My Favorite 30 IPhone Apps of 2010

Apple reports that there are 200,000 Apps available in their store for use on one of their great wireless products such as the iPhone, iPad, or iPod. Listed here are my 30 favorite that I used in 2010 on an iPhone 3G.

Here’s the Top 30 that made the cut on my phone (not counting standard Apps that are pre-packaged on the product)

• Pocket Informant($4.99). This app is a calendar date book (and a to do list with time saving recurring options) that allows me to share calendars with my wife’s phone so that whenever either of us adds a scheduling item the other will see it at the next sync of the shared calendar. It’s pretty important for my household organization.

• iLogger ($4.99) I use this for tracking the date and information on everything important
  in my life from health appointments and home repairs to movies watched.

• Text Free + Voice(Free) I use this for texting people for free. It saved me a $10 monthly charge for texting from my cell phone carrier.

• Shopper($.99) This is another app that allows me to sync with my wife’s iPhone data. We use this to share grocery lists. Either one of us can add an item and whomever goes to the grocery store first can sync the list and pick it up.

• List Master($5.99) This is a powerful app that allows the creation of custom lists. Generally I use iLogger (see #2) for items with dates as the central focus, and use List Master for information that is independent of a key date.

• Yahoo! Sportacular(Free/$1.99) I love sports and this is my one app that I use to get notifications sent to me on my phone of in-game score changes for my favorite sport teams. The free version is identical but I decided to pay the $1.99 to get the pro version without advertisements.

• Pandora Radio (Free) This is a way to listen to random music according to station
  themes. I have several different stations saved, but I listen most of the time to the Sovereign Grace Music station.

• YouVersion Bible (Free) This contains many versions of the Holy Bible with search capacity.

• Facebook (Free) Other Apps will offer fancy Facebook access, but this one from Facebook
  itself is the best and simplest template there is.

• Awesome Note($3.99) This is a great App for storing notes. I use it for notes on things I want to remember later and even have my funeral service wishes embedded within the notes of this App.

• Car Minder($1.99) I use this App to track maintenance repairs completed on my vehicle. The App will send notification when certain services are due again, from monitoring of the current mileage of the car. There is also a handy fuel log that calculates fuel mileage.

• Twitter (Free) Other Apps will offer fancy Twitter access but this one by Twitter itself
  is the best and simplest template there is.

• Foursquare (Free) Foursquare can be played easily from the iPhone with this App up and running on a mobile phone.

• GedView ($3.99) I use this App to store my genealogy records. It is very versatile and gives a good visual relationship presentation of family groups.

• My Stuff($4.99) This App tracks the things I own, such as clothes, appliances, books, etc. I can take pictures of them and record the date acquired and other custom fields that
  would be important for insurance purposes.

• ooTunes Radio ($4.99)
  This is the best radio App because it allows me to listen to diverse stations around the world. This past year I listened to several football games of my old high school team (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan Oilers) and listened to Talk Radio on a local station originating from as far away as the State of
  Hawaii.

• Read More($1.99) This App allows me to track the time I spend reading books and it has a formula that calculates when all the pages in the books are projected to be finished.

• Groups: SMS, Mail($3.99) I use this App the most for storing contact information of people and places because it allows me to assign multiple categories to any contact so I can find it easier later. I think it is the best option in managing contact information.

• Jot Not Scanner ($.99) This App has been a lifesaver a few times because I can use my camera on my iPhone and it acts as a scanner so the picture taken of the image is turned into a pdf or other format that I can email to someone or save.

• iQuarium(.99). Created by Infinite Dreams Inc. This is a fun game where I maintain two pet fish on my iPhone and feed them each day and watch their world change. It doesn’t appear to have an ending unless I forget to feed the fish and they die on me (this actually happened once to me and I had to start over)

• Google (Free) Google search engine. Enough said!

• Honey Do ($4.99) This is another App that I share with my wife. It allows us to give tasks to each other and it sends reminders of when they are due. I’m wondering how high on the list my wife would place this App (bet it wouldn’t be #22).

• App Shopper (Free) This is a great App to research and learn about other Apps in a way that the ITunes store can not provide. One of the great features is how it allows tracking of Apps one owns and how it highlights Apps that are on sale. By using this I found out that Runkeeper Pro App was free through the end of January, 2011 (and that is normally a $9.99 App).

• Google Earth(Free) This is a fascinating App to look at the geographical images of any place in our world.

• G-Whizz Pro! ($3.99) This is an App that provides one step access to various Google account services. Did I mention that I like Google?

• Fluent News (Free) This App provides notifications of breaking news, so I always know I’ll be one of the first to know if the sun shines or the sky falls.

• Detroit Free Press(Free) This App provides access to news from the Detroit Free Press, a local paper I reference for State of Michigan news.

• IWife($.99) This App allows me to call my wife with the touch of one button. It saves a few steps in dialing the phone.

• Doodle Buddy(Free) This App simply allows one to do good old fashioned doodling on one’s IPhone. It’s great, because sometimes a Dad just has to doodle.

• Spark People – Diet and Food Tracker(Free) This is a great App for tracking one’s food intake in order to keep diet goals.

I am frequently looking for better Apps, so in 2011, a few may be bumped off this list with the next greatest thing. I wonder what new Apps will get and keep my attention in 2011. Stay tuned!