If you run your own business or are just incredibly busy, you probably wish you had your own personal assistant to boss around and do all of your boring chores for you. But instead of abusing an actual person, turn to your iPhone, and our list of 100 apps to turn your Apple device into the ultimate personal assistant.

Scheduling and Calendars

Keep holidays, vacations, work schedules, meetings and more organized with these tools.

1. Days Till: Add events and then view how many days you have to wait for birthdays, vacations and more.
2. Pocket Informant: This GTD and calendar tool will keep you organized and on-task.
3. iPeriod: Keep track of your monthly cycle privately with this calendar.
4. Holidays Calendar: This calendar includes U.S. holidays and lets you configure which days you plan on taking off.
5. Toodleoo: This task manager and to-do list features folders, due-dates, prioritizing and more.
6. Text Later: Write text messages when you remember to, and then set up a later time for them to be sent.
7. Schedule Reminder: Set alerts along with your calendar.
8. My Schedule: Color code events for optimum organization on this calendar.
9. Clean Freak: Break down and schedule your chores with this tool.
10. Met2Bus New York: Follow the New York bus schedule here.

Alerts

Rely on theses alerts apps to remind you of meetings, follow-ups, weather and more.

11. FollowUp: FollowUp reminds you to follow up on conversations with your contacts.
12. Easy UP/down Timers: Use this app to time various tasks, including workouts, breaks and more.
13. Twitter Alerts: Get e-mail alerts whenever someone tweets one of your specified terms.
14. Weather Bug Elite: Get weather alerts and predictions here.

Personal Psychologist

Sometimes you just need a personal cheerleader to help boost your mood and relieve stress. Use these apps to get back to your happy place.

15. iPsychologist: Diagnose yourself according to detected patterns and associations.
16. Bubble Wrap: Calm your nerves by virtually popping bubble wrap.
17. iMood Detector: Figure out your mood with the touch of your thumb.
18. A Rorschach Inkblot Test: Get a psych evaluation from this ink blot test.
19. Color Personality Test: Determine your personality based on color preferences with this app.
20. Stress Shaker: This simulation game will help you relieve stress in a constructive way.

Utilities

From gas logs to alarm clocks to customer support directories, these apps are responsible for managing all of your most annoying tasks.

21. 1-Click iPhone: Call or text contacts with one click using these customizable "buttons."
22. Gas Log: With the Gas Log, you can track how much gas you use per day.
23. Siesta Smart Alarm: This smart alarm starts to wake you up a few minutes earlier so that you’re more refreshed when you actually do get up.
24. Top Customer Support: Look up customer support phone numbers for stores, credit cards and more.
25. Flashlight: Turn your iPhone into a flashlight with this free app.
26. Mover: Quickly transfer your contacts and images to another iPhone via wi-fi.
27. Dog whistler: If you’re too lazy to call your dog, make your iPhone do it for you.
28. Speller - Free Spell Checker: Use this tool to spell-check messages.
29. Apartments: This apartment guide tool looks up real estate by city, state or zip.
30. Fake a Call: Use this tool to fake calls so that you can jet out of meetings early.

Shopping

Find shopping deals, maintain grocery lists and keep your budget organized here.

31. BookBargain: Monitor online book deals here.
32. Shopping List: Keep a running shopping list on your iPhone.
33. Save Benjis: With Save Benjis, you can compare product prices at places like Wal-Mart.com, Sears.com and more.
34. iPromDress: This shopping assistant app helps you find and organize the perfect dresses.
35. iNeedStuff Shopping Assistant: This app is a little pricier, but it generates shopping lists based on recipes, lets you add units and notes, and features optional price tracking.
36. Shopping Coupons - The Best Deals Online: This free app connects you to coupons for baby and beauty products, electronics, books, clothing and more.
37. Grocery IQ: This smart grocery list app saves your history and has a huge database so it’s easy to generate new lists.
38. mobiQpons: Find local shopping coupons here.
39. Consumer Reports: Look up product information before you buy.
40. Frugal: Compare grocery prices with Frugal.

Travel Organizer

Store flight itineraries, maps, translators and more on your iPhone so that you’re always connected when you travel.

41. FlightTrack Pro: Organize your itineraries and track flight status.
42. GPS Eat-Shop-Travel and More: Use this app to locate coffee shops, bars, pharmacies, shopping and a lot more when you’re out of town.
43. Travelocity Travel Tools: Access Travelocity from your iPhone here.
44. Babelingo Travel Phrases: Categories in this app include conversation, time, getting around, money, eating out, medical and lodging. Eleven languages are supported.
45. Barfly (Travel Guide): Find local hot spots when you travel.
46. Pocket Workout: When you’re traveling but still want a workout, use this app to guide you through exercises.
47. iXpenseIt: Keep track of what you’re expensing for business while you travel.
48. Currency: Convert currencies with this app.
49. Free Translator: This app helps you translate text into languages like Hindi, Polish, Danish, Portuguese and more.
50. Packing: Pack better with this assistant.

Information Gatherer

From virtual bartenders to newspapers to reference materials, these tools keep a wealth of information at your fingertips.

51. LA Times News: Keep up with the news from the West Coast here.
52. 6500+ Cool Facts: This trivia assistant has over 6,500 cool facts.
53. Survival Pocket Reference: Get tips on first aid, creating a shelter and building a fire.
54. Drinks: This bartender’s assistant will help you mix up yummy cocktails.
55. Dictionary.com: Access all the resources of Dictionary.com here.
56. Business Reference Library: Get charts, a browseable dictionary and more for business needs.
57. Newsstand: Newsstand is an RSS reader for news and magazine stories.
58. AOL TV Listings: Find out what’s on TV using the AOL TV Listings app.
59. Byline: Byline works with Google Reader to send you the latest posts and stories from your favorites.
60. White Pages Mobile: Access White Pages on your iPhone with this app, which also keeps your history.

Organizer

Download these iPhone apps for ultimate organization when managing tasks, files and folders, contacts, and more.

61. A Task Organizer: This BlackBerry organizer is now available for the iPhone and helps you create to-do lists.
62. Stick It: This app lets you create sticky notes to put on shopping lists on your iPhone.
63. Files: Store PDF, Word and Text files on your iPhone with this app.
64. Little Black Book: Keep your personal contacts locked on your iPhone with this app.
65. Groups: Drag and Drop Contact Management: This creative, highly functional Groups contacts manager is colorful and customizable.
66. Wallet Pro: This password manager features military-grade encryption.
67. Note2Self Audio Recorder: Record your own notes instead of making your poor PA write them down.
68. Resume PRO: This app helps you generate and store a professional PDF resume.
69. Super Index Cards: Organize notes and lists with this index card app.
70. Goal Tracker: With Goal Tracker’s Limeade platform, you can organize and list all your long term and short term goals.

Social Planner

Find friends, schedule parties, log on to social media sites and find fun things to do on your iPhone.

71. Loopt: Find out where you can meet your friends with this social app.
72. Social Butterfly: This app lets you quickly access multiple social sites, like MySpace, Twitter and hi5.
73. Borange Social Availability: This assistant pours through your contacts to find someone who’s open for a meeting or play date.
74. BreakkUp: Get relationship advice from this app.
75. Local Concerts: Get dates and ticket information for local concerts.
76. Whrrl: Whrrl is another app like Loopt. It finds your friends on a Google map and shares recommendations for cool things to do.
77. sStitch: Smart tag photos you took with your iPhone.
78. Flickr on iPhone: Search and share photos easily using Flickr for the iPhone.
79. ExitStrategy: This app can send you a phantom SMS or phone call to get you out of an awkward situation.
80. TweetGlobe: Find your Twitter friends according to their spot on the globe.

Personal Chef

Turn your iPhone into your own personal cooking consultant with these apps.

81. iFood by KRAFT: Easily find recipes, cooking tips, cooking videos and more with this app.
82. Pantry: Keep stock of what’s in your pantry.
83. Gluten Free Diets: Get information on gluten-free eating and find recipes.

Local Directory

These city guides and maps perfectly sync with the iPhone and your on-the-go schedule.

84. iTrain NY Subway: Find NYC subway maps here.
85. Coffee Buzz: Find local coffee cafes with this app that also integrates with Twitter.
86. Mashspots: Find the four closest places of interest when you click anywhere on a map.
87. LocalEats: Find new restaurants to visit in your area.
88. Local Radio Finder: Find radio stations in your area using this app.
89. Urbanspoon: Urbanspoon helps you pick restaurants in your city by price range, type of food and more.
90. iRecycle: Find recycling locations in your city.

Financial

Manage your budget, invoices, investments and savings here.

91. Checkbook: Balance your checkbook on your iPhone here.
92. Mint.com iPhone: This favorite budget tracker also works on the iPhone.
93. Tip Ref Chart: Calculate an accurate tip here.
94. Time 2.0 Service: This time tracking assistant manages billable hours.
95. QuickBank Checking and Personal Finance: Organize bills, invoices, mortgage payments and paychecks.
96. DailyFinance: AOL’s free finance app provides daily financial news, stock quotes and more.
97. Billing Manager: Organize invoice folders here.
98. Finance Glossary: Review accounting and finance terms with this app.
99. Stock Watch: Stock Watch keeps you connected to market reports.
100. ATM Hunter: Find nearby ATMs using this app.

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