Top 40 best free iPod Touch Apps
By Arnold Zafra
Still scouting for some great apps to install on your new iPod Touch? Here are 40 of the best. All apps on our list are free, and also work with your iPhone. To load them onto your iPod Touch or iPhone, simply visit the App Store, which accessible from the main screen of your iPhone or Touch, and search for the name of the app you want.
See also Top 40 best iPod touch apps and games ever! for even more apps to check out.
1Password - This is the iPod Touch version of a popular password manager for the Mac, lets you store your usernames and passwords securely.
AccuWeather – This is one of the best weather apps for the iPod Touch. Just enter a zip code or city or anywhere in the world to get accurate weather forecasts.
Amazon – If you’re a frequent customer of Amazon.com, you’ll love this app. It lets you search and browse through the online store and features “Amazon Remembers,” which helps you keep track of items you find interesting.
Bloomberg – many iPod Touch or iPhone users neglect this useful tool because it comes as a default, preloaded app. But it’s a very useful finance-related application giving your stock quotes, financial news and world market updates.
Body Mass Index – Fitness buffs and gym regulars might find this iPod Touch app useful. It calculates your Body Mass Index (BMI) in metric or English measurements.
Calorie Tracker – This app will help you monitor your calorie intake and exercise routines – the key to healthy living.
EasyWriter – If you use your iPod Touch for email, this free, full-featured app will help you compose them. If features a landscape view, adjustable text sizes and more.
eBay Mobile – EBay users will want this. It gives you direct access to your eBay account, allowing you to search, bid and buy.
eReader – This app lets you read a book or listen to the audio versions – those that are far easier on the ears than the voice-to-text feature of the Amazon Kindle.
Evernote – This is possibly the richest and most useful productivity app for the iPod Touch. This free app lets you remember ideas, thoughts, events, special occasions and more. It lets you create and edit new notes on the fly, snap photos or record a quick voice memo.
Flashlight – This app turns your iPod Touch into a flashlight – very useful during emergencies. You can even choose different colors for the light.
Free Translator – I’m a heavy user of Google Translate. Yes, despite its minor flaws, I still love using it, especially when covering foreign-language news. This iPod touch app provides a great interface for the Google translator.
Fring – Who says you can’t make voice calls on your iPod Touch? With Skype, Fring, and a set of headphones with mic, you can start making VOIP calls on your iPod Touch.
Google Earth – Google’s satellite-based mapping service comes to the iPod touch as a free app. You can adjust the views, access geo-located Wikipedia articles and more.
Google Mobile App – Google’s first native app for the iPod Touch helps users search the Web and access contacts. It aims to make mobile searches faster and more efficient.
HearPlanet – A talking tour guide for you iPod Touch, this applications covers hundreds of thousands places around the globe.
Idiom dictionary – if English is your second language or you want to enrich your vocabulary, this could be a great application. It features a browsable English dictionary.
iHandy Level Free – This device offers five carpentry tools which you can use on your iPod Touch.
IM+ All-in-One Mobile Messenger – This instant messaging app supports AIM, iChat, MSN, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Jabber, MySpaceIM, Google Talk and ICQ. It lets you maintain one email inbox that holds all your messages.
Instapaper – This application lets you save Web pages you visit using the Safari browser for later reading when your iPod Touch is offline. This app is useful for reading long articles and blog posts.
iVote – This popular iPod Touch voting app lets you voice your opinion on simple polls, and compare your votes to other iPod Touch users across the globe.
Joost TV – This app lets you search and browse for videos by popularity or category. It uses a custom-built video player.
Mobile Banking – This useful app lets you bank using your iPod Touch (assuming your bank is among those supported).
NY Times – This app lets you read news coming from NY Times offline. It features simple navigation, high-resolution photos, and allows you to set four sections of the online newspapers as your favorites. The app streams news from NY Times whenever your iPod Touch is connected online.
Pandora Radio – Like the Web site, Pandora Radio for the IPod Touch lets you access streaming Internet radio.
Remote – This app lets you control audio and video playback in your iTunes library and on Apple TV.
Scribble – Create simple drawings, scribble on photos and send your doodles with iPod Touch’s email client.
Shazam – This app allows you to identify music tracks, buy music you hear, view YouTube video and more.
Simplify Media – This app lets you stream your Simplify Media music library to your iPod Touch using Wi-Fi, Edge and 3G. You can navigate by artist, album and genre or find artists bios and song lyrics.
Sportacular – This is possibly the best sports-related app for the iPod Touch. It gives you fast, up-to-the-minute access to scores, standings, stats, and news from MLB, NFL, NHL, MLS, NCAA, PGA, LPGA, and PGA. Create custom groups for tracking your favorite players and fantasy teams.
Stanza – Before the Amazon Kindle there was Stanza, possibly one of the best ebook readers for the iPod Touch. It supports the iDPF ePub format, which is an open standard eBook format.
Text Free Lite – This app lets you send text message to US mobile numbers for free.
That’s What She Said – This app turns you iPod Touch into a sophomoric response machine. That’s what she said.
Truphone - The release of this app elicited quite a buzz. It transformes the second-generation iPod Touch into an iPhone. It lets you make free calls to Truphone, Skype or Gtalk users and make cheaper international calls to landlines and mobile phones via Wi-Fi.
Truveo Video Search – AOL’s mobile video search engine is YouTube for network clips. Search through the Truveo video database for the top rated/most viewed clips.
Twitterific – This is possibly the best Twitter application for the iPod Touch. It syncs your Twitter updates and lets you read those you follow, updated every 10 minutes.
White Noise – This interesting app helps you go to sleep by playing ambient environmental sounds.
Wi-Fi Finder – This simple iPod touch application helps you find Wi-Fi hotspots whenever you are. It searches over 150,000 locations in 135 countries.
Wikipanion – This app lets you search Wikipedia and display search results in a format that suits your iPod Touch’s screen perfectly.
ZIPFinder – This simple app gives you the ZIP codes of the four cities nearest to your location. ZIPFinder is part of the tracking application that can be used for your DHL, FedEX, UPS, and USPS packages.
Have we missed one of your favourite apps? Don’t be afraid to add it to our comments.
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March 22nd, 2009
if you like movies and music, please take a look at my iPod Touch/iPhone web apps (no need to install. just use browser).
http://imoviemash.com
http://imusicmash.com
March 30th, 2009
This is a nice update. I’ll go visit their site and install the applications.
April 1st, 2009
WOW can you reallly get msn!?
April 11th, 2009
I like poo
May 3rd, 2009
hahahahahaha awsome list of apps they all work good
May 5th, 2009
What about Tap Tap Revenge 2? That’s awesomely free!! And Jelly Car, and Lemonade Tycoon!! Way more… Oh I’m only mentioning games… Damn me and my gaming addiction :’( kidding lol =P
May 5th, 2009
I am getting one in one or two days! eeep! I cant wait. You can text for free? WOW!
May 13th, 2009
wow thats so awesome that you can text for free im gettin one for my b-day but unfortunately thats in december and now its may.
May 13th, 2009
I have a pod touch it is awesomme but if u don’t hav wi-fi it sucks 4 u btw i do almost all these apps u need wi-fi including the free texting. one of my fav games is tap tap. if ur bored play w/ fluide or i<3Fireworks there kool. if ur still reading this reply to this reply. LOL STILL awesomer than uuuuuuu
May 13th, 2009
jk
May 13th, 2009
i was just kidding
May 18th, 2009
TOAST IS THE BEST APP EVER!♥
and it is always updating so u never get bored!
totally worth 0.99
i would recomend it to anyone
May 25th, 2009
Wow! I didn’t know you can use a microphone on ur ipod touch using headphones! What a great idea! I just thought you couldn’t have one on yur ipod touch full stop. on fring, I think you can sync your skype and MSN into 1 can’t you? You missed out Tap Tap Revenge and Tap Tap Revenge 2, and Midomi, youcan search for songs by humming it
May 26th, 2009
is the aim app good wat about internet
May 31st, 2009
I love MORE TOAST! that app is loafs(haha get it?) of fun!!! They are always making free updates! Its awesome!
June 13th, 2009
I like maniac marble
June 15th, 2009
Heyyy. Scoop and JellyCar are also really fun games. Oh, and iSay. I hope this helps!!!!
June 15th, 2009
kkjbj
June 15th, 2009
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June 15th, 2009
Just to let you know.. 1Password isn’t free anymore
June 16th, 2009
I tried most of the apps and they are very good
June 18th, 2009
these r ok… but u shulda put in some games! ive bn lookin 4 the best games, and can’t find ne!
June 19th, 2009
You should include Jelly Car.
June 24th, 2009
I like wifitrak better for finding hotspots. It scans for hotspots (like the built in app) but gives you much info about the access points. Some of the locations in wifi finder are no longer there and a few notable ones in my area are missing. And it’s free. As for games, freecell, parking lot free, block this free, among others are great on the iPod (and free). Peace out
June 26th, 2009
Brilliant.
Also the app “classics” is great. Best 99cents I’ve ever spent. It’s a book aplication and has like 30 books on there already, and they do free updtes with new books.
It’s great especially for students because it has a lot of the standard reading material for the school year, like “Illiad” by (I think xD) Homer and “The call of the wild” by Jack London.
So yeah!
Go buy it. =D
July 1st, 2009
these are all apps for 40 yrs old men…. and there not fun at all there about weather ans stocks…. have some fun in life!!
YOU ARE ALL GAY OK?
July 3rd, 2009
Dear ‘a person who has an ipod’;
Your grammatical incorrectitude is absolutely astounding. Indeed, some of these links may be useful to those who feed and clothe you- but yeah, the ipod is the beast!
July 6th, 2009
you forgot vnc lite… its an app that wil let you control your desktop computer from your iphone or itouch(from any wifi hotspot of course) there is a guide on youtube somewhere on how to use it. just look up how to use vnc lite. also a better version is the vnc mocha. its quicker and has much better features. CHECK IT OUT^.~
July 6th, 2009
BTW THE VNC CAN ONLY BE USED FOR WINDOWS!!! NOT MACS. if u want to use for macs you must get remotetap.. NOT REMOTEPAD!!! remotetap… its the one that costs money…. this is also a very fun prank to pull at school!! play safe and dont get cought ^.~
July 6th, 2009
iPod Touch is the beast!!!! ♥ Some fun apps are YO MOMMA JOKES and AERO DRUM FREE!!!!!!! oooooo and WII GAMES
July 9th, 2009
what about facebook?? its free and totally amazing!
July 13th, 2009
Facebook is the best app ever!
July 13th, 2009
im getting one for my birthday but only some of these sound fun . does anyone know any AMAZING apps ?
July 13th, 2009
I just got an iPod Touch this weekend and I love it already. I think that AOL Radio is a terrific app. Its music stations are free and are way better than what you get at Sirius XM, other than Howard Stern. The facebook app is also excellent. I think I like using facebook more on my iPod than I do on my computer.
July 15th, 2009
does anyone know if there is an app where you can play the music on your ipod in your car by tuning it to a specific station?
July 15th, 2009
by ‘it’ i mean the radio haha
July 16th, 2009
im getting one tommorow cant wait jelly car is awsome but now its 99 cents tap tap revenge two is awsome
July 20th, 2009
TuneWiki is free and pretty cool.
July 27th, 2009
textplus by GOGII is much nicer than text free in my opinion. you get unlimited texts to US numbers and the people working at GOGII are very helpful if you run into any problems. I strongly recommend textplus over text free.
July 27th, 2009
How to download applications
July 27th, 2009
How to download applications dire
CTly to iPod
July 28th, 2009
i just got an ipod today guess what you r all gay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! way !!! tramps
July 28th, 2009
i just got an ipod today guess what you r all gay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! way !!! tramps
July 28th, 2009
Fring = GAY.
iCall Free VoIP is the best free call app. It uses youre exsisting phone number and on your ipod touch with the help of a mic headphone set, you can call any number from your ipod. Did I mention this is a FREE app?
Search for it. Tell em gingus sent you.
Cheers
July 29th, 2009
i am getting an ipod touch today so this is really helpful
July 30th, 2009
Hey, i am mad. i am a kid and just got my ipod, and all of these apps suck. put some fun ones!!!!
July 31st, 2009
the yomama joke i just got it its sooo funny and its FREE!!!!
July 31st, 2009
I am gettinf touch today!! thnx for the posts guys…
July 31st, 2009
Me cool
August 1st, 2009
i go tan ipod the 29th and the only games i have i bought r more toast and scooploops of jurassica
those r my favorite na dthe rest i just get free ones!!!! like sportaclar!!!!!! i love it!!
August 1st, 2009
and some of the best songs that r new r
the best days of your life by kelly pickler
boots on by randy houser ( also watch video its cute)
battlefeild by jorden sparks
boom boom pow by black eyed peas
21 guns by green day
fire burning by sean kingston
and lots of others like bleeding lve by leona lewis!!
August 8th, 2009
poo tastes just like chocolate from a cowmanbearpigmade’s butt hole
August 8th, 2009
Best game I’ve come across so far is Ragdoll Blaster. Try the free “lite” app first and I’m sure you’ll be hooked.
August 10th, 2009
Those apps are horrible
August 10th, 2009
how to download free applications? do we need a credit card? please help
August 12th, 2009
To get free apps, open up the app store and select the free option. Just download and enjoy!
August 12th, 2009
I use my iPod for Porno
August 15th, 2009
heyy i just got mine today but have been playing apps on them for a while and i am in love with bubblewrap and toast! and the aim is great to have!!!
August 15th, 2009
THATS’S WAT SHEE SAID
August 16th, 2009
dear alice
“does anyone know if there is an app where you can play the music on your ipod in your car by tuning it to a specific station?”
this may be a little late reply to your question on the radio tuning thing: i dont think there could be such an app because the itouch doesnt have an fm tuner let anlone an fm TRANSMITTER which is what youll have to buy to do what your wanting
(it just plugs int the headphone jack in your ipod and you tune your radio to the same station as your transmitter)
August 16th, 2009
dear alice
“does anyone know if there is an app where you can play the music on your ipod in your car by tuning it to a station?”
this may be a little late reply to your question on the radio tuning thing: i dont think there could be such an app because the itouch doesnt have an fm tuner let anlone an fm TRANSMITTER which is what youll have to buy to do what your wanting
(it just plugs int the headphone jack in your ipod and you tune your radio to the same station as your transmitter)
August 16th, 2009
dear alice
this may be a little late reply to your question on the radio tuning thing: i dont think there could be such an app because the itouch doesnt have an fm tuner let anlone an fm TRANSMITTER which is what youll have to buy to do what your wanting
(it just plugs int the headphone jack in your ipod and you tune your radio to the same station as your transmitter)
August 24th, 2009
Is There An App That Makes It Look Like Someone Broke It?
Like Its An App And When You Open The App It Looks Like The Normal Screen, And When Someone Touches It, It’ll Break Or Something.
I Saw It On Youtube One Time.
It Looked Cool.
August 29th, 2009
iphones arent even that much better than ipod touch s now because of all the new apps
August 29th, 2009
i hate ipod touches u guys r gay i hate you all bitches!!!!!
August 30th, 2009
Dear turtles your just made because you will never be able to afford an I pod touch and you wouldnt know how great an I pod touch is even if you were one. Put that in your Oven. LOL I got that off a commercial. and no i don’t get all my lame jokes from commercials.
August 30th, 2009
I mean to say your just MAD
August 31st, 2009
hello everybody,
i had learnt that a new ipod touch model(3G) was coming.Is my news correct, if it is then what all will be diferent in it?I am writing this with my psp and i plan to upgrade since my psp is almost nothing infront of itouch .Can anyone please tell me if a 3g model will come or is it just a RUMOUR
August 31st, 2009
hello everybody,
i had learnt that a new ipod touch model(3G) was coming.Is my news correct, if it is then what all will be diferent in it?I am writing this with my psp and i plan to upgrade since my psp is almost nothing infront of itouch .Can anyone please tell me if a 3g model will come or is it just a RUMOUR?
thanx for reading this long message but i
would really appreciate some replies.
THANX AGAIN
September 4th, 2009
lol sorry ill quit being a little bi***. i just had my period
September 9th, 2009
does the messenger and Text free work without internet?
September 9th, 2009
Poo is possibly the most fertile fertilizer. I will buy the new itouche de lay and then smash it into little pieces and mix it with my poo to make the BEST FERTILIZER IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!mUHHAHAHAHAH
September 12th, 2009
this website is gay…there need rto be games
September 15th, 2009
WORD WARP= the best app ever!
September 21st, 2009
facebook !
September 27th, 2009
# The duse:
August 12th, 2009
I use my iPod for Porno
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How the hell do you do that?
September 27th, 2009
this is so helpful! i just got my itouch today and i already have 15 apps and theyre all from this! I also think some fun apps are aim, myspace and paper toss or trash can or something. it’s cool!
October 2nd, 2009
can u really get onmyspace im?
October 2nd, 2009
can u really get on myspace im?
October 3rd, 2009
Frank:
“I use my iPod for Porno
—————————–
How the hell do you do that?”
Step 1, download porno to ipod
Step 2, watch porno on ipod
October 3rd, 2009
to s;lfdj;p:,
“this website is gay…there need rto be games”
Uhmm, the title of the blog is
“Top 40 best free iPod Touch Apps”
not
“Top 40 best free iPod Touch Games”
Websites aren’t gay, only people that can’t comprehend them, then complain about it, are gay…
October 4th, 2009
TextPlus is better than TextForFree Lite.
October 6th, 2009
Is There An App That Makes It Look Like Someone Broke It?
Like Its An App And When You Open The App It Looks Like The Normal Screen, And When Someone Touches It, It’ll Break Or Something.
I Saw It On Youtube One Time.
It Looked Cool.
I too would like to know about this
October 6th, 2009
dear alice you have to buy ITravel, its a piece that you plug into your ipod. and all you do is turn your radio to whatever station it says and just click on the songs you want and it plays on your radio!!! P.S. you can get em at wallmart, target and so on
Hope I helped
October 6th, 2009
kemal that app that you want is called Ishatter stress relief just hit the screen and CRACK.
hope i helped its 99cents pretty good for that i have it and i love it BEST APP BUY IT
October 7th, 2009
this thread is useless without links!
October 9th, 2009
hehehehehhehehehehehhehee
i love sheep launcher
its funn
October 12th, 2009
i love Pandora Box
October 12th, 2009
TuneWiki is awesome too!
October 14th, 2009
Social Beacon is THE BEST!
October 16th, 2009
i like poo too
October 19th, 2009
fifa 10 n NFS Undercover Real racing are the best games on ipod touch..
October 21st, 2009
F My Life is the most funny and entertaining app ive experienced.
October 21st, 2009
Do not laugh at me just because i’m gay
(((
XD
Gaylord
October 21st, 2009
luv ya
October 26th, 2009
are those applications free or not
October 26th, 2009
I really love [url=http://www.3gapps.de/wordpress]WordPress[/url] cause I can do some work while I’m in the pub
October 29th, 2009
the best apps for the i pod touch are of course jailbroken apps if some of you people don’t know what that is look it up on you tube and see what you can do with a jail broken i pod touch!!!!
November 8th, 2009
All the comments everyone has left have been really helpful. thanks!
November 11th, 2009
@Alice – in additon to Bob’s reply, there is also one called “DLO Transcast” which works the same way – set it to a station, then tune your radio to that station and you can hear your iPod.
I got my DLO at Best Buy, very affordable and pretty reliable too!
November 13th, 2009
I have an ipod touch and i have just put some new games on it. the best ones that I like that are FREE are:
action bowling free
hoops lite
bounce on
checkers free
cube runner
dizy bee free
drum kit lite expando free
facebook
facegoo lite (this is very entertaining)
falling balls
fastlane lite
fish tycoon lite
hangman free
google earth
guitar free
i say free
jelly car
jlight
just fillin
runnerlite
mouse lite
pac man lite
photo spot lite
rat on run
sketch book free
snailmail lite
tap studio
tap tap revenge
tictac free
topple
FS5 hockey (air hockey)
trace (love this game)
truth or dare free
uno free
grand lite (piano)
waterslide
tabletennis (challenging and addicting)
20 Q free
do not press red button (funny)
just find lite
paper toss
thats all i have. enjoy and ur welcome
November 14th, 2009
I have download a half of those apps and their great they work
November 14th, 2009
ii might be gettin 1 for xmas but ii dno if they are AMAZIN or just good :/ x
anyone help ?? x
Iloveeyouu’x
November 14th, 2009
Laura,
They ARE AMAZING!!! They are almost the same thing as the iPhone but you cant call people. i would TOTALLY recomend 1 2 u
November 15th, 2009
Hi
November 16th, 2009
ENGLISH AND METRIC MEASUREMENTS ARE THE SAME THING
making a mistake like tha could only meen your american
November 18th, 2009
I have Pocket God and that is AWESOME I don’t think it is free though… but it IS good! I highly recommend it.
November 19th, 2009
Do any of these iPods have a spell/grammar check on them? Geez people get an education already and learn to spell and conjugate sentences. These is scary because you all are the future of our world and all you know is how to use an “iPod” and pretty much nothing more. Pretty sad….
November 19th, 2009
*This (That was a typo NOT a spelling error)
November 19th, 2009
*This (not THESE…this was a typo and NOT a spelling error)
November 20th, 2009
Don’t you need Internet access to use most of these apps, which is the key limitation of iTouch? Why are you guys pretending they are all so great?
November 20th, 2009
Geez Educated, may you should consider a new screen name…
November 20th, 2009
*Maybe (That was a typo not a spelling error)