{"id":6406,"date":"2018-12-07T15:52:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T15:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tubikstudio.com\/?p=6406"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:28:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:28:28","slug":"mobile-app-design-big-guide-into-types-of-mobile-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tubikstudio.com\/blog\/mobile-app-design-big-guide-into-types-of-mobile-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile App Design: Big Guide into Types of Mobile Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smartphones are no longer a thing for communication only: today, they cover multiple needs and help us to solve a variety of problems. Mobile applications let us study and entertain, do a lot of basic operations in seconds, calculate and edit, remind and connect us to other people, and so on, and so forth. According to the collection of useful stats about mobile marketing<\/a>, in 2017 users spent on average 69% of their media time on smartphones, and this number is constantly growing. In 2018, there are reported about 8 million apps in the Google Play store, 2.2 million in the Apple App Store, 669K in the Windows Store, and 600K in the Amazon Appstore. Not only the number grows but also diversity, and that’s clearly seen from the variety of design projects. So, today we offer to review the most popular types of mobile applications, their functions, and benefits – in addition to the guide into types of websites<\/a> and types of mobile screens<\/a> we told about earlier. With lots of examples by Tubik designers, of course.<\/p>\n

There are two global perspectives to classify mobile apps: in the aspect of content they offer and the aspect of their technical realization. Let’s start with the content.<\/p>\n

Content Perspective<\/h2>\n

Here we classify the applications according to the problems they solve and the functions they offer to users.<\/p>\n

Utility Apps<\/h3>\n

This is the basic and perhaps the most widely used type of mobile applications. These apps let users solve a particular problem or accomplish a task, usually the one we face day in and day out. It’s all about basic problems which should be solved quickly – and this is what apps of this type do, saving our time and effort. Here you will find a variety of calculators from standard to financial and scientific ones, clock and alarm apps, flashlights, barcode scanners, tools for conversion and password management, screen locks, etc. They are little helpers of our everyday life.<\/p>\n

\"toonie<\/p>\n

Toonie Alarm<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"homey
\nHomey App<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Contact<\/p>\n

Contact List App<\/em><\/p>\n

Lifestyle Apps<\/h3>\n

These apps are connected to various spheres of our activities connected to lifestyle and life quality. Usually, they cover quite general themes, subjects, and services. These apps help users find and improve their homes and offices, take up hobbies, look good and feel good, etc. If your app is about real estate, fashion, parenting, or hobbies, that’s a category for it.<\/p>\n

\"my<\/p>\n

My Baby App<\/em><\/p>\n

\"watering<\/p>\n

Watering Tracker App<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"car
\nCarfinder App<\/em><\/p>\n

Navigation Apps<\/h3>\n

These mobile applications help users to find their way and plan their routes. These are driving and walking assistants, map applications, atlases, public transit maps, and fuel finders, pilots and maritime assistance apps, and the like.<\/p>\n

Food and Drink Apps<\/h3>\n

These apps are all about tasty life as “there is no love sincerer than the love of food” according to George Bernard Shaw. Here you will find everything about eating and drinking, cooking, healthy food, eating out, and the like. So, diverse applications offering users recipes and menus, nutrition facts, reviews of meals, beverages, restaurants, and cafes, guides into cuisines of different countries, and all the stuff like that go to this category.<\/p>\n

\"burger
\nTasty Burger App<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"vegan<\/p>\n

Vegan Recipes App<\/em><\/p>\n

\"perfect<\/p>\n

Perfect Recipes App<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Books Apps<\/h3>\n

Explanation won’t take long: these are apps for reading stuff that was traditionally printed. Here this content becomes interactive and offers different functionality for user manipulations. Reader apps, interactive ebooks, and comics are found in this category.<\/p>\n

Education Apps<\/h3>\n

The mobile applications of this type are all about learning and teaching: the main objective behind them is to share knowledge in an interactive way. Here you’ll find the apps of different complexity and interactivity levels focused on educational purposes. They\u00a0may be aimed at different target audiences that determine the approaches to graphics and general concepts of user interface design for every particular case. In this group, you’ll find\u00a0stuff from basics like reading, writing, phonics, colors, alphabet, vocabulary training apps to specific narrow themes like nature and wildlife, geography and astronomy, languages, test preparation apps, school portals, and educational platforms.<\/p>\n

\"learn
\nLearn Chinese App<\/em><\/p>\n

\"nature<\/p>\n

Nature Encyclopedia App<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n