My Top 5 Favorite IPhone Apps

Since I received my iPhone as a birthday present, I have been downloading apps daily. In all, I’ve downloaded over 200 applications to my phone, and I’ve created a folder with my 5 favorite applications that I use most often. This is a list of those applications:

5. Angry Birds
I assume you’ve heard of this one. It’s a pretty simple game where you use a giant slingshot to launch brightly colored birds at a structure made of wood, glass, and stone in an attempt to defeat evil green pigs by either knocking them off of high things, directly impacting them with birds, or causing them to be crushed by structure collapsing on their heads. Angry Birds is one of the most fun games on the iPhone, and it honestly never will die. One of the reasons that Angry Birds is such a good application is that it gets constant level updates. In many games, when you finish the campaign and conquer every level, the game ends. This is not so in Angry Birds. The game launched with about 60 levels, and through updates now contains well over 100. I jumped on this game early, back when it launched, and because of these later levels being released, I am still playing the game now, many months after its launch. Another great thing about Angry Birds is how it ranges in difficulty depending on how well the player wants to play and what goals they wish to accomplish. After you complete a level, you are given a star rating, from one star to three stars. Your star rating depends on your score. I know people who have made it their quest to complete every level in Angry Birds with three stars (though I only know of one person who has actually completed this arduous task), whereas I myself am content simply completing levels and moving on to more and more challenging ones.

4. The Weather Channel
This app has saved me many times. I live in New England, and we get some pretty nasty weather up here. My brother had a baseball game he needed me to drive him to, and I, looking up and seeing a few grey clouds pretty far on the horizon, checked The Weather Channel application on my iPhone. One of the major benefits of this application as oppose to the default one that comes on your phone is that this application has a doppler radar that allows you to actually see where rain and snow cells are. I looked out and saw that there was a massive red (very intense) storm coming in from farther west. I had my brother call his friends and warn them, and 10 minutes before baseball practice, it started to pour with windspeed at 30 miles per hour. There were multiple car accidents during the 90 minutes it rained, as well as two on the highway between the baseball field and my house. We normally leave for the field 20 minutes before practice starts. Thankfully, we weren’t caught out in that storm, which leaves me grateful to this application for helping me avoid a serious accident.

3. Harbor Master
This game is delightfully challenging. The basic concept of Harbor Master is that you have to direct different colored boats into different colored docks, have them unloaded, then make sure they leave the game area without being damaged. You can control the paths of the boats by drawing a line with your finger. Different boats are faster or slower than others, and some boats (the slower ones) are also larger and carry more cargo, meaning they have to sit in the dock longer to unload. The game starts out relatively easy, with only two or three boats on the map at a time, but once the game progresses and you’ve unloaded about thirty boats, it gets extremely difficult and there can be something like ten boats on the map at once, making the logistics of handling all of them without a single one crashing into another nearly impossible. It’s addicting, be ready.

2. Fruit Ninja
This game is my second favorite thing to do on my iPhone. The basic concept of this game is that fruit is thrown up from the bottom of the screen, and your job is to slice through it with your finger. There are three different game modes, including Normal, where you just try to slice as many fruits as you can, no time limit or anything, just a ton of fruit with bombs mixed in (if you hit a bomb, you lose immediately, whereas you have to miss three fruits to lose that way). There is also Zen mode, where you have sixty seconds to slash as much fruit as you want. There are no bombs, but the only way to really do well is to get more than one fruit per fluid motion, which is a combo and awards you twice as many points. My favorite game mode is, like most people, Arcade mode. In arcade, you have ninety seconds to slice as many fruits as you can. There are purple bombs that subtract your remaining time by 10 seconds per bomb you hit, as well as limited time power-ups, such as Freeze, which makes the fruit go in slow motion, Frenzy, which causes tons of fruit to go up quickly, and Double Points, which does exactly what it says, for a limited time. This game is a super game, and doesn’t really get boring even if you play for a while at a time.

1. Tiny Wings
This game is by far the best game on the iPhone App Store. You are a little chubby bird with tiny wings that wants to fly but can’t, because your wings are too small! Your solution: using the hills and ground as sort of a racetrack. The ground is hilly, and you use the hills as ramps. You dive down and shoot out of hills, gaining speed whenever you land perfect slides and losing it when you time your dives incorrectly and slam into the side of a hill, or missing the ramp and landing in the valley created by a hill. This game is so simple that any little kid can play it. It uses only one button! All you have to do is tap on the screen to dive. The game is also involved enough for an adult to enjoy, because there are special challenges to unlock a better score multiplier (which increases your score by a certain percentage depending on how high it is). Some of these challenges include holding your iPhone upside down and trying to play, reaching the 5th island without any fever mode (initiated by getting three perfect slides in a row), etc. This game is fantastic, the soundtrack is great, and honestly, it is the most fun I have ever had with my iPhone.


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