100 Best iPhone Apps for Business Students
As popular as iPhones are, there are countless applications available for business students and professionals. Some are useless, some are fabulous, but these are the best.
Top Ten
These top apps have received rave reviews from technology and business gurus.
- JustAddMoney: JustAddMoney is a multi-user online expense tracker that runs on your iPhone, iPod Touch, and in any web browser. You can track your spending in real time, entering receipts, checks, credit card purchases, and cash outlay at the time you purchase.
- Mobile Password Safe: A replacement for password-storage programs like Passwords Plus or SplashID. Specify your own labels, categories, and search your passwords interactively.
- Goal Tracker: Goal-Tracker is designed to help you reach your goals. Goals must have a due-date and be measurable. Goal-Tracker can help you reach your financial, business, sports, web or health goals.
- Currency Convert: International currency converter provides up-to-date exchange rates information for over 150 different currencies. There is a built-in calculator in the application. You can perform basic arithmetic calculation on the latest exchange rate. The application is great for traveling abroad, business trip, vacation or buying things from overseas currencies.
- ACTPrinter: ACTPrinter allows you to "print" any document from your Mac to you iPhone or iPod Touch. Bar codes may be scanned right off your iPhone's screen.
- Timewerks: Timewerks is a time-tracking and invoicing application for freelancers, consultants, salespeople, contractors or anyone who needs to track billable hours and create invoices.
- iBeam: iBeam allows you to instantly send contact information and photos directly to another iPhone over wifi, to any other device via email, or use a barcode to optically transfer contact information.
- Ledger: Record purchases, transfers, loans, and more with an easy-to-use interface.
- Task2Gather: Task2Gather keeps all your personal, family, and business tasks in the web cloud, always accessible for you from iPhone or desktop PC. Tasks you create in Task2Gather can be shared with your family members, friends or colleagues.
- Contact Hero: Contact Hero is your productive anywhere contact manager and online address book. Built from the ground up for mobile devices like iPhone, it is a must for anyone who wants to make and maintain contacts, build relationships, and get ahead.
Networking
Use these apps to get connected with others, or even find a job.
- LinkedIn: Check out the LinkedIn application for the iPhone to get connected with students and professionals in your network.
- iTie: Make the right impression, and learn how to put a tie together properly using iTie.
- Facebook: Stay connected to your social line and make new connections through Facebook.
- Career Builder: Career Builder's app will help you find and apply for jobs through your iPhone.
- TwitterFon: Make use of TwitterFon to be a part of your local network and beyond.
- WordPress: The only iPhone app that lets you write posts, upload photos, edit pages, and manage comments on your blog from your iPhone.
- IM+Lite: Instant Messenger for your phone.
- Beam ME: A faster, greener, more digital way to send out your business card.
- Fring: Fring is a mobile internet service and community that enables users to talk, chat, and interact with other fringsters and their online communities from their mobile phones.
- Loopt: Loopt shows users where friends are located and what they are doing via detailed, interactive maps on their mobile phones. Loopt helps friends connect on the fly and navigate their social lives by orienting them to people, places and events.
Finance
Because in the world of business, money matters.
- BudgetBuster: It will be easy for you to stay on top of your budget with this iPhone appp that manages and tracks your finances.
- iBillTo: You'll find it easy to track your rates, billing, and other details on iBillTo.
- Currency: With Currency, you can look up current exchange rate information for more than 90 countries and currencies.
- iXpenseIt: You can use iXpenseIt to track your expenses on the iPhone.
- Portfolio Live: Real time quotes and portfolio pricing, unlimited number of portfolios, support for multiple lots per symbol, fast symbol lookup.
- Bloomberg: is among the top five most-trafficked financial sites on the Web. It is regarded as a premier site for news and financial information.
- iQuoteTracker: iQuoteTracker is an application that gives you a quick and easy way to track the stock prices. It allows you to create a watchlist with unlimited ticker symbols. With the built-in smart alert feature, you can set alert criteria based on the stock prices, 50-day and 200-day moving average, 52-week high and low, and average daily volume.
- myBudge: A budget tracker that helps you manage your money by tracking your expenses. Since it's available on your phone you are able to input your expense immediately after spending the money so you always stay on top of your spending.
- WhatIf: Don't be surprised by the market. See the effect price changes will/could have on your stocks.
- StockWatch: StockWatch is a web-app similar to the Native iPhone/iPod Touch stock application, but with a host of additional features.
Productivity
Stay on top of your schedule, projects, meetings, and assignments with the help of these iPhone applications.
- Torch: Torch makes it easy to manage your projects through the iPhone.
- MobileMe: Sync your mobile life to your home, office, or school computer using MobileMe.
- TheCarrot: The Carrot offers life tracking for school, work, health and more.
- do.Oh: do.Oh offers simple task tracking, as well as iPhone and desktop syncing.
- Harvest Time Expense Tracker: The Harvest iPhone app will allow you to track your time, expenses, and more.
- Date Wheel: Use Date Wheel to calculate when your assignments are due, or create a countdown.
- Dexy: With Dexy, you'll get convenient free-form note organization on your iPhone.
- SugarSync: You can remotely access your home or office computer through your iPhone with the help of this app.
- iTalk Recorder: Dictate, leave yourself notes, and more with the iTalk Recorder on the iPhone.
- Attendance Countdown: Use Attendance Countdown to keep track of your time.
Organization
As a business student, you likely have numerous emails, papers, notebooks, and Post-Its around your house. Keep your life together by following the links below.
- iiBlueSky: Use this mind mapping tool, and you can get your ideas in order no matter where you are.
- Thumb Jot: Thumb Jot makes it easy for you to take notes on the iPhone.
- Google Calendar: You can keep up with your calendar on the iPhone using Google Calendar.
- Evernote: With Evernote, you'll be able to store class notes, to-do lists, and more.
- 30Boxes: Use 30Boxes in order to stay on top of your schedule of classes, meetings, and more.
- 43 Actions: 43 Actions will make it simple for you to manage and update your tasks and schedule.
- Listingly: A free site that allows users to create and manage private or shared lists at the desktop and view them on any enabled cell phone.
- Pageonce: Manage all your online accounts through one application.is among the top five most-trafficked financial sites on the Web. It is regarded as a premier site for news and financial information.
- iProcrastinate Mobile: Create the ultimate to-do list with this organizational application.
- Super Index Cards: Super Index Cards brings the simplicity and flexibility of using index cards to Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch. Super Index Cards enables the free flow and organization of ideas and text from your fingertips to your iPhone.
Office
A businessperson's office is his or her most essential space. So take your iPhone with you, and put it to work for you.
- iZoho: Set up your mobile office with iZoho, an app that offers documents, spreadsheets, CRM, and much more on the iPhone.
- HyperOffice: HyperOffice helps you transform your iPhone into a business and productivity tool. You can access your Outlook mail, contacts, calendars and tasks right from your iPhone and also share them with your colleagues.
- TouchType: Get spell check on your iPhone through TouchType.
- iSpreadsheet: Use this free application to use spreadsheets on your iPhone.
- Files Lite: Creating, viewing, and sharing documents on your iPhone is easier with Files Lite.
- PDF Reader Pro: You can upload PDF files to your iPhone and more with this app.
- Whiteboard: Collaborative Drawing: You can create a collaborative whiteboard over your iPhone with this app.
- AccelaStudy Vocabulary Builder: Improve your vocabulary every day using AccelaStudy.
- Box.net: Access and share content from anywhere. According to its Web site, more than 2 million individuals, small businesses, and Fortune 1000 companies around the world use Box to connect with content and people.
- Time Since: Time Since tracks elapsed time from events you enter. It is a simple, handy, and useful personal-productivity complement to traditional calendars and task lists, for maintenance, personal, medical, business or school milestones.
Quick Helpers
These shortcuts are there for you to use as soon as you need them.
- iPocket Coach: iPocketCoach provides the fundamental management tool needed to move quickly through several common people management categories, such as conflict, development, feedback and interviewing.
- GlobalCall: Have business contacts all over the world? Never know when you can call them or when they are asleep? Global Call helps you by checking who is available for communication.
- iClueless: This is a search portal that puts all the world’s information at the touch of your fingertips, empowering you to search for any information you need at anytime.
- Date Wheel: Need to calculate the completion date of a project, track when a shipment will arrive, or determine how long something is overdue? Date Wheel calculates the time between two dates in months, weeks, days, and business days and can be used in numerous applications, for both professional and personal needs.
- Myf2p: This content delivery and display software presents your desktop data on request on your iPhone. Access your desktop applications or data files on your PC or Mac, not just Word and Excel but any programs, any files, even autoCAD, with no limits on what you can share or the amount of storage space you can have.
- WeDict: Use WeDict to keep a free dictionary on your iPhone.
- The Vault: The Vault is an application for the iPhone and the iPod Touch that securely stores all of your confidential passwords, PINs, credit and debit card information, bank account numbers, and more.
- SystemInfo: SystemInfo is a small utility telling you more about your device. It will tell you how long your battery will last and how much space have you got for music, videos, apps etc. without a need to connect to your computer or dig deep into the device settings.
- Translate: Provides an efficient interface to Google Translation Services. It can increase the battery life and reduce roaming charges significantly by limiting the time your iPhone is communicating over the Internet. Look up your phrase, then just tap on a translated phrase to copy it and paste it wherever you'd like.
- iGuardDog: Do people pick up your iPhone every time you lay it down just to waste your battery playing games? iGuardDog was made to protect your phone from just that! They are donating 10% of all proceeds to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).
Travel
Don't let anything go unnoticed when you leave town. To stay in-the-know, all you need is your phone and these applications.
- Speeek!: Contains over 1,500 useful phrases while traveling overseas By simply talking into your iPhone in English, Speeek! will find the phrase and speak it in Chinese.
- Events Finder: Provides events from multiple event sources, such as Upcoming,Eventbrite, and TicketStumbler, all in one application!
- iSayHello: Speak German, English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish or Polish. Choose your language course and off you go with the language travel guide. This easy-to-use talking travel dictionary with superb audio output is more of a vocabulary trainer and dictionary than a translation program.
- New York on Tap: New York on Tap was designed to help people find great bars in New York City. It'll also help you locate the nearest subway and help you figure out where to go next.
- Payless Car Rental: Rent a Car using your iPhone. Travelers can view, modify, or cancel their reservation using the iPhone. "Call to Book" button connects the customer directly to Payless Car Rental’s call center.
- Bell Hop: Find photos, information, rates and more on this fast, easy-to-use lodging mobile search.
- London Travel Guide: Packed full of cool features our London Travel Guides are everything you that would expect from an electronic tour guide, only it's free!
- Good Food: GoodFood by Goodrec is the best way to find great places to eat! See what other users love and hate.
- TripIt: Use your iPhone to access your TripIt itineraries whether you’re online, offline or in airplane mode. TripIt is the best way to organize and share your travel plans. Forward your travel confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com, and TripIt automatically creates a master itinerary for your trip, with detailed information about flights, hotels, rental cars and much more. It also includes maps, driving directions and local weather.
- SushiGuru: Take SushiGuru with you to sound like a pro when you order sushi. SushiGuru provides you with a searchable database of over 200 entries of Japanese and English names of sushi and sushi rolls.
News
Know the market like the back of your hand…or the face of your phone! Keep up with today's business news here:
- Reuters: Get the official Reuters mobile site on your iPhone or iPodTouch. Get news, sports, entertainment, business information and tons more.
- WashingtonPost Mobile: Read breaking news as soon as it's released with WashingtonPost Mobile.
- Marketing Forecast: Marketing Forecast provides a continuous stream of forward-looking marketing and consumer insights from Ad-ology Research and other top research firms.
- iActu: iActu allows user to access the world information in only one touch. Discover more than 500 newspapers and pass from New York Times to Japan Times.
- One News Page: One News Page is a leading global news portal offering live news with more than 20,000 news headlines being added each day.
- NPR: This application gives you the option to hear audio podcasts like the NPR Hourly News and your local NPR Radio station news. Additionally you can browse all news stories by category including local news, most SMSed stories, story of the day, song of the day, politics, business, and science.
- CBS News Mobile: Read breaking news, and developing stories from CBS News.
- AP Mobile News: The Mobile News Network, powered by the Associated Press, helps you keep up-to-date with what’s happening anywhere, from your hometown to your favorite locale.
- ESPN iPhone: Get the most comprehensive sports coverage on your iPhone from ESPN Mobile Web for free, including breaking news and analysis, up to the minute scores, and more.
- NYTimes Mobile: The NYTimes application allows you to enjoy the professional journalism of The New York Times on your iPhone, wherever you are.
Fun
Don't take life so seriously! Have a little fun with your phone here:
- Where to Golf: Gives golfers all the information about a golf course and how to get there. Whether on business, on vacation or in your home town, you’re only a touch away from finding the course you’re looking for.
- Tetris: Take Tetris for a spin on your iPhone and iPod Touch to experience new twists and enhanced graphics! Drag, Flick and Poke your way through 15 challenging levels.
- Sudoku: This application has more than 10,000 puzzles. So enjoy one of America's favorite games, but try to get some work done, too!
- Crossword: This is a very thorough Crossword application with various levels of difficulty.
- Word Warp: Make words out of the six jumbled letters provided at each game's start.
- Cube Runner: Think ‘Snake’ for current generation telephones. Boatloads of fun, just don't run your boat into the cubes.
- Topple: Topple is a quick, tower building game that is theoretically simple yet surprisingly addictive.
- Trism: A little bit like Bejeweled meets Tetris, Trism stands alone as a distinctive, fun and brain-taxing challenge.
- Wurdle: a Boggle-like word game available in the iTunes app store. The game is jammed-packed with features, challenging, and most of all, it's fun.
- 400 Free iPhone Games: The perfect cure for boredom. This go-to site has 400 free games, from logic cames to old-school arcade games.
