AppConnect

Discover more apps, especially free ones. [get it]
My rating 3.5/5, iTunes Store rating 3/5

AppConnect offers several ways to discover iPhone applications. You can see how other people rate applications, you can see which other applications other people recommend, you can recommend applications yourself and you can make friends with people to see which applications they recommend. You can also search for applications as you would in the iTunes app store, you can see which applications are hot and which applications are new.

There is one feature of this software, however, for which it really stands out from the crowd, it tells you which apps are on special offer and which apps have been reduced to cost absolutely nothing.

Many application developers decide to lower the price of their apps, often only for a limited period. The reduction may be to get the app more widely known or may be to celebrate a special day on the calendar or to promote the release of a new or improved application.

With AppConnect you get a list of all the applications that are currently on offer. There are quite a few apps which seem to drop their price every other day, presumably to get noticed, but looking through the list of offers there are often some real gems, some of which will be reviewed on this blog in the near future.

The networking features are certainly worth looking at, but "on sale" and "free" application lists make this a gateway to yet more bargain apps, and for that alone it is well worth the price! (which is nothing)

I have kept AppConnect on my iPhone and have a quick look at it several times a week.