This Week’s Best Apps #4

Check it out: nearly 20 brand new apps that you’ll wonder how your iPhone or iPad ever got along without.

Appetites

for iPhone
Price: $.99 (with a huge library of in-app add-on videos available for purchase)
Step-by-step instructional cooking videos.

Cosmonauts

for iPhone
Price: FREE (in-app purchase required to unlock full game)
Cartoony, episodic space combat with a sense of humor.

Disney Princess Royal Party

for iPad
Price: $4.99
Interactive story book for kids, with puzzles, coloring pages, and more.

Evri

for iPad
Price: FREE
Unique RSS reader that’s smartly based on topics instead of news agencies.

FIFA Soccer 12

for iPad
Price: $9.99
State-of-the-art soccer gameplay from EA Sports.

Fishdom: Halloween Splash HD

for iPad
Price: FREE (full game unlock $4.99 in-app)
Underwater match-3 game.

FlipShip

for iPhone
Price: $.99
A unique take on a Tilt to Live style space shooter.

IMDb Trivia

for iPhone
Price: FREE
Play trivia using the vast information at Internet Movie Database.

Jell-O Jiggle It

for iPhone & iPad
Price: FREE
Pick a song from your iTunes library and watch a Jell-O cube dance in time to it.

Jelly Defense

for iPhone & iPad
Price: $.99
A unique tactical adventure with eye-popping graphics.

The Magic of Reality

for iPad
Price: $7.99
Interactive book from Richard Dawkins that answers popular cultural myths with scientific fact.

March of the Dinosaurs

for iPad
Price: $7.99
An interactive book with 3D animated dinosaurs, from the makers of Solar System and Gems & Jewels.

MLS Match Day 2011

for iPhone & iPad
Price: FREE (in-app purchase required for live game viewing)
A complete guide to Major League Soccer’s 2011 season, with endless details, video clips, and more.

Muffin Knight

for iPhone & iPad
Price: $.99
Quirky side-scroller in which you’re charged with filling the world with candy so you can retrieve muffins.

Orchestra To-Do

for iPhone
Price: FREE
Networked to-do list with voice recognition.

Quora

for iPhone
Price: FREE
A new kind of knowledge database that gives you access to some of the world’s smartest people, and thousands of existing answers.

Shadowgun

for iPhone & iPad
Price: $7.99
First-person shooter with 3D graphics. Reviewers are calling it “Gears of War for iOS.”

Showtime Social

for iPad
Price: FREE
Adds instant social interaction to watching Showtime’s original programming.

StoryLines

for iPad
Price: FREE
The game of “Telephone” meets Pictionary.