Apple : Updated: 100 best free iPhone apps 2014

---

Updated: 100 best free iPhone apps 2014 Posted: Best free iPhone apps 1 - 25 There are now hundreds of thousands of apps available for your iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPod touch and iPad, and, surprisingly, many of the best are free. The following list showcases our pick of the 90 best free iPhone apps, and includes iPhone applications for social networking, travel, news, photography, productivity and more. Most of these apps are also suitable for the iPod touch. If your top free iPhone apps aren't covered, tell us all about them in the comments. 1. Facebook The world's biggest social network brings a tightly honed experience to the iPhone and iPod touch, but nonetheless still enables you to access your contacts, feeds and other important information. This sense of focus makes it in many ways superior to using Facebook in a desktop browser. Top Facebook privacy settings tips 2. PhotoSynth We did a bit of a double-take on seeing Microsoft's name attached to this, not least given the lack of a price-tag. But PhotoSynth is a really great panorama app; it's user-friendly and fun to use, especially when watching your panoramas take shape while you capture them. (The iOS Camera app also has a panorama mode, but PhotoSynth's more flexible and works with older devices.) 3. RunKeeper The prospect of Nike+ but better and for free might sound unlikely, but that's what RunKeeper provides. Previously split into 'pro' and 'free' versions, the developer now generously includes all the features in one free app. That means you can spend no money, yet use your iPhone's GPS capabilities to track your jogging and cycling routes, and examine mapping and details of your pace and calories burned. Activities can be shared online, and treadmill runs and other exercise details can be entered manually. If you like this then make sure you read 10 best iPhone and iPad apps for keeping fit and 5 sports headphones for iPhone and iPod touch. 4. LinkedIn Pulse RSS has a reputation for being a rather dry technology, feeding you dull lists of headlines. Pulse flips RSS on its head, providing streams of feeds that grab your eye with photographs. It's perhaps not for the hardcore RSS crowd, but if you follow a small number of feeds, it's a great choice. 5. Dropbox Plenty of apps exist for transferring content between your computer and your device, but Dropbox is free and easier to use than most of its contemporaries. Dump files you want to sync in a folder on your computer and Dropbox for your device will enable you to access them, download them for offline viewing, and, in many cases, view them. Love Dropbox? Then check out our article Essential tips for every Dropbox user. 6. National Rail Enquiries For anyone commuting by train, National Rail Enquiries is a handy app to have installed. There's journey planning, timetables and a location-aware 'next train home' option, along with progress tracking, so you can see when a train's likely to show up. It's not as usable nor as pretty as UK Train Times, but it is broadly similar - and five quid cheaper. 7. Skype FaceTime is a great alternative to standard voice calls, but it's no good if you're trying to contact someone without a Mac or compatible iOS device. Therefore, Skype remains an essential download. The interface is simple and usable, enabling anyone with a Skype account to make free calls to other Skype users and cheap calls to anywhere in the world. If you're on Pay and Go, this is particularly handy, but the app also enables iPod touch users to utilise their devices for calls. 10 handy Skype tips and tricks 8. Movies by Flixter Although some aspects of cinema listings app Movies by Flixter are disappointingly US-centric (notably regarding details on upcoming movies and DVDs), it succeeds where it matters. Select a film and the app figures out where you're located, lists nearby cinemas, and displays times your chosen film is showing. Efficiency can be further increased by pinning favourite cinemas to the top of the list. 9. Twitterrific The most beautiful and elegant of Twitter clients also happens to be free. Twitterrific gives you a unified timeline, custom tabs, and multiple themes. It's fully optimised for all Apple devices and can sync timelines across them using iCloud or Tweet Marker. In app purchases (IAP) enable you to remove ads or add push notifications. 10. Reuters There are many free news apps, but Reuters offers a breadth of coverage that makes it a winner. Preferences enable you to tailor the app's output to the UK, and the toolbar provides swift access to news, pictures, videos and stock markets coverage. 11. Twitter The official Twitter app might lack some of the features found in the likes of Tweetbot, but it does provide a sleek and simple means of using the service. It also rapidly rolls in new features from the website, such as the Connect and Discover views, along with expandable tweets that contain photos and videos. Check out 10 best iPhone and iPad Twitter apps for alternative Twitter apps we recommend. 12. Comics In all honesty, Comics isn't what it once was — a one-stop-shop for buying and reading comics. Now, the buying's done in a browser, and the app is merely a reader. Still, it remains a decent means of taking in the latest and greatest in the medium, and there's a smart guided view for reading on smaller screens. 13. Wikipanion The Wikipedia website works fine on iPhones, but a dedicated app is a better bet. Wikipanion is a freebie which gives you quick access to article sections, in-article search, viewing options, bookmarking, and the ability to tweet about whatever odd fact you've just unearthed. Also, wonderfully, there are no ads. 14. Evernote Clients to access the popular Evernote service for storing notes and ideas online are available for so many platforms that we half expect a ZX Spectrum app to be announced tomorrow. On the iPhone, Evernote is efficient and usable, enabling you to rapidly scan your notes and also create new ones. 15. Kindle With iBooks on the iPhone, you might wonder why you should bother with Amazon's Kindle. After all, the app's not as pretty as iBooks, nor is there an integrated store (you buy in Safari and sync purchases to the app). However, Kindle offers a massive selection of books compared to Apple's app and the reading experience is great. 16. Around Me Around Me figures out where you are and lists local stuff - banks, bars, petrol stations and, er, Apple Retail Stores. The app's reliance on Google Maps info means there are gaps, but it's nonetheless handy to have installed when in unfamiliar surroundings, and the 'augmented reality' landscape mode is amusing, if flaky. 17. Dictionary.com - Dictionary & Thesaurus Over two million definitions, synonyms and antonyms are available in the palm of your hand with this free, offline dictionary and thesaurus. The app is fast and efficient, includes phonetic and audio pronunciation of words, and its interface seems perfectly suited to the iPhone. 18. 1Password Although iOS includes iCloud Keychain, 1Password is a better system. It's fully cross-platform and enables you to store multiple identities (such as a full one for payments and a simplified one for forums), secure notes and software licence details. As of iOS 8, 1Password integrates with Touch ID, meaning you can use it with Safari, although the app also retains its own built-in browser. 19. Adobe Photoshop Express If you're looking for Photoshop-style power, Photoshop Express won't impress. However, if you're after a quick, free, highly usable tool for making edits to your iPhone photos, Adobe's app is ideal. Use it for cropping, straightening, exposure adjustments, colour effects, sharpening and more. For more cool iPhone image editors, check out 10 best iPhone and iPad photo editing apps. 20. iHandy Level Free One of the tools from the excellent iHandy Carpenter toolkit app, iHandy Level Free turns your iPhone into a spirit level. By default, it'll show just how wonky your device's accelerometer is, but tap the calibrate button and you get an accurate and great-looking level. Before reading on, why not check out TechRadar's top 10 ebook reader apps for iPhone: FutTv : yXv0i7qW2gbYC 21. Pocket The service formerly known as Read It Later enables you to save pages from websites, to read them later, bereft of the advertising and other junk on the original page. The service is free, as is the Pocket app, which downloads your articles, so that you can digest them without a web connection. 22. PCalc Lite "But I've already got a calculator on my device," you might argue. True, but we'd recommend stashing the default Apple app in a folder and replacing it with PCalc Lite. The reason: this is without doubt the finest free calculator for iOS, with a great interface and plenty of options. You can also bolt-on features from the paid version via in-app purchases. 23. iBooks Effectively iTunes for books, the app combines a reader and store, in Apple's typically usable and integrated fashion. Usefully, iBooks includes PDF support and bookmarks automatically sync across devices. 24. Tumblr Tumblr has managed to carve itself a niche, sitting somewhere between blogs and Twitter. The iPhone app is very nice indeed, providing a sleek browsing experience, and also a straightforward means of uploading text, photos and videos to your Tumblr account. 25. eBay On using the eBay app, there's a good chance you won't go near the eBay website again. The app is fast, has great saved searches (which flag new finds), and enables you to create listings. The last of those things is also improved by the built-in bar-code scanning. Before reading on, why not check out our demos of the best photography apps for taking pictures and editing them on your iPhone: FutTv : X7lj50up2FqbD Best free iPhone apps 26 - 50 26. Tube Map London At its most basic, Tube Map London is a London Tube map on your device, for free. In landscape, even the ads get out of your way, which is rather nice. And if you've a web connection, the app also provides live board info, a station finder and a route calculator. 27. Google Earth "Hold the world in the palm of your hand," says Google about Google Earth, which enables you to fly across the planet by swiping your finger. More integration with content and features from Maps would be good, but Google Earth's Wikipedia articles and a Panoramio layer at least ensure it's a great app for seeing the world from your living room. 28. XE Currency XE Currency is a fine example of an app that does what it needs to, without fuss. You configure a list of currencies, and it shows current conversion rates. Double-tap a currency to set its base rate or to define values for custom conversions. 29. Shazam Shazam is an app that feels like magic when you first use it. It's deceptively simple—hold your iPhone near to a music source, and wait while the app listens and tells you what track is playing. But the sheer technology behind this simplicity is mind-boggling, and while Shazam doesn't always guess right, it's worth a download. 30. SwiftKey The revamped iOS 8 keyboard is far better than its predecessor, not least because of the predictive word bar, but SwiftKey takes things a step further. Rather than laboriously tapping out individual keys, you just glide your finger across them. This can make for some comical typos initially, but SwiftKey soon speeds up iPhone text entry. 31. Yell Search As you might expect, Yell Search enables you to find local stuff. Select from a bunch of built-in categories or type in your own term for a list of local amenities, and use the map to navigate. Avoid the clunky augmented reality view, though. 32. BBC News BBC News has a mobile website that works very nicely in Safari. However, the BBC News app is designed to give you quick access to breaking stories, complete with playable videos and zoomable text. The navigation's a tad on the quirky side though. 33. Find My iPhone For the paranoid souls out there (or the unlucky ones who've had their devices pilfered), Find My iPhone is a must-have download. Assuming you've a 2010 or later iOS device, you can set up a free account and locate your devices within seconds. (Note that older devices can also be added to Find My iPhone - you just need a recent one to get things going.) 34. Dragon Dictation Fed up of typing on the tiny iPhone keyboard? Use Dragon Dictation instead, which happily converts your speech into text (with slightly spooky levels of accuracy for a freebie app). You can even punctuate ("Comma! Full-stop!"), and when you're done the app enables you to fire your thoughts at Facebook, Twitter, Mail or the iOS clipboard. Of course, Siri's available for more recent iOS devices; even so, Dragon Dictation has a longer buffer time and might be more suitable for people used to defining punctuation while dictating. 35. iHandy Torch Free It's a torch! It's a cheesy neon light! It's a hypnotic spiral effect! With slightly annoying ads! In reality, iHandy Torch Free is mostly a handy app for owners of older devices to have installed in case you get up for a midnight snack or toilet visit, don't turn on the light and want to avoid smashing your toe annoyingly hard into an unruly cupboard. 36. TVGuide.co.uk TV Guide TV Guide is an app that's come a long way. At one time, this was a disappointing UK TV listings app. Today, it boasts now-and-next and scrollable listings views, reminders, and calendar, Twitter and Facebook integration. Only avoid if you hate TV or don't live in the UK. 37. Zoopla Property Search There are loads of property search apps on the App Store, but Zoopla is the best of them. Its listings are comprehensive and there's also local market data, including sale prices and estimates on market value. Naturally, the app is also location-aware, meaning it can rapidly find properties nearby or close to a user-defined post code. 38. IM+ If you're an instant messaging fiend, IM+ gives you access to a bewilderingly large range of services, from giants like AIM and Facebook through to more niche fare. It's the perfect app for anyone who does a lot of instant messaging and wants everything within a single app, rather than having dozens of apps on their home screens. 39. Kayak Kayak aims to be an all-in-one smart travel app, providing the means to search for flights, hotels, and car rentals, and then manage your trip and track your flights. Alerts can be defined to inform you about price changes, and the interface is clean and simple, ensuring that you don't miss any important details. 40. Virtuoso Piano Free 3 Virtuoso Piano Free 3 won't turn you into a virtuoso, but it's a perfectly serviceable mini piano. You can amend the number of keys shown on screen, and buttons enable you to rapidly navigate the full keyboard. You get two built-in voices for playback, to which you can add variable levels of sustain. You might also like: Best alternatives to the default iPhone apps 41. TuneIn Radio Don't bother buying a DAB radio - just install TuneIn Radio instead and plug your device into a set of speakers. TuneIn Radio has a great interface for accessing over 50,000 digital stations; it also has AirPlay support, and you can use it as an alarm clock. 42. 4oD Catch Up The 4oD app has its problems — a lack of AirPlay support; enforced registration; quite a lot of ads — but it does give you the means to catch up with plenty of the TV shown on Channel 4, E4, More 4 and any other '4' channels the corporation's decided to unveil this week. 43. Jamie's Recipes More a gateway drug for the tasty treats of Jamie Oliver, this IAP-infused app nonetheless flings ten freebie recipes your way and a few videos. The interface in Jamie's Recipes is lickable, and there's a handy shopping-list feature, for those of you who don't fancy arriving back home after fighting the crowds in the supermarket, only to find you accidentally picked up 500 lemons and forgot the chicken. 44. Instagram Take a photo, smash a filter into it, and upload it. Instagram's service is now used by millions of people to share nuggets of visual loveliness, and the app itself is a pleasure to use, and also to browse during moments when you're not feeling quite so inspired. 45. Google Translate Assuming you're online, Google Translate is a great app for translating text between dozens of different languages; handily, the most popular of them enable you to speak into your device and listen to translations. It's also considerably cheaper and more portable than dozens of translation staff. 46. iMotion HD We say a big PFFT! at CGI. Real animators use stop-motion, until they inevitably go crazy at only being able to craft about three seconds of footage per week. iMotion HD enables you to create such painstaking animations with your device. The sting in the tail: a £1.49 IAP for export, but if you don't care about that, you can play your creations on your device to your heart's content. There's also the free iMotion Remote to use as a remote controller over Wi-Fi for iMotion HD, to avoid you accidentally moving your 'camera'. 47. TED TED is brain food. The app provides access to talks by insanely clever people, opening your mind to new and radical ideas. You can also save your favourite talks locally, for even easier access, or ask the app to inspire you, based on your mood and available time. 48. Remote The remote for Apple TV is a bit of a joke when you need to do anything more than play or pause. Remote is a free app which provides much better control and the ability to stop yourself going mad when typing things into search fields. It'll also happily use Home Sharing to pull content from computers on your network to your device, or fire said content at your Apple TV using AirPlay. 49. Skyscanner Skyscanner's a great website, which enables you to punch in airports and find out the cheapest way of getting from A to B. The Skyscanner app is the same, but it's on your device and with a spiffy AI. Well worth a download, even if only to check flights for an upcoming holiday. 50. Apple Store Apple fans with a lack of self-control should steer clear of the Apple Store app, which enables you to buy shiny Apple products directly from your device, to locate your nearest shrine of tech loveliness (aka Apple Store), and even to pay in-store, without having to bother hassling one of the blue-shirted staff. Best free iPhone apps 51 - 75 51. BBC iPlayer BBC iPlayer is by far our favourite of the TV catch-up apps, largely because it tries to do what's right for the viewer, rather than the suits. You can watch live TV or check out shows that have been broadcast over the past 30 days. Archived shows can be downloaded to watch later, and there's also AirPlay support for firing footage at your Apple TV. 52. Netflix Brits might rightly grumble that the Netflix selection leaves a little to be desired, but it's still a very affordable way to get a ton of TV in front of your eyes. The app works much like you'd expect: browse, watch, realise it's three in the morning - again. 53. Camera Awesome Sounding a bit like a rubbish superhero, Camera Awesome is in fact a tool for powering up your device's camera. You get some useful adjustment and composition options, and a load of varied filters are available via IAP. 54. Amazon Mobile A great app for anyone regularly suckered by ads but also afflicted with impatience, Amazon Mobile enables you to browse and buy from the mammoth online store with ease. You can also sneakily scan bar-codes in brick-and-mortar stores to see how much cheaper the attached goods would be online. 55. Amazon Cloud Player It seems every major player in media must have a cloud music service these days, and Amazon's no exception. The Amazon Cloud Player app is smartly designed, enabling you to easily switch between content stored on your Amazon account and music stored on your device. You can also download from the former to the latter. 56. SoundCloud SoundCloud is becoming one of those indispensable online services, storing a huge range of songs and audio clips. Although this app is suitable for browsing and playing, you can also use it to record and upload your own sounds. 57. Flipboard It would be a hard ask to expect the Flipboard experience on the iPhone and iPod touch to match that of the iPad version, but it nonetheless has a good go, transforming your favourite feeds and news sources into a tiny, beautiful digital magazine. 58. Wunderlist The App Store has so many to-do apps that it's in severe danger of tipping over, due to the sheer weight of digital checkboxes, but Wunderlist is one of the very few that really stands out. The interface is very usable, and the app's ability to seamlessly sync across devices and platforms makes it a great download. 59. Pixlr Express Autodesk rightly describes its photo editor Pxlr as fun and powerful. It includes dozens of tools and effects, which are added and tweaked in an intuitive and often tactile manner. However, while many of the effects are the typical ones you'd expect, Pixlr's also full of crazy eye-popping filters for unleashing your creativity in a hugely entertaining manner. 60. AirPort Utility Apple's increasingly freeing its iOS devices from any reliance on a Mac or PC, and this utility continues the trend. If you've some shiny white wireless kit at home with an Apple logo, use AirPort Utility to see what your network looks like, muck about with settings, and troubleshoot. 61. 30/30 Timers and task managers are usually designed with extreme efficiency, to the point they practically yell NO FUN ALLOWED in your face. 30/30, however, provides a streamlined, tactile interface that happens to look great, is fun to use, and that makes it a breeze to create lists and define timers. It also enables looping for anyone addicted to the Pomodoro Technique. 62. Google Authenticator This one falls under 'essential' rather than 'amazing'. If you've turned on two-step verification on your Google account, chances are it'll regularly ask for a code. You can get this sent to you via SMS, but it's much less hassle to have Google Authenticator instead provide the numbers to type in. 63. Chrome Safari's a perfectly decent web browser on the iPhone, but Chrome has its advantages. The card-like tabbing system may have been swiped by Apple, but Chrome enables you to force a desktop version of any site you're visiting to be displayed; also, if you're a Chrome desktop user, you can sync tabs with the iPhone app. 64. YouTube Apple binned its own YouTube app from the iPhone, presumably because it hates Google far more than it loves online video. Google's own YouTube app works much as you'd expect, enabling you to search and watch an almost limitless number of cats playing pianos, people moaning about stuff to their web-cams, and more besides. 65. iPlayer Radio BBC Radio was once shoved into a corner of the iPlayer app, despite the brilliance of 6 Music and Radio 4, but now it has its very own iPlayer Radio app within which to dance, shout and generally assault your ears. There's an EPG, an alarm option, alerts for upcoming shows, BBC podcast integration, and AirPlay. 66. Sums Although we're fond of PCalc, mentioned elsewhere in this selection of apps, there's something really lovely about Sums. The visual design feels sleek and modern, with a handy tape-style path of totals displayed; even better, operations are performed via gestures. This is a bit weird at first, but it soon becomes second-nature. 67. Pinterest Until the day we're all forced to use a single social networking app, several players continue to appeal to specific demographics. Pinterest is very much aimed at hobbyists, and it encourages you to pin inspirational images, and then explore boards from people you're interested in. The iOS app is clean and simple, ensuring the content shines through. 68. Instapaper Instapaper was the app that kicked off the whole 'read later' thing, giving you a way to save web pages for later. It's still the best, boasting a fantastic and readable default theme — and now it's free. Perhaps more importantly, it also fully integrates with iOS 8, meaning you can now directly save to Instapaper from any browser that supports Share sheets. 69. Photo Editor by Aviary Another image editor, but Photo Editor is a good 'un. The interface is clear, and it contains all the tools you'd expect: filters, enhancements, cropping, and the ability to fire that picture of your frothy coffee/amusing dog/current skyline to Flickr, Tumblr, Facebook or Twitter. 70. Gmail "But Gmail works in Apple Mail," you might say. And this is true, but it works really badly, only making accessible recent messages. By contrast, the Gmail app provides a fuller experience, enabling you to search, thread, star and label items to your heart's content. For more great free iPhone apps, check out 50 best free iPhone games on the planet 71. Yahoo! Weather With weather apps, you're frequently forced to choose between lashings of data or something that looks lovely. Yahoo! Weather combines both, offering a stunning interface that also happens to be rich with information. The maps are a touch weak, but other than that, this is an essential weather app. 72. TodoMovies 3 TodoMovies is a to-do list for movies. You use it to browse what's on (and, if you like, what's been on — including years ago) and build a list of what you want to see. Cleverly the app also enables you to rate each movie, thereby building up a list of your favourites that you can refer to at any time. 73. Google Maps When Apple removed Google's data from its Maps app, seemingly half the internet went nuts. In hindsight, the decision has been beneficial, because it resulted in Google creating its own mapping app, Google Maps. Bar some mildly irritating signing-in nonsense, this is a first-rate application - the interface is straightforward, the mapping is accurate, and it's also a means of getting Street View back on to your iPhone. 74. Cloze These days, someone's just as likely to contact you on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn as via email. Cloze's cunning plan: provide you with a unified inbox into which all these messages are squirted. It's not a unique idea, but Cloze is unique in its execution being first-rate. Its 'Key People' feature, prioritising anyone you regularly communicate with, is particularly impressive. 75. Find My Friends A.k.a 'Stalk My Contacts', but Find My Friends does have practical uses: if you're meeting a bunch of iPhone-owning friends and want to know where they're at, for example, or for when wanting to check where your spouse is on the road, to see if it's time to put the dinner in the oven/pretend to look busy when they walk through the door. (Or maybe that's just what freelance tech writers do.) Best free iPhone apps 76 - 100 76. Vine Such is the nature of social networks and online media that Vine's 15 minutes might have passed by the time you read this. Still, the app is a great way to rifle through the many thousands of six-second videos people have uploaded to the service. 77. Flickr Long-time internet users frequently dwell on what might have been regarding Flickr. It should have the ubiquity of Facebook, but seemingly missed the mobile boat. However, the site's still popular, and with it offering a whopping 1 TB of free storage and automatic upload from iOS, it's a must-have iPhone app/service that's in many ways superior to Apple's cloud-based photo efforts. 78. Podcasts Apple's apps and software have always been variable, but Podcasts was just a mess when it was first released. However, an update streamlined the interface, and enabled you to create custom stations that automatically update and synchronise over iCloud. Paid solutions like Instacast still edge Podcasts for mad-keen podcast devourers, but Apple's freebie comes close. 79. Calorie Counter If you're feeling the need to cut down on your food intake, Calorie Counter's a smart download. The app is well designed and, importantly, has a massive food-item database, making it easy to input everything you eat. Web sync, optional social features, reports and goals add to the goodness. 80. Opera Coast With Safari for iOS being a perfectly capable browser, any rival product must provide something different. Opera Coast rethinks the browsing and searching interface, basing it around large, tappable thumbnails and full-screen views. It's perhaps not a browser for general use, but it's worth downloading as a more pleasurable experience for taking in a few favourite sites that you regularly visit. 81. Box Even though Apple's introduced iCloud Drive, it's still worth investigating Box. The service has cross-device/platform sync, gives you 10 GB of free storage, and can be selected as an open/save location in any app that supports the iOS Document Picker. There's also a photo-upload option from the iOS Camera Roll. 82. Groove If you've a large music collection, it can sometimes be difficult to decide what to listen to next. Groove tries to figure out your listening habits and cross-references your collection with Last.fm data. The result is constantly evolving automatic personalised playlists that might just change your iPhone music-listening habits for good. 83. Tidy Photo Album The iOS Photos app does the job for exploring your pictures, but Tidy Photo Album is much more fun for organising them. By default, everything's dumped in the amusingly named Untidy section, whereupon you sort your images by various categories. Groups and selections can then be swiped to albums in an instant. 84. Mailbox If the Gmail app isn't doing it for you, Mailbox is a more than capable alternative. It's clean and efficient, and boasts plenty of time-saving tools. Messages can be swiped to archives and the trash, or snoozed until later, automatically returning to your inbox when asked. You can also attach files from a Dropbox account. 85. Facebook Messenger The Facebook app includes the means to chat privately with friends, but Messenger takes this to the next level. Clearly aiming to usurp carrier-based services, this standalone product feels more like SMS, and you can use it to make free calls (depending on your data plan). 86. GarageBand Apple's GarageBand turns your iPhone into a recording studio. Previously a paid app, GarageBand now has a freemium model. For no charge, you get full access to its features, including a range of smart instruments, MIDI editing and song arrangement. The only limitation is that relatively few instruments are included, but more are available via IAP. 87. Retrica You can never have too many Camera app alternatives, and Retrica provides some nice styles for the nostalgic. The filters are primarily retro in nature, and there's an excellent timer that will snap a bunch of photos in quick succession and then arrange them in a grid. 88. Amazon Prime Instant Video Much like Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video enables you to subscribe and then stream TV shows and movies from the cloud. Quite a lot of them are bargain-bin fodder, but the range continues to grow. Pleasingly, Amazon Instant Video also enables you to stream whatever you're watching to an Apple TV via AirPlay. 89. Sunrise Designed with Google Calendar users in mind, but also compatible with Facebook and iCloud, Sunrise is an elegant calendar app that feels right at home on iOS 7. Real-time sync ensures appointments are always up to date, and built-in weather reports are a nice touch. 90. Any.DO The iOS Reminders app is a bit of a mess, so here's a free alternative. Any.DO has voice support, and provides various ways to organise your tasks, from a GTD-oriented approach through to working with locations. There's a great sense of focus evident, but also a light playfulness in the usable interface. 91. Documents 5 For no money at all, Documents 5 provides you with a means to manage your files on iOS. You can grab documents from any source supported by the iOS Document Picker, preview all kinds of files, create ZIP archives, and add basic highlights and strikethroughs to PDFs. Handily, you can also save web pages to PDF, web archive or HTML, for later perusal. 92. OpenTable UK If you're feeling a bit lazy and also rather hungry, sign up with OpenTable and have the app find your local restaurants. Then you can book a table, narrowing your search by distance, price and rating. Unfortunately, the app won't then chauffeur you to the restaurant's door. 93. Snapseed Snapseed is a great app for adding textures and other effects to your photos. Many of the effects offer variable parameters, and settings can be fine-tuned by dragging a finger. The grunge, tilt-shift and vintage effects are especially compelling, although there's also an automatic auto-adjust feature for anyone in a hurry. 94. iTunes U For teachers and students alike, iTunes U has proven to be a great way to access and experience educational courses with the help of an iOS device. But even if you're not in education, the app's worth downloading, because the material is all available for free; this ensures iTunes U is an invaluable tool for anyone wanting to learn something new. 95. Snapchat Snapchat is a social media app that differentiates itself from the competition by enabling you to define how long 'snaps' can remain with the recipient (unless they take a screen grab, obviously). It's become particularly popular with teens, presumably keen to avoid potential snooping from parents, but as a focussed messenger, it has very widespread appeal. 96. Humming Timing Your iOS Clock app has a countdown timer, but all it does is show numbers in a very boring fashion. Humming Timing instead utilises your music library, telling you that a timer will be completed when a specific song ends. It's a simple, smart idea that works really well. 97. Spotify A giant of the streaming-music industry, Spotify used to require a subscription to work on mobile. Now, you have access to millions of tracks for nothing. The only caveats: albums are shuffled, ads periodically play, and you get limited skips per hour. But it still easily beats iTunes Radio. 98. Feedly If you used to swear by Google Reader, Feedly is a decent alternative. The app makes it easy to subscribe to website feeds and then to sit back and take in stories, which are presented in a clear and readable manner. Plenty of sharing options are available as well, for when you find something that's just too good to keep to yourself. 99. Triposo Beyond it being free, there are two good reasons why Triposo is absolutely worth downloading if you're planning a trip away. First, the app has access to helpful information about 30,000 destinations, and this can be downloaded on-demand to your device (so you don't later need a web connection to view it); secondly, the app can build city walks for you, helping you take in the sights. 100. Contact Center The idea behind Contact Center is to make it quicker and easier to stay in touch with people you care about. You add contacts to a grid, and shortcuts enable you to trigger a phone call, message, FaceTime, or email. Buttons can be grouped, or automatically built from information in Contacts. A single in app purchase unlocks the bottom three grid spaces, which otherwise display an ad.

You are subscribed to email updates from TechRadar: All latest Apple news feeds To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States