Play Creatividad announced that the iOS App “iPoe Collection” Vol. 1, the unique interactive Edgar Allan Poe experience, will be Free only for today in order to celebrate the 164th anniversary of Poe’s death. Winner of a Publishing Innovation Awards among other international recognitions, the iPoe Collection presents a new way to experience reading where illustrations, animations and soundtrack invite you to delve, as never before, into the macabre stories of Edgar Allan Poe.

Independent software developer Reggie Ashworth has announced AppDelete 4.1, an All-New Mavericks update to his popular application deletion utility for Mac OS X. With a simple Drag & Drop, AppDelete will uninstall anything along with all of the associated items. Mac users will no longer have to hunt through their system to find and delete these items manually. AppDelete is a must-have utility for beta testers and casual users alike, and the perfect companion to any Mac fanatic’s toolbox.

Xeric Design has merged the beauty of EarthDesk and the utility of Time Palette into a single iOS app. Like EarthDesk for the desktop, EarthDesk for iOS displays a stunning, real-time image of the Earth from space, showing daytime, nighttime, city lights, and near real-time cloud images that download from satellites. The app also displays clocks showing the current local time for locations around the world and contains an almanac that calculates global geographical and astronomical data.

Indie developer James Hollender recently released version 2.1 of his iNutrients app with the entire USDA National Nutrient Database (Internet access not required) for: Calories, Carbohydrates, Dietary Cholesterol, Fiber, Potassium, Proteins, Saturated Fat, Sodium, Sugars and Vitamin K. The database now includes 8,463 different foods and 15,135 food servings. Even with this large quantity it may still not be enough. Users can now add their own custom foods and food servings to help fill that gap.

Rainer Brockerhoff has announced Quay 1.1.5, an update to his popular system utility for OS X. Quay extends the Dock’s functionality, allowing the user to sort Stack menus in several useful ways, and see extra information for each item. Unlike the standard Dock, Quay always follows aliases or symbolic links, and works correctly even with folders containing tens of thousands of items. Version 1.1.5 adds support for OS X 10.9 (Mavericks).

Golconda Games today introduces Candy Bricks 1.0 free for iOS, its Arkanoid-style breakout clone, where trays of treats are rectangular bricks that players hit with a ball using a draggable horizontal paddle. A hi-def homage to the arcade games of the 70’s & 80’s, Candy Bricks features top and bottom balls and paddles. In 1-Player mode, the top paddle is controlled by the iDevice, in Hotseat mode it is controlled by the player across the board, and in Multiplayer mode it is controlled remotely.

iThinkdiff announces Arabic Dictionary 9.0 an update to their popular bilingual dictionary app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Featuring a large database of over 94,000 English and 96,000 Arabic words, both students and travelers alike can use Arabic Dictionary to translate nearly anything from Arabic into English or vice versa. Version 9.0 was specially redesigned for iOS 7 running devices. In this version user interaction, flash card and word of the day feature were also updated.

Jackson Myers today introduces StepTracker 1.0, his latest iOS app. StepTracker allows anyone to monitor their level of activity by measuring how many steps are taken on a given day. Unlike alternative pedometer applications, StepTracker uses the M7 motion co-processor, a new chip in Apple’s iPhone 5S which measures motion data from a user’s iPhone in the background without using a significant amount of power. This allows StepTracker to measure your activity without draining your battery.

BuddyCalc PRO Version 2.0 is just released in the Apple App Store. BuddyCalc PRO is a popular Cost Sharing and Travel Expense App, first released in January 2012 and designed for iPod, iPhone and iPad (iOS5/6/7). The App handles cost-sharing events and/or keeps track of your expenses and makes dividing up costs with others simple and easy! Unique features of BuddyCalc PRO 2.0 include sharing events with other users (e.g. roommates) and synchronizing your events on all your personal iOS devices.

A year on from its launch, personalized songs app ‘AcoustiCards’ has added to the list of amazing things it can do. AcoustiCards take just a minute to make but can be treasured for years. By selecting from hundreds of options you make each song unique to the individual. Now users can type their own unique message and have it form part of their song. And there’s an Autumn offer of free personalized songs too. All songs are professionally produced in high quality without an advert in sight.