Top 50 Must-Have Apps For Your iPhone, iPod Touch
If you've just bought a new iPhone or iPod touch then here're our top apps for your shiny new iOS device so that you make the most of it.
Social Networking:
Facebook For iPhone (Free)
Facebook for iPhone lets you stay
connected and share with friends on the go. Start a chat, keep up with
friends' photos and status updates, look up a phone number, upload
photos to Facebook and more—right from your iPhone.
Tweetbot ($2.99)
Tweetbot is a full-featured iPhone (and
iPod touch) Twitter client with a lot of personality. Whether it’s the
meticulously-crafted interface, sounds & animation, or features like
multiple timelines & smart gestures, there’s a lot to love about
Tweetbot.
Free Alternative: Twitter (Free)
Google+ (Free)
Real-life sharing rethought for the web,
wherever you are. Google+ for mobile makes sharing the right things
with the right people a lot simpler.
LinkedIn (Free)
Get on-the-go access to your
professional network with LinkedIn for iPhone. Find and connect with
more than 135M members worldwide, read the latest industry news, keep
up-to-date with your groups, and share content with your network from
anywhere.
Foursquare (Free)
foursquare helps you explore the world
around you. Keep up with friends, get insider tips, and unlock discounts
and rewards. While on the go, you can easily tell friends where you
are, share pictures, get their comments ("I'm right around the corner,
I'll stop by to say hello"), and get insider tips ("order the Lobster
Ravioli; it's the best dish by far."). Tons of places offer discounts
and freebies to foursquare users, and you earn points and badges for
doing the things you love.
Other noteworthy social networking app: Path (Free)
WhatsApp (Free)
WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform
smartphone messenger currently available for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry
and Nokia phones. The application utilizes push notifications to
instantly get messages from friends, colleagues and family. Switch from
SMS to exchange messages, pictures, audio notes and video messages with
WhatsApp users at no cost.
Skype (Free)
Call, video call and instant message
anyone else on Skype for free with Skype for your iPhone or iPod
touch. Plus call and text your Contacts (or any other number) at Skype’s
low rates. It’s great value with Skype Credit.
BeeJiveIM With Push ($4.99)
Stay connected to all your instant
messaging buddies anywhere you go! BeejiveIM (pronounced \bē-hīv\ IM)
keeps you in touch with your friends on AIM®/MobileMe®, MSN®/Windows
Live®, Yahoo!®, GoogleTalk®, Facebook, MySpace and Jabber... all at the
same time, all on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Free Alternative: IM+
Reading:
Kindle (Free)
The Kindle app is optimized for the
iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, giving users the ability to read Kindle
books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on a beautiful,
easy-to-use interface.
iBooks (Free)
iBooks is an amazing way to download and
read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the
latest best-selling books or your favorite classics – day or night.
Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it,
flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to
your favorite passages.
Reeder ($2.99)
Google Reader Client.
Free Alternative: Google Reader web app (Free)
Zinio (Free)
Introducing Zinio, a better way than
ever to explore, read and shop for the world’s best magazines on your
iPad. Zinio now has more magazines than ever, and a new app built to
make it easier to read your favorites anytime and anywhere. Zinio is the
ultimate app for people who love magazines. Access thousands of titles,
tens of thousands of issues, and millions of pages of the world’s best
digital content. Read what you like!
PressReader (Free)
Over 2,000 full-content newspapers from 95 countries in 51 languages in just one app!
Flipboard (Free)
Named Apple's iPad App of the year and
one of TIME's Top 50 Innovations, Flipboard creates a personalized
magazine out of everything being shared with you, from Instagram photos
and Facebook updates to Tumblr posts and articles from your favorite
publications.
Zite (Free)
Zite is a free personalized magazine for
your iPad that automatically learns what you like and gets smarter
every time you use it. Zite delivers all the great news, articles,
blogs, and videos you want – and helps you discover new stuff that
you'll love.
Instapaper ($4.99)
Save web pages for later offline
reading, optimized for readability on your iPhone or iPod touch's
screen. Featured by Apple and critically acclaimed by top blogs,
newspapers, and magazines!
Photo & Video:
Camera+ ($0.99)
Whether you’re a seasoned photographer or someone who’s barely touched a camera, Camera+ will make you love taking photos.
iMovie ($4.99)
Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with
iMovie, the fast and fun moviemaking app for iPhone, iPod touch, and
iPad. Designed for the Multi-Touch screen, iMovie puts everything you
need to tell your story at your fingertips. Browse and play projects in
the Marquee view. Make a movie in minutes by adding video, photos, music
and sound effects. Then give it the Hollywood treatment by adding a
theme, titles and transitions. And you can share share your movie with
the world – right from iMovie.
Instagram (Free)
It's a free, fun, and simple way to make
and share gorgeous photos on your iPhone. Pick from one of several
gorgeous filtered effects or tilt-shift blur to breathe a new life into
your mobile photos. Transform everyday moments into works of art you'll
want to share with friends and family.
Alternative: Hipstamatic ($1.99), Snapseed ($4.99)
Music:
Shazam (Free)
Hear a song you don't know? Shazam identifies it instantly.
Free Alternative: SoundHound (Ad Supported)
Pandora Radio (Free)
Pandora Radio is free personalized radio
that only plays music you’ll love. Just start with the name of one of
your favorite artists, songs or classical composers and Pandora will
create a custom "station" that plays similar music.
TuneIn Radio Pro ($0.99)
TuneIn is a new way to listen to the
world through live local and global radio from wherever you are. Whether
you want music, sports, news or current events, TuneIn offers over
50,000 stations and 120,000 shows for you to choose from. The TuneIn
Radio Pro app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch puts this entire
experience in the palm of your hand with the added benefit of recording
what you’re listening to.
Free Alternative: TuneIn Radio
Spotify (Free)
Get free access to Spotify Premium now!
With Premium you'll get access to 15 million tracks from thousands of
albums and artists on your iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad. If you haven’t
tried Premium before, you can try it on your mobile for 48-hours,
completely free. You don’t even have to enter credit card details.
Simply download this app and log in.
djay for iPhone & iPod touch ($0.99)
Ready to rock your next party? The
premier DJ app and winner of the 2011 Apple Design Award for iPad now
fits in your pocket: introducing djay for iPhone & iPod touch!
GarageBand ($4.99)
GarageBand turns your iPad, iPhone and
iPod touch into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured
recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go. Use
Multi-Touch gestures to play pianos, organs, guitars, drums, and basses.
They sound and play like their counterparts, but let you do things you
could never do on a real instrument. Enjoy a full range of Smart
Instruments that make you sound like a pro — even if you’ve never played
a note before. Plug an electric guitar into your iPad, iPhone or iPod
touch and play through classic amps and stompbox effects. Use the
built-in microphone or a guitar to record, or capture any performance.
Then mix up to eight tracks to create a song you can share.
Finance:
iXpenseIt ($1.99)
iXpenseIt simplifies daily expense
tracking and monthly budgeting. With iXpenseIt, it's never been easier
to stay current on your personal budget or for business users, to get
faster reimbursements. Store photo receipts is a snap. Enter expense
data anywhere, anytime within seconds. Powerful reporting provides
insight to where your money went and find new ways to save.
Lemon - Receipts Refreshed (Free)
Lemon.com is the best way to organize
all your purchases into one simple place. Easily scan your paper
receipts and we’ll turn the images into useful information that’s
taggable and searchable so you can get organized and know where you're
spending your money.
Productivity:
Numbers ($9.99)
Numbers is the most innovative
spreadsheet app ever designed for a mobile device. Built from the ground
up for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, it lets you make compelling
spreadsheets in minutes — with tables, charts, photos, and graphics —
using just your fingers. Choose from over 250 easy-to-use functions.
Enter data and explore results with sliders, steppers, pop-ups, and
intelligent keyboards.
Pages ($9.99)
Pages is the most beautiful word
processor you’ve ever seen on a mobile device. This powerful app has
been exclusively designed for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Create,
edit, and view documents wherever you are. Use dictation in iOS 5 on
your iPhone 4S to easily create and edit documents.
Keynote ($9.99)
Keynote is the most powerful
presentation app ever designed for a mobile device. Built from the
ground up for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, it makes creating a
world-class presentation — complete with animated charts and transitions
— as simple as touching and tapping. Use full-screen view to present
right on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Or use video mirroring to
present it on an HDTV, and preview your slides and notes on your device
using the presenter display.
Wunderlist (Free)
The Wunderlist mobile app for iPhone and
iPod Touch will boost your productivity. Organize your to-do lists on
the go and synchronize them with your free Wunderlist account. View and
modify your tasks on Windows, Mac, Linux,iPad, Android and the Web.
Evernote (Free)
Evernote turns the iPhone, iPod Touch
and iPad into an extension of your brain, helping you remember anything
and everything that happens in your life. From notes to ideas to
snapshots to recordings, put it all into Evernote and watch as it
instantly synchronizes from your iPhone to your Mac or Windows desktop.
Health & Fitness:
Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock ($0.99)
An alarm clock that analyzes your sleep
patterns and wakes you in the lightest sleep phase - a natural way to
wake up where you feel rested and relaxed.
Runkeeper (Free)
RunKeeper uses the GPS technology found
in the iPhone to track your fitness activity, giving you comparable
results to an expensive GPS watch. Now, you can also enter your
activities manually, including your treadmill runs too!
Travel:
Google Translate (Free)
Translate words and phrases between more
than 60 languages using Google Translate for iOS. For most languages,
you can speak your phrases and hear the corresponding translations.
FlightTrack Pro ($9.99)
Import flight data automatically from
any airline confirmation email and get push alerts with real-time
changes to your flight. Get real-time flight itinerary updates, and
beautiful, zoomable maps that even work offline. FlightTrack Pro has
everything you need to stay on top of your trip.
Alternative: FlightTrack ($4.99)
Yelp (Free)
Looking for a burrito joint open now? An
Irish pub nearby? A gas station you can drive to before your tank hits
empty? Yelp for your iPhone is here to help. Use us to search for places
to eat, shop, drink, relax and play then read reviews from an active
community of locals in the know.
Urbanspoon (Free)
Can't decide where to eat? Urbanspoon
can help. SHAKE your iPhone and the Urbanspoon slot machine will suggest
a restaurant. See what's NEARBY in your 'hood, or BROWSE a
comprehensive list of restaurants. Make a RESERVATION, and expand your
DINELINE by checking in. See what your FRIENDS like.
XE Currency (Free)
Convert every world currency on-the-go
with the universally optimized XE Currency App for iPhone and iPad. It
features live currency rates, charts, and even stores the last updated
rates, so it works when the Internet doesn't.
Entertainment:
Neflix (Free)
Just download this free app and you can instantly watch TV shows & movies streaming from Netflix.
Flixster (Free)
Movies by Flixster is the #1 movie app
to watch movie trailers, find showtimes, get critics reviews from Rotten
Tomatoes, and share your movie ratings with your friends.
Alternative: IMDB (Free)
Utilities:
Find My iPhone (Free)
If you misplace your iPhone, iPad, iPod
touch, or Mac, the Find My iPhone app will let you use another iOS
device to find it and protect your data. Simply install this free app on
another iOS device, open it, and sign in with your Apple ID. Find My
iPhone will help you locate your missing device on a map.You can then
choose to display a message or play a sound, remotely lock your device,
or erase your data on it.
1Password for iPhone ($5.99)
1Password will securely store your
important information and can automatically log you into websites with a
single tap. There's no need to remember the username, password, or even
the website address.
RedLaser - Impossibly accurate barcode scanning.
Alternative: Barcode Scanner For Shopping ($0.99)
Onavo (Free)
Onavo’s app connects your iPhone to our
cloud-based technology, dubbed the “magical shrinking machine”. It’s
totally seamless – once you install it you can go back to using your
phone as before. In the background, your data usage from all apps is
compressed so that you get more bang for your buck, doubling and even
tripling your data plan.
CamCard ($6.99)
CamCard is a fantastic business card
reader with high recognition accuracy. Simply take a picture of a
business card, CamCard recognizes the contact information and saves it
Card Holder or iPhone Addressbook. Then feel at ease to manage and make
correspondence to all the contacts.
You can check out the CamCard Lite version before buying the full version.
CamScanner+ ($4.99)
With CamScanner, your iPhone is actually
a portable scanner, with which all your paper documents, receipts,
notes, whiteboard discussions can be archived anywhere at anytime. Our
Smart Image cropping and Image enhancement algorithm ensures the scanned
images perfectly clear and recognizable. With OCR technology, text
within PDF files will be searchable.
You can check out CamScanner Free before buying the full version.
Convertbot ($1.99)
Convertbot is a unit conversion robot.
Convert currency, length, mass, time and much more in an exciting new
way! Converting numbers will never again be a mundane task. In addition
to its innovative interface, our robot is smart enough to convert to and
from mixed units. Are you 5 foot 9 inches tall? Other converters
require you to convert that to 5.75 ft in your head before being able to
enter it. Convertbot allows mixed units like Foot + Inches, Pounds +
Ounces, and more!
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That's it for now. We'll continue to
update this post as and when we find new must-have apps. We've also not
included apps in categories such as Lifestyle, Education etc. We hope to
update this list with apps in those categories shortly. We'll post an
article on our top games for iPhone and publish a similar list for the
iPad.
Note:
- Please note the brief descriptions for the apps are from the App Store.
- Though some of the apps we've mentioned below are free, there are apps like Netflix that are available only to members who need to pay a fee to access the service.
- Some apps may not be available in your country.
- Some apps may not be compatible with iPod touch.
- The prices may have changed for some of the apps by the time you read this article.
We hope you enjoy using our selection of
apps from the App Store, which has almost 500,000 iPhone apps. If you
have any suggestions, please don't hesitate to let us know in the
comments and we'll check them out.
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