It’s rare to find a new contender in the increasingly competitive App Store. This weekend, Hullabu, Inc’s latest free to play hidden object game, Hidden Artifact Agency appears to be racing up the charts. This beautifully mastered hidden object game is the 10th game from the game publisher; the second to hit “Top 10” status, following its widely popular episodic adventure game, A Wizard’s Curse. The popular franchise will be available on the PC & Android platforms before the end of the year.

iLifeTouch today announces Daily Expenses 1.2, an update to their popular financial tracking application for Mac OS X. Daily Expenses offers an easy way to balance your expenses and income. Effortlessly keep track of your spending habits with customized payment modes, categories, dates, expense details and more. Version 1.2 fixes a minor bug, offers improved for iCloud Configuration, new Funds transfer, new Income Category, Monthly Budgets, Reminders and now a simpler, faster overall package.

Denver based independent developer, Josh Granville today announces TRYPTpic 1.2.1, an update to his popular photography app for developed for iOS devices. Tryptpic crops one photo into multiple related panels and uploads them sequentially to create a larger display area using the entire grid view of the Instagram profile. The update contains a noise reduction filter, more control of photo placement in the panel view, an in app feedback button, plus 2 new crop number options.

Lickability today is proud to introduce Velocity – Speed Reader 1.0 for iOS. Read faster than ever before, one word at a time. Speed read articles from the Web, Instapaper, and Pocket at superhuman speeds. Finish your reading list in record time with Velocity. Velocity can increase reading speeds to up to 1,000 words per minute. Velocity supports reading articles and documents from the web, Instapaper, Pocket, and more.

Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast markets, introduces Ripple Training Steps to its plugin platform FxFactory. Ripple Steps, is designed exclusively for use in Final Cut Pro(R) X, includes 12 unique and attractive transition effects to show steps in a process. Transitions can be chosen from a group of six series transitions to show steps in a procedure, or from a group of six cycle transitions to show steps in a repeating process.

Aperio Lux today is pleased to announce new contest within all uDesktop NEXT LT users. Users can win one from forty free full copies of uDesktop NEXT. It is the next generation of powerful wallpapers application which get access to many tens of thousands of amazing unique dramatic wallpapers for any taste. ith uDesktop NEXT users get access to many tens of thousands of stunning wallpapers for different resolution from iPhone and iPad to the MacBook Pro with Retina display.

Vito Technology Inc. has released a new app to accompany their award-winning Star Walk stargazing guide. The app offers hourly location-based stargazing forecast with amazing imagery and new iOS 7 special effects. From cloud and visibility conditions to the list of most interesting astronomy events, Sky Live will provide all the information needed to plan the perfect night of stargazing. The formula for the Stargazing Index was developed by a mathematician on Star Walk team.

Wide Angle Software today have updated their flagship software TouchCopy for Mac to add support of Apple’s newly released iOS7 operating system, iTunes 11.1 and iPhone 5S and 5C. The software is fully compatible with Intel based Macs running Mac OSX 10.7, 10.8 and the upcoming OSX 10.9 (Mavericks). TouchCopy will backup and recover music, photos and other data from all models of iPhones, iPods and iPads to your Mac hard drive or straight to iTunes.

Melesta Games expands its hit tower defense game Toy Defense 2 – this time by adding 12 new levels to the Stalingrad game world! The latest update brings the total number of missions to 120, spread across 3 campaigns. The extra levels are free for those who have already downloaded the full version of Toy Defense 2. Toy Defense 2 is an action/strategy game that lets players experience epic battles of World War II. The update is available through Amazon, Google Play, and the Apple App Store.

Softobe has released DiapoSheet 1.2.2 for Mac. DiapoSheet lets you quickly layout your photos with metadata-exif and get a professional and custom contact sheet PDF file. Drag a folder containing images onto the DiapoSheet window and you are done. You can easily change the number of rows and columns, their gaps, the margins, the page size and format, add your custom logo and company description, your watermark, display the metadata-exif with your favorite font, color and label.