We've been loading our iPod touch and iPhones up with every App going since the launch last week and are delighted to report that Apple's latest foray into ease of use and empowering the everyman, is a huge success. With most Apps available for free, the price of an iPod Touch, or even the more costly iPhone is at last looking like a bargain.

The Apps themselves seem to split into one of three categories: fun diversions that show off your iPhone (see iPint and BubbleWrap), stripped down pocket re-interpretations of existing software (see Super Monkey Ball) or bizarre technology 'voodoo' that appear to perform the impossible (see Midomi or Last FM). Here's our top 15 must-loads.

Midomi

Sing into Midomi, hold it in front of a speaker, or just speak the name of a track and Midomi can identify artist and title and take you to iTunes and YouTube to hear it in full.

While similar app Shazam that has stolen the limelight on this front, our money is on Midomi as a better all round solution. It looks better and the ability to hum or speak a tune (missing from Shazam) makes up for its slightly smaller database and more scattergun results list.

Plus those instant buttons to buy or view the track found take it to the next level.

Price: FreeMobile News

Possibly the most powerful and amazing app of all (yes, even more than iPint - below) this simple web newsreader is worth the asking price of a iPhone or iPod touch alone. It simply retasks and redisplays the stories filed by the Associated Press.

The app itself is tiny and simple but the content is unfathomably deep and massively useful. Buttons for 'sport' and 'showbiz' etc bring up the very latest stories in seconds, then click through the headings for (literally) instant access to the full story with pics and video. It's very US-centric but the ability to filter by continent brings up a list of less baseball-focussed entries. This one is a must.

Price: FreeVoiceNotes

There are countless voice recorders on the Apps Store with price tags from the bargain to the ridiculous. But why pay for one at all when VoiceNotes is free and just works. Hit record and record direct to your iPhone or iPod touch's memory. Name your clips and listen to them back in the app. It works, it's free, it's great.

Price: FreeLast FM

An amazing piece of web-trickery that puts all the amazing 'listen for free' fun of the lastfm.com website on your phone. You can literally listen to any song in the world, instantly and for free.

Last FM's main sell is that it can create 'radio stations' based on what you listen to and serve up similar tracks. But it's the fact that you can search for and (by and large) find and hear any track you want that's the real power behind the throne. OK, bit rates can be a bit low for real hi-fi snobs, but who's complaining?

Price: FreeiPint

First there was iBeer, a virtual pint of frothing American beer that you could tip up, 'drink' and shake about, that cost you a couple of quid. Then, soon afterwards, there was iPint – a blatant rip-off, rebranded with the word 'CARLING' stamped on the glass but given away for free.