Another year is almost over, so it’s time to take a look at the best new apps landing on the App Store in 2022. Our list goes the gamut and includes great weather apps, the best recipe organizers, and more.
Bento: Fewer To-Do Lists
Stay Productive Ltd
Focus on the Tasks That Really Matter
Designed to complement other to-do apps, it helps you better prioritize what you need to accomplish. You can only open up to seven Bento boxes, each with three tasks.
Journal of Your Life Moments
Momently provides a beautiful way to keep a personal journal of your life. Buy-once apps don’t display subscriptions and allow you to visualize moments as journeys. You can also keep track of the places you’ve visited and the people you know. All data is stored on the device, and you can choose to keep a personal iCloud backup.
Runestone Text Editor
Simon B. Save
Generate Code
Runestone is a simple text editor for editing and writing code. The app can highlight the syntax of a large number of languages ​​including HTML, JavaScript, JSON, Markdown, Swift, Python, PHP and YAML. It also offers a find and replace feature to find and modify text while still viewing the file.
Logger for Shortcuts
Alexander Hay
Developer Console for Shortcuts
The new app logger for Shortcuts is the perfect companion for anyone developing complex options in apps.
Launch
Niels van Straaten
Make Better Use of Lock Screen Widgets
With Launchify’s new app, you can make even better use of Lock Screen widgets. Instead of just information, this app lets you launch apps right from the launch screen.
Improve Your Math Skills at Any Age
Duolingo Math features options for basic math for younger learners and brain training for adults to strengthen mental math skills and other advanced topics. In the basic course, students will tackle concepts such as multiplication, division, fractions, area/perimeter, place value, geometry, measurement, and decimals. The adult Brain Training Course tackles some of the same concepts but with a greater number and increasing difficulty. Concepts are also geared for use in everyday life, for example changing between ounces and pounds
The Perfect Kitchen Companion
Before you even start cooking, it’s time to find the perfect recipe. And Pestle makes it easy to import recipes from anywhere on the internet while saving all the ingredients and steps. When you find something that’s perfect, select the Share icon in Safari and then Save to my Recipe Book. Over time, the app will also learn where you saved your recipe from and then offer the site’s newest creations. When it’s time to start cooking, this app offers a guided cooking experience. Instead of fumbling with your messy hands on your device’s screen, you can control apps with just your voice by saying “Next”. You can also set timers and get count reminders.
Ochi – Block Apps & Websites
Michael Tigas
Eliminate Distractions
Ochi provides a great way to help create time filters to help you stay focused while working on your Apple devices. While Apple has similar built-in options with Screen Time, Ochi goes a step further with the ability to automate processes at the app and site level across devices.
TBR: Book List Tracker
Project Hawaii, LLC
Track Your Reading
TBR is the perfect way to keep track of your reading. In addition to reading, you can even catalog the books you are currently reading and the books you have read. Find your next great obsession because this app brings you reading ideas from books you’ve read before.
Sing along
Each unique character is controlled only by your singing. They will pick up the tonality of your cues and impress the harmonies to complement your melody.
Pendant Widget
Locket Labs, Inc.
Keep up with your Loved Ones
When a friend sends you a picture, it will automatically appear on the iPhone home screen widget. To send feedback, you can tap the widget, take a picture using the app, then send it to others with the app.
Listen Later
MusicBox lets you keep track of new albums and songs to listen to later. You can also catalog and organize music. Finally, you can also organize your music by tags, assign notes, manage metadata and more. This app supports Apple Music and Spotify.
Play: Save Video Watch Later
Loop Apps LTDA
Bookmark YouTube Videos to Watch Later
You can import videos via the Share Sheet or by drag and drop. To get started, you can also import a list of video URLs. When you have a number of videos bookmarked, you can view them all in a list or grid view. To find something quickly, you can filter and sort. Adding tags to videos also adds another layer of customization.
Zone: Convert Time Zone
Squircle Apps LLP
Easily Juggle Multiple Time Zones
Especially with the rise of remote work, many of us have to worry about different time zones in our work and daily lives. And the new app Zone: Time Zone Conversion helps make it easier to know exactly what time it is anywhere in the world. This app makes it easy to see the time in your preferred location around the world. Thanks to iCloud sync, cities added on one device will appear on your other Apple devices.
Shelves – Create Live Activities
Michael Tigas
Make Dynamic Islands and Live Activities More Personal
With Shelves, you can personalize your Live Activities. You can pin photos, text, and quick actions to your lock screen, Dynamic Island, and even your home screen. To get started, you’ll open the app and create a shelf to work with. To help you out, there are a number of suggestions with templates you can use. There are three main types of shelving you can choose from—text, action or photo. When creating a shelf, you can switch back between views of the final product as a lock screen Live Activity, a home screen widget, or on a Dynamic Island.
Deck read the news
Marcelo Perretta
Stay on Top of the News
Getting started with the app is simple. After downloading, you will open the app and select your first three news sources. And you will probably be able to find what you want. There are more than 3,000 news sources available from around the world.
(Not Boring) Habit
Andy Works LLC
Using Science (and Fun) to Build Positive Habits
Instead of acting as a simple to-do list, this app adds massive amounts of gaming fun to build positive habits or break bad ones. Every day you take action, you will move further along a journey spanning eight levels. Each level focuses on a different challenge of learning new habits while offering support. The challenge lasts 60 days.
Drop Sticker
Aaron F Stephenson
Turn Any Image Into a Message Sticker
One of the features of iOS 16 that you may not have known about is that it’s fun and simple. In just a few steps, you can copy any picture subject you can imagine, whether it’s in your own Photo Library or just a random photo on the Web. And the Sticker Drop app makes good use of that feature. You can lift the subject from the image and turn it into a sticker to use when sending messages.
Gift Card Wallet
Tiny Colossus LTD
Save Your Card, Barcode and More
With Barcodes, you can store all your important cards, barcodes, gift cards, sports cards and more on your iOS devices and Apple Watch.
Mercury weather
Triple Glazed Studios
Tracing Mother Earth
Instead of tons of bells and whistles, the focus of a single app is to provide a display of the weather at a specific location. And it does it very well. Once you have set your home location, you will see temperature and weather changes in the next 48 hours and a minute by minute forecast of rain in the next 60 minutes.
