AppTools 100 in 1 provides a hundred handy utilties for your iPhone

It's kind of like a Mel Brooks movie. Throw a lot of jokes at someone, and a few of them will be funny. This iPhone app has a hundred apps built-in, and some of them are quite good. Others are completely worthless. For US$0.99, AppTools 100 in 1 is probably sure to please. A complete list of the utilities can be found at the App Store.

What's inside? Quite a lot.There are apps that turn your iPhone into an electronic level, a baby monitor, or a language translator; there are photo apps, the usual loan calculators, dice rollers, and Morse Code apps. There are silly apps like Clap Lamp, where you clap your hands and the screen goes all white, and Flashlight Pro which is essentially the same thing.

There are some really handy things though, like an app that creates a background for your emails instead of just plain white, and a talking battery monitor. There's a radio app that lets you pick your genre of music and then offers dozens of stations.

Most of the apps are obvious in what they do, but some need instructions. I didn't know what Walkie Talkie did, or how it works. Good luck with that one.



Like any of these all-in-one apps, many of them will be crap, but many are useful and clever. Of course, what's crap to me may be golden for you. The biggest weakness in this app is that there is not any way to save favorites, so if you use a few of these apps over and over it's a pain to navigate to them.

For $0.99 I think this app offers good value for money, and is a great demo of just how much functionality can be crammed into one framework.

Most of these tools work fine with an iPod touch, but many of the apps require a camera. There is not a version for the iPad, but the app will run on one, minus the camera apps.

You can see some screen shots in the gallery.
Share