A collection of 12 apps for you today:
Fantasy Safari
Even the biggest games publishers aren't immune to the freemium bug on Apple's App Store. Electronic Arts' new game Fantasy Safari is free to play and funded by in-app purchases of virtual items. The gameplay involves building and running a safari park where the creatures are mythical: unicorns, dragons, phoenixes and the like.
iPhone
D&AD 2011
Creative industry awards D&AD has its own iPad app, offering details, images and videos of more than 650 entries, as well as extra content on news, events and educational schemes.
iPad
Atari's Greatest Hits
Already available for iPhone, Atari's greatest hits collection has made the leap to Android, with Missile Command preloaded free, and 99 other classics available to buy in-app as four-game packs, or all at once. Asteroids, Centipede, Crystal Castles, Pong and more...
Android
7digital Music
Digital music firm 7digital has updated its Android app to a universal build that includes a version specifically for tablets running the Android 3.0 Honeycomb software. It's a digital music store with recommendations, browsing and preview features, and access to 7digital's cloud features to download previously purchased songs.
Android
Music by Sort It!
There are plenty of digital music apps for iPhone, but this app focuses on physical music: CDs, vinyl and even tapes. It's for building a catalogue of your music collection, using a mixture of barcode scanning, database search and manual barcode entry. The catalogue is then stored online and accessible from various devices. There is even a feature to keep tabs on who you've lent albums to.
iPhone
Artfinder for iPhone
Artfinder is pretty much a Shazam for art: it enables people to take photos of artworks that they encounter in galleries and get more information on them using image recognition technology.
iPhone
Vlingo – Virtual Assistant
Voice control app Vlingo isn't new for BlackBerry smartphones, but it's newly free. The app is the latest to benefit from Research In Motion's apologetic "Compliments of BlackBerry" scheme to compensate its customers for the recent service outage. It's a good chance to see how Vlingo measures up to iPhone 4S' highly-touted Siri feature.
BlackBerry
Annika Academy for iPad
Pro golfer Annika Sorenstam has her own golfing school, and now it has a spin-off app for iPad. It offers video tips from Annika and her colleagues covering everything from driving, chipping and putting basics through to bunker strategies and other advanced tactics.
iPad
Ping Pong Dim Sum
Can't get enough of the Ping Pong Dim Sum restaurants? They now have an app for iPhone. Book a table, check promotions, and even calculate tips. It's the work of restaurantdiary.
iPhone
Monkey Island Tales 1
The first iOS installment in the Monkey Island Tales series is already available in HD as an iPad app (along with parts two, three, four and five), but it has just been shrunk down for iPhone as a separate game. Expect trademark Monkey Island humour and puzzles.
iPhone
Scribble Synth
Scribble Synth is an iOS music app that looks a bit like a virtual Etch-a-Sketch, except the doodles are converted into synthesizer sounds. It's aimed at children.
iPhone / iPad
ZX Plectrum
And finally... Playing ZX Spectrum loading sounds as a musical instrument? There really is an app for that.
iPhone
