Charleston based plasq today unveiled Comic Draw for Schools, a full-featured comic creation application for iPad. Comic Draw for Schools provides a comprehensive suite of comic drawing tools, fast and easy script editing and lettering. Comic Draw for Schools has everything students need: brushes, fonts and tools to make creating cartoons and comics a fun and easy learning experience. It is available for purchase in the iTunes App Store and Volume Purchase Programme for Education.

DEVONtechnologies updates DEVONthink’s iOS companion, DEVONthink To Go, with new features, workflow improvements, and bug fixes. Version 2.1 makes documents stored in its databases available to third-party apps so that users can open them externally, edit them, and save changes back without cumbersome roundtrips. Documents can be printed and 1Password integration facilitates entering credentials. The update is free and recommended for all users.

St. Clair Software delivers an update today for App Tamer, its Macintosh utility that manages applications to deliver more efficient CPU usage, increased battery life and quieter operation. App Tamer’s unique AutoStop capability automatically slows down or pauses applications when you switch away from them, and then restarts them when you click back to them. Version 2.3 now detects CPU-hogging applications and helps reduce their CPU usage.

Smile releases TextExpander beyond the Apple ecosystem helping workgroups worldwide communicate smarter. Today, Smile takes TextExpander cross-platform, adding TextExpander for Windows to apps for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. TextExpander is a productivity multiplier–a shared knowledge base that expedites accurate communication throughout high-performing teams. TextExpander is the only complete, cloud-based solution of its kind for Windows, Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Zevrix Solutions announces LinkOptimizer 5.0.15, a maintenance update to company’s workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign. LinkOptimizer allows to reduce the size of InDesign links and speed up processing by eliminating excess image data. The software also performs image adjustments, converts formats and helps repurpose files for web and mobile devices. The new version addresses an issue in which user defined image quality settings weren’t applied when converting InDesign links to JPEG.

UK based indie developer, Christopher Hannah has released Qwiki 1.3, an update to his popular search app for OS X. Qwiki is a powerful application that puts Wikipedia in your Menu Bar. It features powerful native searching, article reading in the app, exporting links, automation support and more. Easily search Wikipedia for articles & display them either in Qwiki or in your web browser. Version 1.3 offers TouchBar support along with squashing some minor bugs along with useful UI improvements.

Developer of high-quality applications and design tools, Alungu is pleased to announce their one dollar sale of their entire collection of Mac applications. The collection includes a wide choice from over 50 applications for Mac platform, including Set for iWork, CV & Resume Templates for Pages, Templates for Pages 2017, Templates for Pages 2016, Suite for iBooks Author and much much more. Hurry as the offer lasts until 9th of February.

Montreal based Realtech VR today announced their up and coming release of Quantum Revenge, their newly expected twin-stick shooter for iOS devices. Quantum Revenge promises a combination of Japanese manga 3D and 2D animation with gameplay that will take your breath away. Quantum Revenge is set in a war-ravaged space region where you control mech warriors. Your goal is to destroy waves of enemies in this dual stick shooter app. Quantum Revenge will arrive in March 2017.

Windmill Games Studio today introduces The Shadow of Devilwood 1.0, an eerie free-to-play adventure game for iOS and Android devices. The Shadow of Devilwood is all about the king dwarf ancient crown, hidden in the dungeons. In this puzzle-solving game, players must take on the role of detective Linwood to find all the clues that lead to the missing Olson as well as to the crown. This mysterious journey unfolds the mystery behind the missing Olson.

Hamburg based indie developer, Heiko Wichmann today introduces Emojiplode 1.0, his new fast-paced arcade-style casual game exclusively for iOS devices. In Emojiplode, you blast off emojs before they touch the ground. They twirl, blink and increase speed to outwit you. And when you push a button without hitting a falling emoji, the button is blocked. With every start of the game, 3 emojis are randomly picked. Emojis are falling faster if many high level emojis are hit.