The best iPhone and Android apps of the week

Some of you may already know the iPad version of this powerful app. Procreate Pocket is the iPhone version of the critically acclaimed Procreate app and brings the magic to your phone. You can unleash your imagination and create stunning visual effects thanks to an extensive set of tools, including hand-crafted brushes, layers and masks, color palettes, 250 levels of undo/redo and more.

If you feel intimidated by the sheer number of features, don’t fret; Procreate Pocket comes with user guides to help you unlock your potential. There’s also real-time drawing assistance to help you perfect your strokes. In addition to sketches, drawings and scenarios, you can also create animations, use vector formats, import and export as Adobe PSD files, all on your phone. The list of features is too long to include here and more than justifies the asking price.

When talking about Adobe and design, we just can’t leave out the Adobe Express app. It’s available for iPhone and Android devices, and unlike Procreate Pocket, it has a free version. Adobe Express uses the power of artificial intelligence, because we are in the era of artificial intelligence, of course. All kidding aside, you get tons of free stuff to play with, even outside of the Premium membership.

You can access thousands of free fonts and images, create and convert images, and use effects and layers. It is a very powerful software on your phone. Furthermore, you can quickly export and share your newly created visual on all popular social networks and applications with just one touch of the screen.

If you opt for a premium membership, you also get access to Adobe Photoshop Express for mobile and Adobe Express for web and mobile, along with the images and fonts listed above.

We all love taking selfies! After all, that’s why the front camera was invented in the first place. But no matter how good your phone’s camera is, taking a good portrait can sometimes require some extra help. Enter FaceApp! This cute software is capable of transforming your average selfie into a professional looking portrait. No complicated layers or Photoshop-level editing; you have more than 60 realistic presets to choose from and you can control various parameters to get the perfect picture.

There are also fun tools to add those mustaches you can’t normally grow, make you look older or younger, add makeup and more.

Infinite Painter is an easy-to-use and powerful creative tool that can breathe life into your inner visual dreams. This app is available on iOS and Android and features great virtual pens, along with hundreds of brushes.

Infinite Painter may look minimalist, but behind it is a powerful engine. This app will allow you to use your pen with full pressure and tilt support to get a realistic brush feel and interaction with the canvas.

The free version will give you three layers in device resolution, Solid Fill, Lasso selection, Basic Transform and Symmetry tools, Seamless Pattern projects, all built-in brushes and editing brushes, and Smart shape detection feature. Which is a great starting point.

Short video formats are all the rage these days, with TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels and many others taking over people’s phones. If you want to stop consuming and start making these tiny video clips, there is no better tool than CapCut.

From AI-generated effects to filters, titles and stickers to professional transitions and in and out animations, this app has it all. It’s also one of the preferred choices of many pro and semi-pro creators, so it has to be good, right?

Some call it the best video editor on mobile. We won’t go that far, but it’s certainly one of the most popular and you should definitely check it out.

Universe Splitter is one of the best and most unique apps I’ve ever come across. It’s a quantum coin that helps you choose between two different options, but the way it works is unique! Physics geeks will love this; check it out!

In quantum physics, at some level, there is something called the Haisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Basically, this limits our understanding of the properties of particles at a very fundamental level. Universe Splitter uses this principle to help you choose between two options. Let’s say you want to go out tonight, but you’re also wondering if it’s better to stay home and chill and watch Netflix.

Insert these two options into the application interface and press the button. What happens next is incredible. The app sends a signal via the Internet to a laboratory in Switzerland, where the device fires a photon at a semi-transparent mirror. Whether a photon is reflected or passes through a mirror depends on Haisenberg’s principle; it is truly a random outcome that no one can predict.

There are two detectors to receive the photon and trace back the path it took; these are your A and B choices that you originally entered into the application. So there you have it: perfectly random coin flips using the most basic quantum principles! Why Universe Splitter? Some physicists believe that each such quantum choice splits the Universe into two versions containing both outcomes. Isn’t that super cool?