Music

SoundHound

Can identify a tune in seconds, even if it’s just you singing or even humming it, and will also find lyrics for some songs. A good backup or alternative to the similar Shazam.

Price: Free

Time Waster

Copter

The classic helicopter Flash game lands on iPhone. save your doomed chopper from smashing against neon green obstacles.

Price: £0.69

Epic Game

Papa Sangre

Superbly dark horror game with no graphics that uses the iPhone’s stereo sound to guide you blindly through the land of the Dead.

Price: £2.99

News

iReddit

A massive online community of “best of the web” sub-hubs, from world politics to Lolcats, now in slick app format.

Price: Free

Cooking

Michel Roux Jr

Rictus-grinned, perma stubbled, double- Michelin-starred chef whisks – and chops, grates and sous-vides – his way on to ios with his own app, replete with video recipes.

Price: £5.49

Business

Secret Folder

Password-protected storage for keeping financial details, billion-pound business plans, and top-secret dossiers. And porn.

Price: £1.99

Networking

IMO

Top-dog instant message client rolls all your accounts into one handy chat app, from MSN to Skype to Steam.

Price: Free

Video

AirVideo

This media streamer pipes video from your computer to your iPhone over Wi-Fi. If it meets a format your iPhone doesn’t like, it’ll even convert it for you.

Price: £1.99

Organisation

White Noise

Force your brain into submission with this excellent sleep hacking app, which drowns out everything from roadworks to sleeptalking spouses with various flavours of droning static.

Price: £1.49

Education

TED

Hundreds of 20-minute talks by top boffins on everything from music to neuroscience, without the TED conference’s infamously hefty attendance fee.

Price: Free