Here are some new apps for your mobile devices that are worth taking a look at.

Save yourself — and others — from distracted driving

It’s too bad that OneTap is only available for Android devices right now, because it’s the kind of practical tool that can save lives.

We’ve all seen people flaunting the distracted driving laws by tapping away on their phones while driving. It’s illegal to do so even while at a stop light. According to Calgary’s AppColony, which created the app, 80 percent of the five million car accidents that occur in North America each year are caused by distracted drivers.

OneTap can prevent all that. It detects when your vehicle is in motion and screens your alerts and notifications so you won’t be tempted to answer that all-important message. But OneTap doesn’t just keep you from being distracted, it sends a reply back to whomever is trying to reach you, letting them know you’re driving, and can’t respond.

If the message is urgent, people trying to reach you can have OneApp notify you that you need to pull over and get in touch.

The app uses the phone’s sensors to determine if you’re in a vehicle, as opposed to walking. And if you’re a passenger, you can tap the screen to disable OneApp.

If you’ve got teenagers on the road, you can connect your OneApp account with theirs and be able to see on your map where they are.

OneTap is coming to iOS, but AppColony hasn’t said when.

Find out which apps are killing your iPhone battery

Don’t you just hate getting near the end of the day and having your phone run out of juice? It’s even worse when you’ve barely used it.

Batteries on all mobile devices will drain more quickly when you have them connecting using Wi-fi or Bluetooth, or if you’re watching videos. And you can always prolong battery life by turning off those connections. Or you can change which apps use those connections.

But with so many apps running on our devices, and so many of them connecting to the Internet, it can be difficult to figure out which of them are draining your battery. Normal aims to change that.

Developed by Kuro Labs, Normal collects information about what apps your phone is using and what the battery level is, and then adds that information to other data collected from other users.

By comparing your phone to those of “hundreds of thousands of users,” Kuro can “accurately and precisely pinpoint the battery hogs on your device.” It tells you what your average battery life is.

It will also tell you if other users are having the same problem, and how much you’ll extend your battery life by turning off or deleting the battery-killing apps.Then it walks you through the steps you need to take to correct the problem.

This morning when I unplugged my iPhone 6 Plus from the outlet, I checked Normal and discovered that by closing, not just pausing, the Facebook app I could gain 76 minutes in battery life. Normal also suggested I turn off the “background refresh” option in the Facebook app preferences, which is a more permanent solution to the problem.

Go snowboarding with Alto

This game is sublime. It’s an “endless runner,” which means the goal is to keep going for as long as you can, which is a perfect mechanic for smartphone gaming, because you don’t need to have your thumbs and fingers all over the screen. Games like this need to differentiate themselves, though, because they are so simple to play. Alto’s Adventure, developed in Toronto by the small studio, Snowman, sets itself apart with a distinct art style and really fluid gameplay. It’s $2.29 and so far only available for iOS. Well worth the purchase.