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TEST APPS
App:roved

FOR FOR FOR FOR
SPACE SPACED PICTURE RICHER
ACES FACES FIDDLES RIDDLES

● Steredenn ● Face Swap ● Affinity Photo ● Monument Valley 2
Although Steredenn’s chunky This app finds Microsoft throwing Jaw-on-the-floor time as Serif Impossible landscapes return to
pixel-art style recalls classic its hat into the face-swapping shoves its Photoshop rival onto mobile as you guide a mother and
side-scrolling shooters, this is ring. Shoot a selfie and slap your the iPad. This is no cut-down daughter through puzzle-strewn
a thoroughly modern take on virtual mug on any figure Face app for the fat-fingered: Affinity miniature Escher scenes. This
blasting evil space types. Levels Swap can find in Bing. Not feeling Photo offers full-on, pro-level, sequel is ‘rubbing rainbows
are algorithmically generated, so photogenic? Swap other people’s desktop-quality photo editing, into your eyes’ gorgeous – and
you get a different game every faces instead. Microsoft says just with an interface designed inventive too. One dazzling scene
time; but only by mastering how the app includes ‘intelligent face for touch. It’s packed with features, has blocky trees explode from
weapon pick-ups affect each morph tech’ – in practice it does from subtle adjustments through pots when subjected to sunlight;
type of enemy can you hope to smart things with skin tone, to deranged distortions, and has another has you pick your way
get seriously high scores. Said and can be clever with faux 3D a tactile feel that often beats through a side-on level that
weapons are often bonkers too. mapping, but often lurches into editing on a Mac or PC. For the resembles abstract art hanging
Our favourite: a massive set of ‘terrifying results’ territory. Fun, ‘slap a filter on a photo’ brigade, on a gallery wall. The challenge is
gnashing jaws bolted to the front then, but Hollywood CGI masters it’s overkill; for serious editors slight, and the journey’s brief, but
of your ship. CHOMP! have nothing to fear. armed with an iPad, it’s amazing. it’s well worth taking.
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£3.99 / iOS £free / Android £38.99 / iPad £4.99 / iOS

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