Our Favorite Apps: Stuff that stayed on our phones in 2009

As the assemblage draws to a close, we thought we'd shine a spotlight on whatever of the selection apps we utilised this year. These are the "sticky" apps, the ones that lingered on our iPhones after we gave them a preliminary spin. There's so such on the App Store, good, intense and indifferent; here are a few suggestions for items that deserve your attention.
iAssociate [$1.99] Hugely hornlike and long-term fun, this Funny-Farm-style game makes you brainstorm discover associations from a core articulate or phrase. (Original TUAW review) -- Erica Sadun TrailGuru [Free] Not a amend app but a rattling accessible digit to keep road of your community walks. I fuck the way that TrailGuru lets me locate my maps after apiece walk, keeps road of my cipher and max speed, and how I crapper break the achievement downbound into laps. That rattling helps since I tend to achievement in mile-long circles. -- ES
Twittelator Pro [$4.99] I ingest Twitter a lot when I'm away from home, and Twittelator Pro from Stone Design meet keeps effort better. When Twitter changes, Twittelator Pro is usually the first app to hold the newborn features. -- Steve Sande Dropbox [Free] In case you haven't already figured it out, I'm a Dropbox fanatic. The iPhone computer is fast, free, and makes it cushy for me to view, share, or withdraw files on every of my machines. (Original TUAW post) -- SS Doodle Jump [$0.99] All impact and no play makes Steve a dulled boy, so I hit my deal of games on my iPhone. As the App Store ad warns, Doodle Jump is addictive. My crowning score isn't that great, but Doodle Jump keeps me reaching backwards for more. -- SS BeejiveIM [$5.99] When we're discover on the go, we ever poverty to stay connected to apiece other. Beejive offers whatever IM features that allow us to do this, including its recently-added assemble chat support. -- fiddler Bean MoodAgent [Free for now] A enthusiastic lowercase app for creating playlists based on a difference of criteria same tempo, sensuality, mood, etc. Similar to Genius, but I find its playlists to be more appropriate in most situations. (Original TUAW review) -- Brett Terpstra Instapaper Pro [$4.99] My eventual read-later collection. Save pages to it from whatever browser (including Mobile Safari), then read text-only or flooded versions of them when you're good and ready. It crapper also output .epub files for Stanza, but the built-in reverend has whatever superior functionality. (TUAW weekday Favorite) -- BT Stanza [Free] My selection e-book reader. It's free. 'Nuff said. -- BT Bookmark [$2.99] An audiobook sub-system for iTunes. It lets you locate bookmarks, ever saves your place, stays on when the app is closed and lots more. I ingest it every day. (Original TUAW Review) -- king Winograd Boxcar [Free] Given the choice between executing SMS messages to intend updates from Twitter and another networks, or using Boxcar to control notifications and provide me meet what I need... well, it's a keeper, even with the added costs to hold more web services. -- Mike Rose Evernote [Free] We speech about it every the time, but it's because we ingest it. Evernote gives you a PDF viewer, document management, notes with geolocation, and every without hassles or aggravation. (Recent TUAW coverage) --MR Radio Paradise [Free] There are plentitude of moving audio apps on the store, whatever with more plasticity and more penalization discovery noesis (much love, Pandora), but none with the homespun goodness of the Radio Paradise app. You crapper instantly evaluation or acquire tracks you like, and the rest official feature + the AirCurve acoustic humble = bedside penalization nirvana. --MR Roambi [Free] This accumulation image app isn't going to contemplate you on long trips or sing you to sleep, but provide it your playing spreadsheets or sales projections and check the fireworks. Roambi's ability to drill downbound into super accumulation sets should wow your colleagues at the next quarterly position meeting. With a $99 Roambi Pro account, you crapper pull accumulation direct from a Google Spreadsheet for the eventual in cloud charting. --MR Fast Contacts [$1.99] earned a spot on my bag screen with a pair of key features Apple forgot in the flavourer occurrence app. Two useful features: occurrence sorting in numerous ways (even location) and an circumstance itemize that will signal you to birthdays (provided you signaling them). -- Victor Agreda, Jr. Sally's Spa [$2.99] is digit of a multitude of instance direction games, but it's been a guardian on my iPhone. I picked it up backwards when it was on understanding for 99 cents, and it was worth the money. The graphics are rattling nice, and updates boost draw the game's responsiveness. The exclusive downside is the shelling drain. -- Megan Lavey Currencies [$1.99] was indispensable when I visited my fiancé in the UK in October. The covering has a pleasant interface and is cushy to ingest to switch backwards among multiple currencies. There are whatever converters discover there, but this digit proved to be the most responsive. -- ML Lose It! [Free] is the prizewinning matter and training book you crapper find for the iPhone, especially for the price. The stylish edition exclusive adds to it by allowing you to deal your progress online. It's cushy to update and, since you're probable to hit your iPhone with you whenever you're intake or exercising, it's hornlike not to forget to update your matter or training index throughout the day. -- ML Sportacular [Free, Pro acquirable for $1.99] There are a bevy of apps on the App Store designed to provide you the scores for your selection teams when you requirement them, but this one's the prizewinning -- it's hurried and cushy to use, has a flooded playing earth of features, and hits a bag run with free, customizable near alerts whenever you poverty them. The Facebook integration and ethnic features (discuss games with others online, or interpret your predictions over a season) are meet player points on the board. -- Mike Schramm I am T-Pain [$1.99] Ok, yes, it's a joke. But the iPhone has been a breeding connector for original penalization applications, and this, the lowercase app that automatically autotunes your voice to distinction up with a surprising turn of scenery penalization choices, actually appeals to every musicians, from the joint desk jockey who meet wants to vocalization discover "shawwty!" after a hornlike period at impact to the indie performer who wants a affordable autotune good for their LP. It's a professional piece of code unseeable in a rattling unplanned creation -- an app that's amend for the iPhone platform. -- MS Of course, we poverty to center your crowning picks and can't-live-without-em apps as well... permit us know!