About

I started iAppList because I was tired of “best apps” lists that were clearly written by someone who had never actually used the apps.

You know the kind. Forty apps in a single post. A paragraph each. Half of them abandoned by their developers two years ago. The other half just… fine. Nothing you’d actually keep on your phone after a week.

I’m Amit. I research apps and write practical guides based on real use — not App Store descriptions, not press releases. I download the apps, use them for actual tasks, and then write about what I found. If something doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to, I say so.

What iAppList actually covers

It started as an iPhone apps site. Best apps for this, best apps for that. And some of that is still here.

But over time, the work shifted toward something more useful — deep, single-app guides. How to actually get value out of ChatGPT. How to use Apple Notes as a proper project management system. How to do things with apps that most people don’t know are possible.

That’s where I spend most of my time now. Not hunting for the next shiny app, but going deep on the ones worth your attention.

How I research and write

I don’t take money to write about apps. If an app shows up in a guide here, it’s because I decided it was worth covering — not because someone paid me to say nice things about it.

Every guide goes through actual use. I test the workflows I describe. If I recommend a prompt, I’ve run it. If I say a feature works a certain way, I’ve verified it myself.

Some guides here took weeks to put together. That’s not a boast — it’s just the nature of trying to write something that’s actually the most useful thing on the internet for that topic. Anything less feels like a waste of your time and mine.

A bit of background

I’ve been researching apps and writing about them for a few years now. Before iAppList found its current direction, I spent a lot of time in App Store rabbit holes — tracking ranking patterns, watching how apps rise and fall, paying attention to things that didn’t match the conventional explanations.

That habit of observing carefully and questioning the standard advice carried into the writing here.

I’m also active on Reddit as u/TheiPhoneAppGuy — mostly in communities around iPhone apps, iOS, and AI tools — and on LinkedIn if you want to connect there.

Why I keep doing this

Honestly, because most app content on the internet is still bad.

Generic. Surface-level. Written to rank, not to help. And readers can tell the difference — they just often don’t have a better option.

iAppList is my attempt at being that better option. Not for every app or every topic. But for the ones I cover, I want the guide here to be the one you’d actually recommend to a friend who asked.

That’s the bar I’m trying to clear with every piece I publish.