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I heart my iPhone. Yip, I love him so much that I get a little panicky when I can’t locate him within 5 seconds or less. Sad yes but oh so true. I have a slightly obsessive personality (not single white female obsessive but obsessive never the less) and I work in the digital space so it all is quite justifiable. Lately I have developed a new obsession with Runkeeper and tracking all my exercise. This gave me the idea for my latest blog post so here it is the top 5 iPhone apps I love.

5. Sleep cycle
It would seem I love tracking and analyzing stuff. I particularly enjoy the tracking and monitoring of pointless stuff like sleeping. So I have found a cool little free app called Sleep Cycle that tracks the type of sleep you get. The app records the time you go to bed and when you wake and charts by hour the type of sleep you get whether it be deep sleep, just sleep or if you’re awake. It also acts as an alarm clock and there is the usual “share” functionality via email or facebook. You never need to wonder why you wake up feeling so rubbish in the morning just check the app and see how much deep sleep you got. A word of warning though – this app tends to chew through the battery so make sure you have keep your phone charged throughout the night.

4. Chicktionary
My EBF introduced me to this addictive little word game – Chicktionary by Bing. The point of the game is to create different words from a jumbled list as letters. Play against the clock and get as many words as you can or find a set amount of words in a given time limit and earn ribbons. You can also challenge your friends and post your results on Facebook if you’re a nerd.

3. Tripit
Gone are the days of printing out your flight times, hotel reservation and rental car hire. Yip you can store them all in one handy little electronic place. Simply send your email reservations to tripit support or let trip fetch them automatically. You can also share your travel plans with friends and family. The feature I like the most is the fact that you can check flight statuses and boarding gates all from the push of a button. Can you say awesome? Yes, download for freeeeeee then!

2. Instagram
Instagram is a great way to add a twist to your photos. Take photos on your iPhone and run them through an instagram filter. You can share via all the usual suspects – Facebook, Twitter, Flickr!

1. Runkeeper
The perfect little fitness app that allows you to: track and monitor all your exercise activity and weight; find routes created by fellow runkeeper users as well as create your own; track your fitness progress by day, week or month, find races near you. You can also friend your mates up so you can keep them honest and give them assholes about their nancy 2km walking activities. For a little bit extra you can purchase fitness classes to train you for running a half marathon, 5km, 10km race etc. When you are out exercising you can select the prompts to help keep you on track. And of course it has all the social media plugins (facebook and Twitter) so you can skyte to your “friends” and “followers” about how fit you are. It integrates with itunes so you can select playlists to listen to while you’re pounding the pavememt. But the feature I like most is the angry / happy voiceover lady. Let me explain. If you’re trying to run a race in a certain time you can you can set a target pace. If you’re ahead of your target pace the voiceover lady speaks to you in a soft voice providing you with all you vital stats but if you’re behind she sounds like an angry (but posh) fishmongers wife. Check out my runkeeper profile!