Serif today announces Affinity Designer 1.4, a significant update to its popular professional vector design app for Mac OS X. Whether you’re working on graphics for marketing materials, websites, icons, UI design or just like creating cool concept art, Affinity Designer will revolutionize how you work. With the addition of the addition of an incredibly flexible artboard tool, version 1.4 offers a host of new improvements, including a rotatable canvas, customisable keyboard shortcuts and more.

Zurich based Wide Ventures today introduces Kemail 1.1, their new keyboard utility developed for iPhone and iPad. With the ability to paste email addresses in just a couple of simple steps, Kemail saves your email addresses and personal information in your phone’s keyboard. Just paste the information whenever you need to. In addition to email addresses, Kemail can also be used for any other frequently used personal information; like names, addresses, phone numbers, links; the list is endless.

Ten Kettles Inc. today announces Waay: Music theory that matters 2.0.0 for iOS. Waay provides an applied, practical approach to learning music theory for songwriting. Similar to how other apps teach new languages, Waay uses a series of lessons and quizzes to teach the basics of music theory in a simple, fun and intuitive manner. Featuring interactive exercises with three achievement levels, Waay offers bite-sized video lessons that emphasize practical music theory, examples and more.

Tamper LLC today introduces Curiosity 1.0, a beautiful location-aware Wikipedia reader for iPhone. Curiosity is the best companion to explore the world around you. The app surfaces interesting and relevant content to users based on their location, recent events, and hand-curated lists. Users can immediately see what movies were filmed nearby, historic battles that took place around them, as well as other curated sections that are constantly being updated and change with location and time.

CS Odessa today announces a new Cooking Recipes solution in ConceptDraw Solution Park. The Cooking Recipes solution extends ConceptDraw PRO v10 with an extensive collection of vector graphic libraries, templates, and samples. It contains 14 libraries containing 565 objects, that helps make short work of drawing professional food related infographics and more. The solution is divided into libraries consisting of fruit, vegetables, meat, baking, cooking appliances, and kitchen utensils.

Marketing is what separates the winners from the losers in the App Store. Plenty of free information on app marketing already exists, but the new Appiness guide from Bright Newt has given iOS developers a step-by-step plan for effectively marketing their apps without breaking the bank. With cost-per-acquisition numbers trending upward over the past six months, Appiness couldn’t come at a better time. A how-to marketing guide for turning duds into profitable apps.

BAFTA nominated indie, Rubicon Development today announces Combat Monsters 4.3, a massive expansion to its popular CCG/TBS game for iOS and Android devices. In Combat Monsters, the player’s hero spawns 3D creatures to a large board that serves as the battlefield. Once spawned, each creature can attack, move about, heal itself or others, or cast devastating spells like the ever-popular fireball. Version 4.3 contains a massive amount of both new content and new features.

Xcore Apps, developer of the entertaining Guess the Emoji Icons Saga game for iOS devices, is featured in the December 2015 issue of Apps World magazine. The issue – as well as being available to 2,500,000 subscribers worldwide – will also be distributed at the yearly GMASA event on January 22, 2016. The company is featured on the front cover, as well as included in an article where Xcore’s founders share their thoughts on the mobile app industry, and what they see for its future.

Ntractive today announces Elements CRM 6.1, an important update to its cloud-based Mac Customer Relationship Management (Mac CRM) Solution for Mac business and enterprise. Elements CRM enables anyone to manage their business, automate business processes, make their data more useful and accessible, and improve their team’s efficiency. The new Elements CRM 6.1 update now offers opportunity tracking for users of the Group and Professional Editions.

BeeSoft today announced the Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan release of ProTA 4, their award-winning stock market charting and technical analysis application. The all-new, completely rewritten ProTA 4 empowers casual investors as well as veteran market technicians to chart, analyze and optimize their trading ideas. All major world markets are supported including USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Hong Kong, and Singapore exchanges.