
- Nero Video, video creator, for $19.99
- Penbook, freehand writing app, for $9.99
- Pengwin, Linux distribution for WSL, for $10.99
New Windows apps and games
ActionLogger is a new life tracking application for Windows. It may be used to manage goals and plans, and log other activity that is happening.
It supports different categories, goals that may be fine-tuned, e.g. to work on something for x minutes per day, and reports that you may look at.
Microsoft released Application Inspector on the company's GitHub website. The program analyses source code to identify "well-known features and other interesting characteristics of source code to aid in determining what the software is or what it does".
The program is not a Microsoft Store application; the binary requires .Net Core 3.0 or later.
Avoice Recorder ($2.99, free next 6 days)
Avoice Recorder is an audio recorder for Windows 10 devices that may record audio as WAV, WMA, M4A, FLAC, MP3, or ALAC audio files.
It supports real-time recording visualizations and comes with functionality to play recorded audio files directly in the app.
New Windows 10 themes
Aerial Farmland PREMIUM, 18 4K images of planted fields.
Dogs and Cats, 15 images of cats and dogs.
Seasonal Art PREMIUM, 12 4K images of the seasons.
Notable updates
Microsoft Edge Dev warns users if a site using outdated security settings and supports extensions inside Application Guard windows.