iPhone specific review sites

andy on Dec 20th 2008

I’m starting to think about marketing, PR, and what not for my iPhone game, so I’m trying to come up with a list of iPhone specific sites that might be appropriate targets for press releases and/or advertising. Since I have a game, game specific iPhone sites are even better.

It also occurred to me that other developers might be gathering this information, so I thought I’d post what I’ve found so far here. I got the idea from MobileOrchard.

General iPhone Sites

  1. AppCraver
  2. 148Apps
  3. App afari
  4. Apple iPhone Apps
  5. iPhone Application List
  6. NativeiPhoneApps
  7. iPhone Apps UK
  8. apptism
  9. What’s on iPhone
  10. iPhone Alley
  11. got apps?
  12. iPhone Footprint
  13. Zym Blog
  14. RazorianFly
  15. iGames
  16. touchtip
  17. iPhone Journal
  18. iPhone in Canada

iPhone Game Specific Sites

  1. touchArcade
  2. Pocket Gamer
  3. TiltGamer
  4. Finger Gaming
  5. Slide to Play
  6. IGN Wireless
  7. iPhone Games Network

Note that these sites do reviews, sell advertising, and/or have a place to submit an app for listing. I’m not including sites that do general iPhone reporting, but wouldn’t be appropriate for PR or advertising.

If you know of others, please feel free to leave links to them in the comments.

Filed in iPhone | 12 responses so far

12 Responses to “iPhone specific review sites”

  1. Denis Dec 20th 2008 at 05:52 pm 1

    freshapps

    I had very little traffic from this site even though I created an entry there for my app on Nov 4th.

    http://www.freshapps.com/wallet-password-manager/

  2. Groover Dec 20th 2008 at 05:55 pm 2

    iPhone Alley is good, so is “got apps?”, but my personal favorite is touchtip.

    - groovin8r

  3. Denis Dec 20th 2008 at 05:55 pm 3

    Also, http://www.ilounge.com/ – all about iPhone. I think they have a lot of traffic.

  4. Denis Dec 20th 2008 at 05:56 pm 4

    Lastly, http://www.applethoughts.com/
    I know nothing about it, except that these are the same folks who do smartphonethoughts.com, pocketpcthoughts.com etc.

  5. Arron Dec 20th 2008 at 06:47 pm 5

    Hi Andy,

    I’d just like to post to say thanks very much for the shout out (RazorianFly).
    We really appreciate any and all recognition of the effort and work we put into the blog on a daily basis.

    Thanks,
    Arron

  6. Joanne Hall Dec 21st 2008 at 09:13 am 6

    http://www.pda-247.com/iphone.shtml. This site covers all mobile but with a good area for the iPhone.

  7. Chris Dec 22nd 2008 at 01:08 am 7

    TUAW iPhone came to be in my top RSS sites years ago not just because of Jailbreaking but also because the top toolchain developers were reported on. It now is 99%(?) sanctioned App Store news. TUAW is an everything-Apple site, but offers both iPhone and “not iPhone” feeds. http://www.tuaw.com/category/iphone/

    AppShopper is another great site. It’s the raw, green, raining “The Matrix” display of App Store activity: new apps, updates, pricing changes, etc. It was all I could do to keep up with the “everything” feed. I gave up after a week. http://appshopper.com/

    Caveats: I read RSS titles, then summaries, so ads rarely pop up. When I do hit a site itself, Flash ads had become so prevalent that I use Safari AdBlock to stop their annoyance and bandwidth wasting.

  8. GotApps.com Dec 23rd 2008 at 02:02 am 8

    Thanks for mentioning us in the list, we love to review great apps! Thanks!

  9. Tim Haines Dec 24th 2008 at 07:18 pm 9

    Andy, shoot me an email and I’ll share a google doc with you.

    Tim.

  10. Zym Blog Dec 29th 2008 at 09:34 am 10

    Thanks for mentioning the Zym Blog! We always look forward to more people checking out our reviews.

    Thanks!

  11. Wolfgang Steiner Feb 6th 2009 at 05:02 am 11

    Hi Andy,

    thanks again for another great article. The links you posted will be of great help for me when trying to make my own app (http://www.jiyuka.com) known to the world! I’ll keep my fingers crossed for your game!

    Wolfgang

  12. Lloyd Hannesson Apr 23rd 2009 at 07:19 pm 12

    Great list! You forgot http://theportablegamer.com it’s a portable game specific website with a heavy slant towards the iPhone.

    I also do a fully iPhone game focused podcast called the Touch of Gaming – http://touchofgaming.com/ — would love to hear from any developers out there!

    Thanks,

    Lloyd Hannesson
    Host of The Touch of Gaming Podcast

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