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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 »

  • LogMeIn Ignition for iPhone

    If it's on your computer, it's on your iPhone. LogMeIn Ignition provides one-click remote control of PCs and Macs from your iPhone or iPod touch. Access files and programs. 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 »

  • Kindle

    There are a pile of eBook readers for the iPhone, but only one connects to Amazon's book store, and more importantly, your Kindle library. More »

  • Last.fm

    Creates free, effectively endless custom radio stations, streams them over 3G and learns more about your musical tastes with time. There is literally no downside to this app. More »

  • Layar

    Layar, the first camera-based AR app to really blow us (or anyone) away, has quietly slipped into the App Store. As with the Android version, the app overlays all kinds of information onto a live view of the world around you. More »

  • MLB At Bat

    Live streaming MLB games, every day, over 3G. That is all. More »

  • MotionX GPS Drive

    At $3 a month without any kind of long-term commitment, this is currently the cheapest decent turn-by-turn app in the App Store. And it works, pretty well! Until Google Navigation for Maps hits the iPhone, this'll be the cheapest, least-risky turn-by-turn option out there. More »

  • Motion X Poker Quest

    Realistic dice physics meets ancient Egyptian gods in one of the more addicting iPhone games you'll see. More »

  • Mujik

    Mujik is like Bloom in that it lets anyone make amazing music in the space of a few minutes. That's where the similarities end. More »

  • Navigon

    Hey, so, have you heard your iPhone is also a really, truly good turn-by-turn navigation device? Because with the pricey-but-probably-worth-it Navigon, it is. More »

  • Ninjawords

    An intelligently pared-down dictionary and thesaurus app, Ninjawords will make you feel and seem slightly less dumb. It works offline, too. More »

  • NPR News

    Comes with text news, offline reading and an endless (seriously!) supply of calming, androgynous voices, either live or on demand. More »

  • Newsstand

    One of the only RSS readers that isn't slow, overcomplicated or missing something vital. More »

  • OpenTable

    Actually talking to a maître d' on the phone: Out. Tapping your iPhone a few times to get a dinner reservation at a veritable assload of restaurants: In. More »

  • Pageonce Personal Assistant

    Are you a fancy businessperson, with "accounts" and "subscriptions" and, uh, "dollars?" Personal Assistant sucks your scattered financial, travel and leisure concerns all into one simple, unscary interface. More »

  • Pandora

    Best internet radio app, hands down. Smartly auto-suggests music based on other artists you like. Both on the go and while at home. Streams well over EDGE and 3G. Free. What more could you ask for? More »

  • PanoLab

    Who knew multitouch is the perfect interface for stitching photos together into panoramas? It is. Plus if the photo you just took doesn't work, toss it out and take another one immediately. A paid version adds even more features. More »

  • Photoshop

    This app bears almost no resemblance to the Photoshop we all know and steal love. That's fine though, because it's a serviceable photo-editing (on the iPhone, this means filters, cropping, and a few other tricks) app that is free, unlike virtually all of its competition. More »

  • Prowl

    Easily the most useful push app Apple's let through the gates, Prowl lets you forward any Growl notifications from your Mac or PC—everything from Mail to IM to Torrent downloads to Tweets—directly to your phone. More »

  • QuickOffice

    Gaping void in default iPhone functionality #123: Real document editing. Solution #123: QuickOffice More »

  • Remote

    One of the first apps we saw, and still among the best in terms of usefulness. If you use iTunes frequently at home and especially if you listen away from your desk via a stereo hookup or Airport Express, you need the Remote. More »

  • RjDj

    A totally unique music application that processes sound from your environment and replays it according to a set program, creating a trippy, always-evolving soundscape. More »