20 best iPhone and iPad apps this week

Seamus Heaney: Five Fables, D-Day: Hour by Hour, Toca Town, Disney Karaoke: Frozen, TwoDots, BattleHeart Legacy and more. By Stuart Dredge

Moshi Monsters creators launch mobile game World of Warriors

As Mind Candy unveils a new game aimed at 'children of all ages', we speak to the company's founder about the challenges of following Moshi mania. By Keith Stuart

How we made the Curiator iPhone app

The co-founders of the online art platform explain how they fit the world's largest collaborative collection into people's pockets

Cinamatic review – the makers of Hipstamatic venture into video

Affordable app adds fun effects to films made on mobile phones, writes Toby Moses

Will Make it Rain be the next Flappy Bird?

The addictive free-to-play game racks up $50,000 a day for its developer and is contender for most addictive app of the year. By Samuel Gibbs

20 best iPhone and iPad apps this week

Cook With M&S, Swarm, deadmau5, Thomas Was Alone, Table Tennis Touch, Atom Run and more. By Stuart Dredge

Your smartphone’s best app? Battery life, say 89% of Britons

Survey shows that people pick battery life ahead of other features such as brand, processor speed, or camera quality in deciding smartphone. By Charles Arthur

My favourite waste of time: why Candy Crush and Angry Birds are so compulsive

Why do we get so addicted to simple games? Here are the psychological theories mobile games designers have learned to exploit. By Keith Stuart

Apple sued over iMessages that fail to reach ex-iPhone user

A class action lawsuit has been filed in California after a new Samsung user finds that texts from iPhone-using friends aren't reaching her. By Charles Arthur

Secure text message service Silent Circle revamps iOS app

The messaging app Silent Text 2 has been ‘substantially’ improved for iPhone and iPad, offering text chats and file transfers. By Stuart Dredge

Phablet sales are growing and Apple is missing out, warns Canalys

Smartphones with screens over 5in made up a third of shipments in the first quarter, with strong appeal in the US and Europe as well as Asia. By Charles Arthur

Sick of freemium? Here are 20 paid iOS and Android games worth supporting

If free-to-play mobile games get your goat, check out these excellent in-app purchase-free titles. By Stuart Dredge

An iPhone for £75? That really is too good to be true

Shenzhen is the hi-tech manufacturing hub making one quarter of the world's smartphones - but also millions of fakes

20 best iPhone and iPad apps this week

Cinamatic, Kiwanuka, Adobe Voice, Botanicula, Yahoo Sport, Record Run, Curious Ruler and more. By Stuart Dredge

Why will my iPhone not stay silent? Your tech questions answered

Because you have to turn down the volume as well as putting it on mute – plus why the way computers count restricts how much space there is on an external hard drive and dealing with the menace of the Heartbleed bug