A list of iPhone apps for design­ers who use their mobile device more than just for call­ing. iPhone apps are a huge exten­sion to the work­flow of every pro­fes­sional designer. This list is a large col­lec­tion of work apps for your iPhone to man­age your online files, cre­ate a mindmap, record mes­sages, send busi­ness cards, pick a color and con­vert it into another, make cal­cu­la­tions and much more. This list pro­vides over 20+ iPhone appli­ca­tions, some are paid, some are free, let me know what iPhone App you use.

Ruler­plus

Ruler­Plus is a sim­ple appli­ca­tion for your iPhone / iPhone 3G / iPod Touch, pro­vid­ing you with a sim­ple 7 cm / 2 inch ruler. Ruler+ let’s you take mea­sure­ments quickly and eas­ily. Ruler+ also allows you to extend the ruler. Sim­ply move your iPhone to the right and press ‘+’ to cre­ate the extended ruler. Sup­ports cen­timers / mil­lime­ters and inches.

• Price *FREE*
• Devel­oper Website
• Install this app via iTunes

OMNI Focus

Omni­Fo­cus for iPhone and iPod touch works great as a stand alone appli­ca­tion or in con­junc­tion with Omni­Fo­cus for Mac. It’s easy to sync your Omni­Fo­cus data between mul­ti­ple Mac com­put­ers and your iPhone using your iDisk if you’re a MobileMe sub­scriber or a by using a generic Web­DAV server.
Avail­able for $19,99

• Price *PAID*
• Devel­oper Website
• Install this app via iTunes

AIR Shar­ing

Mount your iPhone or iPod touch as a wire­less drive on any Mac, Win­dows, or Linux com­puter.
Drag-drop files between your iPhone or iPod touch and your com­put­ers.
View doc­u­ments in many com­mon for­mat. Famil­iar Finder-like file browser. Promi­nent dis­play of avail­able space. Check the devel­op­ers web­site for more info. Avail­able for $ 6.99

• Price *PAID*
• Devel­oper Website
• Install this app via iTunes

Optic­sCalc

Optic­sCalc is a handy opti­cal cal­cu­la­tor for the iPhone and iPod Touch for every­one from stu­dents to engi­neers who know opti­cal the­ory, but need a quick and effi­cient way to per­form com­mon cal­cu­la­tions. It frees your mind from hav­ing to remem­ber all the equa­tions, and lets you con­cen­trate on solv­ing the prob­lem at hand! Avail­able for Eur 2.99

• Price *PAID*
• Devel­oper Website
• Install this app via iTunes

10base-t inter­ac­tive

Mrmr is a tech­nol­ogy that enables you to use ordi­nary cell phones and PDAs as con­trollers in audio-visual per­for­mances, or to par­tic­i­pate in inter­ac­tive museum exhibits, or to use your mobile device in the place of the mouse or track­pad from your full-size computer.

• Price *FREE*
• Devel­oper Website
• Install this app via iTunes

Aird­e­sign Chair

Home Sizer is the per­fect tool for any­one want­ing to esti­mate the size and func­tion of their dream home, or to just cal­cu­late the square footage of an exist­ing home. Cur­rently only pro­vides for mea­sure­ments in feet & inches. Avail­able for $0,79

• Price *PAID*
• Devel­oper Website
• Install this app via iTunes

Palettes

Palettes is a pro­duc­tiv­ity tool for cre­at­ing and main­tain­ing color palettes. You may cre­ate any num­ber of palettes. Cre­ate palettes from images and web sites. Add col­ors from sev­eral color mod­els, web sites, color lists, images, or by enter­ing CSS color strings. Avail­able for Eur 3,99

• Price *PAID*
• Devel­oper Website
• Install this app via iTunes

Zep­toPad

Zep­toPad changes as you add your ideas: sketch; mindmap; design; plan­ning; and so on. You can scrib­ble on the iPhone screen and also type text from the vir­tual key­pad. You can drag and move text or pic­ture ele­ments at any time, cut, paste, and resize. When you meet other users of Zep­toPad, you can send a work­sheet to another iPhone directly. Zep­toPad — the only limit is your imag­i­na­tion!
Avail­able for $7,99

• Price *PAID*
• Devel­oper Website
• Install this app via iTunes

Things

Other task man­agers either over­sim­plify or are too dif­fi­cult to use. Either way you are not get­ting stuff done. Things instead has the right bal­ance between ease of use and pow­er­ful fea­tures. With Things’ ele­gance and beau­ti­ful design, pro­cras­ti­nat­ing never looked less attractive.

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Beam­Calc

Enter the light’s height above the tar­get and dis­tance across the floor. Beam­Calc shows the result­ing throw dis­tance and ele­va­tion angle. Enter the light’s beam size in degrees to cal­cu­late the pool width. Adjust beam size or loca­tion to achieve required pool size. Beam­Calc works with any units: feet, inches, cen­time­ters, … even miles. Avail­able for Eur 1,59

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Col­or­Ex­pert

Color Expert con­tains pow­er­ful tools to help artists and design­ers iden­tify, trans­late, cap­ture and show­case color. Design­ers know inspi­ra­tion can come any­where at any­time. Just look around. Some of the best ideas are wait­ing for you in the real world away from the stu­dio. Now with Color Expert, you’ll have the tools to cap­ture the moment, the moment a color cap­tures you. Avail­able for $9,99

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Files

Files allows you to store and view files on your iPhone or iPod touch. You can con­nect to Files from any Mac or PC and drag and drop files straight from the Finder or Win­dows Explorer, as you would with any other shared folder. In fact any client which under­stands the Web­DAV pro­to­col can con­nect to Files, avail­able for £3.99.

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BeamMe

beamME allows you do send your per­sonal or busi­ness card from your iPhone to any other mobile device or com­puter, includ­ing Black­Ber­ries, Android phones, Treos, Macs, PCs and more.

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i41CX+

Advanced pro­gram­ma­ble and expand­able RPN sci­en­tific cal­cu­la­tor with vir­tual ther­mal printer/plotter suit­able for a wide vari­ety of sci­en­tific, engi­neer­ing, math­e­mat­i­cal, finan­cial, and tech­ni­cal appli­ca­tions. Avail­able for Eur 11,99

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iBlueSky

BlueSky is a brain­storm­ing and mind-mapping solu­tion for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Col­lect and organ­ise ideas you have at odd moments, then email the com­plete project in PDF and PNG for­mats to any con­tact. You can even print a hard copy of your work from the PDF file. Avail­abe for Eur 5,99

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Equiv­a­lence

Equiv­a­lence is the last con­ver­sion tool you’ll ever need. Designed from the ground up by engi­neers and for engi­neers, Equiv­a­lence makes your tedious, day-to-day con­ver­sions between unit sys­tems a breeze. Less inten­sive con­ver­sions are even eas­ier, which makes it great for sim­ple and advanced users alike. Avail­able for Eur 3,99

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Units

Units is a sim­ple unit con­ver­sion util­ity for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Unlike most other unit con­vert­ers, Units looks and works a lot like a cal­cu­la­tor. You punch in dig­its and Units does the con­ver­sion on the fly. Easy for con­vert­ing typo­graphic points to milime­ter or inches. Avail­able for $0,99

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Scale Rule

The app is essen­tially a caliper, the top and bot­tom jaws can be freely dragged while the dis­tance between them is con­stantly updated in the mid­dle. White areas are being mea­sured, black areas are not. You can switch between met­ric or impe­r­ial mea­sure­ments with one click. Select­ing the scale but­ton will give you a list of over 100 com­monly used scales to choose from. Avail­able for $0,79

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Caliper

Adjustable caliper jaws for pixel-precise mea­sure­ments
Multi-Touch con­trol — move upper and lower caliper jaws simul­ta­ne­ously. Avail­able for Eur 0.79

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Google Cal­en­der

View your sched­ule from any­where. Check your Google Cal­en­dar sched­ule from any­where on your iPhone. Browse any day to see all sched­uled events at a glance. Add events on the fly. Type event details, press “Add now” and you are good to go. Google Cal­en­dar will add the event to your schedule.

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Order Design Work

Look­ing for a designer? Now you can get quotes on graphic design work directly off your iPhone/iPod touch. You can choose from iPhone pages, wid­gets, web­sites, logo design, post­cards, busi­ness cards, brochures, 3D images, and even flash and 3D ani­ma­tion. 18 years of expe­ri­ence with clients such as a PGA tour­na­ment, Miller Brew­ing, NBC Uni­ver­sal, Snap-On Tools, John­son Wax, Amer­i­can Heart Asso­ci­a­tion and many small and mid size companies.

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Dex­igner News & Events

Dex­igner appli­ca­tion deliv­ers lat­est design news, events, exhi­bi­tions, con­fer­ences, and design com­pe­ti­tions. Get lat­est design news, cur­rent & upcom­ing design events and design com­pe­ti­tions from Dex­igner Design Por­tal on your iPhone/iPodTouch.

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Show me your favourite iPhone Apps

Please let me know in the com­ments about your favourite iPhone app that changed the way you design have another work­flow or any other pur­pose your want to share. Thank you!