Quirky App Of The Day: Singing Horses
by Kathryn Zane
January 10, 2012
This app is about Singing Horses. I'm not exactly sure how I could be any clearer about its purpose. Really, it's all pretty much in the name. The app features four animated horses who sing a different melody, and each part harmonizes with the others. Ta-Da! Mr. Ed has officially been shown up.
The information on the description page in the App Store advertises that these horses are famous on the Internet. However, Internet fame must be more fleeting than I thought. I've never heard of them before. It's always possible that they came out while I was temporarily living under a rock that one year, but I can't be sure. They do have their own webpage though, if anyone is inclined to visit.
Basically, you click to start them off, and you click to stop them. You make your own songs up by directing them to start and stop at different points. I'm just a little confused about the second horse from the left who has a luxurious gray mane and an unsettlingly deep voice. I would have pegged that horse as a female. Also, the first horse on the right who has the short crop surprised me by being female instead of male. There's nothing wrong with either gender having long or short hair. Nothing at all. I just wasn't expecting it. That's all. I also thought it was a little funny that the two horses I mentioned don't blink. The other two blink, but not those two. They have these wide-eyed stares that go off into the distance.
Singing Horses is an iPhone app available in the App Store for the awesome price of FREE!
