“Who’s doing eBooks right? What are some great examples you’ve seen?”
Peter Meyers, author of “Breaking the Page: Transforming Books and the Reading Experience“, highlights Wreck This App as “an eBook app done right”.

Peter will be speaking at SXSW on the topic “Making eBooks Smarter: Responsive Page Design” so this is high praise indeed.
Read the full article here…
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Update, March 2012: At SXSW Peter Meyers recommended Wreck This App for iOS as example of an eBook that invites the reader to participate in its creation.

Peter Meyers’s website A New Kind Of Book is right on the pulse of developments in eBooks and details innovations in the genre.

Since the last update Citrus Suite has developed an Android and Nook Color versions of Wreck This App.

Update, March 2012: Wreck This App voted best digital product of 2011 at the Penguin Group (USA)’s Third Annual David Awards.
See a summary of quotes and reviews here

The app has even had a mention in O, the Oprah Winfrey magazine and been nominated best non-fiction app at Digital Book World Conference in New York January 2012.

Fresh Ideas, Sharp Solutions.
Citrus Suite develops apps, software, games and produces 3D digital artwork. Developer on iPhone, iPad, Android, HTML5, PC, YouView, IPTV platforms (YouView, Google TV, Apple TV, etc.).

Development of apps from Liverpool, UK.

The Citrus Suite developed Wreck This App is doing well at the moment reaching number 1 in the UK iTunes entertainment chart and number 2 in the US. The user review scores on the App Store rate the application at 4 out of 5, with the latest update getting 5 out of 5 (as of 3rd November 2011). I’ve gathered a number of links to press coverage & quotes and will update this page from time to time.

PRESS

The Guardian
Wired’s Geek Dad
Featured on Apple’s New & Noteworthy
Hack Education – 10 Interesting and Innovative E-Books/Apps
GoodEReader
Media Bistro
USA Today
Publisher’s Weekly
TUAW
148 Apps
Gizmodo

LINKS

To buy Wreck this App on iTunes, please click here
Citrus Suite Wreck This App blog post here
To see the Wreck this App page on Penguin’s website, please click here
To check out Wreck this App on Keri Smith’s website, please click here.
Wreck This App users on Tumblr here.

QUOTES

“Wreck This App is highly recommended. It has a pleasing interface and is whimsical and fun. In my humble opinion, it’s a great way to pass time, far better than playing Angry Birds or Plants vs. Zombies. “ TUAW

“…as an app it’s clever, brilliantly adapted for iOS and a word I am loath to use since it’s so seldom true – unique.” 148 Apps

“…this app is alot of fun and it is kid appropriate. Think of it as a multiple page activity book that both you and the kids can have alot of fun!” www.wired.com / GeekDad

“Wreck This App is one of the most unique apps I’ve come across. The app is bursting with creativity, and each prompt will speak to people in different ways so the possibilities are practically endless. Wonderfully Unique.” Apple ‘n’ Apps

“Poking holes through drawings, enhancing photos of yourself, and scribbling like a three-year-old are just a few of the ways the app can bring a few moments of childish delight to the user. “ Good eReader

“‘Wreck This App’ and the book from which it springs are complementary, not competitive, experiences” USA Today

“Wreck This App is a wonderful time killer. Imagine it as a children’s doodle book where you’re presented with basic instructions on each page (draw lines, tap the screen, color the page, doodle on the margins of the page) which you can follow or well, not. It’s really up to you. And that’s the appeal of it, hand this to any kid under 7 and watch their eyes light up. Hand this to someone who’s stuck on a train and they might surprise you with the art they come up with. It’s a guided but open-ended notebook, where what you create is up to you.” Gizmodo

“Wreck THIS APP, Totally Rocks! If you don’t know about Wreck This app by Keri Smith you are missing out. If you or your kids are the least bit creative you will want this app in your arsenal for your iPad! Check out the wreck this app, you won’t be disappointed. Even my 5 year old had fun doing her own journal pages.” MommyReview

“…even if you think you don’t have a creative bone in your body, you just may surprise yourself playing with this app.” Kind Over Matter

“…with Wreck this App, Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter, there really is no reason to be bored or uninspired ever again.. Now you just need to decide what to play with first! ” Her Library Adventures

USER IMAGES CREATED IN WRECK THIS APP

Fruit
A – Z (by adihrespati) below…

Fresh Ideas, Sharp Solutions.
Citrus Suite develops apps, software, games and produces 3D digital artwork. Developer on iPhone, iPad, Android, HTML5, PC, YouView, IPTV platforms (YouView, Google TV, Apple TV, etc.).

Development of apps from Liverpool, UK.

Citrus Suite recently completed ‘Wreck This App’ on iPad and iPhone for Penguin Books USA. Wreck This App, released globally on Tuesday 19th July 2011, is the studio’s interpretation of Keri Smith’s bestselling book Wreck This Journal. It’s already been reviewed in some great places – USA Today and the Wired Magazine. Wreck This App allows users to get creative, inspired by a series of prompts from Keri Smith. Users can draw, doodle, paint, edit photos and lots more. You can make great art with the app…

To buy Wreck this App on iTunes, please click here

Wreck This App Press & Links, please click here

To see the Wreck this App page on Penguin’s website, please click here

To check out Wreck this App on Keri Smith’s website, please click here.

In fact you should subscribe to the RSS because Keri is an inspirational writer.

What Next For Citrus Suite?
Citrus Suite will be working on an iPhone / iPad game for another US based publisher, and is involved in a Technology Strategy Board project that explores the potential of IPTV platforms such as YouView*.
*YouView – the forthcoming UK TV revolution (?) fronted by Non-Executive Chairman, Lord Alan Sugar.

Fresh Ideas, Sharp Solutions.
Citrus Suite develops apps, software, games and produces 3D digital artwork. Developer on PC, iPhone, iPad, Android and IPTV platforms (YouView, Google TV, Apple TV, etc.).

Development of apps from Liverpool, UK.