Apple’s #10: Facebook – 3/5 Stars – 1108 Reviews

Apple’s #9: Urbanspoon – 3.5/5 Stars – 186 Reviews

Apple’s #8: AIM – 2.5/5 Stars – 1134 Reviews

Apple’s #7: iPint – 4/5 Stars – 249 Reviews

Apple’s #6: Shazam – 4.5/5 Stars – 999 Reviews

Apple’s #5: Break – 4/5 Stars – 189 Reviews

Apple’s #4: PhoneSaber – 4/5 Stars – 658 Reviews

Apple’s #3: Remote – 4.5/5 Stars – 1438 Reviews

Apple’s #2: Pandora Radio – 4.5/5 Stars – 1038 Reviews

Apple’s #1 Tap Tap Revenge – 4.5/5 Stars – 917 Reviews

Now the top ten best free iPhone applications:

#10: WritingPad – 3.5/5 Stars – 131 Reviews

When using WritingPad it really makes note taking easy. At first, I was skeptical about the accuracy of application where you draw the word you are trying to spell. Once you get the hang of it though, it’s a huge time saver. You can quickly draw out the sequence of characters using your finger and it actually works. For similar words it brings up a quick list of the most common and you simply tap the correct one.

#9: Google Mobile App – 3/5 Stars – 220 Reviews

Overall, most of the services it provides can be found with another application or the built in features of the iPhone itself. But it does provide a very nice interface for accessing your data in one place. It gives you a one-stop-shop for gMail, Photos, Contacts, Reader and provides location aware results. It’s a very nice application.

#8: vSNAX Videos – 4/5 Stars – 93 Reviews

This application is underrated, plan and simple. It provides up-to-date- content from CBS News, CNET News, VH1, Ford Models, Ripe TV and a host of others are on the way. I know that YouTube is already on the phone, but this provides some relevant content to keep you updated during the day.

#7: Tap Tap Revenge – 4.5/5 Stars – 917 Reviews

This is currently Apple’s #1 downloaded free application, but it falls way short. Why? Well if you have ever played Tap Tap Revolution on a jailbroken phone then you know the answer. In the original TTR, you could play along with songs from your library that other users have created beats to. Along with that, you could create your own beats to songs and upload them to the net.

The new App Store version does have a much better interface as well as the newly added combo system. This application is would be ranked a lot higher on this list if it had a star power or energy system that could be activated by the accelerometer.

#6: Mocha VNC Lite – 4/5 Stars – 169 Reviews

This is a great application. It lets you remote desktop into your Windows or Mac OS X computer. Provides a nice keyboard for input as well as a mouse and a scroll mode. One of the nicest features is the ability to zoom in and out using the pinch touchscreen command. Works in portrait and landscape mode on screens up to 1680×1200.

#5: Remote – 4.5/5 Stars – 1438 Reviews

Remote is a good application with some limitations. I found the application worked great for the iTunes controller, but for my use it wasn’t very practical. However, when using it as a remote for the AppleTv it worked amazingly better than the default AppleTv remote. The limitations with using it as a AppleTv remote was not being able to browse the rentals or movies for sale in the iTunes store.

#4: Myspace/Facebook – 4/5 & 3/5 Stars – 577 / 1108 Reviews

While these social networking applications aren’t perfect, they are a huge upgrade from the previous web versions. Both applications allow you to send and receive messages and Facebook allows you to chat live with online friends. Also, you can upload and share photos.

#3: Pandora Radio – 4.5/5 Stars – 1038 Reviews

With Pandora on the iPhone, you no longer need to even add any music. Why? Pandora is your personal DJ that utilizes a vast music genome database to select songs that it thinks you would like. After some fine tuning by rating songs, thumbs up or thumbs down it gets pretty accurate. Just start with a artist, song, or music category of your choice and let the music begin.

#2: Jamd – 4/5 Stars – 17 Reviews

Reading news can be fun with Jamd. Jamd brings the world around you to the tips of your fingers, literally. When a news article has multiple photos is lets you interact with the photos in Jason Bourne style. Rotating photos, expanding photos and pushing them around the stack is fun and a practical use of the iPhone’s touch screen.

#1: Shazam – 4.5/5 Stars – 999 Reviews

Shazam is a great application that I have been wanting for years. You click Tag Now and it begins listening. Then after it’s done listening it sends the sound bite up to the net and it returns with the song. It’s amazing. I knew this application would be #1 when I was eating lunch and this song came on, but was playing really low. It was able to detect the exact song and provided a link to the youtube video and links to buy the song in the iTunes store. It’s simply the best free application on the iPhone.

Quicksilver is usually #1 in a list of Mac software, but since the I use mostly spotlight to open applications I use quicksilver a lot less than I use to. However, it’s still a great way to interface with your applications. There is a lot of support and add-ins for the application as well. In order to understand what exactly Quicksilver does check out the YouTube Video below.

Demonstration:

From the developers site:

Quicksilver’s greatest strength, however, is not search. Any item you are able to find, drag, or otherwise pull into its universe is endowed with many potential uses. Hitting <tab> takes you to the action field, where you can use the same adaptive search to select what you would like to do. Among other things, files can be emailed, copied, compressed. Text can be modified, transmitted between programs, or searched for on the web. Some actions even support an indirect object, so you can send an item to a person, move files to another folder, or open files with a specific applications.

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