Applications you wish were ported from other platforms

While waiting for Rx-51 and friends, it could be useful to list all those apps from other platforms (Symbian, Palm, Iphone, Java etc.) you can't live without, and you wish were ported on your new maemo convergence device.

Please list here, also including the operating system, the developer's site if you know it, and a brief summary of their functionality.

You should include only already existing apps which are today available for other mainstream pocketable devices, not generic rants for some generic fancy functionality, or applications meant for desktop computers. This way, we can keep high the signal-to-noise ratio and maybe select a number of developers we should convince to work on the new maemo platform.



Shazam Id - Symbian, Iphone, Blackberry, Android - http://www.shazam.com - listens to music and recognizes author and title.

Audials mobile - Symbian - http://audials.com - searches for author or genre, leeches mp3 files from online social radios.

Total recall - Symbian - http://www.killermobile.com - records phone calls without the "beep"; this is also accomplished by Ultimate voice recorder - Symbian - http://www.fingertip-access.com

Epocrates - Palm, Windows Mobile, iPhone, and BlackBerry - http://www.epocrates.com - medical drug reference

Amazon Mobile - Iphone - http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000291661 - ebook reader for Amazon books

Amazon MP3 mobile - Iphone and Google G1 (Android) - App to buy and manage mp3 downloads from Amazon MP3 store at amazon.com/mp3.

RunKeeper - Iphone - http://www.runkeeper.com - tracks running through GPS

StockWatch - Iphone - http://iphone.toughturtle.com/stockwatch/ - Financial app to monitor a list of user defined stocks and portfolio's and all financial graphs and data associated with the said stocks.

Google maps for mobile - Symbian, Iphone, Android, Blackberry, Palm, Java MIDP, Windows mobile - http://www.google.com/mobile/products/maps.html#p=default - maps application with points-of-interest taken from the Google search engine

Coreplayer - Symbian, Symbian UIQ, WinMo, Palm, WinCE - www.coreplayer.com - Multimedia playback

OVI Maps - Symbian - http://maps.ovi.com - GPS navigation system

CoPilot - Symbian, IPhone, Android - http://www.alk.com/copilot/ - GPS navigation system

ViewRanger - Symbian - http://www.viewranger.com - Topographic mapping and offroad navigation GPS

Garmin - Symbian, WinMo, Blackberry - http://www8.garmin.com/mobile/mobilext/ - GPS navigation system

GeoLives - Sybian and WinMo - http://www.geolives.com - Topographic mapping and offroad navigation GPS

JoikuSpot - Symbian - http://www.joikuspot.com - Enable phone to be a wifi hotspot.

Vlingo - Symbian, WinMo, Blackberry, Iphone - http://www.vlingo.com - Control mobile phone by voice.

SportsTracker - Symbian - http://sportstracker.nokia.com - Gps based activity tracker.

Wellness Diary - Symbian - http://betalabs.nokia.com/betas/view/wellness-diary - Monitor and track a ranger of health related parameters.

StepCounter - Symbian - http://betalabs.nokia.com/betas/view/nokia-step-counter - Counts your steps, determines the distance you have covered and your energy expenditure, records data.

T9 Nav - Symbian - http://www.t9nav.com/ - Find anything on mobile device instantly.

Device Lock - Symbian - http://webgate.mobi/advanced_device_locks_pro/ - Mobile security - restrict access to apps, secure data storage, remotely lock/wipe data.

Spotify client - Android, Iphone, Symbian (under development) - http://spotify.com - Client for streaming music from Spotify service.

Skebby - Symbian - http://www.skebby.it - Send sms messages at low prices or for free

Nimbuzz - S60, iPhone, Android, Windows - http://www.nimbuzz.com - Great multiprotocol messenger.

Gravity - S60 - http://www.mobileways.de - THE Twitter App for S60.

Evernote client (or an open, N900 contacts like, note-sync /notes-cloud service). http://www.evernote.com/


Insert here, instead, those free and open-source application you wish on your maemo 5 device. Being non commercial software, with source available, they might be more straightforward to port, needing only (!) good-will, time and energy.


Aeskulap - Ubuntu linux, Windows - http://aeskulap.nongnu.org - radiology viewer (or any other that works, for that matter) By the way, Aeskulap is already available in debian repositories through Easy Debian


Openoffice.org - Linux, Windows, Mac OS - http://www.openoffice.org - open-source, free office suite. Already available for armel architecture in debian.

Cabbage - Java - http://cabbagetexter.com/ - Send free txts via SMS. Irish only and Java, so unsure if it should be here, but a more sophisticated version would be nice.

Panoman - Symbian - ??? - Make and view panorama images with phone. Think has been bought up by Nokia ?

KeepassX - Linux, Windows - http://www.keepassx.org/ - Password management.

Tellico - Linux - http://tellico-project.org/ - Collection manager, books, videos, etc.

Comix - Linux - http://comix.sourceforge.net/ - Image viewer specifically designed for comics.

Musicbrainz Picard - Linux, Mac, Windows - http://musicbrainz.org - Mp3 tagger.

Abiword the fantastic Maemo 4 version ported to Maemo 5 - http://www.abisource.com/ https://garage.maemo.org/projects/abiword/