The App Store now has over 200,000 apps. Lured by the gold rush, developers have been churning out apps at a rate of over 1000 apps a week. Pretty much anything you can think of has been turned it to an app.
Today I’m going to be taking a look at some of the best options for making you laugh on your iPhone. Funny stories, jokes, videos, links, and images. This has proved to be one of the most lucrative categories developers, leading to an abundance of cruft. Today I’ll be slicing through the fat of the app store in search of the best iPhone humor apps.
The Onion
The classic parody newspaper with your wherever you go. Full of satire, sarcasm, and wit. The Onion keeps no one’s feelings in mind. Providing sarcastic headlines, full length articles, and humorous spins on current world events. This is a must have app.
Price: Free
The Onion
The Colbert Report’s The World
Stephen Colbert has garnered fame for his show, The Daily Show. Part comedian, part political satirist, and part writer. In this app, we get to carry around Colbert’s takes on hundreds of different words, from “flight list” to “faith” and beyond.
Price: $1.99
The Colbert Report’s The World
FML
If you’re someone who enjoys laughing at other people’s pain, this is the app for you. Here’s how it works. When someone has a day worthy of exclaiming “#$%& my life”, they post it to the site. Now, you open up the app on your iphone and scroll through all the latest rants in a twitter stream like fashion. The app is implemented very well.
Price: Free
FML
Aging Booth
This is a cool one. With Aging Booth, you sit down and feed the app a picture of yourself. In return, Aging Booth spits out a fresh copy. Only on this image, you’re older. Much older. You can share it with our friends on Facebook and Twitter.
Price: Free
Aging Booth
18,0000 Cool Jokes
When I first saw the title, I thought it was just another spam app. But upon further inspection, I realized that this software has a lot of thought put in to it. You can filter jokes by topics and rating. There are options to censor dirty jokes and long, short, and medium jokes. This is definitely one the best joke apps on the iPhone.
Price: $0.99
18,0000 Cool Jokes
Texts From Last Night
This app is very similar to FML. It aggregates humorous drunken text message blurbs sent in by its followers. It lets you filter by rating: best weekly, best ever, and best from last night. This app and the website were designed by the geniuses over at “MetaLab”:http://www.metalabdesign.com/. Its a beauty.
Price: $0.99
Texts From Last Night
Mouth Off
Mouth Off is an app that takes the mic’s input, and animates the lips on the screen to match it. Basically, a mouth appears on screen and lip syncs with your voice. You can Dogs, cats, vampires, and monster’s mouthes. Works on iPod touch and iPhone.
Price: $1.99
Mouth Off
Talking Carl
Talking Carl is a little red monster that lives on your iPhone screen. He takes what he hears, and repeats it. His mouth moves, and his expression changes. This is great to entertain your children and get some peace and quiet. Here’s something to try out. Rev up to talking carls, and put them next to each other. Say something and let the madness ensue.
Price: $0.99
Talking Carl
Cyanide and Happiness
Cyanide and Happiness is an extremely popular web comic. This is a complete replacement for the website. You get access to the comic, the short video clips, and the complete archives all from within the app.
Price: $0.99
Cyanide and Happiness
Break
Break.com is an aggregator of funny videos and pictures. The app is a fully featured client. Letting you peruse and view the Break catalogue, as well as upload your own images and videos from the iPhone camera roll.
Price: Free
Break
Stachetastic
Stachtastic lets you overall over forty different mustaches and beards over images on your iPhone. The editor comes with basic features, resizing and rotating. You can upload your creation to Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace.
Price: $0.99
Stachetastic
Demoralizer
Demoralizer lets you create your own demoralizing pictures and stay up with the Internet’s memes. Choose a snapshot from your camera roll, and pick a slogan, “Failure”, “Stupidity”. Like most apps nowadays, you can upload to Facebook, Twitter, and the like when you’re finished.
Price: $1.99
Demoralizer
iBeer
This is a classic. One of the first apps to hit it big. Your screen fills up to look like beer. Tilting your phone like a cup causes the liquid to pour out. This is as novelty as apps on the iPhone get. iBeer has expanded past its name, now including juice, milk, cola, and more.
Price: $0.99
iBeer
iFart
A huge success. Choose your style and hit the big button. Listen as your gas releasing noise is played. You can buy extra sound packs, record your own styles, and send a flatulence to a friend. Personally, I find this app revolting and crass, but it will definitely cause a few laughs with the right crowd.
Price: $0.99
iFart
Voices
Voices is a slick voice recorder and transformer. You choose from eighteen voice distortion styles. You can share your voices on social networks and email.
Price: $1.99
Voices
What Apps Make You Laugh?
The 15 apps above represent some of the funniest apps we’ve come across. What are your favorites?
Leave a comment below with the name of your favorite hilarious iPhone app!