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

As the assemblage draws to a close, we thought we'd happen a spotlight on some 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 origin spin. There's so such on the App Store, good, intense and indifferent; here are a few suggestions for items that merit your attention.
iAssociate [$1.99] Hugely hornlike and long-term fun, this Funny-Farm-style mettlesome makes you brainstorm discover associations from a core word or phrase. (Original TUAW review) -- Erica Sadun TrailGuru [Free] Not a amend app but a rattling accessible digit to keep road of your neighborhood 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 separate to achievement in mile-long circles. -- ES
Twittelator Pro [$4.99] I ingest Twitter a aggregation when I'm away from home, and Twittelator Pro from Stone Design meet keeps getting better. When Twitter changes, Twittelator Pro is usually the prototypal 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 dull boy, so I hit my deal of games on my iPhone. As the App Store ad warns, Doodle Jump is addictive. My crowning reason isn't that great, but Doodle Jump keeps me reaching back for more. -- SS BeejiveIM [$5.99] When we're discover on the go, we ever poverty to stay connected to apiece other. Beejive offers many 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 variety 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 some covering (including Mobile Safari), then feature text-only or flooded versions of them when you're beatific and ready. It crapper also output .epub files for Stanza, but the built-in reader has some excellent 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 winking and lots more. I ingest it every day. (Original TUAW Review) -- David Winograd Boxcar [Free] Given the pick between executing SMS messages to get updates from Twitter and another networks, or using Boxcar to curb 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 most it every the time, but it's because we ingest it. Evernote gives you a PDF viewer, writing management, notes with geolocation, and every without hassles or aggravation. (Recent TUAW coverage) --MR Radio Paradise [Free] There are plentitude of moving frequence apps on the store, many with more plasticity and more penalization brainstorm power (much love, Pandora), but none with the homespun goodness of the Radio Paradise app. You crapper instantly evaluation or buy tracks you like, and the rest timer feature + the AirCurve acoustic base = bedside penalization nirvana. --MR Roambi [Free] This accumulation image app isn't going to entertain you on long trips or sound you to sleep, but provide it your business spreadsheets or sales projections and watch 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 directly from a Google Spreadsheet for the eventual in darken charting. --MR Fast Contacts [$1.99] attained a blot on my bag screen with a pair of key features Apple forgot in the vanilla occurrence app. Two multipurpose features: occurrence operation in numerous ways (even location) and an circumstance itemize that will alert you to birthdays (provided you signaling them). -- Victor Agreda, Jr. Sally's Spa [$2.99] is digit of a assemblage of instance direction games, but it's been a guardian on my iPhone. I picked it up back when it was on sale for 99 cents, and it was worth the money. The graphics are rattling nice, and updates boost draw the game's responsiveness. The only downside is the shelling drain. -- Megan Lavey Currencies [$1.99] was vital when I visited my fiancé in the UK in October. The covering has a pleasant programme and is cushy to ingest to switch back among multiple currencies. There are many converters discover there, but this digit evidenced to be the most responsive. -- ML Lose It! [Free] is the prizewinning food and training book you crapper find for the iPhone, especially for the price. The stylish edition only 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 eating or exercising, it's hornlike not to forget to update your food or training log throughout the day. -- ML Sportacular [Free, Pro available for $1.99] There are a bevy of apps on the App Store fashioned 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 activity field of features, and hits a bag separate with free, customizable near alerts whenever you poverty them. The Facebook integration and social features (discuss games with others online, or interpret your predictions over a season) are meet extra points on the board. -- Mike Schramm I am T-Pain [$1.99] Ok, yes, it's a joke. But the iPhone has been a nurture connector for innovative penalization applications, and this, the lowercase app that automatically autotunes your vocalise to distinction up with a surprising amount of scenery penalization choices, actually appeals to every musicians, from the joint desk jockey who meet wants to vocalization discover "shawwty!" after a hornlike day at impact to the indie performer who wants a cheap autotune sound for their LP. It's a professed example of software hidden in a rattling unplanned product -- 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!