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What Are the Best iPhone and iPad Apps?
Apple's superphone and supertablet are great for listening to music and watching movies, but a growing suite of business apps makes them more useful than ever.
Posted 11/ 7 10 at 9:00 PM | Business Trends, Technology, Business Travel, Online Business, Business Products & Services, Consumer Products & Services, Media, Software, Telecommunications, Inventions & Innovations
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There's a twist to this list. These top business apps for the iPhone (and iPad) are chosen by... you. We're not looking at what has the biggest buzz or the flashiest graphics. This is about the daily workhorses that business users are actually buying and downloading. These rankings come from the users courtesy of MacRumors' sister site AppShopper. AppShopper tracks app sales in the Apple App Store. Top sellers can play leapfrog, but these apps took the top spots on Oct. 26 in the business category.Top Free iPhone Apps
The great thing about free business apps is that you can just delete them if they don't work for you and you're not out any money. Many apps come in both free and paid versions, like the CamCard app that landed on both lists. You can get your feet wet with a free app and upgrade later to the paid.
1. Dragon Dictation. No matter how fast your thumbs are, a virtual iPhone keyboard can't replicate a real keyboard. That's why Dragon Dictation is so popular. This app lets you speak your text messages, e-mails and social networking updates into your phone for instant transcription.
2. Intuit GoPayment. This Intuit app lets you accept credit cards from your mobile device. The app itself is free to download, but to make it work, you have to apply for a merchant account with Intuit and pay a monthly fee that starts at $12.95 per month plus transaction fees. The app features nifty features like signature capture and the ability to work with an external swiper or manually enter credit card information.
3. CamCard Lite. This sophisticated program lets you capture business cards as images and pick out the text for your contacts database. The Lite version means you can only save three contacts and one card per week. If you want more, check out the popular paid app.
Top Paid iPhone Apps
Business users flock to apps that solve real-world problems. Two of the top three here deal with the pesky issue of gathering business cards. The top entry brings advanced PDF abilities to the party.
1. PDF Reader Pro. There is a pent-up business demand for a really awesome PDF reader on the iPhone. At under a buck, this one wins out. You can view PDFs, manage your files, password-protect files and make PDFs using your camera. ($0.99)
2. WorldCard Mobile. While just about everything else in the business world has gone digital, business cards are a holdout. WorldCard is another business card capture and text recognition app that will help you turn your stacks of cards into a useful collection of contacts. Save the info directly into your iPhone contacts and you're good to go. ($5.99)
3. CamCard. This app is pretty much the same as the Lite version except you can actually save all the cards and contact information that you capture. CamCard is handy for globetrotting entrepreneurs -- it covers a host of different languages, including Chinese, Japanese and Italian. ($6.99)
Top Paid iPad Apps
This list shows that buyers are willing to shell out a little extra for iPad-native applications that take advantage of the increased screen size. If you're willing to buy an iPad, you're willing to buy the apps that make it sing.
1. Documents to Go Premium. Documents to Go is often found near the top of the regular iPhone sales list as well as putting a mark on the iPad list. This app is all about adding power to your mobile document capabilities. Microsoft Office users can take advantage of the Word, Excel and PowerPoint file editing features. Make those last-minute presentation changes even when you're away from your computer. ($16.99)
2. Office² HD. This app is a less expensive file viewing and editing alternative to Documents to Go. It comes with editing capabilities for Word and Excel files and integrates with Google Docs for people who hop back and forth between Microsoft and Google. This is an option for business users who don't need PowerPoint editing. ($7.99)
3. PrintCentral for iPad. PrintCentral's place on this list comes from the fact that the original iPad overlooked printing capabilities. One of the app's iPad-specific features is the ability to transfer documents through iTunes. PrintCentral ties in with popular online file services like Dropbox and Google Docs. To get the most out of the app, you should also install the WePrint printer server software on your desktop or laptop to easily make your networked printers available to PrintCentral. ($9.99)
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There are definitely a few more than this. My Top 3:
1. iSMEStorage - lets me get access to my SkyDrive, Amazon S3, and FTP files in one virtual file view and also provides a local file manager for the iPad/iPhone. Add something called CloudDav which also lets me edit and save my SkyDrive, S3, FTP files using iWork. Has notes syncing and a lot more.
2. OneMail - offline email....enough said !
3. LockBox - free password protection for valuable numbers like PIN's etc - use it all the time.
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Go Payment from Intuit is fabulous! Wow!
We are SO impressed with how slick this works, signature captured on phone, receipts e-mailed or snail mailed.
The Mophie Card Reader does not consistently perform however and needs work. Alot of cash out for an accessory that just is not reliable! Hopefully someone else will perfect the card reader reliability factor soon! Go Payment gets 5 stars from us. Mophie Card Reader gets 1 star.