Must Have iPhone Apps & Hacks

[Ravvenn]

Post what you like and/or recommend!

Format: Name - Short Description - Price (if possible)

I like these:

Shazam - "Listens" to a song playing, identifies song, gives open to buy it - Free

Fandango - Lists movie times, has movie previews, option to buy tickets - Free

ShopShop - Shopping list, swipe finger to cross-out items - Free

[bouhhan]

prices are from memory, and do change sometimes...

zenonia - great little rpg, maybe 15 hrs playing time - $5.99

space ace - fantastic job on this, just get it - $4.99

myst - also well done - $9.99

deep green - best chess engine - $6.99

icam - best/easiest webcam viewer, up to 4 cams - $9.99

golfcard - my favorite golf scorecard app - $5.99

air sharing - makes your phone into a flash drive - $6.99

usa today - my favorite news feed - free

weather channel - weather - free

shakespeare - complete works (!) - free

pandora - free tunes - free

sportacular - best sports updates app - free

flixster - best movie times app, can search for times by location - free

[Jayblah]

Hah. Thanks for making the thread; I was feeling too lazy to maintain it. Here are my suggestions...

via iTunes Store:

Pandora - Excellent music discovery service with genre-specific streams to boot - Free

VNC Lite - Allows control/viewing of your desktop/laptop on your iPhone screen - Free

RemotePad - Allows you to use iPhone touchscreen as a mouse on your desktop/laptop - Free

Measures - Best unit conversion app, due to a great interface - $0.99

eBay - Follow auctions on your iPhone - Free

Stanza - Well designed e-Book reader - Free

Urbanspoon - Have the app choose a nearby place for you to eat at because you are an indecisive ass - Free

Public Radio - Listen to NPR or PRI streams - Free

Google App - Very useful voice-search feature, amongst other tools - Free



via Cydia/Installer/Icy (requires a Jailbroken phone):

If your phone isn't jailbroken this section doesn't apply to you. Please note that as of this time, the iPhone 3GS is not jailbreakable. All other iPhone/iTouch users should strongly consider jailbreaking. Why? Read this to learn more.

Cycorder - Allows you to record video w/ audio on the 3G at 15 FPS - Free

CyDelete - Makes deleting jailbreak apps as simple as deleting iTunes apps - Free

Five Icon Dock - Plop an extra app in your dock! - Free

Five Column Springboard - Doesn't work yet on 3.0, but it will soon. EDIT: It works as of 06/23/09, woo! Use more of your iPhone real-estate by having five icon columns instead of four - Free

Flashlight - Superior to iTunes' flashlight apps, as this one gets much brighter - Free

GriP - Push notification message balloons, similar to Growl. Google it, it's not available on Cydia yet and requires SSHing - Free

Lock Calendar - Use all that real-estate on your lockscreen to display calendar events - Free

MxTube - View/stream and download(!) Youtube videos to your iPhone - Free

SBSettings - Super useful tool that allows you to quickly enable/disable iPhone features that are otherwise buried in Settings, amongst other perks - Free

SBSettings Autolock - Requires SBSettings. Addon the aforementioned app that allows you to quickly toggle your iPhone's autolocking on and off. - Free

WinterBoard - Required for theming/skinning/customzing your iPhone - Free

Snapture - If you want to eek out the most from your 3G's camera, this is the app to do it. Allows for zoom and other features - Trialware

OpenSSH - Required to interface/communicate with your phone using your PC - Free

[Lenas]

Official:

Twitterrific - Good for those of you that like Twitter - free / paid
WootWatch- Get updates on woot, sellout.woot, shirt.woot and wine.woot - free


Jailbreak:

Icy - Alternate app to Cydia, I find it to be much faster-loading and the GUI is much more polished.
Installous / AppSync - Install cracked apps to iPhone. Research yourself.
Mobile Terminal - Self explanatory. Needed for some jailbreak app installs.
GriP - OSX fans, Growl for the iPhone. Popup notification mod.
iRealQuickSMS - Allows for SMS messages anywhere, without closing whatever app you already have open. Very handy.
Backgrounder - Run apps in the background! Nice for things like Pandora. Don't over-use.
iBlank - Create blank icons so you can create custom icon layouts.
Winterboard - Custom themes

[Eyashusa]

Some others not yet but sure to be also mentioned (and some that were already mentioned that I really like)...

Official:

SportsTap - Scores, articles about the game, stats for both teams playing. Way better than Scorecenter IMO (havent tried Sportacular listed above yet) - Free

Urbanspoon - In a metro area looking for somewhere to eat? Select the city and shake the phone and it randomly picks a type of food, the neighborhood, and the average cost. Customizable if you want a certain type of food, area, or price - Free

Simplify Music - Shares your iTunes library on your home computer with your phone. As long as you leave your computer on and plugged into the internet, you can stream your entire iTunes library through your phone from anywhere - Was Free when I got it, now its 3.99-5.99 for the new one.

SiriusXM Online - If you have subscribe to satellite radio and have the package that allows you to listen to it online, this app streams it through your phone - Free

Thats all I can think of right now.

edit: one thing I usually do is if I see an app that says its free now and is going to cost money in x days, I usually just download it as long as it sounds remotely cool. You can always just delete it if it ends up sucking, but I've saved a ton of money by getting lucky and noticing apps the first week or so their around and for free

[Christo]

Airport Mania (99 cents) - By far the best game i've played on my Iphone. It's the only game I play daily. I kid myself into believing it improves my stress tolerance and (lack of) multi-tasking skills.

[Zarcath]

I just got Shazam the other day and it's fucking amazing. How do they analyze the clips? Do they have a huge database? I only caught the tail end of a song's instrumental playout and it managed to identify it.

[The Dauntless One]

I can't seem to find Pandora. Anyone know what happened to it?

[Lenas]

Nothing happened to it... search for Pandora in the app store?

[deab]

Jaadu

"Jaadu gives you full control of your computer's mouse and keyboard while providing a rich visual display of your computer screen on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Jaadu connects to any device running a VNC server and is currently the only VNC client for iPhone that allows you to see all of your displays full-size, with no screen resolution limits."

Pretty bad ass stuff I have seen my friend do with it.

[The Dauntless One]

Jaadu is awesome though I only use it for remote desktop. Lenas, I don't see it in the app store but I figured that it must be because I'm from Canada.

[Vepil]

xGPS - Turn by Turn works great. Could use a volume boost.

[Zerai]

Originally Posted by The Dauntless One

I can't seem to find Pandora. Anyone know what happened to it?

Welcome to Canada.

It's in itunes store..just not itunes Canada. I searched for it and ended up googling them when I couldn't find it.

[Laerazi]

Fandango - See local movies playing, see showtimes, and order tickets - Free
AroundMe - Lists local restaurants, bars, hospitals, etc; very handy for finding new places around you - Free
Shopper - Intuitive interface for anyone who goes grocery shopping with a list. - $0.99
Defender Chronicles - TD with a 2D, RPG side-view twist. High quality, must have for anyone that remotely likes TD-style gaming - $2.99
Knights Onrush - From the same people that made Defender Chronicles, this is a great defend your castle style, finger-flick game. Again, great quality art and controls. $0.99 (On Sale)

[Szlia]

Clueless question: is there a way to browse the AppStore without a iPhone?