If you have an iPhone or iPod touch, you have probably downloaded some of the popular games available for the device. But what you might not know is that there are many different apps that are useful to you as a Web designer. I've collected a list of 95 of the best apps for Web designers in 12 different categories.
The list below gives you the categories and how many apps are in each. You can then go check out the evaluation of the apps, read the reviews I've written, and find the apps that will best suit your needs.
7 Web Design Reference iPhone Apps
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References can be helpful when you need to look up a tag or HTML code. These apps provide cheat sheets and reference materials on HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, HTML codes, HTML colors, and more.
One is free and the rest range in price from $0.99 to $4.99.
11 Color Tools
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Finding the right color palette for a project can take a long time. And the best iPhone apps will help you do it. Some of these apps provide conversion information for Hex, RGB, HSB, CYMK, and even Pantone. Others will help you create nice looking palettes for your designs.
Three of these apps are free. And the rest range in price from $0.99 to $9.99.
4 Analytics iPhone Apps
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When you want to know how your website is doing you can log into Google Analytics or you can use one of these tools to view your reports in your iPhone.
One app is free. The rest range in price from $3.99 to $5.99.
5 SEO/SEM iPhone Apps
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Doing search engine optimization can now be done on your iPhone. These apps provide help with both paid and organic search and help you with your search engine marketing (SEM).
Three of the apps are free. The other two are $9.99.
14 Time Tracker iPhone Apps
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Tracking your time is important if you have clients and you charge by the hour. But even if you don't, it can be useful to know how much time you're spending on various aspects of your work. There are many more time tracker apps for the iPhone. These are 14 of the best. Let me know if there are others you like better.
Six of them are free. The rest range in price from $0.99 to $5.99.
12 Text and Blog Editors
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Content, as we know, is king. And one thing you can do on your iPhone is write content. There are many editors that serve as email gateways. Plus there are others that allow you to store files on your iPhone and send them as email later. Finally, if you want to do more than email your content, there are blogging gateways for your iPhone that you can use. I haven't looked at all of the possible editors for your iPhone, but these are 12 of the ones I liked.
Six of these apps are free. The rest range in price from $0.99 to $9.99.
8 File Storage iPhone Apps
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One of the great things about iPhones is that they have a lot of space. Even the small ones have 8GB of space to kick around. This is why there are so many file storage apps you can use. These apps turn your iPhone into a Wi-Fi flash drive. Some are space limited, but others are only limited by how much space you have on your hard drive, and you could always delete some music files, right?
Four apps are free. The rest range in price from $1.99 to $9.99.
10 Password Safes and Password Generators
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If you're anything like me, you have dozens of sites and applications that require passwords. Coming up with secure passwords can be a huge pain, and then remembering them later an even larger one. Password generators for the iPhone help you create secure passwords, and then password safes act as secure data storage areas so that you can remember them. Like some of the other app categories on this list, there are many more of these password tools than I was able to look at, but these are 10 of my favorites.
Four of these apps are free. The rest range in price from $0.99 to $8.99.
6 Wi-Fi Finders
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I have an iPod touch, not an iPhone, so I can't connect to the data network anywhere. But even with an iPhone you might not want to use the cell data network, because that is expensive. So these Wi-Fi finder tools can be very useful. They can tell you where access points are relative to where you are at the moment using the GPS functionality. And others tell you where access points are based on zip codes and addresses, so you can prepare for travel.
Three are free. The rest range in price from $0.99 to $2.99.
11 Domain Tools for the iPhone
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Domain tools are tools you use to manage your servers and domains. Things like ping, whois, and dig. Some of these tools will track domains for you and tell you if they're available for purchase. Others will just give you whois or ping information. If you buy a lot of domains or need to administer sites, these tools are invaluable.
Four of these apps are free. The rest range in price from $0.99 to $14.99.
3 FTP Client iPhone Apps
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In most situations what you would FTP from your iPhone would be photos. But there is at least one app I found that can act as a file storage device, editor and FTP client as well. The other two apps will transfer photos from your iPhone to your Web server.
One app is free. The other two range in price from $1.99 to $9.99
5 SSH iPhone Apps
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If you have to maintain Web pages on a server, you'll probably need to connect to the server every once in a while via SSH. These 5 applications provide you with the tools you need to create a terminal on your iPhone and connect to the server.
One of these apps is free. The rest range in price from $3.99 to $14.99.
