The Most Popular iPhone Apps of 2011

The iPhone comes with many apps right out of the box and adding even more iPhone apps is as easy as pressing a button. If it seems too complicated, there is an iPhone app called The Genius which will choose iPhone apps that compliment the ones already installed. There are currently over 425,000 apps available and more are being added all the time. The most popular iPhone apps have been downloaded thousands upon thousands of times and are used by iPhone lovers everywhere. There are so many iPhone apps that Apple has been forced to group them together by genre for your convenience.

#1 Most Popular App – iTunes App

The most popular iPhone app is iTunes. Access to iTunes comes with the phone but a fee is charged for each song downloaded. The iTunes app can be used on personal computers as well as the phone as it was originally made to add songs to the iPod. The fee per song varies but is nominal and contributes to the almost addictive use of this iPhone app.

#2 Most Popular App – Facebook Mobile App

Second only to iTunes, the Facebook Mobile app is probably the most widely used iPhone app. Users can instantly chat, update their status and post videos and pictures directly from their iPhone. It is a free app and has undergone numerous updates to enhance the user experience and convenience. Links can be posted from other apps to your Facebook status as well and new features are being added all the time. You can now finally un-friend people on the phone which is awesome.

Best iPhone Cooking Apps

“Apps for Cooks” gives the user information about shopping, preparing, evaluating and tracing food. One of the iPhone apps in this category is “Jamie Oliver” through which the user gets step by step recipes and instructions for cooking 20 minute meals. This app costs $7.99.

There are also some free apps available in the foodie category and one of the better ones is the “HarvestMark Food Traceability” app. This app allows the user to scan the HarvestMark barcode on produce and poultry to find its country of origin as well as the date it was picked. There are several other food-oriented iPhone apps including “Ask the Butcher” ($1.99), “Weber’s on the Grill” ($4.99), Martha Stewart’s “Martha’s Everyday Food” ($.99), “Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List” (Free) and many more.

 

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Best iPhone News Apps

There are several iPhone apps for keeping up to date on the latest news, sports and celebrity gossip. Just about every major news outlet has an iPhone app including CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, NPR News and The Huffington Post.

Entertainment news and information can be accessed through these apps from People, Entertainment Tonight and TMZ. All of these iPhone apps are free and are some of the most popular iPhone apps available.