Byte The App: Must See Apps Of The Week 9/8

The app stores are teeming with new releases, but who has time to go through them all? We do. Bringing you a selection of the most interesting, creative, and innovative apps each week. Submit your suggestions for next week in the comments below.

My Secret Hideout [iPad]
This is not a game, the blurb says, but an interactive toy. Or poem. Or artwork. So, while this app appears to be suffering from an identity crisis, that maybe isn’t such a bad thing for an experimental “interactive textual art generator set in a treehouse”. It doesn’t have goals and you can’t win anything to satiate your need for achievement, but you can play around with seemingly endless combinations by dragging leaves and attaching them to the tree, which makes the tree grow as you explore it’s manifold variations. So basically, we’re all winners in this game.

PostSecret [iPhone, iPod touch and iPad] Texts From Last Night FML Hologram Live Wallpaper [Android] Machinarium [iPad] Amanita Design

Collaborative Poetry [Android]
Called Collaborative Poetry, this could just as easily be a mobile version of the surrealist game exquisite corpse, where a collaborative drawing or poem is created with successive contributors unaware of what’s been written or drawn previously. So you could use it for that or use it as they state, for festivals and public events, where it enables users to create new poems, and add new lines to already existing ones, using geolocation to determine if the user is in attendance at the event.