subject: Get Good Apps For Your Iphone Or Ipod Touch [print this page] There are thousands of applications in the app store. Some are good, some are not. The iPhone will not allow you to install all the apps in the app store and you can't just go on installing and trying out every app that is in the app store to see if it is good for you or not. This is where the app review sites come in. These days it is very simple to start a blog or site and go on writing anything there and because of this there are lots of reviews online and some of them are not even helpful. So in this article I will review some websites/blog that review iPhone/iPod touch applications and games,
1. FreshApps - This is a new site but is doing quite well and has lots of app reviews. It is currently adding an average of 19 apps daily. Total iPhone apps at the time of writing this article was 2,081 and the number of free apps reviewed was 512. This site also gives stats like "Freshest iPhone app of the week", "Most talked about app of all times" and "Most fresh app of all times". This site has digg kind of functioning. You have to vote to keep the app in top or fresh. FreshApps start said is quite good giving all the information. The reviews by the site are professional and very good and the comments those reviews get are also useful. If you like an app you can download it easily, no searching of app in the app store etc. Just click the download link below the app and the site fires up iTunes and takes you to the app page. Although this site has got a beta tag (people seem to think keeping the beta tag is cool, thanks to or no thanks to google for keeping the beta tag in all of their products) it works well.
2. What's On iPhone - This site is really good. It provides an in-depth (long) review of all the apps along with their personal thoughts. I like the way it includes the Developer's notes first and then their review. After the review comes the "Quick Take" containing value, would I buy again, learning curve, who it is for, what I like, what I don't like and finally the final statement. It also has the link to get you to the app quickly. Reviews has one or two screenshots of the app. Also note that some of the app reviews are not written, they are on video which isn't much helpful if you are browsing the site on your iPhone or iPod touch. Overall, this is a good site and you should look at it.
3. iPhoneAppPodcast - This site's idea is good. Instead of writing reviews, it has video reviews which lets you see how the app works and looks like. I guess it is the only site which has detailed video reviews. You can actually spend all day watching the videos of various apps in this site.
