One line app reviews, updated regularly

* Big world: "the ultimate travel organizer and navigation tool" cannot do anything usefull, that you can't do with Google Earth

***** Evernote: Indispensable note & clippings organiser with fast and reliable synchronisation across platforms (iOS, OSX, Windows, Linux) and devices

** Plaintext: "My intention is to keep PlainText free and minimal" it is good, that it is free, because it is indeed minimal

**** Toodledo: works like a charm and integrates well with informant and free cloud syncing service is good enough for me

**** PhotoPad: No high res, but good enough for the things I do most for use in presentations (cropping, rotating, resizing, red eye reduction, painting is a bonus)

*** Daily Notes: is a digital notepad, organised around your agenda, it works very well, but is not for me, as it is text only

**** iThoughts HD: A quite versatile and very easy to learn and use mindmap app, that is easily worth the money

*** Diptic: Easily combine photo's in different layouts, nice results, but low res (1 mp...) means web and email use only...

**** WhiteBoard HD: a simple whiteboard app that works very well with box.net, dropbox and the photo library and is so easy to use, that I actually use it all the time

** Pages: only use to create a document on the iPad and finish on the Mac, because you can't reliably go back (hopefully corrected in the next big update, but I am not optimistic)

** Numbers: See Pages, way too expensive for a one way app, go for QuickOffice HD in stead

**** QuickOffice HD: Simple office suite that reads and writes MS Office files and works well with GoogleDocs as a bonus

**** InstaPaper: Easy clipping of (parts of-) web pages (original web layout or text onky) for later reading is so easy and usefull, that it Insta-ntly became one of my favourites, but I use Evernote more often as it can do most of it and more

*** Geo Photo: Split screen view has some benefits over just using plain Google earth, but not special enough to realy stand out, but the standard version is free

*** iGeopix: Organic picture browsing while moving around the globe adds some to standard Google earth, but it's free, so who's complaining

**** Photo transfer: "...Photo Transfer App allows you to easily download photos from your iPhone to your computer as well as exchange photos from and to your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch..." and it does it fast and reliably

**** Springpad: To my surprise, Springpad is still on my first iPhone screen and I use it for quick notes, things to remember that are not todo's & shopping lists. It synchronises between iDevices via the web, fast & reliable

*** Manuscript: I actually started using manuscript for my writing project, but I ended up with so many index cards that I couldn't do without categories and folders, so I ended up using Evernote & WhiteNote

**** Navigon: After having used several in car navigation systems (in Swedish, Japanese, Italian and German car makes) and TomTom, I have settled for Navigon, which (contrary to the others) never had me miss a turn.

*** Producteev: A nice variant of the GTD/todo kind, but it doesn't really know for whom, GTD/todo's for normal everyday use, need integration with an agenda and true projectplanning features are missing beyond sharing and assigning tasks.

***** Air Video: A real gem, Air Video let's you stream video in many formats from your computer to your iPad or iPhone, it's ease of use and easy set up are are complemented by the great live conversion: buy it!

** Phone Disk: Is actually a Mac/PC program that allows you to access the files system of an iDevice, however, when the iPhone for instance isn't 'jailbroken', the actual use is limited to Photo's (songs cannot be recognized by name...)

N.B. For transferring Photo's between Mac & iDevice or between iDevices, the Photo Transfer App is a much better choice

**** WhiteNote: This is the Swiss Army knife of notetaking apps and is the one that I actually use (together with Evernote and WhiteBoard HD) even handwriting is decent (although not as good as Notetaker). A few others have more functionality, but are awkward to use.

**** CJournal: CRM light, it makes use of your contacts db and lets you add log items (meeting, phonecall etc) and todo's. Very usefull for individual or small company use, it is now on iPad's homescreen

























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