I don’t know how I should categories the whole list!
Should I do it by category? or just an overall rank?
I’ll do both and just go with the flow.
Updating it as new apps come along.
So this is the list of my Most Used Apps, followed by other apps that I still use and find useful.
(R) = Reviewed
(F) = Free App
(P) = Paid App
Most Used Apps
- WhatsApp (R,P) – Best Instant msging app, similar to Ping but much more stable.
- Kingdom at War (R,F) – Most addictive game on my phone
- Facebook (F) – Need I say what this is for?
- WeatherPro (P) – Very good detailed weather report
- IM+ (P) – I got the paid version, no ads and push service. Awesome for MSN, Yahoo and other services.
- Skype (F) – I love this app! I can make phone calls with 3G network anywhere I go.
- iXpenselt (P) – A good app for tracking finances, detailed report of your spending and budgets.
- Currency (F) – Easy layout of updated currency conversions.
- Tweetie / Tweekdeck / Twitterific /Twinkle (F,P) – Pretty much the same for twittering. Recomment Tweetdeck and Twitterific
- FT Mobile (F) – Financial Times news. I read this when I’m waiting or doing nothing. Very informative financial news
Frequently Used
Flashlight (F) – Just a blank coloured screen, good to use in the dark as a flashlight. (Increase the brightness to use)
WordPress (F) – Use this to update my blog when I’m not with my laptop
Shazam (F) – Use this to find out a song that is playing on a radio or anywhere, very magical! lol
NetNewsWire (F) – As a Rss Feed for iphone, for blogs or news. Very useful when you need materials to read. Like when your doing your business in the toilet.
Bloomberg (F) – Very stable news and market tracker. Highly Recommended
MoneyBook (P) – Simple Budget and Money tracker. Used often to track how much I use each month.
Full List of Useful Apps By Category
Social Apps
Facebook – As Above
Skype – As Above
IM+ – As Above
WhatsApp – As Above
Tweetie/ Tweekdeck/ Twitterific/ Twinkle – As Above
News Apps
NYTimes – New York Times news paper, you can find some quality articles to read
BBCReader – News from BBC, reading materials
AP Mobile – AP News
FT Mobile – As Above
BW – Business Week, reading materials
TIME Mobile – Reading materials
News Feed – News feed is an app that provide an easy link to news website, nothing special, but big list of different agencies.
NetNewsWire – As Above
Finance/Money Apps
iXpenselt – As Above
Currency – As Above
Food Apps
Urbanspoon – Useful to find restaurants in selected cities, it can randomly pick a restaurant new you. Good when you have no idea what to eat.
buUuk – Similar to urbanspoon, but most for asian countries.
Music Apps
DanceRadio – Ministry of sound station, good selection of quality stream for trance & house music.
Ocarina – Fun app to create music with.
Shazam – As Above
Efficiency/Productivity/Work Apps
myhomework – Good for students, creates timetable, and due date for homework and assignments
Voxie – Audio recorder for notes and such. You get to send it by email or sync your iphone to download the audio file
Games Apps
Kingdom at War – As Above
Angry Bird - One of the Best & Most Addictive Game Ever!
Fieldrunners (P) – Fun strategy game
Knights (P) – Addictive game
FlightControl (P) – Cute creative game
Flick Fishing (P) – Was fun at the beginning, but it got repetitive, quite relaxing too.
Photography Apps
CameraBag – Photo editing app that changes your photo into 12 very cool effects.
Postage – Awesome for sending cards with your photo. (Highly Recommended)
Flickr – Look thru Flickr page
Photo Map – If you travel a lot with your iphone, it tags the photo with the country you took the photo from, nice to browse around.
Genius – Tool to use camera functions – Reduce handshake, Zoom, sound capture, timer and manual settings (recommended)
Photogene – Photo editing app – Cut, Resize, Flip, Colour
Polomoid – Photo editing app – add handwritten text to your images with effects.
Phoxt – Creates a photo from your original photo into text based image. (very unique)
Fitness & Health Apps
iFitness – Different Workout Selections and guides, updated pretty often with new workouts (Highly Recommended)
GymGoal – Similar to iFitness. Nicer layout, but less functions
Weightbot – Just a tracker of your weight progress ( I got bored updating it after awhile)
Fun, Entertaining & Useful Apps
HiCard – Send a card for every occasion to your friends by email
WordPress – As Above
AppBox Pro – Very useful app with lots of function, from calculator, to measurements, to conversions, to PMS timer, many more! (highly recommended)
WeatherPro – As Above
Flashlight – As Above
DianHua – Awesome chinese dictionary for travellers, or people learning mandarin
CardMsg Pro – Suggestions for different emails, like a template of different msgs to send
Vringo – Sync’s your contact list with friends on facebook and adds thier photos on your contact details.
Style.com – Very informative app for latest fashion. With videos and images.
TuneWiki – Fun app that looks for lyrics while you play the song on your iphone song list
Love Poems – Creates poems for your love ones and then send it to them
Epic Fail – Collection of Epic Fail Images online, very entertaining
Sex Jokes – List of sex jokes, very entertaining as well
WorldMate – Useful App for travel, comes with a flight checker, weather updates, hotel bookings, itenery and many functions. (Recommended)
Check it once in awhile, will update occasionally.
