Top 20 paid and free iPhone apps by Apple

Apple has posted the top twenty paid-for and free iPhone apps on iTunes, based on the number of downloads from the App Store since the phone launched in July last year.

If you've owned an iPhone for some time, the chance is that you will already have downloaded most of the free apps on the list. Though if you've recently acquired Apple's ultimate gizmo you might want to check through the list to see if there's anything vital you've missed.

If you have still to experience the Guitar Hero-a-like rhythm game Tap Tap Revenge, for example, then TechRadar urges you to give it a tap.

Fast growing business

"With the amount of downloads they've had since the App Store launched last July, it must be one of the fastest rising businesses since the launch of the internet," claimed David Rowan, editor of Wired UK magazine in the Guardian.

"What's good about the App Store is that there's quite a low barrier to entry, so many of these programmers actually have day jobs and are just working on these apps in their spare time."

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For us, the launch of the iPhone 3G was less about the hardware tweak than it was about the App Store. Finally, Apple had opened up the iPhone platform to allow developers to create proper, native apps for the iPhone and iPod touch, and we couldn't wait to get installing.

The great thing about third-party apps is that you can do more than install them on an iPhone 3G; all first-generation iPhones can install them too, courtesy of the free 2.0 firmware upgrade. Even if you have an iPod touch you can get the 2.0 firmware upgrade, though it'll cost you £5.99. Some apps won't work on the touch, but that's usually only because they mandate a feature – speakers, mic, camera, GPS, say – that the iPod touch lacks.

Buying and installing apps is easy. You can browse or search the store through iTunes 7.7 or later on your Mac or PC, or use the App Store tool that you'll find on your iPhone itself. Apps bought in this latter way are backed up to your Mac at the next sync, and bug fixes and other upgrades are pushed through the iTunes Store ready for almost seamless updating. One weird thing with iPhone apps is that there's rarely a manual included. Some don't need it – they're so simple and intuitive – and some do it much better with pop-ups and other inline tips, but for a few the lack of a help system is annoying.

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