Apps & services

Great if your broadband is poor, but latency is rough and rarely the best option in the UK.

A free app that does everything The Brick does and more.

Growing fast, but the 100-hour monthly cap shows the downside of not owning your hardware.

He notes Adobe Premiere coming to Android this summer as part of Google's push to win over creators.

He thinks Android 17 is a clever, eventful update that makes Apple's software look dull, though he wants to see how it performs in practice.

He has paid for One Sec and found it useful, though Google's copy will make it less necessary.

He calls the updated Android Auto the unexpected star of the show, with Gemini, 3D navigation and video playback.

His favourite part of Android 17, a built-in pause before opening distracting apps that copies One Sec.

A women-only dating review app that defamed men without consent and then leaked tens of thousands of users' data.

He calls the new software features extremely minor on the Fold 7, with Gemini screen sharing the best addition.

A solid but unspectacular update, with a cool Liquid Glass look and some useful features that other platforms already had.

A cost-effective way to play new games, beating retail if you play at least one new game a month.

Sharing the Premier family plan with five others costs less and gets far more than the individual plan.

Handy for Amazon power users in Europe to compare prices across stores.

Used as the comparison against the sponsor and found slower and pricier.

A slick, fair-feeling wallpaper app, despite a pricey subscription and long ads; a solid 6/10.

Once useful and used by him for years, but it was exposed for swapping creators' affiliate links and withholding better coupon codes, so he…

Launched at the perfect moment but unfinished, so it failed to keep users and overtake Twitter, though it still has a sizeable audience. He…

Bumble undermined its women-message-first appeal with a redesign and a poorly judged billboard campaign, and its share price dropped sharpl…

Sonos's app overhaul removed core features and broke accessibility, costing the company money and its CEO his job. He rates it a six out of…

Nothing's iMessage-on-Android feature was made pointless by Apple's RCS announcement, and the app sent data unencrypted despite promises.

A valuable idea undermined by a verification policy and by attaching users' real names to anonymous accounts.

Cited as the worst case of mishandled user data, with a paid delete option that did not delete everything.

Describes an app that uses the accelerometer and eye tracking to make 3D shapes appear to pop out of the phone screen.