IPhone/Touch users, what's your favorite App Store aid?
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February 3rd, 2009
Gizmodo just ran a story on sites that help you sort through the jungle of App Store apps. I have to say that I am freakin’ loving appbeacon.com. It’s a godsend for this “read and delete” dinosaur who’s living in a “search and archive” world.
Already, I’ve found 20–30 to download and try (most of them free), and I’ve bookmarked two or three times that to consider later. Plus, I “deleted” about 10,000 apps, so I never have to look at them again. Yahoo!
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Actually, I haven’t tried, but great (sub)question!
And, I can list my expensive bookmarked apps in appsniper and buy them cheaper later. Oh snap!
@kevbo this looks awesome, thanks for the heads up. I tried from my iPhone, it works but seems pretty slow.
Yeay Kevbo!!! Through normal channels i.e. you would never even know there were that many out there.
I know! I’m totally hooked. Check out Thirsty Pocket and Cool Guy.
I find most of my app recomendations on twitter. The two that I find most useful are 148apps and apptheater. 148apps also has a price drop account that helps you know when to buy or get an app for the short window that it is free. For reviews and tips on games pocketgamer and touch arcade are great resources. I have used appshopper before, it directed me to some huge price cuts on black Friday. All things considered twitter and facebook is how I find the vast majority of my apps.
The best is ”AppSniper” on the iPhone which lists NEW apps as they are posted to the store and lets you track specific apps and watch for sale price.
There is also an app called ”Web Apps” for creating a directory of webapps without taking up space in home screens.
On the browser side, I like Apptism. It doesn’t translate full functionality between desktop and iphone (there is a webapp version, but it only lists new apps, hopefully support for more functionality will come)
I have a list of over 50 app announcement sites, but I’m still looking for a tracking site which works on both the browser AND iPhone (even as a webapp), but alas even AppBeacon does not seem to have a webapp version…
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