50 Helpful iPhone Apps for Web Designers and Developers

50 Helpful iPhone Apps for Web Designers and Developers

Jarel Remick on Dec 1st 2009 with 74 comments

Nearing in on 100K (Apple approved) available apps as of this writing, the iPhone is the “do anything” device that’s ready and capable of near desktop computing in the palm of your hand with the convenience of fitting in your pocket. For web designers and developers, this means no more toting around a laptop just to take care of the small bits of our job. From work to play and everything in between, the iPhone probably has you covered. As the saying goes, “Yup, there’s an app for that”.

I’ve listed 50 iPhone apps for all you web designers and developers which covers everything from color scheme creators and font manuals to FTP and SSH clients. Also keep in mind there are many more of the same type of app.

For more iPhone apps, don’t forget to check out iPhone.AppStorm’s list of 100 Useful Free iPhone Apps.

cliqcliq Colors

cliqcliq Colors

With cliqcliq’s Colors app, you can easily create, convert and manage colors and palettes. The app allows conversion between RGB, HSB and Grayscale. You can also extract colors and palettes from photos you’ve snapped or imported into your photo library.

When you’re done, you can email the palettes to yourself or someone else to quickly import into Photoshop or Illustrator.

Color Expert

Color Expert

Color Expert gives you an easy to use color wheel for creating great color palettes but also lets you get colors from photos, sliders and swatches. You can easily search through Pantone, web safe or HTML colors to find just what you’re looking for.

When you’re done, save or send the palette as an Adobe Swatch Exchange file (ASE) for Photoshop or another Adobe app.

HEX RGB Colors Guide

HEX RGB Colors Guide

HEX RGB Colors Guide is a pretty basic app for having a RGB and HEX color code reference guide in your pocket at all times. Choose between block or list view and get quick access to the color information you need right away.

For the price vs features, this is a bit spendy but could be very handy for some designers.

HTML Colors

HTML Colors

Quickly select and preview colors for the web with HTML Colors for some fun exploring or just to make sure you have the right combination. The sample text and background color make it easy to get the right foreground and background color combination.

You can also view HTML safe colors or try your luck with the “Random” button, then save or send your palette.

WhatTheFont

WhatTheFont

You’re probably familiar with MyFont’s WhatTheFont service. This app connects to that service for font discovery anywhere. Take a photo of the font (magazine, book or computer screen) or use an iPhone screenshot and WhatTheFont will tell you what the font is in just a few seconds, then view the font details within the app.

You never know when you’ll see a font you like or what and you it’s hard to beat free!

FontShuffle

FontShuffle

Need typographic inspiration? FontShuffle might be your solution. Browse 650+ font families or shake your iPhone for FontShuffle to mix new fonts into your results. Browse by category or search for something more specific, then view up to 24 similar typefaces in a list.

Once you’ve found something you like, you can preview it with custom sample text. You can also check out the font’s glyph set.

The Typography Manual

The Typography Manual

Interested in learning about typography? Or maybe just more about it? This is the app for that. It includes 60+ pages on the history of type, type basics, the latest info. on web typography and more. It doesn’t stop there though, it also has a 100+ page glossary of type terminology and examples.

There’s a lot more included in this app and it really is one of the best ways to learn typography.

Photoshop.com Mobile

Photoshop

This is the mobile companion to Photoshop.com for the iPhone which gives you access to your Photoshop.com photos for editing, uploading and sharing. Your editing capabilities are somewhat limited but considering this is on your phone, it’s quite nice.

You can crop and rotate, adjust color, saturation and exposure or apply filters like Sketch or Soft Focus along with many more options. It’s basic but powerful for a handheld device.

Convert ~ the unit calculator

Convert

Convert is an easy to use unit converter that even web designers and developers will want. It includes conversions all the usual stuff like volume, angles and money but also for typography, pixels, picas and a lot more.

It also includes a regular calculator though so you won’t need to use the iPhone’s included calculator any more.

Caliper

Caliper

Caliper is a basic but very handy app to have in your toolbox. With it you can quickly and precisely measure objects (placed on or near the screen) or images on screen in pixels, centimeters, inches and more. The measurement jaws are also multitouch for faster measuring.

Source Viewer

Source Viewer

Source Viewer does exactly what it sounds like. It lets you view the source code of websites. However, it does much more such as syntax coloring with links highlighted specially, link extraction to easily view website resources, image collection for separate viewing and much more.

You can also open resource URL’s via browser or send them via email, save bookmarks and toggle source code word wrap. This is a great one for developers on the go!

Web Source Viewer

Web Source Viewer

Web Source Viewer is a much more basic than Source Viewer but it’s a fast and free way to view source code of any website from your iPhone.

FTP On The Go

FTP On The Go

FTP On The Go is a fully featured FTP app for the iPhone. It lets you do just about everything your desktop application does but with the convenience of mobility. Browse, upload, download, edit and preview files on your FTP or even on your iPhone. You can even email files, view documents within the app like Word, Excel, PDF’s, etc. and much more.

There are far too many features to list but this is a fantastic app for the price so check it out.

ServersMan

ServersMan

ServersMan essentially lets you use your iPhone like a wireless USB flash drive… or web server. Yeah, you can actually run a website with ServersMan. You can also store files on your iPhone via WiFi or 3G from any internet connected computer with a browser.

You’ll also be able to open files like Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), iWork (Pages, Numbers, Keynote), PDF’s, HTML, CSS and much more.

TouchTerm SSH

TouchTerm SSH

If you’re looking for a full SSH terminal app, this is it. Access your servers via WiFi, 3G or EDGE with just about all the features you’d find in a desktop SSH terminal application. If you need a step up, there is also TouchTerm SSH Pro with some more advanced features optimizing usage on the iPhone.

With the Pro version you get features like gestures, auto-completion, graphical filesystem navigation and much, much more.

DatabaseViewer

DatabaseViewer

DatabaseViewer gives you mobile access to your databases and the tools you need to work with them. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS Access, MS Excel, Oracle and several more. Sync database data via 3G, EDGE or WiFi, apply SQL Select queries, filters and much more.

It’s a little bit expensive, but if you need access to your databases on the go, this is a solid choice.

Are My Sites Up

Are My Sites Up

If you run or host several websites, especially for clients, it’s important to keep an eye on their status. If you use the Are My Sites Up? service, this task is a breeze. This is the accompanying iPhone app for both subscription based and free versions of the service.

From the app you can manage account settings like email and SMS alerts, view your sites’ status and get push alerts.

SEO IT

SEO IT

With SEO IT you can easily analyze a website’s Search Engine Optimization. The application will analyze tons different parts including complete source code listing, META tags, tag counts, title contents, back links and many more parts of your website of choice.

Curious about your competition? This is a great way to check them out. ;-)

Web Tools

Web Tools

With Web Tools you can check whois information, domain availability, view server information, check response times and more. When you find information you want to keep for later or share, you can email the results.

It’s a pretty basic app but very useful, especially if you’re with a client who’s looking for a domain.

Nomina

Nomina

Nomina does more than just check domain availability. It can pull up a lot of helpful information for building a brand such as trademark checking, common-law usage, relevance of the brand name and lots more. It’ll save you tons of time when trying to build a brand for you or your client.

iStat – Sys Monitoring, Battery

iStat

iStat gives you a great set of tools to monitor iPhone resource usage (including battery) as well as resource usage on remote systems including Mac, Linux and Solaris. You also get network tools such as ping and traceroute. Unfortunately Apple requested that they remove the “Free Memory” feature, which many are not happy about.

Easily monitor your iPhone, home computers and even web servers anywhere. Great value for the price!

Ego

Ego

Ego gives you a quick overview of your web statistics from services like Google Analytics but can also check stats on services like Twitter, Vimeo, Squarespace, Mint, Feedburner and Ember. The app is clean and simple to provide a quick view of your current stats. Tapping a service rotates through additional stats.

This is a great app for developers who want to keep track of web stats as well as developing social media stats.

Analytics App

Analytics App

If you’re looking for a fully featured Google Analytics app, this would be it. You’ll get quick access to your Google Analytics account, including maps, and all the information you’ll need. Google changed their API for Analytics so the app is being rewritten and the free update is due out this month.

You’ll also be able to access all your Google Analytics information via WiFi, 3G or EDGE.

Mint Stats

Mint Stats

Mint Stats plugs into Shaun Inman’s Mint analytics and provides stats for the last 24 hours. Check hourly and daily totals for views and unique visits, manage multiple sites, auto-refresh and more.

Overall, it’s a pretty basic app but gives you the info. you need while you’re on the go.

Web Developer Bible

Web Developer Bible

The Web Developer Bible app is a very handy reference for RGB to HEX color conversion, HTML entities and more. It’s a pretty simple app but it could certainly be useful for some web developers and because it’s free, it’s definitely worth at least checking out.

Developer’s Tool Kit

Developer's Tool Kit

Developer’s Took Kit combines several helpful tools for developers and designers such as a computer science hex calculator (works with binary, octal and logic operations), color wheel and categorized ANSI UTF-8 character set. The character can be browsed by name, unicode value and symbol type.

The price seems a little much for what’s included but the calculator is quite helpful and finding UTF-8 characters is a breeze.

CSS Cheat Sheet

CSS Cheat Sheet

Learning CSS? Need a refresher course or just a reference sheet for CSS? This is a great app for just that. CSS Cheat Sheet is searchable and easy to browse by category. It includes descriptions, values and examples for backgrounds, borders, classifications, fonts, margins and a whole lot more.

This is probably one of the most thorough CSS reference apps available for the iPhone.

jQuery Cheat Sheet

jQuery Cheat Sheet

jQuery Cheat Sheet is another reference app from Concentric Sky. If you just need to reference something real quick or even if you’re new to jQuery, this is a great app to have handy. You can even write and test your jQuery within the app now.

It’s also important to note that this app doesn’t retrieve any of its information from the internet, so you can use it anytime, anywhere.

JavaScript Cheat Sheet

JavaScript Cheat Sheet

JavaScript Cheat Sheet is another reference app from Concentric Sky. It’s another great app for learning JavaScript or if you would like a handy reference app for those times you just can’t remember an expression or something else.

As with Concentric Sky’s other apps, this one also works completely offline.

HTML Cheat Sheet

HTML Cheat Sheet

This is probably one of the more popular reference apps from Concentric Sky that also allows you to write and test HTML within the app. Reference everything from tag lists to character sets and more with this.

As with Concentric Sky’s other reference apps, this is another goodie for beginners and those who would like a quick reference guide in their pocket.

PHP Cheat Sheet

PHP Cheat Sheet

If you’re a developer, your cheat sheet collection wouldn’t be complete without Concentric Sky’s PHP cheat sheet. Again, it’s great for those who would like a quick reference and for those who might be learning PHP.

WordPress

WordPress

The WordPress app gives you the power of WordPress in your pocket. Create and edit content on your sites, even if you’re offline. The app supports true previews, tags, categories, iPhone photo integration and most other functions you can do in WordPress from your desktop.

The app also lets you manage multiple sites if you need.

Blog with iBlogger!

iBlogger

iBlogger is a multi-platform capable blogging app for everything from WordPress and TypePad to SquareSpace, Xanga and ExpressionEngine. You can easily manage just about any major blog installation with support for most major features like pictures, tags, links, etc.

If you run multiple blogs on multiple platforms, this is the app you’ll want for easy mobile access.

1Password

1Password

If you’re not using a password manager already, you might consider looking for one. 1Password is a popular choice and with iPhone integration, the choice is even easier. Store your information and passwords securely and let it automatically log you into websites with ease.

There’s a lot you can do with it, especially for the price.

PassGen

PassGen

PassGen is a straight forward and basic app that generates random passwords between 4 and 16 digits that will be much more secure than the basic passwords most people use. Once you generate a password, email it to yourself for safe keeping.

Dropbox

Dropbox

As a designer and/or developer, you probably share and sync files with lots of people across many computers. The Dropbox app gives you easy access to your Dropbox.com account files for viewing, managing and sharing while you’re on the go.

SugarSync

SugarSync

SugarSync is a service similar to Dropbox and provides easy file access anywhere. The same applies to the iPhone app which lets you view, manage and share your synced files anywhere, anytime. You can even stream entire music collections stored on your computer!

Discover

Discover

Discover lets you use your iPhone as a wireless mobile hard drive via WiFi. You (or others) can connect and transfer or share files. It even works iPhone to iPhone. Within the app you can also view all the major document formats including Microsoft Office, PDF’s, HTML and other text based files and many more.

Air Sharing (Document Viewer, File Storage)

Air Sharing

Air Sharing gives you drag and drop access to your iPhone over WiFi when mounted as a wireless drive on Mac, Windows or Linux. You can also connect through a browser if necessary. You can view literally just about every major file format available including Microsoft Office and iWork files.

Files

Files

Store and view files on your iPhone with the Files app, again, over WiFi. You can also email and password protect your files if needed. Files also supports all major file formats such as Microsoft Office and Apple iWork. Once you’ve viewed files, the app can even remember the page and zoom level.

Quickoffice Files

Quickoffice Files

Quickoffice Files is part of an online service for managing your office files but the app can be used independently as well. Transfer files via WiFi, view, email and password protect files and even access your MobileMe iDisk account.

Sketches

Sketches

Sketches lets you easily jot down notes and thoughts as well as annotate your pictures and more. It’s sort of a cross between a fun and creative drawing and annotation app and something that also serves its purposes for business. You can also send your creations once you’re done.

iBlueSky (mindmapping)

iBlueSky

As designers and developers, we get ideas all the time–regardless of location. iBlueSky lets you ditch the paper napkin and take brainstorming and problem solving to a new level. When you’re done you can send via email in Novamind, PDF, PNG, OPML and more formats.

There’s many more great functions with this app as well as integration with Box.net. The price seems a bit steep but it’s hard to put a price on great ideas right?

Things

Things

Things for the iPhone brings the power of Things for the desktop, to your iPhone. Wirelessly sync your lists and tasks when you’re near your computer. The great thing about this app though, is you don’t need the desktop application. Things for the iPhone is an independent app, thus the rather steep price.

Things simplifies task management and makes it much easier to stay productive and keep track of life anywhere you might be.

Remember The Milk

Remember The Milk

Remember The Milk (RTM) connects with the online service to sync your lists and tasks. You can also work offline and sync when the internet is available. RTM is a super simple and easy to use app and service but also provides the options and flexibility you might need.

RTM also has lots of integration with the iPhone such as detecting location for nearby tasks and much more.

MiniBooks for FreshBooks

MiniBooks for FreshBooks

MiniBooks brings the popular invoicing software, FreshBooks, to the iPhone. As far as I can tell, it’s an independent application that is capable of syncing with your online FreshBooks account (if not, the price is way steep). You get all the features and power of FreshBooks while you’re on the go.

There’s also a lite version available which I believe requires a FreshBooks account.

Jobs – Time Sheet + Tracking

Jobs

Jobs is a simple time tracking and time sheet creation app. It’s important to keep track of your time to make sure you get paid. Jobs features multiple timers, sessions, exporting, different currencies and more.

The nice thing about Jobs is that it’s not bloated with extra crap you don’t need. That way it’s easy as pie to keep track of your time.

PayPal

PayPal

Most of you are familiar with PayPal. If you’re not yet, you most likely will be soon. PayPal for the iPhone gives you quick access to your account for checking your balance, reviewing history, sending money and more. In fact, it’s so fast and easy, I use it to check my account even while I’m at the computer.

BeejiveIM 3.0 with Push

BeejiveIM

Beejive is arguably the best iPhone instant messaging app around that’s more capable than some desktop messaging clients. Connect to all the major services such as AIM, Windows Live, Yahoo!, GoogleTalk, Facebook, Myspace… and the list goes on. It also moves from 3G/EDGE to WiFi seamlessly and is capable of push notifications after you close the app.

I communicate with many clients via chat and this makes it easy to take my chats with me anywhere.

Prowl: Growl Client

Prowl: Growl Client

Prowl is simply a Growl client for the iPhone. Get push notifications from your Mac or Windows computer for anything you configure Growl with and would like push notifications on your iPhone. It’s all highly configurable to fit your needs.

I personally use it for multiple email accounts, messaging, system alerts and a lot more.

Conclusion

Well, there you have it fellow web designers and developers. 50 fantastic iPhone apps for taking on many of our daily tasks anytime, anywhere, from the convenience of a pocket sized device. As I mentioned at the beginning, there are several other options for many of these app types. I couldn’t include them all though or this list would be a mile long. These are the ones I’ve picked from personal experience and reviews during my own searches for apps to make my job a little easier.

As I’m sure we all are, I’m always on the lookout for fresh new apps to make my web design or development tasks easier, faster or more mobile. So, if you know of any really great apps, please share them with us in the comments below. Thanks!

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Discussion 74 Comments

  1. eroller says:
    December 1, 2009 at 3:41 am

    not so useful for most of the people ;/ (since not everyone has iPhone, especially outside US where it isn’t so popular)

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    • Matt Vickers says:
      December 1, 2009 at 10:44 am

      That’s why it’s 50 Helpful iPhone apps, and not 50 Helpful apps.

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      • eroller says:
        December 1, 2009 at 2:52 pm

        yeah and that’s why it’s not so useful, right?

      • Darren says:
        December 1, 2009 at 3:31 pm

        @eroller, maybe you could also comment on all the PHP articles and ask why there’s no Java examples? The article clearly states that these are the iPhone apps that he thinks are most useful to web developers. If you’re not interested in iPhone apps, why read this article?

    • eroller says:
      December 2, 2009 at 7:02 am

      @Darren, i didn’t read it, because it’s not for me and neither for the majority of people and THAT’S the point.

      Answering to your example, PHP is very popular and it’s great topic for article

      Anyway, that’s my opinion and looking at the comments i’m not the only one.

      Reply
    • bob says:
      December 2, 2009 at 7:05 am

      jackass

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    • chris says:
      December 2, 2009 at 5:26 pm

      I live in Australia and the iphone is as popular as ever. Every second person seems to own one, just jump on public transport and look around lol. Sorry but your argument is flawed in so many ways.

      Reply
    • Mike says:
      December 3, 2009 at 3:56 am

      Yep, the iPhone is just as popular over her in the UK. in fact apple opened the iPhone up from just O2 to O2, Orange, VodaPhone & Tesco (through O2).

      This article is aimed toward specific people. This is no different to every other article that aimed at a target audience, such as jQuery articles or PHP articles etc.

      I for one for this very useful. I love the Color Expert… very useful.

      /Mike

      Reply
  2. Sid says:
    December 1, 2009 at 3:50 am

    With all due respect, I would rejoice at the death of list posts like this one on Nettuts.

    1. It has become too common on every blog out there.
    2. It tells me that not enough people contribute insightful tutorials to this site.

    No offense to the author – I know it takes some effort to compile lists.

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    • Dan says:
      December 1, 2009 at 5:08 am

      Lists are so damn nice to read though lol. But agreed these lists are done to death, it would be really awesome if we could all work together and fix this!

      If you haven’t already check out the themeforest blog, heaps of good content over there as well, especially if you are starting out with a language or wordpress.

      The problem seems to be not enough indepth articles being submitted, maybe to combat this Envato could offer a set higher payment for articles with some meaty content.

      An idea…get the envato team and the community to brainstorm all the great web designers and developers they know. Send them all an email and ask them to contribute just one post in the upcoming year and set a week for the post to be ready by. I think everyone wants to give back to the community but most of us are just too busy building websites!

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    • Anthony says:
      December 1, 2009 at 5:19 am

      I found it useful.

      Reply
    • Maddie says:
      December 1, 2009 at 5:51 am

      Very useful. Better than me trying to seek out all of these apps individually.

      Reply
    • leaase says:
      December 1, 2009 at 5:58 am

      I agree with Sid.

      Reply
    • Robbert says:
      December 1, 2009 at 6:28 am

      I agree with Sid. A top ten list is okay, but 50? Please :( Also, no offence to the writer. Less is more though.

      Reply
    • Siddharth says:
      December 1, 2009 at 9:15 am

      For the record, that ain’t me. :)

      Reply
    • Dan says:
      December 1, 2009 at 2:59 pm

      I guess another reason why we don’t place much value on a list like this is that there is 50 apps and how many has the writer actually tried? It’s just a list no recommendations etc.

      I think there is much more value on a list of 10 apps that a good designer/developer actually uses everyday and why they use them. Less is more as posted above.

      Reply
    • Warren says:
      December 1, 2009 at 3:48 pm

      Your right, but they are popular (so it works for the publisher) and if it’s a worthwhile list like this then I too usually find something new that I didn’t know about before.
      Unofrtunatley this has spilled over to TV (at least here in Aus) where we now have these 20-1 lists of ‘stuff’ about nothing as a popularity list of things about nothing, and they are rating, don’t know who’s watching them and what they get from it but they keep coming back to clutter my tv.

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      • Dan says:
        December 1, 2009 at 8:08 pm

        Its a virus, it is now on aussie tv and its changed to 50 to 1!!!

        My suggestion above of 10 apps someone actually uses would take less time to compile as well. As its not just google, copy/paste, rewrite.

        These lists have their place for sure, but I think as web designers we are looking for something a bit more indepth a bit more often, so we can get better and take the web to shiny new places.

  3. Pantso says:
    December 1, 2009 at 4:27 am

    Thats a great list :D Cheers :D

    Reply
  4. Anthony H says:
    December 1, 2009 at 4:51 am

    That’s an insanely long list of apps that are only going to help a few developers out there. No real value to the article, and that emoticon added at the end is bludgeoning the sophistication of the nettuts homepage.

    This really seems like a collaborative advertisement to me.

    Reply
  5. Benjamin Reid says:
    December 1, 2009 at 5:30 am

    Wo, massive smiley on the front page.

    Reply
  6. Siddharth says:
    December 1, 2009 at 5:34 am

    I use Things and Beejive on a daily basic. Others, not so much.

    Reply
  7. Claude says:
    December 1, 2009 at 5:49 am

    i would recommend Strip for pasword storage and generation. it seems a bit more secure than the other apps out there. there’s also a forthcoming desktop app according to the company that created it- zetetic.net

    Reply
  8. designfollow says:
    December 1, 2009 at 6:24 am

    thank fir the great list. very useful.

    Reply
  9. Fille says:
    December 1, 2009 at 6:52 am

    Thanks!

    Reply
  10. Batfan says:
    December 1, 2009 at 6:57 am

    Great list but, how about one for us Android users?

    Reply
  11. arnold says:
    December 1, 2009 at 6:58 am

    first time I saw that weird smiley face on the front page . lol

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  12. Patrick says:
    December 1, 2009 at 6:59 am

    Oh dear, this damn iphone/apple hype sucks.

    Reply
  13. unique says:
    December 1, 2009 at 7:07 am

    this is just silly…anybody could use most of these apps and find them useful…not to mention there are other phones out there so why just the eyephone?

    No disrespect to the author or the proud owners of their eyephones…All im trying to say is that maybe NET.tutsplus should leave eyephone reviews to ezines, blogs etc. who report on it frequently and give us a good tutorial…it has been ages since I saw a good one…

    PS eyephone sux, HTC HD rules (hook for trolls) :)

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    • Patrick says:
      December 1, 2009 at 12:04 pm

      :D right man, HTC rules. Apple sucks (only iPod is okay…). The (nonjailbreaked) iphone couldn’t use any MP3s for SMS ringtones. And it havn’t a radio function. Every cheap phone have these features today, but not the iphone. A real shame!

      (but i’m not trolling, this is my real thought about apple.)

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      • Darren says:
        December 1, 2009 at 3:39 pm

        Of course, the iPhone lacks some basic features but for most people, the value of the iPhone is in the apps. The proof is in this article. Good luck compiling a list as comprehensive as this one for any other phone.

  14. Bram Van der Sype says:
    December 1, 2009 at 7:17 am

    Interesting! Would love to see one for Android devices, if there were any apps on Android for Developers :p

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  15. Tom Lynch says:
    December 1, 2009 at 7:28 am

    Very nice, even helped me and I’m an Android user not an iPhone user

    I’d suggest looking into Android as well for these sorts of things in the future. As a phone salesman I’ve seen first hand how popular Android is becoming.

    For peoples info, the Concentric Sky apps (amazing I might add) are available on Android, at the same price as is the PayPal app, which is also brilliant. I do the same as the author here, I check my balance on it whilst on my laptop haha

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  16. Batfan says:
    December 1, 2009 at 7:31 am

    @Bram

    Yeah, I have a Droid and I haven’t really seen any :P

    Reply
  17. William Mengers says:
    December 1, 2009 at 7:45 am

    This article is great! I just got my iphone the other day and this article couldn’t have come at a better time!

    Reply
  18. Juan C Rois says:
    December 1, 2009 at 7:53 am

    Great list, thanks.

    Reply
  19. Alex McCabe says:
    December 1, 2009 at 8:57 am

    some damn useful apps here, pity i am a poor student. i say this, yet i still have an iphone. oh the irony

    Reply
  20. Brian Temecula says:
    December 1, 2009 at 10:58 am

    For workaholics like me, we never get a chance to leave the office, and the thought of doing work on a little handheld device compared to my dual monitor super computer makes me laugh.

    What’s next for you and your little phone?

    The best use for an iPhone would be to plug it in as a mouse (on a real computer).

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    • Jarel Remick says:
      December 1, 2009 at 1:03 pm
      Author

      There’s several apps for that (and VNC). I actually use the iPhone as a mouse/keyboard quite frequently via wifi.

      For some workaholics that travel, the iPhone is very helpful. ;-)

      Reply
  21. cardeo says:
    December 1, 2009 at 11:26 am

    nice post, some good apps in there I wasn’t aware of

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  22. Shiva Chettri says:
    December 1, 2009 at 12:25 pm

    Wish I had a iphone

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  23. THE MOLITOR says:
    December 1, 2009 at 1:07 pm

    Great post! I just downloaded ‘The Typography Manual’ and look forward to checking it out.

    Reply
  24. alan says:
    December 1, 2009 at 1:23 pm

    great list! Thanx !

    Reply
  25. Diego says:
    December 1, 2009 at 2:20 pm

    Thanks for putting this list together. I discovered some very usefulapps.

    Reply
  26. John says:
    December 1, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    a few days ago was released another app with photoshop tutorials from the guys from Grafpedia. i find it very useful because i can read tutorials even if i do not have a internet connection

    http://www.grafpedia.com/news/grafpedia-launches-iphone-app

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  27. blackabee says:
    December 1, 2009 at 6:50 pm

    fantastic list! thanks for sharing.

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  28. chris says:
    December 1, 2009 at 9:54 pm

    sigh. thank you for sharing, been looking for this kind of applications on my phone

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  29. Webmaster Barcleona says:
    December 2, 2009 at 1:35 am

    Excellent and very usefull apps for iPhone,
    congratulations!

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  30. Matthew says:
    December 2, 2009 at 4:02 am

    Thanks for the list, as a iPhone user form the uk i will check them out as some looks prity cool =D

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  31. Joao Joaquim says:
    December 2, 2009 at 4:14 am

    Nice list!
    btw, 1Password app is currently free

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  32. Ken says:
    December 2, 2009 at 7:51 am

    Many thanks for posting this list. I will probably download at least a dozen of these and had only been aware of two or at most three. I see some negative comments about posting lists like this. Not from me. I find this very useful.

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  33. Rhode Island DUI lawyer/attorney says:
    December 2, 2009 at 12:03 pm

    Oh wow… this is overwhelming and like heaven!!!

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  34. Inc Technologies says:
    December 2, 2009 at 10:06 pm

    Great list of applications. We also develop apps for iPhone. We feel that the list mentioned above are great app for designers. Continue posting such list for other categories too

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  35. Aaron says:
    December 3, 2009 at 9:23 am

    There have been some negative responses to this post, but for those who do have an iPhone (me – w00t!) definitely appreciate this post.

    What’s fantastic for me (being sarcastic) is that I actually already did some research on some iPhone apps for my own blog along the same subject of this one and it looks like Nettuts beat me to it. Freakin’ waste of my time…but I’m still gonna post it anyway.

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  36. John says:
    December 4, 2009 at 4:16 am

    Cant understand the negativity at all, these are all useful apps for an iPhone and as a designer I already use a few of these and now have found some more so thanks!

    If you don’t like iPhones, or want to moan about them not having a radio or some other useless thing that no one cares about then don’t read an iPhone specific post!

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  37. Ben says:
    December 4, 2009 at 1:54 pm

    I would have never had the time to find all these apps myself. everyone is entitled to a different opinion as to which apps are ok and which apps are actually very useful. I like to try to free apps first as a test to how much i may actually think to use my phone, and then if i find them useful i may consider paying for the premium apps. I don’t see why people seem to dispise the iphone, coud be simple because they haven’t actually used one, or don’t really need one. I didn’t understand the iphone hype until i actually became a user and now i find the phone very useful even with various flaws. I also see that even though the majority of people don’t have one, every phone maker and competitor wants to have the “next” hit phone, and use the iphone as the starting point. Apple has made a quality product that has revolutionized not only the mobile phone world, but mobile technology as a whole. I don’t see anyone out there taking the time to make a collection of “must have” blackberry, droid, pre…etc. apps. And until that day, and as long as everyone is clamering to create iphone apps, we should expect to see more lists like this, because everyday a new app is born. if you have a better list, then by all means feel free to share it with all. if not, adding negative comments about iphone hype, and how the list is “useless” is basically useless itself. your opinion is fine, but keep in mind, constructive critisizm is what makes for improvement. negative opinions are simply useless to any and all, so just keep them to yourself and save us all the wasted eye strain.

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  38. Omar says:
    December 7, 2009 at 8:27 am

    Bah! I need an iPhone to try all these out! Soon enough, my contract is up in 2010.

    I used to avoid the iPhone like the plague but in all honestly, it’s hard to find a phone to match up to it, ESPECIALLY with these apps right here. The database viewer alone makes me want to get it.

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  39. West says:
    December 7, 2009 at 10:44 am

    FTP on The Go is great.

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  40. Stephen Webb says:
    December 8, 2009 at 2:09 am

    There are some fantastic apps suggestions here so thanks for a great list. With the ever-growing expansion of the app library it is now easier than ever to manage work from the iPhone platform, making your workflow truly wireless.

    The font applications seem to be particularly useful, especially those such as ‘what the font’, allowing you to photograph any typography and instantly indentify the typeface.

    ‘iStat’ appears to be great value considering it’s capabilities, being able to monitor systems completely remotely is extremely useful and can help you diagnose issues from anywhere.
    Looking forward to similar posts soon!

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  41. Rachel says:
    December 11, 2009 at 10:12 am

    I downloaded the i-nigma reader after hearing about it on the gadget show. It works very well indeed. I would suggest everyone to download it and use it and get those barcodes of websites out there so people can find you.
    You can see my fully working barcode at http://www.spanglishwebs.com/blog/archives/160

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  42. Bloggerzbible says:
    January 19, 2010 at 5:33 pm

    nice collection

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  43. farhan rao says:
    February 15, 2010 at 10:36 pm

    Well, I found this post very useful, even I downloaded instantly some apps after reading this article like paypal, photoshop.com.

    Nice post thanks.

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  44. carlos says:
    July 24, 2010 at 9:53 am

    Good finding I’ve downloaded some from previous articles but it’s always fun to find new ones to check out.

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  45. TheKid says:
    September 8, 2010 at 1:33 am

    have a look at this app as well.

    Graphic Design Quiz.
    http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/graphics-design-quiz-for-iphone/id387240098?mt=8

    The app keeps track of the users score. The hi-score is “guru design”. The user can post the score on facebook as well.

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  46. Luke says:
    October 25, 2010 at 4:56 pm

    I’m thinking jQRef might be a good addition to this list. It’s got features that other jQuery reference apps don’t seem to have, such as search, favorites and examples.

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  47. hcg damla says:
    February 2, 2011 at 12:01 pm

    Good finding I’ve downloaded some from previous articles but it’s always fun to find new ones to check out.

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  48. raverture @ personalized wedding favors says:
    May 19, 2011 at 2:27 am

    I am not really an expert web developer but this article can really help us with our project. Good thing that you have all the screen shots.

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  49. hcg damla says:
    July 12, 2011 at 2:45 am

    I really like this excellent posting, many thanks for the information

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  50. RT Nicholas says:
    December 24, 2011 at 7:41 am

    Istat is a cool App, I have tried that on my Android Phone.
    Bro!…I dont have an Iphone…

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