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.

Boycott SOPA [Android]
If you want to join the struggle against The Man (in this case, manifested as the old media guard) who’s trying to take away our freedom of expression with the Stop Online Piracy Act, here’s an app for that. The bill, if passed, will essentially destroy the creativity and innovation that the internet engenders by allowing corporations and the government to censor websites they identify as infringing on copyright laws. A number of social media-fueled petitions, call and email campaigns have been initiated in opposition of the law, and now there’s even a handy (and free!) android app made by two college students. Once downloaded, it allows you to scan products’ barcodes and it’ll tell you whether the company has any association with SOPA and if it has, you can choose to boycott it.

TimeHue [iPhone, iPod touch and iPad]

Vodio [iPad]
Flipboard’s an app that delivers personalized content to your device based on your chosen preferences, this is similar—and also free—but instead of delivering articles it curates videos from the channels that you subscribe to, along with those shared by your social network buddies. It then breaks them down into categories like tech, music, and movies which you can then swipe through, browsing at your leisure.

Numberlys [iPhone, iPod touch and iPad]
Do you know the origins of the alphabet? That’s the tale this interactive story app seeks to tell via a diverse bunch of influences that include King Kong, Fleischer Studios’ technicolor Superman, Metropolis, Flash Gordon, the Marx Brothers and the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Although this fanciful story it doesn’t take the form of a page-turning virtual book, instead the app designers chose to use an invigorating mix of gaming and film to relate the fanciful adventure.

Life Is Crime [iPhone, iPod touch and iPad]
This is a location-based mafia game which came out on Android last year and now makes the transition to iOS. You set about building a criminal empire in your real-world city or town, inviting your mates to come along and join you as you rise to kingpin like status, battling other criminals for real-world locations, collecting protection money and generally being a badass mafioso.