Best iPhone Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders

by Josh Clark

If you want to load your iPhone or iPod Touch with some interesting apps, odds are you'll be overwhelmed by the number of choices at Apple's App Store--all 35,000 of them (and counting). What you need is a reliable guide to the best, most useful, and most entertaining iPhone apps, concisely cataloged and described. Well, look no further, because Best iPhone Apps is on its way!

Full of colorful and helpful illustrations, this one-of-a-kind catalog gives you the quick lowdown on each app, with brief tips on how to use it. No other guide can help you sort through the wealth of iPhone apps to find the true nuggets. Written by Missing Manual author and iWork specialist Josh Clark, Best iPhone Apps is the guide for discriminating downloaders.

228 pages, Paperback

First published June 29, 2009

About the author

Josh Clark is principal of Big Medium, an agency that helps complex organizations design for what’s next. Josh has over 30 years of experience in emerging technology, user experience, and design innovation.

Josh is co-author with Veronika Kindred of Sentient Design: Crafting Intelligent Interfacees with AI (Rosenfeld Media, 2026). The book gives designers and product leaders the know-how to create AI-powered interfaces—dashboards that design themselves, apps that manifest on demand, agents that just get it done, and much more.

Josh speaks around the world about digital design and emerging technology. He is author of many books, including Designing for Touch (A Book Apart) and Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps (O’Reilly).

Before the internet swallowed him up in the 1990s, Josh was a producer of national PBS television. He shared his three words of Russian with Mikhail Gorbachev, interviewed the cabinet secretaries of nine US presidents, and was head writer for a primetime game show. In 1996, Josh created the “Couch-to-5K” (C25K) running program, which has helped millions of skeptical exercisers take up running.

Reviews

[Pedro Plassen Lopes · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of those books with a limited lifespan. Split by categories, you get the 'Best of' (some categories are a bit silly). Found some nice surprises in there.
It will be fun, in twenty years time, to look back at this.

[J · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's six year since print date. This was large part for my less than pleased outcome. Just didn't work for me. Nicely organized and pictures/ screen shots were okay. Nothing else to say, except its six year for its print for old technology. At any rate, I would recommend something for more up to date.

[Tom · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a good, plain old information book that will save you a lot of time picking out apps if you just got an iPhone. I'd get it real soon though, since the material will become dated really quickly.

[Ron Turner · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nice selection, but it needed way more free app choices.