Best Windows 10 apps this week
Four-hundred-twenty-eight 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.
Microsoft released build 21327 for Windows 10 to Insider devices this week; the new build debuts a new look for the news and interests feed widget that Microsoft introduced in preview builds some time ago. The new build comes with a new font and several system icons have been updated as well.
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.
- MadKey - (Key Presser/Auto Clicker), for $1.99
- MagicPods, adds iOS AirPods experience to Windows, for $0.99
- MouseMover, for $1.39
- Speech Central: Voice Reader, for $7.99
- TextGrab, OCR tool, for $1.49
- Time2015, digital world clock, for $2.99
New Windows apps and games
Supported only on select Lenovo devices, Lenovo Smart Appearance enhances camera effects, e.g. for video conferencing.
The app supports features such as background blurring, or skin and face related enhancements using easy to manage controls.
WSL Hello sudo is an open source program for Windows 10 that brings support for Windows Hello to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
The program is compatible with WSL1 and WSL2. You can check out Mark's review of the application here on Betanews for additional information.
Notable updates
Lively Wallpaper 1.2 update adds support for Screensavers.
Microsoft Power Automate Desktop tool, previously an Enterprise-only tool to automate tasks on Windows devices, is now freely available.
PowerToys 0.33.1 introduces the First time load experience designed to help new users get the most out of PowerToys.
Windows Terminal 1.7 Preview adds support for single-instancing and remote control.