iTech Girl

The iPhone is by no means considered one of the cheapest phones you can buy, which makes £0.59/$0.99 apps fantastic and very often great value for money. I know there’s a few I would have paid more for after using the app, or playing the game. Not all apps are as cheap though, with some costing as much as $1000/£600. Below is a list of the top ten most expensive apps currently available, with some apps also having cheaper versions available.

1. BarMax CA – $999.99
   “BarMax: California Edition. Harvard lawyers teamed with top iPhone developers to produce BarMax, the only complete bar exam prep solution (Essay, MBE, Performance Test, and Flash Cards) available for purchase in the iPhone App Store. Plus it is the only course with 1,371 REAL previous MBE questions, and over 100 REAL previous essay exams.”
2. iVIP Black – $999.99
   “iVIP is the first premium lifestyle app for the iPhone. Bringing a world of luxury to your device, iVIP membership gives you access to privileges across a range of luxury partners including Supercars, Cinemas, Concierge, Restaurants, Bars, Nightclubs, Parties, Events, Experiences, Helicopters, Jets, Clubs, Property, Theatres, Bodyguards, Personal Styling, Personal Training, VIP Lounges, Limousines, Hotels… and more!” iVIP is also available in iVIP Blue ($449.99) and iVIP Red (free).
3. iRa Pro – $899.99
   “iRa Pro™ has defined a new standard in mobile video surveillance by delivering a video command center to the palm of your hand. Inspired by the needs of the high-end security industry, iRa Pro enables users to view multiple live video feeds directly from cameras or from video management servers in an incredibly intuitive touchscreen user interface. Users can navigate between hundreds of cameras effortlessly and control pan-tilt-zoom cameras with a simple swipe of a finger.”
4. My Accounts To Go (MATG) SAP BusinessOne and Dynamics GP– $449.99
   “MyAccountsToGO (MATG) – Accounting and financial information from the SAP BusinessOne/Microsoft Dynamics GP financial management system are now directly accessible from your Apple iPhone. Designed for sales reps as well as sales, marketing or finance executives, this app allows you to access customers, sales order transactions, accounts receivable statements, item master and item warehouse information. The sales transactions include quotations, sales orders, sales invoices, back orders and returns. Tight integration with other iPhone features, such as e-mail and Google maps, will provide you with the ability to communicate effectively with your corporate office about any of your accounts. Although you are not able to modify this information, any updates can be requested directly from your iPhone via highly integrated e-mail functionality.”
5. PDR Quote and iCar Quote – $349.99
   “PDR Quote is business management software ideal for PDR or Auto mobile repairs, allowing the user to create professional Quotes and Invoices straight from their iPhone.
   iCar Quote is business management software ideal for Auto mobile repairs such us PDR, Touch up, windscreens or window tinting, allowing the user to create professional Quotes and Invoices straight from their iPhone.”
6. Mobile Cam Viewer Enterprise Basic Version – $349.99
   “Watch and PTZ control live security & surveillance cameras, DVR, NVR, Video Server and webcams anytime/anywhere on, your cell phone. Remote monitoring with touch of a button.”
7. TuneLab Piano Tuner – $299.99
   “TuneLab lets you customize a tuning by sampling the inharmonicity for 5 or 6 notes of the particular piano. Then you choose the kind of tuning stretch you want, based on octaves, double-octaves, or other intervals. Then you start tuning.
   Recommended only for professional piano technicians.”
8. Lexi-Dental Complete [for Oral Surgery] – $299.99
   “With Lexi-DENTAL COMPLETE, have Lexi-Comp’s full library of dental resources at your fingertips! This application provides all the comprehensive clinical information necessary for fast diagnosis and treatment. Lexi-DENTAL COMPLETE is Lexi-Comp’s most comprehensive dental package for the iPhone – an ideal resource for dental professionals and students alike!
   Lexi-DENTAL COMPLETE for Oral Surgery provides mobile access to the medical and dental pharmacology content required by oral surgery specialists. This software package features 15 databases, including
   Lexi-Drugs, Lexi-Comp’s most comprehensive pharmacology database, enhanced with dental-specific fields of information. Additional resources include Harrison’s Practice (from the editors of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine), and Lexi-Interact, Lexi-Comp’s powerful interaction analysis program.”
   Lexi Dental Select is also available for $219.99:
   “Lexi-DENTAL SELECT is a unique application designed especially for dental professionals. This package offers basic diagnosis and treatment protocols with content addressing principles and procedures encountered daily in general dentistry.”
9. iDcrm – $199.99
   “iDcrm stands for Dynamics CRM on the iPhone.
   This is the first full Microsoft Dynamics CRM client available for iPhone.”
10. Proloquo2Go – $189.99
    “Proloquo2Go provides a full-featured augmentative and alternative communication solution for people who have difficulty speaking. It provides natural sounding text-to-speech voices (INITIALLY AMERICAN AND BRITISH ENGLISH ONLY), up-to-date symbols, powerful automatic conjugations, a default vocabulary of over 7000 items, full expandability and extreme ease of use.”

There’s also an honourable mention for I am rich. The app was made available on the iTunes App store for $999.99 but, was quickly pulled and was off the store within 24 hours. The app provided no features and was merely a “glorified screensaver”. The app displayed a glowing red gem on the iPhone’s screen. Eight people purchased the expensive screensaver before it was removed though, 6 from the US, 1 from Germany and 1 from France.