Best new apps for iPhone and iPad

What are the hottest new apps on the App Store right now? These!

There are over a million and a half apps for iPhone and iPad and the number just keeps growing. Every day new and newly updated apps hit the App Store, and it's impossible to keep up with all of them. Luckily, you don't have to. All you have to do is bookmark this page and come back every day. When you do, we'll have the best of the best new apps waiting for you!

And don't forget to check out our list of this week's best games for your iPhone.

Best new and updated apps

This week, explore the depths of SPACE, find people to talk to based on shared interests, find funny podcasts with your favorite comedians, and more.

• SPACE - Learn the basics of astronomy and astrophysics with SPACE by THIX, creating your own planets, asteroids, and more. Move celestial bodies with your fingers, sending planets spinning and comets shooting off into the void. You can also check out stars and other objects created by other SPACE users near you using your iPhone or iPad's GPS. - $2.99 - Download Now
• Prattle - Connect with others based on shared interests, whether its TV, movies, tech, or something else. Tap on the conversation for a popular show and start contributing, or search through topics, people, and places to find something about your interests. Don't forget to check out the Nearby section, which shows conversations happening in your area. - Free - Download Now
• Laughable - This podcast player is all about comedy. Laughable curates comedy podcasts, making it easier to discover and listen to the funniest spoken word content around. Search for your favorite comedians to find not only the shows they host, but also those on which they've been a guest. You can also queue up new episodes to listen to so that laughs keep coming. - Free - Download Now
• Justin Guitar Beginner Song Course - If you've just started learning the guitar, you might want to pick up this beginner course from JustinGuitar. Justin Sandercoe will take you through the basics of strumming, chords, and more through a series of progressive stages. The app also comes with a number of easy-to-play songs for you to try out. Note that while the app is free to download, some content is behind an in-app purchase. - Free - Download Now
• CHEERZ - CHEERZ allows you to get high-quality prints of the photos from your phone, Instagram, Facebook, and more. Create physical photo albums, cool, unique gifts, customized prints, posters, photo strips, calendars, and more. After uploading your photos to CHEERZ, you can add filers, a new crop for your images, and much more. Orders should arrive in four to six business days. - Free - Download Now
• Allset - This app hopes to eliminate waiting times at restaurants. You can book, order, and pay all before you even get to your favorite local lunch spot so your food is being prepared or ready to eat by the time you arrive. Allset is currently only available in San Francisco, New York, and Chicago, but it should be coming to more cities soon. - $1.99 - Download Now

Featured apps

Apple focuses on education in this week's featured apps, with software for teaching kids the alphabet, as well as how to read.

• Metamorphabet - With this app, kids can learn the alphabet with colorful, interactive letters. Just tap, drag, spin, and poke each letter, and watch as they transform before your eyes. Tiny stories will play out before you, and both kids and adults will be drawn in by the beautiful imagery and fluid animation. - $3.99 - Download Now
• Read4Kids - Designed for children between four and eight, Read4Kids provides a program for learning to read. The app features 20 lessons, with 120 exercises and 150 stories for incremental progression. Children will learn how to draw letters, spell words based on sound, and much more. - $2.99 - Download Now
• Endless Learning Academy - Kids can learn their ABCs and more with this colorful, engaging app from Originator. Help out the adorable monsters and have some fun with lessons in reading and vocabulary, spelling, counting, arithmetic, music, and much more. In addition to its swath of activities, there are also hours of video lessons to that kids can watch. - Free - Download Now
• Dr. Seuss's ABC - Learn the alphabet with help from Dr. Seuss. The app offers different options for learning, from read-it-yourself to following along with a narration, highlighting as you go. Parents can track how much time has been spent reading, the number of pages read, and more so you know how your child is progressing through the app. - $2.99 - Download Now

Free app of the week

Vantage - This new, highly visual calendar app presents your day in a unique timeline view, letting you focus on your most immediate upcoming appointments and tasks. Customize Vantage with different themes, visible hours, week and day numbers, and more. You can also sync with iCloud, Google Calendar, and other cloud-based calendars.

Here's what the developer has to say:

In our view a calendar should visualize someone's life, so we set out to build the most visual calendar ever. Vantage is loaded with design options like colors, stickers and fonts so that you can let the events you care about stand out and get a great view over the days to come.

You can get Vantage for free from the App Store until March 9.

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