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Top 30 iPhone Apps for Designers and Developers

Posted on 25. Aug, 2010 by bmackler in Resources

Designers and Developers have to be prepared for every eventuality…at all times.   It is an unspoken rule that as soon as you step away from your desk, disaster strikes and clients start to call needing things done immediately.  It could be anything from editing a photo while on a trip to taking quick notes in the food store to uploading a file from the train.   In today’s world it is becoming more important to stay connected with the ability to function even when you are away from your computer.

Today, lets take a look at 30 great applications for the iPhone  that will help designers and developers extend their phones beyond just making calls and finding directions into an indispensable  design productivity tool.

Productivity

ZeptoPad

Creativity on the run.  ZeptoPad is the ideal app for channeling your artistic creativity. When you are out and about and have that flash of inspiration, this app allows you to create vector images, simply by drawing on the screen with your fingers. The latest version even has P2P access, so you can share your masterpieces with all your ZeptoPad buddies and associates.

Cost – $7.99

WorkTimer

By simply pressing the screen, you can keep a log of how many hours you’ve spent working – one less thing to clutter your mind and distract your creative genius!

Cost – .99¢

Evernote

Evernote turns the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad into an extension of your brain, helping you remember anything and everything that happens in your life. From notes to ideas to snapshots to recordings, put it all into Evernote and watch as it instantly synchronizes from your iPhone to your Mac or Windows desktop.

Cost – Free

FTP on the Go

An FTP client for the iPhone and iPod touch. All the features of a desktop FTP client and more; a very powerful app.  With FTP On The Go, you can fix your website, and view files on your FTP server, from anywhere.

Cost – $6.99

Mini Books

MiniBooks puts the popular web invoicing software FreshBooks in the palm of your hand. Manage your clients, send invoices, run timers, and record payments, all while on the go. Plus, MiniBooks fully synchronizes with your FreshBooks account, so you have access to your account even when you’re off the grid.

Analytics

Analytics App is the premier app for Google Analytics you’ve been waiting for! Analytics App gives you access to your Google Analytics data from anywhere, so whether you have a spare minute at the park, or need to share some data during a meeting, this Analytics app puts your Google Analytics at your fingertips.

Cost $6.99

MyAnalytics

myAnalytics logs into your Google Analytics account and gives you an overview report of your various sites. The report includes visits, pageviews, average views per visit, bounce rate, average time on site, percentage of new visits, and the top 3 countries by visits.

Cost – $3.99

Paypal

PayPal’s mobile money application is the faster way to send money with your iPhone® to friends and family anytime, anywhere. It’s much easier than going to the ATM to withdraw cash, writing checks, and sending gifts the traditional way. And you can manage your PayPal account right from your mobile device. All of this with the security and protection you get from PayPal.

Cost – Free

Omnifocus

Winner of the 2008 Apple Design Award for Best iPhone Productivity Application, OmniFocus brings task management to your fingertips. Keep track of tasks by project, place, person, or date. Bring up a shopping list, agenda items to discuss at work, things to do at home, and any other lists you need.

Cost – $19.99

DesignRuler

Accurate reproduction of the standard Graphic Design ruler – essential for anyone working in Advertising, Newspaper and Magazine Print Production.

Cost – .99¢

Ruler

With this app you can use your iPhone as a ruler. You can measure any object by placing it on the device screen or just next to it. By moving each line limiter one after another you can get a more accurate measurement. In addition it is possible to switch between centimeters and inches on the information screen. Ruler always saves your latest measurement.

Cost – .99¢

Typography

Typography Manual

The Typography Manual is a pocket resource for graphic designers and anyone that works with type. It provides all the essentials of a book reference on your iPhone or iPod Touch!  Including a visual type anatomy glossary, a font size ruler, an em calculator, and enough content to fill a 60-page book. It has all the essentials of a desk reference in a regularly updated pocket resource.

Cost – $3.99

What the Font

Identify the fonts in a photo or web graphic!  Ever seen a great font in a magazine ad, poster, or on the web and wondered what font it is? Whip out your iPhone and snap a photo, and WhatTheFont will identify that font in seconds!

Cost – Free

Font Shuffle

FontShuffle is the fastest mobile source of typographic inspiration. 650+ font families are sorted by visual similarity. Without any previous knowledge about type design, you can quickly discover 6 typefaces of similar style in just two taps by navigating the simple category menu. Choose the list view to examine up to 24 similar typefaces.

Cost – Free

Color Management

Color Toy

Great for web designers, graphic artists, and anyone who loves color. ColorToy allows you to generate, modify and store color palettes.

Cost – $9.99

Palettes Pro

Palettes Pro is a powerful productivity tool for creating and maintaining color palettes. Great for creating color schemes. Now you can create a color palette anywhere at anytime. Grab colors from a photograph, a website, or add colors using any one of 5 color models. Quickly find matching colors with support for many different color schemes. You may create and store any number of palettes.

Cost – $9.99

Color Expert

Color Expert contains powerful tools to help artists and designers identify, translate, capture and showcase color. Designers know inspiration can come anywhere at anytime. Just look around. Some of the best ideas are waiting for you in the real world away from the studio.

Cost – $9.99

CliqCliq Colors

Colors is an easy-to-use color picker for discovering, converting, and managing colors and palettes.  If you’re a designer or developer working with CSS, HTML, Flex, Flash, Objective-C or other media-centric

Cost – $2.99

Images and Photography

Photoshop Express

Adobe Photoshop Express software lets you use simple gestures to quickly edit and share photos from your mobile device. Enjoy having your photo and video library right in your hand — without wasting your device’s valuable storage space.

Cost – Free

Photobucket

The Photobucket app means you can carry one of the largest photo sharing networks with you at all times, with access to your personal and friends’ albums at the touch of a screen. This is particularly useful for designers looking for photos to be used directly or even just for color schemes.

Cost – Free

PhotoWizard

Get the most useful all-in-one photo tool in the App Store!
PhotoWizard is a photo fixer. It can auto fix the under exposure photos taken from iPhone camera. Manual tool is also available to manually adjust brightness, contrast and color saturation.

Cost – $1.99

Abduzeedo- Daily Dose of Inspiration

Abduzeedo is one of the design world’s most sought after blog for inspiration and tutorials. The blog is run by design junkies for design junkies, always striving to provide the community with the latest and hottest of what the web has to offer.

Everyday, the blog compiles Daily Inspirations, which has served as a channel of creativity for the design community all over the world.

Cost – Free

Development

WordPress

WordPress for iPhone allows you to create and edit content on your WordPress blog with support of offline use.

Cost – Free

Dreamweaver CS4:  The Missing Manual

Learn how to control the appearance of your web pages with CSS from the basics to advanced techniques and have all the information at your fingertips without the need to carry along a heavy book.

Cost – $4.99

CSS Cheat Sheet

Even seasoned CSS (cascading style sheet) developers need a quick refresher course in CSS properties and values from time to time. The CSS Cheat Sheet for iPhone and iPod Touch is designed to address that need. Use it as a quick reference for topics you’ve already learned but need a few reminders on, or if you’re still a beginner to CSS, use it to better understand what CSS has to offer.

Cost – .99¢

Web Developer Bible

This is a reference tool that includes several things that many Web developers need including:

• C – Format Strings
• HTML Entities
• RGB to Hex Codes
• Special Characters
• URL Encoding

Cost – Free

HTML Cheat Sheet

The HTML CheatSheet is a lot more than just HTML tags and attributes. It includes:

• HTML Tags
• HTML Attributes
• HTML Events
• Color Names
• Character Sets (ASCII, reserved characters, URL encoding, plus more)
• Language Codes
• HTTP Status Messages

Cost – .99¢

jQuery Cheat Sheet

Even seasoned jQuery developers need a quick refresher course in jQuery syntax and arguments from time to time. jQuery Cheat Sheet is designed to address that need. Use it as a quick reference for topics you’ve already learned but need a few reminders on, or if you’re still a beginner to jQuery, use it to better understand what jQuery is capable of.

Cost – .99¢

SEO and Social Media

Ego

Ego gives you one central—and lovely—location to check web statistics that matter to you. With support for Feedburner, Mint, and Twitter, you can quickly view the number of visits to your website (including daily, hourly and monthly numbers), feed subscription totals and changes, and how many people are following you on Twitter.

Cost – $1.99

Dropular

Dropular is a media bookmarking service loosely based on the idea of a droplet contributing to a pool, filling it ever-so slightly one by one. This amazing tool lets you discover, remember and share images, videos and links – all in one place.

Cost – .99¢

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