13 Panini Collectors
Availability: App Store | Google Play
Price: Free
Anyone who remembers real Panini sticker albums has probably seen a few World Cups come and go.
Save yourself all that tedious mucking about with bits of paper and go digital with this free collector's app.
Use your phone's camera to scan your stickers and collate them into a list, plus you can set up lists of "got, need and swaps" always in your pocket, share lists with friends and track missing or duplicate stickers easily.
Prove that sticker collecting isn't dead – it just grew up.
14 Football Manager Handheld 2014
Availability: App Store |Google Play
Price: $12.99
If you think you can guide your nation to World Cup Glory, now's your chance. A game for true football fans, Football Manager Handheld 2014 is a portable port of the classic PC game, which has sapped millions of collective hours from our youth.
It's made with footy-mad commuters in mind, and while it's lighter on the options, it retains all the compulsive enjoyment of its fully-featured predecessors.
The best thing about it isn't the breadth of teams or smooth learning curve, both of which are excellent, but that it can be picked up and put down easily, making it ideal for short journeys to work.
15 Score! World Goals
Availability: App Store | Google Play
Price: Free
The App Store is filled with footy games which let you flick and swipe balls into the net with varying degrees of majesty, but Score does it best.
Why? Because each of the wonder goals hammered home by your index digit are re-enactments of the finest strikes in international football and World Cup history.
The game's made better by the rating system of the goals, and you need to get them perfect to unlock the next set; think Angry Birds does football and you're there.
