(6) Fitness
Top App:
Fitocracy
Description: A fitness social network.
Why it’s cool: Use this app to track your workouts, choose new fitness activities, and add friends to help you work out.
Available on: iOS
Runner Up
FitBit
Descriptions: A healthy habit tracking device and application.
Why it’s Cool: This app allows you to track your food intake, workout routines, and weight. It also syncs with other health applications including RunKeeper and Microsoft HealthVault. *You will have to purchase a FitBit tracker ($99.95)
Available on: Android & iOS
(7) Eating/Drinking
Top App:
UrbanSpoon
Description: A comprehensive guide to all places wining and dining.
Why it’s cool: UrbanSpoon has the generic restaurant ratings and reviews. To make things interesting, UrbanSpoon created the slot machine feature. Just shake your phone and the slot machine will pick a random place for you and your friends to eat or drink.
Available on: Android & iOS
Runner Up
DrinkOwl
Description: Discover the best places to drink in your city.
Why it’s cool: DrinkOwl is a mix of yelp and groupon, giving you daily drink specials, happy hours, and coupons to all the local watering holes.
Available on: Android & iOS
(8) Grooming
Top App:
Gilt
Description: A flash sale app that provides access to top labels at up to 60% off normal price.
Why it’s cool: If you are looking for a new suit, shoes, or even a bottle of wine, Gilt allows you to purchase some of the top label brands at steep discount prices.
Available on: Android & iOS
Runner Up:
How to Tie a Tie
Description: A walkthrough with visual step by step instructions on how to tie a tie.
Why it’s cool: This app includes 12 different methods for tying a necktie. So, if you’re just out of college and have a lack of tie tying experience this app is for you.
Available on: Android & iOS
(9) Networking
Top App:
LinkedIn
Description: On the go access to your professional social network.
Why it’s Cool: The LinkedIn app gives you the power of LinkedIn at your fingertips. Keep up to date with your connections, inbox, and network updates while on the go.
Available on: Android & iOS
Runner Up
Cardmunch
Description: As part of LinkedIn, cardmuch is a business card organizer for you smartphone.
Why it’s cool: With all the networking events one attends keeping business cards organized can be a real hassle. With cardmunch all you do is snap a picture of the card and it uploads the information as a new contact, simple and easy.
Available on: Android (coming soon) & iOS
(10) Finance
Top App:
Bloomberg
Description: The latest business news and financial data straight to your mobile device.
Why it’s cool: Check out the latest business content straight from Bloomberg and Businessweek along with real-time stock updates and dashboards.
Available on: Android & iOS
Runner Up
Yahoo Finance
Description: A real-time stock ticker application.
Why it’s cool: Keep tabs on your financial portfolio with up to the minute stock prices and market news.
Available on: Android & iOS
why Bloomberg over CNBC?
Apologies of someone else has posted this on another thread, but an invaluable app for any NYC-based monkey would be iTrans NYC.
It's not free ($2.99, I think....) but is truly the best app to help you get around New York. It is especially valuable if you are relatively new to the Big Apple.
I almost guarantee that it will pay for itself the first day you own it. In fact, even if you are only going to be in the city on a short trip I would still recommend it.
Top 10 Apps for Wall Streeters (Part 1) (Originally Posted: 08/03/2012)
Here's Part 1 of Top 10 Apps for Wall Streeters, everything from travel to booze.
(1) Travel
Top App: TripIt Description: The travel industry’s first open itinerary platform.
Why it’s cool: With TripIt you can organize your travel plans from your mobile device or on the web. You can also share your travel plans with family, friends, or coworkers to keep them up to date on your where abouts.
Available on: Android & iOS Runner Up: Hotel Tonight Description: Last minute hotel deals saving you up to 70% Why it’s Cool: Why sleep at the airport or a Motel 6 when you can book a high end room at some of the most posh hotels in all major cities. These are last minute deals though so this only comes in handy for unexpected stays.
Available on: Android & iOS
(2) News
Top App: Zite Description: A personalized magazine that gets smarter as you use it. Why it’s Cool: Zite is a great app for finding new and exciting articles. The more you use it the more it understands your reading habits to bring you fully tailored content that will peak your interest. Available on: Android & iOS
Runner Up: Pulse Description: Elegantly tiled interface bringing you the latest content from your favorite news sources. Why it’s Cool: Pulse has a great user interface, allowing the user to create “pages” and add content from your favorite blogs, social networks, and news sources.
Available on: Android & iOS
(3) Organization
Top App: Evernote Description: A note taking app, making it easy to organize your chaotic life. Why it’s Cool: Evernote keeps your life in order. It can sync between all devices, providing a mobile application, desktop platform, and web platform. The best part is Evernote provides “The Trunk”, which allows third parties to create additional applications and tools that work with Evernote.
Available on: Android & iOS
Runner Up: Dropbox Description: “Your life’s work, wherever it is”. Save your photos, documents, and videos and access them anywhere with this cloud service. Why it’s Cool: Dropbox syncs to all devices and allows for collaboration between multiple users. Invite others to join folders or view specific documents.
Available on: Android & iOS
(4) Boozing
Top App: Mixologist Description: Browse thousands of drink recipes and ingredients and become a master of mixology Why it’s Cool: Use this app to impress your fellow patrons at the bar. Everyone, including your coworkers, will be impressed when you list the ingredients of a 7 deadly sins to the bartender.
Available on: Android & iOS
Runner Up: Bartab Description: A social gifting app that lets you send or receives drinks at local bars and restaurants.
Why it’s Cool: Bartab solves the issue of missing out on those special occasions. If your friend is celebrating a promotion at a bar and you’re a thousand miles away all you need to do is go to Bartab, select the venue location, and choose a drink. You now helped your friend get sloshed celebrating that big promotion.
Available on: Android & iOS
(5) Expenses
Top App: Expensify Description: As Expensify puts it, “expense reports that don’t suck.” Why it’s Cool: Use Expensify to create seamless and simple business expense reports. Sync your credit card, use the auto GPS mileage tracker, and scan/upload receipts to track all your business expenses. Available on: Android & iOS
Runner Up: Mint Description: Use this app to organize your personal finances safely and easily. Why it’s Cool: With Mint you can create a personalized financial plan, with organized budgets and goals that can be easily viewed with your mobile device or online. Available on: Android & iOS
+1 for mentioning Evernote, the godsend of applications.
+1 for TripIt just because I like CNQR
+1 great thread
Never heard of Expensify; thanks!
+1 for instapaper - Save any page in your browser to read later with android or iOS. +1 Google drive - with 5GB free cloud storage it has an edge on drop box as it matches all other features +1 anydo - a simple and smart todo list that has notes and reminders which can be set based on time or location. Ace. Google now may soon have this feature inbuilt when it amalgamated with 'tasks'.
Make that +2 for Google Drive. It's like Dropbox + Google Docs, how more awesome can it get? Also throwing in +1 for Remember the Milk and Genius Scan.
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