Top 20 iPhone Apps

August 11th, 2009 by Meghan J. McDonough, LAPTOP Web Producer/Writer  

iphone3gs_tweetdeck“There’s an app for that.”

You’ve heard it a million times in Apple’s omnipresent iPhone and iTunes App Store ads. But how do you know which apps are actually worth downloading?

We’ve separated the wheat from the chaff among the thousands of available iPhone applications and picked out twenty of our favorites. These apps cover a little bit of everything. Want to keep tabs on your finances? Check out Mint or A Personal Assistant.

Want to manage your address book better? Bento will keep you organized and Bump makes exchanging contact info incredibly easy.

If you’re looking to enhance your productivity outside of the office, check out LogMeIn Ignition, which lets you log into your computer directly from your phone, and QuickOffice Mobile for editing your documents and spreadsheets.

If you’re looking to pimp your phone without the help of an app, check out our top tips for iPhone OS 3.0. Otherwise, hit the jump for more of our top iPhone apps.

assistant_80

A Personal Assistant

Monitor your checking account, credit cards, and investments. Plus, keep tabs on cell phone minutes and flight itineraries.

Free; www.pageonce.com

apnews_80AP Mobile


Get your news fix in an easy-to-read format and get push notifications on your home screen as big stories break. A configurable toolbar lets you maneuver through categories (Entertainment, USA, World, and more).

Free; www.apnews.com

bento_80Bento


Consolidate data from your devices’ Contacts, Dialing, Google Maps, Mail, and Safari. You’ll find templates for everything from event planning and time billing to recipes.

$4.99; www.filemaker.com

bump_80Bump


Exchange contact information with fellow iPhone/iPod touch users by literally bumping the two devices together.

Free; www.bumptechnologies.com

facebook_80Facebook


iPhone’s version is best for viewing status updates and photos. You can also chat, look up phone numbers, and upload photos. Also available for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile.

Free; www.facebook.com

fandango_80Fandango


Tap “Find My Location” to get all the films at theaters in your zip code in a vertical list, including poster art, runtime, synopsis, and trailers; and to purchase tickets.

Free; www.fandango.com

kindle_80Kindle for iPhone


You can browse the Kindle Store, and wirelessly download books. Plus, pick up from the exact same point on the Kindle reader when you bookmark pages.

Free; www.amazon.com

logmein-ignition_80LogMeIn Ignition


Access your PC or Mac remotely. Pinch gestures let us zoom into portions of our desktop. You can also troubleshoot or view photos stored on your PC.

$29.99; www.logmein.com

metal-gear-solid-touch_80Metal Gear Solid Touch


Control Snake as he battles diabolical puppet masters. Tap to fire, and use pinch gestures to zoom in and out.

$7.99; www.touch.konami.net

mint_80Mint


Sync with your Mint.com account wirelessly. Track your account balance and spending habits, or deactivate mobile access from your profile page, if your phone is lost or stolen.

Free; www.mint.com

photogene_80Photogene


Touch-up photos by cropping, tweaking colors, and adding visual effects (such as comic book–style text bubbles). Thankfully, an undo button is also on hand.

$2.99; www.i-photogene.com

quickoffice_80QuickOffice Mobile Office Suite


Craft and tweak spreadsheets, even in landscape mode. Manage and password protect your files. Create and edit Word docs, and take advantage of its new autocorrect feature.

$19.99; www.quickoffice.com

streeteasy_80StreetEasy Real Estate


Find homes for rent or sale near you with GPS. Tap a listing for a description, photo, and mapped location. Search by price or number of bedrooms and bathrooms.

Free; www.streeteasy.com

skype_80Skype


Don’t use your minutes. Use this app to place crystal-clear free calls over Wi-Fi; check voicemail; and send low-cost text messages.

Free; www.skype.com

taptapcoldplay_80Tap Tap Revenge: Coldplay Edition


Press colored balls in time with the British alt-rockers’ most enduring songs. This special version adds fresh themes and graphics inspired by Coldplay’s music videos.

$4.99; www.tapulous.com

telenav3_80Telenav


Voice-guided directions are now available on the iPhone, and TeleNav is an excellent service, offering 10 million points of interest. It’s also available on all other platforms.

$9.99 per month; www.telenav.com

tigerwoods_80Tiger Woods PGA Tour


Unlike the console versions, this game uses the touchscreen to make putts and long drives with a swipe of your finger. Plus, create your own golf avatar.

$9.95; www.eamobile.com

tweetdeck_80Tweetdeck


This Twitter app elegantly recreates the column dashboard format of the desktop program. You can follow topics in real time, share photos, and post shortened links.

Free; www.tweetdeck.com

weatherbug_80WeatherBug Elite


View heat indexes, wind speed, and hourly forecasts of your location. You can see photos from around the city, and watch a meteorologist give the national outlook.

$0.99; www.weatherbug.com

yelp_801


Yelp

Get a star-rating, address, phone number, and a map of local businesses fast, using GPS triangulation. You can also bookmark favorite locations.

Free; www.yelp.com

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6 Responses to “Top 20 iPhone Apps”

  1. himanshu Says:
    October 16th, 2009 at 6:54 am

    Awesome post! I thought you had me in mind before you wrote this. However, what about this year new launch iphone entertainment apps “lucky ME”….

  2. iRate Cats Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 8:52 am

    And you might also try iRate Cats, the iRate Dogs compatible app.
    They’ve also have a pro versions with lots of cool features.

    iTunes link:
    http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/irate-cats-pro/id353154771?mt=8#

  3. Kimberly Says:
    April 21st, 2010 at 10:19 am

    And try out how well you can remember faces with FaceMix, another great entertainment app!

  4. Chris Says:
    June 19th, 2010 at 9:30 am

    The Tiger Woods game is good, the best golf app I’ve played so far, definitely recommended if your a golfer.

  5. Evelina Says:
    May 5th, 2011 at 12:59 pm

    Great list. I’m using some of these apps.
    But my favorite is plan app. It’s like time management and calendar in one. Very important thing is that I can see it on my google web calendar.

    http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/plan/id428005487?mt=8&ls=1#

  6. Rada_AppCoreMedia Says:
    June 28th, 2011 at 9:04 am

    Weed Yo Screen – The Psychedelic App

    Weed Yo Screen is an app from the Lifestyle category which you can use to customize your device’s display. You have the opportunity to use a great collection of themes, skins, backgrounds and app shelves. It will personalize your iPhone, adding color to your screen and showing off your personality, taste and perceptions. It’s an original app, based on psychedelic art and fun weedy images, suitable for anyone who is into such things.
    It’s a high-quality original app which has a full feature-set – the first sign of the developer’s commitment to the product. The app’s features as they are presented on iTunes include “over 80 exclusive, specially designed skins, themes and backgrounds, fitting the taste of everyone who is a fan of strong sensations and making your mobile device look cool and psychedelic.”
    Weed Yo Screen has amazing graphics for iPphone 4 , iPhone and iPod Touch.
    You can bookmark your favorite skin and save the image to your library. The app also allows e-mail sending and Facebook posting.
    While features are important to an app, an easy-to-use interface is just as crucial. AppCore’s app also includes a user-friendly interface. The controls for the app are easy to understand and simple to use without requiring a lot of additional direction from the programmer.

    It’s a known fact that a visually appealing program increases its value as well as shows off the beautiful touchscreen of the iPhone. The app’s images are well thought out and professionally rendered throughout the software. Graphics are the eye-candy of this mobile app as it presents a great collection of themes, skins, backgrounds and app shelves you can use to personalize your iPhone, adding color to your screen as well as originality.
    All of the previously mentioned pieces – graphics, the full feature-set, easy-to-use interface- are important and desirable in a quality app, but stability is the key to the whole operation. The Weed Yo Screen app is very stable and it doesn’t crash which is extremely important for the users.
    The high quality, original and unique roundup Weed Yo Screen will magically transform your iPhone far beyond the average interface. It will become a small world of shapes, colors and pictures setting loose your imagination and providing excellent, relaxing images for your mobile device’s screen. It will send positive vibes to whomever uses it.
    The apps’ size is 19.4 MB and the price is 0.99 $. As a conclusion, Weed Yo Screen is an original app and it’s worth its money. You can download it on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/weed-yo-screen/id442977877?mt=8#.
    AppCore develops software for mobile devices. This includes iPhone and iPad applications. The AppCore team mostly focuses on fun games or useful applications that fit into the next generation mobile lifestyle. AppCore’s applications are available in AppStore and many of them were really appreciated by the iTunes crew as well as by the users who downloaded them, having a lot of notable good reviews. AppCore develops applications covering sections as Books, Healthcare & Fitness, Sports, Medical, Lifestyle, Education, Utilities, Games, Entertainment, Travel, summing over 160 great apps for iPhone and iPad. The ones using iPad’s platform focus mostly on games and entertaining while the ones for iPhone have an informational utility as well as an entertaining one.
    More info on AppCore’s creations you can find on the presentation site.

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