Emergency Radio allows you easily follow the action of over 900 police, fire, EMS and other emergency frequencies. Whether you want to keep tabs on what’s going on in your own backyard or listen in to the happenings on the other side of the country Emergency Radio streams a a variety of emergency services feeds right to your iPhone. Time to put that old Radio Shack scanner on Ebay.
Emergency Radio boasts having over 900 emergency services streams for you to choose from. And it does. Searching for content is quite simple though. You can view a list of all the available streams in alphabetical order or if you know the name of the stream you’re looking for you can simply type it in the search box.

Or if you want to search for streams in your area the application will use the iPhone’s location to determine what streams are nearest to you. You can configure the search parameters based on how far away you want the application to search.

The application then shows you the available streams in order of closest to you to furthest away.

Once you select a stream to play the load time is quite fast. While the stream is playing Emergency Radio shows you a list of common radio codes to help you follow the chatter. To help conserve batter life Emergency radio continues to play while the phone is in sleep mode just like the iPod.

Found a stream you like and want to be able to easily access it in future? Emergency Radio allows you to keep a list of your favorite streams just like bookmarks in Safari.

As a firefighter I was eager to try out this application and thrilled to see my own company’s dispatch had a stream available. Sure enough the stream plays exactly what’s sent and played on my fire department issued company radio. I don’t plan on listening to my own company’s feed on my down time, my wife wouldn’t allow it! But it’s nice to know I can access it anywhere I am just to check in.

For those who want to know EVERYTHING happening on the celebrity scene right now, PEOPLEs new iPhoneiTouch app delivers up-to-the-minute celebrity breaking news and photos direct from our reporting bureaus across the country. Dig into hundreds of stories and PEOPLE-only exclusives and slide through full-screen Star Tracks photos that follow your favorite stars both on the red carpet and off. Cant get enough of one special celebrity? Check out our unique Celebs section where youll find in-depth profiles and deep photo scrapbooks for 200 stars. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, youll enjoy the most exciting breaking news, delivered in our custom-built, touch-enabled app from PEOPLE, Americas 1 celebrity source.

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The Sexy Ladies of SHOW (1.0) Wapslap Category: Entertainment Price: $0.99 Cracker: kidmoneys Application Description: The Sexy Ladies of SHOW brings you the incredibly beautiful women from the pages of SHOW magazine. Sit back and watch as the hottest women from around the world show you their sensuous curves and voluptuous assets. This enticing slideshow will have you coming back for more! Features Include: ? Automatic panning through dozens of sexy images ? Sit back, relax, and enjoy the SHOW! ? Ability to save each photo in your iPhone photo album ? Share the hottest girls with your friends! ? Ability to pause on your favorite girl for a closer look ? Zoom in on her top ?assets!? ? View a variety of categories ? something for everyone! ? From Luscious Latinas to Got Back! The Sexy Ladies of SHOW will definitely heat things up! Be sure to keep checking back for updates, and in the meantime?enjoy! Full info on Appulous

It’s never been easier to connect your computer up to your television or have your computer form the centre of your home media system but the problem of actually controlling it can still be a problem without buying a dedicated remote. Air Mouse Pro (AMP) aims to solve this problem by giving you full control of your computer through your iPhone. Before you can begin, a helper app needs to be installed. Available for both Mac and PC and a Linux version in the works, almost everyone can get in on the action. At 10MB, I felt the Mac helper app was a little on the large side and having to install yet another app that loads at start up was a little off putting. Despite this, installation was painless and, most importantly, configuration free. The helper app connected with my iPhone without any help at all.

AMP gives two choices in how you control your system. The first is via a touch-pad-style interface where you drag your fingers around the screen in the same way you would on a notebook. In the touch-pad mode, you have access to a full keyboard, or you can tap to switch to function keys as well as dedicated keys for Firefox and iTunes. These dedicated keys work as you’d expect and make using your computer via AMP much easier. Other useful features worth noting here are the ability to go landscape and make the touch-pad fullscreen (a shake of the phone brings up a landscape keyboard) and you can shake the iPhone to hide the keyboard/function keys and have it fullscreen but in portrait mode.

The touch-pad mode similarly works as you’d expect but I did find it a little inaccurate at times. It’s not that it doesn’t work, it does, I just found sometimes I was struggling to get the mouse where I wanted it (small buttons are the main culprit here.) In a similar fashion, the support for multi-touch scrolling is no where near as smooth as that built into Apple’s notebooks, it tends to jump and I found if you placed your fingers too close together, the gesture would be ignored.

The second mode is through the use of the accelerometer. The basic concept is that you press and hold the button in the middle of the mouse buttons and then tilt the phone in the direction you wish to move the mouse. In theory, it’s a great idea but in practice, it’s nigh on useless due to it being so inaccurate. The only way I found I could slightly use it was to hold the iPhone level before I held the button but then I still found myself flicking the phone in every which way, trying to get the cursor where I wanted it to go. As with the previous mode, a shake of the phone hides the keyboard but there is no landscape mode at all. 


For light browsing and playing your music from a distance, Air Mouse Pro does its job nicely. It’s dead simple to use and the way most of the features are implemented is intuitive (such as shaking to hide/show the keyboard and such.) Having to use a helper app was a bit of a downer, especially as it was quite big, so it’d be good to see the developers try and shrink the helper app down a bit. Similarly, the accelerometer control system needs work to make it useful, some sort of calibration through the helper app (to take into account the screen resolution and such) could be something worth considering. At $5.99 it’s not the cheapest app you’re ever going to purchase, but it does work well and I would recommend it to those seeking this type of application.

If you’re not familiar with the hobby/sport/addiction that is geocaching, the concept is very simple — people go out and hide caches in the great outdoors, use a GPS receiver to find the coordinates of the hide, then post the cache on the Geocaching.com Web site. Cachers go to the Web site, search for caches that are near their present location, and then use their GPS receivers to find the approximate location of the cache. Once they’re done bushwhacking and find the cache, they sign the logbook, take and place trade items, and then log the find on the Web site.

A week after I acquired my iPhone 3G, I wrote a post talking about how to use the built-in GPS receiver and Mobile Safari to “do” geocaching. While the method works well, I was waiting and hoping for a much better way to geocache with the iPhone 3G. With the recent release of Geocaching for iPhone, it’s time to see if that better way is finally here. Read on for more details!

To give Geocaching a workout, I decided to try the app while I was on a business trip in Sacramento, California last week. I love to go geocaching in cities that I’m visiting, since it’s a great break from doing work and I usually get to know some more about the city and its history.

The application icon for the app is your first indication that this is the official Geocaching.com app, as it uses the four-color Geocaching logo. Launching the app shows you a nice trail scene as well as the standard Geocaching.com disclaimer, and you’re asked if you wish to let the app find your location (see below left). Since you’re usually going to be going out of your way to find local caches, you’ll most likely give the app the OK to get the location from your iPhone’s GPS. The next screen (below right) provides fields for searching for caches by postal code, address, or the special Geocaching.com GC code. You can also tap the “Search for Nearby Geocaches” button to find the nearest caches to your location.

A list of geocaches near your current location appears on your screen (see below left). The current version (1.1.1) of the app now gives you a filtered list that does not show any caches that you’ve already found. To do this, you need to set your Geocaching.com user name and password in the app settings page (see below right).

The list shows a surprising amount of information for each cache. The icon on the left side of the search results indicates the type of cache, most being “traditional” caches with a little plastic container icon. The difficulty and terrain are listed as a number from 1 to 5, with a 5/5 being the most difficult type of cache to find, in mountainous or dangerous terrain.

Groundspeak, the company that runs Geocaching.com, assigns each cache a unique code beginning with the letters GC. That code is important as a unique key for the cache, so it’s included in the list. Finally, the distance and direction to the cache is listed.

Tapping on a cache entry in the list opens up a detail page (see screenshot below). This page shows the latitude and longitude of the cache and the same difficulty and terrain information, along with links to a description, recent logs, and a hint. The description will tell you something about the cache or historical information about the area in which the cache is hidden. The logs will show when and how people found the cache, sometimes including spoiler information that make it obvious where the cache is hidden. Hints are sometimes riddles that make it easier to find the cache, if you can figure out the correct answer to the riddle.

Tapping the Map button takes you out of the Geocaching app and opens Google Maps. A red pin indicates where the cache is located, and the traditional blue pin and pulsating circle show your present location. I often use the Directions feature of Google Maps to find out how to drive or to a location near a cache.I find it annoying that I am taken out of the Geocaching app and have to launch it again to get back to the cache information. It would be preferable if the app used its own browser.

The Navigate button opens a compass screen with a red pointer aimed at the cache location. Your current heading, the distance to the cache, your ground speed, and the accuracy of the GPS location are all displayed on the screen. The pointer can be helpful in triangulating the position of the cache, as GPS accuracy can sometimes be off and by walking around, you can get a better idea of where the cache is actually hidden.

How does this all work in practice?

If you’re in a city or in a wooded area, you can pretty much forget about getting an accurate location. Where I was looking for the cache in Sacramento, there were both tall buildings and trees that were in the process of dropping their leaves. According to the Geocaching app, the best accuracy I was getting was about 156 feet! I decided to try again with a cache located in an area with a much less obstructed view of the GPS satellite constellation.

The second cache was near my home in Colorado. The leaves have dropped here, and the sky view is unimpeded by tall buildings. I used the navigate mode to get a red arrow pointer showing me how to get to the cache, and it did an excellent job of getting me to within about 20 feet of the cache (see screenshot below). However, the arrow was confusing me as it was whipping around the points of the compass, so I switched to the Google Maps view. Here I was able to see two pins — a flashing blue one that indicated my location, with a blue ring around it indicating the possible area I was in — and a red one for the location. With the Google Maps aerial view enabled, I could even see the trees near the cache location.

If you’re not sure if the area where you’re caching has a good view of the sky, I suggest trying a simple test — walk around the area with Google Maps pulled up. If your “blue pin” is consistently keeping up with your walk, your accuracy is probably pretty good. If it is the blue pin is a block away and just sitting in one place, or if it jumps around the map, then you’re out of luck and should either use a much more accurate GPS receiver or find another location to do your caching.

One more thing that Geocaching for iPhone can do is let you find the status of Trackable Items (see below). These are specially tagged items such as geocoins and travel bugs that are left in caches for others to grab and move to other caches.

This version of Geocaching is limited in what it can accomplish. I’d love to be able to claim my caches when I find them, instead of having to go back to my computer to log into Geocaching.com and do the deed. It would be cool to be able to use the iPhone’s camera to add photos to the cache log on the Geocaching website.

Should a hard-core geocacher give up his or her dedicated GPS receiver and move to an iPhone? No. I don’t think the accuracy of the GPS location is as good as some of the WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) enabled GPS receivers that you can buy from Garmin, Magellan, and TomTom. With most “real” GPS receivers, I find myself being able to find caches much faster. I think the iPhone is getting me in the general area, but not with enough accuracy to rmake my hunt much easier.

Between my comments about what Geocaching for iPhone needs and about the accuracy of the iPhone GPS, you might think that I’m totally dismissing the iPhone and this app as a geocaching solution. I’m not. I feel that it’s a good solution, and it can only get better as the app is updated with new features and the iPhone gets even better location accuracy in the future.

I’d love to hear what other iPhone-toting geocachers are using as their favorite geocaching tool. Is it an iPhone with Geocaching for iPhone or another app, or do you prefer to use a separate GPS receiver. Leave a comment below.

Like many people, I have a music library that’s way too large to fit on my iPhone. (Yo, Apple! Can we please get a 64GB model already?) Fortunately, I can still listen to every track I own thanks to Simplify Music 2.0 (formerly Simplify Media).
The app streams tunes from your PC by way of a music-server program that’s available for Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. Download it, install it, then choose the folders you want it to scan, monitor, and queue. (Alas, the program can’t stream DRM-protected iTunes purchases, so it’s time to move everything to iTunes Plus.)
The desktop software costs nothing. The Simplify Music iPhone app has an introductory price of $2.99, but the developer plans to bump it to $5.99 in a few weeks.
Once everything’s installed and configured, just leave your system running and hit the road. When you run the app, you’ll be able to browse your entire desktop music library by album, artist, genre, or song. Tap what you want and presto: the music plays, complete with album art and even song lyrics (which is so cool, it single-handedly justifies the cost of the app).
Want even more variety? Get some buddies on board: you can stream music from friends’ music libraries in addition to your own.
Version 2.0 adds some nifty amenities, including a search function (something the iPhone itself doesn’t have–yet), an add-to-favorites option for building an on-the-fly playlist, and a “scrub bar” for easy backward/forward scanning.
As you might expect, a Wi-Fi connection produces the best sound quality, though 3G runs it a close second when you have four or five bars. Even over EDGE, Simplify Music delivered surprisingly good sound, about on par with FM radio.
Though the app was sometimes annoyingly slow to connect to my PC, for the most part it worked like a charm. And much as I’m loathe to leave my system running 24-7, I’m now hopelessly addicted to having access to all my music.
Simplify Music makes that a reality, meaning I’ll probably think twice about springing for a new iPhone just to get more memory. With the money I save, I’ll be able to buy a lot more tunes.

DigiDrummer for the Apple iPhone, allows users to create and save their very own drum beats using their fingers as the drumsticks. I’ll let you know if it’s really worth your time or if it’s just a gimmick.
Rating

There are a couple of drum machines out there for the Apple iPhone, but so far the best one I’ve come across is DigiDrummer from Magnus Larsson. Think of this application as a drum set that you have at your fingertips, literally.

Digidrummer has at least 23 drum sounds built in to it, and probably updates more than any application I have with new drum sounds. So let’s get down to a little more in depth look at how DigiDrummer works.

When you open the application, you will see eight pads before you. Each one is named in conjunction with its respective drum. For example, you have a tom 1, tom 2, crash, ride, kick, snare and so on. All of the main components of a drumset are here. It is up to you to figure out exactly how you want to play the drums. The combination of fingers to use is completely up to you.

Digidrummer’s controls are very responsive, and very rarely do you get a skipped sound. Now this will all be based on how well you develop a finger skill for playing the drums. It will take some getting used to, but once you are able to throw together a pattern, you can find the best finger combination that fits you.

A really cool feature that DigiDrummer incorporated into it, is the ability to record the beats you play and save them to your phone. As a bonus, once you have them saved, you can select the overdub button. What this allows you to do is actually record a beat over the one you have already saved. It provides you the ability to make more complex drum beats that would be probably be impossible to pull off on a single take. It is a very simple task to apply as well. Simply go into setting and adjust the overdubbing to the on position and you’re set to go.

Except for a few skin selectors and on off switches, there aren’t too many settings to mess with. The only other option you can toy with is the drum roll pace. This will determine how fast or slow a drum roll will sound when you perform one. The drum roll pace can range between one and nine.

One of the nicest things about DigiDrummer, is the sound quality. Obviously, you can adjust the volume up and down with the button on the side of the iPhone, but the sound of each drum is solid. Each drum beat has its own unique sound, from electronic drums to your basic acoustic; and they all sound like their actual counterparts.

The only thing that would’ve been nice to see is the addition of a metronome. It’s nice to create your own beat, but if it’s not on time, then it kind of takes away from your creation. Perhaps it will be something that will be thrown into an update down the road, but for now, you will have to make your beats without it.

So you may be asking yourself, who exactly is this application for? Or, I have no idea how to play drums, will it show me? No, DigiDrummer won’t show you really any basics of how to play drums, it’s simply a drum pad, all of the creation and methods are up to you. That doesn’t mean somebody who has never played drums, can’t enjoy this. I have little to no drum talent, and still I find this a cool thing to mess around with. Another cool feature is the ability to play a song on your iPod, and then open up DigiDrummer and play along with it. That is a good way to build timing and even a little strategy. Also, if you’re not very creative, you can use this method to just jam out on.

DigiDrummer, is an extremely solid application for the iPhone. You get a wide variety of drum sounds, great responsiveness from the touch pads, and solid sound quality. The fact that you can record and save your custom drum beats is a nice little touch (no pun intended). It doesn’t give you much more than simply a fun time killer by playing drums, but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve sat at a bench and started tapping my fingers to a drum beat. Now I have an application I can actually record that drum beat to.

Digidrummer is a paid application, and runs for about $1.99. It can be purchased from the iTunes application store.

All of the thrills, adrenaline and drama of ping pong arrives on the iPhone, courtesy of Skyworks.

I’ve tried many sports — rugby, basketball, hockey, even lacrosse — and discovered that physical exertion is not my bag. I much prefer my Macbook Pro and a bowl of edamame for company any day. As a sport, ping pong is special though: it’s high-speed, it’s intense, it’s got a silly name, and it requires very little movement on my part.

Skyworks Ping Pong aims to capture the energy of the real thing, but requires even less physical exertion. The game features a single-player International tournament mode, polished graphics, online scoring and even single-device multiplayer.

Eye of the Tiger

World Cup Ping Pong has been given a dynamic, sporty design with each game playing out on a 3D table. For such a simple game, it’s incredibly polished. Yet, this polish is more akin to a a high-class video poker game than an iPhone app and, as such, the game feels somewhat lacking in character.

This feeling of emptiness, like there’s something missing, could also be attributed in part to the sound, or lack of. The menu and option screens are eerily silent, save for a few chirps on pressing buttons. In-game, there are two cheap ‘n generic dance tunes to choose from — worse still, they get repetitive quickly.

Aside from the gameplay, the classic ping pong sound is one of the most important components of a great ping pong game: that percussive smack of the ball being slapped across the table with a paddle. World Cup Ping Pong gets it exactly right, and, paired with the rhythm of the ball bouncing back and forth, makes for satisfying matches.

Bat & Ball

There are several different game modes to choose from. Players looking for a traditional competition experience will want to jump straight in to Tournament Mode. There’s a choice of teams, including the USA, Russia, Finland and Germany, and a choice of paddles, too.

Arcade Mode provides a more immediate entry point for jumping in to World Cup Ping Pong. With half the table propped up, Forrest Gump-style, you bash away at various targets, attempting to rack up a high score.

Totally unexpected was the Head to Head gameplay mode — with a birds-eye view of the table, you and a friend can both play simultaneously on one iPhone. It was an absolute treat, utterly at odds with Practice Mode. This final game-type had very little use: no lesson, no guidance, just a dry run of Tournament Mode.

Bat In Hand

Once you’ve selected either a Tournament or Arcade Mode, it’s time to choose your paddle. There are three to choose from, not only differing in color but also impacting your technique, in terms of energy and spin. Once you’ve made your choice and have a tight grip of your paddle, it’s time to start a match.

There are absolutely no buttons to learn and, as such, the controls are incredibly simple. Dragging your finger around the screen controls your paddle; serving is as simple as quickly swiping up. The major issue with this control method is that your finger may occasionally obscure the on-screen action.

Once you’ve grasped the basics, the game begins to have a little more depth. Mastering spinning the ball means matches become much more fun. However, the opponents occasionally feel a little too tough, and rallies become repetitive chores, devoid of the drama and pace of real ping pong.

At the end of a game, you’re invited to submit your score online to the global score board. Unfortunately, you’ll have to register and log-in first. Forced registration to access in-game features are loathsome — frequently a thinly veiled excuse to harvest e-mail addresses and rarely genuinely needed. In the case of World Cup Ping Pong, it’s not clear just why I have to register simply to submit my high-score online.

Summing Up

While World Cup Ping Pong isn’t necessarily awful, it just didn’t blow me away, either. The game is missing character and depth, the graphics and music lack charm, and the gameplay, while effective, just didn’t leave me wanting more.

This game certainly isn’t an outstanding pick from the App Store’s Game section; it’s just a fun little time-waster. Fans of the sport won’t find any depth relating to the real thing, but those looking for a quick-to-learn time-waster will certainly glean a little pleasure from this game.

While I was playing with FingerPiano to review it my girlfriend asked, “Is that a new piano music app?” and grabbed my iPhone out of my hand and finished my song. I then showed her the song list and she chose the “The Entertainer” and proceeded to play it all the way through. She was positively giddy and when she finished said, “I’ve never played the piano before. That was so fun. I want this app on my iPhone.” And she loaded up the app store on her iPhone and purchased it right away. This has only happened a few times before and I’ve downloaded hundreds of apps.

FingerPiano is a great little app that allows you to play classic famous pieces of music using just one finger at a time. This app uses scrolling guides above the keys to show you what note to play and how long to play each note. It’s a brilliant idea that is simple to grasp and pickup. FingerPiano comes with 88 pieces of famous music including: Fur Elise, Canon in D, Amazing Grace, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, Arabesque and many more great pieces. If you aren’t familiar with the songs you can have a listen by pressing play. You may also jam along with the song if you’d like. This is a really neat feature as I wasn’t familiar with a few of the included songs. The only real problem I have is that the playback sound a bit stacatto, quantisized, or robotic. If a swing slide feature was include that would be neat… or another way to “humanize” the playback of the songs

The piano sound is ok and sounds a bit like a toy piano which is ok for this app… it doesn’t really bother me. If you are looking for an iPhone piano with the best sound I’d recommend Grand Pro.

Here’s a YouTube FingerPiano tutorial:

Verdict
Pros: Makes learning classic pieces of music possible for any skill level. Comes with 88 famous pieces of music. Simple to use.

Cons: Playback of included song library songs sounds a bit too quantized and robotic. A swing or “humanize” feature would be a welcome feature.

Features I Would Like To See: The ability to play chords and have them represented by different color guides than the melody notes… maybe use red for chords and blue for the melody. I bet this would be tough to do because obviously we aren’t dealing with much screen real estate. Maybe us a stackable keyboard setup. Also, a built in reverb with adjustable level mix is always a nice effect to have on piano samplers/synths. Slide finger to roll keys.

Coming from a Palm Zire/Treo background, I am familiar with Pocket Tunes (or Ptunes) - the default media and streaming audio player that came with both my Zire 72 and my Treo 680. So when Pocket Tunes came out with a streaming audio player for the iPhone, I said sure, I will review it.
Just a quick note, Ptunes (as I will refer to it) does not actually play media files on the iPhone - that is the exclusive domain of the iPod aspect of the iPhone (don’t touch Steve’s dock!). But it does act as a streaming media player. Also, although I briefly used a few of the other streaming media players for the iPhone, I haven’t used them exclusively - so I won’t be comparing Ptunes to those, but instead looking at Ptunes by itself.

Ptunes starts you off with a genre list of streaming music - Country, Funk, Comedy, Metal, etc. When you choose a genre, you are then presented with a list of stations in that genre to choose from. In the 5 days that I have had this program, the station list has been updated twice, so I think they will update the list fairly frequently. One thing I liked is that they include a featured, aacplus, and hi speed network stations as categories. I do wish they included a few more - like sports talk, for example.
One problem I had was there was no description of the radio stations themselves. For some stations, it was obvious where they were from, but some stations just included the call letters, so you don’t know where it is broadcasting or in some cases, the content of the radio station. As I said, I wish they broke down the “other” or the “talk” categories more - maybe sports, news, politics, etc. Simply listing radio stations under talk doesn’t really tell you what kind of talk radio there is.
On the bottom of the screen, there is a tab for favorites - you can add favorites to this list, including stations that may not be listed. You can also use the “search” tab to search for radio stations. Unfortunately, the few general searches I tried (sports) did not reveal any result, but search for call letters or station names directly can yield hit or miss results.
You can also use the web tab to go to web stations directly. This is useful to go to a specific website for a station and add it directly to your favorite list. Also, the Ptunes website lists some search sites that are good places to start looking through the stations. The web browser can also be used for “normal” surfing while listening to the radio.
Lastly, the now playing screen shows you the current station that is playing. On that screen you can add the current station to your favorites, you can pause, fast forward, or rewind. It also tells you the current song/artist that is playing. You can use the iTunes button to search iTunes for the current artist/music. That is nice, because you can go directly to iTunes to purchase music or albums if you like.
This is a nice interface for streaming music. According to the website, Pocket Tunes will recognize a large variety of streaming audio formats, including MP3, AAC, WMA, and more. The sound quality was nice - I didn’t have any stuttering and hiss, nor was there any interuption of the station while I was listening. Of course much of this will depend on the radio station and the quality of their stream. I tried using a 3G connection, and the quality of the stream still was quite good, but using edge I had connection difficulties (mostly connection time itself and time to buffer the station).
Pros:
Easy to use and add stations,
remembers radio stations,
easy to create a favorites list
Cons:
Can not skin the player,
a little expensive,
some radio station descriptions could have more information
Conclusion
All in all, this is a nicely designed program, and the quality shows. Unfortunately, at $9.99, it is priced significantly more than other streaming audio programs (many of which are free). The interface, program quality, and sound quality may justify some of the cost, but I am not sure how many people will purchase the $10 app when there may be a similar option that is free (even if the sound quality is somewhat worse). Because of the high price point compared to other apps, I would rate this app as four out of five stars, but if you are willing to pay for the quality, it might be worth it to you (and the few other issues were minor).