Best new apps for iPhone and iPad

What are the hottest new apps on the App Store right now? These!

There are over a million and a half apps for iPhone and iPad and the number just keeps growing. Every day new and newly updated apps hit the App Store, and it's impossible to keep up with all of them. Luckily, you don't have to. All you have to do is bookmark this page and come back every day. When you do, we'll have the best of the best new apps waiting for you!

And don't forget to check out our list of this week's best games for your iPhone.

Best new and updated apps

This week, go explore nature with an intelligent, robotic companion, keep up with the action of the Master's Tournament right on your iPhone, or use a powerful photo editing app to tweak even your Portrait mode images.

• Seek - Seek encourages you to explore the outdoors. The app features image recognition technology to identify plants and animals from photos that you take. Seek challenges you to find plants, animals, and fungi, giving you a list of what's near you. As you take photos and find different species, Seek will award you with badges for your accomplishments. With each new entry, you can also get a fact sheet about each animal or plant. - Free - Download Now
• The Masters Tournament - This is the perfect companion for golf fans looking to keep up with the 2018 Masters Tournament. The app offers a live simulcast of the tournament, with multiple live streams from around the golf course so you don't miss a stroke. Track the shots of your favorite golfers, know exactly where the ball is, keep up with the live score tracker, and on the iPad, move and resize the leaderboard. - Free - Download Now
• Darkroom - This photo app just received a major update, with a big emphasis on depth. Darkroom now offers depth editing features, automatically loading the depth map from Portrait mode photos taken on your iPhone and recreating the background blur from scratch in order to give you control over its strength and location. All of Darkroom's premium filters are now also depth-aware, so they work properly with Portrait photos. The app has also received support for the Extended-Range color space of RAW files. The app is now also integrated with the camera app Halide. - Free - Download Now
• 321 Launch - If you're a fan of space exploration, this app is really cool and something you want to check out. Created by USA Today, this app lets you watch live rocket launch in augmented reality, giving you a full 3D view of the launch as it happens. The app generates a predictive flight path, also in AR, that you can follow during liftoff. When launches aren't happening live, you can still have fun setting up a Falcon 9 rocket simulation, with the Atlas V rocket coming soon. - Free - Download Now
• Pendo Note - This app is your ultimate destination for writing it down. What is it? Pretty much anything you want. Pendo is a combined app for notes, journaling, todos, calendaring, and sharing. Connect Pendo to your iOS calendar, and use natural language to enter in new events. Create todo lists and Twitter posts, and more. Pendo also comes equipped with a set of letter-based quick commands, which allows making entries to be easier than ever. - Free - Download Now

Featured apps

In the spirit of the Master's Tournament, this week's collection of apps all focus on golf. Work on your game, find a great course, or just keep up with the latest in the sport.

• Golfplan - Whether working on your swing or putt, Golfplan can help improve your game. The app features more than 400 coaching videos from golfing experts. Each video focuses on one of nine areas of your game, including driving, putting, and the bunker. New videos offer different insights each month, and favorite videos that you find helpful so you can easily come back to them. Keep in mind that while the app is free to download, there are a number of in-app purchases available. - Free - Download Now
• Golfshot - This golf GPS app is from the makers of Golfplan, and offers a look at more than 40,000 courses worldwide. View stats based on your playing history, keep score for both yourself and your group, and purchase and track your Handicap Index. You can also get detailed stats based on your playing history, and even get a quick glance at your current game using your Apple Watch. - Free - Download Now
• Hole19 - This is your full-featured golf companion app. Hole19 helps you find courses where you want to play, check local weather, and book tee times. Beyond that, you'll also get accurate GPS distances for more than 40,000 golf courses around the world. The app also lets you keep score in your game, and with Hole19 Premium, you can track the distance of your last shot, view detailed performance metrics for your current game, and statistics for each club. - Free - Download Now