If you have a smartphone, why rely on standard SMS? Pinch iMessenger takes texting to the next level. Not only will it save you on SMS-related fees (even internationally), but it also enables a previously unheard of experience: location-based texting. This means you can communicate with friends while finding out where they are and how to meet up with them, keep track of where you’ve been and how many places you’ve Pinched, all while earning the points and rewards associated with location-based technology (many people have earned iTunes credit and even iPads just by texting through the app!). Furthermore, the app includes hundreds of emoticons and animations to make the experience even more expressive and provides unlimited storage so you can keep your dialogues forever. While the app only works between Pinch users, it enables a whole new form of smartphone-to-smartphone communication; your friends don’t even need to have an iPhone for you to be able to Pinch them! Pinch iMessenger takes all the fun of texting to a more entertaining and rewarding realm.

Today marks the release of the much anticipated Harry Potter film finale, part 1. To get you into the magical mood, Scene It? Harry Potter is the perfect game to play on your own or with friends. With myriad movie clips and images and tons of questions and puzzles, the game will ensure you are fully prepared to embrace the epic event, and is bound to offer endless entertainment as you wait in line for the movie. Even after, if you don’t want the mystifying feeling to slip away, Scene It? Harry Potter will enable you to re-live the excitement, continue to build your expertise on Harry’s realm, and allow you to savor a cinematic slice of fantasy. With Scene It? Harry Potter, the wonderful world of witchcraft and wizardry is always at your fingertips to enjoy and to take your mind off of waiting for the next and final part of the saga.

Gone are the days when picture books and rag dolls were enough to entertain kids. Every day more and more youngsters are clutching iPhones and electronics as if they were their binkies. And while this may be cause for concern to some people for valid reasons, it is certainly not a totally bad thing — as long as apps like Bronto Family Adventure keep getting made.
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Since points, badges, and entertainment motivate us in so many elements of life, why can’t they motivate us to be more productive? Such is the basis for EpicWin, an app that literally allows you to destroy tasks as you complete them, gain points for progress made, and create a character based on how much progress you make. EpicWin includes all the necessary functions for a productivity app, such as automated reminders, easily accessible to-do lists, and notices when you’re overdue for something, but turns “have to do” into “want to do.” Battle your chores, build an avatar profile, journey through levels, and track your mission. Productivity has never been so exciting.