Best App Ever Awards 2009

Peo­ple at 148apps.com are orga­niz­ing this year’s Best App Ever Awards, in as much as 55 cat­e­gories, tripling what’s avail­able in the App Store. The way it works is that any app can be nom­i­nated, by any­one, in the appro­pri­ate cat­e­gory. And then you can sec­ond the nom­i­na­tion by vis­it­ing the appro­pri­ate URLs.

Edit­ing sequence in Run Mate

I first heard about the com­pe­ti­tion through this post by Dan Grigsby of the Mobile Orchard fame, when I started read­ing blogs again after fin­ish­ing ini­tial Quickie development.

What

I nom­i­nated Quickie in the Best Pro­duc­tiv­ity Enhancer cat­e­gory and Run Mate in the Best Out­door Use App cat­e­gory. These are the links for nominations:

Quickie nom­i­na­tion
Run Mate nomination

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Why

Since its incep­tion in July, Run Mate is still (to the best of my knowl­edge) the only run­ning trainer app that allows you to fully cus­tomize your run­ning plan and indi­vid­ual ses­sions. As such, I can say — with no faked mod­esty — it’s a wel­come change in the sea of sim­i­lar apps that offer hard-coded sin­gle plans. With the planned fea­ture upgrades in the next sev­eral months, I aim for the Best run­ning app on the store, period.

Lists view in Quickie

Quickie on the other hand is as sim­ple as sim­ple can go. Com­bin­ing beau­ti­ful inter­face with sim­ple and fast exe­cu­tion, Quickie is (again) a wel­come refresh in the sea of GTD-monster apps. Expe­ri­ence tells me that most peo­ple don’t need full GTD pro­duc­tiv­ity and only need a sim­ple list of items that can be checked off and pos­si­bly an alert (n.b. alert­ing fea­ture is com­ing in future upgrade). Quickie is a young app, but already indis­pens­able in my daily rou­tine — I built it because I needed it. I’m cer­tain there’s a bunch of peo­ple that would also find it extremely useful.