Investors, you’ll want to check out Seeking Alpha Portfolio, today’s first app worth downloading. The app brings you lots of information about the market, including news and advice about the stocks you’re interested in or watching for your portfolio. We’ve also got NARR8, a motion comic app that has just added two new educational motion comics to its catalog. Finally, Hero of Many is an action-adventure game in which players guide a swarm of friendly creatures through dark, dangerous underwater caverns.
Seeking Alpha Portfolio update (Free)
What’s it about? Get all kinds of stock market news and information about your portfolio quickly with Seeking Alpha Portfolio.
What’s cool? Investors are constantly in need of up-to-date information, and a little investing advice couldn’t hurt. Seeking Alpha Portfolio looks to provide both – the app brings all kinds of news your way so you can stay as current as possible with what’s going on with the market, and also provides analysis of the stocks you care about by Seeking Alpha’s advisers. You can also use the app to create watchlists and customize notifications, which can keep you up to speed on events in the market as they happen. Seeking Alpha Portfolio just got a big update to its user interface, as well as improvements to loading and information presented as you scroll through pages showing news and the like.
Who’s it for? Investors will find lots of useful information from Seeking Alpha here.
What’s it like? Try thinkMoney and Real-time Stock Tracker for more information about the movement of the markets.
NARR8 update (Free)
What’s it about? Read, watch and listen to motion comics on your iPad across a number of genres from NARR8.
What’s cool? NARR8 is an interactive content app that’s filled with stories across a variety of genres. Mostly it’s packed with “motion comics” – comics like you’d read in comic books, but with the addition of special effects, interactivity, motion and sound. The result is a hybrid that’s not quite animation, but not as static as traditional comics, bringing something dynamic to storytelling while maintaining a comic aesthetic. NARR8 also features social capabilities that lets you connect with comic creators and other readers. The latest update to NARR8 adds two new educational motion comics: Panda & Boom and Qumi-Qumi, for kids 2-6 and 8-12, respectively. You can also now use the app to create your own interactive stories.
Who’s it for? If you’re a fan of motion comics or want to create some of your own, try NARR8.
What’s it like? You’ll find more traditional comics in Comixology’s Comics app and Dark Horse Comics.
Hero of Many ($3.99)
What’s it about? Guide a swarm of water creatures through various levels and battles in Hero of Many, a side-scrolling game about exploration and survival.
What’s cool? In Hero of Many, you play a orb-like creature exploring dark, underwater caves. As you move through them, you’ll find water beings that you must guide and protect as you explore and find your way out of each level. Mixing puzzles and action, you’ll often need to find a way to pass certain obstacles, and others work to fight off other vicious sea creatures with the help of your friends. You’ll work through physics puzzles and explore your way through 26 different levels spread across four worlds.
Who’s it for? I Fans of action-adventure games and titles with a similar silhouette-based visual aesthetic should check out Hero of Many.
What’s it like? You should definitely grab LIMBO, which popularized the look Hero of Many shares, and Trundle, a puzzler that uses a lot of similar ideas and mechanics.
