10 Augmented Reality Apps That Are Better Than Pokemon Go MondlyAR Inkhunter Star Chart Housecraft Roar Augmented Reality GIPHY World Holo Just a Line Splitter Critters Euclidean Lands App Rating: 4.7/5.0 Available On: IOS & Android Price: Free Even though my parents are native speakers of Mandarin and I took a year-long Chinese course in college, I’m still terrified to speak the language. Luckily, Mondly, a language learning platform, created an AR app to help you practice your speaking abilities with your very own virtual language assistant. App Rating: 4.5/5.0 Available On: IOS Price: Free Designing a room is just like getting a tattoo. If you buy the wrong furniture, it could ruin the room’s entire aesthetic. To avoid this regretful situation, consider downloading Housecraft before you buy any new furniture. ROAR Augmented Reality App Rating: 4.3/5.0 Price: Free ROAR is like Shazam, but for food and beverages. Holo App Rating: 4.4/5.0 Available On: IOS & Android Price: Free Similar to GIPHY World, Holo lets you place AR visuals into your photos and videos. App Rating: 4.6/5.0 Available On: IOS & Android Price: Free As one of Google’s flagship AR apps, Just a Line is surprisingly simple -- the only thing you can do on the app is make simple drawings. Just a Line can also sync your phone with your friend’s phone, letting you both share the same drawing space and potentially play the most engaging Tic-tac-toe game of your life. Splitter Critters might seem simple and straightforward at first, but there are a whopping 57 levels, so it’s definitely a challenge to beat the entire game.
During the summer of 2016, Pokemon Go revived countless amounts of people’s inner Ash Ketchum, making street corners, parks, and backyards look like an arcade from the 80’s. Over 100 million people lived their childhood fantasies of catching, training, and battling Pokemon in (augmented) real life that summer, and the app’s enourmous popularity stimulated public interest in augmented reality technology as a whole. In fact, since Pokemon Go’s release, the number of AR app downloads has exploded by 366%.
If you want to see what all the augmented reality hype is about, but don’t want to download and test out the more than 2,000 AR apps on the App Store right now, we’ve got you covered.
We curated a list of the mobile AR apps that are better than the app that popularized augmented reality, helping you grasp and enjoy the technology’s current capabilities.
10 Augmented Reality Apps That Are Better Than Pokemon Go
- MondlyAR
- Inkhunter
- Star Chart
- Housecraft
- Roar Augmented Reality
- GIPHY World
- Holo
- Just a Line
- Splitter Critters
- Euclidean Lands
App Rating: 4.7/5.0
Available On: IOS & Android
Price: Free
Even though my parents are native speakers of Mandarin and I took a year-long Chinese course in college, I’m still terrified to speak the language. My American accent and lack of fluency is personally too embarrassing, so I just don’t speak Mandarin — ever.
But one of my goals in life is to become fluent in the language, and the only way to accomplish this is by constantly conversing with native speakers. I can’t seem to muster enough courage to reveal my weak speaking abilities to them, though.
If you’re in similar situation, you might feel like you’re trapped in a vicious cycle, where your embarrassment leads to inaction, which leads to decline and, ultimately, more embarrassment.
Luckily, Mondly, a language learning platform, created an AR app to help you practice your speaking abilities with your very own virtual language assistant.
Your digital assistant can converse with you in seven different languages — Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, British English, and American English — and with MondlyAR’s advanced features like speech recognition, chatbot technology, and artificial intelligence, she can also give you feedback on your pronunciation and make your lessons as engaging as possible by summoning virtual animals, instruments, and other objects to your room.
App Rating: 4.7/5.0
Available On: IOS & Android
Price: Free
Getting a tattoo can be one of the most stressful decisions of your life. If you get the wrong one, it’ll stay with you forever — until you opt for laser tattoo removal.
Fortunately, though, Inkhunter leverages augmented reality to take the guesswork out of getting a tattoo. After you upload your own art to the app or choose designs from Inkhunter’s gallery, all you have to do is mark the potential area for your tattoo and hover your phone over the mark to see how it’d look on your body, letting you think before you ink.
3. Star Chart
App Rating: 4.5/5.0
Price: Free
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