Last week I shared some of my favourite iPhone apps. Here's a few more, including transport tools, media apps and a set of web information tools...

We start with the quartet of public transport apps I use. I wish it didn't require 4 separate apps to do all this, but the combination does work well. MyRail gives live departure and arrival boards for trains, including platform numbers, making it indispensable when running to the station to catch a train. Better yet, for each train it shows the whole route including all stops and (if the train's running late) the estimated arrival times for each point. Great when you're aiming to meet someone on a train, or for tracking your journey as you go along. The bad news is I can't find it on the app store right now, has it mysteriously disappeared??

Trains is a web app (remember them?!) from The Mac Box, which provides a nice iPhone-style interface to the national rail database, allowing you to look up routes and train times. Useful features include recognition of station abbreviations (typing "CLJ" and "SPB" is much quicker on the move than "Clapham Junction" and "Shepherd's Bush") plus the provision of information like each train's destination, making it much easier to look them up on departure boards if your stop isn't the train's final destination. LJP is a new London Journey Planner, and is the first of these apps that costs money, at a whopping £1.79. My bank manager was OK with me spending that... It's rather rough around the edges, but it does something which no other app does: plans journeys in London using TFL's live journey planner, meaning its routes take into account the time, station closures and line closures, delays and more. Of course you can do this using TFL's website in Safari, but said website is slow as hell and involves unnecessary amounts of images, javascript and general crap which takes an age to load over 3G. LJP just makes things a little less painful. Finally Tube Deluxe is my latest Tube app. After trying a fair few, this is my current favourite due to having line status information and live departure boards along side the best tube map I've found; it scrolls like butter and loads pretty zippily. It's matched by London Tube which has an eerily similar map, but has no live departure boards and a crummy interface for line status, so loses out for me.

Allowance is a new addition to my phone, and its another app which does a job that's possible via a website but quicker via a dedicated app - it tells you how many free minutes and texts you have left until your next bill, when that bill will arrive and whether you've incurred any other charges. It works for all O2 pay monthly account holders and is a nice little information app for a bargain price of 59p. On the same information theme, Wikipanion is my favourite of the free Wikipedia readers - it allows you to search (with auto completion) and formats pages to be more readable on the small screen without having to zoom. I have two separate film-related apps, starting with MovieStar which is a great IMDB interface, very useful for those moments when watching TV or a DVD and thinking "he/she's familiar, what have I seen them in?" or "this film is great, what else has this director made?". Flixter meanwhile shows what's on at the cinema and what's on DVD, providing basic film info and showing you trailers. Again, there's a few similar apps, but this is my favourite and seems to be pretty good at actually finding UK cinemas unlike some of the other US applications.

Media apps include Sketches (a fun drawing app) and Shazam, which allows you to find a song's title and artist by recording a section of it playing. It's useful for answering the "what's this song?" question at parties or in pubs, but I also use Midomi, which allows you to sing or speak to it as well as recording bits of the song itself. It's more flexible, but it's database is less extensive which is why I have both apps. iStat is my new geek tool which allows me to monitor the system status of my iPhone and - remotely via the internet - my Mac. Mostly pointless unless you run your own server, but fun for a geek like me.

Apple's pair of remote controllers for iTunes and Keynote are great for parties and presentations respectively, and the new ability of iTunes DJ (formerly Party Shuffle) to allow iPhone-wielding party guests to request songs and vote on playlist items is brilliant :-) Finally I shall mention just one game, Enigmo. I'm not a gamer really, but Enigmo is a lovely puzzle game which keeps me occupied for five minutes now and again since I got bored of Aurora Feint.

So that's it, the whistle-stop tour of my favourite iPhone apps. What are yours?