Appolicious

These can be conveniently downloaded from within Appolicious rather than leaving the site for the Android Market.

Here an App, There an App, Where's the App for You? Katherine Boehret 2010

An Appolicious review of the $4.99 FlightTrack app for iPhone and iPad included a YouTube video explaining the app, a scale rating, a list of other Appolicious users who own the app and an Appolicious Advisor review, written by someone who works for Appolicious Inc.

Here an App, There an App, Where's the App for You? Katherine Boehret 2010

Appolicious, like Chomp, makes money — 5% of paid apps — when it recommends apps people buy because it's an Apple affiliate.

Here an App, There an App, Where's the App for You? Katherine Boehret 2010

It scans the titles of apps you've downloaded, saves the names of those apps in your Web-based Appolicious library and suggests apps that are similar.

Here an App, There an App, Where's the App for You? Katherine Boehret 2010

The Appolicious methods for determining what kinds of apps I'd like seemed to return many apps I wanted to download, but it also recommended some I didn't want, including a game called SceneIt?

Here an App, There an App, Where's the App for You? Katherine Boehret 2010

WSJ's Katherine Boehret reviews the Chomp and Appolicious, two free apps that work to narrow down the Apple and Android app stores to help you identify apps you may like.

Here an App, There an App, Where's the App for You? Katherine Boehret 2010

The more information you tell Appolicious, the better your results will be.

Here an App, There an App, Where's the App for You? Katherine Boehret 2010

I tried this on a Motorola Droid X Android device, and it worked — with my permission — just seconds after I opened Appolicious for the first time, spitting back a list of related apps.

Here an App, There an App, Where's the App for You? Katherine Boehret 2010

I tested Chomp, which works on the iPhone, and Appolicious, which works on the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.

Here an App, There an App, Where's the App for You? Katherine Boehret 2010

Appolicious also has its own website and a partnership with Yahoo so that its app reviews, which are written by a 15-person editorial staff and regular users, are promoted in relevant articles on Yahoo's websites.

Here an App, There an App, Where's the App for You? Katherine Boehret 2010