1. 20 HOTTEST
MOBILE APPS FOR 2013
MOBILE APPS FOR 2013
(so far)
Victor Hernandez
CNN ‘App-ologist’
February 26, 2013

2. Welcome to my latest list of 20 of the hottest mobile
apps that have caught my eye in recent weeks and
months.
Some are associated with productivity while others are
along the lines of discovery, photography, news &
information, health and travel.
You won't be interested/want them all – but I'll bet you
are intrigued by more than a few.
As always you’re encourage to leave your favorites and
recommendations in the comments section.
Happy tech hunting!
- Victor

3. NEATLY
Bills itself as the smart
Twitter client for iPhone.
Neatly dramatically
changes up the Twitter
formula – instead of
displaying your timeline,
tweets are grouped by
interests.
Price: $1.99
iPhone
photo: victor hernandez

4. HAZE
Feel the weather and put
some color on your
forecast with Haze. A fun
weather app with fluid
animations and an
audiovisual interface that
is both simple and
addictive.
Price: $.99
iPhone.
photo: victor hernandez

5. CAM ME
Ready to go hands free?
With this camera app you
never have to worry
about fussing with the
timer setting again. Just
wave and smile - boom,
there it is.
Price: Free
iPhone.
photo: cam me

6. SWIFTKEY 4
Touch screen typing takes
some getting used to.
Some faster than others.
The newest Swiftkey
update provides more
accurate corrections and
better predictions than
other keyboard apps.
Price: $3.99
Android.
photo: swiftkey.net

7. WINSTON
If you prefer listening to
reading, Winston may be the
ideal news app for you. Users
have have their Twitter,
Facebook and areas of news
interest read to you in a really
fancy pants voice. My favorite
feature is users can wirelessly
connect to Apple TV via AirPlay
to watch/listen on a bigger
screen.
Price: Free
iOS.
photo: victor hernandez

8. SWITCHCAM
New web app automatically
synchronizes footage of an
event from multiple cameras
and turns it into one tidy
interactive video. Reminds
me a bit of other
collaborative video apps but
with an interesting twist –
viewers of the content
control the produced feeds.
Price: Free
Any camera. Just upload to
the service.
photo: victor hernandez

9. KICKSTARTER
The crowdfunding platform
for creative endeavors has
been around for a few
years... but what is new is
their iPhone app. Now
users can search and pledge
while on the go via this
sleek, easy to navigate
mobile app.
Price: Free
iPhone, iPod Touch.
photo: victor hernandez

10. FIND.EAT.DRINK.
As someone always on the
prowl for killer foodie
mobile apps, F.E.D. has
leaped to the top of my
current rotation.
Recommendations are
curated by industry insiders;
top-tier chefs, sommeliers,
bartenders, baristas,
butchers, pitmasters, and
food purveyors. Also love
the printable PDF
cheatsheets on the website.
Price: Free
iPhone. Website.
photo: victor hernandez

11. FLAYVR
This app allows users to
take back control of their
smartphone’s camera roll.
Flavyr instantly organizes
photos by date and
seamlessly patches video
and photos into the same
collection. Best of all, the
app is intuitive and simple.
Price: Free
iPhone. Android.
photo: victor hernandez

12. EVERNOTE HELLO
Evernote’s latest update of
their contact management
app offers two big
enhancements; business card
scanner and the ‘Hello
Connect,’ which allows two
or more people in a room
running the app to wirelessly
sync up their contact info.
Info swapping made easier.
Price: Free
iPhone. Android.
photo: victor hernandez

13. FLEKSY
This is the app I show to all
of my touchscreen
keyboard-hesitant friends
nervous about giving up the
physical keyboard. Originally
developed for the visually
impaired, the patented tech
makes typing text on your
touchscreen a brilliant
experience.
Price: Free
iPhone.
photo: victor hernandez

14. SUNRISE
Why go several places if you
can achieve your goals with
one. Sunrise, a new calendar
app built by two ex-
Foursquare designers, pulls
in your appointments from
Google calendar, Facebook
events and birthdays and
weather outlooks.
Price: Free
iPhone.
photo: victor hernandez

15. VINE
In the month since Twitter
introduced Vine, a mobile
service that lets users
capture and share short
looping videos, it’s taken off
about as well as the social
networking giant could’ve
hoped. Big brands, news
outlets and creative Twitter
users have flocked. The
limitation for producing
creative content in six
seconds is both the beauty
and challenge of Vine.
Price: Free
iPhone.
photo: victor hernandez

16. PIXPLIT
Neat twist on the crowded
mobile photo collage app space.
Pixplit is a creative
collaboration network where
friends create social photos
(called Splits) together in a
single frame using their mobile
phones. Post a photo slice into
a frame and wait for another
user to fill out the picture,
often from another part of the
world.
Price: Free
iPhone.
photo: victor hernandez

17. ANY.DO
Managing your
procrastination is now a
little easier. This popular
reminder app was just
updated to support a new
feature called
Any.Do Moment, a quick
and fun overview of your
day and the things you
have on your list.
What I love most about
this app is users are
greeted with a simple list
broken into four sections:
Today, Tomorrow,
Price: Free
iPhone. Android.
photo: victor hernandez

18. SHOWSCOOP
If you attend a lot of concerts,
you’ll want to check out
Showscoop. This app bills itself
as “Yelp for concerts,” giving
users a chance to rate live
music shows they see and share
those ratings with others.
Price: Free
iPhone.
photo: victor hernandez

19. HOTEL TONIGHT
The app makes it easy to
search for and book hotels,
and leverages hotels’ desire
to fill up their rooms to
help you get huge discounts
– as much as 70% off. The
catch is you can’t book until
noon the day of. HT has
been around for a few
years, but they update the
app all the time introducing
new cities.
Price: Free
iPhone. Android.
photo: victor hernandez

20. CINEMAMA
Interested in a digital keepsake
of the baby bump? There’s an
app for that! Women can
create a time-lapse video of
their pregnancy – and get health
tips along the way – through a
new iPhone app called
CineMama available from the
March of Dimes.
Price: Free
iPhone.
photo: victor hernandez

21. LLAMA
Do you sometimes forget to
switch your ringer off once
you hit the office or
classroom? This nifty
Google app automatically
switches specific phone
settings depending on
where you are. Pure
brilliance via automated
convenience!
Price: Free
iPhone.
photo: kebabapps.blogspot.com

22. EVENTSTER
Bills itself as Pandora for
your events. This mobile
app helps you discover
nightlife, concerts, festivals,
sports, theater and more
around you. See what’s
trending around you, search
based on your tastes or find
out what your friends are
up to.
Price: Free
iPhone.
photo: victor hernandez