Notable apps and app updates for June 22, 2017

On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable new apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be new, but they’re popular and deserve mention. Here are today’s picks.

iOS Apps/Updates

Aron Nelson has launched Backtrack Golf. The $9.99 app allows you to follow your child as they play on the golf course with your iPhone and more. In addition to showing your child’s location, it also marks places where they stop and hit and shows the yardage between marked spots. 

Bound is launching a new fiction series called Purgatorio. It’s written by award-winning author John Shirley, and is based on the “Midnight Star: Renegade” mobile game universe developed by Industrial Toys and author John Scalzi. Bound is a new, free mobile app that combines serialized prose, art and audio from the best storytellers in “geek genres” like sci-fi, fantasy and thrillers.

macOS Apps/Updates

Eilert Janssen has announced Hej Stylus! 2.0, an update to his macOS menubar application designed to make it easy for designers, illustrators and digital artists to configure and smooth out their stylus and graphics tablet output. 

The app acts as a control system for the user’s graphic input. Version 2.0 offers a new pressure mapping function that takes the pressure output of a user’s stylus and maps it along as either a linear or Bezier function.

Hej Stylus! 2.0 requires macOS 10.10 or later and costs $15. A 24-hour free trial version of the app is available for download. Discounts are available for volume purchases.

Chronos (www.chronosnet.com) has debuted major upgrade to each of its six design and print apps for macOS, adding color capabilities to each app. 

The upgraded applications are Business Card Shop 8, FotoFuse 2, Greeting Card Shop 4, iScrapbook 7, Labelist 10 and PrintLife 4. To celebrate, Chronos is offering a 30% discount on these apps between now and midnight on Monday, June 26.