iStat (plus Free Memory and MemoryInfo)

iStat's story is less of an app pull as much as a reduction in functionality. We're still including it since those who have the older version and haven't upgraded can continue to use features others can't.

Bjango's iStat app, which is still available in the App Store for $1.99, gives you a heads-up display of everything that's going on both for your iPhone/iPod as well as any computers you have hooked up that are running the company's free iStat widget. Though one of its big features was that it could free up memory in your device, something you normally have to reboot to achieve. This was more important with previous generation iPhones and iPods since the amount of RAM was halved from 256MB to 128MB, with much of that number being taken up by various system processes. The benefit here being that users could run the app, clear out their memory, and launch something else without the worry of it running out of space or suffering performance jitters.

While iStat was one of the more high-profile apps to get the memory yank, two others went with it, including Free Memory and MemoryInfo, both from developer Recession Apps.

November 30, 2009 4:00 AM PST

Photo by: Bjango

| Caption by: Josh Lowensohn