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Here are 5 “App of the Day” apps selected by Apple for the week of March 25, 2018. We are listing these apps as a service to our readers. While we have not independently reviewed them, we hope you find this list useful and interesting.

Scholly – Scholly, Inc – Free – IAPs, subscription – This app helps high school students apply for, and presumably win, college scholarships. The developer claims “with a free Scholly account, gain immediate access to Scholly’s scholarship-winning essays, tips and advice. Create a paid account and unlock access to Scholly’s award-winning, personalized scholarship matching and application tracking platform. It’s only $2.99/month.”

“Designed to ease the scholarship searching and application process, our patented scholarship-matching engine delivers a smarter, targeted list of scholarships that are uniquely suited to you. The Scholly mobile and web platform turns the long months of searching for free money for college into minutes. To help you win scholarships, Scholly also gives you free access to winning scholarship essays and advice. This app connects you to the Scholly web platform, allowing you to access your account wherever and whenever is most convenient for you.”

Tone – Perfect Pitch Training – Crescendo Technologies – Free – If you’re a singer, musician, or anyone who’s always dreamed of having “pitch perfect” hearing, this app is a must. The developer states:

“Tone is a fun and simple game to help you improve your ears and sing with perfect pitch. Simple, intuitive interface. Choose your pitches and octaves. Difficulties ranging from easy to expert. Practice mode. Share your score and compete with friends!”

Surfline – Surfline/Wavetrak – Free – IAPs – As you might expect, Surfline is for surfers. It’s a weather app specifically designed to help surfers find the best surfing conditions. According to the developers “Surfline gives you access to the best real-time surf reports, long-range swell analysis, and weather forecasts for all your favorite surf spots. Access more than 300 live surf and beach cameras in hi-definition, 24/7/365.”

A Color Story – A Color Story LLC – Free – IAPs – The more visually astute among us will love this app. Actually, everyone who likes robust vibrant images and photos will love it. As stated by the developer “A Color Story focuses on fresh photos and video, bright whites, and colors that pop. Rather than forcing you into a single look, the app has: over 100 carefully crafted filters, incl. purchases; over 40 movable effects, incl. purchases; over 20 FREE tools, including curves; custom filters saved from your editing steps; NEW! Instagram grid preview and planning; NEW! batch editing.

Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen – NutritionFacts.org – Free – If you’re like us you’d like to be on this planet as long as possible. While we can’t do anything about some everyday risks, we can definitely choose a more healthy lifestyle. This app can be a part of that effort. Here’s what the developer says “Keep track of the foods that Dr. Greger recommends in his new book How Not to Die.

In the years of research required to create the more than a thousand evidence-based videos on NutritionFacts.org, Michael Greger, MD, FACLM, has arrived at a list of what he considers the most important foods to include in a healthy daily diet. Yes, greens are good for you, but how much should we try to eat each day? Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen details the healthiest foods and how many servings of each we should try to check off every day.”

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Apps of the Day for the Week of March 25th – TheiPhoneAppReview.com

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Lichtspeer ($3.99) by Lichthund and published by Noodlecake Studios is an action game that's packed full of retro neon lights, futuristic yet ancient German mythology, and plenty of lightspear-throwing fun. If you like physics-based action games, kind of like Dandara, then you'll get a kick out of Lichtspeer.

Ever since the rise (and fall) of Angry Birds, there was an upsurge in physics-based games that utilize the slingshot aiming method that the franchise made popular. While there haven't been as many of these games out lately compared to years ago, they're still fun, especially when you have something like Bowmasters. I tried Bowmasters for a while, but the constant ad shoving in your face bothered me. I had also seen Lichtspeer on the Nintendo Switch eShop several months ago, and while I didn't buy it on the platform, I found it incredibly intriguing. Now that it's on iOS, I had no excuse to not check it out. Boy, this one does not disappoint.

$14.99

Dandara

Raw Fury AB

Free

Bowmasters – Multiplayer Game

Playgendary GmbH

$4.99

Alto's Adventure

Snowman

$4.99

Alto's Odyssey

Snowman

Lichtspeer's graphics are visually impressive as a whole. The game features a minimalistic aesthetic with the 2D, low-poly art style. The various environments also feature unique backdrops that look great, and have a kind of Alto's Odyssey look and feel to them. Despite the low-poly style, the character models for your warrior and various enemies, including the Hipster Ice Giants, are detailed and can be easily separated from the rest. The colors in Lichtspeer range from bold and vibrant brights to muted, earthier tones, and then there are the bright neon lights of your lichtspear weapon and pyramid lasers. Animations are smooth and fluid, with no issues of lag on my iPhone 8 Plus.

The game's music is just as unique as the game itself. Players will find an upbeat and quirky EDM soundtrack that plays in the background, and the sound effects are nicely done. So whether you hit your target or miss, the game wants to make sure you know.

Lichtspeer has several different areas on the world map, and each one has a handful of levels to get through. But on top of it all, each level is broken up into several stages, and you must clear one stage to move on to the next part. Once you finish them all, then your total score gets tallied up as LSD, which stands for Lichtspeer Standard Denomination. You'll have to complete the first world to get access to the shop, where you can purchase and upgrade your Lichtpowers.

With the scoring system, Lichtspeer follows an arcade formula. You get points based on the number of enemies you killed, but you earn bonuses for headshots, consecutive hit and kill combos for multipliers, and not using up a continue. Plus, there are set goals for each level that you'll want to strive for, so it keeps things fresh.

The goal in Lichtspeer is simple: you're a lone warrior who holds the Lichtspeer, and must use it to clear out the waves of enemies coming at you. Defeat them all, and then you can move on. There are also boss battles that present a true challenge, and are not for the faint-of-heart. Despite the simple premise, Lichtspeer is a hard game. Prepare to die — a lot.

The controls are simple and seem made for touch screens, though I have yet to play it on the Switch. To aim your Lichtspeer, just drag your finger on the right side of the screen. You'll see the trajectory line for your Lichtspeer. Release your finger to throw it, and hope you aimed well. Then rinse and repeat for every enemy on the battlefield.

Your starting Lichtpower is the Trispear, which splits your single spear into three when you tap the screen with two fingers (left and right side). You may want to spend your LSD earned from each level (all stages) to upgrade it to become more effective (eventually splitting into five spears) and reduce the cooldown timer. Other powers may be purchased as well, such as the Licht Hammer, Lichtray, Das Shield, and more. There's a total of 10 powers that you can have, and they prove to be quite useful in battle. Getting enough LSD for all of them, on the other hand, may take some time.

Toss spears at all kinds of crazy creatures in ancient Germanic future.

The Good

Lichtspeer is an amazing physics-based arcade game that everyone should play. The visual style is unique and looks fantastic on Retina screens, and the sound is top notch. The controls work out well enough, so it's pretty simple and intuitive overall. There's a lot of variety in terms of environments and enemy types (Hipster Ice Giants and Penguin Vikings, hello?), so you'll never not have a good time here. The humor is excellently done too, and the Lichtpowers kick things up a notch.

The Bad

The game can be a bit unforgiving, because if you even let one enemy get through to you, then you've failed. When this happens, you have to start that section over from the beginning, which can get pretty tedious if you died a good way through the wave. I wish that there was a life system instead, making it a tad easier, but I suppose that would defeat the purpose of the game, which is to be challenging. After all, it is a simulator where you're a warrior facing off against hordes of enemies.

The verdict

While I'm still fairly early on in Lichtspeer (it's pretty hard, alright), I'm enjoying it a lot and find it hard to put down once you get the hang of things. I've died plenty of times now, but if you pay attention to the attack patterns of the waves, you'll notice when and who you should strike first. It takes some time and practice, but it gets easier once you recognize the sequences. Plus the graphics are beautiful, the music and sound is quirky and delightful, and the controls feel natural. It's a bit unforgiving, but pushes you to get better.

Lichtspeer is available on the App Store as a universal download for your iPhone and iPad for $3.99. There are no in-app purchases.

9.5

OVERALL

Graphics 10

Sound/Music 10

Replayability 9

Game Controls 9.5

Gameplay 9

$3.99

Lichtspeer

Noodlecake Studios Inc

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