App Watch: pics, kids and widgets

The Toca Tailor app is simple and great fun for kids. Source: Supplied

SMARTPHONE lovers should check out these great apps - each one is brilliant in its own way.

PHOTOGRAPHY
> Slow Shutter!
Apple iOS, $1.99

Slowing a camera's shutter speed makes for amazing photos and this app promises to deliver the same effects on the iPhone. Slow Shutter! has two modes: one that automatically slows the shutter speed for low-light photos and modest motion, and Light Trail that can make Ferris wheels blur.

CHILDREN
> Toca Tailor
Apple iOS, free

This dress-up app proves that real-life games can make a smooth transition to the virtual world. Players can dress one of four characters - boy, girl, cat and sloth - in customisable outfits and accessories. Then it can be photographed in its app environment or set over a real-world setting and snapped.

WIDGETS
> Minimalistic Text
Google Play, free

Most widgets are large, intricate and hard to customise. This app aims to be the opposite. Minimalistic Text delivers the time, date, weather or battery status in word form and does so in an understated, hipster way. Users can change everything from the background to the shadow the text casts.

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