There are millions of them now, and they do, or promise to do, everything and anything under the sun sans combing your hair, shaving your face or wiping your butt. It’s fun to download a new one on your phone or iPad, but after the initial excitement is gone, the app’s icon may just sit there taking up space. I have a bunch on my iPad, and granted, some of them are super cool and fun, but most of them I just don’t use.

When I was flying a lot, it was nice to have that broad selection to kill time in the air. Skee-Ball, Angry Birds, Paper Toss, Field Goal and Soundrop are great apps to while away the hours when your brain says it’s done with work and going into flutter mode. Now that I’m mostly (and thankfully) grounded, I use very few of them. All that said and out of the way, one of my favorites is SpinArt Studio.

I remember doing spin art in Point Pleasant Beach on the boardwalk many many moons ago. There was a little kiosk-type operation and for a buck or so they’d load a fresh sheet of glossy 5×7 paper onto the wheel and hit the button to start it spinning. You had about a dozen of those plastic ketchup squirter containers you find in restaurants with the pointy spouts to choose from, each with a different color paint in them. The paper would spin, you’d squirt the paint, and when you were done they’d give you the circle of art you created in a paper frame. Anyone remember that? I’m sure lots of you do.

Lots of these apps mimic old school activities like this, but technology allows a twist. In this case, it’s inserting a photo from your digital files and spin arting around it. Fun.