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This is the second round of my end of the year round up of SomeWhat Creative’s Monthly HandPicked Goodies for Designers & Developers roundup, In these type of roundups I like to showing what’s new for Web Designers and Developers. So let cut to the chase, today’s post I will be focusing on all the new, addictive and awesome Mobile Apps that you could use on your iOS, Android, Windows smartphone, all of these applications been released during this year.

I would like to say that not every Mobile Apps that been featured in each of the monthly roundups will be featured here today and for your ease of reading pleasure I will be splitting these best of the Mobile Applications into each months.

January

Speak – iOS App – Free

speak

Speak lets you message safely on the road using voice and gestures. Want to send a message? Touch anywhere on the screen and talk. Want to talk to switch conversations? Press down on the screen and say someone’s name.

February

WordPress Desktop – iOS – Free

WordPress-desktop

A app that gives WordPress a permanent home in your dock.

March

Branches – iOS App – Free

Branches

Branches is an iPhone and iPad app for managing issues for your GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket projects.

UX Assist – iOS App – $3.99

UXassist

UX Assist provides workflows to designers comprising of activities related to user research, information architecture, interaction design and usability testing. It’s the first app of its kind that has grouped UX activities into 12 unique workflows based on the kind of product you’re working on, namely, an optimum viable product, minimum viable product, client-based product and a data-driven product. Each product has a different UX design lifecycle.

The app gives you activity based recommendations for each product type and assists you in making your own workflow according to your business and product requirements.

No More Voicemail – iOS & Android App – Free

NoMoreVoicemail

No More Voicemail helps you stop your voicemail box from becoming full, and from needing to check or return messages at all, by sending your unanswered phone calls to endless ringing.

April

devRant – iOS & Android App – Free

devRant

devRant is where developers can express how they really feel about code, tech, and the people that make programming super special (for better or worse)

Billy – iOS App – Free

Billy

Billy is the easiest way to get insights in your fixed costs. Manage your subscriptions and get notified when a bill is due.

Tweetcat for Twitter – iOS App – Free

Tweetcat

Tweetcat is a Twitter client sorts your timeline into custom topics! For example, if you are interested in Music, Tweetcat will put any tweets relating to Music into one timeline and hide all others. You will only see tweets that have something to do with Music in this timeline! No more lunch pictures in your timeline!

Reddit *Official – iOS App – Free

Reddit-Official-App

Reddit anywhere with the official app (even from the office restroom).Get the latest news, trends, and memes on the Internet first on Reddit. You get to decide what’s worthy: top content rises to the front page thanks to

May

Colordot – iOS App – $0.99

Colordot-for-iOS

Colordot is a colour picker for humans. It’s intuitive, fast, and beautiful.  Build palettes with a swipe of your finger or use your camera to capture colour from the world around you. Colordot is perfect for web developers, illustrators, interior designers… anyone who loves colour!

June

ProtoSketch – iOS App – $9.99

protosketch-for-ipad

It doesn’t matter if you are a designer, a marketer or just someone who want to play around and sketch something.

Also if you want to draw your vector masterpiece, logo or a new landing page for your business say hello to the iOS app ProtoSketch as it is your go to app for everything creative.

Supercharged with icons, fonts, UI elements, basic and complex drag and drop shapes. This app is easy to use to design anything from logo and icon to website and mobile app. Lossless vector graphics that you can scale infinitely and continue straight on your desktop.

July

Hillo – iOS App – Free

Hillo

Hillo, or High Level Trello, lets you have a bird’s-eye view of your Trello organizations by keeping track of your Trello boards activity and more.

Prisma – iOS App – Free

prisma

Prisma transforms your photos into artworks using the styles of famous artists: Munk, Picasso as well as world famous ornaments and patterns. A unique combination of neural networks and artificial intelligence helps you turn memorable moments into timeless art.

August

Smart App – iOS/Android/Mac – Free

Smart-App

smartapp saves money by keeping you in control of your data usage.It helps you keep a daily track of your 3G/4G & Wifi usage and keeps you alerted with its unique forecasting feature.

TapCase – iOS – Free

tapcase-app

TapCase lets you create app prototypes from hand-drawn sketches and screen mockups. Create interactive elements by adding hotspots, linking target screens and picking transition animations.

Storm It – iOS & Android – Free

Storm-IT

Storm it is simple app for iOS & Android that allows you to add or collect your ideas / thoughts and share them as a Tweetstorm on Twitter.

September

It’s weird seems like i didn’t post any mobile apps for our September, i’m sure that I’ve done it for the last 3 months.

October

Front – iOS App – Free

front-app

Front is an inbox for teams that allows for great external communication based on seamless internal collaboration. It brings all of your communication channels (email, SMS, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) into one place.

24hDone – Android – Free

24-hour-done

24hDone is the most simple and effective To-Do list app to manage your day-to-day.

November

Bear – iOS App – Free

bear-app

Bear is a beautiful, flexible writing app for crafting notes and prose.

December

Spark – iOs App – Free

spark-mail-for-apple-devices

Email has taken too much time from people. Spark gives time back to all those who live by their inbox. Quickly see what’s important and clean up the rest.

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The Best HandPicked Goodies from 2016: Mobile Apps Edition