thePULSEBy Alyssa LaManna
You’ve been waiting 365 days to whip out your emerald “Kiss Me I’m Irish” T-shirt and shamrock suspenders, and now the day is almost here. Don’t leave all the luck to the Irish ~ make sure your phone is loaded with apps to keep your spirits high this St. Patrick’s Day!
Whether you save the celebration for March 17 or make it a weekend-long party, these five apps will make this a holiday to remember (or forget).
Think your money would be better put towards corned beef and cabbage? Don’t worry, these apps are free.
Want to polish up on your St. Paddy’s 101? Broken Thumbs Apps features, A St. Patrick’s Day Quizzle, which showcases trivia about the holiday. Do you know what a leprechaun’s favorite drink is? Or what Ireland’s most famous castle is? Be the entertainment and whip out this app at your St. Patrick’s Day shindig!
If you’re step-dancing on a budget and left your mugs, hats and blow-up pot of gold at home, no worries, there’s an app for that! ObjectGraph LLC offers St. Patrick’s Day Photo, which helps digitally enhance your St. Paddy spirit. Add some four-leaf clovers, top hats and mugs of foamy beer to your photos
You’re probably looking for a way to pass the time as you wait for March 17 to arrive. So, naturally, it’s time to become a rainbow-chasing expert. Download the addicting game Cloud Runner, and help Larry the Leprechaun find his magical double rainbow as he leaps from cloud to cloud. Be sure to avoid those falling bombs as you play.
You’ve either got your St. Patrick’s Day weekend planned out to the last Irish Car Bomb you swig, or you’re going to wing it. Either way, download the Yelp app to your phone before you hit the bars to make your planning process a little easier. This one-stop search will give you a list of all local restaurants, bars and pubs in your radius. The information includes prices, what’s open and directions, so you can keep the pub-crawl going all night!
Not 21 yet? It’s OK, we still expect you to show your green side. You can pretend to be sipping on a chilled mug of beer with iBeer. This app allows you to “drink” a beer on your iPhone. Enjoy as a fake beer appears on your screen. Bottoms up!
MORE INFORMATION
A St. Patrick’s Day Quizzle: brokenthumbsapps.com.
St. Patrick’s Day Photo: objectgraph.com.
Cloud Runner and iBeer: itunes.apple.com.
