Week Calendar
Syncs to the iPhone Calendar. It loads up fast, it is simply fast, and displays the events in a week as timebars very nicely. The customization of the weekview, such as what are hours are shown, font size, etc, are perfect. I’ve got two slots for All day events, the rest of the thirteen slots that are displayable on the iPhone screen at one time are for my events, and since I work anywhere from 9am to 10pm, thirteen hours is perfect, and so there’s no scrolling involved to see all my events for a week.
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Pocket Informant
Also syncs to the iPhone calendar. If I want to see how busy this month or next month is, or quickly find a free day, the monthview timebars make that easy to do. I also use it for tasks, and the tasks sync to the online Toodledo service.
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SaiSuke
Syncs to the iPhone calendar. Fullscreen monthview with up to six events displayed in a month cell (depending on the month and the font size you’ve chosen), it makes finding the next time I’m coming to a certain school again fast. The copy and paste also makes scheduling my lessons for classes the next month pretty fast.
IDrive Contacts
A free app. It does back ups only, no two way sync stuff better for not messing stuff up. This syncs all the info I’ve entered, including pics, multiple email and multiple home addresses (Japanese character), notes, urls, birthdays, anniversaries, and even groups. The pics come out a bit stretched on the website, but they restore back down into the contacts app normally. All groups are also restored, but not all contacts make it into their respective groups. Still better than most of the other back up services I’ve tried, MobileMe being the best, but too expensive to continue just for contacts. I’ve listed the other very promising app within my description of PhoneCopy below.
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1Password Pro
You can get the free trial version of their desktop application to get their DropBox sync set up, but if they change their sync protocol, then you may just have to buy their desktop app. The sync works very well though, and anything I change either on my iPhone or on the desktop syncs flawlessly through DropBox. Save login passwords, credit card info, and notes you don’t want anyone to have a chance at looking through with first a number passcode, and then an optional mastercode that can be as complex as you’d like it to be. The copy feature as well as the launch of websites in their inbuilt browser with your username and password already filled in for you put it above other apps in it’s category.
MomoNote (sync with web)
I first tried MomoNote, then falling in love with Awesome Note’s interface, abandoned MomoNote when Awesome Note offered sync to both Google Docs and Evernote online services. Looking on both Google Docs and Evernote just a week ago though, I saw triplicates and quadruplicates of all my notes. Well I don’t care to be scrolling through all that were I to need to do a fresh restore and sync it all from Google Docs or Evernote again, so back to MomoNote I went, and since they control both ends of the sync, it works very well. It’s still got a very nice interface, tags, smart tags, and search, and about the only functional advantage of AwesomeNote over MomoNote as far as I’m concerned is it’s ability to add multiple pics to a note. MomoNote only allows one pic attached.
Quick note for those who’d suggest SimpleNote, I’d go with SimpleNotes if it had a passcode lock and the yearly membership wasn’t so expensive. I also dislike automatic sync. One more quick note, the app has a different icon now, and it’s been updated a few times since that icon was changed.
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Outliner
Lists, brainstorming, etc. It all syncs quickly and smoothly to their online service. This is where I keep grocery lists, lists of movies I want to see, ebooks I want to get, and stuff I’m carefully brainstorming. I can choose to share the list with other Outliner users, which means the grocery list and movies I want to see are synced to my wife’s iPhone.
Instapaper
Keep online articles I want to later reference. I can just enter my username, and sync all my articles back onto my iPhone.
PhoneCopy
Almost as good as iDrive Contacts. it doesn’t appear to support groups though. I would include another app here, but it’s not yet listed in this site, Contacts backup over Cloud. That app backs up your contacts, groups, pics, and everything else to DropBox. One review complained it doesn’t restore perfectly, but it’s worked perfectly for me in the three test runs I’ve given it.
