The demand for touch screen apps and games is ever increasing, with more and more people using touch screen platforms such as iPhones and iPads to do anything from playing games, reading books or checking their bank balance. Apple’s slogan “There’s an app for that” has found its way into people’s everyday vernacular, and with Apple announcing to have hit the one billion app download mark, it’s little wonder why. But what are the best iphone apps today in 2011? Time Magazine asked themselves the same question, creating siz different categories of app and listing the top apps for each category on their website. Here are the winners of each section-
1. In the games category, the best iPhone app of 2011 went to Finish designed “Angry Birds”. The concept of hurling wingless birds towards a horde of egg stealing pigs may seem like a bizarre one, but this doesn’t stand in the way of it being highly addictive, and a massive hit amongst Apple’s touch screen users, with downloads in excess of 12 million.
2. The “on the go” category voted the app from meta search website kayak.com as their number one. Perfect for travellers, the kayak app allows you to search for hotels, flights and airport information and car rental. This is one of the best free apps for iPhone, but for $1.99, can be updated to a pro version, allowing you to book business class tickets.
3. The lifestyle category chose Amazon’s app as its 2011 number one. Users are able to instantly connect to their online Amazon accounts, and shop for whatever they like on their iPhone. The app also allows users to scan any barcode to search for comparison prices and can even take photos of a product you see whilst out and about, which you can then input and search for online. This innovative app is also free.
4. Top of the pile in the Photography and Music category is Music app “Mog”. Free to download, and with a $9.99 per month subscription, users can stream an enormous music library straight onto their iPhone, and for times when internet connectivity is unavailable, can downloads tracks in advance and listen when offline. iPhone 4 users can also fiddle with other apps whilst playing music from Mog in the background.
5. Netflix was the winner of the Entertainment category. Following its enormous success as an iPad app, Netflix has now moved onto iPhone. Monthly subscriptions, starting at $7.99 per month, allow users to stream movies anywhere they can receive a WiFi or 3G connection. However, users have complained that the app doesn’t allow them to update their DVD-by-mail queue. A resolution to this problem is expected with the next update of the Netflix app.
6. Unsurprisingly, Facebook came top of the Social category. The free Facebook app allows you to continue to pursue social networking on your Smartphone. Between October 2010 and January 2011, 150 million Facebook users used a Smartphone to update their status, almost a third of the overall users.
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