iPhone apps that beat Apple's default apps

I've tried calvetica and week calendar, but the calendar app that is truly the best is miCal. Fine german engineering - like the bmw of calendar apps.

I forgot mSpot and thought I'd see it here by day's end but no! The playback is easy, and who can balk at 40 GB of music that you can stream from the cloud to any device for $4 USD per month? No brainer. The only limits: music is compressed so fidelity is a little diminished, and you can't make playlists from the browser interface. But it does auto sync your iTunes library, so keep that up to date and you're solid.

Add Month Cal to the list of calendar programs. Much better overview than the built-in calendar.

OZ-weather is much better than the Apple weather app. It has local radar which loads fast as well as national radar and satellite cloud maps. Weather observations can be viewed as a list with 30min readings. When the iPhone is rotated, the list becomes a graph.

Gmail is much better than the Apple mail app, mainly because it has the search option.

I would add Calvetica as a calendar app to the list of better that Apple apps.

Here are my default replacement apps:

Pocket Informant (replaces Calendar/Tasks/Contacts coming soon)
Camera+ (replaces Camera)
AwesomeNote (replaces Notes)
Pocket Casts (replaces iTunes for podcasts)
Outside/Weather Channel (replaces Weather)

For jailbreakers, BiteSMS is pretty amazing and is much better than the built in Messages app.

Lots of suggestions to try out now...

I use Calvetica and love it.
If you're looking for very simple quick notes, I use Captio, which simply sends the note to an email address... which makes it a reminder/note. I find this to be perfect for a lot of uses of the built-in Notes app. It's not as good at long term storage, but I rarely need that on my phone.

Siri is awesome but I'm not sure it directly replaces any of the built-in apps...

I've been using Alarm Clock Pro as my replacement for Clock, but yesterday it was causing my location services icon to stay on, which creeped me out. Location Services on my phone are currently off while I figure out if I can get it to stop or I need to remove it and find another alarm clock.

As for iPod related things, Netflix, Hulu Plus, Pandora, and any number of radio apps are great as suppliments, and since you can access the iPod from the multitasking menu, the icon can be hidden. New to that scene: Crackle, which I believe we heard about just the other day.

I tried iCab mobile, and switched to Atomic Web Browser shortly after. It has more features and quite a bit more customization that iCab, IHMO.

Beluga instead of messages!