Every week a few of us from team TiPb, bloggers and forum crew alike, bring you our current favorite, funnest, most useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone (or iPod touch) related, they’re fair game. Well, as 2009 winds to a close, we figured it’s time for the staff to bring you not just picks of the week — BUT PICKS OF THE YEAR!
So who’s on deck for the very best iPhone apps of 2009? What are our picks? Find out after the break!
Chad’s Pick: Christmas C@rds
Christmas C@rds is a fun little app that can take a bit of hassle out of holiday cards and make it fun on your iPhone. This app comes with more than 30 templates you can customize with colors, text and your own picture! If I wasn’t married, I would go this route for my holiday cards, but the Mrs. put a stop to that. If you are in a pinch and need some great looking, fun eCards, you can’t go wrong with Christmas C@rds! [$1.99 - iTunes link]
Chris’ Pick: Dr. Seuss Camera Grinch Edition
Pick of the year, pick of the year…how do I choose a single app as my pick of the year? A game with which I have had lots of fun? A utility that I simply use all the time? A twitter app? After much debate and flip-flopping, I decided to go with Navigon as my pick of the year. Navigon (with the recent updates and improvements) is as close as I have seen to a turn by turn app done right. It has a plethora of features, has clear voice guided turn by turn directions, and really is one of the two or three utility apps that I use on a regular basis and gives the iPhone a feature that almost everyone was clamoring for from the beginning. [$59.99 until Jan. 11 - iTunes link]
Derrick’s Pick: Simplytweet
Simplytweet is not only my Favorite app but its my app of the year also,. It’s a great twitter app that has many features, including Multiple Accounts, Push Notifications, Photo Search, My favorite features are Landscape, retweet or quote tweets (via @theiphoneblog instead of RT @theiphoneblog), and Themes.
[$4.99 - iTunes link]
Georgia’s Pick: Skype
Skype gives you the ability to call anyone else who uses Skype, anywhere in the world, for free. You can also call landline or cell phones for a small fee, and send out IMs. Anything that combines “call anyone” and “free” definitely gets my vote for app of the year. (And if the 4th generation iPhone gets a front-facing camera, maybe we will even be able to have two-way video calls next year). [Free - iTunes link]
Jeremy’s Pick: Elf
Elf is a very simple, yet highly addictive game. The objective is to
simply is to collect stars and candy canes to make your Elf fly,
glide, and jump as high as he can. Toss in the Christmas touch and you
have yourself a $.99 holiday time killer. [Free - iTunes link]
Leanna’s Pick: ?
“sniffle Bah, Humbug! sneeze Get off my snowless lawn!”
Matt’s Pick: Christmas Camera
Christmas Camera ™ is a pretty cool application that allows you to take photos of people and overlay different themes or a Santa hat on top of the image – creating one whole Christmas themed photo. The app has numerous different themes as well as a Santa hat and photo frames. Had a bit of fun updating several of my friends photos! [$0.99 - iTunes link]
Rene’s Pick: Ramp Champ’s Holiday Giveaway
Ramp Champ is skeetball done beautiful and in-app purchase done right, and what’s righter than a free for the holidays? If you’ve already got Ramp Champ, just jump into the extras, download your free gift level, and flick the yule out of them elves and reindeer. And if you haven’t, get Ramp Champ first, then get the free level! [$1.99 - iTunes link]
Your Pick?
You’re part of team TiPb too, so what’s your pick? What app was your absolute fav last week? Let us — and everyone — know in the comments!
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