Trouble searching/finding the best apps for my needs

For the past few days, I've been poking around the App Store in iTunes. Either I'm not looking in the right places, or the App Store is horribly arranged! It seems only Games are broken into sub categories. The top 20 paid and free apps are listed, but beyond that, it's incredibly difficult to find what you are looking for. When you search on key words, there doesn't seem to be a way to sort based on reviews, price, etc.
Example of mine might be... I want a good password keeper. There is no sub category for password keepers in any of the main categories. If I search on "password", I get hundreds of apps that aren't all password keepers. If I search on "password keeper", I only get a few apps, and I know some of the good ones are missing. No matter what I get for search results, I have to look at the details for each one to even see the review averages.
Grrr. Frustrating!
What am I missing? There's got to be a better way to do this.

I've found that google is useful when you're looking for an application for something. For example, if I was you I'd google top password keepers for iphone or top password keeper apps for iphone.
Once you do this, you should find all kinds of articles on what you're looking for. That's how I've found a couple of applications that I was looking for.
Hope this helps ya!!1

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