Five to Try: anut is like Tinder for fellow moms, Meshi Quest offers chaotic cooking fun

BY GreenBot Staff

Published 25 Aug 2017

Many of us are already plugged into social networking services such as Facebook Twitter, but they might not be ideal for moms on the hunt for fellow, local moms to befriend. That’s where anut comes in, the Tinder-like app for finding parental pals leads our latest look at the week’s most compelling new Android apps games.

Not a mom, already full up on friends, or just in the mood for something else? have a few other picks: Meshi Quest is an entertaining restaurant simulation, Hurry creates stylish countdown clocks for your home screen, Bust-a-Move urney is a new, premium rendition of the classic bubble puzzler. And if you run your own business, then GoDaddy’s new Smartne 2nd Number service might be worth a look, as well.

anut

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Finding new friends as a parent is hard. anut might help.

If you’re a mom looking for other nearby, like-minded moms to mingle with, then anut might be up your alley. It’s been on ione for a few months now has just made its way to Android, offering a Tinder-like way to match up with potentially meet fellow moms in your city or neighborhood. 

You’ll create a profile with your own likes interests, then you’re shown profiles of other moms in the area. If you think there’s a match friendship can bloom, then you can “wave” to her; if she waves back, you’ll be connected to chat. You can also create group chats meetup invitations, but fair warning: You’ll need a Facebook account to register verify your mom-ness. 

Meshi Quest: Five-Star Kitchen

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How quickly can you serve up sushi?

Cooking games (like Cooking Mama) restaurant service games (like Diner Dash) aren’t new, but Square Enix’s Meshi Quest: Five-Star Kitchen combines them in a compelling way. Starting at a panese restaurant, you’ll take customers’ orders prepare their dishes right in front of them, with each requiring a specific process. One example: Turn on the rice cooker, get the rice, top it with salmon, pull out a plate, put sauce on it, place the roll, then serve it.

You’ll get the hang of that pretty quickly, but as orders come in faster diners want different dishes, you’ll have to scramble to try keep up. Meshi Quest keeps its play sessions short, yet increasingly frantic, you’ll encounter more than 200 recipes as you make your way across town help various restaurants improve exp. 

Hurry

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Keep tabs on upcoming events have fun with it too.

Counting down the minutes to some momentous occasion? Can’t wait for a birthday, concert, party, or the start of a new job? ll, now your phone can take that excitement out of your head put it right on your home screen with Hurry. This app lets you create customizable countdown widgets that live on your screen, can even provide a constant countdown reminder if you want.

It’s functionality is super simple, but Hurry’s stylish interface keeps it compelling, with easy, entertaining creation of countdown timers optional widgets. You can even play a mini-game to kill time, plus it’s tied into Giphy to let you jazz up the backdrop. esumably, you’ll use the app to count down to a happy event, Hurry nicely matches that tone. 

Bust-a-Move urney

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It’s classic Bust-a-Move, now without freemium junk.

The ay Store has no shortage of colorful, bubble-popping puzzle games—including Angry Birds p Bubble tch 3 Saga— all of them owe a debt to the classic Bust-a-Move (a.k.a. zzle Bobble) franchise. Unfortunately for fans of premium, ad-free games, they’re pretty much all free-to-play games with frustrating difficulty spikes in-app purchases along the way, that’s true even of the last Bust-a-Move entry, which has since been delisted.

But Bust-a-Move urney ($5) thankfully breaks that trend is a return to form for the decades-old favorite. Ultimately, it doesn’t do anything particularly new with the genre, but the tried–true bubble-clearing formula still entertains, it works especially well on mobile too. urney has 270 levels bundled in for your five bucks, apparently offers more for purchase beyond that, but it thankfully lacks the constant nickel–dime feel of a freemium entry.

GoDaddy Smartne 2nd Number

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Separate personal work communications on one device.

Here’s an app with a very particular feature set, yet one that could be incredibly helpful to some people. GoDaddy might be best known for domain names, but the company’s new Smartne 2nd Number service is designed to provide small business owners self-employed folks with a separate number that can be used alongside your regular one on the same device, along with some other hy perks.

You can pick a local number that’s just for business purposes have those calls routed to your regular phone, so you don’t have to h out your personal number all willy-nilly. so, you can also choose when that number is active. Don’t want to take calls after 5 p.m.? mit its active window calls go to voicemail instead. nt to text instead of talk? No problem. It’s either $4 or $10 per month depending on how much you use the service, there’s a free trial available if you want to give it a shot.