Keep in contact with your team at work or groups on the move with Citrix Convoi, a group calling platform and today’s first App Worth Downloading.
Citrix Convoi update (Free)
What’s it about? Create quick group chats and conference calls for your entire team with Citrix Convoi, an app that makes it easy for groups of people working together to keep in contact.
What’s cool? Communications app Citrix Convoi is great for making it easy to stay in touch for groups of people who need to communicate frequently. It allows you to set up groups or teams within the app without sharing a phone number, and provides a structure so that those users can interact either with everyone in the group, or with individual members as needed. The app’s latest update adds a bunch of additional features for keeping organized, like the ability to add team members straight from your Contacts List, real-time monitoring of your call quality when you’re talking to others, and more.
Who’s it for? Citrix Convoi is great for groups of people who are working together, or anyone who needs to keep in touch with a group of people on the go.
What’s it like? For more options for group calling, check out Tango and ooVoo.
Box update (Free)
What’s it about? Cloud storage app Box lets users save documents, photos, videos and more online, where they can retrieve them from whatever device they want.
What’s cool? Box on your iOS devices provides users with not only the ability to save files and documents to the cloud and retrieve them from anywhere over an Internet connection, it also packs things like a PDF reader, Word document viewer, and photo and video important capabilities. That means that in addition to saving documents to the cloud, you can also use your iPhone or iPad and Box to access and read them, which is great for users who need to be able to work on the go. Box packs 50GB of free storage for signing up, and allows for easy file sharing between users who need to collaborate. Box’s new update brings a complete redesign for better navigation, a new user interface and better previewing capabilities for documents and files.
Who’s it for? If you could use a cloud storage solution that lets you access your documents from your mobile devices, check out Box.
What’s it like? You’ll find other handy cloud storage alternatives in Dropbox and Google Drive.
Bloodstroke ($2.99)
What’s it about? Action title Bloodstroke has players fighting gangsters in an effort to protect a client from assassination, using blades and guns for maximum deadly force.
What’s cool? Presented by action film director John Woo, Bloodstroke is a top-down shooter in which players take on the role of a woman with the code name Lotus, tasked with protecting her client from assassination by a slew of gangsters. Players have to fight to protect the client by using guns, blades, swords and other weapons to dispatch snipers, bikers and your standard gun-toting henchmen. Bloodstroke packs a beautiful brush stroke-inspired art style whose only color is red (hence the name), and the game also packs “arenas,” where you can hone your skills and earn money to spend on upgrading Lotus’s weapons.
Who’s it for? Fans of shooters with high-intensity, John Woo-style action will want to give Bloodstroke a look.
What’s it like? Find more fast-paced shooter action in Call of Duty: Strike Team and Minigore 2: Zombies.
