The Best iPhone Web Apps - iFoneHaX Network

Saduger · 02-24-2008, 12:45 AM

Although Apple has not made the iPhone an open platform for developers, the company has strongly encouraged development of Web-based applications for the iPhone.

Apple’s interface guidelines and iPhone Developer Tech Talks have led developers to create an abundance of online iPhone applications.

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From instant messengers, to to-do lists, to application organizers, this article lists the 10 applications that every iPhone owner should have bookmarked.

NOTE

Most iPhone web applications will also function on the iPod touch.

JiWire Wi-Fi Finder

Although you can access all the iPhone’s Internet features by using AT&T’s EDGE data service, being limited to 2.5G speeds means that even checking your email can be slow (to say nothing of surfing the Web or watching videos on YouTube).

Connecting to the Internet using Wi-Fi almost always delivers dramatically better performance. On-the-go JiWire helps you locate wireless hotspots around the world. Simply type in a location or zip code, and you’ll get a list of free and/or paid networks nearby.

JiWire’s service has been around for a while, but now offers a specialized interface for iPhone users to make finding hotspots easy (it even integrates with the iPhone’s Map application to help you locate hotspots).

Glide Mobile

Glide Mobile isn’t an iPhone-specific application (the service works with many mobile platforms), but one of its features does fill a big gap for iPhone users: word processing.

Glide is an online office and collaboration suite that allows users to create, edit, and share all kinds of documents including word processing documents, websites, photos, contact lists, calendars and more.

Some of the features in the suite aren’t available in Glide Mobile yet, but word processing is—and it offers users the ability to create and edit documents from an iPhone. Those documents can later be converted to Word, RTF, or PDF on your computer.

Glide also offers a sync application to sync the contents of your online workspace to your Mac. While not the perfect word processing solution, it is the most viable option currently available for the iPhone.

NOTE

Google Docs and iZoho also offer similar features for iPhone users. At the time of this writing, however, they only offer read-only access to documents.
Gas.app

If you’re looking to save money when you fill up your car’s gas tank, Gas.app is your new best friend. This easy-to-use application, designed to mimic the look and feel of the iPhone’s built-in applications, lets you find the gas stations with the lowest price anywhere in the US.

Just enter your location or zip code and browse the results for the lowest nearby price. Like JiWire, Gas.app also integrates with Maps to help you find gas stations if you’re not sure of their location.

For anyone who travels for work, a great companion to Gas.app is iPhone Miles, which is an easy-to-use mileage tracker.

Movies.app

Another great application that is designed to fit in with the look and feel of the iPhone’s built-in applications is Movies.app. Movies.app lets you browse all movies showing in all theatres in your area on a specific date. You can browse by theatre or simply by a list of movies.

Movies.app integrates with Maps for location information and also links to trailers and IMDb information for each movie.

It even lets you buy tickets online via MovieTickets.com.

Google Mobile

Although not iPhone-specific, Google’s mobile suite (to which iPhone users are directed by default when visiting Google.com) is a great set of tools for iPhone users. It provides easy access to almost all Google’s Web-based tools including Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Google Notebook, Picassa, and more. If you use any of Google’s tools, Google Mobile is a great tool.

NOTE

Even though you can access Gmail through the iPhone’s Mail application, using it through Google Mobile and Safari offers one nice advantage: You can type email in landscape mode (where the iPhone is on its side, offering a wider keyboard that most people find better for two-thumbed typing).

Not all Google features are supported in Google Mobile. Google Docs are currently read only and other Google office tools aren’t available at this time. Likewise, access to Picassa is read-only; you can’t modify your albums or upload pictures. Another example is that Google Calendar doesn’t offer monthly and other advanced views.

One very useful feature, however, is Google Notebook, which allows access to any notebooks you create through the full-featured Google Notebook and also allows you to create Mobile Notes, which you can later access from any computer using your Google account. Given the lack of ability to sync notes from the iPhone’s Notes application with a computer, this is a great feature.

Google Reader is also a great tool. Although the iPhone, through Apple’s .Mac servers, provides an RSS reader (if you bookmark an RSS feed on your computer and then sync those bookmarks, opening that bookmark on the iPhone will automatically trigger the reader), it isn’t as fully featured as Google Reader, and it doesn’t provide a method for syncing read or flagged status with a computer. Google Reader offers it and provides a single reader for use on your iPhone or any Internet-connected Mac or PC.

iPhlickr

iPhlickr brings a simple and streamlined interface to browsing Flickr on the iPhone. The interface is extremely similar to iPhone’s YouTube application.

iPhlicker supports browsing your photo collection (which is great if you don’t want to sync your entire photo collection to your iPhone), recently uploaded photos and interesting/featured photos, as well as search capabilities (including search based on tags and username).

For features such as commenting and favorites, iPhlickr allows easy access to the actual Flickr site from any image. If you’re a Flickr fan or user, you have to check out iPhlickr.

Mundu

A built-in instant messenger is probably one of the most surprising omissions of the iPhone. Many developers have taken up the charge of providing iPhone users with IM applications. Of the available options, Mundu beats out the competition.

Mundu allows users to chat using AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, and Google’s GTalk through a clean and intuitive tabbed interface (one tab for login/logout of each service, one for contacts, and one for chats).

Chats display as speech bubbles, much like Mac OS X’s iChat or iPhone’s Text application. If you want to IM from your iPhone, Mundu is your best option because of its interface, stability, and the fact that it will let you chat with users on all four services at once. (Most iPhone IM applications support connection to only one IM service at a time.)

NOTE

If you want to chat with users on other IM services, such as ICQ or Jabber, you may want to check out Meebo, which offers a very good interface and slightly wider range of IM services, but only supports using one service at a time.

Listingly

Listingly is a great online list manager that now offers an iPhone web application. Listingly can be used to create to-do lists, grocery lists, wish lists, and freestyle lists.

Listingly can also group items into categories (in fact, Grocery lists are smart lists that group similar items together automatically).

Although you need to create lists from a traditional web interface, once a list is created, it can be fully managed from the iPhone.

With its support for various types of lists and its ability to share lists with other users, Listingly offers a great list-management package for the iPhone that goes beyond simply providing basic to-do or shopping lists.

Omer · 03-01-2008, 11:12 PM

Web apps are pretty stupid after you jailbreak imo because we have all these things allready, stumbler, apollo

fat x nub · 03-02-2008, 01:02 AM

web apps are cool on wifi...not so much with EDGE

Saduger · 03-02-2008, 01:49 AM

Originally Posted by Omer

Web apps are pretty stupid after you jailbreak imo because we have all these things allready, stumbler, apollo

I agree web apps have no use BUT
There are some web apps that are useful that you can use
like the Facebook and Meebo (which combines AIM,GMAIL, etc.)

fat x nub · 03-02-2008, 01:49 AM

i use the facebook one A LOT!!

Omer · 03-02-2008, 01:57 AM

Originally Posted by Saduger

I agree web apps have no use BUT
There are some web apps that are useful that you can use
like the Facebook and Meebo (which combines AIM,GMAIL, etc.)

True, but i only have gmail account so yeah..

and the facebook thing is epic... so yeah, out of a million wep apps i can say theres only a handfull that are worth it. and now with the webclips thing so they're baisclay wifi apps

fat x nub · 03-02-2008, 02:10 AM

webclips thing??

Omer · 03-02-2008, 02:13 AM

Yeah, When you have the jan app pack, im assuming everyone that's jailbroken does. go to the internet, now were there's a + sign, click that the select save to home page and it'll show up as a link

fat x nub · 03-02-2008, 02:14 AM

ohhh yeah...ive done that