Check out these recently launched apps in Microsoft Store on Windows

Microsoft Store in Windows offers a wide range in its ever-growing catalog of apps. Explore our curated list of new apps that spans everything from photography and astronomy to audio and video editing.

Glass

If you’re a photography enthusiast who misses the simplicity and positivity of early photo-sharing communities, Glass might be the new home you seek. Unlike other image sharing social media apps, Glass is free of ads, data tracking, algorithmic feeds, or the dreaded “suggested videos.” Instead, this member-supported app is all about sharing photos to your followers in the best possible light, featuring a clean, simple design that uses minimal JPG compression and allows you to admire every detail. Community features help you appreciate, engage, and learn from other photographers while avoiding unhelpful distractions like public “like counts.”

Scrivener

Writers, rejoice. Scrivener places a massive creative toolbelt at your fingertips, helping you tackle every writing challenge. Whether you’re planning a new novel, drafting a screenplay, or working on a dissertation, this is the app that helps you start writing—and keep writing. Scrivener’s flexible interface accommodates a variety of writing projects and offers a handy, rich feature set, including a corkboard for mapping out ideas, side-by-side document viewing, outlining features, and much more. Feeling overwhelmed by the sheer amount of scribbled ideas flowing from your noggin? Simply write each scene, chapter, or section as inspiration strikes, then apply “Scrivenings” mode to pull the pieces together into one awesome read. The power of the pen, er, keyboard is yours!

Siril

Siril is an image processing tool that is specially tailored for noise reduction, while improving the signal to noise ratio of an image from multiple captures, as required in astronomy. The app can automatically or manually align, stack and enhance pictures from various file formats (including images sequences like movies and SER files). Because images can contain valuable scientific data, Siril provides tools to analyze star brightness variation. A powerful astrometry interaction will quickly give you information about objects in the image. If you’re a lover of the world of astronomy, this fast and flexible app is your complete astro workflow with deep-sky lucky imaging processing speed operations.

Descript

Descript is an all-in-one editor that makes editing as easy as a Microsoft Word document. Upload media or record directly in Descript to instantly transcribe your file into text, then tweak the text to directly edit your media clips. Transcriptions are fast and accurate, plus they have automatic speaker detection. Edit out filler words and silence gaps with a single click. Record your screen and webcam, edit out mistakes in seconds, and publish to a link for sharing right away. Access pro-editing features, such as multitrack editing, live collaboration, auto-captioning, and much more.

Gimp

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows, and additional operating systems. This free software gives you the ability to change its source code and distribute your changes. Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done. You can further enhance your productivity with GIMP thanks to its many customization options and third-party plug-ins.