If you’ve enjoyed  our previous top 40 games for the iPhone, you’ll make good use of this list of Top 40 free iPhone utilities. The apps work well with both the iPhone and iPod Touch. And all of these applications are available at no cost from the iTunes store. Just touch the App Store icon on the main screen of your iPhone or Touch, and then select Search. Apps are in alphabetical order.

# Fonts – This application is most useful for iPhone app developers who want to see what fonts are available for the iPhone and how these fonts appear at various sizes. It doesn’t change your iPhone’s default font setting though.

Alarm Free – This is a nifty tool to have. It sends an alarm in times of emergency. This app features a freefall detector.

Compass Free – Like the name says, it’s a compass. This app might keep you from getting lost.

Country Codes – This gives the two letter identifier codes for countries included in the ISO 3166 country codes. It’s useful for anyone, but especially for iPhone app developers.

Days Until – This app lets you create countdowns for special occasions or events on your iPhone’s calendar. The features include 16 Phone fonts, 12 text colors, zooming or shrinking display texts, specific date selection and more.

DIT – I would have to admit that this is a pretty cool application despite its simplicity. It lets you write the telephone number of the person you are calling instead of typing it with the virtual keyboard. The handwriting recognition used by this application is accurate. After writing the number on your screen using your finger, you can quickly call it.

Easy Clock – Most of sleep with our iPhone placed on our bedside table, right? So, wouldn’t it be neat if it does more than just lie there? Easy Clock lets you make use your iPhone as a beautiful digital or analog clock.

Electrical Toolkit – This useful iPhone utility is great for electronic engineers, technicians, electricians and students. It features various electrical tools such as Ohm’s Law, Resistor color code, star delta transmission, RLC series circuit, a power triangle and more.

Escape Call Free – This famous fake calling feature comes to the iPhone, giving you a believable excuse on command. Select a contact and set the timer (up to two hours). Your phone will ring when the timer is up and display the contact’s information. Use the fictitious call to beat it out of a bad spot.

Flashlight – A real flashlight is a useful tool to have at home. And the iPhone’s flashlight app, which offers various colors of illumination, is even more useful simply because you can have it anywhere.

iBear Timer – Here’s another cool iPhone utility that lets you keep track of the exact time that elapsed after an important event in your life or the remaining time before the event happens. It also allows you to organize events.

If Found Please – This is a simple and yet very useful app that lets you display customized information on your background wallpaper. You can set the message to display information on your whereabouts so that if you lost your iPhone, whoever finds it will know where to send it, even if the phone is locked.

iHandy Level Free – I know that using the iPhone for carpentry work may sound ridiculous to some. But hey, it can come handy if you can’t find your level and your iPhone is just inside your pocket. This level app is fully calibrated and beautifully designed.

iHourGlass Free – This turns your iPhone into a beautiful hour glass with accurate measurements of time. It features awesome animation, adjustable time length, sound and vibration, and many more features.

iStethoscope – This utility turns your iPhone into a stethoscope, which you can use to listen to your heartbeat. It requires ordinary headphones for accurate listening, but you can use the iPhone’s default earphones. It even displays your heart rate.

Light – This turns your iPhone in a reading light, which comes in bright and slightly tinted tones. It also features some nice graphics and a realistic ‘click’ when turned on.

Lotto Shake – Want to play lotto but have no idea what number combination to use? This iPhone utility will help you. Just shake your iPhone to generate a random number combination. It works with UK Lotto, Euro Millions, Daily Play and Thunderball. Who knows, it might make you rich.

Meet Bubble – Bubble is a handy utility for your iPhone, which offers several functions – a level, calibrator, and ruler. It has a cutesy icon assistant named – well, yeah – Bubble.

miComputer – This app lets you store your computer’s important information including RAM, processor, video card and other accessories. In addition, you can also store a photo of your computer. Best of all, you can quickly send this information to your email or to friends. Use this app to brag about how awesome your computer system is, easily.

Mighty Docs – This application appeal to you if you are a regular Google Docs user. This iPhone utility caches files on your Google Docs making them available for reading even if you are not online. Unfortunately this application does no support PDFs and presentations.

Multi Convert – Featuring more than 800 units in over 40 categories, this free app is definitely a useful utility to have on your iPhone. You can opt to display the conversion in list mode or calculator mode. Currency rates are updated every six hours.

myLite Flashlight – This is a cool utility that lets you turn your iPhone into a cool-looking flashlight with various selections for light color through the built-in color spectrum. It also features SOS functionality, which lets you send distress message in times of emergencies.

Neon Flashlight – Want a fancy a neon light on your iPhone? This app will make that happen in neon blue, green, red and yellow.

Nightstand – This app displays a good looking digital clock on your iPhone’s screen. It features some nice graphics, simultaneous iPod playback, 24 or 12 hour time format, vertical or horizontal modes, and a slew of nifty features.

Password Wallet – This lets you store your passwords and other private information in a fully encrypted mode. It also lets you synchronize Password Wallet files to your Mac.

PhotoFrame Wild – Featuring a simple and clean interface, this iPhone utility contains some of the best photography from the Shamwari Game Reserve in Africa. You can use those photos as backdrop for your time and date information on your iPhone.

Road Trip Lite – This free version of a full-featured iPhone application is useful for monitoring your car’s mileage and the corresponding maintenance costs. This free version features a graphic tool for fuel/mileage representation.

Safe Note Free – This lets you store important notes and restrict others from reading them should they get hold of your iPhone. This is the best way to save account passwords, bank or credit card numbers, and other important personal information.

SaveMyDocs Lite – This is a pretty useful iPhone utility that lets you download documents viewed on your iPhone’s Safari browser for offline viewing. This supports various file formats such as DOC, DOCX, PDF, HTML and more. The free version only allows you to download two documents. If you need more, you can always install the full version for a fee.

SearchMe – Another iPhone utility, which happens to be my favorite. It’s a mobile search engine for your iPhone or iPod Touch that displays search results in a cover-flow like manner featuring thumbnail images of the search results. Definitely a cool way to search the Web using your iPhone.

ShopShop – This is a useful shopping list tool for you iPhone. It automatically searches previously listed items when you type a similar item, and allows the use to remove items just by swiping it.

SimpleToDo – Every iPhone owners should probably have a simple to do app. The interface is clean and simple and very appropriate for the application’s purpose.

Sound Grenade – Caution: make sure that there are no cops when you fire up this app. Some might hate you upon hearing this realistic and very annoying sound. It’s a great app for dispersing an otherwise boring party.

Speed Test – This is another simple yet useful iPhone utility that measures the network speed of your iPhone.

SpeedType - Want to know how fast you can type? This iPhone utility tells you. It’s actually a simulation of an actual speed typing test.

Super Dial – This is a fast and customizable photo dialer for your iPhone that lets you arrange your contact’s photo on your iPhone’s application screen. With a simple touch of the photo, you can instantly call the person. It also lets you assign themes to the photos.

Units – This simple unit conversion tool is similar to Multi Convert. But this one offers something else – a built-in ruler.

Vlingo – This one of my favorite iPhone applications. Vlingo is a voice-powered search tool for your iPhone. You can look for a particular contact or song, look up and map local listings, do a web search, and send status updates for your Facebook or Twitter accounts – all using voice commands. Certainly a worthy free application for the iPhone.

Waken Shake – This turns you iPhone into an alarm clock, which you can shake to stop from alarming or tap on the screen to snooze the alarm for a few more minutes. It features six displays, five different alarm sounds, variable brightness, landscape mode, and eight adjustable snooze times.

WiFinder – If you find it a daunting task to go to your iPhone’s settings just to see if a Wi-Fi hotspot is free or not, this free iPhone utility will save you the trouble. It buzzes you when a free Wi-Fi spot is available, so you can immediately check your email or update your Facebook status.

If you have nifty app on your iPhone that we’ve missed, please feel free to add it in the comments.

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Entry was posted on Saturday, January 31st, 2009 at 12:34 am under Free Apps, iPhone, iPod Touch.  Print This Post

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