Music apps, streaming TV and YouTube. Beam the best the internet has to offer straight to your mobile with the best entertainment apps.
A home entertainment system for your phone, that’s more than just an elaborate media player.
£18.69
It seems pricey, but djay’s layout, waveform display, split output option and sync feature make it feel pro.
£11.99
Older children with a passion for dinosaurs will love it, but younger children won’t find enough to keep their interest here
£9.99
myFry is Stephen Fry’s latest autobiography, in the rather wondersome shape of a beautifully-designed iPhone app
£7.99
A pleasant way to explore Kew and the wonders of the plant kingdom – and Attenborough is as captivating as ever.
£7.99
A collection of lovely interactive books – but you might want to choose your own individual collection from the App Store (some Seuss apps are bargains at the moment).
£7.99
Brilliant fun, intensely creative, and universally accessible. A compelling musical toy.
£6.99
A beautiful coffee-table app that will inspire you to revisit, or discover, ’60s classics.
£5.99
Quite simply, the most charming and entertaining interactive book currently available on the iPad. Although it’s not the cheapest!
£5.49
Educational, but strangely old fashioned. We expect more from iPad apps these days
£5.49
A big set of personality tests to help you find out who you really are apparently ‘funny and pleasant’.
£4.99
The In-app Purchase content makes this expensive for the completist, but this is a nicely constructed app
£4.99
Britain has hundreds of crap pubs, avoid them forever more with CAMRA’s handy ale guide for your mobile
£4.99
The twitchiness of the app technology used to present the material began to irritate – but the content is out of this world.
£4.99
It’s a big old bit of software, but this is a great app for Jack White fans.
£3.99
A beautifully animated storybook mainly targeted at little girls, but nothing that particularly jumps out as unique.
£3.99
A superb way of identifying new music that you like and sharing your finds with friends.
£2.99
Less bells and whistles than the desktop version, but a brilliant mobile incarnation of iMovie that will empower iPhone 4 users everywhere.
£2.99
Super-slick, quite crispy, but a little shallow, this is hip-hop empitomised and embodied in app form
£2.99
Perfectly sized scores, lag-free page turns and brilliant value for money makes this a winner, though extra In-App Purchases would have been nice
£2.99
The promise of streaming radio, webcams and TV all from a single app, but is this an endless entertainment dream come true?
£2.69
Elmo’s Monster Maker is good fun but just a little too expensive for what’s on offer here.
£2.49
Damn your dead-tree-based products, we want to read books from vastly complicated electrical devices!
£2.19
A humorous-if-chauvinistic application that basically works out your ladyfriend’s time of the month and gives ‘tips’ on how to act
£2.15
Ever wanted to waste money on a pointless clock? Here’s your chance
£2.15
On paper, Rockmate shouldn’t work this well, but it’s actually a fun way to make music with friends.
£1.99
A neat plaything, and slick with it, but the substance doesn’t match its brilliant looks.
£1.99
A lovingly created homage to Charles Schultz’s iconic characters that makes a wonderfully charming app for kids of all ages.
£1.99
It’s not a perfect music player, but those looking to some EQ control will likely become totally addicted.
£1.99
Without question, it’s the best media player for iPad. If you’re a video fanatic, it’s the app to buy.
£1.99
Kindle rival offers up decent customisable reading experience
£1.83
Keep the kids entertained with this fun and easy to use learning app
£1.80
An encyclopaedic knowledge of history’s greatest sayings awaits in this insightful app
£1.79
Comic spoof from the guy who brought us Shaun of the Dead.
£1.79
Men’s mag makes iPad debut with stunning Hot 100 issue. Gallerytastic.
£1.79
Perhaps the creepiest and most addictive thing to come out of Japan since Pokemon.
£1.79
Finally, a TV guide for the iPhone that lets you plan your gogglebox viewing in no time at all
£1.79
Plan your cinema and film enjoyment from one app and never leave the glow of the silver screen again
£1.69
Exquisite graphics and professional narration make for a charming bedtime app for your child.
£1.49
More powerful than it seems to let on, but still totally intuitive and easy to use.
£1.49
An interactive, immersive book app that lets you control the plot. A fantastic read, looks great and could well point to the future of books on iOS.
£1.49
A timeless time consuming classic with a concept that really needs no introduction
£1.24
Reignite the Christmas cheer with this interactive rendition of a timeless classic
£1.19
A great app that makes it much easier and safer to listen to your music while driving.
£1.19
If you want to produce cool, retro-looking Polaroid style pics with your iPhone, Hipstamatic is the app to do it
£1.19
Another Japanese gem that lets you create fantastic comic avatars of you and your mates in no time at all.
£1.19
Become the pub bore with a 5001 facts with which to ‘entertain’ everyone
£1.19
Want all the info on your favourite comic creations? Then look elsewhere.
£0.93
A pretty, fast app, but it needs to be able to tell you where to see a chosen film, more easily.
£0.69
It’s well designed, but needs to expand the content and features if it’s going to compete with others out there.
£0.69
An impressively modern catalogue, but not a comprehensive one. That, and a few teething problems, make its monthly price seem too high.
£0.69
Beautiful photography and a few handy features make this a great ambient app for your iPad.
£0.69
Come with me if you want to avoid wasting 69p on something that doesn’t work.
£0.69
As easy to use as iMovie but it’s woefully short on editing options, making it too difficult to pull off a truly decent effect.
£0.69
A moderately entertaining audio toy with sharp looks, but you’d be hard pushed to use BeatSpiral to produce any actual music.
£0.69
Potentially charming, but it tries a bit too hard; it’s quicker to use the Music app. The audio filtering’s nice, mind.
£0.69
Rex is a talking dinosaur. He repeats what you say in his deep threatening voice.
£0.61
Total Film magazine’s new app gives cinephiles and movie buffs everything that they could possibly want on the iPhone
£0.59
Broadcast your virtual sounds around the world and check in on the competition
£0.59
A pretend fish inside a pretend fish tank that you have to pretend to feed and care about
£0.59
If you want to be a record breaker, dedication’s what you need, and this app might help
£0.59
This latest iPhone photo-manipulation app is by far the grossest yet. And yet still the funniest.
£0.59
A fun photo-manipulation app that lets you turn your friends into the Mona Lisa.
£0.59
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