Multitouch Apps

In ten years this list will be as funny, as a list of applications that support mouse input would be today.

While I work on a multitouch-enabled Silverlight client for multitouch-apps.com, I’ll just maintain the list of multitouch software here. If you found other great apps, just leave a comment, or tweet to @multitouchapps.

List of Touch-enabled Software (both Games and Applications)

• BumpTop 3D Desktop supports multitouch it’s pro version.
• Air Hockey would be nice to have. Waiting for IdentityMine to republish it. Video
• Fishbowl is a nice offline Facebook from Microsoft uxlabs browser.
• Crazy Coins is an ATM that spits out money to be collected by piggy banks.
• Firefox announced to support basic gestures in Firefox 4.
• The Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 contains of 6 applications
  Unfortunately this is not available for download yet, but rather distributed as OEM by manufacturers. 
  • Microsoft Blackboard is a physics puzzle game.
  • Microsoft Garden Pond is a game where you move fish by tapping on the water.
  • Microsoft Rebound is a cool two-player ball game. Reminds of flipper.
  • Microsoft Surface Collage lets you create a collage of pictures by dragging, resizing and rotating them on a canvas. The collage can then be saved as a picture and be set as the background.
  • Microsoft Surface Globe is much like Google Earth, but with touch input.
  • Microsoft Surface Lagoon is a screensaver that lets you tap on the water to scare the fish.
• Windows 7 has built-in support for some gestures.
  • Panning is enabled “everywhere” where scrollbars exist.
  • Paint support multi touch finger painting.
  • Hearts/Solitaire have been optimized for touch.
  • Taskbar Jump Lists by dragging the icons upwards.
  • Zoom, Rotate, Panning and Flicks in Windows Photo Viewer and XPS Viewer  and Windows Live Photo Gallery
  • On-Screen Keyboard works with multitouch.
  • Internet Explorer 8 supports basic gestures

Tablet PC

If your Multitouch Device is a Tablet PC at the same time, you may be interested in following products.

• ArtRage 2.5 is perfect for painting or sketching. I got it free with my bamboo fun, but I think it is worth the money.
• Microsoft Office One Note is good for note taking using a pen.
• Microsoft Research "InkSeine" is a complete rethinking of what user interfaces should be for the digital pen and ink experience. Love it!
• Apex Nexus is for sketching. Have not tried it yet.
• Other lists: Free Tablet PC Application Roundup, Tablet PC Software

Components

• Infragistics Charting CTP supporting very basic multitouch gestures
• Silverlight Deep Zoom supports basic gestures.

Learn about Multitouch

• Resources for Multi-touch in Windows 7
• Silverlight 3 Multi-touch: The Basics
• Adobe AIR Mobile Touch and Multi-Touch

Black List

Software I have tried and immediately uninstalled.

• Microsoft Reader tries to be an e-reader for tablet pc.
• Corel Paint it! touch – ArtRage is much better

 

Found any nice multi-touch application?

Submit it using twitter (@multitouchapps) or leave a comment.