What are the hottest new apps and games on the App Store right now? These!
There are over a million and a half apps for iPhone and iPad and the number just keeps growing. Every day new and newly updated apps hit the App Store, and it's impossible to keep up with all of them. Luckily, you don't have to. All you have to do is bookmark this page and come back every day. When you do, we'll have the best of the best new apps and games waiting for you!
Best new apps
This week on the App Store, we have new tools for creating cool animations and buying last-minute gifts. There's also a new app for sharing that latest cool article with your friends, and an artificially intelligent personal shopper in your pocket.
SwiftGift - This app allows you to send gifts to anyone on your contact list. SwiftGift offers gifts from its own store, which you can buy and send to your contact in seconds. The recipient can then "open" the gift and choose a convenient time and place for the physical delivery. - Free - Download Now
Loop - Seedling's new app allows you to create cool looping animations. You can pick a number of overlays and filters, and with iOS 10, you can create and send loops right from Messages. - Free - Download Now
Highly - Highly makes it easy to highlight and share interesting portions of articles with your friends. Highlight the pieces you want to share, then hit the share button to send it to Twitter, Facebook, and more. You can also send your highlights in iMessage thanks to the Message app in iOS 10. - Free - Download Now
Mona - This app puts a personal shopper in your pocket. Mona learns what you like, and crafts recommendations by working with retailers and brands to curates everything based on your style and budget preferences. - Free - Download Now
Best new games
This week's games include put you in Batman's cowl, let you explore a world filled with robots, have your favorite cartoon characters fight, and offer puzzles for you to solve on a mysterious island.
Batman: The Telltale Series - The latest story game from Telltale, take on the dual identities of Bruce Wayne and Batman as you make discoveries that will threaten the stability of Gotham City. - $4.99 - Download Now
Primordia - Explore a destroyed world populated by robots as the android Horatio. Forced to travel to Metropolis in order to find his home's stolen power core, Horatio will make discoveries that lead him to question the nature of his world. - $4.99 - Download Now
Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards - This battle card game mashes together characters from a number of Fox's animated shows, including Family Guy, Futurama, Bob's Burgers, and more. Level up and collect more cards, and even combine some cards to create powerful combinations. - Free - Download Now
Isoland - Explore a mysterious island in this colorful puzzle game. Solve mysteries and uncover the story as you move around the island, and be sure to find every clue that could help you leave and make your way back home. - $0.99 - Download Now
Featured apps
One of the great new features of Messages in iOS 10 is the ability to send fun stickers to your friends and families, either alone or on top of another message. This week, the App Store has a collection of fun stickers that you can use to spice up your messages.
Super Mario Run Stickers - Corresponding with the upcoming Nintendo game, this pack celebrates Nintendo's adventurous plumber with hats, mustaches, coins and more. - Free - Download Now
Mickey & Friends - This sticker pack from Disney offers classically-animated versions of Mickey Mouse, along with his pals Donald Duck, Goofy, and Pluto. These animated stickers are a perfect way to express yourself to your Disney-loving friends. - $1.99 - Download Now
Pokémon Pixel Art Part 1 - The Pokémon Company offers this pack full of pixel art pocket monsters for your messaging pleasure. This collection, which include Pikachu, Charmander, Mewtwo, and more, features art taken from the original GameBoy Pokémon games. - $1.99 - Download Now
Star Wars - Filled with heroes and villains both old and new, these stickers take you to a galaxy far far away with characters like BB-8, Han Solo, and of course, Darth Vader. - $1.99 - Download Now
Free app of the week
AG Drive - This futuristic racing game sees you fly across beautiful glass tracks in fast-paced anti-gravity races. Participate in the main events, test your skills in time trails, elimination races and more.
Here are just some of the features found in AG Drive:
Main Events and Quick Events: Play AG Drive as you wish - Quick or Big!
Enjoy different modes of play such as Single Race, Time Trial, Elimination, Cup, Speed Record, Duel, etc.
Multiple tracks with different settings: sunny, sunset, night, etc.
Ships with different skills - can you master them all!
You can get AG Drive for free from the App Store until September 29, so download it now and get racing!
Free - Download Now