Discovering new apps on your device

One of the neatest things about own­ing a digit­al device is dis­cov­er­ing new ways to use it. Got a spare 10 minutes? Look for a new app. Great way to kill time 

For example, when I bought my iPad Touch, I star­ted mon­it­or­ing web­sites and twit­ter feeds such as 148apps and appadvice.com.

There’s an more than one app for that:
I also installed Chomp — a cool app dis­cov­ery app (so meta) that recor­ded your recom­mend­a­tions and sug­ges­ted oth­er apps based on those recom­mend­a­tions. Apple’s iTune Store and app now does this through the Geni­us ser­vice — though it’s not quite as good as Chomp is.

Last night some friends recom­men­ded App­Shop­per — an app and com­pan­ion web­site that intro­duces some great fil­ter­ing fea­tures to the app dis­cov­ery process.

The fea­tures include:

• Pop­u­lar Apps: Over­whelmed by the App Store? The list of Pop­u­lar app changes lets you browse a list of only the apps that oth­er App­Shop­per users think are worth look­ing at.
• What’s New: Track all the latest changes to the App Store: price drops, updates, and new apps.
• Wish List: Add any app to your own per­son­al Wish List and get noti­fied of price changes or updates by email. With Push Noti­fic­a­tions, you can get the latest updates sent dir­ectly to your device.
• My Apps: Keep track of the apps you already own. With Push Noti­fic­a­tions, you can get the latest updates sent dir­ectly to your device.
• Syncs with AppShopper.com: Wish List and My Apps auto­mat­ic­ally sync with AppShopper.com so you can man­age your lists in a web browser.

A uni­ver­sal applic­a­tion (iPhone/Touch/iPad), App­Shop­per is a rather cool addi­tion to my app surf­ing addiction.

Which is great if you’ve got an iDevice…but many read­ing this could care less because they’ve got an Android or Black­Berrry or Other…so, what exists for those plat­forms? iOS can’t be the only device with ded­ic­ated recom­mend­a­tion ser­vices. Time to ask for help…from you! Help us out and leave your favour­ite ‘oth­er’ device app-find­er app or ser­vice details in the com­ments. It’s appreciated!