Apps for windows phone 10 mobile

The joint efforts of Nokia and Microsoft on the Windows Phone platform brought some really interesting devices, such as the Lumia 1020 or 1520. And what about the app store? It also has a lot of interesting things - from the Instagram client to the translator of your speech into seventy languages.

Extremely positive alarm clock app. Having set the required time, you can go to bed and wake up in the morning (or at another time of the day) from a call from one of the community members. Or, in extreme cases, the caring robot Budi. Only benevolent people participate in the project, including Comedy Club Radio DJs. Each user can act as Sonya (who sleeps) or Buddhist (who wakes up). In the case of an interesting conversation, it is possible for a small fee to communicate longer than usual. The service is anonymous, the phone numbers of the interlocutors do not appear anywhere.

54 rubles, Windows Phone 7.5/8

One of the popular sports received its own mobile application, where fans can read the news, view the race calendar, information about athletes, results and cup position. The developer indicates that all the functionality of the program is available for free, and spend 54 rubles. offered as support if the app is to your liking. On the eve of the Olympics, the application is especially relevant.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

An excellent application for learning English, which has already gained no less popularity than the web version of LinguaLeo.ru, with which synchronization is provided. The functionality of the program is impressive: 50 thematic sets of words with illustrations, six interactive workouts, a personal dictionary with transcriptions and voice acting, offline translations for 60 thousand words, tips and tricks from Leo, search for lyrics in the LyricFind database. Nokia Lumia owners also have the nice option of translating lyrics while listening to them on their phone.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

Difficult but very interesting game for all ages. Develops logic and helps to reliably kill free time. So, the goal of the game is to go through the doors. And in order to open them, you need to solve hidden puzzles. Even tilting or shaking the phone can be the "key". There are many levels, and the "keys" to the doors are far from obvious. An autosave function is provided so as not to go through the levels in the second circle.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

The official application for Sochi 2014 includes complete information on the sports program of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games 2014. After selecting a country, the fan creates his favorites feed to follow the news. Everything is done at the highest level, but it will be possible to really evaluate the capabilities of the application only during the Olympiad.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

Another great way to spend time and develop thinking. The application is aimed at people aged 16 and over. The meaning of the game is simple: according to four pictures you need to guess the word. 950 words are divided into thematic albums. It is possible to receive trophies, skip difficult words and turn off ads. In the paid version (and it costs 34 rubles), you can buy coins (only in WP8) and use them to open albums and get tips.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

Unusual photo collage editor. The user is required to select a photo. And in a few seconds, it will turn into a billboard, a postage stamp, a magazine cover, or one of the pieces of art in a museum. In total, there are more than 300 options, each of which makes you smile. The latest version supports high-resolution devices and social networks Odnoklassniki and Mail.ru. Since all manipulations with photos take place on the server, the application requires access to the Internet.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

Multifunctional translator with support for 72 languages ​​and English interface. In addition to the dictionary and translation of words and phrases, there are functions of voice recognition (20 languages) and listening to translation (44 languages), bookmarking and saving history, searching for the original text or its translation on the Internet, as well as sending text or translation by SMS, e-mail and through social networks.

Free, Windows Phone 8

A very simple yet powerful task and to-do manager. The main idea is that any thought, note or deed can first be quickly written down in a chaos box, or “territory of chaos”, and then the chaos can be sorted out, decomposing everything into projects and other types of context. The authors say that the application's ideology helps to manage things in accordance with the popular GTD (Getting things done) time management system. Be that as it may, it is really convenient, especially given the presence of a web service and cloud synchronization between different devices.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

Great photo editing software with hundreds of filters and frames and over 70 lighting effects. You can also adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, and exposure. There is also an auto-dimming function for the edges. Finished masterpieces are easily uploaded to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr and VKontakte directly from the application.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

Cats are loved by almost everyone, in whatever form they appear. In this application, cats play hide and seek with the user. At the same time, they hide in a variety of places - at home, on the street (including in the snow). In general, wherever possible. They need to be found, for which you need to be very careful. By the way, the game has no age restrictions.

Free, Windows Phone 8

A convenient simulator for preparing for the theoretical exam in the traffic police. It is guaranteed that after a few hours of training, the user will be able to accurately answer any question in the exam. In case of an error, a detailed comment is displayed explaining why the answer was incorrect.

Free, Windows Phone 8

This is the official game for any age based on the popular cartoon "Despicable Me". To earn the favor of the boss (supervillain Gru), you must participate in competitions - jump and fly, harm and mean, fawn and collect handouts - and get the title of Minion of the Year. All this with signature humor, great voice acting and 3D graphics. Unfortunately, there are not enough cards in the game yet.

Free, Windows Phone 8

Fans of tanks of any age can compete in coolness. Defending the base, you need to "catch" enemy shells with your force field, destroy enemy tanks, helicopters and jeeps, shooting them from a machine gun, heavy weapons and special weapons (from an ion cannon to a nuclear strike). Coins received for various achievements can be spent on improving and pumping weapons, as well as strengthening the defense of the base. It is worth noting that sometimes during the game you have to not only shoot, but also think.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

Thanks to the application, the entire Wikipedia becomes available on the smartphone, but without the Russian language in the interface. Key features include search in 100 languages, article browsing based on the user's location, offline mode without an Internet connection, and the ability to share articles. In addition, Pocket (Read It Later) and Instapaper, voice commands and speech recognition, live tiles and NFC technology are supported.

Free, Windows Phone 8

One of the best applications that turns a smartphone into a mobile camera. A number of filters and special effects are offered, a Compass Tool for quickly switching between six modes, editing functions, double exposure for combining two pictures, manual focus, the ability to share pictures via the Web, etc. The program interface is in English. The latest version introduces the "Sexy Lips" effect for portrait mode.

Free, Windows Phone 8

A simple and functional flashlight for the new version of the operating system. Beautiful icon, elegant interface design, simple settings, no ads, nothing superfluous at all.

69 rubles, Windows Phone 7.5/8

Fast and nice RSS client with English interface. Upon installation, the user receives a free license (i.e., you can delete the application and then reinstall it without paying). Content is synchronized using the Feedly cloud service. The program offers a nice interface, a subscription center, YouTube video viewing, the ability to share news through social networks and no ads.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

An application that includes the Orthodox calendar and Prayer Book. Thanks to him, the user receives daily information about the great and twelfth holidays, multi-day fasts, days of special commemoration of the dead and continuous weeks. Selected lives of the saints, Gospel readings and Troparion of the day are available. Of the functions, it is possible to search and set reminders and notes for any date. If you have Internet access, the icon for the day will also be displayed.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

Providing beautiful wallpapers in HD resolution is the main and only function of this application. The gallery has more than a million images, each of which can be viewed, installed and saved. There is a search function for a keyword, tag or color, viewing new, popular or random pictures, etc. Unfortunately, ads are not disabled, and the application interface is in English.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

A handy assistant for all 40 weeks of pregnancy. It includes a birth calculator, information about each week and useful tips for expectant mothers, a database of 800 male and female names, as well as zodiac signs. The program calendar is synchronized with the general phone calendar. The live tile displays the current gestational age. There is a personal color setting for the application.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

One of the best fitness applications, however, without the Russian language. With it, you can train in running, walking, cycling, as well as doing yoga, weightlifting, etc. The program supports GPS, records time, distance, calories burned, speed, altitude and other information, displays routes, stores the history of activities and etc. The user can also enter their own data and post the results on Facebook and Twitter, as well as on the Runtastic website for analysis and statistics.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

Free, Windows Phone 8

A good program for creating your own drawings or turning photos into works of art using built-in filters. Tools include oil paints, brushes and pencils, and the phone's front camera is supported. You can mix colors, send drawings via SMS, email or through the SkyDrive app.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

For those who take into account the influence of stars on their destiny, the daily horoscope is addressed, prepared by a professional astrologer with many years of experience. The program includes all the signs of the zodiac. Updates happen in real time. Users note the user-friendly interface and the credibility of the information.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

A simple and convenient program for compiling shopping lists, to-do lists, things, etc. Implemented support for live tiles, several sorting options, grouping, saving a backup copy to SkyDrive and a history of entering words to speed up typing. The app interface can be customized with themes. In the free version, the list is limited to a hundred entries, and the paid version costs 84 rubles.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

A useful assistant on the sports ground, in the kitchen and in other everyday situations. Free features include sound and vibration confirmation of button presses. The version for Windows Phone 8 has a paid option that allows you to save measurements in the phone's memory.

69 rubles, Windows Phone 8

One of the fundamental limitations of Windows Phone is the difficulty in replenishing the media library. For example, you can't download an MP3 file directly from a website and listen to it right away. This is where Music Import comes to the rescue, deserving good reviews from users for the high-quality performance of the main functions - download and save. From the possibilities there is a search and editing of ID3-information before downloading. It is specifically noted that the application does not distribute personal information about the user, such as location data. The clumsy support of the Russian language upsets.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

The official client of VKontakte, which provides users with the main features of the social network: messages, news, groups, music, etc. True, some of the features available in the desktop and Android versions are not in this application. The latest update added the creation of discussions in groups and the ability to respond to the discussion, adding tiles with a user or group to the desktop, etc.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

The application for playing media content from the VKontakte network allows you to listen to music and watch videos, including those without Internet access. You can search and play recordings, add and delete them, view recommendations, artist information and lyrics, record your own videos and publish them online. And much more.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

The color test for an objective assessment of the subjective state of a person, invented by the Swiss psychologist Max Luscher, is known to many. This application allows you to quickly and deeply analyze your personality with this test right on your phone and get an individual assessment and professional advice on how to avoid stress and its physical consequences.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

A popular weather service in the form of a mobile application. The forecast is displayed in three modes: "outside the window", by hours and by days. You can view data for a selection of selected cities and nearby cities, as well as select localities for which information will be displayed in live tiles. The interface is simple and beautiful, its colors are customizable. The reliability of the forecast is no different from the desktop version.

Free, Windows Phone 8

Application for monitoring battery level and remaining battery life. The data is displayed on the desktop and lock screen and is updated every half an hour. In addition, a graph and detailed battery usage statistics, various notifications, saving a graph, sending history by e-mail, copying data to SkyDrive, etc. are available. The program interface is customizable.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

The official application supports all the main features of the network and has a number of additional features. You can pin a conversation with a selected friend to your desktop, view, save and add photos, listen to music and, of course, receive notifications of important events. The latest version adds the ability to remove photo tags with you, cancel classes, turn off notifications and auto-rotate the screen.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

The program database contains thousands of melodies, any of which can be completely free to download and install as a ringtone on your phone without any restrictions. The compositions are divided into categories (classical, games, jazz, children's, etc.). The musical collection is constantly updated. The program interface is English.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

YouTube client with an English interface to watch videos in HQ and HD quality and download videos for free to your phone. You can view your favorite channels and subscribe to new ones, share videos via social networks, email and text messages, create playlists and change the sound quality during playback, play videos offline and much more.

Free, Windows Phone 7.5/8

This application is a great opportunity to have fun at any convenient time in any, even inconvenient place. There are more than 150 pranks on various topics to choose from: for a company, a crowd, an office, a school and students, phone and SMS jokes. The last category provides for sending SMS messages. New Year's draws have been added in the latest version.

Free, Windows Phone 8

An Instagram client that many users consider better than the official app. So, it allows you to upload videos and pictures, use original filters, tag friends, view messages on the map. In addition, it can be used to edit and record videos. There is support for the front and rear cameras, synchronization with Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Foursquare, VKontakte, etc.

According to Microsoft, Windows Phone users will be extremely happy towards the end of 2015, because that's when the new mobile operating system, Windows 10 Mobile, should be released. Most likely, owners of Lumia in the CIS countries, especially non-premium models, will be able to install a fresh update only at the beginning of next year, since the developers will not give the go-ahead to sending an unoptimized update for a specific phone in a specific region, and optimization may take time. In today's issue, we will present the applications that are somehow related to the future update.


The operating system from Microsoft is closed, i.e. the user cannot access the root folder of the system by standard means. This was the case in the previous version of Windows Phone, this is in the current version, and this will be in the next version, which will be called Windows 10 Mobile. Based on this, one might get the impression that a file manager on a mobile OS from Microsoft is simply not needed, but it is erroneous.

Thanks to file managers, you can open various archives created to combine files or reduce them in size; you can move files to different folders, for example, so that a certain photo is not displayed in the gallery, but it was in the phone itself - in general, there are a lot of applications. Files&Folders can perform all the above manipulations and does it in the best possible way, and also has many other remarkable features.

What is the sense of life? The question is quite complex and controversial, the unambiguous answer to which has not yet been found. If we take the “philosopher level” lower, then the question will change a little, and will sound something like this: “When is a person’s life not boring?” or “Until what point is it worth living?”. But some sages have already given the answer to this question, and it lies in the fact that as long as a person has a dream, as long as he strives for something, his life will not be meaningless.

Some impatient individuals, having not translated their desires into reality, try to show others that they have coped with this mission. For example, Eric Cartman from the animated series "South Park" used a regular record, recolored under the iPad. To avoid having to end up repainting the box on your Xbox, use the Xbox smartphone app to earn Xbox Points and Xbox Achievements for your account so your friends can see it and they might believe you have it. the coveted prefix appeared.

The release of a large-scale update usually implies a major design update and the introduction of new functions for certain tasks. The latter is especially important for Windows Phone users, as this operating system has been lagging behind competitive mobile platforms in terms of capabilities for a long time. But new features are not always implemented by the creators of the updates themselves, it often happens that third-party developers are involved in this, and in this case this is exactly what happened.

Relatively recently, YouTube introduced the ability to view 360° videos. Thanks to the Video 360 app, you can do it right from your smartphone, even those videos whose quality is equal to 4K.

In such articles, I haven't mentioned the unpleasant moments regarding Windows Phone for a long time, which are the fault of the developers, but this moment has come. Users of WP-devices with a small amount of internal memory often complain that they do not have enough memory, half of which is crammed in the “Other” item, and it is impossible to clear it without resetting the settings using standard means.

There is such an unpleasant moment, but the third-party developers of the Storage Cleaner Pro application will provide a solution for it, which will automatically clean this folder in a rather tricky way: it will create a bunch of “empty” files that will weigh a lot, and the system itself will free up space in critical mode.

Many people ask about the same question: “Why does Windws 10 Mobile have to wait so long when the desktop and tablet versions are already ready?”, To which I can give a reasonable answer from my point of view. Apart from the fact that Microsoft must optimize Windows 10 Mobile for each smartphone, bring it to mind, implement all the planned features and fix all the bugs, developers also need to introduce universal applications, i.e. they are also developed specifically for certain devices and operating systems.

Many people think that no work is being done in this direction, but they are wrong, and the proof of this is the Translator application, which has turned from an absolutely simple and uncompetitive into a fairly functional one with all the advanced features, having left the Beta testing stage.

Many applications for Windows Mobile 10 allow you to turn a smartphone from a multifunctional phone into a portable computer - a real assistant to a modern and business person.

Let's consider what programs for this should be downloaded to your device in order to greatly expand the capabilities inherent in it and turn it into an indispensable tool that always remains with us.

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UC Browser HD

The Chinese Internet browser, ported from its own engine to Chromium, still has the features inherent in Webkit Trident: the latest traffic compression technology, instant display of pages with lots of graphics and complex structure.

Night mode will help you work with web content in low light, and data compression that exceeds compression will save wireless traffic.

"Heavy" pages load much more smoothly and consume less than in other browsers.

The start page contains icons of popular and frequently visited resources with their icons instead of thumbnails and supports editing of this list of resources.

Customize the appearance will help themes and backgrounds for the browser.

It also already has plug-ins for working with the buffer, a scanner, an ad blocker and a download manager.

The Chromium port allows you to get any mobile UC Browser plugin released for .

Hotspot Shield Free VPN

After numerous blocking of hosts for free file sharing and social networks, programs that allow you to enter an inaccessible site are more relevant than ever.

It was developed using the latest technologies in the field of integration with other services, gesture and gaze control, and increasing the level of compression.

Free 8 Zip only supports , but its full edition does a great job with a dozen other compressed data formats.

Not all such programs are able to open huge files for preview right in the window, including those located in the cloud.

The archiver supports printing text and graphic files, and sending them by mail or via social networks.

Gismeteo

The weather is very changeable, and you should not hope for the best without knowing what nature has prepared for the near future.

With the Gismeteo program, any owner of a smartphone based on even the slowest Internet will receive a reliable weather forecast that modern meteorologists are only capable of.

It will display accurate information about the current situation in the atmosphere and the weather for the next hours and even days.

And this applies to any city, town or village, and the settlements of Ukraine and Russia are listed in the database, in fact, all.

Gismeteo automatically updates the forecast when the Internet is available at user-specified time intervals and will show:

• temperature at any time of the day;
• air humidity;
• chance of precipitation;
• Atmosphere pressure;
• wind direction and strength;
• dynamics of temperature change;
• the highest and lowest recorded temperatures.

With a home screen widget, all information will always be in front of the user's eyes.

Bookviser Reader

The best option for reading books and articles in popular formats with realistic page turning animation.

A lot of settings for the interface and behavior of the program allows you to personalize and make reading as convenient and enjoyable as possible.

Font size and type, indents, margins, intervals - everything is set, as well as parameters are adjusted, the screen orientation changes.

Read and remaining pages indicators always keep the reader up to date on progress. Controlling the brightness of the screen and the presence of a night mode will help you read in any lighting conditions.

Quick access to a huge library, including free literature, and popular online stores, and give you the opportunity to purchase your favorite books and access them from anywhere.

whatsapp messenger

A free application for communication that can save the user's mobile communication costs.

The user can rate photos of friends and other users, leave comments, send themed gifts.

It provides the ability to upload music to the social network, listen to the radio and new songs, and play games.

To use the paid functions of the program, you no longer need to go to the computer - you can replenish your account or transfer money to a friend through the mobile OK.RU.

It is believed that in real life, smartphones with Microsoft OS are as common as people with the patronymic "Artyomovich". The strange (to put it mildly) policy of the "Evil Corporation" regarding the seventh and eighth families of the mobile operating system turned away many users from experimenting with "windows" for smartphones, and now the corporation has seriously taken up correcting its image in this user niche. As an underground fan of Microsoft, I hope that they will succeed - the "ten" is walking the planet, its main trump card is one core for all platforms, and therefore it has every chance to pull over a good part of the mobile market. And as a programmer, I will be happy to make an introductory article for you on developing for this mobile axis, so that you are always ready for the growth of its popularity :).

Architecture Overview

With a common core and runtime for UWP apps, an app once written will run on all devices running Windows 10. This range includes:

• desktop computers;
• server systems - OS Windows Server 2016;
• laptops - MS Surface Book;
• tablets - MS Surface Pro;
• smartphones - Lumia;
• game consoles - Xbox One;
• augmented reality glasses - MS HoloLens;
• wall tablets - MS Surface Hub;
• smart watch - MS Band 2.

The list is impressive. In addition, UWP is not limited only to the execution of application programs, it also supports the operation of drivers at the kernel level. This allows you to create drivers that work on different devices, as long as the specific component for which the driver is intended is the same.

UWP supports both kernel-level and user-level drivers. The subsystem includes the Device Driver Interface (DDI) interfaces that the UWP driver can use.

But all this does not save the developer from adjusting the interface to certain platforms and screen resolutions. In some special cases, this may not be necessary.

Developer tools

To write, debug, deploy, and test apps for Windows 10 Mobile, you'll need Visual Studio 2015 (no doubt). The third update came out this summer. I strongly recommend! Its main bugfix is ​​the reduced memory consumption compared to the second update.

Also you will need Windows 10 Anniversary Update SDK: it includes all the necessary tools to develop applications for the entire fleet of devices running on Windows 10. If you are using VS 2015 with the third update, then the latest SDK is already included.

One of the main innovations is Windows Ink. Using this API, you can add pen support in two lines of code. There are two control objects for this: InkCanvas and InkToolbar.

The new Cortana API simplifies the implementation of voice control. The Cortana Actions component in the new API allows you to create new phrases/expressions.

Windows Hello biometric authentication is now available to web developers in the Edge browser.

The Blend for Visual Studio 2015 user interface modeling tool provides more advanced interface building capabilities than VS. With it, you can create layouts in XAML for all supported applications: application, web, universal, mobile, and so on. It also contains constructors for additional tasks, such as creating animations and controlling the behavior of elements.

Ways to create apps for Windows 10 Mobile

The main way to create applications for Windows 10 Mobile smartphones is to develop universal (UWP) apps(scroll Visual C# → Windows → Universal project creation wizards).

However, he is not the only one. As you know, Xamarin is built into Visual Studio 2015, it can also be used to create applications for Windows 10 Mobile, both for Android and iOS, changing the interface and leaving the program logic in C# (Visual C# → Cross-Platform).

In addition to the Visual C# language, Visual Basic or Visual C++ can equally be chosen. VS 2015 allows you to create Universal Applications with JavaScript (JavaScript → Windows → Universal Applications). They can also be deployed to a Windows 10 Mobile device.

Tools for working with legacy projects

Over the long history of the Windows operating system, a huge number of various applications have been created for it. With the release of Windows 8 and WinRT (and later Windows 10 and UWP), old desktop applications are a thing of the past, as only Win 8 and Win 10 desktop applications support classic Win32, COM, .NET applications. This made Microsoft sad. But the guys realized that they could develop a converter that would convert old applications for the new advanced UWP subsystem. Born from this Desktop App Converter.

Converting an Xcode project is a two-step process. First you need to add Objective-C syntax highlighting to Visual Studio: install the objc-syntax-highlighting.vsix extension from the winobjc\bin folder. Then, using the vsimporter.exe command line utility, you need to convert the Xcode project to a VS project. After that, the resulting sln file can be opened in the studio, where the Objective-C syntax will be highlighted. You can build and run the application and it will run just like any other Windows program.

Break me down, how amazing it is to see correctly highlighted Objective-C code in Visual Studio!

A free compiler is used to compile Obj-C code Clang. Since the output is a standard UWP app, it can be run on a mobile device in a Windows 10 Mobile environment. One program can have both C++ and Obj-C code.

If you have a project for a previous version of Windows Phone, i.e. 8.1 (or 8.0), then when you open it in VS 2015, the studio will automatically update the project so that it meets the requirements of the Universal Windows App (UWP). Not only the user interface markup in XAML will be converted, but also the program logic in JS/C++/C#/VB along with it. If there were calls to the WinRT subsystem in the code, then they will be converted to UWP calls.

There is another common type of application - games. iOS and Android render through the low-level OpenGL interface. On the other hand, on Windows 10 Mobile, DirectX 11 is used to display images in games. This results in incompatibility. But there is a solution - the open project ANGLE . ANGLE (Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine) - an almost native graphics layer engine - allows Windows users to seamlessly run OpenGL ES applications on DirectX 11 hardware. This is achieved by converting calls from OpenGL ES API to DirectX 11 API. ANGLE fully supports the following three types of applications:

• universal applications for Windows 10 (Universal Windows apps);
• applications for Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1;
• classic Windows desktop applications.

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Is free.

A great tool for those who are seriously in control of their finances. The application provides the ability to set the initial budget for the month, as well as add information about the costs, indicating their categories - friendship and relationships, health, education, entertainment, and others. This solution allows you to monitor the expenditure of funds, draw up a cost plan for the next month and save personal funds. In addition to categories, Money Lover has a section for compiling a report on the costs of any event. With it, you can see how much money will have to be allocated from the budget for the upcoming event. Another useful feature of this application is the scanning of receipts. It provides the ability to store all checks in electronic form and view them at any moment. So that all the accumulated data does not disappear due to a malfunction in the operating system or as a result of the failure of the hardware of the gadget, the developers of this financial manager provided for copying all the contents to the cloud storage linked to the user's personal account.

Money Lover is a shareware application. Some of its features can only be unlocked after purchasing the Premium version. It is free of ads, provides a complete list of tools, and has the ability to edit income and expense records through a browser.

Application for playing music files. It differs from many players in the Windows Store in that it can play individual folders with songs. Another feature of this program is the automatic stop of the playback queue after a specified time - one, two, three or four hours after the start of the first track. It is also possible to set an arbitrary pause time interval. In addition, it can offer users a massive list of settings - activating the local volume control, changing the rewind interval of the composition, tiles for playing/stopping tracks, shuffling, switching to the next/previous and others.

Tag editor. Is free.

Tag Editor - music tag editor. Quite a useful utility for those who wish to keep their music collection in order. With such a simple tool, you can change the name of the track, album, artist name and artist of the album, specify the genre, year of release, sequence number of the composition and attach the cover. To enter more accurate information into the track properties, the application provides a search, with which you can download everything you need from the Xbox Music and Last.fm services.

Moli Player Pro. 199 rub.

A player that can play almost all existing audio and video formats. It can open files from internal memory and from an SD card, and also receive media content sent from a computer via Wi-Fi. To do this, you need your smartphone and PC to be on the same local network. The player of this application is equipped with gestures. With their help, you can adjust the screen brightness, sound level and switch to the right moment.

CCPlayer/Pro. Free / 129 rub.

Application for playing video files of popular formats. It has a built-in file manager that simplifies the process of finding and opening content a little. The video preview screen in CCPlayer boasts support for gestures to change the brightness of the display backlight and volume, as well as useful features, including adding subtitles, changing the video playback speed, changing the decoding mode (from hardware to software and vice versa), and blocking automatic image reorientation . The settings contain several options for adjusting the color, font of the subtitles and changing their size.

Meridian. Is free.

Audio player for listening to the music collection of the social network VKontakte. Unlike the player in the official client, Meridian has an attractive interface, convenient controls, and, not least, the function of saving audio recordings to the cache. This player is able to play music from the user's collection, his friends, communities, albums and wall. In addition, he can search for albums and artists, add songs to the user's personal collection, display a list of recommended audio recordings, display the current track in VKontakte status, and upload album covers along with photos of artists. Well, so that the user can remotely control the Meridian player on a computer, the application for mobile Windows provides a “RemotePlay” section. With it, you can switch tracks, pause them, resume playback and adjust the volume.

Meridian is free, but it has a paid Radio section inside. In it, you can create stations of your favorite artists and listen to their compositions.

Download. Is free.

Application for playing music and video from VKontakte. Its interface will appeal to those who at one time liked the Zune player, designed to synchronize content between a computer, a player of the same name and a smartphone on Windows Phone 7.X. Vkachay can play music and open videos from the user's page, from the collection of his friends and from groups. As an additional feature, the developer implemented the ability to open documents from the personal section of a social network user and download them to a mobile device. In addition to documents, this tool allows you to download musical compositions and videos from VKontakte to your phone for further playback offline.

Vkachay implemented the F2P model. The application itself and its basic features are available for free, but for unlocking some features (access to viewing the news feed, to the top songs and artists, and to the list of recommended music), the developer asks for a small amount of money.

ProShot Classic. 199 rub.

An application for taking photos with fine-tuning camera settings. Directly on the viewfinder screen, users are prompted to set the shutter speed and ISO value, select the white balance mode, adjust the exposure, independently set the focus, activate the flash and HDR mode, display the grid, and also select the appropriate aspect ratio.

Camera360 Sight. Is free.

It is a photo editing application. There is a camera mode in it, but it cannot boast of any outstanding features, but for editing photos in Camera360 Sight there are several useful tools and effect sets. A set of standard parameters is available to users (exposure, contrast, fading, shadow, saturation, liveliness, warmth, blur, sharpness, center), as well as a collection of 60 effects. The intensity of each of them can be adjusted with just a few movements. Present in Camera360 Sight and tools for cropping and aligning images. With their help, you can easily align the horizon in the pictures and remove unnecessary elements.

oneshot. Is free.

An application for taking photos with the possibility of processing them in real time. Before taking a picture, OneShot offers to select a photo mode (manual, portrait, macro, landscape, sports, night shooting), apply effects, adjust contrast, brightness, sharpness, temperature, white balance, exposure, manually set focus, and so on. Further. All these things can be done in the settings of both the main and front cameras. The standard set of effects includes 14 presets, but it can be expanded by purchasing several paid collections.

PicsArt. Is free.

Useful image editing tool. Those who like to immerse themselves in the process of changing pictures will really appreciate the set of this application. PicsArt offers tools for cropping (regular, freeform, preset), changing perspective, cloning elements, creating motion effects, adjusting brightness, contrast, hue with curves and sliders, radial and linear blur, adding pictures on top of others, placing text, and also for image resizing. In addition to this set, the application has a good selection of effects, sets of stickers, frames, masks and highlights, and a drawing mode.

BLACK. Is free.

For those who prefer black and white shots, there is a BLACK app in the Windows Store. It includes a collection of B&W style effects - HP5, FP-3000B, Lady Gray 400, TRI-X 400 and other presets. The application also has an editing section. In it, you can adjust the intensity of fading, apply a vignette and change the brightness, contrast using a curve.

Video: A selection of programs for Windows Phone 8.1

We hope that thanks to our selection of applications you have found something new and useful for yourself.