I know this is a bit off topic for this sub-forum, But does anyone know of someone developing a GMAT app for the iPhone?

I was under the impression iphone 3G supported external apps...

iPhone 1 is easily jailbroken. There are hundreds of user-created apps available.

There are indeed GRE iphone apps and MCAT apps I have seen. No GMAT though.

There is one app called GMAT Express for iPhone. I tried it. not bad, not good.

We'll definitely support and compensate if anyone of the members would like to undertake this task. Otherwise, we can try a third party coder. Let me know if you have interest and time to create a quizzing application.

Walker?
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Walker, one of our moderators and a prolific contributor to GMAT Club, offered to build an Apple iPhone/iPod Touch application for GMAT Club’s Tests. We are thrilled to have such opportunity and would like to take advantage of it. The best part is that we get to decide and pick what features it will have and how it will work.

Thus, I wanted to start a discussion in this forum and solicit feedback about
1) Need/utility of such application – would you use it or how would you use it? (please specify if you have an iPhone).
2) Features to include
If you have an opinion and a few minutes to document it, would love to hear your thoughts.

First some assumptions:
1. Taking full length GMAT tests on an iPhone or iPod is less fun than taking them on a computer, and definitely much harder due to the size of the screen, esp. when it gets to Verbal
2. Most probably the application will serve as free publicity or a vehicle to get GMAT Club’s name out there rather than a revenue generator. Though a paid version may be feasible, but there definitely has to be a free one.
3. The application features should be driven by end users, so a number of beta’s and releases will be required
4. For the sake of time-to-market and feedback generation, the application should come out of the gate with core features and then add bells and whistles based on user feedback
5. To succeed, the app should be slick (applesque) and intuitive

Proposed Core Features
- Math and Verbal questions
- Quiz mode – 10 questions are timed based on topic (e.g. Arithmetic, Word Problems, etc)
- Random Mode – shake the iPhone and get a random question
- Some kind of mistake analysis
- Maybe: a Pretty graph or chart to track progress and identify weakness areas
- Maybe: Diagnostic Test mode
- Maybe: fun feature such as sounds when answering questions right or wrong (can be turned on/off in options)
- Maybe: list of questions that were answered wrong
- Maybe: some basic tips/recommendations for improving each of the areas?

Let us know if you disagree about the features or assumptions.
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I think you can use an iPod touch, which is more affordable but still Apple will be getting my money too


$220 on Amazon for 8 GB one
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001FA ... B001FA1NZK
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Absolutely agree especially for the first version of the app



I think it is a good idea! It is possible to provide not only problem-explanation but also link to discussion thread. Moreover, I see necessity to have "bookmark" feature. In other words, it would be possible to bookmark problems that you are gonna review latter.
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Some of you remember my Application for WM5 smartphones. The application contained SC1000 and CR1000 sets and helped me a lot to get 40V as for non-English speaker. Many hours of using the application and changing it on everyday basis led to a pretty powerful and usable preparation tool. Unfortunately, GMAC banned 1000 series and the application became history. However, I have own experience what works and what doesn't for mobile device preparation tool. There are my thoughts:

1) The shortest educational cycle - 1 problem. The power of mobile applications consists in possibility of spending every free minute on preparation. If we look at our whole day, it will be difficult to find 75 minutes. Moreover, to be concentrated over whole educational cycle (whole test, verbal or quantitative parts, quizzes), we have to study in silence, don't we? But what if we have only 5 minutes, let's say in cafe, another 5 minutes waiting a friend or appointment and so on? I found the most appropriate modes of working with mobile app: A) problem -> answer -> (+ bookmarks if I think it would be useful for me to analyze the problem deeper) --> next problem. B) problem in bookmarks -> explanation -> (- bookmarks if I get it) -> next problem in bookmarks. This two ways of working with mobile application are very simple and short. Let's imagine we do 10 problem quiz. If we interrupted the quiz a few times, it would be difficult at the end of test to remember first question in detail when analyzing a wrong answer. So, my suggestion to take 1 problem as a basis for GMATClub app.

2) Error logs vs Bookmarks. They both are responsible for the same function: keeping difficult problems to which we could return latter to analyze our mistakes in detail. I'm a strong supporter of bookmarks approach for the following reasons. Sometimes we what to consider deeper problems we've answered right in order to grasp a concept; sometimes we don't want to consider problem we've answered wrong because we've made a silly and obvious mistake. Bookmarks-approach better suit for this function. Moreover, after a week of study we will have a lot of error logs and it will be difficult to manage it. At the same time, error logs help to avoid repetition of problems. It is possible to incorporate such functionality in bookmarks-approach introducing black/white of bad/good bookmarks.

I don't know but maybe it would be useful to have two different applications for math and for verbal.

So, what is my preliminary vision of the first GMATClub app? I think it is math app with 300+ problems divided by difficulty level, timing for a problem, bookmarks, random problem and links to forum threads for each problem. I think we can make such application pretty fast and continue our discussion having something in hands.
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Why not have a paid version and a free version.

I think all questions should be based on the challenges.

Paid:
All Challenge questions - $79 app fee. (Or can lower the price as you gauge the demand on itunes). I assume there are what over a 1000 questions? Anyone doing serious gmatprep will pay that money if the app is well-written. I know I would have if I were still studying for the GMAT. Since these questions are all in-house written you have a copyright on them. The SC1000 document is not a source but compilations from other copyrighted sources that may run into issues if you bring it into a heavily trafficked and visible forum such as ITunes.

EDIT: read walker's comments on 1000 series, but still think this should be the idea.

Lite:

Same as Paid but with let's say 50 questions and this app will be free.