With the new generation of iPad tablets, different degrees of pressure on the screen, and the Apple Pencil, you can do more and more things on Apple tablets. It's time to go back to the basics and look at the most necessary and best iPad apps... Below we will consider paid and free programs of various categories and, since there are many excellent programs, we are only looking at the tip of the iceberg, but this is the tip!
We have tried to present in this article the really best programs of 2017, not just the good ones.
Free Weather Forecast Apps for iPad
Yahoo Weather
Is free.
The program is free with a simple interface and no ads, which shows beautiful images as backgrounds and gives a no-nonsense weather forecast. The Yahoo Weather app is well adapted for iPad tablets, offering detailed forecasts, precipitation probability, cloud maps, temperature and pressure, and a host of other information.
Free access and good design make the program attractive to users, presenting a functional replacement for the stock iPad app. Works well on Android devices.
Wunder underground
Free.
If the usual amount of weather statistics is not enough for you, install Wunder Underground. This free program has nine different sections that you can click to get the finest details from different weather stations.
Users can select the nearest station and find out the most relevant forecast for their particular location.
Download the app from Google play.
Mail and calendars
AirMail
Paid. Price: 379 rub.
AirMail contains a modern mailing option for operating system iOS 9 with 3D Touch support. The program stands out for the ability to exchange content and options for editing letters, which makes it easy to work with attachments and a variety of files.
You can especially highlight the easily visible button that allows you to unsubscribe from annoying subscriptions. The program does Good work by organizing letters, it allows you to clean letters, mark and create new ones.
There is no way to download the application from Google Play, since it has been deleted.
Free.
Application Microsoft Outlook for iPad appeared after Microsoft purchased the email client Acompli, which previously released a mobile application for iOS and Android. Acompli was once the best by mail client since then it has been transformed into a new form.
Outlook for iPad can easily switch between mailbox and a built-in calendar, using a swipe to quickly delete, archive and write letters to the schedule, send large files. The program supports Gmail accounts and push notifications, which the stock mail application does not work with.
Download the app from Google Play.
Is free.
Sunrise Calendar integrates well with Google Calendar and other popular calendar services. The application offers a convenient view of the daily routine, birthdays of people from social network Facebook and events. It also contains information about the weather in the morning, afternoon and evening right in the calendar. Good visual style and high performance make the program one of the best for iPad in its segment.
The app has been removed from Google Play.
Content consumption
Tumblr
Free.
The whole point of the iPad is about information and personal use of the web. Tumblr is meant for just that.
True, over time, more and more ads appear in the application, but you can still find a lot of artistic photos, videos and texts here.
Download the app from Google Play.
Is free.
Pinterest is another multimedia app that looks great on big screen iPad. Content is pinned to the panel, allowing you to see more than when using this application on a smartphone.
Fast and smart, the app is a great image search platform as well as a storefront for new, extravagant themes.
Download the app from Google Play.
500px / Flickr
Free.
iPad is the perfect tool for photographers. It has an excellent balanced screen with beautiful colors for viewing photos. Images can be rotated, reduced, and enlarged as you see fit.
There are two great services for photographers that they often use almost every day: Flickr and 500px. Each has its own pros and cons, but overall they are great choices and have a community of users to help you get comfortable with each.
Download apps from Google Play - 500px and
Read about the 5 best photo editing apps for iOS.
Painting
Bamboo paper
Is free.
The new iPad Pro and support for the Apple Pencil open up a whole new world for creatives who can turn the screen into a canvas.
If you're looking for a great free drawing app, Bamboo Paper is one of the best out there, offering a variety of drawing and writing tools. The application gives you more freedom compared to others: you can fine-tune colors, control the degree of pressure and the flow of virtual ink.
Download the app from Google Play.
Price: 459 rub.
If you want to move up one level and get a more professional application, we recommend using Procreate.
The program cannot be called cheap, but given its capabilities, the money will not be spent in vain. Here you can make sketches, drawings, illustrations, for which there are all the possibilities: optimization for the iPad Pro tablet, canvases high resolution with 64-bit colors, permanent autosave, 35 customizable parameters for each brush, and the ability to create your own brushes.
Price: 149 rub.
Although this app lacks a number of features from the version for Mac computers, the program remains a powerful image editor and allows you to draw.
Support for iPad Pro and tilt Apple Pencil, various brushes, distortion options, and numerous effects.
Buy the app on the official website.
Free.
This modern application is filled with many small programs that will allow you to work on the color options, interesting shapes and sketches that are predefined here.
There are 8 different types pencils, markers and brushes, unlimited colors to choose from.
Download the app from Google Play.
The photo
Price: 299 rub.
Enlight is an extremely powerful and well-designed application that not only empowers desktop computers, but also makes it easy to edit images from the interface available. Blend photos to create double exposure shots, apply cool effects and customize the image to your liking.
Along with filters, custom settings are available, various tones, filters for turning photos into street paintings. You can draw, write directly on the photo, you have access to special effects through extensions.
Download the app from Google Play.
VSCO
Is free.
When it comes to emulating film, VSCO is the best application. Popular filter makers Lightroom have brought the colors of analog film to digital photography. VSCO is constantly updated mobile application and an absolute gem among iPad apps.
With a quick preview of the available filters, you can make changes to images and convert them to retro style. There are many filters available and more can be purchased through the in-app store for prices ranging from $ 1 to $ 9.
Along with filters, basic editing options such as cropping, sharpening, saturation, etc. are given. The same application can be used as a camera for photographing.
Download the app from Google Play.
How to reduce the size of a photo online or on a computer,.
Free.
Since the acquisition of Snapseed by Google the app keeps getting better. It has a wealth of choices and options to control and adjust parts of an image instead of the entire image, and is one of the best image editors on the iPad.
Keep in mind that the app is free and has no ads. It can be used to give bokeh and depth to images, and it has great filters and editing options just like Enlight.
Download the app from Google Play.
Free, but there is paid version on the official site.
This is a less advanced app, but fun and addictive. It allows you to freeze part of the image and color in another part, resulting in something called Cinemagraph.
Nokia has used a similar feature in their stock camera app on many smartphones.
Download the app from the official website.
Video
Free.
Video editing on Android is in a rather sad state and most applications do not support 4K, the rest often have a complex and confusing interface. On iOS, video editing is much more fun with free program iMovie.
Effects can be used, fast and reliable performance makes the program a must-have for all users who edit video on iPad. You can trim and arrange clips, mix and add music with pictures, export videos in 4K format.
Free download the program from the Apple website.
Quik (formerly Replay)
Is free.
Quik is another great video editor on the platform that automatically creates video clips that go with music, which is not easy even with more advanced video editors.
Quik also offers basic video editing options like iMovie and has a user-friendly interface. All this will come in handy for independent video producers.
It is not possible to download the application from Google Play, but it is possible on the website softportal.com
Reading and typing
Free.
The Amazon Kindle app is not the best program for reading, since theoretically there are options with more advanced options, but none of them is able to synchronize the user's books, give easy access to the purchase of new literature, allow reading on different devices and keep progress.
The Amazon Kindle looks great on a large iPad screen.
Download the app from Google Play.
Paid. Price: 379 rub.
If you need a second file viewer app PDF format and other books that for some reason cannot be opened by the Amazon Kindle, GoodReader will come in handy.
This app is for those who like to import books in extravagant formats, the program easily copes with opening even large PDF files.
Download GoodReader from the official site.
Free.
There is simply reading, and there is also news. When it comes to news, the Feedly app has taken the throne google program Reader. Fast and reliable, this news aggregator is easy to use and helps you quickly keep up with the latest news in the world.
The program can save selected articles for reading later, choose different methods of displaying news, such as a denser viewing with a large number headings or lots of pictures with text descriptions. In any form, this is one of the best news reader options on the iPad.
Download the app from Google Play.
Free.
There is no shortage of choices in the App Store in the scraping and typing segment. There are complex programs, and there are simpler ones like Google Keep. This simple app replaces Evernote with a clean, fast interface, an extremely user-friendly color-coding system that lets you choose the color for your notes on specific topics.
The application will allow you to sync notes on all devices with a Google account, read them on computers and others mobile devices.
Download the app from Google Play.
Utilities and file managers
Paid. Price: 379 rub.
In the category of utilities, we have two important applications, the first of which is Scanner Pro. This program is for scanning and saving the most important invoices and checks. You can take scanned copies and save them online, reducing your dependence on paper.
Download the app from itunes.apple.com.
Is free.
Documents 5 in the closed ecosystem of Apple iOS is most similar to a file manager. An intuitive and simple interface allows you to browse local files and folders.
Download Documents from itunes.apple.com.
Is free.
Since to file system iOS open no access, it is recommended to use cloud file managers like Google Drive. You need it to save files for free and even more files with a monthly subscription, providing speed and convenience.
The application works on the basis of the powerful Google search algorithm and is able to search disks in search of documents not only by name, but also by their content, dates and other criteria.
Download Google Drive from play.google.com.
Science and teaching
Paid. Price: 299 rub.
This huge category on iPad tablets, the choice is not easy to make. The first of the proposed applications is Space by Thix, which comes in handy for exploring outer space in a beautiful visual style. You can create your own asteroids, nebulae, comets, planets, moons, stars, pulsars and even black holes.
Experiment with gravity, supernovae, planetary collisions, and more. You can use the program to view small objects or look at the picture of the galaxy as a whole.
Download the app from Google Play.
Paid. Price: 699 rub.
This app will allow you to safely play with chemicals, test laboratory equipment, procedures and chemicals with complete freedom of action, without having to buy and then clean up. The perfect solution for testing, research, teaching and entertainment.
Download the app from Google Play.
Free.
DuoLingo has become the standard for language learning on mobile devices. The reason is a simple interface that lets you focus on four aspects of language learning, not one or two: you can focus on improving your reading, writing, listening and pronunciation skills.
The application saves the student's progress, you can study on different devices, the level of knowledge is analyzed. If it's tall, the app lets you go further.
Download the app from Google Play.
Free.
Last on this list is the Khan Academy app. This great initiative started with a teacher named Salman Khan. The application has all the necessary materials for a successful completion of high school, they can be viewed and studied through unique system, which forces you to assimilate the material before moving forward. This way you will know that you have learned the lesson for sure. There is mathematics, physics, art and many other subjects.
Download the app from Google Play.
Now you know which are the best paid and free apps for IOS can be installed on your iPad. Do not forget that it is better and safer to install them from play.google.com or the official websites of the developers.
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Apple hosted the Apple Design Awards at WWDC 2017. The awards were received by developers of applications for iOS devices, as well as creators of programs for macOS and tvOS. The list of laureates includes 10 services, as well as 2 student projects.
The competition was attended by developers of applications for iOS and macOS, which can boast of the most original design. Among the best this year were several games at once, as well as applications for learning, planning and some others. software products... Separately, Apple has selected two of the best student projects.
The best in the Apple Design Awards 2017 were named:
- by Ryan McLeod is a free puzzle game that changes according to the time of day, gyro position and device brightness settings.
- by RAC7 Games - a game similar to the classic "Lemmings" in which you can "cut" the game world to help the characters avoid obstacles.
- from Untame - a platformer in which you need to "destroy" parts of a shapeless character in order to move him around the game world.
- by Broken Rules - a puzzle game that uses the landscape features of locations to solve puzzles. Apple notes that this game was selected as the winner due to its "addictive gameplay, beautiful handwritten style and location."
- from Drinkbox Studios is an adventure game in which the player controls a one-armed warrior and fights with swiping gestures across the screen. Apple praised the game's soundtrack as well as its "intuitive and efficient mechanics."
- by Lake d.o.o is an illustration coloring app optimized for the Apple Pencil, as well as 3D Touch, Spotlight search and other technologies used in iOS.
- by Shiny Frog di Matteo Rattotti e C. S.N.C. is a note taking app that is also available for. Apple notes that the service is fast and has "simple design, great typography."
- from AJNS New Media GmbH is a video recipe app that is available for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV.
- from Cultured Code GmbH & Co. KG is a task manager that Apple has also praised for using gestures to manage records.
- by Clean Shaven Apps Pte. Ltd is a currency converter that works on iOS and watchOS. Apple points out that the app makes good use of gesture controls and also takes into account the user's location for clues about the desired currencies.
Have you bought an iPhone and are looking for quality apps? We have selected 15 for you useful applications that every Apple iPhone user should have.
One of Apple's biggest advantages over the competition is the large App Store, which contains a large number of high quality applications of all kinds.
Apple is known for its great design and therefore the app store is very transparent and easy to use, but since it has more than two million different applications, it is clear that many users, especially those who are new to the world of smartphones, have problems with success and finding useful applications.
For this reason, we have selected 15 very useful applications that will be useful for every smartphone owner of the company. Apple iPhone.
The apps can be downloaded for free, but some will use more advanced features and will be needed to buy the full version.
Top 15 best apps for iPhone in 2017.
Clips is an ideal application for processing recorded video. This makes it possible to cut some parts by adding different effects, text, filters ... Application developed by Apple and available for free download.
AccuWeather- if you are looking for a quality app to endure hard, you will find better and more accurate than AccuWeather. The app offers a variety of options when considering current and future weather forecasts, and is also compatible with Apple watches.
Google photos- a large number of Apple iPhone users are struggling with disk space shortages. WITH using google Photos app, you can store and view photos and videos in the cloud and thus free up space on your phone for new ones. Google offers 15 GB of free space for each account user.
Infuse- Apple's video player has been criticized for supporting to play a small number of video formats. It fixes the Infuse Player, which will allow you to view a large number of video formats for free.
Kindle is a must-have app that you must have for all book lovers. The app offers the option of buying a book, a great reader that allows you to change the background color, font and other details to read something more comfortable.
Uber- Recommendations for those who need to get across the city as cheaply as possible, but do not want to use public transport.
Google maps- although Apple offers its own app with maps, it's not even close to quality and also Google maps... This is one of the applications that you need sooner or later, and we recommend that you install them.
Swiftkey- tired of the built-in keyboard? One of the best alternatives is SwiftKey with which you can write large amounts of text quickly.
Spotify is the best service for streamnig music with a large database of domestic and foreign music.
Hearthstone is a card game that is very popular all over the world. Choose your hero and cards and try your hand against other players.
SoundHound- Do you want to know the author of the song that is played on the radio? All you need is to launch this application and it will take only a few seconds to learn the song and show you interesting details about the author.
DuoLingo- to spend free time doing something rewarding like learning a foreign language. This application allows mastering and learning the basic concepts of a large number of languages.
RunKeeper - great app fitness with integrated GPS and measure how much you run, distance, calories burned and more useful information to help you in your daily forms of maintenance.
Google translate- whether you are traveling to a foreign country or surfing the Internet, this application will quickly give you searches for a word or phrase from any language in the world.
IMDb (Internet Movie Database)- A must-have for all fans of the series and films. IMDb is the largest database containing all actors and their roles in cinema, a list of films and series with a description of actions and reviews and ratings of readers ...
