Runtastic iOS with Apple Watch, Android with Android Wear/Free
Being wearable devices, the Apple Watch—particularly with the sports bands—and Android Wear watches are perfect companions if we want to get fit. One of the most popular fitness apps, Runtastic offers an app for both Apple Watch and Android Wear devices. It tracks our sports and fitness activities via different metrics like speed, distance and duration combined with data from the GPS chip in our phones. With the watch apps, it does away with the need to pull out our phones or leave it behind when we go for a run.
Alto’s Adventure iOS/Rs 120
Last year, Monument Valley proved that stunning visuals—combined with soothing music and interesting gameplay—is the perfect recipe for making a great mobile game. In this physics-based game, we join Alto and his friends as they snowboard across a beautiful alpine landscape on an exhilarating adventure. With procedurally generated terrain and dynamic weather effects like lightning, thunderstorms, rainbows and shooting stars, this beautiful minimalist game offers an immersive experience, especially when we have our earphones plugged in.
VLC iOS, Android, Windows Phone/Free
Almost all smartphones, even iPhones, come with massive, full HD screens. They are good for reading, browsing, gaming and—along with tablets like the iPad—are great for watching videos.
The main selling point of VLC is that you can throw any video in any format at it, and chances are it will play it. Whether movies or TV shows or home videos, VLC will get them from wherever they are stored on the cloud—be it Dropbox or Google Drive—and will play them in high quality.