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If you’re looking for a simple fitness app that will help track your progress without a clunky interface and complicated settings, SOTKA: fitness for beginners for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch is worth checking out.

SOTKA is a great way to start getting into shape. It offers easy to follow workout guidance and tracking features with an intuitive interface that lets you can focus on your workout.

Concept and Functionality:

After reviewing and using many fitness apps over the years we know how important it is for them to be simple and efficient so they don’t take away from your workout experience.

The last thing you want to do when you hit the gym or before a run is fiddle with your iPhone for 5 minutes trying to navigate a flashy interface and fancy tidbits.

Once the initial setup is complete, you can begin using SOTKA, by Anton Kuchumov, immediately.

The app gives you some important information as background but then you jump right into your training.

We appreciate the clean Apple Watch interface that gives you key information at a glance and let’s you easily control the app.

While using an Apple Watch is certainly not required, it does make it very simple to follow the cadence of the workout, which is one of the important aspects of the regime.

The well-designed watch interface makes it very easy to move along in your workout to achieve the best results.

Features:

They key thing about SOTKA is the fact that you can easily get going into a well designed 100 day training program. This is the whole purpose of the app and the devs have made in incredibly easy to get started.

Guidance and rationale are provided to you by selecting the BASIC level training plan. The first information presented is the importance of warming up and cooling down. Good advice.

You tap one of three buttons on the bottom; Train, Stretch, or Rest depending on where you are in the program.

The BASIC level training plan gives you an overview of the program and you are told about the 3 main principles that are designed to keep you on the right track.

The Quality Rule which highlights the importance of correct form, the Quantity Rule which points out how consistency in reps is key to your progress, and the Time Rule which emphasizes the rest you must take in between circles.

By following the three rules of SOTKA you wind up with an individualized fitness program that is perfect for you.

SOTKA also syncs your workout sessions so you can easily access them at a later time.

Each day you can access a different info post which is great to keep you motivated. You can also keep a diary and track your progress with the results of your workouts as well as photos that show your improvement.

A couple of UI items that need to be cleaned up are that you’re asked to “sing up” instead of “sign up” and the words in the graphic on the main screen are in Russian.

Value:

SOTKA is available to download from the App Store for free and is designed for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. There are no ads so this is a fantastic deal.

Overall, SOTKA is a great fitness app for anyone who is looking to get started on a regimen to improve their muscle tone, overall appearance and health.

It’s simple and straightforward, which makes SOTKA a very viable fitness tool for everyone, not just beginners.

SOTKA: fitness for beginners requires iOS 10.0 or later and is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and Apple Watch.

 

 

Source link:https://www.theiphoneappreview.com/2019/09/sotka-iphone-app-review/

The Devil’s Calculator, developed by Cinq-Mars Media, is a free and challenging math puzzle game for iPhone and iPad.

If you’ve ever used a calculator you’ll see a familiar layout but The Devil’s Calculator is not a traditional calculator. It’s something much more devious, challenging and fun.

Concept and Gameplay:

I’ll admit from the get-go that I’m not a math fanatic. However, I was intrigued by how The Devil’s Calculator was described as “normal arithmetic operators replaced with sadistically obscure functions.”

The Devil’s Calculator is a challenging, fun, and surprisingly addictive game that encourages critical thinking and requires a bit of skill in order to play.

I’m a huge fan of games like that and The Devil’s Calculator definitely didn’t disappoint.

The goal of The Devil’s Calculator is to discover the operation that’s represented by the diamond symbol and us it however you need to in order to create the answer “666.”

It’s definitely tough to explain, and even tougher to get the hang of the game when you first start playing.

However, with a bit of work and persistence, The Devil’s Calculator becomes more fun whilst remaining a good challenge that keeps you thinking.

One thing to watch out for are numbers on fire, though, because these numbers, while they may be the obvious route to an answer, cannot be used and so you’re forced to find another, more difficult, path.

For anyone who’s any bit of a numberphile, there are also DLC levels that are created by noted math-related personalities such as mathematicians, authors, and educators.

You can move along level by level or jump to the level you prefer.

Features:

The Devil’s Calculator might seem like a bare-bones game at first, but its appeal lies in its design, not flashy screens or action. That’s not to say there isn’t any action. There is but it’s mostly in your gray matter, and to get it crankin’ it offers the first 20+ levels of play for free.

While playing you can select tools to get a description of the challenge and the options available, open up a linked calculator, go to a specific level, and get some help.

As a clue to the deviousness of this game, it states that “functions are not necessarily algebraic in nature, sometimes their transformations are more abstract, be on the lookout for all types of patterns.”

The game is also hooked into Wolfram and their cloud API. If you touch the “screen” of the game’s calculator you are sent to mathworld.wolfram.com for additional resources.

Don’t be intimidated though, the game starts off pretty simply and lets you move along easily so you can keep going and likely getting farther along that you might have thought possible.

Value:

The Devil’s Calculator is available to download from the App Store for free and is universally compatible with iPhone and iPad. The full version of the game is available for $2.99.

Fortunately the free version has no ads during play although there is an occasional full screen ad which is not a problem.

One point worth noting is that the app was developed by a non-profit 501c organization and so we encourage players to pay for the full version and support this effort. For the price of a cup of coffee you get a well-designed and challenging puzzle game that will keep you focused and on your toes.

The Devil’s Calculator requires iOS 9.0 or later and is compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

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Source link:https://www.theiphoneappreview.com/2019/09/the-devils-calculator-iphone-game-review/