You know we love free stuff here at Rubbing Nickels so we’ve polled the web for top smartphone and superphone apps as rated by a number of geeky sites including appcraver.com, phandroid.com and androiddTapp.com. Here they are:

iPhone:

• Vocab Lab Lite Edition By Kooapps LLC – Want to ace standardized verbal exams like the SAT and GRE? Want to study on the car, bus, or in class? Want to make the best use of every minute you have? This app is for you!

• mBox Fax & Voice By mBox – mBox is a virtual fax machine and voice answering service. mBox will assign you a unique telephone number in any one of our locations which behaves just like a regular fax machine or message service. This is very handy technology for business travelers.

• Showtimes By Avantar LLC – MACWORLD: “The Best Movie App…When it comes to finding a movie, Showtimes is my favorite app of the bunch”. 4.5 of 5 rating, a full 1.5 higher mouse rating than our competitors. Top Ten Reviews: “5 of 5 Stars”. Worth a try!

• Step Trak Lite, by Award Technologies. If you like hiking or just long walks, you will enjoy StepTrak Lite, a free pedometer app for the iPhone.

• Epicurious Recipes and Shopping List by CondeNet has over 25,000 recipes from Gourmet, Bon Appetit and other professionals. If you like to cook, you’ll love this app.

Droid Phone:

• Shazam for Android is one of the most useful & coolest apps you can find. It delivers functionality better on mobile than on a desktop. I absolutely fell in love with the app when seeing it on the Apple iPhone TV Commercial; an app powerful enough to listen to music and tell you what song it is … uncanny!

• Pandora – The application incorporates your online account saving your stations and favorite songs. The Android version of this application allows you to do multiple things while the music plays, it truly is great.

• Sportstap – (Free) Sportstap allows you to be up to date with scores, stats and information with fast updates. Select your teams and this app will be dynamite!

• Taskiller – Taskiller is a task manager that allows you to see all of the running apps and processes on your phone. You can kill apps/processes individually or all at once. There is an “ignore” list that will prevent your favorite apps from being killed with the “kill all” button.

• The Weather Channel – It’s great to know what weather is coming your way. You can set it for different locations and also be able to know what the weather looks like for tomorrow.