Our best iPhone apps of the week roundup is a slice of the juiciest iPhone apps to hit the iTunes App Store every seven days, selected by the Electricpig team and pulled together by me, an iPhone-obsessed ringmaster.
Amongst this week’s best iPhone apps: we’ve got the absolute perfect game for grown-up Thomas the Tank Engine fans, one stunning social network contacts manager to rule them all, the coolest social photo app going with enough filters to replace that big bag full of lenses and a deliciously refreshing alternative to RSS readers. Head through to find out about them all in the latest episode of Best iPhone apps of the week…
Calvetica
£1.79 iTunes
The hipster love of the Helvetica font is up there with their stupid haircuts in the list of things the world can do without. But while Calvetica is clearly influenced by that font fanboyism, it’s also one of the most stylish and useful calendar apps we’ve ever seen. It clearly deserves a space in the pantheon of Best iPhone apps.
Calvetica is sharper and better designed than the calendar app built in to iOS with every detail (down to the cog icon for the settings page). It’ll also drag in your MobileMe and Google Calendars and keep the colour-coded labels you’ve set up via the ordinary Calendar app or other iPhone apps with calendars built in.
Trainyard
£0.59 iTunes
Our latest game obsession is Trainyard. The product of a single developer and the perfect game for kids who grew up with Thomas the Tank Engine, Trainyard deserves a slot in our best iPhone apps roster for the sheer brilliance of its design and the excellently designed gradient of difficulty – the puzzles start simply but become progressively harder in a great way. When you complete one of the difficult tracks, you’ll get a serious sense of achievement.
Instagram
£free iTunes
Instagram has bunny hopped over the rest of the photography apps on our iPhones, knocking Hipstermatic out of the way with its combination of cool filters that make your snaps look amazing and social sauce to share pictures simply to sites like Facebook, Flickr and Twitter. Grab Instagram and we guarantee it’ll make your own Best iPhone apps list and become an addiction too.
Accidental News Explorer
£1.19 iTunes
There are plenty of great RSS readers for iPhone out there but few of them will make out Best iPhone apps list because…well…they’re bloody tedious. Accidental News Explorer is different. A smoothy designed app with a single search box on its opening page, it grabs interesting news stories and features on whatever topic you choose. It’s the iPhone equivalent of the old-school toilet book and a great way of stumbling on cool links.
Twezr
£free iTunes
Twezr might sound like an iOS based eyebrow plucking simulation but it’s actually the social contacts app to rule them all. It lists your contacts and arranges them according to who sent you messages most recently. It pulls together email, direct messages from Twitter, Facebook messages, SMS and phone calls in one place. It’s an amazingly unified contact list. One argument we have against it is the fact that it uses your Gmail, Twitter and Facebook user names and passwords rather than oAuth. The next version should include that to be honest.
Spotted a brilliant app that’s crying out to be included in our Best iPhone apps library? Hell, hit the comments you touchscreen fondler you, and tell us about it!
