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JAMES O’CONNOR REVIEWS THE MOST INTERESTING NEW APPS FOR iOS AND ANDROID.

Trash takestheshortvideocrazeanddoes

something weird and beautiful with it. In

this app, you give your videos over to its AI

and it will edit it into a new video for you.

The new video will be set to a piece of

license-free music and will loop and jump

between the images you’ve captured. It

sounds like a gimmick, but the videos that

pop out on the other side are weirdly

gorgeous. Back in 2006, Lars von Trier tried

something similar with his film The Boss Of

It All, when he let an AI program dictate

shots; not surprisingly, it works better on

these much shorter films. Scrolling through

the feed, where all videos are uploaded, it’s

curiously striking how many beautiful,

weird, lovely little videos have popped up. So

many of them left me wanting to know more

about who shot them, where they were, what

they were doing. Trash is a weird effective

• and affecting – app for video art. It’s far
  from trash.

Trash: You Shoot

We Edit

ANOTHER PERSON’S TREASURE...

Free / N/A

DeliciouslyElla

PLANTPOWER.

$1.49a month

https://deliciouslyella.com/

Magpie – Photos

and Notes

SHINY OBJECTS!

$1.50 a month

http://www.getmagpie.app/

Deliciously Ella – which has been around

for a while, but which seems to have

recently revamped its app – is focused on

clean eating and yoga. It’s got a nice clean

UI that’s easy to navigate, and the food –

which focuses on simple recipes with

easy-to-find ingredients - looks great in

the pictures. The recipes are all

vegetarian, and although there’s no

calorie information given the app focuses

on health and wellbeing. Recipes come

with full instructions as well as videos,

making them easy to follow, and the

simple swipe controls mean that keeping

track of what you’re doing while in the

kitchen is easy. All in all, it’s a pretty great

source of vegetarian recipes, whether

you’re a vegetarian yourself or just

looking for healthier food options. The

yoga videos are divided by difficulty, and

provide nice, clear instructions for each

activity. The recipes are a larger focus

than the yoga, but this app generally

seems like a great source of good life

advice. The subscription fee is mercifully

light, too.

Magpie is a list-making app with some

neat functionality and an easy UI. It’s

colourful and nice to look at, and making

and populating lists is easy. It’s built

around consumerism and shopping – it’ll

encourage you to track things you want to

buy, to take photos and make notes – you

can store the price, the location, and

anything else you’d like to note. It’s going

to be a handy app for a lot of people, then,

but its usefulness is pretty dependent on

you being a visual thinker. Every entry

needs a photo, so it’s useless for putting

together, say, a shopping list. As I kept

thinking of ways to use it, roadblocks

would emerge – I could use the app to

track books I own but haven’t read, I

thought, but each entry asks for a title, and

typing them in after each photo would be a

pain. Still, if you want to catalog items

you’re considering buying, this is a very

good app for that specific thing.

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