Maybe this is redundant with the iPhone mega thread, but I thought a thread specifically for iPhone applications would be handy.
The things I'm loving about the iPhone apps are those related to its navigation features:
ArcGIS: is free, comes with multiple map sources -- including US topographic maps -- and self-locates. I wish the compass feature was integrated with the map usage, but this application is really pretty awesome. We were hiking on some trails, got a little lost, brought up the US topo maps with our location on them and bang, back out.
Motion GPS Drive: is cheap and has pretty straightforward and relatively inexpensive voice navigation. It's free without voice navigation. The problem I had with it was making calls while navigating, which didn't seem to work. Had to restart my phone to call out after navigating with it. There seem other options for GPS voice navigation on the iPhone -- anyone tried any?
I agree, it's a decent app especially for the price. I paid $19.99 for the CoPilot Live NA, however, and am really happy with that choice. My buddy bought the TomTom app for his iTouch and bought the special TomTom holder (with GPS chip) and is THRILLED with his choice. Too rich for my blood.
Spyglass (no link): Has anyone used this? I'm interested, as it's described as an "AR tracker, compass, sextant, rangefinder, gps, maps, stars)" and apparently can geo-locate photos and things like that, which could be pretty handy.
AroundMe: really useful application -- we've used it several times.
Golf GPS: I haven't used any, but I want one. Anyone have any recommendations?
GolfShot GPS - awesome app! They also announced a range finder app yesterday for $19.99 that looks awesome.
What's the best bird call identifier? I have
iBird 15, which is a trial version, but it seems a little meh to me. Is there a shazam-type application for bird calls?
For star/constellation identification I have
Star Walk, which seems okay, but it seems to lack certain options, like a red light feature and different music. Pretty nifty though.
I'd like something that logs my walks -- distances, locations, frequencies, dates. I haven't really found anything for that.
Trails GPS is most of the way there, but seems to lack features to track frequency. Anyone use that AccuTerra app?
For games, I've played a little
Call of Duty - Zombie, which is okay, but I have trouble with the thumb controls. I've tried the
Future Guns shooter application, which is not at all interesting.
Real Racing is a pretty good driving game.
PalmHeroes is, so far, incomprehensible to me. Looks terrible. The
iChess Lite application is pretty good, and I'm considering upgrading to the Pro version to keep games and stuff.
My wife an I became addicted to Angry Birds while she was in the hospital. I've heard Plants vs. Zombies is also great, but haven't tried it.
Smithsonian Channel application is quite cool, but you need a good connection it seems.
The
Wolfram application is kind of crazy/amazing/odd. You can do all sorts of complex data analysis with it, and it will do a pretty good job parsing questions. For example, you can ask it the weight of a grain of rice, and it will tell you how much, in various metrics, and give links to rice.
My local tv station
WTNH-8 has a pretty good iPhone app for local news, and the
NYTimes and
BBC apps are useful as well.
The
Kindle and
iBooks apps are both great -- I actually prefer the Kindle one so far.
iBookShelf is a sort of useful personal library organizer but seems slow and awkward. Is there an alternative?
Red Laser is an amazing app that reads bar codes and looks up products. We used it this weekend to price softball gloves for the kids. Worked great.
The
MLB At Bat 2010 and
Fangraphs applications are wonderful. I check them both constantly. Who knew Fangraphs had an iPhone app?
Love, love, love the MLB at Bat app. Too cheap to purchase the mlb.tv subscription, but wouldn't mind going halves with someone to add the video feature. Being able to choose the audio feed for every game, watch the game play out in the game cast, etc. Awesome app.
Anyway, just thought I'd start a thread here. What do people like? What are the good driving and golf gps applications?
It's not that cool though, so don't get it.
