5 Featured Windows Phone Apps of the Week (VI)

Although last week we were missing this section (sorry :)!), here we return to the recommendations on applications for Windows Phone that you should look at. This time the applications come from the multimedia side.

Beautiful Backgrounds, choose the Bing wallpaper you want

As the application description says, one of the best things about the Bing search engine is the featured image that it offers us every day. And as you surely know, we can configure so that these images are on the lock screen of our Windows Phone.

However, what we cannot do is choose one manually from this image or from others from other countries (when we configure it, we are tied to the region where we are). The Beautiful Backgrounds application allows us not only to choose the wallpaper we want, but also that of other regions

We can download up to 30 previous images of the region we choose, and then save them or assign it as wallpaper.

For free, we are allowed to get the images from United States and Australia, but if we want the images from Japan, United Kingdom, China, and other countries, we need to pay for the premium version which costs $1.99.

Anyway, the premium version of this app will also allow us to remove ads, have automatic wallpaper updates, and something more.

Beautiful BackgroundsVersion 1.1.2.0

• Developer: Mahender Gundepuneni
• Download it at: Windows Phone Store
• Price: Free (with premium version)
• Category: photos
• Spanish Language

Readit, a Reddit client for Windows Phone

Although I am a fan of Baconit, I have to agree that Readit is a very good alternative for all those who are frequent users of Reddit. Keep in mind that, in addition, itself received a new update that changed the entire design and interface

With Readit we can access the site from our Windows Phone and look at all the content that the social network/forum has to offer. When we log in with our account, it will bring us all the subreddits where we participate.

Readit's interface is very attractive, although a bit cumbersome to use because it leaves several frequently used elements quite far apart (for example, when we see a site at the top, the comment buttons are at the bottom). But anyway, with using it for a while we'll get used to it.

Another interesting functionality that Readit has (among many others), is that every day a subreddit will be recommended to us to review Like this that if perhaps we have seen all the “subs” where we normally participate, and we still want to –wasting time– spend time, we can go to that part to see what it has to offer us.

Readit is an application with a price of $1.99, but it also has a trial version. The developer is very dedicated and works a lot with the community to keep improving it.

ReaditVersion 2.0.0.4

• Developer: Message Across Studios
• Download it at: Windows Phone Store
• Price: $1.99
• Can you try it?: Yes
• Category: social
• English language

Zoho Expense, a solid tool to track our expenses

Although Zoho Expense is a tool focused more on small companies that want to keep track of all the expenses they have, it is worth mentioning in this weekly summary, since the arrival of this tool in the operating system is something that deserves to be highlighted.

With Zoho Expense we can maintain a management of all the expenses that we have been making in the organizationAn account in this service allows us to add up to 10 people, and then each extra person costs $2 per month. The monthly cost of the service is 15 dollars, although paying for a whole year, Zoho gives us 2 months as a gift.

Zoho Expense's design is attractive and well done Without a doubt it is good to see that they have worked meticulously in this aspect, when normally other companies leave it in the background to only focus on the functionality and release the application to meet the small demand (compared to other operating systems).

If you are a Zoho user or plan to use their services, you should also know that Zoho has other tools such as Zoho Books, Zoho Creator, and Zoho Invoice.

Zoho ExpenseVersion 1.0.0.1

• Developer: Zoho Corp
• Download it at: Windows Phone Store
• Price: Free ( although it has a subscription)
• Category: business
• English language

Sky Media Player, when multimedia is what matters to us

Sky Media Player is a multimedia player that goes further, and allows users to not only listen to the music they have stored on their smartphone, but also search for audio on SoundCloud, Dropbox, and videos on YouTube In addition to that, we can also search for the information of an album since it is also integrated with Last.fm.

Sky Media Player is undoubtedly a very versatile application to take into account, since, as we mentioned, it allows you to listen to music and watch videos right there. The tool will allow us to save the cache of all the videos and songs to be able to play them when we don't have internet.

But that's not all, since the integration with Last.fm also allows us to change the lock screen image for the album coverof the song we are listening to (as long as it is available on the platform).

Playing videos is not a small thing either, since, in addition to being able to watch videos from YouTube, we can also play content in .flv, .mkv, .vob, .qt, .m2v, . ts, .mts, .f4v, .hdmov, .moov, .mpeg, .mpg, .mpe, .mpeg4, .divx, .dvx, .ogv, .mxf, although we must buy the codecs that interest us.

Sky Media Player is a free application, but the premium version allows us to create playlists of videos and songs, save audios that we have on SoundCloud or Vkontakte (a Russian service), and play music and videos from Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive

Sky Media PlayerVersion 1.0.0.11

• Developer: DENITA
• Download it at: Windows Phone Store
• Price: Free (with premium version)
• Category: music and video
• Spanish Language

PicsArt, an excellent image editor that received a makeover

Surely many of us must know about the PicsArt application, since it is a tool that has achieved many downloads and appears as one of the first recommendations when looking for a photo editing application for Windows Phone. But the reason why we mention it in this summary, is because it received an update that changed the design and some functionalities

PicsArt, as we anticipated, allows us to modify the images we have and apply different effects to give them another air.With the latest update, PicsArt gained some new filters and effects. On top of that, it also has tools for curve, orientation, and more.

Another very interesting functionality to keep in mind is that now we can import the photos we have on Instagram to apply other effects and modifications.

PicsArt's interface also changed a bit, being more attractive and with more fluid movements.

PicsArt is a good tool to have if we often change the photos we take with our smartphone. The application is completely free.

PicsArtVersion 2015.417.1830.1204

• Developer: PicsArt, Inc.
• Download it at: Windows Phone Store
• Price: Free
• Category: photos
• Spanish Language