These are some great apps you'll only find on Windows Phone

Great Windows Phone Apps

Terminal calendar week nosotros looked at how the iOS App Store compared to the Windows Telephone Store in 2022. It was a sobering look at how much piece of work Windows Phone yet has to close the app gap betwixt the two platforms. That'southward especially apparent when you look at 'fad apps' similar popular games or apps from a new startups or company.

It's not all doom and gloom for Windows Telephone. Over the past two months we've seen major apps officially join the platform. Thanks is due in part to the Universal Windows app model that allows devs to target Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows eight.1 with minimal piece of work. Recently we've seen updates or releases for apps like Comedy Key, PlentyOfFish, UPS, AutoCAD 360, Barclays Pingit, Adobe Photoshop Express on Microsoft'southward platforms. The future is looking brilliant for Windows Phone and Windows 8.

Today we're going to turn the tables and look at some apps that are unique to Windows Phone and not available on iOS. We'll list some of the more popular ones and our favorites. And so you can hop into the comments and tell the states what apps you love on Windows Phone that you can't get anywhere else.

Exclusive to Windows Phone

Foundbite

Foundbite is probably 1 of the best examples of an app that'southward exclusive to Windows Telephone. The app is your portal to the Foundbite social network, where users tin can create and share foundbites. Users combine photos and sound to create foundbites. We know Foundbite will eventually demand to go to Android and iOS to gain disquisitional mass, but we're happy to take information technology call Windows Phone home for now. [More coverage / Download]

Part Lens

Fans of OneNote should have Office Lens. Information technology's a free app in the Windows Phone Shop from Microsoft that allows you to take photos of documents or whiteboards and take the images imported into OneNote. Y'all can then search the text within those photos using OCR technology. [Move coverage / Download] (Edit: Office Lens is on iOS also, only as role of the OneNote app)

WPCentral

WPCentral

Duh. [More coverage / Download]

Nokia Photographic camera

Windows Phone is home to the best camera application on any smartphone thanks to Nokia Camera. While it'southward only available on Lumia devices, that represents over 90 percent of all Windows Phones. Which ways the lot of you are rocking Nokia Camera! The camera app gives you control over your exposure time, shutter speed, ISO and more! [Movement coverage / Download]

TipRanks

This app isn't widely known, but we did cover it when it launched last October. TipRanks is an app that volition help you on your road to riches. With the app you lot can view various fiscal analysts and their portfolios. You then go their track record and can meet if their financial opinion on whether to purchase or sell a stock is valid. [More coverage / Download]

SongArc

SongArc is past far one of the most popular music games available on Windows Telephone. It'southward on Windows Phone where you lot'll only find the addictive game. Look frontward to leaderboards and more than in a future update to the game. [More than coverage / Download]

LocalEvents for Facebook

LocalEvents for Facebook

At that place's probably no amend way to manage events on Facebook than with LocalEvents for Facebook. It'southward a relatively new app on Windows Phone that allows you to discover Facebook events effectually yous. From concerts to parties to sports events, they all evidence up on LocalEvents for Facebook. Plus you can use the app to proceed your plans under control by seeing all the event invites you've accepted. [More coverage / Download]

Halo: Spartan Set on

Yes yous can play Halo: Spartan Assault on PC or your Xbox, but Windows Telephone is the only mobile platform y'all can play! Halo fans should find a fun story in hither and the game plays really prissy (peculiarly on a device similar the Lumia 1520). [More coverage / Download]

Disqus

Disqus

Disqus is one of the webs well-nigh pop commenting platform. You'll find their annotate system on thousands of blogs all over the internet! You'll also find their only mobile app on Windows Phone. A recent update added a transparent Live tile and more! [More than coverage / Download]

Runway Runner

You have plenty of cross-platform running apps on Windows Phone, but Tracker Runner isn't i of them. It's sectional to Windows Telephone and one of our favorite running apps. A hereafter update will make it even better for runners. [More than coverage / Download]

SophieLens Hard disk

Ane of our favorite filter apps for Windows Phone is SophieLens HD. The quality of filters in at that place are truly exceptional and nosotros use this app all the time when nosotros desire to give our photos a fiddling something extra. [More coverage / Download]

Nokia Drove

We can't listing every unmarried 'Nokia' app, simply nosotros volition point out that yous'll but find corking apps like Storyteller, Beamer, Creative Studio, Refocus and others on Windows Phone. [Mover coverage]

We wanted to focus on a few of our favorite Windows Phone exclusive apps. But we know we missed some. Have a moment to hop into the comments and share your love for your favorite app(s) you'll but find on Windows Phone.

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