Pocket Plastic

As promised, it's early April and SwankoLab just hit the App Store about half an hour ago for US$1.99 [iTunes].

The app is slicker than a pimp's Jheri curl and surprisingly more flexible. Where Synthetic Corp's previous app, Hipstamatic, was limited by the combination of one lens + one film type + one flash, SwankoLab looks set to produce thousands of possible combinations from its eight basic operations (called "chemicals"). Add another $1.99, and the number of chemicals goes up to 17. Because the order in which these are applied has an impact on the final result, far more variation is possible.

We'll have a full review up in time, but this looks very promising right now and we have no problems recommending it at the low price.