iPhone App: iFart

December 16th, 2008

= 4 stars

iFart basically lets you make fart noises with your iPhone. You choose from several evocatively named farts, and press the “Fart Now” button to pass the gas. The program includes about twenty different fart noises.

The Good

• There’s something hilarious about turning an expensive Apple gadget into a virtual whoopee cushion via cheap software.
• The names alone are enough to cause some chuckles: “Squeezer,” “The Muffler,” “Jack the Ripper,” “Howard the Duck” and “The Sick Dog.”
• If the fart noises aren’t enough, several added features push it over the edge. “I’m feeling lucky” fires off a random selection (note the Google reference), “Sneak attack” allows you to set a time delay, and “Security fart” puts a fart on a motion detection trigger, so you can set the iPhone down and the next time it’s moved, a fart goes off.
• A few of the noises are over-the-top even by the lowest standards. “The Wipe Out” goes on for a hilariously long time, a physical impossibility even if one ate a pound of beans with a chili chaser.
• If you hit the “fart now” button quickly, you can interrupt a fart-in-progress, creating a rude musical instrument of sorts. Ocarina has nothing on this.

The Bad

• Could cause problems in certain social situations: weddings, courtrooms, divorce hearings, movie theaters, etc.
• The iPhone doesn’t support odor dispersal.

Conclusion

I found iFart very funny and stress-relieving. Cheaper than a dose of Bean-o and I’ve already laughed hard enough that the purchase price was worth it.

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