Check out these cool apps for IOS and Android

Ofcom Wi-Fi Checker/Android/iOS: Ofcom’s app helps you check whether your home Wi-Fi is slowing internet speed, and while its results aren’t that detailed, it does suggest useful tips for fixing problems.

SwiftKey Symbols/Android: This app has been designed for people on the autism spectrum or with other communication disabilities. It’s a symbol-based tool for children and adults alike, and predicts next symbol based on their past use.

Grayout/iOS: Is this a game or interactive fiction? Whichever you choose, it’s a marvellous – if often unsettling – read. It’s a prequel to the equally great Blackbar, as your character battles a language-processing disorder to navigate a hospital research lab.

Endless Learning Academy/iOS: The Endless series is among the best children’s educational apps available, and this is the best yet. It blends maths, phonics, spelling, anatomy and even Spanish in a colourful app for two- to six-year-olds, presented by cartoon monsters. Parents buy new lessons as in-app purchases.

Snap Swipe Drawer/ Android: This does what it says on the tin: a virtual drawer that you swipe out to reveal your favourite widgets, without having to flick back to your homescreen first. A simple tool, but a really useful one.

Google Cardboard Camera/Cardboard Camera/ Android: Virtual reality (VR) is going to be big news this year, with the Google Cardboard project helping Android owners turn their smartphones into VR viewers. This virtual reality fun app helps you take photos on your phone that can be panned around in 360 degrees – which Google hopes you’ll do with a Cardboard headset.

Kimoji/iOS: Look away now if you’re not a fan of the rise of the Kardashians: this is Kim’s latest app, following  her lucrative mobile game. It’s a collection of emoji – digital stickers – to be cut and pasted into other messaging apps like iMessage, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Fun for fans.

Bumble/Android/iOS: Out on iPhone for a while but newly ported to Android, hetero-dating app Bumble aims to be a female-friendly Tinder. The key feature: when two people “swipe right” to indicate interest, the conversation can’t start until the woman says something. The aim: to up the quality of connections.

Sugar smart/Change4Life/ Android/iOS: If you’re starting 2016 with the resolution of cutting down on your sugar intake, this app may help. It’s an app for scanning the barcodes on food and drink to get information on how much sugar they contain. Useful, if possibly also terrifying.

GAMES/Grand Theft Auto- Liberty City Stories app logo/Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories/iOS: This GTA game originally came out for Sony’s PSP handheld in 2005, and has now been ported smoothly to iOS (with Android following shortly). It’s the familiar mixture of driving, fighting and music appreciation, with missions well suited to shorter mobile sessions.