RunKeeper Pro, FanGraphs Baseball, Army of Darkness Soundboard, Foodscanner, NAVIGON MobileNavigator — TiPb Picks of the Week
Every week a few of us from team TiPb, bloggers and forum crew alike, will bring you our current favorite, funnest, most useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone (or iPod touch) related, they’re fair game.
So who’s on deck this week and what are our picks? Find out after the break!
Chad’s Pick: RunKeeper Pro
Since picking up my Vibram FiveFingers shoes, I can’t use Nike+ so I needed a solid alternative. RunKeeper Pro really eliminates the need for anything else! It uses GPS to track your route, distance, speed, elevation and pace! You can create your own custom workouts and there is voice feedback too. When a workout is done, the information can be sent to their website and sent to Twitter or Facebook. I am very pleased with the product and the developer is promising new features! Checkout http://runkeeper.com! [$9.99 - iTunes link]
Chris’ Pick: FanGraphs Baseball
I am a big baseball fan, and a fan of math and stats – the two go hand in hand. Well, I recently saw a new baseball app put out by fangraphs. This cool little app gives you a graphical output of the win probability as the games are in progress, and adjusts it as events unfold. You can also see standard box scores, in-game events, and look up statistical information about any player in history (lots of cool stat,s including things like $ value and WAR). For any stats oriented baseball fan, I recommend taking a look at this! [$2.99 - iTunes link]
Jeremy’s Pick: Army of Darkness Soundboard
The Army of Darkness soundboard is a simple app but it is so damn cool for the hardcore Bruce Campbell fans out there. It’s just so “Groovy”… [Free - iTunes link]
Matt’s Pick: FoodScanner
From the creators of the Daily Burn app & Occipital’s RedLaser technology comes FoodScanner. If you have used DailyBurn before, then you should know that tracking the foods you eat can become tedious at times, especially when you can’t find just the right food to enter into your Food Log. FoodScanner simplifies the process by scanning the barcode on the food product. The barcode detection is incredibly accurate even for reflective surfaces. Highly recommended for anyone logging/tracking their food intake. Check out the full review for more. [$2.99 - iTunes link]
Rene’s Pick: NAVIGON MobileNavigator North America
What a difference a year makes. Last year’s iPhone 3G and the debut App Store had no turn-by-turn navigation apps — the SDK didn’t even allow them! Now, with iPhone 3.x, as long as your BYOM (bring your own maps), turn-by-turn is good to go. And go it’s gone, with everyone from the biggest players in the game to upstart and open source contenders. But that makes choosing one really difficult. Based on Chris’ reviews so far, and on feature sets delivered, I decided to give NAVIGON MobileNavigator North America. And so far, so very good. Directions are precise, the text-to-speech for street names is understandable, and the app itself is highly usable. [$89.99 - iTunes link]
Your Pick?
You’re part of team TiPb too, so what’s your pick? What app was your absolute fav last week? Let us — and everyone — know in the comments!
September 26th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
TightWire it’s funny as hell!
September 26th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Fangraphs works BETTER than their own website.
A great App for any one who’s interest in base ball extends beyond the beer and hot dogs.
September 26th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Runkeeper Pro is my favourite app every week. It motivates me to get out running and combined with the website helps me track progress and mm improvement. Add to that the regular updates, top class support and the company’s best of breed use of social networking, this app is unbeatable. Navigon’s MobileNavigator is very good too. Ahead of its competitors in stability and features, the company also put TomTom to shame with how they communicate with their user base via Facebook and Twitter. TomTom are too complacent to care about innovating, reasonable pricing or caring to contact customers.
September 26th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
My pick this week, Homerun Battle 3D. Truly an awesome game. Practice first, then play in “Matchup” mode.
September 27th, 2009 at 12:48 am
My pick would have to go to NAVIGON MobileNavigator but the South African edition, it’s clear a precise and give’s better turn by turn navigation than my stand alone unit. There are no spoken street names, this I don’t mind at all as I think it might have some degree of difficultly in speaking out certain street names, and in the political climate we find ourselves in street names will not remain constant. Overall a good app to have. Although NAVIGON should also release there SA version in other app stores and I have noticed that there is a demand for it as we get closer to the soccer world cup.
September 27th, 2009 at 2:38 am
RunKeeper is nice, but I am using iBody. iBody has not only the same tracking possibilities then RunKeeper (for the same price) then also a diary for weight and blood values. And – very important for me – all the reports and graphs are in the app, no external website is needed and my personal data remains on my device.
September 27th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
I have a question for anybody that has used Navigon. How much are the map updates? I have seen no mention of this on any of the reviews.
September 27th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
I have recently discovered AutoDesk’s SketchBook Mobile.
This is a fantastic application with many design uses. It is similar to having Macromedia Freehand on your iPhone. You have access to multiple art brushes, color swatches, brush effects and even layering! Each design you create can be saved in the application as a sketch, copied to your Photo library or emailed. You even have access to your Photo Library to import images as a layer.
This is the best option for mobile graphic design, custom MMS, custom backgrounds, and art for many professional or personal purposes. You even have access to your Photo Library to import images as a layer.
It does not have access to the keyboard for fonts in your art and it always asks if you want a “tour” each time you launch the app, but these are perhaps my only criticisms thus far.
There is Sketchbook Mobile for $2.99US and Sketchbook MobileX for Free.