aplibs free app for iPhone and iPad


4.9 ( 1279 ratings )
News Entertainment
Developer: Eric Hartman
Free
Current version: 1.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 10 Oct 2015
App size: 3.11 Mb

Ever play that game where you replace words in a story and end up with hilarious results? Well, welcome to aplibs, a refreshing new way to experience unlimited fun with the latest news stories from around the world.

aplibs is smart, really smart. With its built-in library of over 300,000 words, 90,000 person names, 6,000 company names, and 4,000 celebrity names, the majority of English content on the web is now available for ad-lib fun for the first time. This depth of knowledge allows aplibs to read news articles from around the world and identify interesting key words so that you can substitute new words into stories with side-splitting results. Enjoy adding your friends, family members, enemies or anyone into todays headline stories. You can even randomize word substitutions for zany and unexpected twists. Share your creations using social media, email, and text messaging. Save stories to favorites to enjoy and update again and again.

Features:
- 10 topics featuring non-curated content from across the web
- Over 300,000 words and proper nouns comprehension
- Over 130 curated word families to substitute
- Word randomization
- Customizable to seek & substitute what you enjoy most
- Sharing to Facebook, email, and txt messaging
- Favorites
- Universal app

Topics:
Enjoy selecting stories across 10 topics, featuring Top Stories, U.S., World, Business, Technology, Entertainment, Sports, Science, Health, and Spotlight.

Words:
More than 300,000 unique words, names, companies, places, professions, countries, states, nationalities, religions and more.

Word Families:
More than 130 specialized word categorizations that identify the most meaningful elements in news stories and provide the foundations for word substitutions. Each word family is associated with a unique icon that helps to visually paraphrase stories in each topic to help you decide what will be interesting to you.

Randomization:
Randomize individual words or entire stories to add interesting and unexpected twists to the plot.

Customizable:
For the adventurous, aplibs is configurable. You can decide how much or how little you want to substitute. You can prioritize which families of words youre interested in ad-libing most. Tune it to seek names of politicians, celebrities, professional groups, action verbs, articles of clothing... choose from over 130 word families to maximize the fun to your unique tastes.

Sharing:
Quickly share your funniest works with friends and family via Facebook, email, and txt messaging.

Favorites:
Save your favorite stories so that you can update them again and again.

Universal app:
This app runs on iPhone and iPad devices.

Ad supported.