Get Your Free On: 65 Free Apps for Your iPhone iPhone Apps: Music, Entertainment, Social Networking, and More James Maguire
Cool iPhone apps especially the free ones are certainly one of the best things on the Web. The following list contains the very best among the free iPhone apps currently available: games, Facebook, search, music, helpful tools, and more.
So what are you waiting for? Start downloading (note: all links open in iTunes for quick and easy free downloads.)
TMZ
Music/Entertainment
1) i.TV The ultimate movie, TV, and DVD guide, all for free on your iPhone. Find out when and where your favorite show is playing, and record it to your Tivo with a single tap. Plus: browse the Netflix catalog.
2) Movies Get upcoming showtimes and watch trailers on your iPhone. Plus: a DVD catalog of over 150,000 titles.
3) TMZ The iPhone version of the popular entertainment network, with news and videos about Hollywood stars, movies, music i.e. the newest news about the hottest celebs, with plenty of photos.
4) Upstreaming Viewing Application A video viewing app that handles both live and recorded video, with a built-in interactive chat feature. Includes full-screen support.
5) Remote Sound Box (Sound Effects) A library of sound effects for you to instantly play from your iPhone: crowd boo, glass shatter, whiny dog, and many more. You can also add your own wild and wacky sounds.
6) Pandora Internet radio Pumps out a never-ending stream of free, fresh tunes to your iPhone, based on the songs and bands you already like.
7) Midomi Put your iPhone up to a radio or stereo speaker and presto Midomi spits out the name of the song. It's kind of freaky, when you think about it. If you get bored you can play "stump the iPhone." (Does your iPhone know every song?)
8) iheart Radio Gives you access to America's top radio stations, along with song titles, lyrics, cover art, and more. iheart Radio also includes Ryan Seacrest, Dr. Laura, Glen Beck, and a crowd of other media celebs.
Lightsaber
9) Lightsaber Unleashed For the inner Star Wars fan within us all: your very own iPhone-based lightsaber. Swing your iPhone and hear the swoosh of the lightsaber. Add your favorite character. ("Luke, I am your father ")
10) FlipBook Lite Bring your drawings and doodles to life and share them with friends. The total drawing toolkit: an eraser, layered drawing, copy and paste, and more. Plus: load images from your camera to touch them up by hand.
11) MiniPiano Okay, it's just 14 notes on a full baby grand, but MiniPiano lets you plink out tunes to your heart's content or jam at full speed if you're able.
12) Aero Guitar Free Play your Aero guitar by touching, tapping, and shaking your iPhone. (Careful, though, don't smash it on the stage.) Includes ranking functions so that you can find who's the baddest guitar player in the land.
13) Haunted Terrifying! It's like a horror movie on your iPhone. "Nothing will prepare you for what you are about to see," its makers claim. Warning: not for the faint of heart.
Haunted
14) Shazam Helps you identify a song you hear on the radio or online, tells you where you can find it, lets you send its tags to your friends, plus shows you an related videos.
15) The iBall (Free) The iPhone's version of the mystical fortune teller. Allows you to switch between styles of fortune telling, including "Zen," "weird," and "classic." Plus: a gold bling-ball.
16) Lie Detector Advanced (Free) A voice-based lie detector (for fun only) that measures the level of stress in a person's voice to see if they're fibbing. Who needs the FBI? Conduct your own lie detector test.
17) Mood Phone The MoodPhone can (in theory) sense your mood and provide a visual that reflects it: happy, sad, in love, angry. Let the MoodPhone tell you how you feel.
Facebook
Social Networking and IM
18) Fring Think of it as a universal IM client: it does AIM, MSN, Google Talk, Skype, Yahoo, ICQ, Twitter, and more. If that's not enough it also handle VoIP calls over Wi-Fi so you can make free phone calls.
19) Twittelator Helps manage your Tweet stream friends, fans, and family by tracking small sub groups, among other functions.
20) ShoZu Enables you to take pictures with the iPhone's built-in camera and with no hassle upload them to the Web. Put them on Facebook, a photo sharing site like Picasa, or any Internet site.
21) Facebook for iPhone Helps you interface with Facebook in numerous ways, including Facebook chat, uploading photos, and finding your friends.
22) MySpace for iPhone Put the vast world of MySpace on your iPhone with this app you can socializing with your MySpace friends when you're on the go.
23) AIM Connect with your friends via the AIM instant messenger service. This version is completely rebuilt for the iPhone.
USA Today
News and Information
24) USA Today What newspaper does colorful pie charts like USA Today? Scan and read stories from sports to politics to fashion to tech.
25) New York Times America's newspaper of record has made itself very easy to scan on your iPhone, with articles and photo layouts specially customized.
26) The Weather Channel TWC's iPhone app helps you find out more than just whether rain or sun is coming create customizable weather maps and share alerts and forecasts via email.
