best free or cheap ipod touch/iphone apps

[corrie43]

What are your fave apps?

So far I have
Text plus (free) I can now text my 13 year old daughter who lives across country with her dad.. I Love it
Menstrual tracker (free)
Pandora Internet radio (free)Just discovered it and LOVE it
lose it(free) weight loss and calorie tracker
fandango (free) preview movies, listings ect
AAA discount tracker (free) shows me what discounts aaa offers and where locally
a few silly games for the kids that were free..

What do you have, love and use all the time

I'd like to download a grocery list and budget tracker app soon

[pbjmama]

shopshop for groceries

[Hindyg]

shazam - tells you what song you are listening to - very cool - works only with iphone

[Tradd]

Free:
*The New York Times
*Facebook
*Public Radio (NPR) tuner - you can't stream audio on the iPhone and this allows me to listen to NPR at work as it doesn't come in on my regular radio
*The Weather Channel
*Stanza - eBook reader. I've gotten tons of free downloads from Project Gutenberg, things like Austen and Dickens.
*Chase (my bank)
*KTSA 550AM in San Antonio - I can listen to Dave Ramsey live at work!

Cheap:
*Checkbook - electronic checkbook register. I don't have to carry my regular checkbook with me now (I use my debit card a lot). I think this app was $.99 or $1.99. Well worth it. This app doesn't link with your online bank, you just enter everything like you would with your regular paper checkbook register. Allows you do designate categories, too, which can help you track spending. You can email it to yourself, and the data can be dumped into a spreadsheet, so you have a hard copy on your computer.

[ErikaLeigh]

All of the applications I have downloaded are free!

I've got a lemonade tycoon game, sally's salon lite free, cooking mama free, checkers, tic tac toe free, mobile aquarium free, grimm stories (over 200 stories! Free!!) white noise thingy (27 different sounds) free) and i am sure there are a few others!

[sunnysandiegan]

I have only paid for one game. All my other apps were free:

facebook
voice memos
speed dial
touch dial
iEphemeris Lite (moon)
iTip
RulerPlus / Ruler / TapeMeasure (test driving for measuring apps since we are frequently doing DIY projects and it would be helpful when shopping; none of them are that great, IMO; I got a really small tape measure for my tiny purse instead)
Compass Free
Today's History Lite
The Weather Channel
YouTube
Stanza
Scribble Lite (highly entertaining for kids and adults when waiting somewhere)
iPhunny
Ponder
PricePad (haven't used....thanks for reminding me!)
ShopShop
Hurry Mail
Who is Hot
CloseCall
TideApp (we live 10 minutes from the beach and sometimes want low tide for tidepools and sometimes want high tide for boogie boarding)

[Drummer's Wife]

Did you get tic tac toe and flash cards? Helpful at a restaurant or anywhere we have to wait, if you have older kids.

I have one for cheapest gas that I like, and where's my car? for big parking lots.

The tip calculator gets used a lot. I hate figuring out percentages!

[dogmom327]

I'm loving "around me" (free). So nice, especially when traveling and you need to find food, gas, a bank, etc.

[Noelle C.]

Shazam is amazing. Really amazing. Catch a Mouse is an addicting game. There's the free one that has about 50 levels, and a paid one for a buck or two with more. WebMD and Mobile News are good (and free), and, when we used to have the money to go out to dinner, UrbanSpoon was fun.