Washington based PhatWare Corporation today announces WritePad Pro 3.5, 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 3.5 introduces new handwriting recognition usability improvements, updated handwriting recognition dictionaries and minor bug fixes.

Izatt Apps today announces MileBug 3.2.1 for iOS. MileBug is a beautiful GPS mile tracker app that makes it easy to track your tax-deductible mileage on your mobile device. MileBug was listed last year by Smart Hustle as one of “5 Apps Your Accountant is Begging You to Have in 2015.” Version 3.2.1 adds support for report delivery via AirDrop, Google Drive, and Evernote, plus various bug fixes. AirDrop allows the user to send the report directly to their Mac computer or to another iOS device.

infovole GmbH presents updates of its leading iOS productivity apps. fter 5 years and more than 5 million downloads, the Textkraft app series is an established and well-developed mobile tool for professional writers. New updates are making the apps more universal and comfortable again. The download is free of charge for existing users. Textkraft Professional offers comprehensive writing aids, multilingual offline dictionaries with synonyms, integrated online reference works and more.

Steamburg, a new game by Telehorse, won the Indie Game Cup for Best Storytelling at White Nights Conference in Helsinki last Friday. The game was also nominated for Grand Prix at the event. The developer started working on the game in 2015 and showcased it at Tokyo Game Show and Casual Connect under the name Steamville. The name was changed under pressure from lawyers representing Zynga. Steamburg will compete for the Indie Prize at Casual Connect Europe in Amsterdam this week.

LifeFlix today announces the release of LifeFlix Pro 1.5. LifeFlix is the simplest way to watch, protect, and share your video tape memories. This Mac app was created to import all your DV, HDV, and Digital Hi8 tapes. Users merely plug a video camera into their computer, and LifeFlix eagerly grabs all the videos and organizes them into a simple catalog. LifeFlix is designed to have no learning curve and just import your MiniDV or HDV tapes to your computer.

California based TruScribe today announces TruGlyph 2.0, its free iOS app that lets anyone create glyphs, images that animate as if drawn, and tag them with words and context. TruGlyph gives people worldwide the ability to communicate visually using these building blocks of visual language. Anyone can create a glyph that is meaningful to them or their life, then they or others can tag them with representative words, and the community decides the rest. Version 2.0 offers new games and badging.

Independent software developer, Reggie Ashworth today announces VidConvert 1.6.4, an update to his popular video converter for Mac OS X. VidConvert is a video converter designed to make converting your videos simple and easy. VidConvert will convert just about any type of video into one of the many popular formats of today. Creating videos for your iPhone or iPad, for your Mac or TV, or formats such as DivX and MPEG are just a click away with VidConvert.

Indie developer Diego Resnik today announces iCarMode 3.4, an update to his popular productivity app for iOS devices. iCarMode is a driving optimized app that allows safer use of any mounted iPhone with minimum distraction. The app has large buttons that allow easy and safe access to music, shortcut for dialing, preferred GPS app as well as other car and driving related functionality. For older cars, it’s an ideal substitute for built-in dashboard systems that more recent cars offer.

Outback Touring Pty Ltd announces Caravan Australia 1.2, an update to their popular travel app for iPad. Targeting couples and families respectively, Caravan Australia enables travellers to draw their route by dropping location pins with dates on a detailed map of Australia and then automatically share this, together with a daily journal, photos and their current location with family back home or new friends met while travelling. Version 1.2 fixed a minor bug and added a new Report feature.

Duo-Pisces today announces Super Boy Land 1.2, their super adventure platform game developed for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. Super Boy Land is a classic retro and super old school platform game similar to Super Mario Bros. Jump and run with your Super Boy through this classic side-scrolling adventure! Offering 5 retro arcade and beautiful worlds to unlock, Super Boy Land features 100 challenging and jumpy levels with increasing difficulty with awesome sounds and music.