Top 9 iPhone Apps of 2009
Since it seems that about 1 out of every 5 people with a cell phone now has an iPhone, I thought it might be helpful to post what my most used apps this year were.
9. Mint
We began using Mint this year to track our personal finances. It is amazingly awesome. The two best things about it are that it’s free, and all of the work is done for you – you don’t have to reconcile your checking account, you don’t have to mentally subtract your credit card from your checking account to figure out how much cash on hand you have – it’s all done for you. The iPhone app is a nice quick glance at our cash flow and how we’re doing.
8. Dragon Dictation
This just came out a few weeks ago, but it’s already been incredibly helpful. I find myself dictating emails on my way home, and it’s got huge future potential.
7. Best Camera
I’ve got several camera apps that I’ve tried for doing quick edits of photos, but this is my favorite. It’s got a few prebuilt filters that for the most part are all that I need to use to make an iPhone photo stand out a bit.
6. RunKeeper
I began using this before my barefoot running obsession, but it’s definitely helped. It tracks where I run, how fast, how far, average pace and calories burned. I was using Nike+ for a little while, but I found this to be more accurate and more versatile.
5. YouVersion
At the beginning of the year, I was using this for my morning Bible reading. I stopped using it regularly because I got frustrated by the lack of ability to follow a plan at my own pace, to have it sync with my online reading on YouVersion and with the lack of ability to use a different reading plan than the default one. With their most current release, they’ve dealt with all three of those, so it will definitely become a most used app again.
4. Evernote
Evernote can run on the Mac, PC, web and iPhone. I use it to drop anything that could possibly be used for research for messages, leadership development, or some random future project. I take pictures of my whiteboards and save them on here. It’s all searchable and archived online. I love having access to all of that on my mac and iPhone, and now that I was recently given a netbook, I can have access to it on there as well.
3. Omnifocus
This is definitely my most expensive iPhone app, and many people won’t have a need for it. For me, I cannot stay organized without Omnifocus on my Mac, and having it sync to my phone and having all of my projects and the work I need to get done with me all of the time has proved to be incredibly beneficial.
2. Words With Friends
Kozmo talked me into downloading this game, and I’ve been sucked in. It’s basically playing Scrabble with anyone else who has it, at whatever pace it takes you. A game could last a day or weeks. I’ve currently got several games going with people from around the country. (by the way…my username is mgoldsworthy if you’re playing)
1. Tweetie 2
I love the design and interface of this Twitter app. Not only does it have a clean interface, but it also integrated TextExpander, so you can type a few letters and an entire sentence, or phrase can be automatically inserted, which is brilliant, especially for using the iPhone.
What were your most used iPhone apps this year?
