Apple iPhone Duo Apps: Mini Mac, Nintendo DS or Toaster
The Apple iPhone Duo impresses with its completely new design, offering a variety of folding and orientation options, and app developers are playfully exploiting this. Numerous apps utilize the foldable display in unique ways, many of them with skeuomorphic designs.
Tiny Computers ($3.99)
Tiny Computers transforms the Apple iPhone Duo into a mini retro computer with options inspired by the Macintosh, Commodore 64, Amiga 500, iMac G3, iBook G3, and others. It works best when partially opened, providing a display and virtual keyboard.
Fold & Squish (free)
Fold & Squish, from the same developer as Tiny Computers, allows you to paint Rorschach images with the Apple iPhone Duo. You paint a design on one half of the Duo’s display, fold it closed, rub your finger across the outer display surface to “squish” the virtual paint, and then open it to see the finished image.
Portal ($2.99/month)
Portal is a relaxation app for the Apple iPhone Duo that offers virtual portals to various natural landscapes – from a lava flow in Iceland to the cloud forest in Costa Rica. Over 100 locations are available, each with calming sounds and breathing exercises. The app is suitable for meditation and also offers focus and sleep timers.
When unfolded, the scene view fills the entire display, but it also works perfectly in tent mode. Three free portals are available, updated monthly. A premium subscription costs $2.99 per month or $29.99 per year.
Lake (free)
Lake is an adult coloring book that has been updated for the iPhone Duo. Holding the Duo in portrait mode provides a full-screen coloring area, and the developer says it will also be updated for the Apple Pencil.
Lake offers coloring pages from numerous artists. The app is free to download and includes basic coloring pages and tools. However, to unlock the full range of features, a premium subscription is required for $9.99 per month.
Toastie ($2.99)
Toastie transforms the iPhone Duo into a toaster for grilled cheese sandwiches. In this game, you prepare the sandwich ingredients and then close the iPhone Duo to toast them. Timing is crucial, and the goal is a perfect cheese sandwich.
Delta Game Emulator (free)
The popular game emulator app Delta has been updated for the iPhone Duo, transforming the Duo into a Nintendo DS.
The app uses the Nintendo DS controls and, when closed, resembles the console’s casing. The currently running game then enters rest mode. Delta also supports numerous games from other systems.
TypeDraw ($4.99)
TypeDraw transforms the iPhone Duo into a notebook. When closed, it looks like a normal notebook, but it can be opened to reveal writable pages. The app supports the Apple Pencil.
Fold Accordion ($2.99)
As the name suggests, Fold Accordion transforms the Apple iPhone Duo into an accordion. The hinge acts as a bellows; you can open and close the Duo to make music. A learning mode highlights the buttons to press.
Living Earth ($5.99)
If you’re looking for an app that’s ideal for the Apple iPhone Duo’s tent mode, you should definitely try Living Earth. It lets you set a location to get time and weather information. The app also features a rotating globe. When you unfold your iPhone Duo, the globe fills the entire display.
The app displays live clouds, storms and weather maps from around the world, allowing you to keep track of hurricanes, tropical storms and other weather events.
Duometry ($2.99)
Duometry is a game where a target angle is given, which you must achieve by folding the Apple iPhone Duo. The goal is to estimate the angle as accurately as possible and then check if the estimate was correct.
Deck-Man ($4.99)
Deck-Man transforms your Apple iPhone Duo into a retro cassette recorder. You open the iPhone Duo, select your music, insert the cassette, and close the Duo again to start playback.
Orisuji ($4.99)
Orisuji is a paper maze game where you start with the inner display and then fold the Apple iPhone Duo towards the outer display to solve the puzzles.
More entertaining apps
- Foldissimo – If a pocket accordion isn’t enough, there’s also Foldissimo, which lets you play accordion songs on your Apple iPhone Duo.
- Fold Focus (€5.99/month) – Fold Focus is a Pomodoro timer app that motivates you to keep your iPhone Duo closed while working, studying, or on creative projects. While your device is switched off, you work on building a virtual city.
- Foldfish (free) – Foldfish is a game where you unfold the iPhone Duo to cast, tap to throw, and then hold to retrieve a catch.
- Nitelore (free) – Nitelore is an antigravity racing game in neon colors and looks great on the iPhone Duo.
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