10 ‘Must Have’ Apps For Your Windows Phone 8

1. AccuWeather

This international weather application provides rich graphical weather forecasts from cities around the world and the cities you choose. Accuweather also lets you add cities to a live tile so you can view the weather quickly.

Download Accuweather

2. Fresh Paint

                                                                               

Fresh Paint offers us that pleasure by giving us various tools to draw any art and go absolutely crazy with your artsy little fingers.Fresh Paint is a fun and easy to use painting app.

Features: 

- Realistic oil paint, brushes and pencils

- Transform photos into paintings with artistic camera lenses

- Easy sharing with a tap, text message, email or SkyDrive

- Custom mix colors to create the perfect shades 

 Download Fresh Paint

 

3. 6Tag

6tag is the most full featured Instagram app for Windows Phone. Upload picture and videos on Instagram, apply filters, tag your friends, view posts on a map, etc..

Features :

-100% original instagram filters: XPro-II, Earlybird, Rise, Amaro, Hudson,and others

- Interact with friends through giving & receiving likes and comments

- Front & Back camera support

- Create collage with a lot of customization

- Blur your instagram pictures using your finger •

- Save your pictures on your phone when you post in high quality (up to 2048x2048) And much much more...
  

Download 6Tag

4. ProShot

Introducing the first Windows Phone 8 Lens specifically designed for the photography professional! Unleash the full potential of your phone's camera with the ProShot camera OS, and discover new creative possibilities with Auto, Program, Manual, and two Custom modes, with the ability to manually adjust : Shutter Speed , ISO , White Balance , Exposure ,Compensation , Focus , Flash , Aspect Ratio , AF Assist Lamp.

Download Proshot

 

5. Photosynth

 

Photosynth for Windows Phone is the panorama app that makes it easy and fun to capture and share interactive panoramas of the places, people, and events that are important to you. Using the latest in computer vision techniques, Photosynth is the acknowledged leader in mobile panorama creation. It is the only app available on Windows Phone that allows you to capture 360 degrees horizontally and vertically, making a perfect “sphere.
Once you’ve created a Photosynth, you can share it as an interactive panoramic experience on Facebook and Twitter using the free Photosynth.net service

Download PhotoSynth

 

6. Fantasia painter free

 

The BEST and MOST COMPLETE photo/painting app for Windows Phone, now free! Unleash your inner artist with this artistic expression tool, even if newbie in painting, and impress your friends

Features :

-Brushes

-100+ effects .

-Paint with one finger. Zoom/pan with two fingers. and much more

Download Fantasia painter free

7. Creative Studio

 

An exclusive for Nokia Lumia users, Creative Studio is a photo-editing app that lets you do the usual in-phone fixing and trimming. A nice feature here is that the app keep the pics at their original resolution, so there’s no sneaky compression going on behind the scenes. You can access it from the Lumia’s native camera app (hit ‘edit’) .

Download Creative Studio

 

8. Spotify

I love Spotify. Using this app, you will be able to access the millions of songs in the Spotify library, right from your Windows phone. The Spotify interface on the Windows phone is sublime. (Not Available in all countries )
Features:
- Search, browse & play millions of tracks.

- Stream over WiFi or 2.5/3G - all your existing playlists are available.
- Offline playlists
- play your music without an internet connection.

- every track you add to a playlist appears on mobile and computer.
- What's New view. - Receive music from friends via the inbox.
- Starred tracks  And many more.. :) 

Download Spotify

 

9. Insider Pro

This App has a lot of useful functions.
Insider app is an application that shows your phone battery status, software version/ hardware status information, and Shortcut feature allows you to easy access your Flashlight and Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, location, Cellular, Airplane mode settings. you can grab it for 1.29$. and there is also a free version.

Features:

- Support Live Tile / Lock Screen 

- Battery Status / Stats 

- Time Tools: World Clock, Stopwatch, Countdown 

- System Info: phone info, version, network, memory... 

- Diagnostics: NFC, GPS, LCD, Headset...

Download Insider Pro

Download Insider

10. Nextgen Reader

A fast, clean and beautiful RSS reader for Windows Phone (also available on Windows 8).

Features: 

 -Clean, beautiful & simple design, inspired from Windows Phone with offline mode, multiple live tiles, image  caching and a lot more. 

-Dynamic subscriptions hub with featured section to find latest and popular feeds. 

-Always read full articles without clutter (powered by Readability, Instapaper or Google mobilizer). 

-Watch YouTube videos, share to social networks like Twitter, Facebook, etc. 

-Easily save articles to Instapaper, Read It Later & Readability for offline reading. 

-Oh, and don't forget to customize with tons of options available in settings.

Download Nextgen Reader