| By Adam Dachis The Best Media Streaming Apps for Your iPhone
Note: For a look at the flip side of the mobile OS coin, check out the best media streaming apps for your Android. Air Video
Plex
Netflix
YouTube
Dropbox
Pandora
Audiogalaxy
Honorable MentionsiOS is filled with media streaming options so we can't include them all. Here are a few that didn't make the short list but are still worth noting.
Are there any great media streaming apps for iOS that you think should've made the list? Let us know in the comments.
| December 23rd, 2010 Top Stories |
If you want to watch your video, regardless of the format, Air Video is one of the best apps you can get for your iPhone (or other iOS device). Using your Mac or Windows computer as a host, you can serve up video in virtually any format to your iPhone. If the video isn't already in the format your iPhone likes, Air Video will convert it on the fly. The are a few apps in the app store that serve this purpose, but Air Video has repeatedly come out on top for video streaming. While it may lack some of the features of others, it's incredibly easy to set up and works more reliably than anything else we've tested. Although we definitely feel it's worth paying the small fee of $3 for the full version, Air Video's free offering will allow you all the functionality of the pay version while listing only a portion of the files on your server.
If you use 
If you're a Netflix member, it's silly not to have this free app. The idea is pretty straightforward: anything in your instant queue can be played directly on your iPhone. When you're bored and need something to watch, you can pull up a ton of TV shows and movies. If you 
It would be a shame to ignore the great built-in YouTube app that comes with your iPhone when Apple did such a nice job with it. While it's pretty straightforward, it's always there for you when you want to bring up your favorite web videos (such as 
As if you don't hear enough about Dropbox from us, here it is in the list of best media streaming apps. While this may seem a little strange, it's actually a really great way to access your media—the media you keep in your Dropbox, anyway. Not only can you stream any iOS-compatible audio or video that's in your Dropbox, but you can save it by starring it in the app. This is especially nice if you're 
When it comes to free radio, Pandora's one of the better apps you can use to listen to music you like and discover new, similar music as well. Thanks to iOS 4's pseudo-multitasking, Pandora can now run in the background and assume the role of your primary music player when active. The Pandora app lets you toggle between lower quality audio (meant for your 3G data connection) and high quality audio (meant for Wi-Fi) so you can conserve data (or not). If you want to remove ads, you can upgrade to Pandora One directly from the app for $36 per year. If you're okay with the ads, regular Pandora is still free.
If you'd prefer to listen to your own music collection than whatever Pandora happens to be offering up, Audiogalaxy may be more up your alley. If that name's familiar, you're probably remembering Audiogalaxy from its days as a great little peer-to-peer music download service that was shuttered in the post-Napster wars. Now Audiogalaxy's been reborn as a smart little app that runs as a background server on your desktop that streams music to the companion app on your iOS (or Android) device. Not a shabby transformation.
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