IOS APPS OF THE YEAR

November's been a busy one hasn't it? Vape was declared word of the year, the NHS declared its plans to digitise your medical records, Microsoft is ditched the Nokia brand earlier than we anticipated, and Gerald managed to start a minor Twitter storm that is somehow still going on.

But like any other month, November brought along some spectacular apps for us all. Here are the best ones we covered.

iOS Apps

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Qello Concerts: An app with one of the world's largest catalogues of music concerts that you can watch any time you like, on any screen. It's now fully optimised for iOS 8, which allows you to open albums in the iTunes store, alongside predictive searching and faster loading times. [Free -- with optional subscription]

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Timista: Your free time is precious, and you want to make the most of it while you have it. That's why you should take Timista for a spin. Timista is a tool that lets you find events, restaurants, and other leisurely activities in real time so that you can make the most of your time off and do something enjoyable. It'll then plot them out so you can keep track of everything. Sadly it's only working in London at the moment, but if you're in the capital then you know how you're going to spend your weekend. [Free]

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Translator Keyboard: Translation has never been easier. No more fuss of copying and pasting chunks of foreign text into a separate application. It's easy to swap between this and your normal keyboard, and with 44 different languages to translate to, and 32 languages to translate from, you've got a handy little tool. Now if only they could turn it into an ear implant... [£1.49]

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Ringo: Ringo is the app that lets you make low-cost international calls to any phone in the world. Now it's been updated so that you can see what the local time is or your contacts as well as a more in-depth call history that shows your call duration and costs as soon as you've finished each call. [Free]