Favorite FREE apps for iPhone?

[DaughterOfKali]

Ok, I'm only looking for FREE apps in this thread.

Give me your favorites for yourself and for your child(ren).

Remember, F R E E.

Thanks!

[Arduinna]

stanza is my favorite free one.

[DaughterOfKali]

Can you put a little blurb telling what it does? Thanks!

[Freud]

Word with Friends-online scrabble that you can play at your own pace with real people.

[RiverSky]

The Kindle by Amazon app is really good for getting to read 2 or 3 chapters of books as a sample, to see if you might want to reserve them at the library or buy them.

Stanza is great for lots of free reading (similar to Kindle) but mostly classic books, from what I've found.

Ping! Lite is a way to get free text messaging if your friends with iPhones will also download it.

the Facebook app is free and I love the way it works. The MySpace app doesn't work nearly as well, in my opinion, not even close.

LEGO Photo is fun. It changes photos that you take with your phone into a LEGO format.

The Weather Channel app gives way more info that the built-in weather app, and is free.

MapQuest has a free app, complete with maps and directions, very cool for use as a Navigation system.

Audiobooks Free gives you FREE audiobooks. I found that there are tons of great ones for kids, too. Very cool.

Words with Friends FREE is wonderful, though it sometimes crashes and you have to reload it with a new email address if you have too many games loaded, or for unknown reasons. I still love it and play it all day long, myself.

Jungle Gems and Gemmed Lite are so fun, too. Chain Rxn is great, too.
I even have PacMan LITE. My children have fun with all of them on occasion.

Local Books is a neat app for finding local events at bookstores and libraries that you might want to go to.

For news, there is HuffPost, NY Times, msnbc.com, NPR news, Maddow, AP Mobile, CBC Radio.

For recipes, I love All Recipes, Simply Organic, Epicurious, Whole Foods.

Tip Calculator FREE is neat if you have trouble splitting bills at restaurants or just want to quickly calculate your tip.

Flixster is great for checking out local movies available. IMDb and fandango are also pretty good. Redbox is kind of neat.

WEBMd is kind of neat and might come in handy one day.

Pandora, Rhapsody, Shazam, Last.fm are ways to get free music to listen to.

NFB is the National Film Board of Canada, if you want to watch movies on your device.

Yelp and Around Me! are neat ways to find stuff in your area (restaurants and more)

Take me to my car and Park 'n Find are great when you park in very large parking lots, at amusement parks, zoos and/or malls, etc.

Mint.com is great if you use Mint.

You can probably download an app for your bank account, if you feel comfy doing that.

Tips & Tricks free taught me some very cool things about my iPhone, so much so that I ended up paying the 99 cents for the larger version, but the free version is a great start.

HTH

[DaughterOfKali]

Wow, THANK YOU!

[RiverSky]

You're very welcome.

I forgot to tell you about "IKEA UK". It's the IKEA catalogue only in pounds and even though I can't see how much the items cost here in the U.S., I really enjoy flipping through the catalog digitally whenever I feel like getting a little home decorating inspiration, LOL. I'm geeky like that.

[Drummer's Wife]

Riversky covered a lot of mine. I'd have to say my two fav's are kindle and facebook. I'll have to come back when I'm not typing from my iPhone, so I don't have to close safari to see what all apps I have. I do know that about 90% of what I have were free.

[DaughterOfKali]

More, MORE!

[marsupial-mom]

facebook - i onlly use my iphone app version, i never loginto facebook on my computer

Craigspro free version - let's you browse craisglist ads

kindle - I'm doubled my reading

free rss - read your favorite blogs

cruelty-free - tells you which products haven't been tested on animals

[~Adorkable~]

i have lots of free apps i like, if i have a few minutes i will write about some of them.

but right now i just wanted to take a second and mention that there are a lot of small developers that work really hard and a buck or 2 is a amazing small price to pay for all their work.

The App Store has a real problem in that it is hard to be visible unless tons of folks download your app and it is hard to do that unless you give it away.
Most of these independent apps take many months to code well, and then they still have to go to work full time because no one want to pay even .99¢

i love the free stuff, but if we are going to continue to have really top level useful and stable apps, we are going to need to be willing to pay a tiny amount for that privilege or it will not be worth it to the programers to keep going.

sorry i'll get off my soapbox, as you can see i really think about this a lot

[DaughterOfKali]

I've already paid for some apps.

Right now, I'm looking for FREE ones.