5 can't-miss apps: Airmail, PlayGround, Sports Illustrated and more

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5 can't-miss apps: Airmail, PlayGround, Sports Illustrated and more

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With Facebook's Friends Day videos taking over social media and reports that Twitter may be getting close to one of its biggest changes yet, you may have missed some of this week's best new apps.

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Each weekend, we round up a few of our favorite new and updated apps. This week's list includes an interactive music app, a new email manager and an app that streamlines your social media feeds.

Check out the gallery below to see our top picks. If you're looking for more, take a look at ourlast roundup of can't-miss apps.

AirMail

Airmail, makers of the popular Mac email client, brought their app to iOS this week. The app handles the basics — multiple accounts, notifications, filters and folders — well but some of its best features remind us a lot of Mailbox (Dropbox’s acclaimed email app that’s set to go to the big inbox in the sky in the coming weeks.) Customizable swipes, snoozing messages for later, hooks into more than a dozen productivity apps and more personalization features than you ever thought you wanted all make for a damn useful email tool.

Pro-tip: The app has a special “actions” menu that enables handy one-touch shortcuts, like instantly turning messages into a PDF or add them to a to-do list.

$4.99: iOS

IMAGE: BLOOP S.R.L.
'HopShot'

This super cute endless jumper revolves around one simple task: jump from island to island while collecting coins and avoid falling in the water. The game features a pretty huge cast of animal characters, each of which must be unlocked through in-game achievements.

Pro-tip: Try to preview your jumps before you launch by holding down for a longer period of time to see the path.

Free: iOS

IMAGE: FISH LOGIC
PlayGround

Choose a song (the app’s songs are recorded by professionals) and be your own DJ as you swipe around the shapes — each of which represents different instrumental elements of the songs. Change your path and the songs and sounds change into something completely different.

Pro-tip: The app has a recording feature so you can save and share your creations and remixes.

Free: iOS

IMAGE: HLO S.A.
SoFlow

SoFlow helps put all your social media streams in one place. Connect the app to your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr and SoundCloud accounts and the app pulls in the corresponding feeds, allowing you to check them individually or browse them all at once.

Pro-tip: The app’s search tool highlights Twitter’s trending topics and popular and trending Instagram posts.

$1.99: iOS

IMAGE: BEN GRAY
Sports Illustrated

Time for the Super Bowl. The app serves up a curated feed of news of the day but but you can also follow your favorite teams, watch videos and track headlines around the teams and leagues you’re interested in.

Pro-tip: Use the in-app game calendar to pin upcoming games you want to follow and set up game-day score alerts.

Free: iOS and Android

IMAGE: TIME INC.