Top Five Windows Phone Apps
At AppStoreHQ, we’re really excited about the potential of the Windows Phone platform. As we just announced, we have launched coverage of the Windows Phone app ecosystem in our mobile app search engine. We’ve been very impressed with how quickly the number of apps has grown; admittedly, there are still fewer apps than on iOS and Android, but the trajectory is very strong. And, with 30,000 apps already out there, you can pretty much find an app for just about anything you want.
Along with our launch, we decided that we wanted to highlight some of the really great apps available for the platform. Not just well-known ones, and not just ones that have been out since day one, but great apps that have been published or updated in about the past month.
We’re featuring these five apps at the top of our home page, hoping to help bring additional visibility to them and highlight the great stuff that’s happening in the world of Windows Phone. We talked about the idea with Microsoft and they were generous enough to sponsor prizes for the winner developers. Each of the winners will be getting a new Windows Phone device on which they’ll be able to experience all the goodness of Mango - Windows Phone 7.5.
Bouncy Mouse - Munkadoo. Great, fun game about Captain Cat stealing the Big Cheese. Help Bouncy Mouse get the cheese back! We love the physics, the secrets, and even the music. “So much cheese, so little time!” Give it a try.
Peregrine - Morten Nielsen. A very slick free Twitter client. Fast, with a bunch of features intended for the advanced user. Does a great job keeping track of what you’ve seen and where you are in the feed. Compresses data transmitted for efficient use of your data plan.
Cube Companion - Farris Arts. Light-hearted yet rich, this is a fun game with lots of twists, plenty of turns, and frequent updates. A super example of what an indie developer can do with great tools on a powerful platform.
Camera Studio+ - Moobila. Super flexible photo manipulation app with over 200 filters in 16 different categories. You can apply multiple filters to the same image. And, it supports multiple levels of undo, so you can experiment all you want. Also supports adjustments of brightness, contrast, and gamma, as well as cropping, selective area filtering, etc.
Snake - XIMAD. A new interpretation of a classic, old-school phone game. Slick graphics take your snake through a deep underground mine. Includes both arcade and challenge modes.
Finally, we’d like to offer a shout out to a couple of great apps that exist on multiple platforms, but really shine in Windows Phone. Pulse, the super-slick newsreader, has done an amazing implementation. And eBay’s app really feels as though it’s been completely rethought to take advantage of all the UI metaphors and capabilities that Windows Phone - and Mango, in particular - offers.
Please join us in congratulating the developers of all these great apps! And, of course, go download them :)
