Group test: what are the best iPhone apps?

5. Scanner Pro: scan multipage documents, upload to Dropbox and Evernote

• Reviewed on: 24 January 10
• RRP: £3.99
• Rating:

Scanner Pro is a very good way to capture the "I hope I remember that" images that are constantly cropping up on business trips, and it's a great way to grab images of receipts to accompany expense or activity reports. You learn that you have to carefully watch the iPhone's screen to make sure the camera's lens is parallel to the thing being scanned, but with a little practice the scans work well and are good enough to keep accounting off your back.

4. BizExpense for iPhone

• Reviewed on: 24 January 10
• RRP: £2.99
• Rating:

I found that expenses are easy to enter and reconcile, and the resulting spreadsheet is simple to copy and paste into other formats if accounting won't take the BizExpense file. There are a number of App Store applications that say they do expense reports, but BizExpense seems to have the best combination of features without requiring you to subscribe to an external service.

3. Flixlab

• Reviewed on: 22 June 11
• RRP: FREE
• Rating:

If you're particularly worried about online privacy, you may be alarmed by the fact that Flixlab intends to keep your video on their servers indefinitely, unless you cancel your account with the company. And Flixlab puts a text ad for their service at the end of your movie. But for me, those issues were easily outweighed by Flixlab's benefits: it's fast, it's free and it makes something presentable out of those video clips that would otherwise languish on your SD card.

2. Tweetie 2 for iPhone

• Reviewed on: 18 February 10
• RRP: £1.79 inc VAT
• Rating:

Tweetie 2 includes every last feature a Twitter client needs today. It isn’t just the best Twitter app for iPhone. It’s the best Twitter app on any platform.

1. Ignition

• Reviewed on: 12 July 10
• RRP: £17 inc VAT
• Rating:

As apps go it's not cheap, but we're smitten with LogMeIn Ignition. Easy to install and use, cool and practical. On the iPhone or a Google Android smartphone it makes remote access of your desktop PC simple, and useful. And on the iPad or an Android tablet, it makes Apple's uber gizmo as useful as a high-end laptop.