There are many categories of apps including games, lifestyle, entertainment, news, social, and educational apps. Games are often the most popular based on app store rankings, with many taking advantage of touch screens. Entertainment apps provide short bursts of entertainment through novelty features like voice changing. Social apps allow people to connect and interact over the internet, with popular examples being Facebook and Twitter apps. Lifestyle apps offer useful day-to-day services such as guides for activities, shopping, and relaxation tools. The other stated categories contain apps related to their subject area.

2. Categories of Apps:
• Business Apps
• Game Apps
•Lifestyle Apps
•Entertainment Apps
•News Apps
•Social Apps
• Travel Apps
• Sports Apps
• Educational Apps

3. There is no denying that the most popular
apps (based especially on the Apple app
charts) are games.
• Most game control systems takes
advantage of the devices touch screen
For Example:
feature
• Most device exclusive games are very
innovative in design and gameplay
mechanics
• They are usually affordable at the
average price of fifty nine pence but most
also include micro-transactions to buy in-
game items or extra content.
• There are also plenty of app versions of
boardgames, gameshows and adaptions
of big game franchises like Sonic the
Hedgehog and Grand Theft Auto.

4. Entertainment apps usually consist
of novelty devices or apps that are
linked to the entertainment media
(for example video and music)
•Entertainment are usually to provide short
For Example: bursts of entertainment using novelty
mechanics like voice changing. Some are
always fixed outcomes like a particular x-ray
app
• A lot of entertainment apps are linked with
social aspects meaning that people can play
tricks or send funny notes and pictures to each
other
• Some apps enhance other aspects of the
devices like an extended gallery of emoticons
or colourful text messaging.
• Some simulation games fall under this
category like the famous Pocket God in which
the user takes the role of a tiki god providing
various tortures to the little men on screen.

5. Social apps are applications that
provide a way for people to contact and
socialise in many different formats over
the internet.
• The most popular of the social apps are
For Example: the portable versions of massive social
networking sites like Face book and Twitter.
• A lot of other social apps just provide
different formatting and styles of these big
networking sites.
• Many social apps are linked to other
categories of applications, like game apps
and entertainment apps.

6. Lifestyle apps are applications that usually
provide a useful service to peoples day to
day lives .
• Lifestyle apps can include guides to day
to day activities like cooking, fitness to the
more provocative sexual-based activities.
For Example:
• This category of app can also help with
lifestyle changes like real estate apps or
interior design.
• There is also a variety of portable
applications for big high street shop
locaters or online stores like Amazon.
• Some apps that arguably could be called
novelty provide a relaxing, anti-stress
stimulus

7. The other categories of Smartphone, android phone and tablet apps are as
their titles suggest, providing services for their category.

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