Top 3 Most Popular iPhone Apps For The Web

A few years ago, Apple decided to let third-party software writers release their own applications for iPhones, and the result has been an explosion of useful apps that can do everything from order pizzas to track packages being shipped cross-country.

These days, there are more than 100,000 useful iPhone apps available from the Apple store – many of them free. And with so much customer support and enthusiasm behind the Apple brand, it’s easy to log in and see which apps are generating the most excitement on any given day.

The short-list of which apps are spreading the fastest is constantly changing, but there are a few defining characteristics that destine an app for a huge base of users.

Many of the favorite apps are games or gimmicks, and they spread fast because the user can download them quickly and then use them until they’re bored and move on. But there are more than a few timeless iPhone apps that come in handy again and again. These are the apps that end up staying on board for the life of the phone.

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Launch Pad:

Launch Pad may not be a glamorous iPhone web app with all kinds of clever gadgetry on board, but it’s a great streamliner that comes in handy for anyone who uses their phone to surf the Web. Launch Pad is a top contender in the "Productivity" category on Apple’s homepage.

What It Is and How to Use It

When an iPhone user installs Launch Pad on their phone, it becomes the starting point for any internet searches. Launch Pad lets users connect to popular sites like Wikipedia, Google, Youtube and other favorite destinations in a single click. Rather than navigating first to the parent website, the user can fly with their search terms directly from the launch pad to their site of choice.

• Launch Pad items: this feature lets the user link immediately to any applications or websites. These links are marked with a familiar icon and tucked into the Launch Pad toolbar for quick and easy access.
• Page indicator: this feature automatically starts up when the control has two or more pages going at once. It lets users quickly select which page they want to use.
• Change angles: Launch Pad automatically adjusts for landscape and portrait orientations and it keeps up with users on the fly. 

This web app is perfect for the kind of business-oriented travelers who can’t remember how they ever got by without an iPhone 5. It already has tens of thousands of entries covering restaurants, hotels, shops and entertainment venues around the world. The list continues to grow as more users climb on board.

What It Is and How to Use It

Where Traveler has been in the travel guide business for more than seven decades, so they have plenty of experience connecting people on the move with the places they’re most interested in finding. Before going digital, the company published guidebooks on more than 120 distinct destinations. Most of these destinations where in the United States, but they also have information on several capital cities in Europe.

Where Traveler is ideal for globetrotting iPhone users who don’t have time to ask around for advice on restaurants and hotel rooms. The service is completely free from the Where Traveler website.

• Translation: this archive of information is available in 27 languages, so that the more than 50,000 entries are available to the masses.
• Real-time currency conversion: on-the-fly conversion between all major currencies – an invaluable tool for checking bills in restaurants and hotels.
• Up-to-the-minute airport information: including a full roster of arrivals and departures, flight cancellations, traffic conditions around the airport and expected security wait-time at the gate.

This little web app doesn’t inspire awe when users first hear about it, but there’s a reason that it tops the list in Apple’s "Utilities" category. Geo Meter delivers accurate GPS details on the user’s latitude and longitude, outputting information that can be used in conjunction with a host of other apps.

What It Is and How to Use It

Geo Meter keeps the user constantly updated regarding their current latitude and longitude, altitude, heading and speed. It also keeps track of its margin of error at all times, so the user knows how reliable the reading is at any given moment.

This GPS information is triangulated with the help of GPS satellites, cell phone towers and even wireless internet signals, the entire set of which guarantee accurate results. This handy app is especially with avid geocachers.

• Coordinates: the app perpetually recalculates GPS coordinates and outputs up-to-the-minute latitude, longitude, speed, heading and altitude measurements.
• Google Maps: it features a crossover interface so that users can view their location on Google Maps.
• Cut-and-paste data: coordinates and other information can be cut out of the app’s user interface and pasted into another, so users can tweet their coordinates or enter them into other GPS-related web apps.