Karen Freeman

Today the excellent photo editing app Perfect Photo has gotten the update we told you about here last week. The update includes Red Eye Reduction and Spot Healer (blemish eraser), features not found in most editing apps. Other important editing features include Sharpen, Denoise, Brightness/Contrast, Gamma, Exposure, Shadows, Highlights, Levels, Hue/Saturation/Lightness, Color Balance, and Color Temperature. You also get a handful of filters to add an artful touch to your photos.

Perfect Photo is already a good multi-tool photo editing app. But the update coming next week will make it a must-own app, whether you’re a novice or an experienced iPhoneographer. It will allow you to do pretty much all the editing you could do on a computer without an expensive editing program. But with the update comes a price increase - so you may want to get it now while it’s still just $.99!

Video Splash allows you to turn your videos into black-and-white while keeping one object in color. What apps like Color Splash and Color Blast do for photographs, Video Splash does for videos. But does it work as well as the photo apps?

Comic Strip - CS is an enormously fun and easy way to create a comic strip or multi-photo piece in a single frame. Simply place your photos into one of the templates, add captions, and voilà! You have a personalized comic strip!

Spanish Touch Trainer is a fun and effective supplement to your Spanish studies. The focus of this niche app is verb conjugation, arguably the hardest part of learning Spanish for a native English speaker. Spanish Touch Trainer takes advantage of the iDevice functionality to take the monotony out of textbook study and drills. It has a beautiful user interface and feels game-like, though it is a serious learning tool.

We let you know this app was coming, and now, as promised, we’ve taken for a test spin. Is it worth putting another search engine on your iDevice? Read on to find out.

Doodle Buddy Premium is a cute, interactive doodling app. You can doodle alone or with a friend. Collaborate on a work of art, a note, or a game. You can watch as your friend’s doodles appear on your screen, just as they can see your doodles on their screen.

TheFind: Mobile Shopping is the mobile version of the popular comparison shopping site, TheFind. Serious bargain hunters use TheFind to research the best deals. Now there’s an app to find those deals right on your iPhone.

The Good News Bible is an extremely feature-rich and user-friendly Bible app. I really can’t imagine what more a Bible app could possibly contain.

Toshl is a simple app designed to do just one thing: track your expenses. If you just want to keep track of how much you spend and what you’re spending your money on, you’ll want to get this multi-platform app. If you’re looking for bells and whistles such as linking to your bank account, this is not the app for you. Toshl is one of my front page apps. It’s not perfect, but it does just what I need -- it tracks my spending.

Diptic is an elegant niche app for photographers. This universal app allows you to place two to four photos in a single frame. The clean user interface is attractive, intuitive, and easy to use.

Looking for a gift for the tech-savvy lady in your life? Or are YOU the tech-savvy woman who suffers iDevice withdrawal in the winter months? Now there is a glove for that, and on top of that, the gloves are easy to find and reasonably priced.

FX Photo Studio is an incredible photo effect and filter app. There are 171 filters but that is not a limitation -- you can mix and match and layer the filters for endless effects. In addition, you can fine tune each of the filters to control the effects with precision. And that’s not all -- you also get basic essential editing tools, such as crop, flip, brighten, rotate, and more.

The absolute must-have app for panorama photographers, Autostitch Panorama, just got a major update. Now it is fully optimized for fourth generation iDevices!

CLIPish Pro Suite - Millions of 3D Animations, Emoji, Emoticons, Sounds, Wallpapers, & More is the be-all end-all universal app for animations and clip art. Choose from their huge library of animations, videos, pictures, emoticons, wallpapers and more. Send them to your friends via MMS text, email, Facebook, or Twitter. If that’s not enough, you can search the web in-app, and use those pictures and videos as well. Add your own text to personalize them. You can even use this app to create templates for iMovie by adding text, titles, and credits to your iMovie projects.

TextPics - Creative SMS Art for iPhone Texting is a fun app for expressing yourself creatively in your texts and emails. Send elaborate symbol pictures, emotes, symbols, type upside down, and more. Create your own textpics and not only can you use them yourself, but your creations just may show up in the next update! TextPics is committed to keeping this app fresh by updating the app every couple of weeks.

SpellStacker is the latest must-have crossword game. Game play is much like the popular apps Words With Friends or Scrabble, but this one has a cool twist. Place your tiles on top of other tiles for new words and bonus points! SpellStacker is also related to the board game UpWords. This universal app (play on your iPhone, iPod, or iPad) is free and fun.

Burst Mode captures lightning fast action with speed and precision. Never miss another moment - the exact nanosecond the baseball bat strikes the ball, the candles being blown out on the birthday cake, a runner crossing the finish line. Record and self-critique your golf swing or your dance number. Capture the flight of a butterfly or a baby taking those first wobbly steps.

Hot off the presses -- this app just made it into the App Store, mere minutes ago! JUST in time for trick-or-treating, if you live in the U.S. or earlier time zones! The name says it all: Haunted House Halloween - Camera Motion Activated Scary Sound Effects. The app uses the camera on the back of your iDevice to sense motion and scare anyone and anything that moves nearby!

Kid Face Halloween Edition Face Painting App is photo face-painting app just in time for Halloween! Take a picture and then paint your face, or your kid’s face, with kid-friendly cute, funny, and spooky character faces. Get the fun of painting on a new persona without the messy face paints. This is for anyone who likes to change up their photos -- it’s not only for kids, and not just for Halloween!

ColorBlast! is a cool selective photo colorization app. You can make a photo black and white with just a shot of the original color, like ColorSplash, but ColorBlast! takes it a step further. You can change the color of the highlighted area to an entirely new color. You are also not tied to a black and white background -- you can use the original background color, or sepia, cobalt, and more.

MobileMonet is a fun and easy way to turn your photos into art! I never get tired of all the different ways that developers come up with to let us non-artistic types create really cool works of art from a simple photograph in just seconds.

Eye Color Booth lets you change your eye color in your photos. Ever wondered what you’d look like with blue eyes? Green? Purple? Orange and pink mixed together? Maize and blue, or your favorite team colors? Now you can try them all out! You can even get rid of that pesky red-eye.

TouchRetouch allows you to remove anyone and anything from your photos with ease! Want to remove an ex from a family photo? Get rid of unsightly objects in your beautiful photos? Now you can do it in seconds without expensive desktop photo editing software.