In today's celebrity obsessed culture, its should not come as a surprise that there is an app to mark Patrick Swayze's passing. The actor, who had pancreatic cancer, died Monday at 57.

The app, called SupaFan - Patrick Swayze Fans, is an aggregater of content about the actor. It includes news stories, blog posts and even a chat room where Swayze fans can leave comments like "I love Patrick Swayze!" The  SupaFan app includes stories from around the globe, with many in foreign languages, so it appears to have few editing functions other than the time a story was posted. The app also connects to videos about the actor.

The app was released in June, well before Swayze's passing, and is part of a growing number of single-serving apps surrounding an actor or a cause. Another example is the Chicago 2016 app, a simple program that counts the days until a decision is made about which city will host the 2016 Olympic Games. 

Some single-serving apps are interesting, including a new one by rapper T-Pain called I Am T-Pain. That app, however, is designed so users can test a music technology known as auto-tune to try to sound like the hip-hop artist.

The Swayze app, like other SupaFan apps from Brighthouse Labs, simply collects current news about the subject. Other SupaFan apps are offered for Oprah, Angelina Jolie, Charlie Sheen, Christian Bale, David Spade and David Letterman, among many, many others.

If you're an obsessed fan, these apps are for you.

But while some fans call this celebrity obsession available for your iPhone an homage, others call it iTunes spam.

In a May blog post, the Just Another iPhone Blog included Brighthouse Labs' approach to content in its "App Store Hall of Shame". Besides the SupaFan apps, Brighthouse creates apps for local news and travel guides. Each app sells for 99 cents and includes content on just one city or just one celebrity.

This "slew of  ‘single-serving’ apps ... do almost exactly the same thing while chewing up tons of ‘shelf space’ in the App Store, basically polluting those shelves," wrote the blog's PatrickJ.