A friend just got an iPhone, health system and was wondering what apps were good. Here’s a list of apps I use.
(Yes all of these links go through an affiliate, medstore so if you buy something I *might* get money for it one day. I’m not holding my breath)
My Apps
How could I have forgotten the apps that I have written?!
- Mini Golf Pad – Keep score on your iPhone instead of that dumb pencil and paper!
- DropIt – Save files/bookmarks off the internet onto your iPhone
Photography
- Crop for Free – Crop a photo in your camera roll
- Camera+ – A better camera app?
- Instagram – Post and share photos with filtered effects
- Hipstamatic – Same as Instagram
- Luminance – Simple photo editor
Note Taking/Todo
- SimpleNote – Take notes and sync them to a website, accessible via Notational Velocity on the Mac
- ShopShop – Shopping list app
- Producteev – My new favorite todo list app
- Todo – My divvious favorite todo list app
Video Streaming
- Air Video – THE BEST – Stream videos from your computer to your iPhone
- Netflix
- Optimum – Watch TV on your iPhone, set the DVR, etc
- HBO – I’ve actually never used this app
Audio
- Pocket Casts – A great podcast app, although it’s buggy in iOS 5 right now
Reading
- Instapaper – Keeps articles to read later, formats them without all the ad bullshit
- Reeder – RSS Reader that doesn’t crash
- iBooks
- Kindle – Sync’s with your amazon account so you can get a copy of all the books on your Kindle
Navigation
- MotionX GPS Drive – Great GPS, buy the voice guidance for a year for $20
Utility
- Infinitlight – The only flashlight you’ll ever need
- Gas Cubby – Track your gas mileage if you are OCD like me
- Runkeeper – Track your workouts if you are OCD like me
- Dropbox – Sync files to the internet
- Boxcar – Notifications to your phone for services you probably haven’t heard of.
- iTeleport – Great VNC client for the iPhone
- Find my iPhone – Find your iPhone (or your wifes)
- Wolfram Alpha – Look up ANYTHING – get stats on it
- RedLaser – Barcode scanner (currently the only app I have that reads QR codes)
- Remote – Control iTunes on the computer
- Convert – Convert units, I use it mostly when cooking
- Square – Accept credit card payments
- Chase – Access your (my) bank account
- Shazam – Identify a song by listening to it
Games
- Jetpack Joyride – You’re a guy with a jetpack made of machine guns. Need I say more?
- The Last Rocket – Cool pixel game where you’re a rocket, very NES like.
- Zombie Highway – You’re on a highway, shooting zombies
- Hanging with Friends – Hangman with friends
- Edge
- Another World
- Tiny Tower – I am too obsessed with this game
- Super Stick Golf – Fun mini golf-esque game
- Bejeweled 2 – Another addition
- Carcassonne – I wish I was better at this game
- Zen Bound 2 – For when you want to tie wooden things up while listening to chill music
- Tiny Wings
- Solebon – The only solitaire game you need
- Diner Dash – The women love it!
- Mad Skills MX – Like Excitebike
- Strategery – Like Risk
- Crosswords – Like Crossword Puzzles
- Wurdle – Like Boggle
- Canabalt – The original (?) forever running game
- Stair Dismount – Push a guy down stairs. It’s awesome.
Social
Sports
Other