This week’s App Store reviews brings you a fun game Super Pig, a phone favourites alternative ‘Favorites’.

Super Pig

Super Pig [iTunes link] is an awesome hero, who is saving the world from the evil alien attacks. And it is your job to help him fly, and throw pebbles at the oncoming aliens. Along the way you will find crazy spinning hats that give you different abilities as well as sandwiches for those times when Super Pig’s health goes down.

The fun game is developed by independent software developer Ryan Detzel. Although programming is in his blood, this is his first attempt with programming for the iPhone (as well as the Mac). And while he is planning on Mac applications, the App Store is where the money’s at. About Super Pig…

The game is highly addictive and fun to play for children as well as for adults. Although there should be a warning that the difficulty level set to ‘hard’ is not for adults (somehow kids are better at it than me). The graphics are good for a game of this genre, and the controls are very effective. 

At just $0.99, Super Pig [iTunes link] is highly recommended especially if you have a kid you need to entertain sometimes.

Favorites

When I came across this blog post by Matt Legend on how he designed the Favorites app [iTunes link], I had to buy it. A recommended read, if you haven’t already.

My iPhone is filled with contacts, only 10% of which I call. Thankfully, the iPhone has a favourites section where you can store a list of your most frequently contact people. Unfortunately, you still need to find the name in that list, which can sometimes get confusing if you have a bunch of people with the same surname.

Favourites is basically a picture based contact manager, which ideally stores upto 9 contacts in an 3x3 grid. I say ideally, because although you can add more than 9, the images become very small and the app loses its purpose. (Unfortunately, I had to use the developer screenshot as making fake contacts was too much trouble.)

A single tap either calls or texts the contact, and a double tap brings up a menu offering to call, sms, or email the person. I would have liked if there was a voice dial option as well which would really have made this a one-stop phone application.

The application starts up very fast and has been a handy tool on the first page of my iPhone home screen. At $1.99, Favorites [iTunes link] is priced very decently for the limited functionality is provides.

If you know of any cheaper, better alternatives than the ones mentioned, or just want us to review an app you are hesitant to try out, sound off in the comments and we’ll see what we can do.

In App Store on 16 Nov, 2008| |