What iphone apps do people use regularly?

I use chess.com's app several times a day.

But then I play several games of chess simultaneously with my brother and a number of friends.

It's a free app, you can play against the computer, get tips and so on, or just play your friends.

I record my exercise with mapmyrun, so that's usually used every day and sometimes twice.

I do use it for Facebook fairly frequently (but on ipad, Facebook is much superior via the web than their own app I find).

Other than that it's the pre-installed: email, safari, weather, and Googlemaps (worth getting back if you have only Apple's map version)

SatNav2

MyBus

Tube Map

Remote (for Itunes on iMac)

Soundhound

Facebook

Twitter

If you are on BT BB then BT Smart Talk is useful as you can make calls (via Wi_Fi ) abroad but it comes on your BT home phone account.

The ones I use on my iPhone 4 are:

RBS (my bank)

National Rail Enquiries

TubeMap (useful for getting round town)

eBay (superb - better than the main site)

BT WiFi (as a BT BB user you can use this to tap into 5 million BT wifi hotspots around the UK)

Red Laser (barcode reader, useful for price comparisons when out shopping)

PayPal

Wikipedia

Google Maps (useful for an idiot with no sense of direction, like me)

BBC News

BBC Sport

BBC Weather

BBC iPlayer (all the BBC apps are superb)

Shazam

Flickr (actually very good on mobile)

NME

Camera Awesome (pretty good cameraphone app)

WordPress

iTorch (converts the phone into a torch)

Dropbox

Map My Walk (tells you how far you've walked, how fast, and how many calories you've burned)

Facebook for the iPhone is rubbish.

Kevin, many thanks to you for this list.

For the purposes of discussion (and not lack of gratitude) can I put it to you that only 5 or 6 of these are genuine apps with the rest being websites or webpages reimagined as apps? Take BBC sport, I can hit a bookmark to the football scores on the browser of my existing phone and get them in an instant...why do I need to reconsider this webpage as an app?

Thanks again.

I know what you mean Mark, but I just find it far more convenient to access, say, BBC Sport via an "app interface" than via a browser.

Is this because the content better fits the phone's screen? I know some sites including the Beeb do mobile versions now but do not know how they compare with the associated app.

Absolutely. The screen ratio on an iPhone is profoundly different from that on a PC or laptop. You can get mobile versions but the advantage of an app interface is that it is built specifically for a device (certainly this is the case with iOS devices) and the experience is just more elegant and usually much faster. Many apps will also allow you to move around within it even if your connection is cut off - which is not the case with a browser.

Regardless of whether I would use them or not it is the 'real' apps like Genius Scan, Spotify, Chess and Red Laser which intrigue me as I feel they and their equivalents in other fields of interest are what justify the 'app value' of the iphone or not for each of us as individual users.

Point taken from both Kevin and yourself re a general preference for websites in app form too. With more mobile sites in particular news / sport I think for me this is not as great a benefit as the bona fide apps but will try an iPhone to get first hand experience.

Viber

iTranslate

Squeezebox

Micromedex.

Epocrates

UK Roads

Shell Motorist

Sonos

NGS

UK Train Times

Opentable

Flightradar24   - better on the iPad

The Register

BBC News

London Transport

and not forgetting 

"Klondike forever"

Surprisingly  useful standard supplied app - Notes - used for transferring information to and from the Mac farm at home.

and I also use it occasionally as a telephone.

Is there an app that can tell me my usage by app? 

We used to muse over starting a 'What Magazine' magazine when visiting Smiths at lunch times.

I must go to the wrong places as every time I've tried to use BT WiFi I'm nowhere near a hot spot, so I have stopped using it.

Given that the iPhone and the Android phones are using a derivative of Unix, Android apps appear quite quickly after the iPhone apps, from what I have read the iPhone user buys more apps than the Android user so there is still a preference to develop the iPhone version first.

As for the re imagined web site. Well what is wrong with that - if it makes the data more accessible and presents it in a good way then the developer has done a good job.

The UK Traffic app gives details of traffic delays and holdups obtained from the government transport department. Ditto the Train times from the Network Rail web site but the data is presented in a suitable format for a small screen.

I find the apps are much easier than trying to "guess" what search choices I should enter.

I mainly get free apps and but very few then only to a max of £1.99.

Most of my Iphone apps are games for the grandkids.  The only added apps I use regularly are nStream and PVZ.

Email

Calendar

Safari

Weather

Ibody

IMDB

Sudoko

I am a recent convert to using an iPhone/pad for anything more than phone calls and mails. I have found the apps worked more reliably than trying to get online more often than not.

I think this is near my likely use of added apps - a remote control app for hi-fi. Having other GPS devices precludes the benefit from that category. Might get the 'apps' for a few of my favourite websites.

Thanks Bert. Imagine this reflects the standard usage pattern for most iPhone users. Mainly the inbuilt stuff and one or two random apps related to personal interests.

Expect the website apps manage the absence of a connection better by caching content - this may not be up to date though. Obviously anything which enables online booking, search or whatever needs a live connection. Some apps need no web connection and in this category fall many of what I feel are the proper apps.

As mentioned on another thread the new camera on the latest iPhone may be a killer app. Wonder if it will make do in place of a reasonable compact camera from the likes of Canon or Panasonic? Obviously not as good but nearly as good....