5 intriguing apps for Windows 8.1: May 15, 2022

5 Intriguing Apps for Windows 8.1: May 15, 2022

With the ever-growing number of apps and games in the Windows Store, information technology is condign increasingly difficult to keep upwards with what'south out in that location.

For that reason, every Friday we showcase some apps that have piqued our interest. They may have been in the news recently, they may be new to the Windows Store, or they could simply be old apps that we just stumbled upon.

They are the 5 Intriguing Apps of the Calendar week.

Evite

If you lot have e'er organized or been invited to any kind of party or assemble, y'all are likely familiar with Evite. The popular website helps yous to create slap-up-looking invitations and email them out to folks.

The new official Evite app brings all of functionality of the website to your Windows PC, tablet, or phone.

Pattern and send invitations, RSVP to events you lot are invited to, and view guest lists. You can fifty-fifty discuss the effect with other invitees and become directions to the venue.

Whether you are the get-to planner for your family events or just looking to organize a one-off party, Evite is a convenient style to invite and rail your guest attendance.

Download for Windows 8.1 (Complimentary; Go in one case, get everywhere)
Download for Windows Phone eight.1 (Gratis; Get once, get everywhere)

QR: Evite

Xodo PDF Reader & Editor

When information technology comes to PDFs, in that location are plenty of free apps out in that location. Withal, about of them limit you to viewing and printing alone. Xodo PDF Reader & Editor is a gratuitous and powerful tool that not only lets you look at PDFs, merely change them also.

The viewing options in Xodo are many. View in single-page, continuous or thumbnail modes and easily navigate between capacity, sections or annotations.

With Xodo, you can make full out PDF forms, add typed text and comments, and fifty-fifty annotate or add your signature using your stylus or finger. Additionally, y'all can create PDFs from scratch on your estimator or phone.

The Xodo app will also permit you interact with your peers in existent-fourth dimension over live chat. At that place is no account signup necessary. Simply enter your electronic mail address, as well as those of the people you wish to work with.

The built-in file manager gives you lot the power to rename, motility, delete, and copy. You tin besides share your documents or print them from the app.

Xodo is available for Windows and Windows Phone. It is complimentary of accuse and free of ads.

Download for Windows 8.1 (Gratuitous; Get once, get everywhere)
Download for Windows Telephone 8.1 (Costless; Get once, get everywhere)

QR: Xodo PDF Reader & Editor

Memorylage

Memorylage is a creative way to view your favorite photos, transforming your Pictures Library into a collage. It makes sharing your pictures with family and friends a bit more dynamic than your ordinary slide show.

The app besides allows you to create collages of your own. Cull as many photos as yous wish and utilise the congenital-in picture editor to affect them up, crop them, or add together filters. Memorylage will allow yous shuffle them around into dissimilar arrangements, then save or share the terminate final production.

Y'all can also apply the photo berth option to snap pictures with your device's photographic camera and create a collage on the spot.

Memorylage is available for Windows and Windows Phone, but is not a universal app. The ad-supported Windows version is free, while the phone app is $1.99 with a complimentary trial.

Download for Windows eight.ane (Free)
Download for Windows Phone 8.1 ($one.99; Free trial)

QR: Memorylage

n7player Music Player

n7player, the well-known sound playback app, has made its Windows and Windows Phone debut in beta grade. If you aren't familiar, n7player is a music player with a touch-friendly twist. It takes your music collection and arranges it into a "surface," a tiled layout of your collection.

n7player is capable of playing near major sound file formats and has an integrated album encompass downloader. It as well has Last.fm integration, so you can log into your account and outset scrobbling. You lot can also create and edit playlists from within the app.

The stylized layout makes information technology piece of cake to apply multi-touch and gesture controls to navigate your tunes. Merely n7player besides has a more meaty set of controls for when you are multitasking using the side-past-side view in Windows.

n7player is a pretty cool fashion to interact with your music. Merely remember, it's notwithstanding in beta, and then be patient, and exist sure to requite the developer your feedback.

Download for Windows 8.1 (Free; Get once, get everywhere)
Download for Windows Phone eight.1 ($1.99; Get once, get everywhere)

QR: n7player Music Player

Redditting for Reddit

Redditting, every bit the name suggests, is a full-feature Reddit app for Windows. With Redditting, you can log in with multiple accounts, or simply lurk past not logging in at all.

Using a sideways drill-downwards format, Redditting shows you a list of subreddits down the side. As y'all click on each, you then get a list of the posts contained in information technology, which tin can exist filtered the similarly to the website using the Hot, New, Rising, Top, and Controversial categories.

Subreddits can be added, removed, filtered, and even pinned individually to your Start Screen as tiles.

Individual posts that you click display in a larger window, taking up nigh 3 quarters of the screen. They can also be super-sized to total-screen as well.

Redditting'due south well-designed, intuitive, layout is customizable and the sheer number of unlike options and controls is impressive. Everyone has their favorite Reddit client for whatever reason, but based on design and functionality, Redditting will surely be able to requite them all a run for their money.

Download for Windows 8.1 (Free)

Exist sure to cheque out our other selections from previous weeks. Have a great weekend!

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