From marking its first year this past summer, to boasting over 100,000 applications in its catalog, the App Store has been great for many developers on the iPhone platform this past year. With 2010 right around the corner, we wanted to take a look back at the 100 greatest iPhone apps of 2009. These applications were nominated by Mac|Life readers. All of these apps have something in common: They've helped make the iPhone better over the past year.
This little iPhone app lets MobileMe users browse through files stored on their iDisk with ease. The app also lets you view files like PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Image files, and iWork files. In addition, you can share files right from your iPhone.
Evernote is the free online service/application that lets you store notes and images in notebooks for later use. The iPhone application really comes in handy, especially since it syncs with the cloud. Coupled with the new offline viewing for premium users, Evernote has to be one the best iPhone apps, hands down.
It seems like all of our friends are on Facebook these days, so why shouldn't Facebook be everywhere? Well, with their iPhone application it can definitely seem like that. This application allows you to manage all of your friends, posts, messages, uploads, and otherwise use Facebook without being inside of a browser.
Without this wonderful application, we would still have that snazzy song stuck in our heads without knowing the title or band. Shazam provides a great service to iPhone users for the wonderful price of free; however, if you're into product(RED), they have a Shazam(RED) version available as well.
It seems like Twitter is becoming as ubiquitous as Facebook, and it also seems like there are a bevy of iPhone Twitter clients. Tweetie would have to be a newcomer that won the hearts of the iPhone users everywhere. Multiple Twitter accounts, contact linkage, multiple attachments, offline mode, and more. Tweetie 2 has you covered.
Twitterrific is the great-granddaddy of Twitter clients on the Mac and iPhone, but it doesn't disappoint. Twitterrific got a new face lift this year that updated the client to be in line with other clients like Tweetie. By far, this is the nicest looking Twitter client on the iPhone.
With the advent of push notifications for the iPhone, SimplyTweet is probably one of the cheapest solutions for bringing push to your tweets. This app also contains all of the features of other comparable Twitter clients.
Zipcar is one of those revolutionary applications, giving you the ability to not only pick out a rental car from the Zipcar service, but also unlocks the doors on the car right from the iPhone.
This small newcomer of a company has shown time and time again that they can play with the best when it comes to online storage in an iDisk-style fashion. Dropbox offers up 2GBs of free online storage to users (along with other premium paid services). With their iPhone application, you can view and manage files on-the-go with ease.
With iPhone 3.0, cut, copy, and paste became a reality on the iPhone. With Pastebot, multiple clippings in an easy to use clipboard manager become a reality. This application also lets you sync over your clippings from your Mac to iPhone and vice versa.
With Amazon Kindle-like finesse, Stanza lets you read eBooks on your iPhone for free or little cost. Download free Guttenberg Project books, or paid books from several publishers right from the app; then sit back and read.
This year gave way to turn-by-turn GPS navigation apps for the iPhone. TomTom is one of the many GPS apps available that is really well designed. This app has 3D maps, fast route calculations, and a new lower price that many iPhone owners will enjoy.
Navigon MobileNavigator ($59.99)
With maps from NAVTEQ, and features like Lane Assist Pro, Navigon is a great navigation app for the iPhone. The app also includes Google local search, iPod control, and bird's-eye view of maps.
Sure, it's been around since the App Store launched, but it gained tighter syncing with its Mac counterpart, which makes it all the better. Things is a complete GTD (Getting Things Done) solution for your Mac and iPhone.
What would we do without 1Password? This handy application manages all of our passwords on both the Mac and the iPhone. And with the pro version, you get all kinds of nifty features like copy/paste passwords, folders for managing, and copying multiple field values. If you're always forgetting your passwords, this app is for you.
slimboy
April 17, 2010 at 9:52pm
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sanmike
March 16, 2010 at 11:57pm
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jonjsimon
January 07, 2010 at 5:21pm
I'm surprised RedLaser did not make their list. This app is especially great for electronics. Scan the bar code and it finds cheaper prices online and around your area in seconds.
TIVO!!!-For all of us TiVo users out there that are on the couch and too lazy or can't find the remote, the iPhone has an answer. Pay 2.99 for "DVR Remote" and it does all your other remote does and you don't even need to point it! I love this damn app. I'll be on the pot and her something I don't want to miss, so I pull out my phone and pause it!
gfranco14
January 04, 2010 at 10:35pm
Like pandora yes.fm lets you listen over 3 million songs for almost every kind of music, and it works pretty well with a decent 3g network in town, like mine!! Besides you can go through several playlist from everybody very well classified by artists, genre, year, top playlist etc. And if you really like it once you subscribe wich cost arround 3 euro per month you can listen to the entire cd of your favorite artist. Or make playlist with more than 100 songs.
MemengoInc
January 01, 2010 at 11:55pm
Speaking of Google Tasks, I wrote an app that does sync with Google Tasks - GeeTasks. As far as I know it's only app to do so, so it may deserve a honorable mention. http://www.geetasks.com
choirguy
December 31, 2009 at 8:19pm
What a great list, I've added a few of these apps this evening.
For Twitter, I recommend the following apps: for reading, TweetDeck. For posting, Twittelator Pro. For many functions, the new HootSuite application, which also allows for delayed publication of tweets, along with the ability (on the web) to allow multiple people to access one Twitter account.
For music apps, I strongly recommend GuitarToolkit and ClearTune.
Mint.com is a fantastic app, I believe Gizmodo recommended it earlier today.
For "free" texting, our current choice is "TextNow" although we've also used TextFree Unlimited. Warning: TextNow is an additional $7.99 per iPhone/iPod Touch for "lifetime" texting; TextFree Unlimited is $5.99 per year, unless you want to allow advertising.
We also like FluentNews as a singular news source in my family; and we're all constantly going back to iQuarium, even though it's simply a digital pet concept and maybe stupid--but the graphics are great and we find ourselves going back to feed the fish every day. Go figure.
