Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application (so called Browserless).

So, as can be seen it’s platform to deploy desktop application or so called desktop widgets. There are a lot of Adobe Air applications/widgets which are available. You can find a good list of Adobe Air Apps showcased on the Refreshing Apps.

We have tried to compile a list of Top 5 AIR applications. These were picked on the criteria of usability and ease of use. Let’s have a look at the top 5 Adobe AIR Applications.

1. Analytics Reporting Suite

Google Analytics is one of the best and probably the most powerful website analytics gathering and reporting tool. It has a wonderful web interface to report how well your sites are performing. However, I have been always craving to have this wonderful service right on my desktop. Analytics Reporting Suite, based on Adobe AIR, has ended my search!

Following is a snapshot of the dashboard

The best part about the application is that it’s fast responsive and stable and hence has an advantage over the web interface version of Google analytics. Developed by Nicholas Lierman, Analytics Reporting Suite is still in beta. Another great features of this suite is I can export my reports in PDF, EXCEL and XML format. You can get the application here.

2. ReadAIR – Google Reader AIR

If I were to say, what keeps me busy for most of my time in a day, Google Reader would comprehensively emerge as a winner. Now imagine, if this reader would come as a desktop application. Adobe AIR now has a application called ReadAIR that brings your Google Reader right on your desktop. Pretty simple and neat interface makes this a must Adobe AIR application on your desktop.

This application is completely synchronized with Google Reader. I comes in two themes for now, i.e. Windows and Mac.

3. TWhirl

If you are not on Twitter, friendfeed, or other such social networking websites people will call you socially unaware. I knew someone, who would write down in a diary every five minutes, what he was up to. Twitter allows you to do exactly this. However, being a web based platform you would have to go to the site and leave a twit. Not anymore! With TWirl, you can write, view and reply to twits right from your desktop. Not just that it connects to multiple Twitter, identi.ca, Friendfeed and seesmic accounts.

Some of twhirl