lockscreen apps

New update v4.2 for the Windows Phone Central app ready to download, includes lock screen wallpaper support

It's time for another update to our official Windows Phone app, and this one brings functionality many of you have requested: lock screen wallpapers. If you're a die-hard fan of the site and just can't get enough Windows Phone news, or even want to bring the news front and center for a week or so, you can enable our app as your wallpaper provider to get the latest headlines on your lock...

Location Reminder for Windows Phone 8, position based reminders

George Ponder 6 years ago 22

Location Reminder is a Windows Phone 8 app that is a convenient way to tag locations and set location based reminders about them. For example, you order a birthday cake at the local bakery you drive by daily. With Location Reminder you can save the location of the bakery and set a reminder to pick the cake up. As you drive near the bakery, a toast notification will pop up reminding you...

Gaze at the planet's day and night cycle with Earth Lock Screen

Rich Edmonds 6 years ago 15

Are you a fan of the Earth? Would you like to see the day and night cycle in action on your Windows Phone lock screen? If the answer to both questions is "affirmative", then you'll be sure to check out Earth Lock Screen. The newly released app does exactly as the name suggests - a dynamically rendered photo of the Earth is displayed on the lock screen as a background. We say...

Amazing Weather HD updated, new HD images and you can use your own photos now

George Ponder 6 years ago 90

Amazing Weather HD is simply an amazing Windows Phone weather app. Along with a nice level of weather coverage (forecasts, radar, satellite, etc.), the app also has support that pulls stunning HD weather images to your Windows Phone lockscreen. Amazing Weather HD has been updated to version 4.2. We suspect a little fine tuning was done under the hood (the app seems to have a bit more...

Map Wallpaper lets you get your location at a glance

Sam Sabri 6 years ago 69

Last Saturday I got the chance to check out a Hackathon down in San Diego. It was a great event and I’ll be telling you guys about that later on. But the app that won the overall hackathon is now in the Windows Phone Store. Map Wallpaper is a clever lockscreen app that gives you your current location at a glance. Let’s check it out. We sat around our virtual Windows Phone Central...

Pic Stitch, a photo collage creator for Windows Phone 8

George Ponder 6 years ago 42

Pic Stitch is a relatively new Windows Phone collage builder with a built in photo editor. It's a fairly simple app that has a nice selection of collage templates that can be customized along with a photo editor powered by Aviary (much like you see in Instagraph and other Windows Phone photography apps). Pic Stitch is a decent photo app for Windows Phone 8 with the only real downside...

Pic Stitch for Windows Phone 8 - Joe Belfiore recommended

George Ponder 6 years ago 86

Pic Stitch is a new Windows Phone 8 photography app that has seen a bit of success over on iOS. It is part photo editor, part collage maker, and part photo sharing app. It caught the eye of Microsoft's Joe Belfiore and we have to admit, it does make a nice first impression. Pic Stitch has 31 different collage layouts and a single image frame. Your first step is to choose your frame...

The Forecast, a uniquely simple Windows Phone weather app

George Ponder 6 years ago 41

The Forecast is a bare bones weather app for your Windows Phone 8 and 7.x devices. Not much flash with The Forecast but it does provide you with the basic weather information to help you plan you day or week. The Forecast lays out the weather forecasts across three screen and has Live Tile and Lockscreen support. The app does support multiple locations or you can just let it present the...

Show your Lumia pride with these great lockscreen wallpapers

Daniel Rubino 6 years ago 82

If there is one thing Nokia Lumia owners have, it’s immodesty when it comes to their brightly colored phones (often to the chagrin of Samsung and HTC fans, ahem). So why not take it a step further with these handful of wallpapers? We haven’t covered too many wallpaper packs since Windows Phone 8 came out, mostly because we rely on our various apps to now rotate ‘em on a regular basis...

Nokia poll results show notifications as most valued feature on lock screens

Rich Edmonds 6 years ago 55

Nokia ran a poll on its blog last week, asking consumers which of the different lock screen features they valued most. Whether it's the notifications, the background images or locking the Windows Phone with a passcode, visitors had the selection of three to choose from. The team has now published the results, which aren't entirely surprising. The on-screen notifications (whether it be...

LinkedIn updated, adds support for the big tiles and speech recognition

Rich Edmonds 6 years ago 19

The official LinkedIn app for Windows Phone has been bumped to version 1.5 and introduces a number of new features. The social network is geared towards business and is a place for co-workers to gather and networks to prosper. If you're looking for a solution to keep in touch with the professional side of your life, LinkedIn is a solid option. So what's new in the latest release? The...

Quotr, insprirational quotes for Windows Phone 8

George Ponder 6 years ago 19

Looking for a really simple quote app? One that generates countless inspirational quotations from the likes of Confucius, Voltaire, and Grandma Moses? If so, Quotr is a new Windows Phone 8 that should fit the bill. Quotr is as simple as it gets with an inspirational quote greeting you as the app is launched. If the quote doesn't do much for you, tap the screen and another quote is...

Simply Weather brings minimalism to a whole new level for Windows Phone 8

Daniel Rubino 6 years ago 64

If there is one thing we know of our audience it’s that you embrace minimalist design ethic especially that of the Metro UI school of Microsoft. Indeed, this is one of the selling points of Windows Phone with its focus on design language, even for third-party apps. Simply Weather is a new, free weather app for Windows Phone 8 and while it doesn’t pack a lot in features, it does look...

New AT&T Nokia Lumia 920 firmware gives more screen-timeout options in latest update

Daniel Rubino 6 years ago 99

Here’s a sneaky (and welcomed) little change that a few of you have tipped us on. It seems yesterday’s AT&T Lumia 920 firmware update, which will be going to other Lumias in the near future, is also sporting a few changes for the display time-out (found under Settings > Lock Screen). Currently, some users on a few Windows Phone have only four options: 30 seconds, 1 minute, 3...

LockWidgets 8 rolls on the Windows Phone Store, keeps us informed with a glance

Daniel Rubino 6 years ago 84

Jaxbot over at Windows Phone Hacker as released a new app onto the Windows Phone 8 Store and it’s worth the $0.99 for it. The app is called LockWidgets 8 and allows users to add up to three information areas to their lockscreens, including current temperature, tomorrow’s temp and battery life. Some detailed information is also included like estimated time left on the charge and if it...

Amazing Weather HD updated with more beautiful live tiles

Sam Sabri 6 years ago 92

One of the highest rated weather apps on Windows Phone just picked up another update. Amazing Weather HD is now packing a few new aesthetic changes to one of the most beautiful apps. Some bug fixes and new features await you after the break. If you update Amazing Weather HD to version 4.1.5.0 you’ll find yourself getting the regular ol’ bug fixes and some enhancements to the live tiles...

Weather Wallpaper for Windows Phone 8, lockscreen support using your images

George Ponder 6 years ago 21

Weather Wallpaper is a Windows Phone 8 app that, as the title suggests, lets you integrate your local weather information into your lockscreen wallpaper. While other weather apps are out there that offer lockscreen support, Amazing Weather HD comes to mind, Weather Wallpaper gives you the option as to which wallpapers to use. You can use weather related images provided by Bing, Bing's...

The Quote makes the move to Windows Phone 8, adds lockscreen support

George Ponder 6 years ago 5

The Quote is a popular Windows Phone app that has made the leap to Windows Phone 8 offering support not only for all the screen resolutions but also support for the various live tile sizes and lockscreen support. It has been a while since we last looked at The Quote and with this recent update, we decided to revisit the entertainment/reference app. The main pages for The Quote...

Hello Friends lockscreen app not only displays your friends, but the weather and battery in latest update

Rich Edmonds 7 years ago 15

Hello Friends is a useful and popular app for Windows Phone that enables consumers to add photos of contact stored on the device to the lockscreen and create the same mosaic effect that's utilised on the People Hub Live Tile. As well as being available for Windows Phone 8 (with the added lockscreen support), Hello Friends is also downloadable for Windows Phone 7 hardware, but lacks...

Display custom text on your Windows Phone lock screen with Lock Screen Text

Rich Edmonds 7 years ago 20

Lock Screen Text, we know what you're thinking - just another lock screen app, right? Well, this is a little different than the status quo. Instead of publishing the weather forecast, or displaying the Nyan Cat, Lock Screen Text enables users to input their own text, which is then rendered on the Windows Phone lock screen. Developed by Gabriel Caldwell, the brains behind NASA Image of...