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Best Free iPhone Apps
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Introduction
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Welcome to the first addition to my original reviews. I'm Reid J. Thaler, (bio below) the new iPhone App Reviewer. I really want this "Best Free iPhone App" section to be a community space, so if you know of an app that you like and want others to know of too, please let me know! (with iTune links, please). I only have two eyes, but collectively, we have thousands! So what makes a great iPhone app? Simple elegance in what it does, unique ability to access the net, or utilize and manage your data, and of course, a design that's easy to navigate, visually appealing, and adds ease or joy to your life. Below are apps that do all or most of those things. After using an iPhone for two years, I've learned that lots of things are just easier to do on the iPhone and it's great always having it near. If you are just starting to use an iPhone, I hope this list gets you up to speed with a lot of really great tools. If you are a seasoned iPhoner, I hope I can share some new apps that make your visit worthwhile. As I said, let me know if you've found a great app. Some (apologetically) may only work in the United States. If that's the case, let me know so I can note it. So again, I'm trilled and excited to be the editor. Let's have a great time here! You can easily find the apps you like with the Quick Select Index and use one of the following ways to install the apps from the list. Quick Access to App Store:
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Dragon Dictation
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Save typing and use your voice to text or email your friends, send notes and reminders to yourself, update your Facebook status or tweet to the world, faster and quicker when you are on-the-go. Supports a multitude of global languages.
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CardMunch
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Tired of business card scanning apps that are more of a hassle than they're worth? This one is sure to please. Just capture and image of the card, and real humans (no, not in your iPhone!) will transcribe the info with guaranteed accuracy and send the info back in minutes. Contacts can be added to your iPhone address book, can be sent a follow up email, and can also be invited to your LinkedIn network.
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Scan Pages
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Turn your iPhone into a mobile scanner and convert captured images into PDF documents. Scan Pages organizes and cleans your images creating crisp, clean files. Combine multiple images into one PDF file and store in GoogleDocs, Evernote, Dropbox or share via email.
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Image To Text
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ImageToText extracts editable ASCII text from images, and share the results by email or Evernote. Take a picture of a document then send an email to yourself. You'll receive the image and a text file with the editable text. English only supported.
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Basic HTML Guide
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Learn the basics of HTML, the codes the pages of the World Wide Web. Sections include Introduction, Get Started, Basic, Elements, Attributes, Headings, Paragraphs, Formatting, Fonts, Styles, Links, Images, Tables, Lists, Forms, Frames, Iframes, Colors, Color Names, Color Values, and Quick List Reference page.
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NASA
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The official NASA (United State National Aeronautics and Space Administration) app offers videos, picture of the day, launch information and countdown clocks, mission information, and a vast collection of images. 3G or Edge network connection required.
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TED
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TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a nonprofit started in 1984 devoted creating a forum for world's most fascinating people including education radicals, tech geniuses, medical mavericks, business gurus and music legends. It hosts two conferences annually and a variety of other award-winning talks and presentation and offers the best talks and performances free. The entire library of more than 900 TEDTalk videos are available for browsing and searching in both online and offline modes. Bookmark or download your favorite TEDTalk for playback anywhere. Tune in to TEDRadio for instant, one-click access to a continuous stream of TEDTalks audio. Share favorite talks and playlists with your friends.
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Fractile Plus
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If you find math scary and all its complex equations unsightly, then this app will warm you up to the beauty of mathematics. A fractal has been defined as "a rough or fragmented geometric shape can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole." Huh, you say? Think of it as a reduced-size copy of the whole, much in the way that broccoli romanesco repeats its pattern in a fascinating kaleidoscope. Fractile Plus explores the famous Mandelbrot set which is based on a very simple mathematical formula, yet has amazing complexity. Zoom in up to 10 trillion times magnification to find intricate spirals, flaming tendrils, and a seemingly endless smaller repetitions of the set itself. Save high-res images up to 13 megapixels. Optimized for the retina display. No ads!
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Remote
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Control iTunes and Apple TV using your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad over your Wi-Fi network. Choose playlists, songs, and albums as if you were right in front of your computer or Apple TV. From anywhere in your home change a song, pick a playlist or browse through your entire library. (Text from iTunes)
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IMDb Movies & TV |
Watch trailers, browse photos, find latest releases, explore popular charts, rate movies and share movie info from a huge resource of more than 1.5 million titles, and 3.2 million celebrities, actors and actresses, directors and crew members.
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Bloomberg
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Follow the world's financial markets in one app. Bloomberg offers news, stock quotes, company descriptions, market leaders/laggers, price charts, market trends analysis, and more.
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Best Value
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Compare the cost of two products no matter their package quantities, sizes or units. Display costs per unit and indicates which of the two is a better deal. Supports both Metric and English measurements. Currently not available in the US.
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Air Hockey Gold
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Play with one or two pucks. Play with someone else, or a computer opponent.
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RunKeeper
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Track how far you went, how long it took, what your pace/speed was, how many calories you burned, and the path you traveled on a map. You can sync data with the RunKeeper website where you can view a history of all of your activities, and cumulative totals of all of your vital stats. You can also share your progress with friends by posting your activities to Facebook and Twitter, and creating a profile page that allows people to view all of your public activities.
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Fooducate
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Scan UPC barcodes with the iPhone's camera to search over 200,000 products to make healthier nutritional choices. See a product's both good and bad highlights. Learn if an item contains excessive sugar, trans fats, high fructose corn syrup, additives and preservatives, and controversial food colorings. Works in United States only.
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iPeriod
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My Cycles tracks ovulation signs to increase your chance of pregnancy and takes the guesswork out of tracking your period, predicting your ovulation window, and predicting your future periods. Track your period, symptoms, medications, mood and more related to your cycle.
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RxmindMe
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RxmindMe alerts you when you need to take a prescription. Enter all your prescriptions, setup reminders, and track your history. Lot of features: nine types of reminders, quantities count down as you mark your reminders, email prescription history including importing into Excel, no info uploaded to servers, passcode protected, and more.
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Grocery iQ
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Create shopping lists for each of your favorite stores. Arrange list items in the order items are found in the store. Email lists, Print coupons from the app, scan barcodes to add items too. Sync online with free account.
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Epicurious
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Search over 30,000 food and drink recipes by main ingredient, each rated and reviewed. Add recipes to your favorites, create a shopping list from recipes, share by email, Twitter, or Facebook and other services.
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Seafood Watch
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Seafood Watch recommendations help you choose ocean-friendly sustainably harvested seafood and sushi at your favorite restaurants and stores in the United States, but is also useful in other countries. Sushi categories include Best Choice, Good Alternative, and Avoid. New Project Fish Map feature lets you contribute to the app by adding the names of restaurants and stores where you've found ocean-friendly seafood and locate businesses where others have found sustainable seafood. Also list of “Super Green” seafood that’s good for you and the oceans.
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Dragon Go!
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Tired of surly Siri saying, "I'm sorry, I can't help you with that." or don't have access to Siri at all? Dragon Go's voice activation can search as well as access Fandango, Accuweather, Pandora, Yelp, and more. The Dragon Carousel delivers the best search sites enabling side-to-side comparison of search results and share them via email, text messages via Facebook and Twitter. |
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Sushipedia
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If you don't know Unagi from Tobiko, then this app is for you! Includes complete list of popular sushi, with photos, descriptions, tasting notes, and historical facts. Search by name and ingredients, or attributes. Find out what's in season now. Save to your Favorites. Toggle between English and Japanese names.
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Drug reference, disease & condition reference and treatment guide, tables & protocols reference, daily medical news an alerts, continuing medical education (CME/CE) activities, unlimited access to all features. offline access to the clinical reference, multitasking.
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Pandora
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Stream music of your choice based on name of your favorite artists, songs or classical composers and Pandora will create a "station" that plays their music and similar in the same genre. Get a free account and enjoy your saved favorite station on your phone or the web. Not available in Canada, and possibly other countries.
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Ringtone Maker
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Tired of same ringtones that everyone has? Make your own! If you can play it on an iPhone, you can make it a ringtone. With iOS 5, you can customize the Text tone, Tweet tone, Alert tone, Mail tone, Calendar tone and Reminders tone. Control the start time of the song, as well as fading in or out. Create an unlimited number of new ringtones!
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Mapquest 4 Mobile
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Voice-guided, turn-by-turn directions. Can be used for walking and driving directions.
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Flipboard
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One of my favorite apps and one of the best interfaces ever! Select to read articles covering This Week, News, Business, Tech & Science, Video, Curators, Photo & Design, Living, Entertainment, Sports, Local, Travel, and Style. But why stop there? You can also access your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Reader, Instagram, Flickr, Tumbler, and 500px accounts. Read later services include Instapaper and Read it Later. Does it get and better than this!
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Adobe Photoshop Express
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Edit photos on your iPhone easily—touch to crop, rotate, adjust exposure, saturation, tint, black and white or contrast, and add artistic effects or borders, then save them or upload to Facebook or Photoshop.com.
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Photosynth
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Easily make panoramic images and share them. Panoramas are created in real-time with interactive capture. Create full-sphere panoramas. Zoom, pan, and rotate panoramas with the built-in view. Save to the camera roll. Share to Facebook, Bing Maps, or email.
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HDR Foto
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Tired of blown out highlights and blocked up details in your images? Easy to use: just place one of the squares on the screen on the highlights and the other on the shadows, take the picture and the app combines the images into a true 32 bit image (sorry for the photo speak--just know this is good). Dozens of Image Editing Sliders and buttons for you to completely fine tune and control your final images in real time. From Brightness, Contrast, Color Balance, Color Temperature and Tint adjustment, Blur/Sharpening. Highly controllable combinations of Effects, Frames and Image Editing Sliders using an overlapping layered structure to help you create unlimited photo FX effects. Share your photos to Flickr and Facebook with one touch, or to the phone's Camera Roll albums.
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FotoMag
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More than 150 of the best photography blogs organized into several categories including: Photographers, Forums, Digital editing, Gear and News, Lighting, HDR and Photography business news. Browse individual blogs or browse a neatly laid out collage of the latest entries from all the blogs
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Camera Plus
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Nicely designed camera that offers up to a 5 times digital zoom on your iPhone 4 and 4s, dual cameras for both photos and videos, flash, anti-shake, tap to focus, tap anywhere on the screen to take a photo, countdown timer for self portraits, and cropping. Share photos via Twitter, Facebook, Flickr or Mail. |
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Dropbox
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It's disappointing that Apple chose not to allow the iPhone to double up as a handy USB drive on the run, but Dropbox is almost the next best thing. Upload files from your desktop and sync them between multiple computers. View, copy, or email links from your phone.
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So much in a free web browser! If we could only choose the default browser on the iPhone, it would be great. What does Atomic Web Browser Lite Offer? Full screen mode, tabs, multi-touch gesture support, page search, private mode, image block, rotation lock, font adjustment, search engine plug ins, bookmark scripts, share links with Facebook and Twitter, customize full screen view, and Air Print. |
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Take notes, ideas, pictures and recordings with your iPhone, and sync them instantly to your Web, Mac or PC version. It indexes your notes and recognizes the actual text within the pictures so that you can easily search.
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TeamViewer
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Remotely access your computers. Uses multi-touch gestures: left click, right click, drag & drop, scroll wheel, zoom, change monitors. Keyboard controls including special keys such as Ctrl and Alt. Remotely reboot, adjust the screen resolution. Access computers behind firewalls and proxy servers.
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SaiSuke
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A nice calendar with view modes offering daily, weekly, or yearly views. Previous event title and locations are remembered eliminating the need to re-type. Synchronize with iPhone Calendar, as well as Outlook/iCal/MobileMe calendars via the iPhone Calendar. Note that you can only sync one week in advance of events.
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SeizeTheDay
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Simple yet robust to-do list hitting the sweet spot between over complex and simplistic. Set due dates, reminders, priority, tags, and notes. Works well with David Allen's Getting Things Done™ system .
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FlexSearch
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Search Google, Bing, Wikipedia, WolframAlpha, Answers.com, Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus, About.com, eHow, WikiHow, Youtube, Goog-Images, B-Images, Flickr, Photobucket, WebMD, PubMed, Healthline, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook! Share to Facebook, Twitter, and email. |
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reQall
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Save ideas, to-do items, and things to remember by voice or text. Lots of flexibility allows Categories, People, Time or Tags to be listed in Favorites. Record task by voice using the apps translation or use the iPhone voice transcription, if you supported on your phone. Automatically organizes to-do's by recognizing dates, times, locations. Share your entries with selected contacts using the People tab. Works well with David Allen's Getting Things Done™ system.
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Simplenote
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Use Simplenote for notes, lists, ideas and automatically synchronize with your computer and other devices. Need more power? Can also utilize tags, pins, versions, and sharing. Check the developer's Download page for a variety of other programs this app works with. |
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Google Search
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Search the Web with this official Google Search app and get search results and suggestions instantly as you type, take a picture with your device camera, or even speak into your iPhone. Also with easy access to other Google products from the Apps tab.
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Dictionary
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Search words offline with this app that includes nearly 2 million words with definitions, synonyms and antonyms. Extra features include audio pronunciation, voice-to-text search, hyperlinked words, Word and Question of the Day, and the Hot Word blog. See also the HD version for iPad.
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Read It Later
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Ever come across an article you'd like to read but can't at that time on a browser? Add it to your Read-It-Later bookmark list from your PC or mobile, and this app downloads all articles in the list to your iPad for offline reading. Advanced features are limited to the paid version.
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GoogleTranslate
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Translate words and phrases between more than 60 languages using Google Translate. For some languages, speak your phrases and hear the corresponding translations. Listen to your translations spoken aloud (24 languages), Display translations in full screen mode to make it easier for others nearby to read, star your favorite translations and query history for quick access even when you’re offline
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Wikipanion
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Wikipanion was designed for easy, search, navigation and display of Wikipedia entries. Your search history is bookmarked by visit date and includes entries as well as selections within an entry. Includes table of contents browser, font resizing, image saving to the Photo Library, and other features. |
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Bump
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Share not only contact information by bumping two iPhones together but photos, apps, music, messages, locations, contacts, calendar events; and become friends on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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Skype
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Enjoy free video calls with front and rear-facing cameras with anyone else on Skype over 3G or Wi-Fi. Also has instant messaging and voicemail.
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Twitter
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Follow your interests: instant updates from your friends, industry experts, favorite celebrities, and what’s happening around the world. Get short bursts of timely information on the official Twitter app for iPhone.
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Facebook
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Facebook keeps you connected with your friends. Start a chat, share photos and status updates, upload photos.
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LinkedIn
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LinkedIn helps find inside connections when looking for job, connects with old friends and colleagues, and provides access to industry experts willing to share advice. Linked in claims over 135 million professionals use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas and opportunities. |
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Google Earth
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Hold the globe in your palm and tour the world with a wipe of your finger to search for cities, places and business with millions of geo-located photos and other useful information. You can also tap the Location Icon to zoom from space to your current location in just a few seconds.
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Yelp
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Search for reviews of businesses near you, then narrow it down by neighborhood, distance, price, or what's open. Browse reviews, add your own! Share on Facebook and Twitter. Make reservation through Open Table. Look up addresses and phone numbers then map and call them.
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OpenTable
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Make restaurant reservations and receive a confirmation at more than 15,000 OpenTable-enabled restaurants in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom. OpenTable members earn Dining Rewards Points redeemable for Dining Cheques good at any OpenTable restaurants.
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KAYAK
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Compare flight, hotel and car rental deals, track your flight status, view and manage your trip itinerary, look up baggage fees. Has sliders to narrowing departure and return time. Seems to me more feature rich than the iPad version!
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TripIt
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Not only does this app keep track of all your travel plans, just forward your confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com and it creates your itinerary for you and syncs with your calendar and TripIt online! TripIt recognizes reservations from over 3,000 booking sites including cruises, restaurants, concerts. You can share trip plans with family or colleagues directly, or via Facebook and LinkedIn.
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Wi-Fi Finder
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Finds over 650,00 free or paid Wi-Fi locations worldwide. Filter results by location type, provider, and save results to favorites.
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Find My iPhone
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Locate your iPhone 4, iPad, or 4th generation iPod touch (iOS 4.2 or later required). on a map, send a message and play a sound for two minutes at full volume (even if your device is set to silent). Remotely set a passcode lock on your device, or lock it using your existing passcode, or wipe your device to permanently erase all of your personal data.
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Planets
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Enjoy a 3D planetarium style view of the sky as well as a flat view of sky. (Tip: tap the compass icon in the upper left corner and watch the sky move as your iPhone moves. Also has rotating 3D globe of planets and the moon.
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Craigslist
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View Craigslist listings internationally with thumbnail photo previews, maps, and access to your Craigslist account. Includes multi-city searches, posting with photos, account management, favorite ads with notes, and maps and directions.
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Textfree with Voice
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Unlimited texting and picture messaging, free numbers available. Facebook Chat. Text from your computer. Some features work only in the United States.
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RedLaser
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RedLaser searches for low online from hundreds of thousands of retailers with results from Google, TheFind, SDC, eBay, Milo.com, Half.com, and Buy.com. Scans UPC, EAN, UPC-E and EAN-8 barcodes. Also scans QR code including URLs, contact info, calendar events. Send scanned products as email attachment. Automatic search localization for USD, EUR, and GBP. You can also create a QR Code from your contacts, a URL, or text.
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SimpleAnalog
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Simple Analog is a local clock using hands and not digits. It will also display the day of the week and optionally the month at a glance. You can set the display to never sleep. Tap the clock face to cycle through the various display options available. It supports landscape and portrait modes for display. There are currently no alarm features for this application, keeping it simple. Steve would be proud.
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AppShopper
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What's better than a free app? One that's on sale for free! AppShopper keeps you up to date on the newest apps, sales and freebies. Organize apps in your Wish List and get notified when there is a sale or update. Features include view a list of the top 200 apps, browse ratings and reviews from third party sites, add apps to your Wish List and get notified of price changes or updates by email, and share an app's info via Twitter, Facebook, or email. Keep track of the apps you already own. Also syncs with AppShopper.com so your Wish List and My Apps are updated automatically and can be managed in your a web browser.
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FileApp
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Copy files to your iPhone either wirelessly (by FTP) or via USB (cable). Supported files includes PDF, MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), iWork (Pages, Numbers and Keynotes), OpenDocuments (OpenOffice) (Text, Spreadsheet, Presentation) basic formatting only, Plain Text and RTF (Rich Text Format), Images (JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF and others), Audio (MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV), Video (standard iPhone format : H.264, MPEG-4), Web Archives, HTML files, and ZIP files. Stores any file sent from any third party app such as Mail and Safari. Allows file to be open in other installed apps. File browser allows sorting alphabetically, by folder, by date, by file type and by latest opened documents. Includes file search and view by file size and extension. Delete files from within the application. Portrait and landscape views.
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iHandy Level Free
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You can use iHandy Level for aligning pictures, leveling your iPhone for stills and videos, and measuring angles and more. |
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iDownloader Free
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Easily download anything from the web to your i-Device and then view/play the downloaded files or transfer them to your computer.
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Weather Channel
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Other apps are flashier, but this is the app where I keep returning. Offers in-depth weather forecasts for the next 24 hours to 10 days, with innovative maps, active alerts, a video library and real-time Twitter feeds from Weather Channel Tweeters.
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This software category is maintained by Reid J. Thaler. Reid is the owner of Reid J. Thaler Photography and specializes in teaching the skills and passion of digital photography. |
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This is a great list. Thank you for the information. I was very excited to finally find an intelligent summary of usable ios apps. BTW HDR Foto is no longer free (.99 now) And also maybe a Cydia/Jailbreak list, for beginners, in the future?
Thanks! I'll be revising this list soon and remove HDR Foto. Since I don't have a jailbroken phone, I have no way of testing apps, sorry.
iFile Explorer, free file manager that lets you transfer files. I've tried it, and it is way better than File App, the only bad thing is that there's advertisements for its similar products.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ifileexplorer-protect+multi/id355253462?mt=8
iFile Explorer does look promising. Thanks! I've just downloaded it. Would like to know how this would work better/different than Dropbox. Perhaps support for viewing certain file types? Keep me posted!
An excellent to-do-reminder app which is better, I believe, than SeizeTheDay, is Errands. It has no advertising and has all the things one could require in such an app. Everything is presented in a very well arranged manner, and the app has as a choice to manually order list items (if one desires), which few apps have.
itunes.apple.com/us/app/errands-to-do-list/id318095638?mt=8
Agree - Errands is very good! I would have replaced SeizeTheDay in this list with Errands because of the advertising i SeizeTheDay. Another very good one is Wunderlist, but my choice is Errands.
The interface of Errands just doesn't have the right feel for me. I'm glad you like it, and thanks for posting and letting other know of it. After a point, especially with listing apps, personal appeal can be as swaying as the feature set.
"Best Free Voice Navigation" is not available in Australia, and not accessible to Australians through American iTunes. I'm guessing it only has USA or North American maps anyway.
I highly recommend NavFree which has different versions for different countries, a number of which I've used on my iPad, including Australia, the UK and Switzerland.
Sorry that not all nav apps are work world wide. I'm downloading Navfree, but it'll take a while--416 MBs! Oops it's only for UK & ROI, others will have to weigh in. I'm in California.
I'd Agree with Navfree being a great Alternative. I have used it for about a year and always found it accurate & Reliable. However i have now switched to Waze which is still early in development but is showing promise of being an awesome app with some really great Navigation features with the added bonus of Speed cams & Speed trap notifications as well as free traffic updates in a user information shared basis
I really like weather snitch (free version). it has just about any weather info you could ever need, including month, week, day, & hourly views.
Thanks. I'll take a look. The user interface looks a bit sparse, but the app may have some good offerings.
Some useful apps. I provided links for each of these, but the site will not accept the posting if they are included, saying that the spam filter has been triggered.
AppsGoneFree – a daily list of apps that have gone free that day.
AppAdvice – a huge list of recommended apps, both free and paid. This app is free in the month of December.
AeroWeather Lite – the weather predictions pilots use at airports around the world. No advertisements.
Air Turbulance Forecast. Not actually an app. See the projected turbulence along your route anywhere in the world. Go to Safari and make the site an icon on the iPhone “desktop”.
CarRentals.com Works very quickly and accurately.
TideDataFree – works well, but USA only.
WordWeb – dictionary, thesaurus, word history, words and phrases containing the word for nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. No advertisements.
Calculator+. Has ribbon. The display organization is the best I have seen. No advertisements.
Moon Globe – a virtual globe with an incredible display of the moon from far and near, named craters, voyages to, and so forth. No advertisements.
Mars Globe – like Moon Globe. By the same producers. No advertisements.
Mooncast – tells the phrase of the moon, today or in the future. Simple app that works well. No advertisements.
Day and Night World Map – shows the current distribution of light and dark over the globe. No advertisements.
XE Currency – currency convertor – Very nice layout and reasonable color scheme.
MultiConvert – a unit convertor. There are many units convertors but most suffer from a poor presentation of the units and conversions. This has the best I've seen, and it also converts currencies in real time. No advertisements.
Emerald Time – an extremely accurate clock, almost atomic clock percision. No advertisements.
Multi Plumb Bob – accurate and attractive. No advertisements.
Multi Protractor – accurate and attractive. No advertisements.
iSeismometer – very interestingly graphs the incredible sensitivity of the accelerometers in the iPhone. It also functions as the best motion sensitive alarm I have seen. No advertisements.
Safe Note Free – a password protected notebook. The free version allows only five notes, but the notes have no length limitation. A simple, safe place to keep private data.
Battery Master Free – keeps track of battery charge state. Same as the paid version.
AccuWeather – weather apps are clearly a matter of taste. This one allows easy switching between locations. The paid version is no different – just advertisement free.
Hipmunk – flight search. A simple and superior presentation of the results. Try it on the internet first to more easily see how it functions. On the internet it has tabbed searches; on the iPhone it accomplishes the same by keeping a running history of searches.
Dobry,
Thanks so much for the great annotated list. Feel free to email me directly through the contact from with the iTunes app addresses if you can for my easy review.
Thanks!
Another free nav aid is NavFree. It has voice as well. Ive used it a few times and it works well.
The the license agreement for Business App "Dragon Dictation" states it is not for commercial use.
Well, then, the obvious answer is don't use it for commercial use! This list is generally oriented for individuals, not business owners,
Great list. Thanks!
Thank you so much for supplying us with such a great list !!
Thanks so much for your acknowledgment. That kind of comment makes all the work worth it!
Best Value appears to not be available in the iTunes store in the US. Perhaps the link is broken?
Thanks for the update. I've noted it. I live in the US, and got it here. Maybe it will come back.
Just a small correction - "Fractal Plus" is in fact Fractile Plus. If, like I did, you go to the App Store direct from the phone it doesn't find the mis-named app.
Thanks. I had it right the first time when I was drafting the article.
Please update the description for Atomic Web Browser Lite: it now shows the description for the Remote Control app, instead.
Oops! Thanks for catching this. I revised it.
Pandora - NOT availabel in Canada :-(
http://www.pandora.com/restricted
Sorry. I've noted it.
Impossible to find what regions are covered by mapquest, or whether it requires a data connection from the website. Try Navfree instead (http://www.navmii.com/navfree/), covers UK, USA and Canada (curiously Canada is not listed on the download page although I have it), with more to come. Map data is downloaded so no data connection is necessary other than for the search capability
Good point. Maybe I'll break it into two categories, online and offline navigation.
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