Money doesn't grow on trees, and those $0.99 app purchases do add up. It's best to go into the Play Store with some idea of what's up your alley and what isn't. That's what the Google Play App Roundup is here to do. We bring you the best new and newly updated app and games every week. Just click on the app name to head to the Play Store and test it out yourself.

Your phone came with the Gmail app, and maybe you've since branched out to the Inbox app. Support for non-Google email accounts in Inbox is poor, but the new Email app from EasilyDo is a bit like Inbox for whatever email account you want to use. It's essentially an email app wrapped around the EasilyDo Assistant app.

Adding an account is very quick, especially for Gmail accounts you already have on your phone. Just select it and you're done. There's also a guided setup process for popular apps like Yahoo, Outlook, and AOL Mail. You can also plug in any other account via IMAP. Syncing and general app navigation are quite fast.

Your inbox defaults to a Gmail-style conversation view—the app doesn't try to imitate Inbox's bundling. The style is a little different, though. Instead of seeing all the emails collapsed in one screen, tapping on an email brings up a new screen with a list of all threaded messages. I don't know if I like it more than Gmail's approach, but it's something new.

One of my favorite things about EasilyDo Email is the customizable swipe gestures. Each message in the inbox can be swiped left or right. You can have those gestures do things like archive, delete, and mark read/unread. The assistant functionality is neat as well. You'll find this in the navigation panel. The app automatically finds emails that fit into categories like travel, subscriptions, and packages. Tap on any of them to get a filtered view of your inbox. Some of these lists will include a handy breakdown of all the relevant details. For example, flights found in the travel list have flight numbers, reservations, seat numbers, and times. The assistant seems reasonably smart, but it does miss some things.

The subscriptions section also showcases one of Email's main features; one-tap unsubscribing. You'll see this button at the top of any email it detects as a subscription with a supported method of removing yourself from the list. It seems to work on most of my email subscriptions. Simply tap the button, the app thinks, and you're unsubscribed.

EasilyDo Email is free, so check it out if you want to get a different take on your email.

Splitter Critters

The critters in Splitter Critters managed to fly spaceships, but they get themselves into some tough spots after reaching their destination. Your task is to help them get back to their ship in each level by splitting the terrain into pieces and rearranging them. It starts off pretty easy, but you'll soon encounter dangers and challenging terrain types.

For space-faring creatures, the unnamed critters are awfully simple. In each level, they walk slowly from side to side, turning around each time they run into a wall or drop. They're like Roombas. Your goal is to move them from wherever they start out to the spaceship so they can be on their way. To do that, you split the world into pieces.

To create a split, simply tap and drag to orient the line. When you release, you can drag one side or the other up or down into a new position. That can allow the critters to walk onto a new platform. This will often require precise control of the angle and location of your cut as the critters are very unforgiving of any sizeable gaps in the terrain. You can only move the terrain once per slice, but you can undo the cut at any time to put the world back the way it was. Alternatively, you can go on and make more cuts to align the world as you see fit. Critters will continue walking around as you do this without resetting their positions.

So, that's the basic mechanic of the game. The first few levels are simple, but those are just warmups. Soon, Splitter Critters will introduce monsters that want to eat your critters. Not only do you need to move them to the right area, but you have to keep the monsters away. Next come the specialized critters that fight the monsters. In other areas of the game you'll run into water hazards and other interesting mechanics. I wouldn't say Splitter Critters is particularly hard, but it is quite fun.

Splitter Critters has a papercraft visual style. All the critters and the environment look like they were cut from construction paper. The cuts you make are actually more like tears. The animations are smooth, and I like the varied look of the environments and critters. The immersive audio is well done too.

Splitter Critters is $2.99 in the Play Store, and there are no in-app purchases or ads. That's more rare than it once was. It's a good buy if you are in the market for a casual puzzler.

The letters that make up words have a linguistic meaning, but they're also glyphs that have their own shape. Rearrange them, and letters can take on a different meaning as pieces of a puzzle. That's the basis of unWorded, a new puzzle game unlike any I've played before. Not only is it clever, the writing is very solid.

unWorded follows the story of a writer who has suffered a severe accident, which landed him in the hospital. The jumble of thoughts and ideas presented in the game's dialog are given form by letters, but not the word kind. Each puzzle has you create an object from an assortment of letters. What object? You have to figure that out from the context clues.

The story unfolds in a series of dialog exchanges, descriptive blocks of text, and animations. The puzzles are essentially unlocking more of the story. It's actually a bit of a love letter to typography—you'd never have imagined how many objects you could create with a few letters. Just drag the letters you're given around in order to fit them together to create the required object. They're all sorts of things: an axe, a ship, a gasmask. You don't have to be exact with the alignment, but just close enough that the game can tweak your creation to lock it into the final formation.

There's a hint button in the lower right corner. Tap it and you get a few highlights in the block of text that describes the necessary image. That will help you figure out what you're supposed to be making. It also lights up red any letters that aren't in the right place. Even if you don't know what you need to make, it's feasible to stumble upon the solution to a puzzle and progress the story. For that reason, I don't think it's a terribly challenging game. That doesn't mean it's not fun, though.

The slick visual style and interesting gameplay make unWorded something worth checking out. It's $3.99 and there are no in-app purchases.