This week in apps features A Man's Guide to Muscle and Strength, an app that lets users work out with three different routines with personal trainer Stephen Cabral. Horton Hatches the Egg is the Dr. Seuss story retold with professional narration as an app. Also this week is Dim Sum Warriors, the app that teaches players English and Chinese. And finally, there's The Berenstain Bears' BIG Bedtime Book, which collects six classic bedtime stories, reimagined with bears in the key roles.
Title: A Man's Guide to Muscle and Strength
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Release date: March 7, 2012
Price: $2.99
Background: Hosted by personal trainer Stephen Cabral, this app offers three programs from his book: one for beginners, one for intermediate weightlifters, and another for advanced.
Features: Track progress with notes and weight tracking, over 100 photos, video demonstrations of 26 of the 57 exercises.
Title: Horton Hatches the Egg
Publisher: Oceanhouse Media
Release date: April 4, 2012
Price: $1.99
Background: Horton is persuaded to sit on an egg while its mother, the good-for-nothing bird lazy Maysie flutters off on a vacation. Horton is teased and taunted by his jungle friends. Horton is captured by hunters but he keeps his promise and protects the egg. When Maysie returns and demands her egg back, something incredible happens.
Features: Read to me, read it myself, and auto play modes. Professional narration, words highlight and are read aloud when tapped.
Title: Dim Sum Warriors
Publisher: Yumcha Studios
Release date: April 3, 2012
Price: Free
Background: A comic book app about kung-fu fighting snacks that helps players learn both Chinese and English.
Features: Voiceovers, instant translations, hanyu pinyin pronunciation guides
Title: The Berenstain Bears BIG Bedtime Book
Publisher: Oceanhouse Media
Release date: March 30, 2012
Price: $4.99
Background: Six original bedtime stories from Mrs. Grizzle's collection, including "Little Red Grizzly Hood," "The Three Billy Goats Gruff Meet the Bogg Brothers," "The Three Little Cubs and the Big Bad Pig," "The Gingerbread Bear," "Goldibear and the Three People," and "The Little Red Hen."
Features: Read to me, read it myself, and auto play modes. Professional narration, words highlight and are read aloud when tapped.
