uQuery: search the iTunes app store ... without iTunes

by Jay Hathaway (RSS feed) Sep 10th 2009 at 11:00AM

If you're curious about iPhone apps, but you either hate iTunes or just hate the hassle of downloading and installing it, you're in luck. uQuery is an app store search engine with no iTunes required. Even if you do have Apple's proprietary music software installed, sometimes its built-in app store search can be frustrating to use. uQuery gives you more control over your search results.

Granted, not too many iPhone owners are going to be without iTunes (although maybe you don't have it on every computer you own), so the better search results are uQuery's biggest draw. You can quickly filter apps by price, category, and when they were added to the store. Unfortunately, you still iTunes to buy the apps, but at least uQuery helps you find them.

[via AppScout]

Tags: app store, apple, apps, AppStore, iphone, search, uquery

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Michael Rose said 12:00PM on 9-10-2009

Nice app choice. :)

mahan_mantaree007 said 10:58PM on 11-08-2009

nice work but we cant copy the URL of Itunes..........can we?

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