If you’ve got a shiny new iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus this week, you’ll want to make the most of it by installing the best apps from the App Store’s catalog of over 1.2 million apps.
Keyboards
With iOS 8, it’s possible for third-party developers to supply their own keyboards that you can use system-wide. Here are some of the most popular keyboards:
Widgets
iOS 8 also adds support for widgets, which can be seen in the Today tab of the Notification Center. Here are some apps that let you add Today Widgets:
- Yahoo Weather
- PCalc: $9.99
- Hours Time Tracking: $4.99
- Yahoo News Digest
- NYT Now
- Clear: $2.99
- Day One: $4.99
Social Networking
1Password is a password management service that stores your login credentials, credit card details and other secure information in an encrypted fashion protected by a master password. 1Password lets you autofill login credentials in Safari and many other supported apps, so that you no longer have to remember your passwords. It even has Touch ID integration, so that you can autofill passwords just by scanning your finger.
One of the most popular third-party camera apps with advanced capturing and editing features, and a wide array of photo filters.
Storehouse is a beautifully designed blogging service that lets you share stories in the form of photos and text with your friends and followers.
Read a lot on the internet? Pocket is a read it later service where you can send your articles to read later, even offline. The service is free, and has some pro features that can be used with a pro subscription.
Instapaper is a read-it-later service similar to Pocket, which is also free but offers a paid subscription for premium features.
With the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus’ larger displays it is more convenient to edit HD videos. iMovie has a ton of editing features to convert your photos and videos into a great movie that you can share with your friends and family.
With Duolingo, you can learn new languages for free. You have levels to pass and friend challenges to play. The app was Apple’s 2013 App of the Year.
Halftone: $2.99
An awesome photo editing app that converse photos you’ve taken into comic books.
Take notes, store voice recordings, photo notes and much more with Evernote.
A collaborative documents app that lets you work with several other people on a single document at the same time.
Stay fit with this app that’ll guide through your Yoga session.
A podcast player that syncs your subscriptions, has features like Smart Speed and Voice Boost, and is free with In-app purchases.
A collection of links that have been shared by your friends on Facebook or Twitter.
An app by Dropbox to upload photos from your iPhone, and view your entire photo library in the cloud.
Another RSS reader that supports a variety of RSS services like Feedly, Feedbin, Feedwrangler, Fever and more.
Use your iPhone 6 as a portable scanner, with the device’s improved camera. Scan documents into PDFs, and sync it to services like iCloud and Dropbox.
News
Best apps for:
We’ve also done category specific lists in the past for features like email, weather, todo lists and Calendar. The App Store has a wide variety of choices for each of these categories, and here our what we thought were the best:
- The Best Email Apps for iPhone
- The Best Weather Apps for iPhone
- The Best To-Do List Apps for iPhone
- The Best Calendar Apps for iPhone
- The Best Browsers for iPhone
Did you buy an iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus? Let us know your favorite apps for it in the comments below.
