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SPOT-
LIGHTThis month’s mobile must-downloads
1 Grid Autosport
£9.99 / Android
Fed up of freemium Android tat?
Grab this full-on AAA racer, which
packs in more than 100 circuits and
offers enough tinkering to make
a mechanic grin – assuming your
device can cope.
4 Triode
£free (IAPs) / iOS
Digital radio is great but digital radio
apps aren’t, usually being infested
with ads. Triode is free, lacks ads,
and won’t invade your privacy. The
IAPs are merely to reward the devs
and sync favourites.
7 Minecraft Earth
£free / Android, iOS
Mixing building with Pokemon Go
and The Matrix, this is Minecraft’s
play for the real world. Come up with
creations, place them in your town
and use AR to marvel at a hidden
blocky world mapped onto our own.
2 Launcher
from £free / iOS
Wish your iPhone’s home screen
could do more? Launcher fills the
void with widgets to which you can
add contacts and shortcuts to key
app actions, and have said widgets
show/hide based on time/location.5 Spark
£free / Android, iOS
In its ongoing quest to make email
tolerable, Spark’s slick redesign
includes custom actions, multiple
windows on iPad, inbox avatars and
a swanky new dark mode that also
works on Android.8 Unify
£free (IAPs) / iOS
Hate the idiot blinking or gurning
in all your group shots – especially
if that idiot is you? This app unifies
‘good’ faces from multiple pics and
lets you hurl the perfect composite
at your friends.3 Sociable Soccer
£4.99/m (Arcade) / iOS
Pining for SWOS? Find it tricky to
carry an Amiga around? Try this
instead, and become a “goalscoring
superstar hero” all over again via
Apple Arcade. Just don’t blame us
when you forget to eat.6 Asteroid Commando
£1.99 / watchOS
Classic arcade games on your
phone? How last decade. What
about on your wrist? This one
injects your Apple Watch with
endless space-rock blasting, just
via twiddling the crown.9 Void Tyrant
£free / Android, iOS
If you think blackjack is tense, it’s
got nothing on Void Tyrant. Here,
card-flips mean life or death as
you battle intergalactic meanies
by cunning deck-building, careful
strategy and more than a little luck.ADOBE
PHOTOSHOP
FOR iPAD
£free (with
existing plans)
/ iPadOS
One of the
arguments
against being
able to do
‘proper work’
on an iPad used
to be the lack
of Photoshop.
Adobe has
finally removed
that barrier
by bringing
its desktop
photo-editing
behemoth to
Apple’s tablets.
Well, sort of:
although we
were told this
would be full-fat
Photoshop,
v1 is more...
semi-skimmed.
The foundation’s
there (as is full
PSD support),
but a bunch
of features
including layer
effects are MIA.
Luckily, we’re
promised rapid
updates – which
is a smart move,
given that for
the cost of two
months of
Photoshop you
can grab a copy
of the superb
Affinity Photo
and keep it
forever.