Explor for iPhone

The problem with Apple ’s monumental App Store is feel apps you actually care . Explor make that hunting an engaging one , encourage you to tap your direction to app discovery with personalized passport .

What is it?

Explor , Free , iPhone . Explor , known in previous incarnations as Appsaurus and Appalanche , is a more active — and , better yet , more intelligent — way to distinguish new apps than just idly clicking through the App Store . The primary part of the app is the explor subdivision : you ’re portray with five apps and encouraged to blame one that interests you most . From there you ’re send to another screen with five new apps , the selection informed by the choice(s ) you ’ve made on the previous screen . canny for two reasonableness : 1 . selecting an app and seeing it get five fresh one supply a sort of expansion slot machine excitement to the endeavor , and 2 . you are n’t getting five random apps but five that conceivably are tailor to your interests .

Once you find one you ’re interested in you may go to a dedicated page for that app , where you may see pricing , screenshots , rapidly access reviews from popular tech site ( ours included ) , and pass over into the App Store when you adjudicate to take the plunge . you’re able to “ like ” apps , too , which create a sort of catalog of apps you ’re into — utilitarian if you want to get into Explor ’s social web side , which lets you find other Explor - using friends across Facebook and Twitter and check out all the apps they ’ve strike .

Who’s it good for?

hoi polloi who get it on apps and dear wait for young ones or people who detest apps because the can never find new ones .

Why’s it better than alternatives?

It ’s better than iTunes because it actually give you recommendations based on you ; the “ Modern and noteworthy ” part on the front page of the App Store is useful , sure , but beyond that they just have you tramp along in a ocean of apps . Also , touch your way to app discovery on your phone just feels more merriment than clicking around on the computer . The team behind Explor has been doing the app recommendation thing for a minute now , so they ’ve got a reasonably ripe sense of how to read a user ’s taste and dish out stuff they ’ll actually be interested in .

Oh , and I ’d never take app recommendations from some unadulterated looking app . gratefully , Explor ’s get a beautiful ( and beautifully liven up ) steez .

How could it be even better?

I ’m just trusting Explor when they say that every set of 5 apps is informed by my last choice , but it ’d be prissy for them to let you in reality see what sort of visibility they ’re making for you as they make it . I ’d care to be able to go through and say , definitively , “ yes I like scheme biz , ” “ yes I like minimalist design , ” “ no I do n’t like first person shooter , ” etc . Also , while the UI is indeed slick , I ’m not certain it should take two touches for me to parachute to the detail page of any give app . I can make a snap decision on a screenshot no problem , so those screenshots should be accessible to me aright by after one tap .

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