Apple’s Choice – Best Free iPhone Apps?

15 Jul

The App store has turned one years old and to celebrate Apple has provided us with its list of the best 30 Apps – 15 Free Apps and 15 Apps with a range of price tags.

The 15 best free iPhone Apps are listed below.

http://www.cutemachine.com/wp-content/themes/thesis/rotator/stanza.jpgStanza With millions of downloads around the world, this electronic book reader App has been a very popular with over 40,000 people rating its various versions as three star and 64% of  9584 raters giving the current version the thumbs up (three stars or better).

Other information sourcing goodies included in this list of best free iphone Apps are Daily Finance, Dictionary.com , New York Times, AP  Mobile (from Associated Press) and Google Earth, with ESPNYelp and Fandango providing more specialized information on sport scores, top local hotspots and movies showing near you .

Best free social networking Apps in the Apple’s list are Facebook and Loopt – though loopt only manages a 2..5 star rating in both older and current versions from over 55,000 raters, the Facebook App has amaasive 4 star rating by almost 250,000 raters with an amazing 5 star rating given to the current version by 61% of 36,432 raters.

Best free music Apps, according to Apple are Shazam (3.5 star by over 100k raters) and Pandora radio (3.5 star by over 160K raters)

And finally, Apple have included a couple of  Apps that give iPhone access to buying commodities/stocks – eBay Mobile and E*Trade Mobile Pro. Both received 3.5 star ratings – though by fewer raters than any of the above apps!

Its not clear why these Apps made the top 15 chosen by Apple, but they are either well rated or have had huge downloads (usually both) so probably represent the best Apps of their type. Links have been provided though we guass that most people already have most of these in downloaded already!