Earlier this week we showed you Leaflets, a site from Blue Flavor that lets you launch Safari-bsed apps from a page that resembles the iPhone's home screen. Currently it has 10 apps you can launch by tapping their icons.

 

But if you're looking for a similar site that lets you create your own faux home screens of icons for iPhone Web apps, check out Applists. Just navigate to applists.com on your iPhone. Click the View iPhone Apps bar in the middle of the page, or use the gray navigation buttons at the top to see all the apps available.

 

The home screen of Applists.com on the iPhone.

 

As of this writing, there are 90 items in the All Apps list, and a drop-down menu also lets you filter them by category. Those are Entertainment, Entertainment - Movies, Entertainment - Music, Entertainment - Video, Food, Games, News Channel, News - Classifieds, News - Reader, Political - Presidential, Religion, Search, Social, Social - Messenger, Sports, Sports - Calendar, Sports - Channel, Utilities, Utilities - Language, and Utilities Wi-Fi.

 

Some of the apps in the main list. As of this writing, there are 90 apps, and it's easy to suggest more.

 

Once you find an app and click its icon in the list, you are taken to a screen from which you can launch the app by tapping the image on the left (the app launches in a new Safari window), or add it to your My Favorites applist. Another buttons lets you email the app's URL to a friend.

 

After you've added a thing or two to your My Favorites applist, you can tap the My Apps button in the top navigation bar. Your chosen apps are displayed as icons in a grid, just like the iPhone's home screen. Clicking an icon opens that app in a new Safari window.

 

But the best thing about Applists is that you can compile as many lists as you want. From your My Apps screen, just tap the blue plus sign next to the My Favorites drop-down menu (under the gray navigation bars). You can add as many lists as you want. One for news, one for games, one for apps you'd use at home or at work, whatever works for you.

 

Here's a list I made of games. You can have as many icons as you want on a list -- if they don't all fit on the screen, you just scroll down.

 

Once you set up your lists, you'll have to chose the desired one from the drop-down menu on the screen where you add the apps. It can be a lot of clicking, but it's not too difficult to set up. Or you can always put all your apps in your My Favorites list and then just scroll up and down to find what you're looking for.

 

You can also suggest apps if you know any that aren't listed, and if you create an account, your lists will be saved and you can access them from any iPhone. You can also log in and see your lists on a Mac or PC running Safari.

 

I was all excited that I could set up my lists on my Mac, with the mouse. No luck. I could log in, I could see the lists I had set up, launch the apps already on them, and even create new lists. But I couldn't add apps to them. Once I got to the main list of apps, clicking on them did nothing. This was tested on two Macs on different networks. Must just be a bug. In any case, creating an account is an easy way to save your applists so you can see them from any iPhone.

 

One of my favorites, Gas.app, shows you the best gas prices in your ZIP code.

 

You can get to Applists on your iPhone (or on your Mac's Safari browser) by navigating to applists.com.