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iPhone 5With today’s announcement by Apple of the upcoming release of the new iPhone 5, said to be the last model that Steve Jobs had direct input on prior to his passing, I thought it fitting to start a crowdsourced post that allows us to see who’s using which iPhone apps for what.

My iPhone 4S is fairly minimal right now, but I’m happy to share with you what’s on it, by category. Use the anonymous form below to submit some additional suggestions that I may have missed that readers should take a closer look at.

In the interest of keeping the list short(ish), I am intentionally not including “Games” as a category.

Here’s what’s on my iPhone. What’s on yours?

Things – Todo and Project Management app
Day One – Journal, syncs with Dropbox, iPad and MacBook Pro or Air
Evernote – Notetaking, text & image database. Syncs with iPad and MacBook Pro or Air
Sparrow – Email app
LastPass
Xero Touch
Google app for search
PlainText
mailVU Video Mail
iXpenseIt
Apple Store
Trello
Outliner
GoDaddy
Dropbox
Gmail
Pastebot
Merriam Webster Dictionary
Starbucks
Pastebin
Podcasts

LEARN.
- iBooks
- YouTube
- Kindle

SOCIALIZE.
- Tweetbot
- Facebook
- LinkedIn
- Skype

FINANCIAL.
- USAA (As an ARMY veteran I bank here. If you’re also a military veteran or related directly to one, be sure to explore their site at USAA.com for veteran deals and discounts on everything from banking to insurance to advice to help.)
- BofA – Bank of America (USAA does not offer business banking, so I have my business account here.
- Square – Swipe credit cards and get paid directly from your iPhone for that hour of time you spent with that guy or gal consulting from a coffee shop!

NAVIGATE.
- tomtom U.S.A.
- MotionX GPS Drive

AUDIO RECORDING.
- AudioMemos
- Recorder

UTILITIES
- AwayFind
- Canned
- Harvest – Time tracker and more
- Timer – Best timer out there, in my opinion. Gorgeous.
- Due – Best reminder app
- Calcbot
- Convertbot
- Speed Test

MUSIC
- Shazam (although if you’re reading this and from Shazam, it is _extremely_ confusing that you have so many different types of the same app in the app store. When users are confused, they move on and do not buy. #JustSayin)
- Pandora

SANDBOX.
(Sandbox is a folder where I store apps I am testing. My rule is that if I don’t like it after 30 days or don’t use it often, it has to get deleted from my iPhone. This prevents me from contracting the infamous “Too many app screens and too many apps virus”)

Scanner Pro (Haven’t decided which one of these I like best yet)
TurboScan
CamScanner

That’s it for me. What’s on your iPhone that we should be looking at? Tell us in the Comments below and we’ll consider updating this list!

Adam


September 12, 2012 2 Comments

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Practicing digital minimalist living in Portland, Oregon. I have an ongoing love/hate relationship with email. I write as often as I can, enjoy reading and also love to scuba and skydive. Content on this site is opinion only and subject to this site's Terms & Conditions. Twitter: @minimalism and @adamboettiger

  • Ayden

    Thank you for sharing all of these apps Adam! My iPhone is
    pretty much empty when it comes to other users, so I like to get
    recommendations of ones that I should try out. These all sound pretty nifty
    too, so downloading them I shall! I don’t have too many apps on my phone right
    now, but of the ones I do, my favorites are; DISH Remote Access, Chase,
    Pandora, Turbocollage and IMDB. I use DRA the most though, because of all the
    traveling I do for my job at DISH, and how it lets me keep up with all of my
    favorite shows, live or right from my DVR, anywhere I go in the world. It’s
    definitely the best when it comes to me being bored waiting around in random
    airports and such.

  • John Boettiger

    Thanks Adam. Cherry-picking (no surprise you and I have similar taste), I picked up Timer (good comment – useful to flesh out your title with (1) full name, since the same title word, like recorder or timer, gets used by several app makers, and (2) a punchy 3-4 word reason for your pick. From your use and my review I picked up iTalk Recorder Premium and Timer.