What are this week's top-downloaded apps?

What are this week's top-downloaded apps?

Apps Of the Week: August 20-24, 2012

The most popular apps and the ones we love best.

By: Jena Kehoe

Web2Carz Contributing Writer

Published: August 24th, 2012



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t's time to run through our favorite apps of the week, as well as the ones that were most downloaded, both paid and free. Thanks to people hating spending money, the paid apps seem to just rearrange the same five apps, while the freebies mix it up. That said, let's check out what's been hot this week.


paid Paid Apps

Paid Apps
Holding strong in first place is Disney's Where's My Perry?, followed by the WhatsApp Messenger. My Calendar Mobile is in third, while AppZilla 3 dropped to fourth place. The only new addition to this week's top five apps is Minecraft —Pocket Edition. This game lets you build while you're on the go, as well as play with and invite friends the the world you've built.

free
Free Apps.

Free Apps
In first place, again holding strong, is Electronic Arts' The Simpsons. Second place is Jaws Revenge, a game we couldn't really get into (it's basically just a sharky, bloody version of Tiny Wings). Third is iBooth, another photography app, and in fourth place is the wildly catchy game SongPop.  New to the top five this week is Disney Fish Hooks, a puzzle game in which you help Milo, a fish, make and pop bubbles.

booth
iBooth.

Our Favorites
iBooth
Unsurprisingly, when one app is most-downloaded, it makes sense that it lands on our "favorites" list. Such is the case with iBooth. It's a photobooth app, much like the kind you find at good bars and fun weddings, but it also includes things like a photo-timer, which is nice for group photos that everyone wants to be in—but a feature that Apple doesn't offer for its regular camera app.

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Prismatic.

Prismatic
Prismatic is an app that, using your interests drawn from your Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ account, delivers stories that you will (theoretically) enjoy. You can vote on the ones it sends you ("Don't Like" or "Interesting") to further customize what you're sent, and sharing is easy with this app, too.