App browsing still doesn't have quite the same cachet as window shopping, but it should—the sheer amount of time spent staring into our smartphones is indication enough that we very much care what's going on inside. We've selected some new titles worth installing.
The Rap Genius rebranding continues with the launch of the Genius mobile app. The service has transitioned from hip hop lyric library to a annotated pocket guide to pop culture, which it's showing off with a new look and more fully-fledged function. It's available for iOS and Android now.
While Realmoji isn't an app you can download directly to your phone, it is some of the most fun you'll ever have texting with a bot. After you enter your phone number on the site, Realmoji will text you. Then, you just need to select an emoji of your choosing, and it will respond with a real photo that represents that emoji. Think of it as a photographic emoji interpreter.
This app runs on the Apple Watch and Android Wear, so plenty of you can just go ahead and skip to the next entry. Everyone else, welcome! The dream of speaking into your wrist and getting instant translations has been realized thanks to Microsoft, and the slick UI certainly doesn't hurt the experience.
Google's DeepDream technology has been mesmerizing the Internet since it launched, and now there's an Android app so you can easily turn your mobile photos into trippy hallucinations. The app is currently only available for Android phones, but it's coming to iOS soon.
