The iPhone Duo Can Be a Tiny Mac, a Toaster, and a Nintendo DS

The iPhone Duo has an all-new signifier origin with aggregate folding and predisposition options, and app developers are having immoderate amusive with it. You tin find rather a fewer apps utilizing the foldable show successful unsocial ways, galore with skeuomorphic designs.

Tiny Computers ($3.99)

Tiny Computers turns the ‌iPhone Duo‌ into a miniature retro computer, with options inspired by the Macintosh, Commodore 64, Amiga 500, iMac G3, iBook G3, and more. It works champion with the ‌iPhone Duo‌ successful a seated orientation, giving you a show and a virtual keyboard.


The mini computers person clickable keyboards, desktop games, and overgarment programs, on with hidden files and easter eggs.

Fold & Squish (Free)

Made by the aforesaid developer arsenic Tiny Computers, Fold & Squish lets you marque Rorschach creation with the Duo. You overgarment a plan connected 1 fractional of the Duo's display, adjacent it, hitch a digit implicit the outer show to "squish" the virtual paint, past unfastened it up to spot your finished design.


An add-on "Sparkle Pack" includes glitter paints, rainbow paint, and pencil guides for helping you overgarment designs similar butterflies, but the basal diagnostic acceptable is disposable for free.

Portal ($2.99/month)

Portal is simply a relaxation app that offers "portals" to antithetic earthy environments, from a lava stream successful Iceland to the unreality wood successful Costa Rica. There are implicit 100 locations, each with calming sounds and breathing exercises. The app tin beryllium utilized for meditation, but it besides has absorption timers and slumber timers.


When the ‌iPhone Duo‌ is unfolded, scenes instrumentality up the full display, but it besides works particularly good erstwhile the ‌iPhone Duo‌ is successful structure mode. There are 3 escaped portals to usage that are refreshed each month, and a Premium subscription is priced astatine $2.99 per period oregon $29.99 per year.

Lake (Free)

Lake is an big coloring publication that's been updated for the ‌iPhone Duo‌. Holding the Duo successful representation mode gives you a full-page coloring surface, and the developer tells america it's being updated for Apple Pencil.


Lake has coloring pages from a agelong database of artists. It's escaped to download and comes with basal coloring pages and tools, but unlocking the afloat app requires a premium subscription that's $9.99 per month.

Toastie ($2.99)

Toastie turns the ‌iPhone Duo‌ into a toaster for making grilled food sandwiches. It's a crippled wherever you hole the sandwich ingredients, past adjacent the ‌iPhone Duo‌ to toast the sandwich. Timing is important, and the extremity is to marque a cleanable grilled cheese.

Delta Game Emulator (Free)

Popular crippled emulator app Delta has been updated for the ‌iPhone Duo‌, and it turns the Duo into a Nintendo DS.



The app has Nintendo DS controls, and erstwhile you adjacent it, it looks similar the ammunition of the gaming strategy and puts the crippled you're playing into slumber mode. Delta supports plentifulness of games from different systems too.

TypeDraw ($4.99)

TypeDraw turns the ‌iPhone Duo‌ into a notebook. It looks similar a notebook erstwhile the Duo is closed, and past you tin unfastened it up to pages you tin constitute on. The app supports ‌Apple Pencil‌.

Fold Accordion ($2.99)

As the sanction suggests, Fold Accordion turns the ‌iPhone Duo‌ into an accordion. The hinge serves arsenic the bellows, truthful the thought is to unfastened and adjacent the Duo to marque music. There's a larn mode that lights up the keys you request to press.

Living Earth ($5.99)

If you're looking for an app that's perfect for the Duo's structure mode, Living Earth is worthy checking out. It lets you acceptable a determination to get the clip and section weather, positive it has a rotating globe that you tin spin. When you unfold your ‌iPhone Duo‌, the globe takes up the full display.


The app shows unrecorded clouds, storms, and upwind maps crossed the world, truthful you tin support way of hurricanes, tropical storms, and different upwind events.

Duometry ($2.99)

Duometry is simply a crippled that gives you a people space you person to lucifer by folding the ‌iPhone Duo‌. The thought is to marque your champion conjecture astatine the angle, and past fastener successful to spot if you were correct.

Deck-Man ($4.99)

Deck-Man turns your ‌iPhone Duo‌ into a retro cassette player. You unfastened up the ‌iPhone Duo‌ to prime your music, insert the cassette, and past drawback the Duo closed to commencement euphony playback.

Orisuji ($4.99)

Orisuji is simply a insubstantial maze crippled wherever you commencement with the interior display, and past fold the ‌iPhone Duo‌ to the outer show to lick the puzzles.

More Fun Apps

• Foldissimo - If 1 pouch accordion wasn't enough, there's besides Foldissimo, which lets you usage your ‌iPhone Duo‌ to play accordion songs.


• Fold Focus ($5.99/month) - Fold Focus is simply a pomodoro timer app that motivates you to support your ‌iPhone Duo‌ closed for work, study, oregon originative sessions. While your instrumentality is shut, you enactment connected gathering a virtual city.


• Foldfish (Free) - Foldfish is simply a crippled wherever you unfold the ‌iPhone Duo‌ to cast, pat to throw, and past clasp to reel successful a catch.


• Nitelore (Free) - Nitelore is an anti-gravity racing crippled with neon colors, and it looks large connected the ‌iPhone Duo‌.

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