Applications designed for iPhone are nothing short of amazing. That’s because they leverage the groundbreaking technology in iPhone — like the Multi-Touch interface, the accelerometer, GPS, real-time 3D graphics, and 3D positional audio. Just tap into the App Store and choose from thousands of applications ready to download now.

The App Store now boasts over 10,000 apps and Apple reports over 300 million downloads. Yes, we searched through all of them and compiled a list of  55+ apps that every video professional would be interested in and can use.  Most are high quality apps that we’ve found indispensable. Some are frivolous fun and while they aren’t groundbreaking, or even necessary, but they have special place in our hearts and on our devices.

Have an app that you use not included in this list? Let us know in the comments below.

Organize Your Shoots

Shootpad

The iPhone version of a shot log.

Shot logs are written records of the shots on a hard drive, tape or disk. The shot log can be made either as the shoot progresses or after the shoot finishes. This app is a digital form of the traditional shot log including scene, comments, take and timecode.

While you are capturing footage, and when you are reviewing it at the beginning of post-production, you want to be able to have a concise record of exactly what you have. If you do not accurately catalog what clips you have recorded, what shape they are in, and specific characteristics for every scene or location then you may have an insurmountable task ahead of you when it actually comes time for editing the project. Shootpad makes it all easier.

Streamtime

Lets face it – you didn’t get into the creative industry to do time sheets or invoicing. Nor did you want to spend most of your time scheduling workflow and organizing job bags. Traffic does not need to be a horrible thought. Production is a great thing. Streamtime is Australasia’s fastest growing software designed to solve your job tracking and client management information.

Creative people aren’t always so keen on organizing their lives and keeping up with the admin side of things – but a solution is at hand, in the form of Streamtime

Stop Motion Movie Making Tools

Movie Maker Lite

Stop-Motion Movies made exclusively with the Apple iPhone

Movie Maker, previously known as Watch It Change, provides a way to make stop-motion movies with your iPhone. We felt that the title of “Watch It Change” did not fully represent what our users were doing with the application. It is a Movie Maker. Check out all of the user submitted movies from around the world!

Animation Timer

A simple stopwatch designed for animators.

Timing is very important in animation. In order to animate convincingly you must know how many frames each part of an action takes.

Animators can use a stopwatch to time out actions but there has always been an annoying problem. Stopwatches show time as 1/100ths per second but movie film runs at 24 frames per second. To find out how many frames you need to do a tiresome calculation containing 41.66667 each time.
I’ve always wanted a stopwatch that would show the time in exactly the format I need so I decided, what the hey, I might as well make one, so here it is.

Pictures to Video or Slideshows

Animoto on the iPhone

Create videos on an iPhone? YES—and awesome ones at that! You just select from the pics on your phone, choose a soundtrack from our library, and click a button. In a few minutes, you’ll have a professional, customized 30-second music video of your pics—for free!
We know video.

The creators of Animoto include former producers at MTV, Comedy Central & ABC. You’re getting the product of their sweat and their brains with loads and loads of their secret sauce.

Kyte Producer

Even though Kyte is video-centric, the iPhone app is a video workaround where users can create slide shows from the iPhone’s photo gallery, add polls, and chat with their Kyte audience in real-time.

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