Complete List of Wanted Apps

[jlhollander]

In this post I hope to gather a complete list of all of the Apps that everyone would like to see developers create. I am putting this together in an effort to clean up the forums a bit. I will be editing this post on a regular basis so we can have everything at one spot at any given time. I will update this list either by your contributions to this thread or by private message to myself.

- Business Related Apps
1. Docs To Go
2. Mobile Office
3. Timesheet (For tracking O.T.)
4. Quicken Mobile

- Game Related Apps
1. An online MMO
2. Phase (Or similar game)
3. iQuiz
4. Vortex or Block Breaker
5. Tilt
6. Line Rider
7. Whack-a-Mole (Great touch app!)
8. Bowling
9. Darts
10. Billiards
11. Golf / Mini Golf / Disc Golf
12. Tripple-Axis Asteroids!!

- Useful Applications
1. Photo editing software (Adobe???)
2. Finder / Searching
3. Video Camera
4. Updated camera w/ expanded camera functions (zoom, negative, black/white, etc..)
5. Skype
6. MMS
7. RSS Reader (One that really works well, with red dot notification on the icon for all unread feeds (like net news wire))
8. Animal Species Nature Encyclopedia
9. Snapstream TV (Goodbye Battery Life!!!)

- Entertainment Applications
1. Botanica (Used to identify plants like epocrates identifies pills)
2. Sand
3. Ants
4. Magic Calculator
5. Spy Camera (For taking pictures with the screen completly off!)
6. Skitch

- Utilities Applications
1. Time Machine / Wireless Backup
2. WiFi Song Sending (Like what the Zune can do)
3. Bluetooth / WiFi Complete Wireless syncing
4. File Management System
5. Mobile Finder
6. Wireless File Transfer System for Disk Mode (Like Data Case)

TOTAL APPS TO GO: 39!

Again, I will update this as I get more feedback, and as the app store opens, I will remove those apps that get created, to help clean up the list. This List is both for Developers to use as a tool to see what everyone would like to see, and for everyone else to add to the growing list of anticipated Apps. The only Apps that I will not include in this list are the ones that are currently in the App Store.

As well as adding to this list, anyone who posts a useful app idea in this thread will be thanked for their contributions.

[richcarl32]

In this post I hope to gather a complete list of all of the Apps that everyone would like to see developers create. I am putting this together on an effort to clean up the forums a bit. I will be editing this post on a regular basis so we can have everything at one spot at any given time. I will update this list either by your contributions to this thread or by private message to myself. I will also request this thread be stickied, so no one will have to search for it.

- Business Related Apps
1. Docs To Go
2. Mobile Office
3. A decent To Do List

- Game Related Apps
1. An online MMO
2. Tetris
3. Bejewled

- Fun Applications
1. Photo editing App

Again, I will update this as I get more feedback, and as the app store opens, I will remove those apps that get created, to help clean up the list.

add on an a2dp profiling app

[Bone]

umm let's see here.....
wallpaper app similar to app a day
ants app similar to app a day
Customize
summerboard
flip a coin
guitar
piano
drums
etch a sketch
Game similar to iphysics
pinball
sand app by app a day
video recorder
game similar to tilt

[jlhollander]

Sorry, i dnt have a jailbroken phone, so i am not familiar with these programs:
ants app similar to app a day
Customize
sand app by app a day
can you please help me to classify these and let me know what they are?
Thanks!

[CowboYZ]

I want a nature app that lists types of plants, just like how the pharmacy app did with pills at the SDK presentation.

Sand app (http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/)

[gotpancakes]

^^ yes yes^ Hell Of Falling Sand!!! That is the best game evar!!!! A must for the iPhone
oh and of course LINE RIDER! That thing can be so addicting! ( little kid on a bob sled. U draw lines to go down)

[Bone]

Sorry, i dnt have a jailbroken phone, so i am not familiar with these programs:
ants app similar to app a day
Customize
sand app by app a day
can you please help me to classify these and let me know what they are?
Thanks!

ants would be under fun, or useless but entertaining. LOL
sand is the same. Not much of a game but fun.
customize is an app that allows the general customization of wallpapers, sliders icons excetera.

[Jhors2]

I would love a simplistic online MMO, that would be so entertaining to play while out on the go!! The only problem is the fact that it would send all your calls to voicemail while you were on it because of edge :(

[minivini]

Glaring omission from our iPhones is a simple file management system like the iPod has. I REALLY want to be able to plug my iPod Camera Adapter into my iPhone to offload photos during a shoot. Yes, I know there is an app for Macs; no I don't have a Mac and I'm not jailbreaking...

I guess related to that, and to expand on the earlier idea of photo editing software would be an import/export module for iPhone inside Adobe LightRoom.

[Bone]

bowling.
Darts
pool or billards
magic calculator

[jlhollander]

Magic Calculator?? I am not familar with that one either. Does it sometimes show you the answer? Does it magically pull the result out of the dock connector? Please explain what it is!

[jjvaldez]

i like docs to go.. i used it a lot on the treo.... AIM too

[Bone]

Magic Calculator?? I am not familar with that one either. Does it sometimes show you the answer? Does it magically pull the result out of the dock connector? Please explain what it is!

you give it a date and it figures sec, minutes, hrs, etc. Like for exzample. How many seconds you have ben alive. Or how many days away something is.

[NickB]

I would also like to see some more bluetooth profiles added... so that the phone is fully supported among more devices

[bloodbath18]

Was just wondering how much would all those apps cost in sdk

[patrick_83]

Was just wondering how much would all those apps cost in sdk

That is a good question, im hoping they dont go too crazy...

[Bone]

I would like to see the ability to remove or hide stock provided apps such as stocks or calculated or weather.

[jlhollander]

cost wise, you would think most consumer oriented apps will be between free and 4.99. It just seems like a reasonable price. Business oriented apps, on the other hand, have reached up into the hundreds for other platforms (palm, rim) like word or excell. We will just have to wait and see. The only thing that remains certain, the less expensive the app, the more people will buy it.

[monkeysrock0622]

The app that Erica Sadun (I think thats her name) from TUAW made called Listen? Where you hold up your iPhone's speaker to music and it tells you info about the song playing such as Artist/Album/year etc.

[Indy]

I would love to see:

A golf game of some sort, maybe even a disc golf game ; )

A timesheet program for keeping up with my hours a during the week for OT tracking

An animal species nature encylopedia type program with maybe short video clips of species behavior

Be able to sync updates and such through wifi or 3g when it comes. Would like to see the iphone fully independent in the near future, no need for docking to sync

And that magic calculator sounds great!

That's all.......for now of course =P

[gotpancakes]

by the looks of the list u can tell the app
store will have great apps to be made..
another one I was thinking of could be a news app

[jlhollander]

I knew i forgot something! I had wanted to put an RSS Reader in there on the first day!!!

[marketto]

Horizontal Keyboard!! Please!!

[psylichon]

Remote Desktop with full file permissions support.

[Bone]

landscape SMS needs to be worked with for sure!!

[Bone]

how about an app like snapshot or capture. Same thing basically. utility I think.

[jlhollander]

you mean like a screenshot program?

[Bone]

yes! Srry I don't use screenshot anymore but yes, that's what I ment.

[Zabumafu]

If we ever do get the video camera to work it would be nice to have web came available.

Yes I do know that the camera is on the opposite side of the screen so in order to see the other person(if they have a camera) the camera would have to face away from you but still...the ability of the other person to be able to see and hear what you are seeing from a phone is unreal :P

[hinzy]

I would like an app that completely shuts off the SMS preview and just adds an icon on the top like Taskbar Notify.

As much as i like to let people play with my phone, it makes me nervous each time that something will pop up that they dont need to see while they are looking.

[jlhollander]

if you loomk in the settings, there is an option to turn off the sms preview

[hinzy]

Yes there is but it only works if the phone is locked or in "sleep mode". If you or anyone else is doing anything with the phone, it still pops up with a preview.

[ap93]

i wana see yahoo im

[Ohmster]

Depth of Field Tool for both Full Frame and Cropped cameras

[Ohmster]

An Outliner like Bonsai or Shadow Plan or BrainForest

[ap93]

uuu lol anyone know if theres an app in constrution for yahoo im

[depthnerd]

For anyone who knows what Skitch is, you know that the Phone would be your best friend if it had a mobile version of this. GO MAKE IT NOW!

Then, MobileCandyBar to replace SummerBoard and it has to be after the MobileFinder comes out.

Tomorow I'll make a mock-up of what i want it to look like.

[ukbusiness]

It would be nice to look up a number by name search from the phone directory just as you can do if you are emailing or sending a text. Scrolling through 1600 names is difficult

Would also like the ability to sort and look up in phone directory by company name

[depthnerd]

It would be nice to look up a number by name search from the phone directory just as you can do if you are emailing or sending a text. Scrolling through 1600 names is difficult

Would also like the ability to sort and look up in phone directory by company name
You don't have 1600 names, to start with.

[ukbusiness]

You don't have 1600 names, to start with.

Yes I do (actually 1593). I carry most of my business and personal contacts on the iPhone. Looking them up via a roladex system from 1981 is very tedious since I sometimes can't remember the party's last name - but if I look it up as though I were sending an email then I can go and scroll through a bunch of names to get to it. Two step processes don't appeal to me since iPhone designers could have included it in the original iPhone.

[depthnerd]

Ah, buisness man. That's too many numbers anyways. If you got Caterpillar you could just search by number, if you know the numbers.

[ukbusiness]

Ah, buisness man. That's too many numbers anyways. If you got Caterpillar you could just search by number, if you know the numbers.

If I had them memorized I would not need to look them up. So hopefully someone will come up with a simple look up in the June release.

[Ohmster]

You don't have 1600 names, to start with.

I have 1564 and have broken them up into several categories, but a simple search would be a godsend.

Until then, this Search (http://polarbearfarm.com/PBF_%22Search%22.html) function might be the answer. Going to give it a go tonight.

[ukbusiness]

I have 1564 and have broken them up into several categories, but a simple search would be a godsend.

How do you set categories. I run on Outlook and have categories there and then have to break them down into separate directories. Is there a better solution?

[Ohmster]

How do you set categories. I run on Outlook and have categories there and then have to break them down into separate directories. Is there a better solution?

I do it through AddressBook on the Mac. Entourage doesn't play will with categories/groups, so I skip it entirely and have the iPhone sync directly to the AddressBook.

[danipoak]

Why not just navigate to the little letters on the right hand side of the contacts list. That seems to make it pretty fast I think.

[Ohmster]

Why not just navigate to the little letters on the right hand side of the contacts list. That seems to make it pretty fast I think.

My M's alone are 18 'pages' The search program I listed previously progressively narrows down the displayed contacts. I can get it down to one -three contacts within a few keystrokes. I like it but the want a $10 'donation' to register it. Seems a little high for a search application....

[allbuss]

Which is the best app to track your car's gas mileage?

[jlhollander]

not one that I currently know of, but I will add it to the list!

[eshola]

I like the apps i see, but could you share the source of these apps especially skype. i tried finding sources, but was not so lucky.

[wildonrio]

I don't think people are going to take the list seriously when it is full of apps that have already been created.

[GeniousBar.N]

In this post I hope to gather a complete list of all of the Apps that everyone would like to see developers create. I am putting this together in an effort to clean up the forums a bit. I will be editing this post on a regular basis so we can have everything at one spot at any given time. I will update this list either by your contributions to this thread or by private message to myself.

- Business Related Apps
1. Docs To Go
2. Mobile Office
3. To Do List
4. Expense / Mileage Report
5. Timesheet (For tracking O.T.)
6. Quicken Mobile
7. Gas mileage tracker

- Game Related Apps
1. An online MMO
2. Tetris
3. Bejewled
4. Phase (Or similar game)
5. iQuiz
6. Formula One Racing
7. PacMan (Accelerometer based)
8. Vortex or Block Breaker (Touch/Tilt controlled)
9. Sudoku
10. Crossword Puzzle
11. Pinball (W/tilt activated flippers)
12. iPhysics
13. Tilt
14. Trism (Have you seen the Demo?!?!?!)
15. Line Rider
16. Whack-a-Mole (Great touch app!)
17. Labrynth (Where you tilt the phone to move the ball around the maze)
18. Bowling
19. Darts
20. Billiards
21. Golf / Mini Golf / Disc Golf
22. Tripple-Axis Asteroids!!

- Useful Applications
1. Password Keeper
2. Photo editing software (Adobe???)
3. Finder / Searching
4. Video Camera
5. Updated camera w/ expanded camera functions (zoom, negative, black/white, etc..)
6. Voice Dial (Where have you been!!!)
7. Skype
8. MMS
9. Buddy Beacon (Tracked by IMEI, or similar)
10. RSS Reader
11. Animal Species Nature Encyclopedia
12. RSS Reader
13. Snapstream TV (Goodbye Battery Life!!!)
14. Yahoo IM

- Fun Applications
1. Guitar Player (Allowing you to play / learn how to play the guitar)
2. Piano Player (Same as Guitar App)
3. Drum Player (Same as Guitar App)
4. Etch-a-Sketch (Tilting back and forth to clear the screen)
5. Flip a Coin (When you just cant decide!)
6. Botanica (Used to identify plants like epocrates identifies pills)
7. eBook Reader
8. A Level App (Like a bubble level for determining if a surface is slat, using the accelerometer)
9. Sand
10. Ants
11. Magic Calculator
12. Listen (To determine what a song is by placing the mic near it)
13. Spy Camera (For taking pictures with the screen completly off!)
14. Etch-a-Sketch (Shake to erase!)
15. Skitch

- Utilities Applications
1. A2dp Profiling
2. Wallpaper Changer (For the Homescreen Background)
3. Summerboard
4. Time Machine / Wireless Backup
5. Copy/paste
6. WiFi Song Sending (Like what the Zune can do)
7. GPS bluetooth (Connecting to a GPS puck)
8. Bluetooth / WiFi Complete Wireless syncing
9. Customize
10. File Management System
11. Missed Call Audible Alert
12. Mobile Finder
13. Mobile Candy Bar
14. Phone book search

TOTAL APPS : 72!

Again, I will update this as I get more feedback, and as the app store opens, I will remove those apps that get created, to help clean up the list. This List is both for Developers to use as a tool to see what everyone would like to see, and for everyone else to add to the growing list of anticipated Apps. The only Apps that I will not include in this list are the ones that were announced/demoed at the Apple Town Hall Event, for we already know that those will be available upon release.

As well as adding to this list, anyone who posts a useful app idea in this thread will be thanked for their contributions.

Here is my wish list: for the app store. No hacking/jailbreaking...ECT req.

>An app that emulates/simulates/is the dock in Leopard or any Mac os x
-A dock for iPhone will be great. You can see your wall paper better (when you can HAVE wallpaper.) and when you drag your finger across it, it acts like you are dragging your mouse over a real dock.
-Incl. Magnification, position and size options.

>A native storage app that allows files off Internet or email to be stored natively on iPhone. Can be imported into iPod. And can allow uploading to web.
Ex: you want to send a mp3 on ur iPod to your blog or email. It has a directory from your iPod and let's you upload.

>Copy and paste plugin for safari and email.

>Customization suite
-Incl: silver bar on top of screen (where the clock is)
-colors of buttons
-keyboard
-all audio output (some thing don't let you choose a custom sound for alerts. (ex: mail, SMS.)

>touch zoom and zoom out for youtube. And iPod videos

(LOL) >iMassage: eternal phone vibration. The phone plays its vibrate alert... Forever!

>touch graphic EQ for iPod funct.. (songs only) Visualizations too (like animated/ accurate eq bars)

>wallpaper ability
-put a picture behind homescreen icons and make them transparent so the wall paper is more visible.
>Replace carrier with image (accessed from Photo funtionality. or plain text.

Thanks! I hope these are possible and will show up in the future.
if someone makes or finds one of these in the app store plz let me know!

Drayoverdrive@aol.com

Ps I wrote this whole post on my 1st yen iPhone 16 GB. [:)]

[GeniousBar.N]

I like the zune thing alot! How will we find out where these are once they are made?
Sorry too, I think I repeated some of yours.

If you need me to further explain my wish list thats fine. Just let me know.

[GeniousBar.N]

here a healthy one: heart rate counter iBeat. This is possible by holding the phone to your heart. Try it.if the accelerometer is sick enough it will pick up each jiggle caused by your heart beat. Calibration option is important. It should beep when it gets a beat.

Just another app idea :)

[jeansteichen]

Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button simultaneously for a second, and a screen shot is taken and sent to your photos.

COOL!

[KittykatMeowMeow]

I work for a landscaping company, so having an application that is geared towards horticulture would be amazing! I'd like it to have all the similar functions to Epocrates Rx....except with plant material :):)

[ldivinag]

here's what i want, that my 7 year old kyocera 6035 smartphone has...

1. speed dialing via keypad. for example, the keypad is active. i press "1" and it will present me with "home number" since i programmed my home number in the #1 slot. but if i continue to press another number up until "99" or 2 numbers since the speed dialing will go from 1 to 99, it will continue to dial that number, say like 411 or 611.

granted the favorites is close, but remember this is PHONE device first and foremost...


2. voice dialing. again, i can program like 20 names and numbers that when i first get to the keypad screen, either i press buttons or say a name or word to dial.

[neuronbob]

I want a global search program like is built into PalmOS. This will search through the files I've loaded on through Filemagnet and databases loaded with FMTouch, etc. It's the only thing keeping me from enjoying my new iPhone 3G.

[TH33xIGReeKIxGoD]

is there an app where i can put up a password on certain applications on my phone

[Witness]

is there an app where i can put up a password on certain applications on my phone

It's called Lockdown in cydia in the system section.

[jeansteichen]

Do you know where I can get the ORIGINAL CALCULATOR that came with the first iPhone, by chance?

Thanks!

[ihack]

Can anyone make an email pop up notifstion like the text does?

[smknSRT8]

Can anyone make an email pop up notifstion like the text does?

iHack, no need to double post.

[ihack]

Sorry. Did not see the other thread

[ostryjak]

File Management System. PLEASE !!. This Iphone APP sucks big time. Something that looks like windows explorer - shows a navigable path to your files and when connected to a computer shows the file paths there as well and permits drag a drop of files and folders with delete and rename functions. This should have been a basic part of the iphone package.

[daveparki]

hows about the ability to change the home screen orientation, i know it has been mentioned why it is not built into the os, however that is y ppl create apps , regards

[primus_productions]

this may not be triple axis asteroids...but it's a cool twist on Asteroids and Missile Command

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=331387584&mt=8


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