iTunes Top iPhone and iPad Apps of 2010

Frank Gruber December 9, 2010 Tweet

Today Apple released iTunes Rewind which shared some interesting news about the top apps of 2010. The number of apps these days makes it so overwhelming to find what you want, it can help to see what other people are using. We are excited to see this list produced by Apple as it was interesting to see the trend towards gaming apps – which include everything from angry birds to zombies!

We’ve linked up each app so you can easily check each of them out. We’d love to hear what you think about them – which apps do you like the best?

Overall Top 10 PAID iPhone Apps

1. Angry Birds –
2. Doodle Jump –
3. Skee-Ball –
4. Bejeweled 2 + Blitz –
5. Fruit Ninja –
6. Cut the Rope –
7. ALL-IN-1 GAMEBOX –
8. The Moron Test –
9. Plants vs. Zombies –
10. Pocket God –

Overall Top 10 FREE iPhone Apps

1. Facebook –
2. Angry Birds Lite –
3. Words With Friends Free –
4. Skype –
5. Tap Tap Revenge 3 –
6. The Weather Channel –
7. Paper Toss –
8. Bing –
9. ROCK BAND FREE –
10. Talking Tom Cat –

Overall Top 10 GROSSING iPhone Apps

1. MLB.com At Bat 2010 –
2. Angry Birds –
3. Call of Duty: Zombies –
4. Bejeweled 2 + Blitz –
5. FriendCaller 3 Pro –
6. Zombie Farm –
7. TomTom U.S.A. –
8. TETRIS –
9. Plants vs. Zombies –
10. Doodle Jump –

Overall Top 10 PAID iPad Apps

1. Pages –
2. GoodReader for iPad –
3. Numbers –
4. Angry Birds HD –
5. Keynote –
6. Glee Karaoke –
7. WolframAlpha –
8. Pinball HD –
9. Friendly for Facebook –
10. Star Walk for iPad –

Overall Top 10 FREE iPad Apps

1. iBooks –
2. Pandora Radio –
3. Netflix –
4. Google Mobile App –
5. Solitaire –
6. Movies by Flixster – with Rotten Tomatoes –
7. IMDb Movies & TV –
8. Kindle –
9. Google Earth –
10. Virtuoso Piano Free 2 HD –

Overall Top 10 GROSSING iPad Apps

1. Pages –
2. Numbers –
3. Keynote –
4. LogMeIn Ignition –
5. SCRABBLE for iPad –
6. Documents To Go Premium – Office Suite –
7. Angry Birds HD –
8. Real Racing HD –
9. Plants vs. Zombies HD –
10. Proloquo2Go –

We have compiled our own list of some of Tech Cocktail’s favorite apps and included them below. Obviously this is just a sampling, as there are far too many magnificent apps to mention:

iPhone Apps

1. AroundMe –
2. Instagram –
3. TripIt –
4. Shazam –
5. Airbnb –
6. Pandora –
7. Twitter –
8. Facebook –
9. GrubHub –
10. Splice Video Editor –

iPad Apps

1. Flipboard –
2. New York Times –
3. StumbleUpon –
4. Kayak –
5. MLB.com At Bat –
6. USA Today –
7. Weatherbug –
8. Kindle –
9. iBone XL –
10. PAC-MAN for iPad –

Bonus app – we’re pretty thankful for all of the apps listed and can post it with the newly launched Thankfulfor iPhone app –

We’d love hear what your favorite iPhone and iPads apps of 2010 might be. Drop us a comment below.