The best free and essential applications for iPhone

Black and white lovers bear witness to their artistic sense with Lenka. The configurable application on the fly applies your settings in real time on the subject to photograph. You can modify the brightness, adjust the focus, opt for a hot black and white or cold white by playing on the color temperature of the image, deepen the contrasts.

Apple unveils the best applications of 2022

Discover the winning applications of the App Store Awards 2022, and the most downloaded applications in 2022.

Appoline Reisacher / published on November 29, 2022 at 10:57 a.m

Bereal named iPhone application of the year

Each year with its App Store Awards, Apple chooses several applications to highlight. To choose the winners, the company focuses on “Technical innovation, user experience and design”, as well as the impact of these applications on the daily life of users.

In 2022, 16 applications won a price. The Bereal social network wins the palm in the category “IPhone application of the year”, thanks to an innovative proposal that provides “An authentic overview of life”. A consecration for this application, which has more than 50 million downloads, and the largest social platforms are already inspired by.

The list of 16 winners of the App Store Awards 2022

Winners in the category “Application of the year”

• IPhone application of the year: Bereal
• IPad application of the year: Goodnotes 5
• Mac application of the year: MacFamilyTree 10
• Apple TV application of the year: Vix
• Apple Watch application of the year: Gentle Streak

Category winners “Game of the year”

• IPhone game of the year: Apex Legends Mobile
• Ipad game of the year: Moncling
• Mac game of the year: Inscryption
• Apple TV game of the year: El Hijo
• Apple arcade game of the year: Wylde Flowers
• Game of the year in China: LEAGUE OF LEGENDS ESPORTS Managers

Winners of the category “Cultural impact”

• Dot’s Home: A narrative game that highlights the injustice of access to housing for the black community in America.
• How we feel: an application to indicate your emotions every day, and achieve an introspection.
• Inua: a narrative game that takes place during several eras in Canada.
• Locket widget: a widget to send photos on the home screen for his loved ones.
• Waterllama: an application that helps you stay hydrated, with daily reminders, all in a fun and relaxed environment.

The winners of this year’s App Store Awards redefined our experiences with applications offering new, thoughtful and authentic perspectives, “said Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Apple. Whether it is self -taught solo creators or international teams covering the whole world, these entrepreneurs have a significant impact and represent the way in which apps and games influence our communities and our lives.

The most downloaded applications on the App Store in 2022

Apple has also unveiled the most downloaded free and paid applications list on the App Store this year.

The most downloaded free apps on the App Store in 2022

Unsurprisingly, social networks largely dominate the classification of the most downloaded free applications in 2022, with Tiktok in first position:

1. Tiktok
2. Youtube
3. WhatsApp
4. Instagram
5. Google Maps
6. Google
7. Gmail
8. Bereal
9. Facebook
10. Cash app

The most downloaded paid applications on the App Store in 2022

As for paid applications, we mainly find applications related to productivity, work, or health:

1. Hotschedules
2. Pocket procreate
3. The Wonder Weeks
4. Shadowrocket
5. 75 Hard
6. Autosleep Track Sleep on Watch
7. Touchretouch
8. Thread
9. Skyview
10. My macros+

The best free and essential applications for iPhone

A selection of free and essential applications to download to take full advantage of your iPhone.

With more than two million apps available in the App Store, it is difficult to navigate. We have made for you a selection of the best free and essential applications to help you multiply the uses of your iPhone.

Surf the Internet

Accustomed to Chromium, Firefox Or Edge On PC, you can take advantage of the synchronization of your data on iPhone. The three browsers are available in mobile applications and perfectly replace Safari. By connecting to your Google, Firefox or Microsoft account, you instantly find your history, your favorites and your tabs open to other devices.

Opera Mini seriously competition these three web giants. The mobile version of the Norwegian browser manages data multi -platus synchronization and incorporates an innovative turbo mode. Once activated, the option compresses web pages, accelerates navigation and reduces internet data consumption.

Those looking for a solution that respects their private data can count on DuckDuckGo. Effective against advertising tracking, this browser allows you to surf without leaving any trace. The partnership established with Terms of Service Didn’t Read You help quickly decode the confidentiality policies of the sites you visit thanks to the privacy note awarded to them.

In the same genre, Brave makes you promise to navigation that respect your private and guaranteed data without unwanted and tracker content. To ensure maximum security, all connections to the sites you consult are established in HTTPS. Finally, if the browser offers a private navigation mode as with its competitors, it stands out from the latter by also integrating a private navigation module with it.

Consult social networks

The explosion of smartphones has greatly contributed to making social networks the most consulted sites from a mobile. Among the leaders, we find the unbeatable Facebook Thanks to which you easily take news from your loved ones and acquaintances.

It is possible to do without the official application, often described for its heaviness and your annoying tendency to cannibalize the autonomy of your iPhone. Friendly Encapsule the mobile web version of the Facebook site. You will find the social network and its instant messaging within the same application and can connect several profiles.

Twitter Also has its official application to allow you to consult your timeline, to retweet your followers, or to share the latest viral video in vogue.

Difficult to ignore Instagram, social network dedicated to photography on which you post your daily photos. The list of filters and available effects allows you to bring a touch of fantasy and transform the most banal images into artist photos.

Acclaimed by teenagers, Snapchat often escapes adults. Which does not prevent it from being an essential application. The photos, videos and messages sent with it stands by their ephemeral character since an open message disappears in the seconds following its reading.

Communicate with his loved ones

In theory, iOS users should be able to be enough of the native functions of the iPhone. Implemented in the original SMS app, Imessage allows you to send text messages and files via the Internet. Video and audio calls are supported by FaceTime. It is recalled, however, that these options are only reserved for users of Apple devices.

To communicate with all your contacts without exception, you can turn to Skype. The application authorizes the sending of written messages and the issue of audio or video calls to any fixed or mobile operating system.

If you prefer SMS type messages, WhatsApp stands out as the ideal solution. The application available on all mobile platforms offers the possibility of sending messages to your correspondents for free and making audio calls. You must imperatively be connected to the Internet to use the service.

Finally, Facebook users communicate with their contacts thanks to Messenger. Detached from the social network, the instant messaging app offers direct access to your friends list. You send text messages, create discussion groups, share links and files, make audio or video calls.

Consult your emails

Natively integrated into iOS, Mail mainly meets all your email management needs.

It is of course possible to prefer other email services according to his habits. Google account owners will tend to prefer Gmail which takes up in its mobile interface all the codes and options of the web version including the multi -count support and the labels.

Yahoo Mail positively responds to owners of open mail boxes at different suppliers. In addition to Yahoo accounts, the application is compatible with Gmail, Aol and Outlook profiles. We appreciate the synchronization support with the cloud services that are Google Drive and Dropbox.

The management of online storage spaces is also done with Outlook who connects to OneDrive, Dropbox and Drive. Microsoft’s email client is also compatible with Exchange, Office 365, iCloud, Gmail and Yahoo, classifies your messages of importance, integrates the calendar and reminds you of your appointments.

Compatible with the most popular reception boxes such as the most confidential services, Spark centralizes all your accounts. Its originality lies in its very specific management of emails you program, which you give the reading later and about which you discuss in private with chosen contacts.

Take photos

Despite the excellent reputation enjoyed by the camera of the iPhone, your model’s seniority may push you to opt for a third -party camera app.

VSCO meets quality and creativity imperatives formulated by lovers of beautiful images. Like a pictorial social network, the application draws the best from the material configuration of the iPhone to enter neat shots. Everyone’s free to personalize them using light filters or retouching before sharing them with the rest of the community.

Retrica Judiciously competition vSco. The app provides you with a camera module incorporating a hundred predefined filters that you apply at the time of the capture. A posteriori, you can quickly touch up your images and create photo cabin collage.

Black and white lovers bear witness to their artistic sense with Lenka. The configurable application on the fly applies your settings in real time on the subject to photograph. You can modify the brightness, adjust the focus, opt for a hot black and white or cold white by playing on the color temperature of the image, deepen the contrasts.

Listen to music

Faced with the lack of local space, streaming convinces limited iPhone owners in storage. Deezer And Spotify offer free access to millions of musical titles. In return, you listen sporadically some advertisements or accept the random reading of your playlists. A lower cost for those who want to save the voluminous synchronization of their music library.

• Download Spotify for iPhone(Free)
• Download Deezer for iPhone(Free)

Google offers an interesting alternative with Google Play Music. The application allows those who wish to synchronize on the cloud up to 50,000 songs initially stored on their computer. It is then possible to stream them from your iPhone provided you have previously connected to your Google account.

To discover unique songs or find new groups and singers, we rather turn to Soundcloud. The sharing platform essentially lists little -known and / or independent artists. The opportunity to enrich and diversify its musical culture far from the trends imposed by the majors.

Watch videos

Streaming also finds its interest in the video field. Dominating the sector, Youtube brings together millions of clips with various times and themes. Users are looking for keyword content, subscribe to channels and react to videos by commenting on them.

Molotov Do the television on iPhone with its streaming and replay service. You take advantage of the content broadcast live by the free TNT channels. Depending on the partnerships established between the platform and the audiovisual players, you take up a program at the start already started. Afterwards, you access the replay of the shows.

To take advantage of the videos stored on your iPhone, you can always count on Vlc. Like its Desktop declination, the application supports most existing codecs, supports the multilingual and manages non-encrusted subtitles.

Please note: you will need to provide additional effort to take advantage of your videos via Vlc Since you must go through iTunes and file sharing located in the applications synchronization window to transfer your computer’s hard drive videos to your iPhone.

Find a route

Let’s be honest, Apple Plans must still progress to finally convince its users. Waiting, Google Maps offers a more than satisfactory GPS solution. It is calculated there with or without steps. Local recording of cards allows the use of offline navigation.

Often presented as the direct competitor of Google Maps, Waze optimizes your journeys according to the state of traffic in real time. We owe the accuracy of these data to an active community of drivers who regularly report the slowdowns, traffic jams, accidents and vehicles stopped on the aisle.

If your mobile plan does not include enough data abroad, it is better to provide a rescue solution. Completely free, Here Wego offers the possibility of downloading the mapping of one or more countries in advance to which you plan to go. The application, which also informs the state of real -time traffic also offers to search for alternative routes with all means of transport available in the area.

Geovelo Guide cyclists on secure roads. Available in several major cities in France, the app establishes routes according to your sports skills. You also discover various marked circuits combining exercises and walks.

You plan to visit a big city and you want to travel by public transport ? Citymapper Covers many metropolises including Paris, Barcelona, ​​London, Rome, Berlin and New York. The app allows you to easily prepare your journeys by public transport, delivering the passing timetables of buses, trams and metros in real time.

To work

To compete with Microsoft, Apple has its own office automation suite on iPhone. Pages, Numbers And Keynote offer you the essential tools for publishing text documents, calculation sheets and dynamic presentations. You save and synchronize your work on iCloud to find them easily on MacOS.

The faithful of the Office suite find Word, Excel And Power point on iPhone. They take advantage of synchronization with their Microsoft account.

• Download Microsoft Word for iPhone(Free)
• Download Microsoft Excel for iPhone(Free)
• Download Microsoft PowerPoint for iPhone(Free)

Google also has its own applications with Documents, Sheets And Slid. In both cases, we observe a reciprocal compatibility between the different file formats.

• Download Google Documents for iPhone(Free)
• Download Google Sheets for iPhone(Free)
• Download Google Slides for iPhone(Free)

If you happen to work with documents written in a foreign language, check the uncertain translations using Microsoft Translator. The application translates to the volley of the written text, dictated or photographed in around sixty languages.

Unlike Android, Apple still persists in not integrating file manager worthy of the name on iPhone. To open, save or edit the numerous attachments received by email, it will be necessary to go through a third -party application. Universal solution, Documents is able to open files in different formats: text, pdf, audio, photo, video, zip.

The camera of the iPhone being very good, it is perfectly possible to use it to scan documents. Applications like Genius Scan guarantee careful digitization. The algorithms asked straighten and improve the sharpness of your contracts, photos, supporting documents that you export to JPG and PDF formats.

Filling and signing documents from an iPhone is not impossible. Adobe Fill & Sign is entirely dedicated to this exercise and simplifies the filling of your personal information in the forms. It is indeed possible to create a sort of profile on which personal information you are led to frequently enter. A few steps are then sufficient to inform the different fields of a form.

Cherry on the cake, Adobe Fill & Sign Also incorporates a module to record a handwritten signature that you can then affix at the bottom of your documents.

Store files online

To answer the problem of non -extensible memory the iPhone or save precious documents, remember to copy your files in the cloud. Google Drive, Dropbox And OneDrive offer 15 GB, 2 GB and 5 GB of free storage space respectively. These three services being available on all mobile platforms and desktop, you will find your content from any device connected to the Internet.

• Download Google Drive for iPhone(Free)
• Download Dropbox for iPhone(Free)
• Download OneDrive for iPhone(Free)

Larger, photos and videos take advantage of their own solutions, especially with Google Photos. The tool allows you to organize content in private or shared albums.

Google Photos does not impose any limits provided that 16 megapixel or 1080p files are hosting. If the original size of your photos and videos exceeds these values, you will have to be satisfied with the 15 GB to share with Gmail and Drive.

Manage your professional network

Social networks are made a place in the world of work with platforms like Linkedin. The app puts you in touch with colleagues that you would not accept on Facebook but with whom you want to keep in touch. The service also invites you to create an online CV that potential recruiters will be able to study before contacting you.

French solution not to be overlooked, Viadeo Linkedin competition in the field of VSEs / SMEs. Like its American competitor, the platform collects your professional identity, puts you in touch with your current or old employees and suggests job offers that can interest you.

Within the company, you can contact your colleagues thanks to tools like Slack. This communication platform emphasizes collaborative work. Articulated around groups and work sub-groups, it allows elements of one or more teams to join spaces and organize themselves to carry out common projects. We exchange text, links and files there that all members of the same group consult freely.

Main competitor of Slack, Microsoft Teams offers a complete communication solution that fits perfectly with the Office suite. You can tarnish private conversations, but also group discussions. The tool also allows you to exchange data and documents, to allocate and manage tasks or even calendar events.

Consult your bank account

Managing your finances is not a part of pleasure, especially if you are domiciled in several banking establishments. Applications like Bank give you a little boost, centralizing the synthesis of all your accounts and booklets. You visualize money movements in real time and can make transfers if your bank is part of the partners’ list.

Offering similar functions, Linexo And Nestor can manage all types of accounts. You receive notifications when a large expense or a risk of overdraft are detected. All your operations are automatically classified by categories. An essential point to help you identify the most important expenditure.

Remember that you can follow all the news with the applications of the Nextradiotv group

The applications of the Nextradiotv group allow you to follow the latest general and specialized information. Stay connected to high-tech news and find the latest articles published on 01net.com.

Bfmtv invites you to follow the news continuously in France and internationally thanks to the articles published online and to the direct of the channel.

Economic and financial news is accessible on the app BFM Business. You consult the articles classified by themes and follow the live video of the channel.

The application RMC Allows you to listen to live shows, listen to the RMC shows thanks to the podcasts and access the editorial staff of the editorial staff. For sports news, go to RMC Sport.

Top iOS applications to have absolutely on its iPhone or iPad

Here are our application recommendations not to be missed on iPhone and iPad.

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You recently received a new iPhone 14, or 14 pro Max. Or maybe you turned to a new iPad this time, or an iPhone SE, XR, XS or even 12 or 13 ? There may also be some of you who come from the Android world.

However, the acquisition of a new iOS device is a (re) discovery of the vast world that is the app store, but also the opportunity to clean up in its applications and thus get rid of those too elderly or never used. Precisely, Apple’s iOS apps store is full of small wonders that have not necessarily known or that we discover during a first purchase !

So to help you find yourself there on your new iPhone or iPad, the editorial staff of Iphon.FR offers you a file listing iOS applications deemed essential, constituting the basis for any new iOS user. So here they are described and linked to their respective app store page. What exceed the native applications provided by Apple, not always very successful, it must be said !

The inexhaustible

I-NFO.Fr

Our Iphon Blog application.fr, to follow all Apple news on your favorite iOS device. The app allows in particular to see the general news feed, but also to access the most shared articles, to good deals or to all our guides. In its brand new version published recently, a dark world is also there as well as a brand new interface and various new features, including that of the subjects and favorite articles. Do not hesitate to consult our complete guide of the I-NFO app.Fr. And thank you again for your feedback and your superb notes App Store. We try to correct the bugs as quickly as possible.

Youtube

If you had to describe youtube to a total novice of tech has never heard of it, if there are such profiles, let’s say that it is the new TV. Google’s video service must therefore be present on iOS, which is the case, fortunately. The application in question is practical, rather well done and even allows you to watch a video while looking for the next.

Molotov

Molotov is the essential app for watching many live TV channels, but also seeing or seeing replay shows. It also allows you to find new shows to watch according to your tastes. And the app offers users to program the recording of their favorite content on a virtual magnetoscope, to see them later when they have time. The promise was to reinvent TV: it is held !

Waze

In the free GPS category, an application holds a special place, Waze, property of Google. Completely based on its community, Waze offers to take you as well as to warn of road events such as traffic jams, checks and accidents that could brake on the road to the holidays.

Dropbox

Dropbox allows you to synchronize your files between several Mac, PC, Smartphone and Type Ipad computers by simply depositing them in a folder, on the sole condition of installing an application on the computer. Once the operation is made, the files are automatically synchronized and accessible on iPhone, or iPad. They can be marked in favorites so as not to depend on a connection. The office becomes mobile: hyper practical ! This is all the more so as Dropbox, like some other “Cloud,” files is increasingly supported by many third -party applications.

Shazam

Less essential now than iOS incorporates similar functions in Siri, some will be able to find the advantage of keeping the trace of recognized songs and larger options than those offered by Apple Vocal Assistant. Shazam is almost magical: launch the application when you listen to a piece of music whatever it is and in seconds, Shazam indicates the title of the album and the artist. Now you will always have the answer to the question: “Who is singing ? »». There is no limit you can “shazamer” as much as you wish and for free, the app is regularly updated. Note, a very good free alternative also, Soundhound.

Citymapper

An essential for all people using public transport in Paris, Lyon, and other cities. It allows you to know the shortest route and the time required to go from point A to point B using public transport (metro, RER, bus, tram, etc.)). We indicate the address, or the name of a place (bar, restaurant, etc.) if we do not know the exact address and the app is responsible for everything. It even includes metro outputs and indicates which wagon go up in front of the exit.

1Password

Probably the best password manager of the App Store, 1Password is a real digital personal safe that we find synchronized on all the platforms from the iPhone to the iPad via the computer and its navigators. With her identifying becomes a breeze.

Shortcut

The “shortcut” function is for iOS what automator is for macOS, much more powerful however, and above all, taking advantage of Siri. The application was born following the buyout of workflow by Apple. Thanks to it, it is possible to program any keyword to state to launch one or more actions on your iPhone or iPad. Its functioning can be afraid, however, given the potential power of the app and its depth.

However, we have published several aid articles, to be found there, including:

• There first part of our app discovery file: start with the shortcut
• There second part : develop your first shortcut with demonstration video and example to download
• There third part : create a shortcut for its morning/evening routine (condition, settings, alarm clock)
• There fourth part : Create a shortcut taking advantage of IFTTT
• Practical: nearly 30 apps that incorporate shortcuts
• How to change the icon of an app on iPhone and iPad ?

Flipboard

Choose your favorite topical themes and let flipboard do the sorting and selection work. In addition to this news aggregation adapted to the user, Flipboard also allows you to follow news of news created by others. For example, you can follow the Iphon news feed.en via this link. A highly appreciable app, synchronized in the web service of the same name, all, to not miss any news worthy of interest.

Lydia

Refund a loved one who paid the bar tour, collect money between brothers and sisters for the parents’ gift, or even pay your order directly with many traders, that’s what Lydia allows very simply. The app has become in a few years one of the new references to send money via mobile. And even if Paypal, available here on the App Store, also holds an important place in the same field, Lydia, by its growing popularity, especially among young people, has the potential to take over the competition.

Social networks

Twitter

Twitter has become essential on iOS and more generally on the web to keep up to date with what is happening in real time in the world. We also regularly share information on our Twitter account @iphonfr, we are more than 69,000 already, and wait for your tweets with pleasure !

If the Twitter app is not enough for you, the best alternative Twitter customer is according to the general opinion of the editorial staff, Tweetbot. At the same time simple, practical and pretty, this app makes the use of Twitter more natural ! We could see 10 tips to be even more effective with the latter. Tweetbot is a paid application, however: € 6.49 per year.

Facebook

We no longer present this social network. The Facebook app is so downloaded (this is one of the downloaded from the App Store according to official Apple info) that Apple could even enter it into the iPhone. Truck of joke, the Facebook app allows all those who wish to stay in touch with their friends. Very regularly updated, it is much more effective than a web connection to keep in touch. Join us on Facebook by the way, by clicking “I love” on our page.

Instagram

Like its predecessors, the most recent iPhone highlight an improved photo and video sensor. And the app store is full of photo apps. But if you had to choose only one, I think it is this that should be taken. In a few years, Instagram has become as essential as Facebook (which bought it from elsewhere) or Twitter. In addition to photo sharing, Instagram offers “stories” and live video. Lovers of beautiful images can no longer do without it !

Snapchat

Snapchat, it is originally the easiest way to share photos that are not intended to be kept. It is therefore practical and fun for unusual photographs that are made to simply share a short moment of life, without spending time taking, knowing that the photo will be deleted after a few seconds after its opening by the recipient. The application also makes it possible to discuss live by text or by video, offers increasingly sophisticated animated and dynamic filters (with the addition of augmented reality !) and has since popularized a very appreciated “stories” format:

Tiktok

A real tidal wave coming from China, this application has been imposed in less than 2-3 years as one of the most used social networks, especially among young people, but also the stars. The app allows you to film, mount and share video sequences recorded on a song. Tiktok Vu has also made it possible to publicize many musical artists thanks to the buzz of different Tiktok videos.

IPhone and iPad applications to communicate

WhatsApp

Voca one of the most used instant messaging applications in the world. It allows us to converse with many of your contacts, to share photos, to share your geographical position, to send audio messages, and even to call your WhatsApp contacts. An excellent alternative to iMessage for all those whose tribe is not 100 % iPhone !

Facebook Messenger

As for WhatsApp, it is still Facebook who is in the controllers to messenger. This is the portage of the Facebook Messenger service allowing to communicate with its contacts on the social platform. Facebook being still in 2020 one of the most popular social networks, Messenger must have a place on his iPhone or iPad to discuss with Facebook contacts still absent from alternatives may be more attentive to private data as a signal, presented below.

Signal

Signal is announced as a messaging application at the top of technologies and services in terms of respect for the privacy of its users. It offers in particular an end-to-end encryption of conversations based on an open-source protocol. In addition, it guarantees independent operation, using neither advertising nor trackers to persist. All the support in the development of the app comes from its user community. Signal is the top messaging applications for those who want to keep their private exchanges.

Apple apps not to be missed

iMovie

For those who like to make video, Imovie presented in the file of essential video apps, should seduce you. Make your videos, add transitions and sound all from your iPhone for a stunning result. What to get the best of the brand new photo/video sensor of your new iPhone.

The IWork suite

Arrived for a long time on iPhone, the IWork suite (pages, Keynote and Numbers) is also perfectly integrated into iCloud. Start on iPad or Mac and take your documents in your iPhone/iPad via the Cloud to consult and even modify them. The most mobile of us will appreciate.

Garageband

Garageband is at musical creation what Imovie is on video editing: simple, clear, basic software in appearance, but still complete, to a certain extent. Garageband is therefore a musical sequencer, allowing you to create and/or record pieces of pieces, but also to set up audio projects, such as a podcast or the sound of a video, among others. In addition, it is very easy to open in Garageband or even Logic on Mac a project started on Garageband on iPhone or iPad.

The essentials from Google

If Google has its own operating system with Android, it is nonetheless very present on the Apple App Store with well -finished and very regularly improved applications. Among the many applications of the search engine, some seem to us essential. Here they are :

Google Maps

Who says GPS on mobile, often says Google Maps. The Mountain View giant app has, over time, won the reference status in the genre. It is practical, effective and quality, very supplied. We have concocted a file with more than twenty uses of use !

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Google Photos

This is the application of the Storage and Sharing Service of Photos and Videos of Google. The latter offers unlimited and free storage provided that photos do not exceed 16 megapixels and videos in 1080p. In the case of content to the resolution greater than these, a conversion of quality decrease is made before storage in the cloud.

The app includes a very powerful search engine that will recognize what is in the images. For example if you type “sunset”, the app will display all the photos where it will have detected a sunset. The app supports Apple’s live photos and can automatically create albums from your photos. Extremely practical !

Snapseed

This free application is one of the best photo editing applications in the App Store. It is used by many amateur and professional photographers, and makes it possible to modify precisely many parameters of a photo in order to make it even more beautiful. She is also able to edit the photos in RAW format.

Street view and Google Maps

For the Street View function, Google offers a dedicated application. The latter therefore allows you to walk on the planet thanks to all the 360 ​​° photographs taken by Google in addition to the contributions made by users. We therefore have direct access to certain unusual places, but also to the interiors of certain buildings such as restaurants, museums, stadiums, etc. It’s huge and we quickly got lost !

Ditto for Google Earth, the service for which the Mountain View giant has also decided to offer a dedicated mobile application. Explore the planet, from the most unusual places to the best known monuments and places and enjoy the superb guided tours signed by NASA, BBC Earth or National Geographic.

Google News

Google News on iPhone and iPad allows you to find the web service of the same name. In the words, this is a news aggregator, allowing you to see in one and the same app news from different media. The user can choose preferential themes for sorting news, but also easily see a local, national or even international. In addition the iOS widget of Google News is top ! Failing to take advantage of the full Apple News service in France, this is probably the best alternative, offered by Google, once again.

Chromium

Like the previous two, Chrome is a high quality application. It’s a good alternative browser in Safari. Regularly updated, Chrome can interact with other Google apps present on the iPhone. It offers navigation by tabs, Google vocal search (impressive) and pages synchronization with Mac, PC or iPad.

For Firefox users, also has its browser on iPhone. Very well followed by Mozilla, the app is ergonomic, but also very efficient. Finally, private navigation, synchronization of tabs and surfing are also part, among many other practical features.

IPhone and iPad pearls

Here are less known applications, but that deserve the detour, in our opinion.

Night Sky

The space holds many mysteries, still inaccessible for man. Its beauty is matched only by the greatness of its distances. And when the clouds are rare, the space offers a nice spectacle to observe from home, or better, in the mountains, far from the lights of the day before. And to know everything about space, our favorite application is Night Sky.
The app, to the exemplary realization, includes an astounding database on the stars of the sky. It will allow all those who are very interested in the discovery of the roof of the world to know more about the roof of the world, thanks in particular to guided tours, but also in augmented reality, iPhone pointed at the sky.

Pixelmator

No need for iPhone and iPad photoshop, and even Mac, when you have PixelMator. This well -designed application and especially at the accessible rate (€ 5.99 on iOS) allows novices and experts to make pretty photo effects and image montages. The app is also regularly updated. It is aimed at a specific target, of course, but it has all the assets to introduce image processing to the general public without difficulty.

Prisma

The best application of photo effects, simply. Presented here, it allows you to apply many styles to a photo. And all these filters are honestly striking. There are several dozen. To transform a moderately successful photo into a real work of art, frankly, there is no better.

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Procate

The camera app on iOS is very basic. Certainly, it will be enough for many users and to take simple photos and videos. But to go a little further, it is better to equip yourself with a third -party app. And on the subject, Procamera is in our view the best alternative. It combines simplicity of use with treatment power. It has an excellent night mode, not to mention the many effects and other settings available to enhance its photos. It costs € 17.99, but sincerely, it is well worth them.

So much for our top apps to install on your iPhone or iPad after purchasing a new model, or a simple reset of its iOS terminal for good spring cleaning.

Do you have apps to add to this list ? If so why ? Do not hesitate to put them in comments.