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»PriceFree

»Designed forPhone and tablet

»Requires Android4.1

Yummly

Get personalised recipe

recommendations

BIGOVEN: 350,000+ RECIPES » Save favourite recipes, add your

own, make shopping lists and plan menus on a calendar

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Yummly offers a great way

to discover new dishes –

sourced from various sites

• to suit your tastes and dietary
  preferences. The home menu serves
  up a scrolling grid of scrumptious-
  looking photos to browse. Tapping
  one brings it up in fullscreen, where
  an upwards swipe reveals a tabbed
  view of ingredients, nutritional info
  and directions – the latter can be

made fullscreen for easier reading.

Tapping the Yum icon for any dish not

only adds it to your recipe box (which

can be subdivided into collections),

but helps the app to make personal

recommendations for you. There’s

also a powerful search facility that

allows you to filter results by multiple

factors, including preparation time

and nutrition (with sliders for calories,

fat etc). The only slight downside to a

very tasty app is the lack of the iOS

version’s shopping list feature.

Google Fit

Keep track of all your health and fitness data

Android Wear smartwatch or

compatible fitness tracker on your

wrist – it detects these automatically

and, for walking and running, even

counts the steps you make. If you

forget to take your device with you,

no problem: you can always manually

add an activity later, along with

figures for your weight and heart rate

if you like.

A circular diagram for your daily

exercise activity shows how much

more you have to do in order to reach

the daily goal (in terms of exercise

time) you’ve set. After using the app

for several days, it’ll suggest further

goals for you to help you make

progress. All your fitness activity,

weight and heart rate data can be

viewed on charts – covering a day,

week or month – and also accessed

via a web portal.

Since the app’s built-in fitness

tracking is a bit limited, you may well

Going head to head with

Apple’s new Health app

built into iOS 8, Google’s

Android equivalent is a similar

hub for all your health and fitness

data. However, unlike its iOS rival,

which merely collates data from

third-party fitness apps, Google

Fit also offers its own built-in

tracking of three activities:

walking, running and cycling. With

the phone in your pocket – or

A circular diagram shows time spent

walking, running and cycling

The detailed graph shows activity for the

day, week or month

See a history of your exercise and

whether you met your goals

FotoSwipe

Swipe photos from one

device to another

Transferring photos from

one device to another can

be a bit of a pain, usually

involving a workaround such as

sending them by email or text

message. The FotoSwipe app aims

to make the process child’s play by

enabling you to swipe up to ten

selected photos to the edge of the

sender’s screen and then swiping on

the other device to receive them.

Since it’s cross-platform, it even

works with iOS devices.

Helpfully, FotoSwipe arranges your

pictures into folders for various

camera/social apps and downloads,

although sadly it can’t access your

Google+ Photos gallery. With the app

open on both devices, ideally placed

side by side, tap to tick the photos

you want to transfer, then long-press

one and swipe to edge of the screen

to send. Now quickly continue to

swipe across on the other device to

receive the photo(s) in the app’s

FotoSwipe folder. The process only

takes a few seconds per photo,

although it’ll be longer if you raise the

picture quality in the settings. It’s a

great idea and works pretty well

once you figure out its foibles.

»PriceFree

»Designed forPhone and tablet

»Requires Android2.3.3

Select some photos, then long-press and

swipe to the edge to send

No matter how you tilt the device, the frame

stays horizontal