AnyList (free) — Purple Cover’s shopping list app remains one of our favorites for managing a household shopping list and sharing it among multiple family members, and the last couple of updates have made a great app even better. Last month, the company added location-based reminders so you can add your favorite store locations and be notified to check your list whenever you’re near one, and you can even add multiple locations per list. The latest update, version 4.7, builds on that idea by allowing you to define multiple store names within a list, and then assign individual items to specific stores. You can then filter your list based on which store you’re in, which avoids the need to keep multiple lists for different stores, and allows you to much more easily assign a single item to more than one store, while keeping it out of the list when you’re in places where you can’t get it.
Coda 2 ($10) — Three years ago, Panic brought its popular editing and coding app for web developers to the iOS platform with Diet Coda, a scaled down iPad-only version of the company’s Coda 2 for Mac powerhouse. Now, with a major update, Panic brings a much more full-featured Coda to both the iPad and the iPhone as a free update for existing users, and with a price drop for new users to boot.
This is no longer the “diet” version by any stretch of the imagination, with an entirely redesigned user interface, support for Panic Sync to keep your sites, clips, and credentials in sync with Coda for Mac and other Panic apps like Transmit and Prompt, and a whole collection of new modes including Go, INI, Lua, Scheme, Shell Script, SQL, and Swift. New playgrounds allow you to experiment and test your code in a live Javascript environment, and the dual file browser design from Transmit lets you view your dev and production environments side-by-side. Coda 2 also borrows a whole list of features from the Prompt 2 SSH client, so you’ll rarely need to switch out even for terminal sessions. Coda 2 also integrates with Transmit for iOS with shared local storage between the two apps, support for iCloud Drive, Touch ID authentication, and 1Password for iOS. If you do any website management at all while on the go, Coda 2 could easily be the best $10 you’ll ever spend on an iOS app.
Navigon North America ($60) — While the free navigation options available in Apple and Google’s Maps applications will meet the needs of a lot of users at an unbeatable price, companies like Garmin are still providing more powerful paid options for the serious road warriors.
Navigon has recently added enhanced road signs, better traffic notifications and Apple Watch support, and with this latest update comes a dramatically simplified search engine along with a refined user interface and smart calendar navigation. You can now find your destination much more easily with a simple one-line search field that looks up point-of-interest names and addresses and incorporates Siri for speech input. The icons have also been redesigned, making it easier to see the information you need at a glance. Users can also now opt for a light user interface color over the dark charcoal look that the app has traditionally sported. Lastly, an extended today screen widget allows users to quickly navigate to the locations of upcoming calendar events with a single tap.
Numix (free) — If you’re a fan of math puzzle games, you’ll definitely want to check out Numix, which challenges you to add up numbers on a 4×4 grid, earning higher scores by adding up longer and larger sequences.
