Best and Worst iPhone Apps (so far)

Okay, after a couple of days of playing around with the new iPhone apps, here are my picks for the best and worst ones. So far, my picks are limited to free ones, but I will also mention a few pay ones that look tempting enough to plunk down some coin for soon.

Favorites so far:

AirMe. While it's always been possible to take a picture with the camera and e-mail it to update it to Flickr, this is the easiest way to snap pics and have them automagically appear.

MixMeister Scratch, PhoneSaber, and Tap Tap Revenge. All of these are entertaining yet silly, so they all kind of fit into one category. MixMeister lets you scratch sound loops, bringing out your inner DJ, while PhoneSaber releases your inner Jedi by creating light saber noises as you move your phone about. I hate to admit this, but I don't think I'll ever get tired of that :). Tap Tap is a Guitar Hero/Rock Band/DDR-style game that lets you tap to the tunes it plays.

Facebook, MySpace, Pownce, Twitterrific. While I was already using the mobile apps for these, it's nice to have a 'real' app, and hopefully ones for FriendFeed, plurk, brightkite, ping, etc. will be coming soon.

Best app (tie): AIM and Remote. Okay, so really AIM is the clear winner here in terms of usefulness and awesomeness, but Remote is pretty darn cool as well.

Worst apps so far:

iPint. Not nearly as cool as iBeer, but unlike iBeer, it's free. Too much advertisement, not enough cool.

BoA mobile banking. While I LOVE BoA for making this app, the regular mobile banking Web app seemed better for some reason. Maybe it's just me. It just seemed easier to navigate back and forth before.

Local Picks. Actually, I love this application, except for its name. It should be called 'Local FOOD Picks,' as all it lets you do is search for food. For that purpose, it's awesome, but I was hoping to do more with it by its name.

Most of the Photo apps. They seem to all want you to register with some weird site just for the app. Seems silly when I just want to post to Flickr or my MobileMe pages.

Still to try: I have yet to try the radio apps or the language apps. if I start posting in German, you'll know that went well. Also need to try Loopt.

I've tried Voice Notes and Evernote, and while they work great and seem very cool, I haven't established a workflow to use them yet.

Tempting to Buy:

Sketches, Etch a Sketch, and Comic Touch. It just looks like a lot of fun to draw and make thought bubbles on images...

Bejeweled 2, Super Monkey Ball, and a billion games for getting my game on.

Band. This is the app I was drooling over, so it'll probably be tops in the buying queue.

Have any favorites? Any ones you hate? Let us know in the comments!

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