Best free ipad apps?

[yosi199]

Just got the Ipad! finally got damn it!
I'm looking for some good free apps/games you guys know of. Can I get your recommendation guys?

 

[gillybean]

iBooks - they have like 30,000 free classics books to read that you can get
ABC Player - play any recent ABC shows streaming in good quality
The Weather Channel - view weather and weather channel clips
USA Today - read news
Kindle - access any of your kindle books
Table Checkers HD - a pretty good looking 2-player checkers game
Tap Tap Radiation - a tap tap game, comes with lots of free tracks
Yahoo! Entertainment - great TV guide, also has other entertainment content
WeatherBug Elite - another free weather app
Twitterific - free Twitter App
Zinio Magazine - can read a few magazine articles for free, but most require subscription
AP News - read news
Pandora - streams free music to you based on your preferences
IMDB Movies & TV - a nice way to browse IMDB
10 Pin Shuffle HD - a free game, mix between bowling and poker

Those are the free apps in the top 100 that I've tried and still have installed.

 

[yosi199]

Thanks! How can I get the ibooks app if I'm from outside of America?

 

[Elzlaik]

Thanks! How can I get the ibooks app if I'm from outside of America?

You can sign up for a free American iTunes account. Then you'll be able to download any of the 30,000 free books on iBooks or sync any epub files you may have through iTunes.

Instructions for a free American iTunes account:
http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/09/create-a-free-us-itunes-account-from-any-country/

If you are in Canada you can also buy pre-paid Vanilla Mastercards and use them with your American iTunes account to make purchases.

 

[kirchnrd]

Guardian eyewitness- unbelievable HD journalistic photos

Labirynth 2 lite

 

[jeffy777]

Here are some good ones that haven't been mentioned:

Harbor Master
IMDB
Checkers for iPad (let's you plau against the CPU as well as 2 player)
Dragon Dictation
Voice Memos
PCalc Lite
Air Video Free
Dictionary
Touch tanks
Euchre Lite
Solitaire City Lite
Air Hockey
Smiles HD
Escape
Aurora Feint 3
Mini Golf
Pukk HD
Blocks
Doons
Battle of the Block
Cogs Lite
Jirbo Says
Paper Football

 

[gwynne]

Wikipanion free

NPR

Epicurious - very nice searchable recipe database, published recipes only

Accuweather free - a more minimalist weather app, I like it a lot, very iPad

Cool Hunting - cool products and stuff from all over the web

We Rule - farmville plus simcity, sort of

Sci Fi Wire - scifi/fantasy news feed from SyFy channel. Articles, videos, interviews, about movies tv etc. For example, this week there's a lot of stuff about the new season of doctor who.

 

[ClaireL]

Pocket Legends-MMO which is a great polished game
The Bible HD
The ESV Bible

 

[asl06]

how do you get to the 3,000 free books. when i go to the store i only see like 150 free classics?!?! thanks

 

[Eldiablojoe]

how do you get to the 3,000 free books. when i go to the store i only see like 150 free classics?!?! thanks

It's an iPad app called "Free Books," it has 23,000+ books.

 

[jeffy777]

You can get all the free classics in the iBook store. You just have to search for specific titles. You can use the Project Gutenburg site to find books you'd be interested in, then search for that title in iBooks.