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Best apps for a weekend BBQ
The best apps for Memorial Day, these apps will help you plan and execute a great BBQ that will impress friends and family. See picks
Best Social apps
C’mon get connected with these apps See picks
Best greeting card apps
These apps will help you personalize your greeting cards in a flash. See picks
Best apps for the planet
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Whether it is reducing your carbon footprint by ridesharing or eating locally or recycling your old clothing or toys, there are lots of things you can do right now. Check out these apps to show you how. See picks
5 Great iPad Games
The best iPad games for everyone to enjoy! See picks
Best Spring Cleaning apps
Clear the clutter, create a cleaning plan and get the kids in on it. If Alice were running your household (Brady Bunch reference), she’d be all over these. See picks
Best Martha Stewart apps
Martha Stewart is queen of perfection and her apps certainly deliver. Just in time for your spring fetes, try these great apps for entertaining. See picks
Best Fashion apps
Check out these Stylin’ apps See picks
Best Productivity apps for the office
Take your work with you with these best productivity apps! See picks
Best eBook apps
Curl up with great (digital) reading See picks
Best Fitness apps
Get your workout here! See picks
Best apps for the whole family
Educational apps to help your family learn and explore the world. Plus, some great app tools to encourage family fun. See picks
Best Beauty apps
Want to get glamorous? Try these digital tools for makeup tips, trying on new hairstyles, nail styles and more! See picks
Apps for teens
Day in the life: Text friends. Watch videos. Lose phone. Organize closet. Run. Find phone. –apps teens can’t live without! See picks
Money Savers
From grocery coupons to shopping deals and lowest gas prices to managing and organizing your finances. See picks
Tory Johnson
Tory Johnson is a Good Morning America correspondent, an award-winning business leader, popular speaker and bestselling author devoted to career success. She also runs a conference for women small business owners called Spark & Hustle. She shared some apps that she loves to use: See picks
Kim Demmon
Kim Demmon, author of Today’s Creative Blog, is the woman to go to if you need inspiration for kids, crafts, party planning, sewing and anything else requiring creativity. She’s relaxed in nature, a fitness fanatic by trade and her favorite hobby is bargain-hunting. Kim has a keen eye for styles and designs that often draw See picks
Katie Balla
Katie Balla is a dabbler in all things creative. Her experience as an elementary school art teacher gives her a great sense for what inspires kids…and what doesn’t. Now, as a full-time mommy blogger extraordinaire, Katie, aka Loves of Life, shares stories of her life raising a toddler, being a good wife and having fun with See picks
Krista Colvin
Krista Colvin will organize your life! She is recognized as a top Time Management Expert and the creator of Organize the Whole Shebang [the smart woman’s guide to doing it all]. Krista is a recovering perfectionist and an all-around too-much-coffee-drinkin, sassy mamma. As our Productivity apps Contributor she recommends the best tools to keep you organized See picks
Matthew Murray
Matt Murray has a passion for mobile photography. He loves to try out the latest photography apps and share his photos on Instagram and other social networks. On a recent trip he left behind his camera and took all photos exclusively on his iPhone. When he is not working as an Information Architect, Matt blogs See picks
Surfer Magazine
Founded in 1960, Surfer Magazine brings a slice of the entire surfing world with each issue. Award-winning photos, provocative interviews with the leading pros and journeys to the coolest undiscovered surf spots. They highly recommend this app: See picks
Inc. Magazine
Inc. is the go-to print pub and web site for entrepreneurs and biz owners providing inspiring start-up stories and hands-on advice about how to launch and grow a business. In their recent issue, Inc. told readers about a great app to help them track their mileage to get properly reimbursed. See picks
Melaine Thompson
Melaine Thompson is a serial DIY’er. She explains, “I have a weakness for tackling projects that others say I can’t do. I love to prove them wrong, saving money along the way, and inspiring others to abandon their fears and join in on the DIY fun!” She’s the writer of the home interiors blog: mysweetsavannah.blogspot.com See picks
Real Simple Magazine
The magazine with tips, tricks and elegant solutions for everyday home organization, food and entertaining recommends these apps: See picks
Amy Shearn on The Oprah Blog
Amy Shearn, author of How Far Is the Ocean from Here: A Novel writes on Life Lift, The Oprah Blog about an app that can help you get unstuck. Oprah is always helping us see the world in new and positive ways and get unstuck from our own muck, not surprising her team has found us some app See picks
Kacy Duke
Fitness innovator and personal trainer, Kacy Duke was named top workout guru by Allure magazine and the best trainer in New York by New York Magazine. She is a co-founder of Equinox Fitness Clubs and recently released her first personal training DVD, I Am, I Can, I Do: Body Breakthrough. She shared her favorite apps with us… See picks
Rich Brooks, flyte new media
Rich Brooks is founder and president of flyte new media, a Web design and Internet marketing firm in Portland, Maine. He is currently an Expert Blogger at FastCompany.com and a regular contributor at SocialMediaExaminer.com. He’s also a founder of The Agents of Change Digital Marketing Conference, an annual conference on search, social & mobile marketing. See picks
Suze Orman
Suze Orman has established herself as one of the top personal finance experts in the U.S. After loosing $50,000 she was given to start her own bakery, she learned all she could about finances and became a broker herself. Orman published You’ve Earned It, Don’t Lose It : Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make When You See picks
Susan Phillips
Susan Phillips is an award-winning, best-selling American writer of romance novels. Check out her latest book, Nobody’s Baby But Mine: A Novel. Also available on Kindle! When we asked her about her favorite apps, she humorously responded that her favorite apps she uses with her grandchildren including: See picks
Shannon Des Roches Rosa
Shannon writes about autism and parenting and is Editor of recently released book Thinking Person’s Guide To Autism. Her site is a one-stop source for carefully curated, evidence-based information about autism. She shared her favorite apps with us that she uses in her downtime and with her son: See picks
Sex and the City
Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda – four of the most memorable, romantic, charismatic and sexy characters imaginable. We wondered which apps they would have downloaded if they were appSmitten subscribers. Here’s what we came up with: See picks
Brittany Mullins
Brittany Mullins is a holistic health coach and the author of the blog Eating Bird Food. Brittany proves that living a healthy lifestyle doesn’t have to be boring or bland by sharing her recipes, fitness activities and motivational tips. See picks
Sherry Pagoto
As an expert on obesity, nutrition and exercise psychology, Professor Sherry Pagoto of University of Massachusetts Medical School writes about how to have a healthy lifestyle on her blog, FUdiet.com. Starting with the premise that you know what a good diet and exercise plan should be, FUdiet offers help on HOW to take action, commit and fight unhealthy See picks
Alex Cavoulacos
Alex Cavoulacos is the Founder & COO of The Daily Muse, a rapidly growing community of women who believe that kicking ass and taking names is all part of the job. In the office and out, they’re here for you, from perfecting your resume or getting a promotion to culture shock when traveling and rocking social media. See picks
Elle Decor Magazine
Elle Decor, the beautiful and inspirational home style and design mag featured these great interior design apps: See picks
Jai Rodriguez
Actor Jai Rodriguez is best known for his role as the motivational coach on Bravo’s Queer Eye For The Straight Guy. He has also performed on broadway in Rent and in his own one-man show, as well as on various television series. We caught him being interviewed by Fox News and he shared this favorite See picks
Joshua Jay
Joshua Jay is an internationally recognized performer. He is the author of the best-selling magic book, Magic: The Complete Course (Book & DVD). He uses his magic to mystify at events around the world, and appears frequently at Hollywood’s famed Magic Castle. See picks
Bob LeVitus
Bob LeVitus, often referred to as “Dr. Mac,” has written iPhone and iPad books for Dummies. As a speaker, teacher and writer, he is known for his trademark humorous style and unerring ability to translate “techie” jargon into usable and fun advice for regular folks. He found it very difficult to choose just 3 apps to See picks
Erin Condren
Erin Condren has developed a winning formula pairing graphics that pop with all kinds of products from iPad labels to personalized business cards to ah-mazing life planners and more. This SoCal busy mom’s business evolved from a “home shopping party” to partnerships with Target, Shutterfly, and TinyPrints, check out her goods at erincondren.com She shared her favorite apps See picks
Adrienne and Stephanie Vendetti
Adrienne and Stephanie Vendetti are founders of How to Be a Redhead , a website that “strives to make every redhead feel beautiful.” Best friends, sisters, and natural-born redheads, Adrienne and Stephanie teach women (naturally or bottled red) to love their locks with beauty recommendations for hair, skin, make-up, clothing, and more. These are their See picks
Joy Wilson
Joy Wilson is the voice behind the popular blog Joy the Baker. She is a writer, photographer, author of Joy the Baker Cookbook: 100 Simple and Comforting Recipes, and curator of all things sweet. Joy is also Co-founder of Homefries.com a site dedicated to creating humorous and helpful lifestyle podcasts, classes, and retreats. She shared her favorite apps with See picks
Adrian Grenier
Best known as Hollywood cutie Vincent Chase on the HBO series, Entourage, Adrian Grenier is also a documented do-gooder. With film producer Peter Glatzer, he co-founded SHFT, whose mission is “to convey a more sustainable approach to the way we live through video, design, art and culture.” The pair has since gone on to play a See picks
Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss, productivity guru, entrepreneur and best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body, recently released his own iPad app, The 4-Hour Chef. Tim shared what’s on his phone with us: See picks
Gwyneth Paltrow
Is there anything this woman can’t do??!!! An Oscar, an Emmy, a cookbook, rockstar husband, two young kids — and her own lifestyle site and newsletter, goop.com. She’s confident and demure at the same time. Gwyneth Paltrow is no slacker. This time she’s outdone herself with her first app: See picks
Wes Craven
Writer, Director, Producer — the King of horror films, Wes Craven is most well-known for the original Nightmare on Elm Street and the Scream series. Who knew he had something in common with Neil Patrick Harris — it’s their favorite app: See picks
Oprah
She needs no introduction. Oprah has the golden touch – when she mentioned brands on her show or in her magazine sales soar. And she isn’t shy about technology. She gave iPads to her employees last year for the holidays and did a live interview on Facebook. According to her magazine, O, and AdAge, here’s what we See picks
Marlon Wayans
Funny man, Marlon Wayans has had a diverse Hollywood career as an actor, producer, comedian, writer and director. One of ten famous siblings, he first appeared with his brother Keenan Ivory Wayans in one of our favorite movies, Im Gonna Git You Sucka. Then on to star with his other siblings in Mo Money (Damon), See picks
Tory Johnson
Tory Johnson is an award-winning business leader, Good Morning America correspondent, popular speaker and bestselling author devoted to career success. She also runs a conference for women small business owners called Spark & Hustle. She shared some apps that she loves to use: See picks
Ellen DeGeneres
We commend her for using her celeb status to bring attention to some important causes and thank her for her ability to make us all laugh. We’re not sure if it’s her dancing, her crazy antics or her sarcasm that gets us rolling, but we love it all and think she’s terrific. So we wondered what apps See picks
Beth Lisick
Author and performer, Beth Lisick’s book Everybody into the Pool, was a New York Times bestseller. Her latest book about her adventures in the self-help biz is called Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone. Here are Beth’s favorite apps: See picks
Jennipher Walters
Combining her passion for fitness and writing, Jennipher Walters co-founded FitBottomGirls and FitBottomMamas to promote a healthy, happy lifestyle. As a certified personal trainer and weight management coach, Jen enjoys staying active. Here are some of the apps she recommends for integrating your phone into your fitness regimen: See picks
Karl Krantz
Karl Krantz, creator of The Startup Daily an indispensable free newsletter featuring great ideas from great books on entrepreneurship, business, marketing and management. Karl’s newsletter has been a great inspiration to us here at appSmitten — It’s like getting a kick-in-the-pants business idea in your inbox everyday. See picks
Ashton Kutcher
You may know him as actor, producer or just Demi’s ex-hubby, but Ashton is an active tweeter. He recently said he is taking a hiatus, but we have a feeling he’ll be back. We did some digging to discover what apps he likes. Seems like people are definitely what they app, check out Ashton’s faves: See picks
Lisa Stone
Lisa Stone is CEO of BlogHer, the leading cross-platform media network created by, for and with women social media leaders, reaching more than 31 million each month. BlogHer publishes and syndicates news, information, advice and recommendations to and from 2,500 premium blogs, delivers uniquely insightful research on women in social media across interest areas, hosts the world’s largest conferences for See picks
Eden Godsoe
Eden Godsoe is founder and CEO of SkinnyScoop.com, an information sharing site for women. Harnessing the collective wisdom, SkinnyScoop allows users to create their own polls and lists and add them to their blogs or share with friends. Also a mother of two, Eden created her own list of top iPhone apps for moms on See picks
Larry Kramer
Larry Kramer is a media expert and author of C-Scape: Conquer the Forces Changing Business Today. He is the founder and former CEO of MarketWatch and went on to be President of CBS Digital. As a frequent traveler, news hound and sports fan, Larry shared this about his favorite apps: See picks
