10 apps to buy iTunes gift card

One of most common holiday gifts every year is an iTunes gift card. It seems that when people don’t know what to buy for a tech enthusiastic or a teenager, the go-to fallback is an iTunes gift card. If you’re one of those people who received an iTunes gift card (or more than one) this holiday season, read on as I break down some of my favorite iOS apps to spend that budget on. If apps aren’t your thing, check out Apple’s “Best of” lists for some of the top music, movies, and tv…

Dark Sky

My longstanding pick for a weather app on iOS has been Dark Sky. Not only does the app feature a clean and beautiful interface, the information it presents is insanely accurate. Dark Sky tells you, down to the minute, when you can expect rain, snow, sleet, or any other abnormal weather. Best of all, you can be alerted via notifications when the adverse weather will arrive.

There’s also support for viewing extended forecasts, as well as detailed radar images. Last but certainly not least, Dark Sky offers a very useful watchOS app and complication.

Dark Sky is $3.99 on the App Store.

Duet Display

One of the more powerful iOS apps in terms of technological capabilities is Duet Display. This app allows you to use your iPad as a secondary display by simply connecting to your Mac via Lightning.

One of the things I’m most impressed with about Duet Display is the fluidity of content on the iPad. It’s really like the iPad is a fully capable secondary screen.

Duet Display is currently on sale for $9.99, but could change back to $19.99 at any time.

Tweetbot

I’ve consistently recommended Tweetbot as my favorite iOS Twitter client. While the official Twitter app for iOS is gaining ground, Tweetbot is still a more fully-featured and stable client. Likewise, Tweetbot for Mac is far and away the best Twitter client you can get on macOS, blowing Twitter’s official app out of the water.

Tweetbot offers features like the ability to add notes to profiles, mute specific words, view multiple columns at once, and more.

Tweetbot for iOS is on sale for $4.99, as is Tweetbot for Mac.

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