19 best iPhone and iPad apps this week

It's time for  weekly roundup of brand new and notable apps for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices.

It covers apps and games, with the prices referring to the initial download: so (Free) may mean (Freemium) in some cases.

Classic Winnie-the-Pooh (Free Apps)

A.A. Milne's original Winnie-the-Pooh stories have been faithfully digitised for this new iOS app from Egmont, complete with their familiar illustrations. The app eschews interactive bells and whistles in favour of voice narration, light animation and those famous stories. One is included for free, with others buyable via in-app purchase.
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Pet Rescue Saga (Free Apps)

People are playing Candy Crush Saga in their tens of millions, but will this follow-up be as popular? Synchronising with the existing Facebook version of the game, this offers 72 levels of block-puzzling action – with cutesy animals, social leaderboards and plenty of in-app purchases thrown in.
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BBC Weather (Free Apps)

The official BBC Weather app provides forecasts for the UK, automatically for your current location or via search for other places. Besides temperature and sun/rain details, it provides pressure, visibility, humidity, UV and pollen data
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Office Mobile for Office 365 (Free Apps)

Lots of buzz around Microsoft's first official Office app for iOS, although for now it's iPhone and US-only – although a global release isn't far off. The app is also restricted to Office 365 subscribers, so an annual subscription is required to use the app to view and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents in the cloud.
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Gangstar Vegas (£4.99)

Gameloft's Gangstar games are unashamedly influenced by the Grand Theft Auto series, although GTA's appearance on iOS provides keen competition nowadays. This latest game is set in Las Vegas, with 80 missions, and lots of weapons and cars to use. It has all the murderous hallmarks of GTA, but the jury's out on whether it has that franchise's sharp humour too.
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Pause (Free Apps)

Pause feels refreshing: an iPhone app that wants you to switch off your iPhone apps and go out and do something less boring instead (apologies if I've just given your internal jukebox an 80s children's TV theme-song moment). Pause aims to get people switching on Airplane mode on their device while they re-engage with the real world, throwing in social league tables to see which of your friends is best (and worst) at it.
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Launch Ticker (Free Apps)

Tech entrepreneur and investor Jason Calacanis has signed up plenty of subscribers for his Launch Ticker service, which aggregates facts about big technology news stories each day. This is its official app, which wraps all those stories up with additional sharing features.
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Diamond Street (Free Apps)

A really inventive location-based tour-guide app, based on London's Hatton Garden jewellery quarter. The idea: you walk around the district using the in-app map, with audio stories, sounds and images triggered by your current location. More than one hour of audio is included, as well as four short films viewable when in range of a Wi-Fi network.
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Way of the Dogg (£1.99)

The double-g gives you a clue about the star of this mobile game: it's Snoop Dogg's latest spin-off. Described as a "rhythm-action combat adventure", it blends beatings and beats as you battle through 14 levels to the strains of Snoop's hits. And if you doubt his chances on the App Store, ponder this: his last app, Snoopify, is currently making him $30k a week from virtual sticker sales alone.
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Dictonic (Free Apps)

Dictonic is a simple but potentially-useful voice-recording app: "Snap a picture, record audio, pick one of amazing voice changing effects and post it to Facebook and Twitter". And while its App Store listing makes much of its pranking potential, its ability to save recordings to Google Drive or Dropbox could make it as much a productivity tool.
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A Cautionary Tail for iPad (£2.99)

Australian animated film A Cautionary Tail has been charming film festivals around the world. Now it's been turned into a storybook-app, with voice narration from actor David Wenham, added interactivity, and some very lush graphics that wouldn't look out of place on the cinema screen. Unsurprising, really, given that's exactly where they come from.
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Despicable Me: Minion Rush (Free Apps)

This is Gameloft's official game for the Despicable Me movies, putting you in the shoes of a scampering minion for this Temple Rush-style endless runner. You'll be leaping, sliding and dodging obstacles and enemies, while earning (or buying) power-ups and costumes to boost your chances.
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Anki Drive (Free Apps)

One of the surprises at Apple's WWDC 2013 keynote was the appearance on-stage of robotics startup Anki to show its self-driving toy cars zooming round a mini-track. The cars and track won't go on sale until the Autumn, but in the meantime this app explains what Anki is up to and how the technology works. Come Autumn, the app will become the controller for the cars. It's US-only for now though, a slap in the face for the UK. We're the nation that brought Scalextric to the world, dammit!
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Avengers Alliance (Free Apps)

Avengers Alliance started off as an official Facebook game from Marvel. Now it's crossed to iOS, although it's a standalone game rather than synchronising with its parent. It stars 28 Marvel heroes doing battle across more than 60 missions, with player-versus-player features coming soon, once people have practised their skills.
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Man of Steel (£1.99)

Another big movie gets an official game: new Superman flick Man of Steel in this case. Warner Bros' game is an all-action beat 'em up that sees Superman grappling, punching and kicking his foes on the ground and in mid-air, with very impressive graphics and a cast of bosses to scatter.
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Pinball Rocks HD (Free Apps)

Pinball Rocks HD's publisher is a major record label, Sony Music, rather than a games firm. It's a showcase for RAWK artists including Slayer, AC/DC, Alice in Chains and Bullet for My Valentine, as well as emerging acts, with the big guns getting their own branded pinball tables for you to thunk balls (big balls, in AC/DC's case, etc etc) around. The branded tables cost £1.99 apiece.
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Action Bowling 2 (Free Apps)

More than 40m people downloaded the first Action Bowling game on iOS, apparently. Its sequel should raise plenty of interest then: it's a ten-pin bowling game that promises better physics than its predecessor, as well as online multiplayer via Apple's Game Center.
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Coolson's Artisanal Chocolate Alphabet (£1.49)

Finally, something tasty for a Monday morning: a "game of words, whimsy, and self-fulfilment" based on working in a chocolate factory. Adventure mode sees you stacking boxes with your linguistic skills, but there are local and online battle modes if you fancy testing your wits against other players too.
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SLOOH (Free Apps)

A new iPad app allows anyone around the world to take telescope photos of celestial objects from the comfort of a couch. where you can:

+ One-touch command robotic space cameras to image fascinating celestial objects
+ Understand the movements of the night sky and learn more about space
+ Watch live celestial programming in real-time and in true color
+ Listen to Sky Guide audio

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That's this week's selection, but what do you think? Make your own recommendations, or give your views by posting a comment.

• Read also: 50 Must-Have iPad Apps

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Data source: The guardian (By Stuart Dredge)