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  • AirSharing

    Our favorite file storage app-shoots files to the iPhone's flash memory via Wi-Fi for storage, transport, and easy retrieval. More »

  • The world is full of priceless things. We call them “Priceless Picks.”

    And now, no matter where you are, you can have them all right in your hand with the "Priceless Picks" App for iPhone and iPod touch. More »

  • Amazon

    Amazon's usually the first place I look during a fit of impulse buying, which their iPhone app now makes stupidly easy. More »

  • AOL Radio

    More free radio content than any actual radio could ever have. Tailored radio stations are great, sure, but old-fashioned programmed stations—AOL Radio's specialty—have their charms. More »

  • BeejiveIM

    Expensive? Sure. Totally essential for messaging hounds? Yup. More »

  • Bloom

    Generative, ambient music by Brian Eno. If I need to say more, it's also a mini-sequencer: Drop your finger on the liquidy pastel screen, play a note, make simple loops. Music For Airports that you can make yourself. In an airport, even. More »

  • Brain Exercise with Dr. Kawashima

    A lot of people buy Nintendo DSes for the sole purpose of having those Dr. Kawashima-approved brain-training games at hand. With this app, you get the exact same mind-juicing benefits for a few bucks, on hardware you already carry. More »

  • Brushes

    If you've ever seen on of those spectacularly detailed "paintings" done on the iPhone, chances are it was created with this. This is fingerpainting in 2009. More »

  • ConvertBot

    Plenty of apps can technically deal with unit conversions as well as ConvertBot can, but none of them have its fantastic, super-fast interface. More »

  • Epicurious

    The only cooking app you really need. With its thousands of recipes, shopping list feature and meal suggestions, Epicurious will make you at least look like a passable cook. More »

  • Echofon

    And if you're not willing to pay for a Twitter app—understandable!—Echofon isn't too shabby. It's super-fast and stupid-simple, so it'll do well by all but the most obnoxiously obsessed Twitterers. More »

  • Evernote

    Obsessive documenters, take note(s): This is the only scribbling app you need. More »

  • Facebook

    This was an essential app from the get-go, and it's been steadily evolving—like the site—for the last year. Version 3.0 was a total refresh, and supports nearly every one of Facebook's sprawling features, sometimes better than the site itself. More »

  • Fring

    Every major instant message protocol, comfortably crowded under one (free!) roof. The addition of push notifications notched this one up from great to, uh, greaterer. More »

  • Frotz

    Laugh all you want, jocks—us geeks know where it's at: text gaming. Bringing virtually every text-based game you've ever heard of to the iPhone gives the genre a whole new lease on life, and you the most prodigious time-waster imaginable. More »

  • Google Mobile

    Google Mobile was a solid app (but not particularly essential)-and then came voice search. More »

  • Google Earth

    The same amazing Earth touring app found on the desktop, now spinnable via multitouch. Honestly if someone told me two years ago I would have a functional Google Earth app on my phone, I wouldn't have believed them. This is now. More »

  • i.TV

    Once you've used a wonderful, full-featured TV guide app on your iPhone, reading one on paper—or even on your laptop—will feel stupid. iTV is that app. It also works as a remote for some TiVo boxes, with more DVRs to come. More »

  • I Love Katamari

    Mad genius designer Keita Takahashi left the series years ago, but Katamari is still among my favorite game franchises of all time (and I'm not alone), and it's a natural fit for the iPhone's tilt-controls. More »

  • Instapaper

    Point it to your favorite web pages, and it'll pull down every last work for reading offline on the subway or airplane. More »