Here's the list of apps that I actually use every day
A colleague has recently picked up an iPhone. He’s using it in conjunction with the top of the line BlackBerry Bold 9900. The Bold is doing the corporate email — he, like me, just can’t get away from the gorgeous messaging experience from RIM.
However, he got the iPhone to test. He obviously asked for a few recommendations.
I got my iPhone and proceeded to browse through the screens observing which ones I actually used. I thought this might be an interesting exercise for you to read. If time permits, it would be super if you could do the same in the comments as I’m sure I’ll discover some good apps that way.
Here’s my as-I-scrolled list — I’ve put iTunes links to every one:
– Evernote for keeping notes, files, WiFi passwords across multiple devices (not just computers)
– Kindle, from Amazon, to read my ebooks when I’m on-the-go
– Amazon Mobile, for buying stuff that comes to mind (e.g. shoelaces, batteries, etc)
– SocialCam, for shooting video and then sending that video out to Facebook/Twitter
– Posterous, for maintaining my own personal blog/blog for friends/family
– Google+ app is really, really good — you need to try ‘Huddle’
– Spotify, for audio on-demand (tenner a month)
– Find My iPhone, so I can locate the iPhone if it’s lost
– DropBox, obviously — have you got a dropbox account?
– LinkedIn is sometimes useful
– Osfoora, for twitter — my client of choice
– UK Train Times — national rail app, expensive but super useful. Really like ‘next train home’
– British Airways — so you don’t need to ever bother with paper boarding tickets ever again
– Instagram, for snapping cool looking photos.
– Hullomail, for visual voicemail because (so you can always access your voicemails via the app and in your gmail)
– ON Voicefeed is another visual voicemail app, it’s brilliant
– LogMeIn, for accessing your desktop remotely. I use this two or three times a day for getting files and controlling my home machines from wherever I am
– Skyfire — full desktop browsing experience
– Audioboo, for recording audio ‘thoughts’ and sticking them on twitter (also, iPadio)
– Qik Plus, for live broadcasting video straight from my phone
– MIR, the mobile industry review application (just a news feed) that I paid $400 to a chap called Pavel to make
– Shoeboxed, for taking photos of receipts and having somebody else type in the value, company, date etc. so the accountant can download it later on
– OpenTable for booking Gaucho Grill in 10 seconds
– Reeder is a really good Google Reader client
– SoundHound is a billion times better than Shazam — song identification (every time I’ve tried Shazam lately, I’ve got a ‘sorry, dunno’ reply! Hardly ever from SoundHound..
– Sky+, because sometimes — rarely — I want to record stuff from live TV
– Touchnote, for sending my digital photos as real postcards to granny every week. She loves it.
– WordPress, for maintaining the sites on-the-go
– PizzaExpress, because I can’t be bothered with the 60-second faff with the credit card machine. I always pay via PayPal with the app now.
There are plenty more applications I do use, but these ones are most definitely regulars.
What about you? I’d very much welcome a list from you of your *every day* apps. If you don’t have much time, stick down one or two apps in the comments?
