Top 10 iPhone Apps of 2012

It’s been a big year for iOS, as we’ve seen various apps become viral, succeed greatly, and then be forgotten about after a couple weeks when the next latest craze is discovered. The apps that tend to stay popular and keep the users interest throughout the year are the ones that Apple chose to honor with the title of best iPhone apps of 2012. Let’s take a look at what made the cut.

10. Evernote

Evernote may not be a brand new app to 2012 but its recent update and redesign makes it feel like one. Both form and functionality have been greatly improved upon, giving the Evernote iPhone app a more organized and collected look for all your various notes. It is one of the greatest cross-platform note-taking apps by far, and it is a force to be reckoned in the near future.

9. Jasmine

With the iOS 6 update, iPhone and iPad users were left without a native YouTube app to provide them with satisfying cat videos on the go. So the makers of the Reddit iOS client, BlueAlien, answered this need with Jasmine. Unlike the recently released Google-made YouTube app, it fits both iPhone and iPad platforms and has two themes to choose from for your browsing pleasure.

8. Pinterest

Pinterest is a very popular social network for the crafty of the kitchen, home, and fashion variety. It also has an abundance of funny pictures to accompany the many Do-It-Yourself projects, and although the iPhone app was released nearly a year and a half ago, the network became fully public earlier this year. This opened the floodgates for millions of iPhone users to “pin” to their hearts content.

7. KitCam

The makers of the incredible photo editing app, Photoforge and Photoforge2, decided to take on the whole process by releasing KitCam earlier this year. It has an amazing amount of control for the professionaliPhoneographers out there, with white balance, light control, multi-exposure, and multi-shot functions to go along with the many lens, filter, and frame types. It is the all-in-one camera app that every seriousInstagramer should own.

6. Flickr

Yahoo is doing its best to revive itself and take on the other great web giants like Google, Microsoft, and Facebook. Part of that challenge was to make their famous photo sharing site, Flickr, interesting and fun to use again. They have taken major steps to do just that with their new iPhone Flickr client, which is on-par or even greater than Instagram (especially after being taken into Facebook’s command).

5. Clear

Life is messy and full of challenges, so how does the average iPhone user organize these tasks in a fun and friendly way? Clear answers that question with their unique;y designed to-do app for the iPhone. Navigating around the app with a series of pull, swipe, and pinch gestures makes creating and completing your projects much simpler. You can even earn more themes when you use the app more frequently and at various times throughout the day.

4. Letterpress

The creator of Twitter’s famous pull-to-refresh and other such cool features decided to take on the viral word game competition with his own rendition of Boggle. It is unique in its use of Game Center rather than Facebook or other social networks. Players simply gain points by spelling words out of the 25 provided until every letter has been used, and a player can lock in a letter by surrounding it by other letters they have used so the opponent cannot use it for points. It is quite addicting.

3. Figure

For the musical-curious but not so adept, Figure is a great app for making neat tunes in the matter of minutes. Just by sliding your finger across the screen, you can use the app’s various instruments like the drums, bass, or lead synth to create addictive beats to share with your friends across your chosen social network.

2. Rayman Jungle Run

Platform runner games are one of the most addicting games for mobile devices and adding a classic Rayman theme to one doesn’t the addicting nature a bit. With the many levels, characters, and abilities, it will take a while for you to grow tired of playing this new platformer.

1. Action Movie FX

Finally, this is a very powerful app for the little action movie director in all of us. Simply record a few second of static video and add your choice of action fx to create amazing clip of aliens invading your driveway or missiles exploding inside your living room. If you’re willing to pay a couple bucks, you can add a lot more abilities to this handy little app.