What's Your Favorite iPhone App?


My favorite app right now is called Lose it for iPhone. It's taught me Burger King is delicious but I have to exercise about this much to offset 1 Angry burger, which is my weakness:

50 cal - 20 min weightlifting
100 cal - 20 min aerobics
200 cal - 20 min running
200 cal - 20 min swimming
400 cal - 40 min biking
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950 cal / 2 hours total to offset one burger at about 880 cal

Another app that looks great (but I haven't tried yet) is Layar. It's a reality browser. I'll leave that to you to figure out, but you need the GPS included in the 3GS iPhone to run it.

I have 3 observations about popularity and what people like:

There are tons of very clever apps out there, but Lose it is very popular and simple. It's a useful app.

Some apps like Layar are very unique and some are complex. People like these niche apps, too.

But, what a lot of entrepreneurs get is that you don't have to be clever or complex. You can just build a better app, like build a better mousetrap. People will beat a path to your door. And, if you build a lousy app, the incredibly simple and effective rating system used with iPhone Apps is just brutal!


So, it would be useful and interesting to hear what your favorite app(s) are. You might also add your observations about apps in general. We can filter this down as replies accumulate.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Levin on December 26, 2009 at 11:53am
I just installed Appsfire and emailed my fav apps to the Codetown Delicious reading list, so you should see the link in this group because it's tagged iphone and on the Codetown general Reading List on the right side of every page. I submitted a comment on the email functionality. As time goes on, I'll accumulate my comments for you. Cheers! It worked!

Ouriel Ohayon said:
look fwd to discovering your favorite apps :)

Michael Levin said:
I'll take you up on that, Ouriel. I'm downloading it now...
Permalink Reply by Michael Levin on December 26, 2009 at 11:55am
It worked and I used the URL it generated to bookmark my favorite apps in www.Delicious.com/Codetown2 so they'll show up in the Codetown and iPhone reading lists.
Permalink Reply by Ouriel Ohayon on December 26, 2009 at 12:11pm
awesome! do you want me to set you a URL myap.ps/codetown or /michaellevin?

Michael Levin said:
It worked and I used the URL it generated to bookmark my favorite apps in www.Delicious.com/Codetown2 so they'll show up in the Codetown and iPhone reading lists.
Permalink Reply by Michael Levin on December 26, 2009 at 12:15pm
"mikelevin" would be best, since that's my moniker in general. Thanks!
Permalink Reply by Ouriel Ohayon on December 27, 2009 at 12:51am
Mike, you are all set! http://myap.ps/mikelevin

Michael Levin said:
"mikelevin" would be best, since that's my moniker in general. Thanks!
Permalink Reply by Michael Levin on December 27, 2009 at 12:59am
Super! Very nice...Thanks, Ouriel.

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