Top 100 iPhone apps

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Joe capitalises on a life-long love of blinking lights and upbeat MIDI soundtracks covering the latest developments in smartphones and tablet computers. When not ruining his eyesight staring at small screens, Joe ruins his eyesight playing video games and watching movies. Twitter: @Joseph_Hanlon

Trawling the iPhone apps store searching for the hidden gems is no mean feat. The last time Apple reported App Store figures it quoted 400,000 individual downloads, and that was over three months ago.

This list isn't the work of one person, it's a culmination of several sources. The majority of these apps were selected by the team of CBS Interactive in Australia, others came from you, our readers, through comments made on the numerous stories and forum posts relating to iPhone apps.

Interestingly, as we compiled the list, we discovered similarities in our friends' lists of favourite apps. There are, of course, some essentials, like Facebook and Twitter, but we also found other friends prefer health apps, cooking apps, science guides and photography tools. And games, lots and lots of games.

This is our top 100 iPhone apps, but of course, at 400,000 apps this represents but a fraction of what's available. If you know of any hidden gems you've unearthed let us know in the comments below.


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80 Facebook
 

80 posted a comment   

yep, cool apps, some of them are familiar tome. gotta try other ones :)

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Shan
 

Shan posted a comment   

Can't beat smurfs village it's the best!

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the punisher
 

the punisher posted a comment   
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The best app are:

ANGRY BIRDS RIO

PHOTOIMEMORY

INFINITY BLADE

WHATSAPP

IBIRDS

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HowManyTimes is a fun novelty app. Specially if you want to tease someone :-).

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Cool list but its missing some of the best iphone games out there like,
Infinity Blade
Angry Birds Rio
CHUPACABRA

The last one is FREE!

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Ml
 

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DJeremy, I think the question was more in relation to an app that automatically sends a message after a particular time. Also, there is no drafts folder on iPhone....

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You must try PhotoBooth ! It's a great photography entertaining app for 0.99$ !

PhotoBooth is an entertaining photography application which you can use to apply hundreds of special effects on your portrait photo and obtain crazy pictures. You can also add text effects and speech bubbles similar with the ones used in comic books; you can also tag your photos, add dates or memos or just add funny speech bubbles, transforming your photos in one of the funniest photo albums. All you have to do is load a photo from your phone’s library and play with the special effects. You can also easily send a visual message, impress your girlfriend/boyfriend with a loving visual message or wish everybody Happy Holidays with a custom made E-Card, just like the app’s description says.

Application features include the following:
- Christmas Effects
- Speech Bubbles
- Evil Elf Effects
- Animal Effects
- Funny Faces Effects
- Clown Effects
- Zombie Effects
- Pirate Effects
- Crazy Looks Effects
- Horror Effects
- Style Effects (Glasses, Sunglasses, Hats, etc.)
- Venetian Effects (Venetian Mask, Feather Masks, etc.)
- Violent Effects (Bruises, Scars, Cuts)
- Body Effects (Mustaches, Beards, Eyes Mouths, Tattoos and Piercings)
You can add and delete the layers very easily, resize the special effects to fit perfectly and rotate the effects to the right angle so that your photo will seem as real as possible. You can add as many effects as you want. When you’re done styling your photos you can just save the pictures into your phone and send them to all your friends and family using Facebook, Email or MMS. You can post the picture on your Facebook Wall with the integrated Facebook function. It will also automatically create your Facebook Photo Album for you with one click.
Xmas PhotoBooth combines the fun of adding special effects to your own photos with a friendly interface and it’s surely worth purchasing. As shown above, the PhotoBooth app has a high-quality feature-set as the first sign of the developers’ commitment to their product. As crucial as the app’s features is also the interface - which is an easy-to-use one, unlike other similar apps using difficult or confusing interfaces. The controls for the PhotoBooth application are easy to understand and simple to use without requiring a lot of additional direction from the programmer. It really doesn’t matter how neat the idea behind the app is: if you struggle with the interface, you’re not going to use it. The graphics are the eye-candy for this mobile app and the visually appealing program increases its value as well as shows off the beautiful touchscreen of the iPhone.
All of the previously mentioned pieces are important and desirable in a quality app, but stability is the key to the whole operation. If the program continually locks up your iPhone or iPod touch causing it to freeze or restart, it’s certain to be discarded rapidly. The PhotoBooth app does not have this kind of problems, stability, therefore is not an issue.
The final element to consider in an app is program size. Since you can’t add additional memory to your iPhone, it’s important to manage the amount of memory an application requires. Again, PhotoBooth does not have issues regarding the size matter, its size being 14.4 MB.
In conclusion, this photography entertaining application is worth your time and money, and you should give it a try.
You can get the PhotoBooth app here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xmas-photobooth/id406159121?mt=8 .

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Gazza
 

Gazza posted a comment   

Does anyone know of an application whereby you can type texts and delay sending them.

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DJeremy
 

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Yes, there's an App for that!

It's already built in to all Handsets of all brands of phones, throughout ALL phones ever made!
The App is called 'Drafts'.

To use 'Drafts' (it's not the boardgame)
When you're halfway through writing a text that you want to send later, you should bring up the menu, select "Save To 'Drafts'".

When you go back in to your Messages later on, you can bring up the menu, select "View 'Drafts'" (or similar message) and there it is!

You can save as many messages in there as you want, and send them up to 245 years later.
Isn't it amazing that the phone companies thought of your exact question that no one has ever asked before, more than 10 years before you ever asked!!!

Let me know if this works for you, or if it doesn't, let me know what phone you have and I can tell you how to do it.

Good luck!

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shlomo
 

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try the phone dial apps
it looks like an old telephone i used to use.

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