A friend just got an iPhone, and I offered to recommend some aps to him. These are my go-to apps. I do experiment now and again, but these are what I come back to:
| App Name | App Type | App SubType | Comments |
| iExpenseIt | Finance | Expense tracker | I use this for tracking the money I spend on shirts and cocktails and stuff (where I need to know it balances out). Also useful when you think "It's the end of the week. Where's all my money?" |
| Worms | Game | Action | Just like the Game Boy, DS, or whatever version with all weapons and levels. |
| Space Deadbeef | Game | Arcade-Style Shooter | Side-scrolling shooter. Fun times. |
| Spore | Game | RPG | A mini-version of the real thing. |
| Flight Control | Game | Skill-based | A very popular Air Traffic Control game. Far more fun than it sounds. |
| Dactyl | Game | Skill-based | Very quick I-need-to-kill-5-minutes game. Defuse the bombs in time! |
| TapDefense | Game | Tower Defence | A good (free) beginner Tower Defence game, just enough to get you hooked. |
| FieldRunners | Game | Tower Defence | The next step, with place-anywhere towers and path-building. |
| GeoDefense | Game | Tower Defence | The big daddy. Tower Defence with Geometry-Wars-style effects and a crazy difficulty level |
| Star Defense | Game | Tower Defence | Tower Defence in 3d on a globe. A good game for when you're sick of Geodefence kicking your ass. |
| KarmaStar | Game | Turn-based Strategy | Cute, quirky stat-based Strategy game involving dice-rolls & attacks. |
| I Can Haz Cheezburger | Humour | Picture Feed | For all your daily LOLs. |
| Urbanspoon | Lifestyle | Restaurant Finder | Great for picking where to eat. You can also use the randomise feature to come up with something out of nowhere. |
| Stanza | Reader | Book Ereader | Reads PDF e-books (for free). Also can have new (pirated) ebooks uploaded from a desktop app. |
| iVerse | Reader | Comic eReader | Actually a series of apps, each one representing an issue of a comic. Some free, some not. |
| Ebay | WebApp | eBay | Just what it says on the tin. |
| Facebook | WebApp | Facebook | Just what it says on the tin. |
| Twitteriffic | WebApp | Twitter | My go-to Twitter app, until the 3.0 Software update made it go screwy on the iPod touch. Easy to use, plus easy re-tweeting and marking for later. |
| Twitterfon | WebApp | Twitter | Twitter app, part two. Visually similar to Twitteriffic, but actually works on the touch. Also has auto-twitpic, auto-friend-name-add, and other nifty features. |
| TweetDeck | WebApp | Twitter | Organises tweets into columns. Some like it, but it's not my favourite. |
