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5 gorgeous iPhone apps with surprising designs and amazing visuals

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 8:54PM EST
5 Gorgeous iPhone Apps
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When thousands of paid apps are added to Apple’s App Store every week, presentation becomes a vital tool for success. If a customer is going to spend money on an app, it needs to stand out from the dozens of other apps that perform a similar function, which is why we’ve decided to round up some of the new and recently updated apps that we can’t take our eyes off of.

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Here are five gorgeous iPhone and iPad apps that you should consider downloading today:

AirPano Travel Book

Currently $3.99 on the App Store.

Get ready for amazing adventures! Explore the world’s best 360º aerial panoramas!

AirPano Travel Book is a collection of unique spherical photo panoramas of the most amazing places in the world with a bird’s eye view. AirPano Travel Book takes you on an exciting journey with a real-life presence at a photographic location. The aerial panorama technology allows viewers to soar in the sky above Niagara Falls, the famous Taj Mahal, nightlife in Las Vegas, and the fantastic beaches of Dominican Republic.

Unlike conventional photographs, spherical 360° photo panoramas allow viewers to rotate an image, change the field of view, and zoom in on a particular detail.
See the most beautiful cities of the world, historical locations, beaches, night landscapes, witness volcanic eruptions, amazing lakes, mountaintops, and waterfalls.

AirPano is a non-profit company created by a small group of Russian photo enthusiasts, focused on aerial high-resolution spherical panoramas. Today, AirPano is the largest spherical panorama resource in the world based on geographical coverage, number of aerial photographs, and artistic and technical quality of images. The AirPano website features over 2000 panoramas with aerial views of over 200 of the most famous locations in the world.

AirPano strives to continue making aerial photo panoramas and virtual photo tours of the most interesting places on our planet. New photo panoramas are published on the website every week. AirPano collaborates with a number of international publications, such as National Geographic, GEO, Der Spiegel, and Daily Mail. It has continuously been awarded first prize in both Russian and international photographic contests.

Download AirPano Travel Book

Afterlight

Currently $0.99 on the App Store.

Afterlight is the perfect image editing app for quick and straight forward editing. Our simple design, paired with powerful and snappy tools, will give you the look you want in seconds.

Download now and look forward to free content and app enhancements monthly!

15 ADJUSTMENT TOOLS
Use any of our 15 uniquely made adjustment tools to enhance your images to perfection with ease.

59 FILTERS
Afterlight has 27 fully adjustable Original Filters, 14 Guest Filters by various Instagram users, and the new Seasons filter pack including 18 filters. Now including the new Fusion filters, allowing you to mix tools, filters and textures to create your own personal filters.

66 TEXTURES
Afterlight includes a range of real and natural light leaks we created with 35mm film and instant film, to simplistic scratchy film textures.

CROPPING & TRANSFORMING TOOLS
Crop your photos with our quick and easy cropping tool with 15 different presets.
Transform your photos with our rotating tool, vertical and horizontal flipping tools, and straightening. Now with the new Double Exposure tool.

FRAMES
We provide a list of 128 different simplistic and adjustable frames, paired perfectly with Instagram. Now including the new Wallpaper Pack.

Download Afterlight

Deliveries

Currently $4.99 on the App Store.

Deliveries helps you keep track of all your packages, so you always know when they’re going to arrive. Whether it’s the latest gadget you’ve preordered online, or a new graphic novel you can’t wait to dive into, Deliveries will keep tabs on it so you don’t miss the doorbell.

The main list shows a summary of all your shipments and counts down the days. Select a delivery for more information, and see where it is on a map. If you like you can view the shipping company’s web page, or easily share your shipment over email, iMessage, or AirDrop. Deliveries can even add estimated delivery dates to your calendar, and a Notification Center widget lets you quickly check your packages without opening the app. All your old deliveries are archived so you can look them up again if you need to.

Deliveries supports dozens of services, including UPS, FedEx, US Postal Service, DHL, TNT, Canada Post, City Link, Royal Mail, and many more. You can also track orders from services like Amazon and Apple, even before they ship. (Some services are limited to specific countries—visit junecloud.com/services for details.) If you have packages from other services, just select “Other” and enter a delivery date and web site. Deliveries will watch the site and let you know when it changes.

Deliveries is also available for Mac OS X. You can sync your deliveries between devices with iCloud or our own Junecloud sync. If you create a Junecloud account, you can add new shipments from any web browser.

Download Deliveries

Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath

Currently $6.99 on the App Store.

In the dusty, undeveloped wastelands of Western Mudos, cantankerous townsfolk find their settlements besieged by belligerent outlaws. Along comes Stranger, a drifter turned bounty hunter, with a unique double-barreled critter-firing crossbow.

Stranger’s Wrath has been passionately upgraded for this all-new release with all exciting new controls that make the most of the mobile format and improved visuals throughout.
Features:

* Explore living towns, lush forests, and massive industrial facilities
* Seamlessly transition between first-person shooter and third-person platfomer
* Scour your surroundings for live ammo
* Work with a range of strategies to surprise, stun, lure, blast and bag devious outlaws
* Meet incredibly odd, funny and smack-talking townsfolk, enemies and natives
* Fight dozens of varied bosses with outlandish arsenals and outrageous names

Plus:

* Native iOS gamepad support
* Intuitive touch controls + a redesigned mobile interface make playing & navigating a breeze
* Incredible visuals that harness all the advanced graphics capabilities of today’s mobile chipsets
* A hilarious script, theatrical soundtrack and compelling storyline with a shocking twist
* English, German, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Finish, Swedish, and Polish language support
* Leaderboards, Achievements and Cloud Save

Download Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath

The Longest Journey Remastered

Currently $8.99 on the App Store.

The Longest Journey is truly more than a game – it’s more like a book, a movie and a game all rolled into one. Explore an interactive and beautifully created universe from the perspective of April Ryan, a young art student who soon discovers that there is more to her world than meets the eye.

With the power to pass between worlds like others pass from waking to sleep, April must embark on the longest journey of her life; a journey not only across twin worlds, but also into her very own heart and soul. Embark on a voyage across phenomenal worlds, encounter a fantastic cast of unforgettable characters, and unravel one of the most epic stories ever told.

This remastered version for tablet devices includes a new intro and outro by Ragnar Tørnquist, new font, touch controls and a dynamic help system.

Experience what critics around the world are calling one of the best adventure games of all time. Experience The Longest Journey!

Download The Longest Journey Remastered

Jacob Siegal
Jacob Siegal Associate Editor

Jacob Siegal is Associate Editor at BGR, having joined the news team in 2013. He has over a decade of professional writing and editing experience, and helps to lead our technology and entertainment product launch and movie release coverage.