It turns out that iPhone is great for a lot more than updating your Facebook status. With the right apps, you can turn your iPhone into the perfect travel companion, personal trainer, and more. --Michael Simon
GymFu.com · $0.99 each
Who needs a pricey monthly membership when you’ve got four bucks and an iPhone? GymFu.com’s suite of exercise apps--CrunchFu, PushupFu, SquatFu, PullupFu--puts the personal in personal trainer, deftly utilizing iPhone’s accelerometer to evaluate your form and count your reps (so no cheating) as you unlock training stages and challenge people around the world to workout battles in the comfort (and privacy) of your own home. Just the way we like it.
Cheaper than a Wii Fit.
TapBots · $1.99
We certainly don’t expect to find an app that makes dieting fun, but Weightbot takes at least some of the dread out of our daily weigh-ins. You’ll need your own scale (we’re pretty sure Apple doesn’t want us standing on our phones), but Weightbot does the rest, tracking your progress and measuring your BMI with its classy, passcode-protected interface filled with elegant graphs and charts. Like Weight Watchers, but without all those prying eyes.
Making weight just got a little bit easier.
Splended Things · $1.99
Even if you hate running as much as we do, you’ll appreciate Get Running’s slow-and-steady approach that promises to get you off your couch and into 5K shape in just two months. With a strict regimen limited to three manageable workouts per week, Get Running’s training program strikes a perfect balance between racing and resting, with a run clock, encouragement cues and a rolling progress log.
Energy bars not included.
Inari Mobile Technologies · $2.99
Most casual collectors have probably already carved out a permanent spot on their iPhones for the NIKEiD app. But no self-respecting sneakerhead can live without Kicktionary’s ever-growing database of shoes. More than just a dictionary devoted to footwear, Kicktionary’s library provides a veritable encyclopedia of sole, broken down by sport, model and colorway, and packs each entry with enough information and pics to soothe the savagest of hypebeasts.
Bone up on the history of kicks.
Quinn Genzel · $2.99
Before any well-deserved week of rest and relaxation comes a few days of frantic scrambling as we try to boil our life down to a single suitcase, only to find out we’ve forgotten toothpaste, socks and our iPhone charger. Lots of packing aids populate the App Store, but none are as useful as Packing Pro, with its clean, customizable interface, collapsable categories, easy exporting and everything else to make sure clean underwear makes it in on the plane with you.
Just don't forget your iPhone charger.
EpicTilt · Free
Since we can’t afford to hop on a flight to Vegas every time we get bit by the gambling bug, we’ll have to settle for Sportsbook, an all-in-good-fun betting app that lets us place realistic wagers on the day’s sporting contests. With a revolving leaderboard and in-app purchases to replenish your account up to a million dollars, SportsBook is the next best thing to a cigar-smoking bookie. And it won’t threaten to break your legs.
Cheaper than a trip to Vegas.
IQapps · $0.99
It used to be that you needed to bring a still camera, video camera, film, notepads, pens and maps if you wanted to seriously document a destination. Trip Journal not only cuts down on your gear considerably, it uses iPhone’s GPS to track your route and waypoints, geo-tags your photos and movies, and integrates seamlessly with Google Earth, all while neatly packaging everything in a sophisticated digital log that fits right in your pocket.
Document your travels with Trip Journal.
Splended Things · $7.99
If you’re a frequent flyer having trouble keeping track of all your flights and hotel transfers, TripDeck may be the next best thing to hiring a personal assistant. With automatic TripIt syncing and airline push alerts, TripDeck collects all of your info and displays it in a sophisticated, clean interface that leaves little to chance; it’ll even help you find an alternate flight in the event of a delay, and it won’t give you any attitude for working overtime.
Essential for road warriors.
Neil Harris · $0.99
Who says your local gym has to be a stop on the path to enlightenment? Yoga Stetch packs 35 poses in your pocket without getting all pretentious about it--each move is accompanied by a detailed, illustrated description that even clues you in to the intended physical and mental effect. Once you’ve studies the poses, you can customize your own session to fit your schedule--like when you need a quickie Downward Dog to tackle a case of writer’s block.
Perfect your form.
Collectorz.com · $9.99 each
If you always have your eyes peeled for a trove of comics--or just like bragging to co-workers about your record collection--you know the importance of keeping an up-to-date catalog. Unless you happen to have a freaky memory, Collectorz.com has you covered with a series of iTuneslike apps--Clz Movies, Books, Music, Comics and Video Games--that perfectly complement its desktop database software. Twelve thousand comic in your basement? There’s an app for that.
swatkins01
February 01, 2011 at 6:51am
Has the option to print the article disappeared or am I just missing it?
brigosx
January 31, 2011 at 12:55pm
Working with shifts? Is sometimes a bit hard to remember all your duties? You would like to buy a tool for making this job for you without spending lot of money? If the answer to all these questions is YES then Duties Watcher is the app for you. Born from the same necessity to make our working life easier. You may find at the App Store.
With it's smart scheduler Duties Watcher is the app!!! You will never regret buying this awesome product.
July2009
May 19, 2010 at 8:12pm
Here are top 20 of our favorite free iPad apps to get you started from the App Store.
http://www.aneesoft.com/tutorials/ipad/best-20-free-ipad-apps.html
kylerwalker
May 12, 2010 at 3:15pm
every math teacher would love the ipolygon app.but i like the doodle cart app sauce lifter pinball dreams and cluck it
tb
May 07, 2010 at 7:12pm
We just released an iPhone app that allows users to keep a photographic food diary and email their day's log to anyone (themselves, a personal trainer, nutritionist, diet buddy, etc.) It's called dietSNAPS. You can check it out at http://www.dietSNAPS.com.
