Apps & services

His favourite VR experience: ridiculously satisfying and one of the best-looking VR games on the platform.

A Guitar Hero-style drumming game that is very satisfying when you get on a roll.

A fun live-concert playground, held back by a very limited music selection.

A VR biology app that takes you through blood vessels and organs.

Feels like a tech demo, but the physics are high quality and he spent ages playing with it.

A dream theme park in VR that surprised him with its immersion.

Impressed him more than expected, with customisable and incredibly relaxing sessions.

Tells film fans when it is safe to nip to the toilet without missing the plot.

His number one pick, a fun running game with audio story and GPS zombie chases that is also genuinely useful.

Finds combinations of local trains that can roughly halve the fare, though journeys take longer.

A bold, bright icon pack that looks great with the right launcher and wallpaper.

A creepy platformer where you scream a floating head forward, with sarcastic comments about how cheery it is.

An interactive fractal generator he found calming and enjoyable, with handy built-in sharing.

A shared whiteboard lock screen that groups can all edit, handy for quick reminders.

A chat room only open when your battery is at five percent or less, which he finds hilarious rather than useful.

A set of abstract wordplay puzzles that make each win feel earned.

A forceful alarm app that can text someone in your house to wake you if you keep snoozing.

Replaces the nav bar with a configurable pill and frees up screen space, though setup needs a PC.

Shows animated pop-up bubbles over other apps, which he thinks people will either love or hate.

A simple, minimalist notes app that ticks all the standard boxes.

A weather app focused on its snarky AI personality, with surprising features like 70 years of historical weather.

Brings Pixel 2-style squeeze actions using the barometer, but accuracy is hit and miss.

A simple app for recording GIFs natively, though he prefers importing video from the camera.

His number one pick, a collection of relaxed lo-fi tunes in a clean interface with a sleep timer.