iPhone App Announcement Round-Up [Updated June 24]

Apple has to tell us when the App Store will arrive eventually, and as time ticks away, several developers have announced their applications they will be offering for the iPhone platform. Read on after the break for a list of some of the latest announcements. Update: Ask and you shall receive! Some of you have asked us where to find a single list of all the apps that have been announced in anticipation of the App Store. Look no further. From now on I'll be updating this post with additions to the list.

Also, if we do decide to post an announcement somewhere else or you're looking for more app news, you can use the "apps" and "app announcements" tags at the top of this post. Enjoy!

• Webstate has announced iSharephone, a version of Sharepoint on your iPhone that lets you connect to Microsoft Sharepoint portal servers.
• Intua has announced the development of BeatMaker which will let you beatbox, create loops, and sequence audio.
• Ambrosia SW has announced Mobile Mahjong.
• EasyTaskManager is a port of the desktop application. Screenshots: 1, 2.
• Rusty Red Wagon is porting Solitaire to the iPhone in three flavors: Klondike, Freecell, and Spider.
• Synthesis is developing SyncML data sync for the iPhone to allow "mobile over-the-air (OTA) synchronisation with any compliant SyncML server". The first version will be for contacts only and will be free. They hope to add calendar support, but it's not available in the SDK.

[via TUAW]

Added June 19, 2008 at 4:34pm:

• SplashData, a popular developer of Windows Mobile and Palm applications, has announced SplashID (secure information manager), SplashShopper (list organizer), and SplashMoney (personal banking manager).
• Fiery Ferret (solo dev Bridger Maxwell), has ported Lumen, a collection 1,200 puzzles.
• MobileAge is working on Blackjack 21 and touchTile Mahjong for iPhone and iPod touch.
• Hey Mac Software is developing Briefcase, which will let you move files between Macs by transferring them to your iPhone wirelessly. They expect it to be ready this Fall.
• Cultured Code has announced Things touch, an iPhone version of their task manager, Things.
• MyMote is intended to serve as a remote front end for Mythtv on a Linux computer, which lets you use it like a DVR/TiVO. It's open-source.
• Tebeka Software Developments is porting Pocket Launch, a Windows Mobile app that lets you "browse a Jewish calendar, create and manage Jewish events (wedding dates, Bar Mitzvahs...), and do date conversions between Jewish and civil dates." Particularly useful if you happen to be Jewish.

[via TUAW]

Added on Friday, June 20th

• Chef On Your iPhone is being developed by Chef's Little Helper helps you store recipies and create a grocery list.
• info.xhead, a secure information manager is being ported from the Mac by xhead software.
• iZepto on the iPhone is being ported over by the people who make iZepto.
• Movies.app, a theater and movie finder from Jeff Grossman
• Tube 2 for iPhone and iPod touch by VisualIT
• Mobile Holy Quran and American Sign Language by Zoosware.
• Pocket Informant, a very popular Windiws Mobile PIM app, will offer two-way over-the-air synching; also Note2Self and Touch2Notes by WebIS
• xHunt, a treasure hunting application that utilizes the iPhone's built-in GPS, is being developed by Logic High Software.
• Periods is a detailed periodic table of the elements for the iPhone platform being worked on by Dimitri Bouniol.

[via TUAW]

Added Saturday, June 21 :

• The games Bug Bounce and Cocoa Marbles will be available for US$2.99 a piece from Cocoa Touch Games.
• LintLabs is working on No. 2 (or "HB" in Europe), an app that lets you draw pencil lines.
• Currency, an application for currency exchange, is being worked on by Jeffrey Grossman, the developer working on movies.app.
• Solebon Solitaire for iPhone is being re-written by Smallware from the Palm OS version.
• Save Benjis is a free app that interfaces with the price comparison site Finders Cheapers. It's being developed by Sol Robots.
• Lockbox is being developed by Steve Streza to provide AES and SHA-1 level encryption and unique gesture unlocking procedures for securing notes and pictures. It will be under US$10.

[via TUAW]

Added Monday June 23:

• PhoneSaber and NearPics (an app that finds photos taken near you using Panaramio.com) will be offered free from The Mac Box
• NotepadSync is being worked on by Brian Tunning. It's a subscription service totalling around $14.95 a year
• Popular eBook reader Books
• The Voice Search app is being developed by Nuance and looks awesome!!
• CubeRunner (steer your iPhone through a landscape littered with cubes), iCave (fly a ship through a cave avoiding obstacles), and iNono (puzzle game for solving nonograms) are being developed by Andy Qua
• GroceryZen is another grocery shopping app, this time from Greg Bernhardt.

[via TUAW]

Added Tuesday, June 24:

• Brewing Buddy is being developed by TrouserMac Industries to help with calculating beer recipes and brewing, and to serve as a social recipe sharing network.
• TouchWord will be a Bible on the iPhone that will include an RSS reader for Christian learning resources and is being developed by TheBarCodeProject
• Chores mobile is to serve as a companion app for the Chores app for the Mac desktop and are being developed by the combined efforts of Deepak Mantena and TapeShow LLC. It will be a productivity tool without what Deepak calls "all the unnecessary fluff that's in existing productivity tools".
• Seahorse Software is porting Blackjack Run from Palm to iPhone in July
• Advenio, the developers of MacGourmet, are bringing a yet-to-be-named recipe application to iPhone
• Michael Howard at Midnight Martian Software is going to release their 3D OpenGL-based Midnight Mahjong Solitaire
• *TUAW claims that ApolloIM is being developed for the App Store, but it appears from the website that they are open-sourcing the project, so we'll let you know when we have confirmation.

[via TUAW]