AssistiveWare today announces Pictello 2.0, an update to its popular storytelling app for iOS. Pictello offers a fun way for anyone to create and share talking photo albums and stories. Version 2.0 now allows kids as well as adults to add short video clips to their visual stories & share them using the new AirDrop feature of iOS 7. Easily record video from within Pictello using the built-in iPhone, iPad or iPod touch camera or choose a video clip from their photo library to enrich their stories.

Rectangle LLC today announces Rectangle 2.0, a major update to its iOS app. Rectangle is a free, simple, and easy-to-use app that allows anyone to order large-scale prints and Pictoblocks of their favorite photos and have them delivered directly to their door. Using the new proprietary dynamic sizing algorithm, the app can now offer several sizes that are proportionate to each photo. In addition, version 2.0 introduces panoramic prints, gallery, Facebook & Flickr integration and more.

TinyTap Ltd. announces TinyTap 1.3 for iOS. TinyTap puts a powerful creation tool in the hands of kids, parents and teachers and enables them to create their own apps. TinyTap makes app creation beautiful and fun with its game-themed Creation Packs – a collection of stickers, backgrounds, coloring and activity pages based on TinyTap’s most popular games!. What makes TinyTap so unique is its ability to actively involve kids in the learning process.

Under the name of “Quadranto” waschhaus media announces the relaunch of Eisenpower, a productivity Mac app that was originally released in November 2012. Quadranto provides a 4-quadrant structure for organizing your tasks by importance and urgency. Besides the new name, it has a more Mac-like user interface targeted especially at pro users and new features that were introduced based on the customers’ feedback. The iPhone version will be available at the end of October.

Scorpion Research today announces Scorpion BarCode 2.40, its popular barcode creation software for Mac OS X. Scorpion BarCode helps with easy creation and printing of all major barcode symbologies in vector editable EPS or PDF file formats. A command line version is also provided to build powerful scripted solutions. Version 2.40 is optimized for OS X 10.9 Mavericks, with Retina screen enhancements added, 64bit performance and support for document versions.

EMSI SOFT OOD today announces AltiChord 1.9, an update to their popular chord reference application for Mac OS X. Ideal for musicians with different skill levels, AltiChord generates chord charts for stringed instruments like guitar, bass, ukulele, mandolin or bouzouki. The application shows shapes for many chords simultaneously and can transpose them. AltiChord does not rely on chord databases and can easily serve as a chord reference for instruments in nonstandard or custom tuning.

James Hollender’s Life Inventory apps will be ready for iOS 7 when it comes out. These apps may be complex, but once understood are amazing and built-in instructions are a great help. They guide users in creating their own Moral Inventory, which can provide greater self understanding of personality, strengths and weaknesses leading to a better quality of life, allowing the user to learn more about themselves than they ever thought possible.

Minneapolis based Pad & Quill is proudly announcing new products in time for the pending Apple release. Artfully refined new cases will debut with the launch of our new website on Friday. The fine detail work on these cases will stun you. They have been crafted with the same personalized attention that has gone into every case at Pad & Quill, and then some. The end result is sleek, iconic, and soulful, capturing what everyone loves about Pad & Quill, and adding a sprinkle of excellence.

iMathGenius, a math education app for people of all ages, has gained more and more popularity since its first release of last year. Many people who downloaded and played with this app gives it a thumbs-up. Even more gave many good suggestions which allowed us to have improved the app since then. There are also institutional downloads such as downloads from school’s iPad education program. We’ve seen download traffic increased from all around the world, especially from US and China.

Ohanaware Co., Ltd. today announces Shine 1.1, an update to their popular photo enhancing application developed for Mac OS X. Shine has been designed to illuminate digital photos by using lighting and color effects, such as Light Rays, Lens Flares, light Source, Dynamic Contrast, Tinting & Vignette. The new version includes some new functions and a refactored processing engine, improving rendering speed, while using less memory. Large 100+ megapixels images can now be processed via Shine.