Swift Fox Software today is introducing Amounts, a personal expense tracker for the iPhone. Amounts allows for extremely fast transaction entry into personalized categories. Users can tailor the app to fit their specific spending habits by creating new categories using many different icons and colors. A single tap shows which categories have the highest spending over the past week, month or year. Users can view category details to see more specific spending trends.

The i.Menu Expo will bring restaurant and retail technology to the forefront in 2014. i.Menu Expo will make seven stops across the US and Canada to showcase how tablets, smartphones, apps and cloud services technology can improve the restaurant and retail industry. The Expo will be co-located on the show floor of North America’s largest FoodService/Retail trade shows. The Expo will have software developers, Innovative Accessory Makers and hardware vendors from all over North America,

UK based Pocket Mariner today introduces Boat Watch 1.0, the very first ship tracking app for Mac OS. Boat Watch, which has been a very popular app for users of iPhones and iPads, now enables Mac users to spot boats and ships and follow them on a real-time map. Boat Watch will also provide information about boats being tracked, including their names, types and destinations. Mac users can also use Boat Watch’s full mapping mode to spot boats and ships and follow their journeys.

Vancouver based InfoLogic today introduces MathMagic Lite for iOS 1.0, their free equation editor app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. MathMagic Lite for iOS offers a streamlined touch based interface for fast typing and easy WYSIWYG editing of Math equations and symbols. Equations can be saved locally or on iCloud, or shared with others easily. MathMagic’s equation quality is unsurpassed and designed to meet stringent, high-end DTP requirements.

Warsaw based developer, Bloxy Sp. Z o.o. today introduces Bloxy World. Bricks For Kids 1.0, its new children’s building app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Aimed primarily at children aged 6 to 11, Bloxy gives complete creative freedom in its 3D World, stimulates imagination and promotes intellectual curiosity in children. Children can build using over 250 bricks of a wide range of styles, colours and textures, supplemented by mini figures, animals, special items and themes.

UK based Soluble Applications is celebrating reaching a quarter of a million users by releasing the latest update to MailShot Pro, its popular group email applications for iOS devices. The special contacts MailShot creates for a group are used just like a regular contact from other apps, including the standard Mail app. The new update adds iOS7 enhancements, and an automatic sort for the contacts in a group. It is the 13th update since launch.

Handwritten LLC today announces Write4Postal 2.0, an update to their popular card maker app developed exclusively for iPad devices. Write4Postal enables anyone to create cards and notes for any occasion. Write4Postal version 2.0 includes a social network connection icon, and users can now upload Facebook photos into their card and note designs. Future Write4Postal updates will incorporate more social media and photo grab/design options for users to upload into their cards and notes.

As the world’s most popular camera, the iPhone takes great photos and videos – except at night, when shots turn dark and grainy. Light Boost is a new app that’s designed to help. Take a photo or video with Light Boost using its easy one-touch controls and it’ll be brighter and less grainy. In very low light, Light Mode brightens the image, Night Mode enables long exposure times for dramatic improvement, and Grain Reduction reduces image noise. The result is spectacular performance.

Localscope 4 is set to take exploring places to a whole new level with a revolutionary new interface that lets you see everything immediately around you from 20 diverse sources, in a unified view. Just launch the app to get a quick glance of the most relevant place listings from Google, Facebook, Yelp and others along with tweets, Wikipedia pages, pictures from Instagram, Flickr and more, all from your immediate surroundings. Version 4 is its biggest update yet.

Comicorp Worlds today announced that their interactive children’s storybook app, Striding Bird, has been named among the world’s best in family-friendly media and products with its latest achievement of The Mom’s Choice Award in the pre-schoolers and age 5-8 categories. Created by Melbourne app developer Wenpo Sun and writer Stephanie Yap, Striding Bird is an original interactive storybook app tracing the journey of a bird discovering the true meaning of happiness and self-identity.