First-time independent developer, Mary Shaw today introduces Candy Hearts – Animated Valentine Stickers 1.0 on the iMessage App Store. Similar to traditional Valentine conversation candies, each colorful Candy Heart sticker has its own message plus a playful animated heartbeat. Stickers include familiar Valentine’s Day greetings such as “Hug Me,” “Be Mine,” “So Fine,” “Luv U” and more. Users will also see common text message phrases such as “LOL,” “BRB,” and “BFF.”

Minsk based developer, Ultralab Apps today introduces UltraWeather 1.0.0, a new iOS app created for everyone who wants to learn all essential and exact information about the weather fast and without wasting time on redundant details. The app provides an accurate hourly, daily and 10-day forecast. That accuracy here is combined with a clean, concise app design that is easy to navigate and demonstrative visuals that are quick to grasp.

Indie mobile developer, Sravan Kumar today introduces PaperSpan 1.0, his new Read It Later app for iOS devices. PaperSpan was developed specifically for saving web pages to read later. It automatically downloads articles for offline reading and allows to read in an easy-to-read format, or even listen to them on-the-go. Users can highlight phrases from an article and manage them later. It also has a note taking feature to take a note for an article and maintain it for future reference.

Element Cell Game Limited today introduces Mahjong Resort Paradise 1.0, the company’s new game title developed for iOS and Android devices. Owing to its comprehensive cultural content as well as its merits of being interesting, competitive, and helpful to wisdom and friendship, Mahjong has been an enjoyable pastime for people all over the world for nearly a century. Mahjong Resort Paradise was inspired as a way to improve the communication and development of the competitive Mahjong game.

Topdune Studio announces Calligraphy Penmanship 1.7, developed exclusively for the popular iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. Calligraphy Penmanship brings the best experience ever to calligraphers. With personalized and very sensitive adjustments of the pencil pressure and smoothness, calligraphers will quickly find the feeling of their favorite shading style. Version 1.7 serves to complete the three sets of digital pens, offering more than 30 unique pen effects for practicing penmanship.

Charleston based plasq today unveiled Comic Draw, a full-featured comic creation and publishing application for iPad. Comic Draw is a full-featured digital comic creation and publishing application for iPad. Designed with Apple’s iPad Pro and Pencil in mind, Comic Draw provides a comprehensive suite of comic drawing tools, fast and easy script editing and lettering, and an integrated comic publishing platform in the form of the companion app, Comic Connect.

Developer of mobile parental monitoring software, Pumpic has launched a Control Panel app for iOS, a supplementary tool to the company’s comprehensive tracking platform. With a focus on minimalism and providing only the most crucial surveillance data, the app’s functionality is limited to avoid too much information piling. The full monitoring information collected by Pumpic from the tracked device is available in the standard web-based Control Panel.

Paris based Edoki Academy today announces Busy Shapes 2, the next generation of their 1 million download, award-winning exploratory playground exclusively for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices. Busy Shapes 2 was specifically designed to sharpen a child’s spatial skills, coordination, agility, and critical thinking through the use of objects, tools, three dimensional puzzles, and shape/color recognition. These skills will be developed throughout the 100+ 3D levels included in the game.

Gro Software today introduces Gro CRM 1.0, its revolutionary enterprise class Customer Relationship Management platform. Gro CRM was built with intelligence and security as its core foundation. Core features include a 360 view of your business via the real-time dashboard, the ability to track contacts and accounts, manage leads and opportunities, communicate with clients, schedule followups and tasks, create quotes and invoices, create purchase orders, manage inventory and so much more.

Virginia based About Objects has announced its schedule of publicly available classes on iOS development in Swift and Objective-C for the first half of 2017. The About Objects iOS curriculum includes introductory through advanced-level training courses. Courses that are above the introductory level are offered exclusively in Swift, though introductory-level iOS development classes are still available in both Swift and Objective-C. Classes are offered at About Objects headquarters in Reston, VA.