Elevate, Hyperlapse top Apple's best apps of 2014

Elevate, Hyperlapse top Apple's best apps of 2014
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If you're fond of training your brain, you've probably heard of Elevate, which Apple just deemed its favorite app of the year. The program lets you pick skills you'd like to improve, like tip calculations, name recall, and conversions, then gives you a personalized training plan. All you have to do, basically, is play some games.

Elevated edged out Instagram's Hyperlapse, which produces a neat time lapse from your predictably shaky video.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.