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Vivo TV is a small regional channel app that does the basics.
screen craft solutions has shipped a niche live-TV app to Samsung Tizen, aimed at viewers of a specific regional broadcaster. The ambition is narrow, the execution is plain, and for the right audience it works.
MAY 9, 2026
whoinventedthat is trivia stripped of everything that makes trivia fun.
Another Aristomax Technologies submission to the Samsung Tizen store, this one a single-player invention-trivia quiz with no host, no party mode, and no reason to play it on a television.
MAY 9, 2026
ultimateIQtest is a quiz that won't tell you your IQ.
Aristomax Technologies has shipped a generic multiple-choice quiz to Samsung Tizen and labelled it an IQ test. The format has nothing to do with how IQ is actually measured, and the product has nothing to do with why anyone would care.
MAY 9, 2026
Wifi Logic Puzzle is shovelware that wandered onto a TV.
HexaBrain Technologies has shipped a generic logic-puzzle app to the Samsung Tizen store with no apparent reason for it to live on a television. The TV-remote interaction model makes a thin product thinner.
MAY 9, 2026
Ten iPhone apps that buy you a quiet back seat on a long drive.
A working kit for the family road trip — three you have to download before the highway, three for streaming when the signal still holds, two games that survive a six-hour stretch, one party deck, and one reason to stop.
MAY 9, 2026 · 11 MIN
Five iPad apps that earn a place on a public-health professional's shift kit.
The original list ran three apps deep. The category has broadened enough since that the honest 2026 answer is five — three on every shift, two when the work crosses borders.
MAY 9, 2026 · 8 MIN
Five iPhone apps that earn a place on a med student's lock screen.
The original list ran three apps deep. The category has broadened enough since that a five-app roundup — three core picks plus two supporting — is closer to honest in 2026.
MAY 9, 2026 · 8 MIN
Four iPhone landscape apps that turn a weekend yard into a designed one.
One AR canvas to redraw the lawn, two camera-based plant ID engines for the beds you already have, and a newer AI app that hallucinates a redesign from a single photo. Four apps, with a clear answer for who each one is actually for.
MAY 9, 2026 · 8 MIN
Four brainstorming apps Albert Einstein would have used if he'd had a Mac.
A working desk, not a tour. Four iPhone apps the App Comrade picks up when an idea is still half-formed — and a fifth we keep in case you'd rather start by writing.
MAY 9, 2026 · 8 MIN
Four iPhone fishing apps that earn their place in a tackle box.
One social log, one tide chart, one official forecast, one solunar calculator. The four iPhone apps the App Comrade desk would actually keep on a phone before a dawn launch.
MAY 9, 2026 · 8 MIN
Four iPhone apps that turn raw clips and photos into a multimedia story you can actually post.
The original 2014 listicle promised five. One of them is gone. The four below are the ones still worth installing — split clean down the middle by where you intend to post.
MAY 9, 2026 · 8 MIN
Five iPhone fitness apps that earn their place on a serious training week.
One platform for the cardio-curious, two trackers for the lifters, one calorie database to underwrite all of it, and a free studio with the deepest workout library on the App Store.
MAY 9, 2026 · 9 MIN
Five translation apps that actually earn a place on a traveler's phone.
One default, one offline workhorse, one for the European train route, one that listens, and one for anyone going east of Vladivostok. Each does one thing better than the others.
MAY 9, 2026 · 8 MIN
Five iPhone photography apps that take a position about what your photos should look like.
One camera app that disagrees with Apple, and four editors that disagree with each other. The shortest path from a RAW file to a photograph you'd actually print.
MAY 9, 2026 · 9 MIN
Six real estate apps that match the move you're actually making.
Cross-country relocation, racing a hot listing, scouting a school zone, finding a sublet in three weeks. Six iPhone apps, sorted by the situation each one was built for.
MAY 9, 2026 · 9 MIN
Six iPhone real estate apps that earn their place on a homebuyer's home screen.
Zillow has the inventory. Redfin has the data discipline. Apartment List has the patience for renters. Six apps, with a clear answer for who each one is actually for.
MAY 9, 2026 · 9 MIN
Seven elearning apps that earn their keep on an iPhone or iPad in 2026.
A working syllabus, not a tour. Seven iOS apps the App Comrade picks up when the goal is actual learning — language drills on a commute, STEM problem sets on a couch, university certificates on a deadline.
MAY 9, 2026 · 11 MIN
Seven iPhone apps that turn the photos on your phone into something you can hold.
Seven apps that print pictures on paper, fabric, glass, and aluminum — sorted by how good the result is, how much it costs, and how long the wait is.
MAY 9, 2026 · 10 MIN
Pinterest on Fire TV is the lean-back version of a lean-forward app.
What works on a phone screen during a coffee break is awkward at a 65-inch viewing distance with a Fire TV remote. The catalogue is the same; the use case is genuinely different.
MAY 8, 2026
Hungry Shark Evolution is the snack-sized arcade game that grew teeth.
Ubisoft-owned Future Games of London's eat-everything-in-the-ocean shark sim is twelve years old, still on the top-grossing chart, and the rare F2P game where the core loop hasn't been corrupted by monetisation pressure.
MAY 8, 2026
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