KinderMATICA today releases Yum-Yum Letters 1.00 for iOS and Android, a new app in its catalog of entertaining & educational mobile apps for young children. This highly customizable app introduces handwriting to youngsters ages 4+ in a relaxed format. It includes a significant degree of customization beyond the themed writing surfaces. Parents & teachers can use a passcode protected section to specify HWT or ZB style fonts, ABC or recommended order, number of trials needed for mastery and more.

Newly founded indie game studio, Buster Studios today introduces Buster and the Crystal Bones 1.0, their first 3D platformer developed for iOS devices. Players will help Buster save his owner, Professor James Beagles, from the arch villain; the nasty Adelbert Adler and it is up to me rescue him. Buster and the Crystal Bones offers challenging and fun gameplay inspired by the iconic console games from the 90s and reimagined for today’s modern mobile devices.

ElmerApps announces Shooty Ship 1.11, an important update to their retro arcade game for iOS devices. In Shooty Ship, players will go back to the future, as they shoot down enemy combatants and grab power-ups to help them attack the enemy space outpost. But beware! The outpost is heavily protected by flying saucers, tracking drones, missile launchers, and other defenders along the way. The game’s retro arcade action makes it fun for all ages. Version 1.11 offers minor bug fixes.

Berlin app studio Catsndogz announces Lucy & Pogo 1.1 for iOS, an educational and fun app for children from 3 to 7 years of age. Kids help Lucy find her way around the new dog world over the course of 13 chapters, and well as through mini-games developed for the story. In playful lessons, not only spelling, music and drawing with numbers will be practiced, but also values such as tolerance, empathy and the desire for knowledge are conveyed.

Kiev based Aperio Lux today introduces RSS Follower, a brand-new modern and powerful application for reading news. Designed especially for OS X, RSS Follower makes reading the news more simple and convenient. The app provides unique instruments to navigate through the news as well as to download any attachments, podcasts, or other enclosures that users are interested in. Users can read, share, and search the news by using a clean and intuitive interface.

The Melody Book today announces Big City Vehicles – Cars and Trucks for Kids 1.01, its latest educational app for iOS devices and Apple Watch. Designed for kids, ages 1-5, Big City Vehicles is full of games, fun surprises and educational tasks that will develop children’s creativity and problem solving skills. Children can help to mix cement, put out fire with the fire truck, help the paramedics in the ambulance, sort yummy vegetables with the tractor and shovel rocks with a bulldozer.

Berlin based KnowledgeMiner Software today announces Ockham 1.0 for Mac OS X, an advanced and easy to use app for performing rigorous sensitivity analyses for a high number of model parameters. Ockham’s original approach to global sensitivity analysis based on self-organizing analysis concepts is designed to be a valuable and highly automated tool in academic research and for industry practitioners across a wide spectrum of disciplines.

Web Information Solutions today announces Desktop Informant, the next milestone of the ground-breaking Calendar/Task app for Mac OS X. Desktop Informant is the premier Calendar/Task planner for OS X, and with the companion products available on iOS and Android, it’s the one app that gives professionals the power to stay truly organized no matter where they are. This is a major update that includes support for El Capitan, a brand new Stacked Week View, as well as over a hundred improvements.

Spokane based PhatWare Corporation today announces WritePad Pro 3.1, an important update to their popular universal note-taking app for iOS devices. WritePad Pro is an advanced word processing, note-taking, and document management app which also takes full advantage of PhatWare’s state-of-the-art handwriting recognition technology. Version 3.1 has been optimized for iOS 9 and now features an improved handwriting recognition keyboard, which can be used in any iPad or iPhone app.

Airpush Mobile Ads Network and AppsMoment Apps Builder announce partnership and integration. AppsMoment is a tool that helps people without technical skills create mobile applications for iOS, Android, Amazon Kindle and Windows platforms. With this partnership AppsMoments’s users get broader opportunities to monetize their apps. AirPush is a mobile ads network that was founded in 2010, and supports Android, iOS and Mobile Web platforms.