Best of 2012: Great Free Apps For iPhone 5

Best of 2012: Great Free Apps for iPhone 5

IBTimes UK brings you the best of 2012 iPhone apps, hand-picked to enhance your iOS experience.

There is a plethora of free apps to choose from the iOS App Store. Here is our pick.

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Follow the links below to read the IBTimes UK picks of the year, in:-

Tennis

UK Television

Pictures

Manchester United

Films

50 Shades of Grey

World football

Technology

Sporting Heroes and Villains

England Cricket

The Newsmakers

Business Quotes

iBooks or Kindle apps are essentially bookstore apps that do not come pre-installed with iDevices. You may opt to install either iBooks for App Store or Kindle app for books on Kindle. These apps provide free e-books and special offers across different online app-stores.

The new iPhone 5 update for Kindle app offers full screen functionality for reading books, magazines and comics (similar to Flipboard).

Comixology is the top digital comics-app for iPhone 5, which enables full zoom capability to fit the video to full length of the screen. The app defaults to portrait mode on taller screens to exploit the full height of the display panels.

Nevertheless, on flat panels with wider screens, the app defaults to landscape mode, which is a bit buggy as it doesn’t default to full screen mode. Although, one can use pinch zoom feature to force the full screen mode in such cases.

iPhone 5 users can now enjoy their tweets on this popular Twitter client, which adds a couple of extra lines to accommodate your lengthy tweets. You get a few lines more with Echofon Pro at $4.99 that removes the banner ads at the top of each window.

Echofon is a fast, simple and user-friendly Twitter client with basic features such as mentions, direct messages, lists, and search. Although, the interface is not too fancy, it ships iPhone 5-ready with a spate of user-interface (UI) enhancements.

It is a nifty little tool to find your lost or stolen iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac using another iOS device with the intuitive app installed on it. The app not only helps locate your device, but also protects data on it.

Just install the free app on your iOS device, launch it and sign in with your Apple user ID. Find My iPhone app uses a map to locate your missing device. Other functions of the app include playing a sound, display a message, remote lock your device and erase all data on it.

iOS devices running iOS 6, feature Lost Mode; wherein it locks the missing device with a 4-digit passcode and displays the contact number right on the lock screen. While in Lost Mode, the device is capable of tracking and displaying its recent location history, when you login to your Find My App account with your registered Apple ID. Just make sure that Find My iPhone feature is enabled in the iCloud settings on your device for you to locate it with the app.

Industrious teenager Nick D’ Alosio is the creator of this news summary app in collaboration with Hong Kong based billionaire who earlier invested in Skype, Facebook and Spotify.

The app sports a slick interface, powered by special algorithms to consolidate your favourite news feeds in one place.

The tiny little note-taking app just got smarter with iOS 6 support, as it lets you share content over Facebook. The app is now fully optimised for the 4-inch screen and gives you the pleasure of working in full screen mode with all your important to-do lists.

YouTube also gets a makeover with the release of iPhone 5, as it brings new features to keep up with iOS 6’s revamped interface. New feature enhancements include bloatware-free interface, improved search, integrated Google+ support and advanced voice search to find a rare album.

Enjoy snappy and high-quality images with iPhone’s revamped camera interface and take advantage of panoramic shots at up to 28-megapixels quality. The app gives you full control to fiddle with depth-detection sensors and stitch your own image in your quest for a masterpiece.

Vlingo makes the best use of Siri’s capabilities on the revamped iPhone, as it allows you to issue voice commands to your phone for sending texts, setting reminders or unearthing the weather forecast of a remote location.