147 of the very best iPad apps to download now

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Update on 12-25-2015 by Malarie Gokey: -Added all the new apps you see on page one, and removed the following:-Zite, Oyster, ESPN College Football, IA Writer, Motion X GPS Drive, HopStop, TweetBot, and IMO. Related: -Our favorite iPhone apps-and-picks for the best iPad keyboards-and-5 best apps for working on the iPad Pro You can also check out all our other great app guides on Digital Trends. We’ve linked to several above and below. Related:- Whip out your Apple Pencil and try out the 5 best iPad Pro drawing apps ————— New iPad App Additions Here are the newest apps added to the roundup, including those for drawing, reading unlimited ebooks, getting work done, and more. Scribd Avid readers will love Scribd, a Netflix-like subscription app that puts millions of ebooks, comic books, and audiobooks at your fingertips for just $9 a month. It has all the big titles, including the entire- Game of Thrones- series and scores of bestsellers. Graphic novels and comics look great on the iPad, and so do regular ebooks. Scribd gives you recommendations based on your library, too. Available on: iTunes BuzzFeed BuzzFeed took the world by storm with its viral listicals and other fun content. The app puts everything in one place and you can customize the types of articles you see to suit your liking. You can also check out the menu to see only quizzes, what’s trending, or news if you want to hone your search. -It’s fun to view GIFs and the other visual content on the app. BuzzFeed also has a hard news app, which you can get here. Available on: iTunes Google Photos Storing photos takes up a lot of space on your iPad. Google Photos is the answer. Privacy concerns aside, the app offers unlimited photo storage at lower resolutions, categorizes them in different ways, and lets you create fun photo story collages that you can share on social networks. Showing off the photos from your latest trip is especially nice on the iPad. Google Photos is also very smart at sorting pics. Available on: iTunes SmartNews SmartNews brings you trending stories and categorizes them based on subject. It’s clutter-free, easy to browse through, and good at digging up fresh content that you’ll actually want to read. Partners include-NBC News, Medium, USA Today, TIME, Bleacher Report, Quartz, VICE, Reuters, AP, Perez Hilton, and more. Reading news on the iPad is always great, but it just got better. Available on: iTunes Donde Donde is a visual shopping app that helps you find exactly what you’re looking for based on visual cues, colors, and pricing. Instead of having to know what a sweetheart neckline looks like to search for a dress with one, you simply tap on the picture of the neckline and other factors you want in your perfect dress. The app animates quickly and looks great on the big screen. Available on: iTunes Coda ($10) If you ever engage in Web development, you’ll find this app invaluable. It’s a powerful text editor that supports every conceivable file format. You can work on pages with your website up in Safari at the same time, thanks to the split view support. It also allows for-easy file management and transfer, handy shortcuts to speed up your coding, and even provides-a full-featured SSH client built-in. It’s everything you need to manage your website. If you would prefer a simpler editor for your blog and just use Markdown, then check out Byword ($6). Available on: iTunes Procreate ($6) Procreate comes equipped a full set of drawing tools, which expertly imitate real creative implements, such as soft pastels, oil pastels, charcoal, graphite pencils of varying hardness, acrylic, oil, watercolors, and more. Whatever the medium, Procreate’s digital tools will give you the full effect and appearance of the real thing. You can even smudge, blur, and manipulate your strokes just as you would on paper or canvas. You can-export your artwork as PSD, PNG, JPG, or Procreate files. The app also helps you build a portfolio and share your work, if you so desire. iTunes SimCity Build It Sim City BuildIt has been around on iOS for a while, and although it’s playable on the iPhone, it has always been more enjoyable on the iPad. The bigger the screen, the better — Particularly because the game’s control system is all about pinching, zooming, and rotating highly detailed 3D buildings. This is an EA title and it’s free to download, which means there are also plenty of in-app purchases. If you don’t mind, there’s fun to be had inside this version of Sim City. iTunes PDF Expert 5 ($10) If you have to read, edit, and possibly annotate PDFs, then this is the only app you need. It’s really easy to use and allows you to highlight text, fill in forms, create notes, and sign documents. It also supports a bunch of different file formats, features integration-with the major cloud services, and provides a-handy review mode that-lets you-track changes in a similar fashion to Word. It usually costs $10, but at the time of writing, it’s-entirely-free. Available on: iTunes Paper by FiftyThree FiftyThree’s Paper has long been one of the best iPad drawing apps, but it’s become even more versatile in the past year. The app now has diagramming and note-taking tools in addition to the standard creative tool suite it’s always had. Yu get a watercolor brush, calligraphy pen, pencil, marker, ballpoint pen, eraser, paint roller, scissors, and a ruler. You can even import or take pictures, and-mark them up with text or drawings.-All your creations are easily shared to FiftyThree’s creative community Mix, your camera roll, other apps for further edits, messaging apps, or to the social network of your choosing. iTunes PBS Video The PBS app lets you stream almost every show on the public TV channel in the app. Masterpiece hits like Poldark , Downton Abbey , Mr. Selfridge, Wolf Hall , as well as Nature, NOVA, and more are all available. New shows are added daily, and older episodes stick around for a while, so you’ll always have something educational to watch. The app can be customized to have shows from your local station, and it works with Chromecast, so you can stream it on the big screen. iTunes Adobe Photoshop Sketch Adobe’s entire iOS app suite works extremely well on the iPad, but we’ll highlight Sketch in particular as our favorite drawing app of the bunch. You can create expressive drawings and paintings on it without opening a sketchbook. Artwork can be sent as layered PSD files to Adobe Photoshop CC or resized up to 4x in Illustrator CC to print high-resolution copies.-The app includes 13 tools, a digital ruler, and graph guides. You can import your own images or stock photos to work on top of, too. Using the Creative Cloud connection, you can send a file to Photoshop CC or Illustrator CC on your PC or share your art with the Behance creative community. iTunes HBO Now HBO finally caved and created a subscription-based streaming app, no cable subscription required. HBO Now offers Game of Thrones, and many of the other great shows on the channel. It now works with Chromecast, too, so you can stream it on the big screen. If you’re not casting, the iPad is the idea place to watch your shows, as opposed to the small iPhone screen. Be prepared to spend $15 a month for it, though. Available on: iTunes Forge Forge is more like a sketch pad for ideas, a brainstorming tool, and an inspirational white board for visual thinkers than a full-on drawing app. Artists and designers can work through ideas and iterations in the app, as well as bring in photos from Dropbox and the default photos app on iOS to help inspire your sketches. There are only six simple brushes to choose from, but you can control color, gradient, and other key aspects of the drawing.-Forge also has layers, so you can save each layer to look back on later, change, or delete entirely. You can create multiple portfolios and view your sketches on a wall to get an idea of where you’re going. iTunes Omni Productivity Pack ($150) This pack offers four of the Omni Group’s best productivity apps: OmniGraffle for diagramming and wireframing, OmniPlan for project management, OmniOutliner for organizing data, and OmniFocus for task management. With this pack, you’ll have the tools you need for everything from visualizing navigation for a user interface to creating a complex Gantt chart. These apps will help you to get organized and to stay that way. If you only need one, you can buy each of them separately. Available on: iTunes Airbnb Airbnb is one of the most popular traveling apps for people who aren’t too fond of hotels, or just want to save a buck or two. The iPad app makes it easy to see what you’re getting into, and you can really analyze the rental’s photos before you make a decision. You can search by a variety of factors, including the number of rooms, location, amenities, and more. Airbnb boasts-600,000 listings in more than 34,000 cities, so you’re bounf to find the perfect spot for your next trip. iTunes Tayasui Sketches Tayasui Sketches looks simple and clean, but it offers a number of different brushes for free and a clutter-free space to draw. You get a pencil, rotring, watercolor brush, felt pen, and eraser for free. You can import photos, too, if you want, and it’s really easy to share your sketches on social networks or via email.-It’s great for illustration and quick sketches, but if you buy the in-app purchase, it can become a professional drawing app with surface pressure, layers, types of paper, more brushes, and the ability to change brush sizes. The app lets you try the pro features for an hour, so you can decide if it’s worth the $5 price tag. iTunes Be My Eyes Be My Eyes connects blind people who need assistance with volunteers who are willing to help via a live video connection.-Blind users request help from a sighted person, who explains what they can see with the video feed from the blind user’s phone or tablet. The app aims to make it easier for blind people to find others to help them perform a variety of tasks, including everything from checking the expiration date on food items, to crossing a very busy street or reading a sign. iTunes Roambi Analytics (Free) How do you turn an-ugly spreadsheet into something more palatable? You use an app like Roambi, which can suck in data from Excel, Google Spreadsheets, databases, and a host of other sources before-transforming it into a sexy report or chart. The visualizations are high quality and sure to add weight to your argument. Moreover, all-you need to do is import your data and Roambi will automatically filter and analyze it on your behalf. Available on: iTunes ————— Categories (Click on one to jump to its page): Entertainment Work and Organizing Security and Utilities Travel and Maps Fitness, Health, Sports What’s Around Town- Social and Chat Next page: Entertainment apps Entertainment Entertainment covers all the stuff you watch, read, play, and enjoy. This is the fun stuff, and our favorite section. Movies and TV HBO Now HBO finally caved and created a subscription-based streaming app, no cable subscription required. HBO Now offers Game of Thrones, and many of the other great shows on the channel. It now works with Chromecast, too, so you can stream it on the big screen. If you’re not casting, the iPad is the idea place to watch your shows, as opposed to the small iPhone screen. Be prepared to spend $15 a month for it, though. Available on: iTunes PBS Video The PBS app lets you stream almost every show on the public TV channel in the app. Masterpiece hits like Poldark , Downton Abbey , Mr. Selfridge, Wolf Hall , as well as Nature, NOVA, and more are all available. New shows are added daily, and older episodes stick around for a while, so you’ll always have something educational to watch. The app can be customized to have shows from your local station, and it works with Chromecast, so you can stream it on the big screen. iTunes Netflix Netflix is an absolute essential app, especially on the iPad. Tons of films, TV shows, and random documentaries about drug cartels that look great on the Retina display. Subscription starts at $8 a month. Available on: iTunes Hulu Plus No cable? No problem. Hulu is the place to go for catching up on all of the shows on television right now. Most network and cable channels have shows available. Subscription to Hulu Plus starts at $8 a month. Available on: iTunes Amazon Instant Video For Amazon Prime subscribers who take advantage of the large video library provided by Amazon, this is the app of choice. Rent, purchase, and stream tons of videos. Amazon Prime subscription run $100 a year. Available on: iTunes IMDB What good is all this streamable content if you can’t remember the names of the shows and movies or actors that you want to watch? IMDB is the answer, plus it provides movie news and showtimes. Available on: iTunes Crackle The Netflix and Hulu apps may be free, but Crackle’s content is free, too, with no subscription needed. There’s tons of turnover and weird content, but it has Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars series. Available on: iTunes Viggle Viggle does the novel task of rewarding you for consuming media, which you’re going to do plenty of. Check in to shows, interact with fans, play show-specific trivia, and score some gifts for your trouble. Available on: iTunes YouTube YouTube used to be included in iOS until the Apple-Google breakup, but you should put it right back on your iPad. It’s the best place to watch user-submitted content, and a great place to get your fix of cute animal videos. Available on: iTunes Fan TV With content split up across various platforms, it can be a pain to figure out where the movies and shows you want reside. Fanhattan centralizes all the information by showing you everywhere a video is streaming. Available on: iTunes Showyou In front of the television and the silver screen aren’t the only place to be entertained anymore. There are tons of online creators, and you can see all the best web video in one place on Showyou. It’s like Flipboard for video. Available on: iTunes Books Scribd Avid readers will love Scribd, a Netflix-like subscription app that puts millions of ebooks, comic books, and audiobooks at your fingertips for just $9 a month. It has all the big titles, including the entire- Game of Thrones- series and scores of bestsellers. Graphic novels and comics look graet on the iPad, and so do regular ebooks. Scribd gives you recommendations based on your library, too. Available on: iTunes Audible You can easily read a book on a tablet, but why do that when you can have someone else read it to you? Audible, an Amazon company, has a massive library of audio books to choose from. Available on: iTunes Kindle You may have chosen the iPad over a Kindle tablet, but you can still enjoy the Kindle app. It gives access to Amazon’s huge selection of books that can be downloaded and read anywhere. Available on: iTunes iBooks This is a no-brainer app since you already have an Apple device, but Apple’s own book shop is still a solid option. Purchases sync to your account and can be viewed on any Apple device. Available on: iTunes Comics Who says books can’t have pictures? Some of the best stories out there exist in graphic form, and you can read them on your iPad with Comics. The app allows you to read purchases on your ComiXology account from anywhere. Available on: iTunes News SmartNews SmartNews brings you trending stories and categorizes them based on subject. It’s clutter-free, easy to browse through, and good at digging up fresh content that you’ll actually want to read. Partners include-NBC News, Medium, USA Today, TIME, Bleacher Report, Quartz, VICE, Reuters, AP, Perez Hilton, and more. Reading news on the iPad is always great, but it just got better. Available on: iTunes BuzzFeed BuzzFeed took the world by storm with its viral listicals and other fun content. The app puts everything in one place and you can customize the types of articles you see to suit your liking. You can also check out the menu to see only quizzes, what’s trending, or news if you want to hone your search. -It’s fun to view GIFs and the other visual content on the app. BuzzFeed also has a hard news app, which you can get here. Available on: iTunes Flipboard The news isn’t always pretty, but it will look good in Flipboard. The app turns your favorite news sources into a digital magazine with a beautiful layout for your consumption. Available on: iTunes News Republic News Republic is a news app for the social media generation. Articles from hundreds of top publications are navigable by tags, which will lead you into an internet rabbit hole very quickly. Available on: iTunes Feedly Feedly is the more traditional way of following your favorite websites. This RSS reader will feel familiar to any Google Reader users and is ideal for keeping up with tons of sources at the same time. Available on: iTunes Pocket Wind up with way too many tabs open at the same time? Then it’s time to get Pocket. Save articles and come back to them when you have time. This app is formerly known as Read it Later. Available on: iTunes News 360 There’s always multiple takes on a news story, and you can see them all with News 360. Find a headline that catches your eye and see how every other news source has tackled the same topic. Available on: iTunes Digg A lot of news apps try to match your preferences, but Digg has its own tastes and interests. You can see the hand-picked stories deemed to be best of the web and trend-worthy by Digg’s staff. Available on: iTunes BaconReader for Reddit Reddit is like a great news aggregator that you don’t have to set up—just tap into the communities that produce great content. There’s no better way to navigate the site on iPad than the BaconReader app. Available on: iTunes Radio and Podcasts Pocket Casts Apple’s own podcasts app wasn’t so well received, which sent us on a hunt for a better option. Pocket Casts is our favorite podcast app thanks to its design and great options. Available on: iTunes TuneIn Radio With its new version, TuneIn just reinvented the Live Radio and podcasting app. The new TuneIn has built-in social elements like Spotify. Read our full review . Available on: iTunes Stitcher Radio Stitcher Radio is a bit like the Pandora of talk shows. Tell it your favorite podcasts and shows and it’ll put together a playlist of those plus others it thinks you’ll enjoy as well. Available on: iTunes Music Spotify No music streaming service is more popular or offers more music than Spotify. Listen to all of your favorite songs on the go. A subscription to Spotify Premium is $10 a month. Available on: iTunes Pandora Radio Everyone is plenty familiar with Pandora at this point, and it’s still a must-have app for music lovers. No other option matches Pandora for new music discovery tools. Available on: iTunes Shazam If you can’t put a finger on the song that you’re listening to, or you hear a catchy tune on a commercial and want to log it, use Shazam to figure out what’s playing. Available on: iTunes Creating Procreate ($6) Procreate comes equipped a full set of drawing tools, which expertly imitate real creative implements, such as soft pastels, oil pastels, charcoal, graphite pencils of varying hardness, acrylic, oil, watercolors, and more. Whatever the medium, Procreate’s digital tools will give you the full effect and appearance of the real thing. You can even smudge, blur, and manipulate your strokes just as you would on paper or canvas. You can-export your artwork as PSD, PNG, JPG, or Procreate files. The app also helps you build a portfolio and share your work, if you so desire. iTunes Photoshop Sketch Adobe’s entire iOS app suite works extremely well on the iPad, but we’ll highlight Sketch in particular as our favorite drawing app of the bunch. You can create expressive drawings and paintings on it without opening a sketchbook. Artwork can be sent as layered PSD files to Adobe Photoshop CC or resized up to 4x in Illustrator CC to print high-resolution copies.-The app includes 13 tools, a digital ruler, and graph guides. You can import your own images or stock photos to work on top of, too. Using the Creative Cloud connection, you can send a file to Photoshop CC or Illustrator CC on your PC or share your art with the Behance creative community. iTunes Paper by FiftyThree FiftyThree’s Paper has long been one of the best iPad drawing apps, but it’s become even more versatile in the past year. The app now has diagramming and note-taking tools in addition to the standard creative tool suite it’s always had. Yu get a watercolor brush, calligraphy pen, pencil, marker, ballpoint pen, eraser, paint roller, scissors, and a ruler. You can even import or take pictures, and-mark them up with text or drawings.-All your creations are easily shared to FiftyThree’s creative community Mix, your camera roll, other apps for further edits, messaging apps, or to the social network of your choosing. iTunes Tayasui Sketches Tayasui Sketches looks simple and clean, but it offers a number of different brushes for free and a clutter-free space to draw. You get a pencil, rotring, watercolor brush, felt pen, and eraser for free. You can import photos, too, if you want, and it’s really easy to share your sketches on social networks or via email.-It’s great for illustration and quick sketches, but if you buy the in-app purchase, it can become a professional drawing app with surface pressure, layers, types of paper, more brushes, and the ability to change brush sizes. The app lets you try the pro features for an hour, so you can decide if it’s worth the $5 price tag. iTunes Forge Forge is more like a sketch pad for ideas, a brainstorming tool, and an inspirational white board for visual thinkers than a full-on drawing app. Artists and designers can work through ideas and iterations in the app, as well as bring in photos from Dropbox and the default photos app on iOS to help inspire your sketches. There are only six simple brushes to choose from, but you can control color, gradient, and other key aspects of the drawing.-Forge also has layers, so you can save each layer to look back on later, change, or delete entirely. You can create multiple portfolios and view your sketches on a wall to get an idea of where you’re going. iTunes iStopMotion The iPad is equally great for watching movies as it is for making them. Create your own animated films and time lapse clips with this powerful app that captures footage frame by frame. Available on: iTunes Traktor DJ There’s plenty of ways to listen to music on iPad, but if you want to mix your own, you need Traktor DJ. It’s the easiest way to get the same effects as a real DJ without needing your own turntable. Available on: iTunes Garageband GarageBand is Apple’s own product, but it’s really a must own for any music lover. It turns your iPad into your ultimate digital amp and even if you’re not a capable musician, it’s a blast to mess around with the virtual instruments. Available on: iTunes Games Sim City Build it Sim City Build It has been around on iOS for a while, and although it’s playable on the iPhone, it has always been more enjoyable on the iPad. The bigger the screen, the better — Particularly because the game’s control system is all about pinching, zooming, and rotating highly detailed 3D buildings. This is an EA title and it’s free to download, which means there are also plenty of in-app purchases. If you don’t mind, there’s fun to be had inside this version of Sim City. iTunes Infinity Blade III Apple always turns to the Infinity Blade series to show off what its tablet is capable of, and for good reason. The fighting game with epic boss fights always looks amazing. Available on: iTunes Limbo For an odd game, check out Limbo. It’s eery, a little scary, and stunningly beautiful despite its black and white color palette. Filled with tough puzzles and challenges. Available on: iTunes Bastion A hit from the indie gaming world made its way to the iPad and the experience is just as great. An action RPG with amazing visuals and an enthralling story. Available on: iTunes Monument Valley Some games are about offering an intense environment and difficult challenges. Then there’s Monument Valley. It’s an extraordinarily pleasant game with beautiful visuals, relaxing puzzles, and an odd retro vibe. Available on: iTunes The Room Two Things are going to get a little creepy and odd once you enter the Room. It’s a game full of ambiance and intrigue. The Gameplay consists of puzzling and intricate machines that you interact with through intuitive touch controls. Available on: iTunes The Walking Dead If you’re familiar with the Walking Dead empire at all, you’ll know what to expect here. Tons of tension, an engaging story, and plenty of gory and graphic deaths – both human and zombie. Available on: iTunes Pro Sports ESPN SportsCenter No place offers sports coverage like ESPN, so turning to the Worldwide Leader in Sports on your iPad makes sense. Score updates, news alerts, video highlights, and more await the sports fanatic in you. Available on: iTunes WatchESPN Seeing the scoreboard tally each point in real time isn’t always enough. Sometimes you just have to see it. WatchESPN lets you watch tons of sporting events live – assuming your cable provider allows it. Available on: iTunes TheScore There’s way too much sports news to digest, but if you want to try, TheScore has all that and more — tons of information, live scores, and everything you’d expect to track your crazy sports obsession. Available on: iTunes College Sports NCAA March Madness March Madness is easily one of the best times of year for any sports fan. Non-stop games, tons of upsets and underdogs, and you can follow it all as it unfolds with this app. Available on: iTunes CBS Sports It’s not college specific, but CBS Sports has a plenty of college related content and offers regular coverage of the biggest college sporting events, including title games. Available on: iTunes Next page: Work And Organizing Work and Organizing This section is dedicated to helping you get more done. The iPad is for more than just entertainment, and we’ve got the tools you need to actually use the thing for work. Categories (Click on one to jump to its page): Entertainment Work and Organizing Security and Utilities Travel and Maps Fitness, Health, Sports What’s Around Town- Social and Chat ———— Email Hop We checked out Hop on the iPhone, back when it was known as Ping. The simplified, but powerful, email system works on the same principles as a a threaded SMS or instant message conversation, and it’s even possible to make audio calls through the app. Available on: iTunes Cannonball In Cannonball, a gesture control system makes inbox management simple, while the app separates important messages from newsletters and other general messages, so important messages don’t get lost. Available on: iTunes Boxer Boxer has a cool swipe system for managing your emails inside the combined inbox, plus Box or Dropbox integration, and fast access to your calendar. There’s even a Like button for a fast, positive reply to an email. Available on: iTunes Mailbox With the big screen of the iPad, you should be able to manage your inbox easily. Mailbox is built for the platform with gesture controls and a goal of clearing out your inbox to keep you on task and organized. Available on: iTunes Word Processing, Spreadsheets, and Package tracking Roambi Analytics How do you turn an-ugly spreadsheet into something more palatable? You use an app like Roambi, which can suck in data from Excel, Google Spreadsheets, databases, and a host of other sources before-transforming it into a sexy report or chart. The visualizations are high quality and sure to add weight to your argument. Moreover, all-you need to do is import your data and Roambi will automatically filter and analyze it on your behalf. Available on: iTunes Omni Productivity Pack This pack offers four of the Omni Group’s best productivity apps: OmniGraffle for diagramming and wireframing, OmniPlan for project management, OmniOutliner for organizing data, and OmniFocus for task management. With this pack, you’ll have the tools you need for everything from visualizing navigation for a user interface to creating a complex Gantt chart. These apps will help you to get organized and to stay that way. If you only need one, you can buy each of them separately. Available on: iTunes Pages It’s hard not to recommend Apple’s Pages word processor, particularly if you use a Mac, thanks to iCloud and AirDrop support. Documents are easy to create, there are many templates, and the whole thing looks fantastic. Available on: iTunes Microsoft Office Microsoft Word It has been a long time coming, but Office for iPad is here, and all apps are highly polished, custom designed mobile options of Microsoft’s all-powerful suite. However, if you want to see their full potential, you’re going to have to pay up. Available on: iTunes Deliveries Deliveries is a great app for tracking packages. The app provides accurate summaries, a clear interface, and easy integration with every Apple device. It’ll work easily with iCloud and be configured to appear in notifications center. Available on: iTunes Browsers Opera Coast Opera Coast is a web browser, but not as you know it. Controlled using gestures, the layout and operation is closer to using the iPad itself. We’re fans of its speed and intuitive operation, and love the fullscreen view. Available on: iTunes Chrome Chances are you already use this on your computer, and the Chrome browser’s cross-platform syncing is one of the reasons we love it. Speedier than Safari, it also syncs bookmarks, and features the handy Incognito mode. Available on: iTunes iCab If you’re looking for a hardcore web browser, iCab is it. Its comprehensive feature list includes the ability to filter out ads, download files, compress web pages to save data, and manage cookies. It’s a power user’s dream. Available on: iTunes Calendars Sunrise Calendar Sunrise is a great calendar app if you’re looking to migrate-information other popular options like Google, iCloud, and Microsoft Exchange. Add events easily, get weather based on location, location tags, and more. Available on: iTunes Fantastical 2 The award-winning calendar app from Flexibits makes it easy to keep track of your day. Set up events with simple sentences, dictation controls for hands off scheduling, and always see what’s on your agenda with reminders. Available on: iTunes Calendars 5 Calendars 5 looks right at home in the iOS 8 ecosystem and is great for getting a day-to-day or month-out view of your schedule. The smart calendar features only reveals what’s relevant to you so you don’t get overwhelmed. Available on: iTunes Education Codea Learning how to code is becoming essential, no matter what you do. To tackle the task, check out Codea. It’s a gorgeous code editor that will help you learn how to code just about anything you could want to build. Available on: iTunes Khan Academy Khan Academy is a huge collection of knowledge that you can access for free. With thousands of videos covering a huge variety of topics, you can take time out of your day to learn just about anything you want. Available on: iTunes Duolingo Picking up a second language is tough, but you can make it feel like a game with DuoLingo. The app makes it easy to learn as you go, quizzing you in different ways that will insure that the lessons stick no matter the language. Available on: iTunes Elevate Elevate is one of the best brain-training apps out there. It’s designed to improve focus, memory, and math skills with a series of fun activities on the iPad. The activities get more challenging as you improve. Available on: iTunes Next page: Security and Utilities apps Security and Utilities This section will help you secure your tablet (and find it), but also add those little touches you like. Want a good alarm clock or calculator. We’ve got ’em right here. Categories (Click on one to jump to its page): Entertainment Work and Organizing Security and Utilities Travel and Maps Fitness, Health, Sports What’s Around Town- Social and Chat ———— Secure Your Tablet 1Password Despite being a little on the pricey side, 1Password is a necessity in an age where private data always seems to be at risk. Protect passwords, credit card information, and more with top-grade encryption. Available on: iTunes Private Photo Vault Images might not have any personal information in them, but we all have a few we’d rather not see the light of day. Lock down those photos, videos, and galleries meant only for certain eyes with this app. Available on: iTunes Hotspot Shield VPN This app is free to download but costs $5 a month to use. It’s worth it if you do a lot of work or Web browsing on your iPad in public locations, because it blocks hackers from accessing your data on public Wi-Fi networks. Available on: iTunes Track Your Device Lookout Think you’re free of danger because you’re on a tablet? Think again. Add Lookout to your iPad to protect yourself from viruses and malware, back up your contacts, and locate a stolen device. Upgrade to premium for $3. Available on: iTunes Find My iPhone Find My iPhone is Apple’s protective service for stolen devices. Find your device via GPS, lock your iPad remotely, or erase the data if it’s gone for good. (Read: 6 People get vigilante justice with Find My iPhone .) Available on: iTunes Prey Anti Theft If your device is snatched out from under you, Prey Anti Theft helps you track it by triangulating its location. Trigger an alarm, take pictures with either camera, and gather information via connected networks remotely. Available on: iTunes Basic Utilities Be My Eyes Be My Eyes connects blind people who need assistance with volunteers who are willing to help via a live video connection.-Blind users request help from a sighted person, who explains what they can see with the video feed from the blind user’s phone or tablet. The app aims to make it easier for blind people to find others to help them perform a variety of tasks, including everything from checking the expiration date on food items, to crossing a very busy street or reading a sign. iTunes PDF Expert 5 If you have to read, edit, and possibly annotate PDFs, then this is the only app you need. It’s really easy to use and allows you to highlight text, fill in forms, create notes, and sign documents. It also supports a bunch of different file formats, features integration-with the major cloud services, and provides a-handy review mode that-lets you-track changes in a similar fashion to Word. It usually costs $10, but at the time of writing, it’s-entirely-free. Available on: iTunes Alarm Clock HD Set your iPad up on a stand and turn on Alarm Clock HD to treat it like a big, touch screen alarm clock. Complete with multiple alarms, news feeds, social media integration, weather info, and more. Available on: iTunes MyScript Calculator The iPad’s built in calculator is nice for the simple stuff, but MyScript Calculator can handle more complex equations and takes inputs via handwriting, converting your writing to standard text. Available on: iTunes Paper by FiftyThree When it comes to creating art on the iPad, Paper by FiftyThree is the canvas you need. A wide range of tools make it easy to get the effect you want. Great for sketches or for more involved creations. Available on: iTunes My Data Manager Trying to keep your data usage under control and maybe bring that cell bill down a bit? My Data Manager gives you unprecedented control over your data. Visualize usage and set alarms to avoid overages. Available on: iTunes SwiftKey Swiftkey is a replacement for that pesky keyboard that’s baked into iOS 8. It has more intelligent predictions than Apple’s native keyboard, multiple language support, and easy syncing with Gmail, Twitter, and Facebook. Available on: iTunes Note taking and Scanning Notability If you need a little old school comfort and want to scribble on your iPad, Notability is a solid option. Get the pen-to-paper feel with all of the digital bells and whistles like imported documents or linked files. Available on: iTunes Document 5 The iPad still falls short when managing files. One of the best solutions is Document 5 which will let you convert files to PDFs directly from your iPad. Even better, Document 5 pairs with iCloud to store all your files in the same place. Available on: iTunes DocScan Forget the scanner. DocScan will use your iPad’s camera to convert paper documents into hi-res PDFs. The app comes with a handful of nifty editing tools that made it easy to convert textbook pages and chalkboard photos into PDFs. Available on: iTunes Wallpapers Cool Wallpapers The iPad’s screen is too impressive to not plaster with pretty images, and Cool Wallpapers has plenty of options. Over 100,000 individual wallpapers are available for your choosing. Available on: iTunes Pimp Your Screen There’s no need to stop at just the wallpaper when modifying your iPad’s look. Pimp Your Screen offers custom app shelves, home screen themes, icon skins, and lock screens in a variety of styles. Available on: iTunes Wallpapers HD Wallpapers HD is bound to have good looking wallpaper options – it has HD right in its name. New entries are regularly added and organized in easy to browse categories for convenience. Available on: iTunes Evernote -Evernote is the best backstop for all of your spitballed ideas. Toss every thought into it, organized with the easy to navigate notebook system with its iPad specific UI, and never forget a great—or terrible—idea again. Available on: iTunes Benchmarking Apps 3D Mark Test out the performance of your iPad and see how it compares to similar devices, including Android and Windows tablets. This diagnostics tool focuses on-graphics performance measurement. Available on: iTunes Geekbench 3 Recently optimized to test out Apple’s 64-bit processors, Geekbench 3 is one of the most comprehensive performance testers around. It measures processor and memory performance. Available on: iTunes GFXBench 3.0 GFXBench may be familiar by its former name, GLBenchmark. No matter the name, it can help you comprehend the 3D graphics benchmark and will determine performance. Available on: iTunes Next page: Travel and Maps apps Travel and Maps Most of us don’t use our iPad around town (unless you have a LTE enabled version), but that doesn’t mean an iPad isn’t a great tool to help you get around or understand where you are. Here are our favorite travel apps. Categories (Click on one to jump to its page): Entertainment Work and Organizing Security and Utilities Travel and Maps Fitness, Health, Sports What’s Around Town- Social and Chat ———— Maps and Turn-by-Turn Navigation Google Maps We’d hate to re-open the Google Maps vs. Apple Maps wound again, so we’ll just say this: Download Google Maps. It’s accurate, thorough, and offers free turn-by-turn voice navigation. Available on: iTunes Waze Waze helps you avoid traffic jams, find cheap gas, and pick the best places to stop by providing access to crowdsourced, community-generated data that will be invaluable for your road trips. Available on: iTunes Traveling Abroad Airbnb Airbnb is one of the most popular traveling apps for people who aren’t too fond of hotels, or just want to save a buck or two. The iPad app makes it easy to see what you’re getting into, and you can really analyze the rental’s photos before you make a decision. You can search by a variety of factors, including the number of rooms, location, amenities, and more. Airbnb boasts-600,000 listings in more than 34,000 cities, so you’re bounf to find the perfect spot for your next trip. iTunes TripIt Having TripIt on your iPad is like having your own special travel itinerary folder (the one you plan to make for every trip but never do). It keeps hotel, car rental, and flight information in place and in chronological order. Available on: iTunes Kayak Kayak Pro is like the Google of travel planning. It’s the smart search engine for trip planning that will help you find flights, cars, and hotels to fit your schedule and budget. It aggregates multiple airlines and services. Available on: iTunes Hipmunk Finding flights and hotels is easy on Hipmunk. The app offers handy visualizations, helps you land in a comfy hotel for cheap, and organizes flights by its trademark “agony” rating to minimize-duration, layovers and price. Available on: iTunes Bring Fido Wanna travel with your best friend? Bring Fido makes it easy to find and made reservations at pet-friendly hotels. The app will also list nearby dog parks, sitters, and veterinarians all vetted by other dog owners who rate and leave reviews. Available on: iTunes Language Translating iTranslate Voice There’s no need to flip through translation dictionaries looking for the right word to say. The iTranslate Voice app gives real-time speech-to-speech translation with support for 36 different languages. Available on: iTunes SayHi Translate It’s always best to have conversations face to face, but SayHi Translate is a great middle man. You and a partner speak into it and it translates your speech back and forth to help the conversation along. Available on: iTunes Google Translate If Google has an app for it, you should probably have that app. Google Translate can handle text, voice, handwriting, and text in images. It works with over 70 languages no matter the input. Available on: iTunes Public Transit Mytaxi Never wind up stranded when you have your iPad in hand. In as few as two taps, you can get a taxi on its way to your location. Follow the taxi in real time, rate drivers, and pay by app. Available on: iTunes Google Maps We’ve never listed the same app twice before, but when it comes to transit directions, Google Maps has it down with route guidance and a full color listing of route lines in many major cities, like NYC. Available on: iTunes Outdoors Apps MyTopo Maps Who says you can’t take technology out into the wilderness? MyTopo Maps will make your iPad a necessity for outdoor exploration, with maps of terrain and plan your trip with a powerful place search. Available on: iTunes Spyglass-($4) If you end up getting lost, you can count on Spyglass. It equips you with a GPS, compass, finder, tracker, and AR navigation to ensure you’re never lost, even in strange locales. Available on: iTunes MotionX GPS HD-($2) MotionX GPS HD claims to have the best map selection of all iPad navigation apps, and reviews seem to echo that. It’s an all-in-one GPS tool for hiking, boating, and just generally exploring the world. Available on: iTunes Sky Guide If you can’t see the stars clearly in the sky, you can get a good look at them in Sky Guide. The beautiful app puts a galaxy’s worth of stars, constellations, planets, and more in your hands. Available on: iTunes Next page: Fitness, Health, and Sports apps Fitness, Health, and Sports Screens are half the reason we’re so out of shape, but your iPad can help you get back in shape, too. The apps below will help you work out, eat right, and we have a few tips for you if you’re into sports. Categories (Click on one to jump to its page): Entertainment Work and Organizing Security and Utilities Travel and Maps Fitness, Health, Sports What’s Around Town- Social and Chat ———— Getting Fit Yoga Studio-($3) Choose from a range of HD video classes for different abilities and improve your flexibility, strength, balance, and relaxation. You can even craft your own classes and schedules. Available on: iTunes Calorie & Diet Tracker Keep a really close eye on everything you consume and get a calorie count along the way. This app covers more than 3 million foods, and you can use it to track your exercise as well. Available on: iTunes 7 Minute Workout You don’t need any equipment to stay fit with these 7 minute workouts and they can be performed anywhere. A little gamification and progress tracking encourages you to work out daily. Available on: iTunes FitStar Personal Trainer FitStar Personal Trainer will save you the expensive costs associated with gym memberships and fitness gurus and instead helps you customize your own workouts to get the results you’re after. Available on: iTunes Medical Advice WebMD for iPad Combining a symptom checker, first aid advice, pill identification, drug and treatment information, and a local directory of healthcare professionals, this is the best free healthcare app. Available on: iTunes First Aid by Red Cross It’s empowering to know exactly what to do in an emergency, and it helps you take the right action and keep a cool head. This app is full of easy to follow advice for coping with accidents. Available on: iTunes iTriage Plug in symptoms and get clear advice on what they might mean. This app also includes detailed info on treatments and healthcare providers near you, including average wait times. Available on: iTunes Sports Players Coach’s Eye-($5) Record your baseball swing or your tennis game, and you can watch the video back in slow motion, compare two videos side by side, and then annotate and share the results to help you improve. Available on: iTunes iScore Baseball-($10) Whatever level of baseball or softball you want to track this app enables you to record the complete statistical breakdown of any game. It’s easy to use and it keeps the important data at your fingertips. Available on: iTunes iPracticeBuilder-($10) To master any sport you’ve got to get your training plan right. This app allows you to create drills and plans to cover multiple sports, share them with teammates or coaches, and access video coaching. Available on: iTunes Next page: Whats Around Town apps What’s Around Town Whether you’re dining in or want to find something fun to do in your own backyard, here are our favorite apps to help. Categories (Click on one to jump to its page): Entertainment Work and Organizing Security and Utilities Travel and Maps Fitness, Health, Sports What’s Around Town- Social and Chat ———— Dining In Allrecipes Can’t decide what to have for dinner? This app will make the call for you. Tell it what ingredients you have, what type of dish you’d like, and how much time you have and it’ll provide a recipe for your requirements. Available on: iTunes Evernote Food We count on Evernote to keep track of our important ideas and thoughts, so why not trust its sibling app with food? Evernote Food helps you stash away recipes and meals you loved so you can experience them again. Available on: iTunes Epicurious Epicurious possesses one of the biggest collections of recipes around. Save a recipe on the web and it’ll appear synced in the app. There’s even a built in shopping list so you can find the ingredients you need. Available on: iTunes Restaurants -and Bars OpenTable No time to whip up a meal at home? No problem. There’s plenty of restaurants around town waiting to serve you. There’s over 20,000 participating food stops and is the industry standard for getting reservations. Available on: iTunes Yelp We probably don’t need to explain Yelp to you, as it’s well known service at this point. But you should have the app so you can find places to check out, hidden gems around the city, and read reviews to avoid bad food. Available on: iTunes Zagat Zagat has been a standard setter for restaurant reviews for some time now. Acquired by Google in 2011, its digital presence has gotten better. The app offers reviews and Google Street View panoramas so you can places. Available on: iTunes Things to Do StubHub Nights that you spend sitting inside could become an experience in town. Check StubHub for cheap tickets to events and snagging some seats. You might catch a show you would have missed. Available on: iTunes SeatGeek SeatGeek is the curator of tickets across all mediums. It takes tickets posted on various sites, including StubHub and eBay, and helps you score tickets for the events you want to attend. Available on: iTunes Live City Events Live City Events is a great tool for day of discoveries. Spot an event taking place tonight that you’d love to go to? Send out a quick Facebook invitation to your friends through the app and meet up for the show. Available on: iTunes Places to Visit AroundMe You never know what’s going on just next door to you. Or at least you didn’t until you had AroundMe. Drop a pin anywhere on the map and watch it populate with events and happenings taking place around that area. Available on: iTunes Viator If you’re traveling and land in a city that is new to you, Viator can be your digital travel planner. It points you to tours and attractions to check out and deals and savings you can get to make the most of your time there. Available on: iTunes City Maps 2Go If you’re on an iPad that doesn’t have 4G service and you find yourself out of range of WiFi, just pull up City Maps 2Go Pro. It stores maps you might need for offline use so you can still get around while you’re not connected. Available on: iTunes Movies and Theater Flixster Flixster is a great app for looking up information about films. It offers Rotten Tomatoes scores integrated into the app so you can see what’s good and what should be avoided at all costs, and has movie times for all major theaters. Available on: iTunes Fandango If you want to reserve your tickets for a film before heading to the theater, Fandango is the way to go. This app is the difference between catching a film on opening night and heading home empty handed. Available on: iTunes iTunes Movie Trailers Apple offers its own app for watching movie trailers and it’s pretty handy. It shows you what’s popular, what’s in theaters near you right now, and when you can check out upcoming films that haven’t been released yet. Available on: iTunes Next page: Social and Chat apps Social and Chat Ready to do a little talking? These are our favorite apps for socializing, and blogging (if any of you still do that). Categories (Click on one to jump to its page): Entertainment Work and Organizing Security and Utilities Travel and Maps Fitness, Health, Sports What’s Around Town- Social and Chat ———— Chat and Texting IM+ This is a simple instant messaging app that lets you connect with all the major services from AOL to Facebook and send free texts, photos, video, and voice messages. Available on: iTunes GroupMe Here’s an easy way to handle group conversations and share photos and videos. You can also send private messages, and it uses your data connection or SMS, so you can always get through. Available on: iTunes Tango You can send messages for free with Tango. It also supports group chat and extra features like voice and video calls, games, photo sharing, and even music messages powered by Spotify. Available on: iTunes Social Networking Donde Donde is a visual shopping app that helps you find exactly what you’re looking for based on visual cues, colors, and pricing. Instead of having to know what a sweetheart neckline looks like to search for a dress with one, you simply tap on the picture of the neckline and other factors you want in your perfect dress. The app animates quickly and looks great on the big screen. Available on: iTunes Facebook The daddy of social networking is the most used app on mobile devices and the iPad version has a slick feel and look. Connect with your friends and family, share your life, chat and play games. Available on: iTunes Pinterest Creating visual bookmarks and sharing inspirational collections with others is a breeze on Pinterest. It could have been invented with the iPad in mind; the two go so perfectly together. Available on: iTunes Internet Calling (VOIP) Skype for iPad One of the original Voice Over IP apps and still hugely popular, Skype is a great option for iPad owners. You can engage in video or voice calls, share files, and send text messages. Available on: iTunes WePhone You can buy call credits relatively cheaply with this service and make calls on your iPad using your data connection or Wi-Fi. It also has a built-in call recording feature, which is handy. Available on: iTunes Blogging Coda If you ever engage in Web development, you’ll find this app invaluable. It’s a powerful text editor that supports every conceivable file format. You can work on pages with your website up in Safari at the same time, thanks to the split view support. It also allows for-easy file management and transfer, handy shortcuts to speed up your coding, and even provides-a full-featured SSH client built-in. It’s everything you need to manage your website. If you would prefer a simpler editor for your blog and just use Markdown, then check out Byword ($6). Available on: iTunes WordPress One of the most popular blogging platforms around, WordPress is behind a lot of websites and blogs (including Digital Trends). The app lets you to log in and manage your site, post articles, check notifications, and review stats. Available on: iTunes Blogsy-($5) If you want a versatile app to help you craft new blog posts on your iPad then you need this. It has solid integration with all the top blogging platforms and image sources, and all the editing tools you need. Available on: iTunes Tumblr You can quickly share anything with Tumblr including traditional blog posts, videos, photos, and links. The app supports multiple blog accounts, you can send messages, and you can schedule posts. Available on: iTunes Day One Every day is an adventure and you can record every moment in Day One, the award-winning journaling app. It automatically captures the context around your day while you add the story. Available on: iTunes



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