Top 10 Apple iPhone Apps

Apple gadgets themselves are some kind of works of art, few in doubt. This is especially true of the iPhone, whose popularity is already akin to a cult. But we still have to admit that without additional applications, the “bare” iPhone remains quite a few functional smartphones. Fortunately, a great number of applications have been released for the iOS operating system, and everyone can easily install the right set of programs on their smartphones.

The editors of iexpert.techinfus.com/en/en/ decided to help our readers with the selection and prepared for you a rating of the TOP 10 best, according to our experts, applications for Apple iPhone. Specialists have made two nominations - useful applications that make life easier, and entertainment applications. In this collection, we deliberately did not include too obvious and extremely popular applications like the same ubiquitous Instagram, and paid attention to popular, in-demand, but not so obvious things.

Rating the best applications for Apple iPhone

Nomination	a place	Name of product	rating
Best Useful Apps for Apple iPhone	1	Wunderlist	5.0
	2	MoneyWiz 2	4.9
	3	CompareTaxi	4.8
	4	LastPass Password Manager	4.7
	5	In the pocket	4.6
	6	Feedly	4.5
Top Entertainment Apps for Apple iPhone	1	Shazam	5.0
	2	Snapseed	4.9
	3	Overcast	4.8
	4	Kiozk	4.7

Best Useful Apps for Apple iPhone

The first nomination is, as already mentioned, applications that can significantly simplify life, facilitate routine actions, help out in a given situation.

Wunderlist

Rating: 5.0

Number one in the nomination of useful applications is one of the best organizers for the Apple iPhone, with which you can wisely approach your working time, set tasks, set reminders and organize competent self-monitoring of cases.

The functional basis of Wunderlist are to-do lists. Immediately after registration, the application will offer the user a number of model lists, such as “Work”, “Family”, “Products” and others. Of course, they can be arbitrarily changed to fit your needs, as well as create new ones. As part of the created lists, the user can open an unlimited number of tasks. After the task is completed, a check mark should be put in front of its name, and the task will be moved to “Completed” - a hidden category, which, if desired, can also be viewed and edited.

Each individual task has a number of options — date and time, comments, added files, etc. Tasks can have subtasks with a large depth of attachments — only in the free version of Wunderlist, up to 25 subtasks of each main task are allowed.

An important part of the application functionality is the ability to work in a team. By sharing lists and tasks, you can lead a whole team - between work colleagues, family members or members of any other conditional group or several at once. A performer can be assigned to each task. Access to different tasks and folders can be provided to different users. Comments to the tasks are displayed with the user name that left the comment, and when a new comment appears, an alert is broadcast.

In the free version of Wunderlist, almost all the functionality of this organizer is available for the Apple iPhone. The full version adds only some not very important functions and gives access to additional background images.

MoneyWiz 2

Rating: 4.9

The second number in the ranking of the best useful applications for the Apple iPhone according to iexpert.techinfus.com/en/en/ is also the organizer, but this time it is strictly “sharpened” for personal finances. Today it is one of the best similar applications for the iPhone, both in terms of objective indicators and feedback from users.

When you first start the application will prompt the user to open an account and determine the currency for it. If there are several accounts, they can be entered in the program immediately or when it is convenient in the appropriate section. Accounts can also be grouped. Further work will be carried out within the four main sections - “Accounts”, “Budgets”, “Calendar” and “Reports”.

In "Budgets" we determine the planned spending and the term of their "development". The cost control function of the program will help the user not to go beyond the established budgets. With the help of the Calendar, you can not only make reminders, but also set up repeated operations to interact with the budget. The Reports section is obvious - here you can carry out comprehensive analytics for any periods with amazing customization.

Daily work with the program is extremely simple - you just need to deposit income or expenses to the appropriate accounts either directly at the moment of their occurrence, or by devoting some time to this occupation at a convenient time of the day. To simplify the work in the application provides a lot of convenient template settings. A regular report is generated automatically at the end of each reporting period.

In the second version of the application, an important function has been added - Internet banking. It allows you to connect to your real bank accounts and quickly synchronize with the completed transactions. This feature allows you to further save the user from manual input operations, up to almost complete automation of the process. Already, developers have established interaction with more than 2 thousand banks around the world, and this list is constantly expanding. However, this feature is available for a paid subscription of $ 4.99 per month or $ 49.99 per year.

Other useful application tools added in version 2 are Widgets and Transaction Layout. The first allows you to create special blocks that inform about anything - balance, statistics, transactions and other things; The second tool is a group of settings that allows you to prioritize the actual fields used and hide unnecessary and disturbing.

MoneyWiz 2 is a cross-platform application for Apple iPhone, iPad and Mac. Through the service SYNCbits data is continuously synchronized between devices.

CompareTaxi

Rating: 4.8

The third number in the ranking of the best useful applications for Apple iPhone according to iexpert.techinfus.com/en/en/ is an elegant and effective solution for those who actively or at least from time to time use taxi services.This is a service with a talking name CompareTaxi - a program that gives the user the most current comparative analysis of taxi prices at a particular point in time.

The program works completely elementary. The user just needs to specify the address of the start of the trip and the destination, after which the application will automatically connect to the supported taxi services and calculate the cost of the trip in the context of each service. The result will be displayed as a simple list. An auxiliary element is a map, which can also be oriented for making a difficult route.

In addition to taxi services, car sharing services are also connected to this application, and when the program gives a result on taxi prices, car sharing prices are also highlighted for comparison for a more profitable option. Taxis can be immediately ordered, and the largest aggregators even immediately show the time of the car.

The functionality of the application also includes storing the user's main parameters: home, work and home addresses; discounts, promotional codes, exclusive offers of certain taxi services and so on.

The CompareCaxi application started with a very limited list of supported taxi services, but quickly grew to more than three dozen. Works in hundreds of cities in Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Moscow and St. Petersburg have some priority though. So, for example, in these two cities you can compare the prices of taxis in different classes. In other cities, only the economy class and similar ones are taken into account.

CompareTaxi allows you to forget about dozens of taxi service applications once and for all, but in order for it to work, you need to install branded applications on your Apple iPhone. During the installation of ComparedTaxi itself, you will be prompted to install the necessary add-ons automatically.

LastPass Password Manager

Rating: 4.7

Now in our rating we will pay attention to the important issue of information security. Any more or less active Internet user is registered in dozens, if not hundreds of services. Some people have to use them all the time, others from time to time, but there is practically no single online service with a personal account that you wouldn’t need to think up a password for.

In our century of constant high-profile hacks, discharges and other thefts of confidential information, having one password for all services is the height of carelessness, and keeping in mind a lot of combinations is a big problem. Solve this problem effectively, elegantly, and even with a number of additional “buns”, a special application for Apple iPhone - LastPass Password Manager.

After installation and launch, the application will immediately prompt the user to create an account or enter the program if the account already exists. After entering the program, it starts to work in the background, tracking the appearance of windows where you need to enter your login and password. Once the combination is entered, the application offers to remember, and the next time the same window is opened with the same login and password fields, LastPass will automatically fill them in, and the user will only have to press the login button. In addition to the application for Apple iPhone, there are also versions for desktop computers and separate extensions for popular browsers. In browsers, the program works exactly the same way.

It is worth mentioning some of the features of LastPass, not all obvious. So, for the same service, an application can store not one combination of login and password, but as many as you like. You can choose the right one during the authorization session.

In addition to logins / passwords, the application can also store a variety of other information related to authorization and personal data, including credit card information.The program itself is protected by a master password. This is, in fact, the only thing that needs to be remembered by heart.

Finally, the program allows you to allow other users to the password store. This may seem paradoxical from the point of view of security, but in the context of family use of the same applications, this is quite logical.

The issue of internal security in LastPass is resolved at the highest level. All information is securely encrypted, and even LastPass itself does not have access to the master password and decryption keys.

In the pocket

Rating: 4.6

The program for storing passwords described in the rating above is good for everyone, but sometimes it is even a little. It often happens that the necessary document is not at hand - a rarely used bank card, TIN, SNILS, birth certificate or whatever. This is especially true during the period of major renewals or acquisitions, when you have to bypass dozens of instances and fill in mountains of papers. Here the real savior will be the popular application for the Apple iPhone - Vkarmane. This is a convenient and versatile document manager, which has already proven itself well for a long time, and continues to strengthen its well-deserved reputation.

The application was originally created for the Russian user, and it originally laid a lot of ready-made templates for entering personal data from a variety of documents. The input forms themselves are externally styled for real “paper” documents, which adds realism and intuition. Skevomorphism here, by the way, helps to neutralize the deliberate minimalism of the latest versions of iOS, which in this context is frankly harmful to usability.

The process of adding a new document is intuitive. In the upper right corner you need to click on the big “plus” and choose the data type: passport, passport, TIN, bank card, medical policy and many other options. The number of stored documents is unlimited - you can enter documents of at least all family members.

The data is filled in text format, manually. Photodetermination works for a bank card number, but the recognition accuracy should be carefully checked to avoid incorrect input. What is important - you can attach real photos or scans of originals to all filled in text forms concerning specific documents.

The question of security and protection from unauthorized access in Varmanet is resolved powerfully and radically. The application does not have a server for storing data, unlike LastPass, discussed above. Instead, all data is stored strictly locally. For encryption, the AES-256 ultra-reliable algorithm is used, which is used in government agencies and the banking sector. The number of password entry attempts is limited to ten — after the tenth incorrectly entered password in a row, the data is completely erased. Accordingly, there is no need to fear for the safety of personal data even in the event of the loss of a smartphone or intentional theft.

Feedly

Rating: 4.5

Finally, the final decision in the selection of the rating of the best useful applications for the Apple iPhone is without exaggeration the world's best RSS-aggregator called Feedly.This is a program that can collect all informational flows of interest to the user in one place: news, weather, popular bloggers, YouTube subscriptions and any other resources that use RSS technology. The Feedly application is able to save the user from the need to open individually dozens of Internet services while waiting for information updates - all streams will flow into one place with a convenient management interface.

Formally, Feedly can be used without registration, but in this case, customization will be minimal. Optimally still have your own account, after which all the RSS feeds will be submitted in a convenient list format and will not disappear anywhere after the program is closed.

Channels of interest can be added to the application by introducing a direct link to the RSS feed. The program also allows you to use the keyword search form - in this way the user can find and record an interesting RSS feed directly in the application itself. Separately, tapes can be sorted into folders completely arbitrarily - by subject, by the nature of the content, etc.

Feedly fully implemented social features. So, you can easily share your favorite content on popular social networks, use close integration with Twitter, send content via email.

The application allows you to customize the presentation of RSS-feeds under the most user-friendly format - it can only be headers, headers with announcements, full materials, mosaic mode, etc. Feedly allows you to see not only the materials themselves, but also comments to them - scrolling down , they can be seen in the application's built-in browser.

Top Entertainment Apps for Apple iPhone

The second nomination in our ranking is devoted to such applications for the Apple iPhone, which have more entertaining connotation, directly or indirectly. Of course, there are a huge amount of entertainment applications for Apple devices, but in this nomination our experts were guided by a certain symbiosis of “entertainment” and utility.

Shazam

Rating: 5.0

This application is widely known and popular, but our experts decided to include it in the review, because not everyone knows about it, and its usefulness is beyond doubt. First of all, Shazam is relevant for passionate music lovers, no matter what genre. But for those who listen to music only occasionally, Shazam in a certain situation can be a real find.

So, Shazam is an application for searching music using the Apple iPhone. And in this case we are not talking about searching by artist, song title, or even the words of a song — even a simple Google is enough for that. We are talking about the identification of a specific track "by ear".

To illustrate the possibilities, you can imagine a situation when you are sitting in a cafe or driving in a taxi, listening to the radio, and suddenly you hear a song that you like terribly. It is not possible to learn the name of the artist and the name of the track, but the song is about to end, and then in general all the ends will be lost. So, it is enough to turn on Shazam on your Apple iPhone in the “audibility zone” of the sounding track, and with great probability the application will determine both the artist and the name of the song specifically.

It is very simple to use the program - the developers were fully aware of the fact that it might be necessary to launch Shazam at the most unexpected moment, and it will need to be done with lightning speed. Therefore, to launch a program to determine the origin of music sounding somewhere near, you just need to click on a single Shazam soft button.

After the scan is completed and the database is searched for (huge), if a match is found, all found information is displayed on a separate application page - the name of the song, an illustration of the album, and so on. Also, the user is offered a list of possible further actions: share the news in social networks, view information about the artist’s tours, view relevant videos on YouTube, find the track in the iTunes Store.

Snapseed

Rating: 4.9

Now, in the ranking of the best applications for the Apple iPhone, we will make the transition from audio to “visual” and consider one of the best photo editors - Snapseed. The iPhone itself is a great and powerful gadget for taking photos of amazing quality. But often, before posting a photo on Instagram or anywhere, you still need to adjust something or stylize the image in any way.

The application is quite simple to use. Immediately after opening, the user is prompted to select a photo from the gallery. After that, three tabs of the editing section open: Tools, Styles and Export.

In Tools, most of the image editing work takes place. There is a wide range of tools for transforming, correcting photos, changing colors, adding text, creating double exposure, etc. In order to enhance or, on the contrary, remove any effect on the image, use the Mask Overlay tool. The function of adding text has a number of additional options - the text can be colored, inverted, added volume, transformed and so on.

In a separate group of tools in Snapseed made handling of portraits. It contains five basic tools with which you can change the face lighting, correct light and shade, smooth the skin, lighten the eyes, change the position of the head, change the size of the pupils and the corners of the mouth, blur unwanted artifacts, create a bokeh effect, make a thin point correction of defects.

The Styles subsection is, in essence, a set of filters, each of which can be applied to the whole picture and get one or another effect. Built-in filters can not be individually configured, but you can create your own without restrictions. The created style can be shared using the QR code.

The Export tab is used to save the processed images. In the menu, the user will be prompted to save the result to the selected folder, as well as the opportunity to immediately share the picture through any social application installed on the Apple iPhone.

Overcast

Rating: 4.8

Our rating continues to be one of the best podcast managers for the Apple iPhone, insanely popular and highly functional. In addition, according to user feedback, it is simply pleasant to use it, and, finally, it is completely free.

To start using Overcast, you need to create an account. The new user receives a kind of “personal cloud”, which most positively affects the speed of the application. Also, it is the presence of the account that allows you to synchronize the podcast database and make backup copies.

Immediately after registration, the user is redirected to the main screen. From the very beginning it is empty, only the pictogram of the “plus sign” is placed at the top, by clicking on which you can go to search for podcasts. Alternatively, especially if there are no explicit preferences, you can start by viewing the most popular podcasts.In total, the application has 10 thematic categories, which are divided into podcasts - health, games, books, IT, humor and others. By clicking on any category, the user sees a list of podcasts, starting with the most popular. Here you can subscribe to individual or all podcasts.

The Overcast interface is rather concise, it is associated slightly with Windows Phone, but in general is quite good and convenient. There are interesting additional functions: Smart Speed ​​- removal of areas with silence; Voice Boost - increase the volume of the voice. You can also simply increase the playback speed with standard tools.

In the settings section for the application, you can and should support your Twitter account. It is on its basis that popular podcasts will be displayed. Here you can adjust the rewind step.

For comfortable use, a free version of Overcast is enough, but the purchase of a premium subscription expands the functionality quite significantly: an unlimited number of episodes in the playlist, downloads on the mobile network, a sleep timer and much more.

Kiozk

Rating: 4.7

And completes the ranking of the best applications for the Apple iPhone is an absolutely indispensable program for those who can not imagine themselves without glossy magazines, or who need to study tons of "gloss" for work. Kiozk is one of the best mobile periodicals programs for the iPhone today. This is not just an aggregator of publications - it is a whole information center, executed at the highest professional level.

At the heart of Kiozk is still, of course, an aggregator containing hundreds and hundreds of periodicals. Here you will find both the most famous and high-profile names - National Geographic, Glamor, Forbes and others, and less well-known, but also more than worthy names. New numbers get to updates most often faster than in real newsstands.

Publications are presented in different formats, mostly the most convenient formats for reading and viewing high-quality images. In addition, a huge number of articles are voiced by professional voice actors and entered into the program in podcast format. The number of actual articles and audio materials exceeds 50 thousand. Most popular magazines get full audio versions.

The program has a free part, but it is extremely limited. The fact that there was a sense to use Kiozk can only be discussed on the condition of buying a monthly or annual subscription. But the scale of accessibility of the most top periodicals with maximum efficiency is definitely worth this subscription.

---

Attention! This rating is subjective, is not advertising and does not serve as a guide to the purchase. Before buying, you should consult with a specialist.