I have a friend who put out a Facebook request for suggestions of what to spend $2.00 on for apps for his iPhone. He specified that they could be paid or free, and could include $.99 apps as well. I went a little crazy, and came up with the ULTIMATE $2.00 iPhone App Guide. These are great apps that won’t break the bank, and are in my opinion, the reason that the iPhone is such a strong platform.
Here it is (organized by category, of course!).
Photography
AutoStitch Panorama – $1.99
Polarize – free
Photonote Lite – free
Video
QIK Video Camera Pro – $0.99
Air Video Lite – free
Utilities
Dropbox – free
Just Light Flashlite – free
Dictionary.com – - free
FreeSaurus – The Free Thesaurus – free
Siri Assistant – free
ZIPcodes – free
USAA – free (If you don’t bank with USAA this does you no good, but the app is great! By the way, if you don’t bank with USAA you are really missing out. They are awesome.)
Books
Stanza – free
Bible (YouVersion)- free
Social
Facebook – free
Twitterrific – free (I have used this, and it is pretty good for a free Twitter app, but for my pick, see the bonus section below for paid apps.)
Travel
BookMe – free
Tools
Electrical Toolkit – free
Units (Yellow icon with a scale) – free
Entertainment
Movies (Flixter) – free
iheart Radio – free
Shazam – free
AOL Radio – free
Slacker Radio – free
Pandora – free
CheckPlease Lite – Tip Calculator – free
Dove Family Approved Movies – free
Games
Ragdoll Blaster 2 Lite – free
Hearts free – free
Sol Free – free
Gamebox Classics – free
Word Warp – free
Games For Your Kids
Dress Chica – free
Whiteboard Lite – Collaborative Drawing – free
Preschool Adventure – .99
I realize that if you bought all of these you would actually spend $3.97, but you would have a pretty awesome iPhone for under $4.00 in Apps.
For someone without a young child, you could get away with only spending $2.98, and if you had an iPhone 3GS, you wouldn’t need the QIK Video Camera. That would bring the whole package under $2.00.
That’s a lot of value!
These are most of the apps I use all the time. I have downloaded hundreds of apps (free and paid), and these are the ones I have kept on my phone.
As an added bonus, here are my favorite paid apps, and the most expensive app on my phone.
Tweetie 2 – $2.99 (The best Twitter app, hands down.)
iCamcorder – $1.99 (The actual name of this app is “Record Video on iPhone 2G/3G – iCamcorder with 15+FPS, Zoom and more Effects!”, but if you search for iCamcorder, you’ll find it. I have bought most of the camcorder apps for the iPhone 3G. I keep this one and the QIK Video Camera on my phone. They are both good at different things. This is the one I use most, as the start-up time is very short, and it does a great job capturing clean video.)
Air Video – $2.99
Flight Control – 0.99
TowerMadness – $2.99
Ragdoll Blaster 2 – $2.99
CrewCard – $1.99
Film Slate – $4.99
Tap and Drill Chart – $0.99
keep reading to find what the most expensive app I have purchased is, and what I think of it.
Free Bonus!!! Check out http://www.pacificmotion.net on your iPhone. This is the website I built for work. I use the WPTouch Wordpress plugin for the mobile site. Check it out on your computer to see the difference, and get an idea how the WPTouch plugin works. For web designers wanting to make iPhone (and most mobile browsers) compatible sites, this is the BOMB!!! and it’s free.
—- The Most Expensive App I Have Purchased —-
Navigon Mobile Navigator North America – $79.00
I bought it when it was $69.00. I would pay $99.00 for it. It is fantastic. This is the reason I bought my iPhone. I hate being lost. This is a GREAT gps app. I use this with a suction cup/gooseneck windshield mount [$10 from Amazon] and a car charger, and it is amazing. I have used it in the U.S. and Canada, and it always works. Every update has made it better. I can’t imagine not having this app.
By the way, many of these apps have iPad versions as well. I would suggest spending a few dollars and trying them out on the iPad as well.
