The news comes in a mixture of text and videos.
Using a mixture of text commands and multiple-choice options, it tells you what the weather is now, and answers questions on what it might do next.
The app uses a mixture of text, video and music, and is a great way into the book, film and album.
"The mixture of text and images all over the Internet is very visual, and medieval manuscripts are very visual," she said.
It's based on the late poet's translation of five 15th-century Scottish adaptations of Aesop's Fables, with a mixture of text, animation, narration from Billy Connolly, and academic notes and interviews.
It tells the story of adventurer John Evans' quest to find a fabled Welsh-speaking tribe of native Americans, using a mixture of text, video and music split into 100 "messages".
Whereas the Playtime app was a collection of mini-games, the emphasis in Storytime is on reading, with each story delivered using a mixture of text, voice narration and interactivity, as well as comprehension questions at the end.
iPad by Tank & Bear Beauty and the Beast (£2.99) Developer StoryToys specialises in turning familiar fairytales into pseudo-3D pop-up book-apps, telling the stories through a mixture of text and animated, interactive scenes that pop up from the virtual pages.
Those images contain a mixture of text and pictures.
Tumblr describes itself as a way to "effortlessly share anything" using a mixture of text, pictures, videos and various other formats.
