Top Types Of Mobile Applications

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The best way to classify mobile applications is to explore the app categories at app stores. But this article tries a different manner to classify applications. It picks app by their spread-type, interest for users, and mobile development. Maybe, your future app will also fall in the below mentioned classification of the apps.

Personal assistant apps
Most of personal assistant apps come preinstalled in device. Their types include clock, calendar, notes, to-do, reminder & alert apps, etc. Together these apps make the core of mobile device and make the schedule and task organization operations easier. These apps are like personal assistant in your hands as they keep you informed about the dates, times, months, events, etc. you inputted into them.

Geo-location apps
Geo-location apps are nowadays increasingly becoming popular. Geo-location is an important feature in today’s smartphone and mobile developers can design app that can use this features in various tasks. Geo-location can be used for maps, navigation, location based weather, travel and in everything that requires the location of users ...
... to show the result. These apps can also be used in local searches, such as searching nearby restaurant in particular area.

Social Networking Apps
Another popular type of apps is dedicated to social networking. Social networking apps are the apps that allow users staying connected to their friends and family anytime, anywhere. These apps also let users share information with other user. Some most popular mobile application have now received deeper integration with existing mobile platforms.

Multimedia apps
Multimedia tools are made for handing image, audio and video contents. These are for those users who love music, listen to and watch video and music online. These apps are for those users who love capturing images and editing these images to share in social networks.

Proprietary apps
Proprietary apps are usually custom apps designed and developed to perform specific internal operations in an organization. These are in-house application that can be accessed by authorized users.

6 - Branding Solutions
Branded applications are basically visiting cards in the mobile world; they include the brand's logo, name, familiar color palette, and maybe a slogan. But aside from that, who said that these apps can't be functionally irreplaceable assistants for mobile users? These apps allow them to fully access all the services of the brand on the go.

7 - Split-Second Mailmen
A lot has changed in communication since phone calls, SMS and e-mails. Now we have multimedia messaging in all its functional bliss - support of text, image, audio and video transmissions, voice text input etc. A popular trend is secure messaging, which protects your conversations with sophisticated means of encryption. Messaging options are often integrated into other types of applications.

8 - m-Marketplaces
Mobile marketplaces are client apps, which require Internet connection. As a rule, the server side here stores and processes data, then exchanges with the client side (the app). Such formula is very convenient not only for various m-commerce shops, but also for the abovementioned social networks, messaging apps, enterprise solutions etc. These apps are simple, easy and functionally rich. What's more, they are built to be accessible across several platforms - and that's a great advantage.

9 - Time Wasters
How could we not mention games? It's the most downloaded category, which is divided into even more subcategories, where everyone can pick a way of wasting time, according to their own tastes and preferences. Board games and card games, puzzles and educational games, action and sports, strategy and RPG's - there is a whole lot of everything for everyone. Catchy and addictive games, filled with colors, can make a breakthrough to the top lists of application stores. Here we can also add various entertainment apps, which are not games in their essence, but serve as time wasters as good as games do.

10 - m-Educators
Kids enjoy playing games on mobile devices. As well these devices may hold specialized educational apps. These apps are often associated with the game category; but here it has nothing to do with simple time-wasting. That's more about reading, drawing, counting, learning more about the world - that's what these apps (very often shaped as games) can help kids with, and wake their natural interest in learning something new.

11 - Leisure & Lifestlyle
We can unite loads of mobile apps under the banners of leisure and lifestyle. These are apps for the needs of specific user audiences: sports apps, how-to guides, cookbook apps and websites, science-related apps, various manuals and reference books, apps dedicated to nature, history, religion, fashion, health and gardening - basically, whatever in the world.

12 - One-Of-A-Kind
What if you have an idea of an application that radically differs from any presented types? That's gorgeous, twice gorgeous if you know how it can attract people, stand out against hundreds of popular apps, and gather its share of revenues; you only have to choose competent developers to make the product as perfect as the idea is. One-of-a-kind applications may take a while to make, take some extra budget and efforts on research; but with proper planning it's worth a try. Uniqueness always draws people's interest, as long as it solves a determined bulk of problems, thus proves usefulness.

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