There’s nothing better than a new free app for your phone—except when the app is horrible, or worse, just some marketing scheme designed to get you to spend more of your hard-earned cash. These five apps just scratch the surface when it comes to great free and bargain-basement apps out there. The chances are, if you can imagine it, someone has made an app for it—or they will soon.
We’ve separated the wheat from the chaff, to present five of the very best free and bargain-priced apps for anyone who owns an iPhone.
The Best App for Everyone: Where
Where tells you just that – where what you’re looking for can be found. Not unlike the “Points of Interest” feature in Garmin GPS systems, the Where app can answer any of your questions that begin with “Where is…?” From “where is the nearest place to get a cup of coffee?” to “where is my friend Mike right now?”, the Where app allows you to connect with the people and places around you, all while you’re on the go.
What makes Where so great is the way it combines several different apps into one central location. For example, you might already have one app that will give you the weather, and another app that will search for coupons. Another app might provide you with gas prices, while a fourth app might let you browse the Yellow Pages. With Where, all this information is in one place.
The Best App for Music Lovers: Shazam
Shazam has a premium version that’s not free, but the limited use version might be enough for you to get started with. Imagine this scenario: you’re in a cafe having a cup of coffee, and they’re playing a song that you really love. You think you’ve heard it before, but for the life of you, you can’t figure out who sings it or what the name of the song is. This is where Shazam comes in. Just hold your phone as close as you can to the speaker, and record a short sample of the time. Shazam will figure out who sings the song, what its name is, and what album it’s on. Even with extraneous background noise – people chatting in the background, an espresso machine going off – Shazam will capture enough of the music to tell you who it is.
For anyone who’s ever said to themselves or to a friend, “Who is this singer?! It’s driving me crazy!”, you owe it to your sanity to put the Shazam app on your iPhone.
The Best App for News Junkies: The New York Times
On the subway, at a restaurant, or walking down the street, you can plug in to the latest news from The New York Times. Not only that, you can customize which news stories you see. If you’re into sports, for example, you can get sports headlines to appear, without having to scroll through all that boring arts stuff.
The Best App for Social Butterflies: Eventful
If you’re the type of person who doesn’t like to stay at home knitting and watching television every night, Eventful might be the app for you. Eventful will tell you all about local events, including which performers will be performing where and when; in fact, Eventful tracks the schedules of over 130,000 performers, so the chances are, you’ll find something good to do at night. You can also track what events your friends are interested in, making it easy to coordinate a weekend of fun with the gang.
The Best App for Twitter Users: Twitterrific
If you can’t stand to be away from your Twitter account, you don’t have to be. Twitterrific lets you take Twitter with you wherever you go. From Twitterrific, it’s easy to post tweets and follow the tweets your friends and family post.
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