Australian Iphone Apps
Applications specifically for Australia
- StreetHawk – Hunting the best in-store fashion for you. StreetHawk is the Free Personal Shopper in your pocket. It saves you time and money.
- Whereis – a free turn by turn navigation app with integration with Yellow and White Pages.
- Everguide – digital events guide for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide & Perth
- OZ Punch – Who wants to punch Julia? There is an app for that.
- http://bjango.com/iphone/consume/ -> app to monitor your phone,internet etc usage. VERY good.
- – Here it listed only Aussie apps.
- ABC – ABC Mobile, with news, video, and podcasts.
- Art Guide Australia – Exhibitions, Galleries and Artists in Australia.
- Aussie Driving Log – Simple app allows you to keep track of your business car’s kilometres
- Australian Good Food Guide – Find restaurants, accommodation, bars & more throughout Australia (Free)
- Australia Taxi– Find local taxi company phone number and taxi ranks in your capital city.
- Australian TV + Movie Guide – Australian TV times and cinema sessions 2-in-1 app ($2.49)
- AutoLogBook – A fully featured ATO compliant car logbook app with FBT estimator, allowance and toll road tracker by Melbourne company MassiveApp
- Axle8 – Downloadthis free app to help you find happy hours, great lunch deals, shopping discounts, events & festivals around you (Sydney only)
- BarBait – Downloadthis free app uses location-based services to access amazing offers from nearby bars. The crew have worked with the bars to deliver offers such as free/cheap drinks, cheap pizzas and many more (currently Melbourne only)
- BOMRadar – Bureau of Meteorology weather radar
- CityTag Australia – Location search for finding anything. Tag a place, add photos and get points to become Mayor of the suburb. By Appiphany iPhone Development.
- Contractor Expenses – Expenses, Mileage & News app for ICT Contractors/Freelancers
- Dirty Kebabs– Finds your local kebab store!
- DrinkTracker – Breathalyser app for iPhone and Touch.
- Footy Stats – Track the performance of your child playing junior AFL.
- Gardenate – Vege gardening guide and planting calender for Australia/NZ home gardeners.
- Gluten Free By Ingredient – Australia and New Zealand – Guide to working out whether a product is gluten free.
- Gluten Free NSW – Listing of gluten free friendly restaurants in New South Wales (inc. ACT).
- Home Delivery & Takeaway – Order home delivery from nearby restaurants based on your location.
- Honda – Find a dealer, View model range, Rotate car models for a 360° view
- IceTV – Australian TV guide – requires free IceTV subscription
- iFirelert Stay up to date with all the latest bushfire information around Australia with iFirelert for iPhone.
- iiQuota – Monitor your Mobile and ISP usage with one application.
- LearnersLogbook – supports all six Australia states, creates PDF logbook almost identical to each state’s hand written logbook.
- mBox – Fax & Voicemail Inbox (requires mBox subscription)
- Metro Melbourne – Trains, Trams, Buses in Melbourne
- Metro Perth – Trains, Buses and Ferries in Perth ($3.99)
- Metro Sydney – Trains, Buses and Ferries in Sydney
- My Entertainment Book Sydney 2009-2010 – Free app to help you find discounts in the Entertainment Book near your location
- my Property – Rental and investment property cash-flow and negative gearing calculator to assist in assessing investment property purchases.
- my Super – Suite of Australian superannuation and SMSF calculators for accountants, bookkeepers and financial advisers.
- my Tax – Suite of Australian tax calculators for accountants, bookkeepers and financial advisers.
- myMBS – Must-have app for Australian doctors, nurses and proceduralists to find item numbers from the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS).
- NewsAU – An Australian news app that pulls in RSS feeds from many different sources and topics.
- Oz Quiz Think you know Australia? Find out with the Oz Quiz challenge- more than 600 questions with internet scoringfor 3.0 or later.
- OzTV – OzTV TV Guide for iPhone ($2.99)
- OzSun UV Alert – Realtime UV levels as well as SunSmart alerts for Australian major cities – to help you be aware and avoid over-exposure to sun UV radiation (fetches UV data from, and provides relevant links to ARPANSA, BOM and SunSmart websites).
- Oz Weather – Australian weather forecasts, observations, looping radar images from BoM and optional advanced features for weather tragics.
- ParkMate – Find nearest Wilson Parking carpark, get parking specials, and remember where you left your car. (Also available for NZ.)
- Perth Traffic – Perth Traffic Cameras provides a quick and easy way to check the traffic hotspots around Perth when preparing to tackle traffic. (FREE !)
- Pocket Weather AU – Weather and Radar info sourced from the BOM
- Posted – Track Your Deliveries (Australia Post, TNT etc).
- Posted Lite – Track Your Deliveries (Australia Post, TNT etc). Limited to one parcel at a time and contains ads.
- Property Inspection Manager– Produces Property Inspection Report and Property Condition Report using custom templates/forms based on Australian States.
- Railtime Sydney – Sydney trains timetable.
- ServiceM8 – Field Service App for local trades
- Snarl Traffic – Monitor Sydney traffic as it happens.
- St George Banking Application – Check the balance/history for your St George savings & credit card accounts.
- Stampify – The groundbreaking Social Photo Game. Take a photo and make a stamp and post it to friends.
- SYDMalls – Sydney’s Mall Directory – See what shops are in malls, telephone numbers and Mall maps
- Sydney Bars – A pocket guide to over 200 Sydney bars with pictures and bar details.
- SydTraffic – Sydney RTA Traffic Cams
- T2G Sydney – Sydney trains timetable.
- TxT My Sydney Buses Lite – Handy app for bus commuters to easily determine accurate, real-time bus arrivals for all Sydney buses and stops on the Sydney network utilising Transport TXTBUS service.
- The Specials Board – iPhone app for finding restaurant specials and bar deals in Sydney and Melbourne. Download from the app store here
- Toyota Australia Dealer Search – Toyota Dealer Search
- tramTRACKER – Real-time tram arrival information for Melbourne.
- TripView – Sydney trains timetable.
- tvGuide – Orsome Software’s TV Guide with most Australian stations ($1.19)
- VehicleLog – ATO compliant car logbook for calculating % business use, including employee km reimbursement claims.
- WATraffic – Western Australia Traffic Cams ($2.49)
- weatherMate – Weather and radar for Aus in multiple languages
- weatherzone – Weather and radar for Australia based on BOM sources
- VPHONE – VoIP & SMS app – If you are using voip on your home phone from iinet, Internode, TPG, Gotalk or any other provider, now you can use the same service on the VPhone.
- YouDo Hobart– Location aware history tours of Hobart, Tasmania
International applications with local Australian content
- Bloomberg – Info on world financial markets, news, stock quotes, company descriptions, price charts, trend analysis (more comprehensive than the standard Apple App)
- Sleepmaker: Rain – Fall asleep nature’s way (featuring rain sound loops recorded from Tasmanian Forests)
- Eventful – local concerts, musicals, comedians, festivals, etc
- Local Picks – local restaurants and eateries (needs a bit more development)
- Urbanspoon – recommends local restaurants. Shake for new places.
- Locly – nearest restaurants, pubs, movies, ATM’s, petrol stations etc (also tells you how to get there on the iPhone GPS)
- OneTap Movies – is Showtimes plus links to movie trailers (A$2.49)
- Showtimes – Local movies by movie or cinema (free)
- Stocks (the standard iPhone app) – just add .AX to the name (eg IAG would be added as IAG.AX).
- ShralpTide – Tides for surfers. Includes 317 Australian and 20 NZ locations. (A$1.19)
- StockWatch – Supports ASX (A$3.99)
- Tube Sydney – Metro, ferry, rail info (A$12.99)
- tvGuide – NZ TV Guide app – also with some Australian and UK channels (A$4.99)
- ZIPcodes – browse or search postcodes (works offline)
- TV Forecast -Upcoming TV show countdown, contains listings for Australian TV content too!
- Dirty Kebabs– Ever had a late night craving for a Dirty Kebab but needed to know your closest shop ? Now you can with the Dirty Kebabs.
- Our Brisbane– Everything you need to know, explore and love brisbane.
International applications developed in Australia Australian developers have made some native apps and web apps for use internationally – see iPhone Applications
- Property Inspection Manager– Produces Property Inspection Report and Property Condition Report using custom templates/forms based on Australian States.
Jailbreak Applications Some apps are only available on Jailbroken phones – see Jailbroken Applications
Australian iphone apps Directory
- Australian Apps only – http://ozapps.com.au/
Web Apps These sites fit the iPhone screen more effectively.
- News
- News.com – http://iphone.news.com.au
- SMH/The Age – http://mobile.smh.com.au and http://mobile.theage.com.au
- NineMSN – http://m.ninemsn.com.au
- Oz Weather (uses BOM data) – http://i.ozpda.com/ozweather/
- FoxSports – http://www.foxsports.com.au/wireless
- 2020Cricket – http://2020cricket.mobi/
- Financial
- ANZ Mobile Banking – https://www.anz.com/mobilelanding/
- NAB Mobile Banking – https://ib.nab.com.au/nabib/mobile/login.ctl
- Comm Sec Trading – http://webpromos.com.au/commsec/iphone/
- Suncorp Mobile Banking – https://internetbanking.sunco
rpmetway.com.au/sml/mobile/logon.asp - Suncorp iPhone Portal – http://iphone.suncorp.com.au
- iCharge (mobile EFTpos) – http://www.xilo.com/ic4ip.htm
- Local events & restaurants
- Google nearby movies (1 column) – http://www.google.com.au/movi
es?hl=en&near=sydney&output= Note: Replace “sydney” with your suburb.xhtml&sa=X&ct=more-results&sort=1 - Mobilise Entertainment Guides – http://mobile.yourtime.com.au/
- Docoloco (Melbourne local recommendations) http://www.docoloco.com/iphone
- TrueLocal.com.au – http://iphone.truelocal.com.au
- HelloSydney – http://HelloSydney.mobi/
- Menulog – http://m.menulog.com.au/
- Everguide digital event/gig guide – http://itunes.apple.com/au/ap
p/everguide/id433543593?mt=8
- Google nearby movies (1 column) – http://www.google.com.au/movi
- Public Transport
- Brisbane: myTransit – http://mytrans.it/ (in beta)
- Brisbane – myTripTime – http://mytriptime.info (data sourced from Translink)
- iTransit – http://iphone.itransit.com.au/ – Melbourne & Sydney. (also uses Tram Tracker)
- Melbourne & Sydney: CityRail, Intercity & Metlink trains – http://itt.alvinsingh.org/index.do
- Sydney public transport – http://mobile.131500.com.au/
- Perth – http://136213.mobi (need to know the stop number, from http://transperth.wa.gov.au)
- Other
- Domain Realestate – http://www.domain.com.au/Publ
ic/ContentDisplay.aspx?contentid=mobile_iPhone - Fuel Price Search – http://carsguide.mobi/
- Google Mobile – http://www.google.com.au/m/ (NB. to use Google Mobile as default search results in Mobile Safari, edit the GoogleTLDs.plist in MobileSafari.app as per instructions here)
- Oz Broadband Speed Test – http://www.ozspeedtest.com/iphone
- QANTAS – http://www.qantas.com/mobile/
- Domain Realestate – http://www.domain.com.au/Publ
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