Great iPhone Apps

The App store has over 55,000 applications and I read recently that the average iPhone owner has spent $80 on apps. This is a round up of  my favourite Apps, these apps are ones that I find useful to keep me connected when I’m away from a computer and which extend the usefulness of the iPhone allowing it to mimic expensive dedicated devices.

Weightbot
http://www.tapbots.com

Weightbot

I’ve been working on losing weight recently, this fantastic looking app has been a great aid in tracking my progress. The interface is attractive and simple, tilting either left or right displays a graph view or an overview of your progress and your data can be exported as CSV.

Convertbot
http://www.tapbots.com

Convertbot

I recently decided to switch to metric for measurements still more commonly expressed in imperial in the UK; this app has been handy to convert distance and weights to better communicate my achievements to olds and Americans.

Trails
http://trails.lamouroux.de

Trials

This is a slick GPS logger, I use it to map my bike rides and also for geocoding my photographs. The logged GPS data can easily exported to be used in Google Earth, TrailRunner etc

iTreadmill

iTreadmill

Nike+ it ain’t, but it’ll track your runs (or  walks) and calculate calories burned.

Spotify
http://www.spotify.com

Spotify

The mobile version of Spotify, a fantastic music streaming service, is a killer app. Streaming works well, playlists shared with you or created on your desktop are available, you can create new playlists easily and best of all you can ‘offline sync’ a playlist.  The app is free, however does require a Premium account (£9.99/ month) which also removes the ads from the desktop client.

Tweetie
http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-iphone/

Tweetie

I ‘ve hardly logged into the Twitter web interface since downloading Tweetie and it’s desktop counterpart. The interface is slick and easy to use. Bonus points for the slightly creepy location based search.

Awesome Note
http://bridworks.com

Awesome Note

I just downloaded this one, but it looks like a keeper. I like the interface and the fact that I can import to and from Google Docs (its a shame it can’t sync though) and I’m considering using it’s ToDo list as an alternative to Remember the Milk (which I really rate, but the iPhone app requires the $25 Pro account and mine is due to expire soon).

Other favourites

  • Facebook - this is fantastic, so much better to use than the terrible website
  • Wordpress - I like this for starting drafts of new articles when I get an idea while I’m out
  • BeeJive - instant messager app with push notifications
  • Prowl - pushes Growl notifications from your Mac(s) to your iPhone
  • Shazam - yeah, its been around since day 1, but I’m still amazed by how well this works
  • Remote - this may as well come preinstalled, very useful
  • HoldEm - this is the only game I play the most on my iPhone
  • Zen Bound - a really pretty ‘game’, the aim is to to wrap objects in string