110 of the most groundbreaking, useful, well-designed and just plain silly iPad apps available for creatives...
Adobe Ideas
Price: Free
Developer: Adobe
URL: www.adobe.co.uk
Adobe's first - and so far only - iPad app is a basic sketchbook enabling you to quickly sketch out concepts and designs, as well as trace photos and sample colours from them. You can also export files in PDF format, ready to edit vectors in Illustrator.
Price: Free
Developer: Adobe
URL: www.adobe.co.uk
Adobe's first - and so far only - iPad app is a basic sketchbook enabling you to quickly sketch out concepts and designs, as well as trace photos and sample colours from them. You can also export files in PDF format, ready to edit vectors in Illustrator.
Air Display
Price: £5.99
Developer: Avatron Software
URL: www.avatron.com
A delightfully simple yet brilliant iPad app that enables you to use the iPad as an extra display for your Mac or PC - as long as you have a wi-fi network set up.
Although video content is unwatchable, it's brilliant for housing all your Photoshop palettes and generally
extending your desktop.
Price: £5.99
Developer: Avatron Software
URL: www.avatron.com
A delightfully simple yet brilliant iPad app that enables you to use the iPad as an extra display for your Mac or PC - as long as you have a wi-fi network set up.
Although video content is unwatchable, it's brilliant for housing all your Photoshop palettes and generally
extending your desktop.
Air Sharing HD
Price: £5.99
Developer: Avatron
URL: www.avatron.com
Air Sharing is a very cool app that enables you to share files over the air to your iPad using your local wi-fi network. You can mount your iPad on your Mac and exchange files (many file formats are supported) which you can then view, share, or print from the app.
Price: £5.99
Developer: Avatron
URL: www.avatron.com
Air Sharing is a very cool app that enables you to share files over the air to your iPad using your local wi-fi network. You can mount your iPad on your Mac and exchange files (many file formats are supported) which you can then view, share, or print from the app.
Cool Hunting
Price: Free
Developer: Captain Lucas, Inc
URL: www.coolhunting.com
An app that brings almost endless inspiration, Cool Hunting for iPad features design, tech, style, travel, culture, and food and drink related stories from the online magazine's enormous pool of contributors around the globe. It's an app worth checking at least once a day, and, best of all, it's free.
Price: Free
Developer: Captain Lucas, Inc
URL: www.coolhunting.com
An app that brings almost endless inspiration, Cool Hunting for iPad features design, tech, style, travel, culture, and food and drink related stories from the online magazine's enormous pool of contributors around the globe. It's an app worth checking at least once a day, and, best of all, it's free.
Air Video
Price: £1.79
Developer: Matej Knopp
URL: www.inmethod.com
Air Video enables you to stream videos in almost any format to your iPad (except those with DRM attached). You can stream over local networks or over the internet (including 3G). A nice app for checking files .remotely, or just helping you avoid filling up your iPad's flash drive.
Price: £1.79
Developer: Matej Knopp
URL: www.inmethod.com
Air Video enables you to stream videos in almost any format to your iPad (except those with DRM attached). You can stream over local networks or over the internet (including 3G). A nice app for checking files .remotely, or just helping you avoid filling up your iPad's flash drive.
Analytics HD
Price: £3.99
Developer: InBlosam LLC
URL: www.analyticsapp.com
Analytics HD for iPad gives you everything you need to track site visitor data via Google Analytics. See pie chart and list data on visitor recency, length of visit, depth of visit, where your visitors are from, what browser they are using and much, much more.
Price: £3.99
Developer: InBlosam LLC
URL: www.analyticsapp.com
Analytics HD for iPad gives you everything you need to track site visitor data via Google Analytics. See pie chart and list data on visitor recency, length of visit, depth of visit, where your visitors are from, what browser they are using and much, much more.
Animation Creator HD
Price: £1.19
Developer: Red Software
URL: www.red-software.com/achd
Featuring some very simple yet surprisingly effective drawing tools, plus the ability to quickly knock together
animations from scratch on your iPad, this is a very appealing app. Layers, frame positioning and rotation, onion skinning and more make it well worth the £1.19 asking price.
Price: £1.19
Developer: Red Software
URL: www.red-software.com/achd
Featuring some very simple yet surprisingly effective drawing tools, plus the ability to quickly knock together
animations from scratch on your iPad, this is a very appealing app. Layers, frame positioning and rotation, onion skinning and more make it well worth the £1.19 asking price.
App Designer HD
Price: £0.59
Developer: Nate Chiger
URL: www. ncappdesign. com
This is similar to the excellent iMockups, but a lot cheaper. However, this is entirely focussed on designing iPhone and iPod Touch apps. A wood-effect background coupled with an intuitive interface makes this an interesting app for 59p.
Price: £0.59
Developer: Nate Chiger
URL: www. ncappdesign. com
This is similar to the excellent iMockups, but a lot cheaper. However, this is entirely focussed on designing iPhone and iPod Touch apps. A wood-effect background coupled with an intuitive interface makes this an interesting app for 59p.
Artist's Touch
Price: £2.99
Developer: Artamata, Inc
URL: www.artamata.com
This is one of those apps that enables you to, without any real artistic ability, turn a photo on your iPad into a painting. It's a very easy process - select a photo {which the app turns into a sketch), select a medium (oils, watercolour and so on) and then paint over the photo.
Price: £2.99
Developer: Artamata, Inc
URL: www.artamata.com
This is one of those apps that enables you to, without any real artistic ability, turn a photo on your iPad into a painting. It's a very easy process - select a photo {which the app turns into a sketch), select a medium (oils, watercolour and so on) and then paint over the photo.
Buamai
Price: £0.59
Developer: Michael Young
URL: www.youworkforthem.con
From the stable of design firm YouWorkForThem comes Buamai, an app that draws random images from
the company's servers (posted by all manner of artists, illustrators, architects and programmers) and
presents them to you when you're in need of inspiration. Nice.
Price: £0.59
Developer: Michael Young
URL: www.youworkforthem.con
From the stable of design firm YouWorkForThem comes Buamai, an app that draws random images from
the company's servers (posted by all manner of artists, illustrators, architects and programmers) and
presents them to you when you're in need of inspiration. Nice.
ArtStudio for iPad
Price: £1.79
Developer: Lucky Clan
URL: www.iphoneclan.com/artstudioipadf
Another creative drawing and painting app, ArtStudio has an impressive range of features and is very inexpensive at only £ 1.79. Create art at up to 1024x1024px, utilise the 25 brushes on offer and use
filters to add effects to your sketches or photos. Worth a look.
Price: £1.79
Developer: Lucky Clan
URL: www.iphoneclan.com/artstudioipadf
Another creative drawing and painting app, ArtStudio has an impressive range of features and is very inexpensive at only £ 1.79. Create art at up to 1024x1024px, utilise the 25 brushes on offer and use
filters to add effects to your sketches or photos. Worth a look.
Brushes
Price: £4.99
Developer: Steve Sprang
URL: www.brushesapp.com
High-quality, customisable brushes, layers with blending modes, a great colour picker, zoom level of up to 3200 per cent, and a high-resolution export makes this a versatile and fully-featured painting app for iPad.
Price: £4.99
Developer: Steve Sprang
URL: www.brushesapp.com
High-quality, customisable brushes, layers with blending modes, a great colour picker, zoom level of up to 3200 per cent, and a high-resolution export makes this a versatile and fully-featured painting app for iPad.
C64 Paint XL
Price: £1.79
Developer: Felt Tip
URL: www.felttip.com
C64 Paint is a fun app enabling you to create pixel art in 16 colours - just like that of the Commodore 64. There are five different brush sizes and you can paint pixel by pixel. Both square and non-square pixels add to the authenticity.
It works like a paint program from the '80s, essentially.
Price: £1.79
Developer: Felt Tip
URL: www.felttip.com
C64 Paint is a fun app enabling you to create pixel art in 16 colours - just like that of the Commodore 64. There are five different brush sizes and you can paint pixel by pixel. Both square and non-square pixels add to the authenticity.
It works like a paint program from the '80s, essentially.
CameraBag for iPad
Price: £1.79
Developer: Nevercenter
URL: www.nevercenter.com/camerabag/ipadl
CameraBag enables you to simulate all kinds of different camera effects, directly on your iPad. From Helga to cross-processing to faded, tinted 70s effects, this is a versatile and well-executed app that is well worth the £1.79 asking price.
Price: £1.79
Developer: Nevercenter
URL: www.nevercenter.com/camerabag/ipadl
CameraBag enables you to simulate all kinds of different camera effects, directly on your iPad. From Helga to cross-processing to faded, tinted 70s effects, this is a versatile and well-executed app that is well worth the £1.79 asking price.
Chroma
Price: £1.79
Developer: Frederick Spencer
URL: www.chromaiscolor.com
Chroma is a lovely app for creating custom colour schemes. It enables you, through an intuitive interface, to
quickly create five colour swatch sets to use in your project. Nothing you couldn't do in Photoshop or Adobe's Kuler, but funnonetheless.
Color RGB
Price: £Free
Developer: Michael Boodle
URL: n/a
You might (and we stress the word 'might1) find a use for this app in your day-to-day creative workflow. Really, all it is are colour sliders with Hue, Saturation and Brightness and RGB values. Still, it could prove useful for colour matching in the field and then finding the RGB value.
Colors magazine
Price: £Free (in-app purchases apply)
Developer: Fabrica Spa
URL: www.fabrica.it
Colors magazine comes to life or iPad. It's free but you have to pay to download full issues. Still, for £1.19 you can get hold of Tibor Kalman's first issue, which you won't get for that price anywhere else.
Price: £Free (in-app purchases apply)
Developer: Fabrica Spa
URL: www.fabrica.it
Colors magazine comes to life or iPad. It's free but you have to pay to download full issues. Still, for £1.19 you can get hold of Tibor Kalman's first issue, which you won't get for that price anywhere else.
Color Splash
Price: £1.19
Developer: Pocket Pixels
URL: www.pocketpixels.com/ColorSplash.html
Another selective editing tool, this time limiting you to convert your images to black and white and then paint colour back in. It's a decent tool, but apps like Masque can do a lot more for only a couple more pounds.
Price: £1.19
Developer: Pocket Pixels
URL: www.pocketpixels.com/ColorSplash.html
Another selective editing tool, this time limiting you to convert your images to black and white and then paint colour back in. It's a decent tool, but apps like Masque can do a lot more for only a couple more pounds.
Dexigner
Price: £Free
Developer: Levent Ozler
URL: www.dexigner.com
This is a news app that delivers all the latest design news, events and competitions. Handily, you can search by location, meaning you can see all the exhibitions, museums and so on that are near you. For free, it's a nice app to have to keep on top of design-related news.
Price: £Free
Developer: Levent Ozler
URL: www.dexigner.com
This is a news app that delivers all the latest design news, events and competitions. Handily, you can search by location, meaning you can see all the exhibitions, museums and so on that are near you. For free, it's a nice app to have to keep on top of design-related news.
Corklt
Price: £1.79
Developer: Don Frehulfer
URL: www.cheivystudios.com
Corklt presents what can only be described as a virtual cork board, enabling you to 'virtually' pin up notes,
photos and docs. Pretty useful for putting together all elements of a project in one place, perhaps, but still a bit of a novelty.
Price: £1.79
Developer: Don Frehulfer
URL: www.cheivystudios.com
Corklt presents what can only be described as a virtual cork board, enabling you to 'virtually' pin up notes,
photos and docs. Pretty useful for putting together all elements of a project in one place, perhaps, but still a bit of a novelty.
Creative Juice
Price: £0.59
Developer: Shayne Wliite
URL: www.sareebrol.com
Creative Juice is all about relieving creative block. All it does is provide you with certain questions to get your brain stimulated (such as 'Imagine that you're watching yourself from above'). And that's it. If it was free then it could be a light-hearted way to strike up an inner conversation. But for 59p, you may as well go for a walk and get a snack.
Crop Suey HD
Price: £1. J 9
Developer: cbh mobile
URL: www.appingo.at/apps/crop_suey_hd
Forget the siliy name - Crop Suey is actually pretty useful. It provides a simple yet intuitive way to crop, straighten, flip and rotate your photos, using a grid as reference. Nothing flash, but easy to use and does what it says it does.
Price: £1. J 9
Developer: cbh mobile
URL: www.appingo.at/apps/crop_suey_hd
Forget the siliy name - Crop Suey is actually pretty useful. It provides a simple yet intuitive way to crop, straighten, flip and rotate your photos, using a grid as reference. Nothing flash, but easy to use and does what it says it does.
Desktop Connect
Price: £6.99
Developer Antecea
URL: www.antecea.com
This app enables you to connect to any computer, anywhere in the world - even via 3G - and control Windows, OSX and Linux. Very handy when you're away from home and need to see a document or file
that you've got on your home Mac or PC.
Price: £6.99
Developer Antecea
URL: www.antecea.com
This app enables you to connect to any computer, anywhere in the world - even via 3G - and control Windows, OSX and Linux. Very handy when you're away from home and need to see a document or file
that you've got on your home Mac or PC.
Drainspotting: Japanese
Manhole Covers
Price: £1.19
Developer: Remo Camerota
URL: www. whitewallstudios.net
A companion app to the Mark Batty book Drainspotting, this app is a series of photos of Japanese manhole covers. It sounds dull, but it's an exciting, refreshing and inspiring collection of images. Free would be nice, though.
Price: £1.19
Developer: Remo Camerota
URL: www. whitewallstudios.net
A companion app to the Mark Batty book Drainspotting, this app is a series of photos of Japanese manhole covers. It sounds dull, but it's an exciting, refreshing and inspiring collection of images. Free would be nice, though.
Dropbox
Price: £Free
Developer: Evenflow
URL: www.dropbox.com
Dropbox is a tool every creative professional should know about and use regularly. A free service, it enables you to store and share files with collaborators.
Price: £Free
Developer: Evenflow
URL: www.dropbox.com
Dropbox is a tool every creative professional should know about and use regularly. A free service, it enables you to store and share files with collaborators.
And this app provides access to your files on your iPad. Great for viewing your files on the move.
Echofon Pro for Twitter
Price: £2.99
Developer: naan studio, Inc.
URL: www.echofon.com
Although it's a paid-for app, Echofon Pro proves its worth on iPad, being a very slick, clean and easy-to-use Twitter client.
Multiple account support, along with easy access to mentions, direct messages and lists make it one of the most user-friendly twitter clients out there.
Price: £2.99
Developer: naan studio, Inc.
URL: www.echofon.com
Although it's a paid-for app, Echofon Pro proves its worth on iPad, being a very slick, clean and easy-to-use Twitter client.
Multiple account support, along with easy access to mentions, direct messages and lists make it one of the most user-friendly twitter clients out there.
Ego App
Price: £1.19
Developer: Garrett Murray
URL: www.ego-app.com
"You're important" is the tag line behind this app. That's because it aims to give you all the web stats you need about your various sites in one place - meaning you can quickly track the number of visitors you re getting. A lovely interface, and very addictive!
Price: £1.19
Developer: Garrett Murray
URL: www.ego-app.com
"You're important" is the tag line behind this app. That's because it aims to give you all the web stats you need about your various sites in one place - meaning you can quickly track the number of visitors you re getting. A lovely interface, and very addictive!
Evernote
Price: EFree
Developer: Evernote
URL: www.evernote.com
Evernote enables you to save anything - be it images, text or audio - and read it at any time, anywhere. Working with the free Mac/PC app and website, the app acts as a visual notepad. The developers
say it also acts as an extension of your brain, and they're not far wrong. A great app that can put an end to wondering where you saw that great image.
Price: EFree
Developer: Evernote
URL: www.evernote.com
Evernote enables you to save anything - be it images, text or audio - and read it at any time, anywhere. Working with the free Mac/PC app and website, the app acts as a visual notepad. The developers
say it also acts as an extension of your brain, and they're not far wrong. A great app that can put an end to wondering where you saw that great image.
FastFinga
Price: £1.19
Developer: Catalystwo Limited
URL: www.catalystwo.com
FastFinga is a neat app for quickly taking handwritten notes. The idea is simple: you write at full size and the app shrinks this and puts it in a tidy note format. Actually, this is quite excellent for £1.19.
Price: £1.19
Developer: Catalystwo Limited
URL: www.catalystwo.com
FastFinga is a neat app for quickly taking handwritten notes. The idea is simple: you write at full size and the app shrinks this and puts it in a tidy note format. Actually, this is quite excellent for £1.19.
Getty Images
Price: £Free
Developer: Getty Images
URL: www.gettyimages.com
If you're out at client meetings or wanting to browse stock images on the move, Getty Images' app could be the perfect solution. You can browse the company's 24 million images directly from your iPad. If you've got a Getty account and an iPad, and work with stock regularly, it's a must.
Price: £Free
Developer: Getty Images
URL: www.gettyimages.com
If you're out at client meetings or wanting to browse stock images on the move, Getty Images' app could be the perfect solution. You can browse the company's 24 million images directly from your iPad. If you've got a Getty account and an iPad, and work with stock regularly, it's a must.
Files2 HD
Price: £2.39
Developer: Byte Squared
URL: www.bytesquared.com
Files2 HO is essentially a file viewer for the iPad. It enables you to store and view files on the iPad, transfer docs to and from your Google Docs account and manage files on your MobileMe iDisk.
Price: £2.39
Developer: Byte Squared
URL: www.bytesquared.com
Files2 HO is essentially a file viewer for the iPad. It enables you to store and view files on the iPad, transfer docs to and from your Google Docs account and manage files on your MobileMe iDisk.
Filterstorm
Price: £1.79
Developer: Tai Shimizu
URL: www.filterstorm.com
Filterstorm includes a comprehensive set of tools for editing photos on your iPad. Pro-like features such as curves, colour correction, noise reduction, unsharp masking and good quality black-and-white conversion make it a very good value app at £1.79. You can also apply filters using a brush-based system.
Price: £1.79
Developer: Tai Shimizu
URL: www.filterstorm.com
Filterstorm includes a comprehensive set of tools for editing photos on your iPad. Pro-like features such as curves, colour correction, noise reduction, unsharp masking and good quality black-and-white conversion make it a very good value app at £1.79. You can also apply filters using a brush-based system.
FlickStackr
Price: £0.59
Developer: Carlos Mejia
URL: www.ipotit.jubilo.ca/ip/
FlickStackr is a neat app enabling you to browse Flickr and find inspiration - even if you're not a member. A great offline mode lets you still browse whilst not connected to the internet. Members can upload photos from the app, add metadata and more.
Price: £0.59
Developer: Carlos Mejia
URL: www.ipotit.jubilo.ca/ip/
FlickStackr is a neat app enabling you to browse Flickr and find inspiration - even if you're not a member. A great offline mode lets you still browse whilst not connected to the internet. Members can upload photos from the app, add metadata and more.
The Font Game
Price: £0.59
Developer: Justin Stahl
URL: www.fontgameapp.com
Although not a native iPad app, we just couldn't resist leaving this one out. Hours of fun await as you challenge yourself and your colleagues to name the font.
One to show off your supreme knowledge of fonts. Great value at 59p -it's a lot of fun.
Price: £0.59
Developer: Justin Stahl
URL: www.fontgameapp.com
Although not a native iPad app, we just couldn't resist leaving this one out. Hours of fun await as you challenge yourself and your colleagues to name the font.
One to show off your supreme knowledge of fonts. Great value at 59p -it's a lot of fun.
Font Book for iPad
Price: £2.99
Developer: Chen Xianan
URL: www.lazyapps.com
It's nothing to do with the Mac app of the same name, and it won't let you install fonts on your iPad to use in other apps. However, Font 8ook for iPad does provide you with a very nice way of previewing
font families, which you can add to iPad via iTunes file sharing.
Price: £2.99
Developer: Chen Xianan
URL: www.lazyapps.com
It's nothing to do with the Mac app of the same name, and it won't let you install fonts on your iPad to use in other apps. However, Font 8ook for iPad does provide you with a very nice way of previewing
font families, which you can add to iPad via iTunes file sharing.
Freeform
Price: £5.99
Developer: Stunt Software
URL: www.stuntsoftware.com
If you're after a solid vector drawing app on iPad then Freeform could possibly be the answer. Quickly create sketches, diagrams or other vector-based drawings with Oval, Rectangle, Line, Polygon and Star tools. There's also gradient fills, Pathfinder tools and much more. A nice vector drawing solution.
Price: £5.99
Developer: Stunt Software
URL: www.stuntsoftware.com
If you're after a solid vector drawing app on iPad then Freeform could possibly be the answer. Quickly create sketches, diagrams or other vector-based drawings with Oval, Rectangle, Line, Polygon and Star tools. There's also gradient fills, Pathfinder tools and much more. A nice vector drawing solution.
FTPOnTheGo Pro
Price: £5.99
Developer: Headlight Software, Inc
URL: www.ftponthego. com
FTPOnTheGo pro is an FTP client for iPad, enabling you to view and edit HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, ASP and other files on your server Perfect for those times when you're away from the studio but need to change a file
on your site (perhaps a client has spotted something!). Cheap at under a fiver.
Price: £5.99
Developer: Headlight Software, Inc
URL: www.ftponthego. com
FTPOnTheGo pro is an FTP client for iPad, enabling you to view and edit HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, ASP and other files on your server Perfect for those times when you're away from the studio but need to change a file
on your site (perhaps a client has spotted something!). Cheap at under a fiver.
Granimator
Price: £Free
Developer, ustwo
URL: www.ustwo.co.uk
Creating iPad wallpapers and sharing them is the name of the rather unusal game here, with the
developers at ustwo (profiled on page 36) providing a quirky app that enables you to choose a set of
images and spread them around a blank canvas to a cacophony of crazy sound effects. What's more,
you can create wallpapers with artwork from the likes of Rex Crowle and Pete Fowler by
purchasing 'artist packs' in-app.
Price: £Free
Developer, ustwo
URL: www.ustwo.co.uk
Creating iPad wallpapers and sharing them is the name of the rather unusal game here, with the
developers at ustwo (profiled on page 36) providing a quirky app that enables you to choose a set of
images and spread them around a blank canvas to a cacophony of crazy sound effects. What's more,
you can create wallpapers with artwork from the likes of Rex Crowle and Pete Fowler by
purchasing 'artist packs' in-app.
GoodReader
Price: £0.59
Developer: Good.iWare
URL: www.goodreader.net
A brilliant app for reading large PDF files, GoodReader is ridiculously cheap at 59p. Not only can you view PDFs, MS Office, HTML and Safari webarchives, iWork docs and more, you can also link it up to your
MobileMe and Dropbox accounts for maximum flexibility.
Price: £0.59
Developer: Good.iWare
URL: www.goodreader.net
A brilliant app for reading large PDF files, GoodReader is ridiculously cheap at 59p. Not only can you view PDFs, MS Office, HTML and Safari webarchives, iWork docs and more, you can also link it up to your
MobileMe and Dropbox accounts for maximum flexibility.
Graffiti NY
Price:£L19
Developer: Remo Camerota
URL: www.whitewallstudios.net
Graffiti NY is a great collection of images showing some of New York's best graffiti art. Whilst we'd like it to be free (it supports the Mark Batty book of the same name) it's a photo book of real interest.
Also check out the Japan version for the same price.
Price:£L19
Developer: Remo Camerota
URL: www.whitewallstudios.net
Graffiti NY is a great collection of images showing some of New York's best graffiti art. Whilst we'd like it to be free (it supports the Mark Batty book of the same name) it's a photo book of real interest.
Also check out the Japan version for the same price.
Graphics Designer ToolBox
Price: £0.59
Developer: devBot
URL: n/a
Developer: devBot
URL: n/a
We're pretty sure this should be called 'Graphic Designer's ToolBox'. Anyhow, this app has been conceived to help designers calculate resolution and quickly refer to standard paper and document sizes. It's nothing that a quick Google search can't cover, but as a quick reference may prove useful.
Gusto
Price: £5.99
Developer: Horse and the Rook
URL: www.horseandtherook. com
Gusto takes a very visual, project-led approach to managing your websites. It enables you to quickly download multiple files and folders from your FTP server, before editing them, previewing locally
and then uploading the changes. A slick app that enables you to work on your sites off line.
Harmonious
Price: £0.59
Developer: The Angry Robot
Zombie factory
URL: www.harmoniousapp.com
Another sketching app, this time at a very reasonable price. Harmonious attaches some nice textures to brushes and tools, and novel features like an organic undo - which leaves a mark on the sketchbook
even though you've 'erased it' - make it a novel and surprisingly good app for 59p.
Price: £0.59
Developer: The Angry Robot
Zombie factory
URL: www.harmoniousapp.com
Another sketching app, this time at a very reasonable price. Harmonious attaches some nice textures to brushes and tools, and novel features like an organic undo - which leaves a mark on the sketchbook
even though you've 'erased it' - make it a novel and surprisingly good app for 59p.
HelTweetica
Price: £Free
Developer: Felt Tip
URL: www.felttip.com
As you can probably guess from the title, HelTweetica is a Twiner client set in Helvetica. Clean and crisp, the interface enables you to quickly follow tweets, messages and mentions. Of course, with Twitter clients it's down to personal preference, but this one is particularly nice looking.
Price: £Free
Developer: Felt Tip
URL: www.felttip.com
As you can probably guess from the title, HelTweetica is a Twiner client set in Helvetica. Clean and crisp, the interface enables you to quickly follow tweets, messages and mentions. Of course, with Twitter clients it's down to personal preference, but this one is particularly nice looking.
HelvetiNote
Price: £1.79
Developer: Rage Digital
URL: www.helvetinote.com
"Death to Marker Felt" is the cry from the designers and developers behind HelvetiNote. This simple notes app sets everything in Helvetica rather than Apple's ghastly Marker Felt font, and also provides the ability to sketch and share your thoughts via email. Not essential, but very nice nonetheless.
Price: £1.79
Developer: Rage Digital
URL: www.helvetinote.com
"Death to Marker Felt" is the cry from the designers and developers behind HelvetiNote. This simple notes app sets everything in Helvetica rather than Apple's ghastly Marker Felt font, and also provides the ability to sketch and share your thoughts via email. Not essential, but very nice nonetheless.
Huddle
Price: EFree
Developer: Ninian Solutions
URL: www.huddle.net
Huddle is an app that connects to the online service of the same name, enabling you to share files, manage projects and organise virtual meetings. A personal account at Huddle.net costs £5 a month.
Price: EFree
Developer: Ninian Solutions
URL: www.huddle.net
Huddle is an app that connects to the online service of the same name, enabling you to share files, manage projects and organise virtual meetings. A personal account at Huddle.net costs £5 a month.
iAnnotate PDF
Price: £5.99
Developer: Aji, LLC
Price: £5.99
Developer: Aji, LLC
URL: www.ajidev.com/iannotate
Enabling you to add text notes, highlight, underline and draw on PDFs on your iPad, (Annotate is pretty useful for adding amendments to PDFs on the go. Tabbed PDF reading and a comprehensive search are two other neat features.
Enabling you to add text notes, highlight, underline and draw on PDFs on your iPad, (Annotate is pretty useful for adding amendments to PDFs on the go. Tabbed PDF reading and a comprehensive search are two other neat features.
Instapaper Pro
Price: £2.99
Developer: Marco Arment
URL: www.instapaper.com
With a million blogs, news sites and other web material to read...and so little time. Instapaper is a genius idea that enables you to read any part of the web when you want to. The idea is simple: save a page for reading later on using a bookmark from lnstapaper.com on your Mac or PC and then read it at your leisure on your iPad - all with lovely, simple formatting.
Price: £2.99
Developer: Marco Arment
URL: www.instapaper.com
With a million blogs, news sites and other web material to read...and so little time. Instapaper is a genius idea that enables you to read any part of the web when you want to. The idea is simple: save a page for reading later on using a bookmark from lnstapaper.com on your Mac or PC and then read it at your leisure on your iPad - all with lovely, simple formatting.
Ideate
Price: £2.39
Developer: EffectiveUl
URL: www.ideateapp.com
Ideate offers a number of templates, for designers, doctors, sports coaches (!) and fashion designers that enable you to sketch ideas quickly. You can bring images in as reference and share ideas via email, Flickr and more.
Price: £2.39
Developer: EffectiveUl
URL: www.ideateapp.com
Ideate offers a number of templates, for designers, doctors, sports coaches (!) and fashion designers that enable you to sketch ideas quickly. You can bring images in as reference and share ideas via email, Flickr and more.
iDesign
Price: £2.99
Developer: Samson Lopez
URL: www.touchaware.com
iDesign offers precision vector drawing tools for iPad. The icon-based touch interface is a nice approach, and the ability to set a background image to trace (with Bezier points) offers a good vector app for under £3.
Price: £2.99
Developer: Samson Lopez
URL: www.touchaware.com
iDesign offers precision vector drawing tools for iPad. The icon-based touch interface is a nice approach, and the ability to set a background image to trace (with Bezier points) offers a good vector app for under £3.
iDisplay
Price: £2.39
Developer: SHAPE Service
URL: www.shapeservices.com
Price: £2.39
Developer: SHAPE Service
URL: www.shapeservices.com
Like Air Display, iDisplay acts as another monitor for your Mac or PC And like Air Display you'll need to install a desktop app on your computer and have access to a wi-fi network. Useful if you have an iPad dock.
iDraw
Price: £5.49
Developer: Indeeo, Inc
URL: www.indeeo.com
A vector drawing app, iDraw for iPad is actually a pretty decent tool. Brush and pencil tools, shapes, layers, Bezier controls, gradients, support for text and the ability to import images (and rotate, scale and add transparency effects) make this well worth a look. You can also export to vector-based PDF for editing in Illustrator on your desktop or laptop.
Price: £5.49
Developer: Indeeo, Inc
URL: www.indeeo.com
A vector drawing app, iDraw for iPad is actually a pretty decent tool. Brush and pencil tools, shapes, layers, Bezier controls, gradients, support for text and the ability to import images (and rotate, scale and add transparency effects) make this well worth a look. You can also export to vector-based PDF for editing in Illustrator on your desktop or laptop.
iMockups
Price: £5.99
Developer: Endloop Systems, Inc
URL: www.endloop.ca
iMockups is designed to take the pain out of wireframing sites, apps and other projects - and does a brilliant job of it by providing all manner of templates to get you designing straight away. Brilliant for quickly expressing an idea to a client, or showing a potential collaborator an idea over coffee.
Price: £5.99
Developer: Endloop Systems, Inc
URL: www.endloop.ca
iMockups is designed to take the pain out of wireframing sites, apps and other projects - and does a brilliant job of it by providing all manner of templates to get you designing straight away. Brilliant for quickly expressing an idea to a client, or showing a potential collaborator an idea over coffee.
Instaviz
Price: £5.99
Developer: Pixelglow
URL: http://instaviz.com/
Instaviz is a diagram sketching app that takes your roughly-sketched shapes and turns them into slick diagrams, mindmaps or flowcharts. As you relink boxes or add new ones, the app intelligently reorganises them. It's a simple proposition, well executed.
Price: £5.99
Developer: Pixelglow
URL: http://instaviz.com/
Instaviz is a diagram sketching app that takes your roughly-sketched shapes and turns them into slick diagrams, mindmaps or flowcharts. As you relink boxes or add new ones, the app intelligently reorganises them. It's a simple proposition, well executed.
iRhino 3D
Price: £2.39
Developer: Robert McNeel &
Associates
URL: www.irhino3d.com
This is a simple app from the makers of Rhino 3D that enables you to view native Rhino 3DM files on the iPad. Sure, it's only going to be useful if you use this ace NURBS modeller, but if you do, it's a must-have add-on.
Price: £2.39
Developer: Robert McNeel &
Associates
URL: www.irhino3d.com
This is a simple app from the makers of Rhino 3D that enables you to view native Rhino 3DM files on the iPad. Sure, it's only going to be useful if you use this ace NURBS modeller, but if you do, it's a must-have add-on.
Marvel Comics
Price: £Free
Developer: Marvel
URL: www.marvel.com
Released at the launch of iPad, the Marvel app was somewhat of a revolution - bringing the comic giant's
huge range of titles to a new, digital audience. It's lovely to use - you can flick between pages or cells at will. The best part? There are loads of free comics to download.
Price: £Free
Developer: Marvel
URL: www.marvel.com
Released at the launch of iPad, the Marvel app was somewhat of a revolution - bringing the comic giant's
huge range of titles to a new, digital audience. It's lovely to use - you can flick between pages or cells at will. The best part? There are loads of free comics to download.
iSequence for iPad
Price: £5.99
Developer: BeepStreet
Price: £5.99
Developer: BeepStreet
URL: www.beepstreet.com
Featuring 160 built-in instruments, including drums, ambient sounds and acoustics, iSequence really is a fully-
featured music creation studio. Although it'll take some learning, once mastered this app can be used to record pro beats, loops and scores for your latest motion graphics project. Very inexpensive at £5.99 - and essential for anyone interested in creating music on their iPad.
Featuring 160 built-in instruments, including drums, ambient sounds and acoustics, iSequence really is a fully-
featured music creation studio. Although it'll take some learning, once mastered this app can be used to record pro beats, loops and scores for your latest motion graphics project. Very inexpensive at £5.99 - and essential for anyone interested in creating music on their iPad.
iThoughtsHD
Price: £4.99
Developer: CMS
URL: www.ipadmindmap.com
iThoughtsHD is a comprehensive mind-mapping tool, making it easy to quickly knock together ideas for projects or collect reference together. It also enables you to import and export to all the major mind-mapping tools, as well as email maps as attachments.
Price: £4.99
Developer: CMS
URL: www.ipadmindmap.com
iThoughtsHD is a comprehensive mind-mapping tool, making it easy to quickly knock together ideas for projects or collect reference together. It also enables you to import and export to all the major mind-mapping tools, as well as email maps as attachments.
Keynote
Price: £5.99
Developer: Apple
URL: www.apple.com
Apple's presentation app makes it's debut on iPad, and it's a pretty decent tool. It's got everything you'd expect to create professional-quality presentations. The only real downer is it won't open iWork 08
docs - meaning if you want to work on both iPad and Mac. you'll need the latest version of iWork installed.
Price: £5.99
Developer: Apple
URL: www.apple.com
Apple's presentation app makes it's debut on iPad, and it's a pretty decent tool. It's got everything you'd expect to create professional-quality presentations. The only real downer is it won't open iWork 08
docs - meaning if you want to work on both iPad and Mac. you'll need the latest version of iWork installed.
Keypad for Photoshop for iPad
Price: £1.19
Developer: Vatche Sahakian
URL:http://keypad.dopplerthepom.com/
An app that enables you to wirelessly control Photoshop using your iPad as a touch screen interface. Gives you quick access to Photoshop's tools and features. While it won't suit everyone, it's a very interesting idea and worth trying out for £1.19. There is also an Illustrator and Google SketchUp Pro version at the same
price.
Price: £1.19
Developer: Vatche Sahakian
URL:http://keypad.dopplerthepom.com/
An app that enables you to wirelessly control Photoshop using your iPad as a touch screen interface. Gives you quick access to Photoshop's tools and features. While it won't suit everyone, it's a very interesting idea and worth trying out for £1.19. There is also an Illustrator and Google SketchUp Pro version at the same
price.
KORG iELECTRIBE
Price: £5.99
Developer: KORG
URL: www.korg.co.uk
For only £5.99 you can get a fully-functioning KORG Electribe analog beatbox on your iPad! Beautifully-
designed, easy to get into and impossible to put down, this is one app that you'll just keep coming back to to create dance and electronic beats.
Price: £5.99
Developer: KORG
URL: www.korg.co.uk
For only £5.99 you can get a fully-functioning KORG Electribe analog beatbox on your iPad! Beautifully-
designed, easy to get into and impossible to put down, this is one app that you'll just keep coming back to to create dance and electronic beats.
Layers Pro
Price: £3.49
Developer: J Benjamin Gotow
URL: www.layersforipad.com
Layers is another fantastic digital painting app for iPad, with a very clean, intuitive interface. Excellent brush controls (although there's only 15 brushes), support for brush transparency, up to five layers and the ability to export as a layered PSD make it an OK painting app - although not quite up to the standard of SketchBook Pro and Brushes.
Price: £3.49
Developer: J Benjamin Gotow
URL: www.layersforipad.com
Layers is another fantastic digital painting app for iPad, with a very clean, intuitive interface. Excellent brush controls (although there's only 15 brushes), support for brush transparency, up to five layers and the ability to export as a layered PSD make it an OK painting app - although not quite up to the standard of SketchBook Pro and Brushes.
LiveSketch HD
Price: £1.19
Developer: Yan Robovik
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LiveSketch HD aims to make drawing on your iPad as close to drawing on paper as possible. Draw faster to make a thin line, slower to make a thick line. It's just a sketchpad (although version 1.1 did bring colours, email sharing and undos) but it's intuitive and inexpensive.
Price: £1.19
Developer: Yan Robovik
UBL :n/a
LiveSketch HD aims to make drawing on your iPad as close to drawing on paper as possible. Draw faster to make a thin line, slower to make a thick line. It's just a sketchpad (although version 1.1 did bring colours, email sharing and undos) but it's intuitive and inexpensive.
Masque
Price: £3.49
Developer. Ubermind, Inc
URL: www.masqueapp.com
Masque is all about painting effects onto your photos (Masque = mask, see!). First choose a photo from
your photo album, or Flickr or Facebook account, choose an effect (such as blur, black and
white or other colour effects) and begin painting. There's also gradient and invert tools - the latter reversing the masked effect.
Price: £3.49
Developer. Ubermind, Inc
URL: www.masqueapp.com
Masque is all about painting effects onto your photos (Masque = mask, see!). First choose a photo from
your photo album, or Flickr or Facebook account, choose an effect (such as blur, black and
white or other colour effects) and begin painting. There's also gradient and invert tools - the latter reversing the masked effect.
LiveView
Price: £Free
Developer: Nicholas Zambetti
URL: www.zambetti.com
LiveView is a very cool app. Eseentially it helps you design interfaces and iPad sites by putting an iPad frame on your computer screen and your computer screen on your iPad. This means you can quickly mock up concepts and see how they will work without any hassle. You'll need to install a desktop app, but
nevertheless, it's still brilliant.
Price: £Free
Developer: Nicholas Zambetti
URL: www.zambetti.com
LiveView is a very cool app. Eseentially it helps you design interfaces and iPad sites by putting an iPad frame on your computer screen and your computer screen on your iPad. This means you can quickly mock up concepts and see how they will work without any hassle. You'll need to install a desktop app, but
nevertheless, it's still brilliant.
Markup for iPad
Price: £5.99
Developer: Soroush Khanlou
URL: www.markupapp.com
Markup for iPad is a simple yet well-presented app that enables you to connect to your websites and edit text
files within them. You can also view jpegs, gifs, PDFs and iWork and Office docs hosted on your server. It's not a unique app by any means, but it does offer an elegant FTP solution.
Price: £5.99
Developer: Soroush Khanlou
URL: www.markupapp.com
Markup for iPad is a simple yet well-presented app that enables you to connect to your websites and edit text
files within them. You can also view jpegs, gifs, PDFs and iWork and Office docs hosted on your server. It's not a unique app by any means, but it does offer an elegant FTP solution.
Mindnode
Price: £3.49
Developer:
URL: www.mindnode.com
Mindnode is a neat app for quickly mindmapping and brainstorming - with a simple interface enabling you to easily create, link and rearrange thoughts in the form of connecting nodes. You can export your mindmaps as PNG files for use in another graphics app, if you so wish.
Price: £3.49
Developer:
URL: www.mindnode.com
Mindnode is a neat app for quickly mindmapping and brainstorming - with a simple interface enabling you to easily create, link and rearrange thoughts in the form of connecting nodes. You can export your mindmaps as PNG files for use in another graphics app, if you so wish.
miniSynth Pro
Price: £5.99
Developer: Yonac
URL: www.yonac.com
miniSynth Pro is a virtual analog synthesiser, giving you access to a plethora of top features including 82
sound presets, ten-finger multi-touch and the ability to have dual keyboards that cover the whole screen. It's a nice looking app, as well. Good value at £5.99.
Price: £5.99
Developer: Yonac
URL: www.yonac.com
miniSynth Pro is a virtual analog synthesiser, giving you access to a plethora of top features including 82
sound presets, ten-finger multi-touch and the ability to have dual keyboards that cover the whole screen. It's a nice looking app, as well. Good value at £5.99.
Moodboard Pro
Price: £2.99
Developer: A Tiny Tribe LLC
URL: www.atinytribe.com
This app is a simple creative tool that enables you to create mood boards on your iPad. Import images, add colours, clip images from websites, label up items and arrange everything how you like it - all in
the name of inspiration. You can share your boards with colleagues on Twitter, Facebook or by email.
Price: £2.99
Developer: A Tiny Tribe LLC
URL: www.atinytribe.com
This app is a simple creative tool that enables you to create mood boards on your iPad. Import images, add colours, clip images from websites, label up items and arrange everything how you like it - all in
the name of inspiration. You can share your boards with colleagues on Twitter, Facebook or by email.
Omnigraffle
Price: £29.99
Developer: The Omni Group
URL: www.omnigroup.com
At £29.99 Omnigraffle is an expensive iPad app. However, it's also very nice.
Enabling you to create everything from quick diagrams to flow charts, site mockups and export them as PDF or open them in Omnigraffle on the Mac to continue working, it's a very versatile app.
Price: £29.99
Developer: The Omni Group
URL: www.omnigroup.com
At £29.99 Omnigraffle is an expensive iPad app. However, it's also very nice.
Enabling you to create everything from quick diagrams to flow charts, site mockups and export them as PDF or open them in Omnigraffle on the Mac to continue working, it's a very versatile app.
OmniGraphSketcher
Price: £8.99
Developer: The Omni Group
URL: www.omnigroup.com
OmniGraphSketcher is all about graphs - and being able to quickly visualise data on your iPad. Draw freehand lines, import data from other apps via copy and paste, add text labels, colours shapes and more.
Price: £8.99
Developer: The Omni Group
URL: www.omnigroup.com
OmniGraphSketcher is all about graphs - and being able to quickly visualise data on your iPad. Draw freehand lines, import data from other apps via copy and paste, add text labels, colours shapes and more.
and then export your creations as PDF files (or open them up in OmniGraphSketcher for Mac). Great if you
have a concept to explain or data to plot.
have a concept to explain or data to plot.
Paintbook Layers
Price: £2.99
Developer: Sean Puckett
URL: http://paintbook.ca
Paintbook Layers is a vector-based natural media app - think of something like Illustrator's brushes on the iPad (only not as comprehensive). It's a little clunky, but one of the only apps that offers this kind of solution on iPad.
Price: £2.99
Developer: Sean Puckett
URL: http://paintbook.ca
Paintbook Layers is a vector-based natural media app - think of something like Illustrator's brushes on the iPad (only not as comprehensive). It's a little clunky, but one of the only apps that offers this kind of solution on iPad.
Phaidon Design Classics
Price: £11.99
Developer: Phaidon Press
URL: www.phaidon.com
Over 1000 design classics lie in wait in this excellent port of Phaidon's wonderful three volumes of Design Classics tomes. Searchable and easy to navigate, this is a must have reference app and is extremely good value at £11.99.
Price: £11.99
Developer: Phaidon Press
URL: www.phaidon.com
Over 1000 design classics lie in wait in this excellent port of Phaidon's wonderful three volumes of Design Classics tomes. Searchable and easy to navigate, this is a must have reference app and is extremely good value at £11.99.
PDF Reader Pro Edition
Price: £2.39
Developer iTech Development
URL: www.
itechdevelopmentsystems. com
There's no prizes for guessing what PDF Reader Pro Edition does - and it does it pretty well. You can download email attachments, search PDFs, bookmark pages, open password protected PDFs and more. Not essential, but useful if you deal with a lot of PDF files.
Price: £2.39
Developer iTech Development
URL: www.
itechdevelopmentsystems. com
There's no prizes for guessing what PDF Reader Pro Edition does - and it does it pretty well. You can download email attachments, search PDFs, bookmark pages, open password protected PDFs and more. Not essential, but useful if you deal with a lot of PDF files.
Penultimate
Price: £1.79
Developer: Cocoa Box Design
URL: www.cocoabox.com
An elegant, intuitive sketching app that enables you to organise notes and drawings into an infinite number of
notebooks. Choose between graph, lined or plain paper and then share your notes via email.
Price: £1.79
Developer: Cocoa Box Design
URL: www.cocoabox.com
An elegant, intuitive sketching app that enables you to organise notes and drawings into an infinite number of
notebooks. Choose between graph, lined or plain paper and then share your notes via email.
Photogene for iPad
Price: £2.39
Developer: Omer Shoor
URL: www.mobile-pond.com
Photogene is a very competent photo editor for iPad. Enabling you to correct red eye, tweak exposure, contrast, highlights, saturation, colour temperature and more (as well as add all manner effects and crop your artwork) it's a slick and intuitive way to edit photos on the go.
Price: £2.39
Developer: Omer Shoor
URL: www.mobile-pond.com
Photogene is a very competent photo editor for iPad. Enabling you to correct red eye, tweak exposure, contrast, highlights, saturation, colour temperature and more (as well as add all manner effects and crop your artwork) it's a slick and intuitive way to edit photos on the go.
PhotoPad
Price: EFree
Developer: ZAGG
URL: www.zagg.com
ZAGG, the developer of this app, makes iPhone and iPad protection skins and this app enables you to create custom skins for your device. It's actually a bit more than that though - being a decent enough image-editor with filters, the ability to crop and rotate and other basic actions. Not bad for free, basically.
Price: EFree
Developer: ZAGG
URL: www.zagg.com
ZAGG, the developer of this app, makes iPhone and iPad protection skins and this app enables you to create custom skins for your device. It's actually a bit more than that though - being a decent enough image-editor with filters, the ability to crop and rotate and other basic actions. Not bad for free, basically.
The Photoshop CS5 Silent Book
Price: £5.49
Developer: Magno Urbane
URL: www. addfone. com/ip hone/
This digital book aims to teach you Photoshop CS5 without writing or saying a word. It's an interesting concept and one that works relatively well - instructing you in common Photoshop tasks via a series of well-cropped screenshots.
Price: £5.49
Developer: Magno Urbane
URL: www. addfone. com/ip hone/
This digital book aims to teach you Photoshop CS5 without writing or saying a word. It's an interesting concept and one that works relatively well - instructing you in common Photoshop tasks via a series of well-cropped screenshots.
PixelMagic
Price: £2.39
Developer: BlackLizard
URL: www.blacklizardstudios.com
PixelMagic is a photo-editing tool, enabling you to add black-and-white, sepia and a range of other filter effects. It also enables you to tweak colour adjustments and add frames to your photos.
Price: £2.39
Developer: BlackLizard
URL: www.blacklizardstudios.com
PixelMagic is a photo-editing tool, enabling you to add black-and-white, sepia and a range of other filter effects. It also enables you to tweak colour adjustments and add frames to your photos.
Things
Price: £11.99
Developer: Cultured Code
URL: www.culturedcode.com
Manage your creative time with Things - a powerful task manager that enables you to manage to-dos by project and date, along with schedule tasks for the future. A raft of features is hidden behind a surprisingly simple interface.
Price: £11.99
Developer: Cultured Code
URL: www.culturedcode.com
Manage your creative time with Things - a powerful task manager that enables you to manage to-dos by project and date, along with schedule tasks for the future. A raft of features is hidden behind a surprisingly simple interface.
Popplet
Price: £2.99
Developer: Notion
URL: www.popplet.com
Popplet works like a mood board, enabling you to create diagrams, research boards and more and drag and rearrange elements at will. It's a nice-looking app and a lot of fun to play with. Try out the free Lite version first.
Price: £2.99
Developer: Notion
URL: www.popplet.com
Popplet works like a mood board, enabling you to create diagrams, research boards and more and drag and rearrange elements at will. It's a nice-looking app and a lot of fun to play with. Try out the free Lite version first.
Print n Share
Price: £3.99
Developer:
URL: EuroSmartz
Print n Share is a versatile, useful app that enables you to print wirelessly directly from your iPad. It also enables you to mount your iPad as a network disk on your Mac or PC and drag and drop files to
and from the device.
Price: £3.99
Developer:
URL: EuroSmartz
Print n Share is a versatile, useful app that enables you to print wirelessly directly from your iPad. It also enables you to mount your iPad as a network disk on your Mac or PC and drag and drop files to
and from the device.
Projector
Price: £8.99
Developer app4touch
URL: www.app4touch.com
Like its desktop counterpart, Projector for iPad is an excellent project management app. The app enables you to create detailed time schedules and organise, administer and monitor your tasks through an intuitive interface, and files created are compatible with the Mac version.
Price: £8.99
Developer app4touch
URL: www.app4touch.com
Like its desktop counterpart, Projector for iPad is an excellent project management app. The app enables you to create detailed time schedules and organise, administer and monitor your tasks through an intuitive interface, and files created are compatible with the Mac version.
Pulse
Price: £2.39
Developer Alphonso Labs
URL: www.alphonsolabs.com
Pulse is a fantastic, visual news reader app for iPad. It enables you to add up to 20 news sources to follow - meaning you can easily keep abreast of design and tech news. It looks brilliant and works equally as well.
Price: £2.39
Developer Alphonso Labs
URL: www.alphonsolabs.com
Pulse is a fantastic, visual news reader app for iPad. It enables you to add up to 20 news sources to follow - meaning you can easily keep abreast of design and tech news. It looks brilliant and works equally as well.
Sketch Hook Pro
Price: £4.99
Developer. Autodesk
URL: www.aulodesk.com
Using the same painting engine as desktop version, Autodesk's SketchBook Pro is a fantastic digital
painting app. Features include 75 brush presets, all manner of natural media tools, up to six layers
(including blending modes), 10 levels of undo and intuitive navigation controls.
Price: £4.99
Developer. Autodesk
URL: www.aulodesk.com
Using the same painting engine as desktop version, Autodesk's SketchBook Pro is a fantastic digital
painting app. Features include 75 brush presets, all manner of natural media tools, up to six layers
(including blending modes), 10 levels of undo and intuitive navigation controls.
Quill
Price: £0.59
Developer: Estella Touch
URL: www.estellatouch.com
Quill is a basic (although admittedly good value at 59p) vector drawing app, enabling you to work with Bezier curves, brushes and other standard tools. You can save your creations as SVG format -meaning you can open them up in Illustrator for further editing.
Price: £0.59
Developer: Estella Touch
URL: www.estellatouch.com
Quill is a basic (although admittedly good value at 59p) vector drawing app, enabling you to work with Bezier curves, brushes and other standard tools. You can save your creations as SVG format -meaning you can open them up in Illustrator for further editing.
Qvik Sketch Pro
Price: £0.59
Developer: Qvik
URL : n/a
Qvik Sketch Pro is a basic painting and sketching app, as its price suggests. For the price of a bag of crisps you could do worse though, as this app has a smart interface and some interesting tools.
Price: £0.59
Developer: Qvik
URL : n/a
Qvik Sketch Pro is a basic painting and sketching app, as its price suggests. For the price of a bag of crisps you could do worse though, as this app has a smart interface and some interesting tools.
Reeder for iPad
Price: £2.99
Developer: Silvio Rizzi
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Using a 'pinch to open' approach to RSS feeds, Reeder is a beautiful app to look at and use. It's fast, slick and extremely handy for keeping track of design and technology news (or any other kind of RSS feeds for that matter).
Price: £2.99
Developer: Silvio Rizzi
U RL: h ttp'.llreederapp. com
Using a 'pinch to open' approach to RSS feeds, Reeder is a beautiful app to look at and use. It's fast, slick and extremely handy for keeping track of design and technology news (or any other kind of RSS feeds for that matter).
Reel Director
Price: £2.39
Developer: NEXVIO
URL: www.nexvio.com
ReelDirector brings video editing to the iPad. A nice, iMovie-esque interface enables you to assemble, add transitions and effects to and export videos directly from iPad. We wouldn't be surprised if Apple released an iMovie for iPad soon, but until then, this is a very good option for this kind of work.
Price: £2.39
Developer: NEXVIO
URL: www.nexvio.com
ReelDirector brings video editing to the iPad. A nice, iMovie-esque interface enables you to assemble, add transitions and effects to and export videos directly from iPad. We wouldn't be surprised if Apple released an iMovie for iPad soon, but until then, this is a very good option for this kind of work.
WIRED
Price: £2.99
Developer: CondeNet
URL: www.wired.com
Causing somewhat of a stir when it was released, the WIRED app provided a glimpse into what
magazines could be like on the iPad. It's basically a slideshow of pages from the magazine, but it's
still very well presented (even if the ad content is very high). Expect it to get a lot better with time.
Price: £2.99
Developer: CondeNet
URL: www.wired.com
Causing somewhat of a stir when it was released, the WIRED app provided a glimpse into what
magazines could be like on the iPad. It's basically a slideshow of pages from the magazine, but it's
still very well presented (even if the ad content is very high). Expect it to get a lot better with time.
SimplyPDF
Price:£L19
Developer: eNATAL
URL: www.enatal.com
SimpyPDF is another one of the slew of PDF readers on the App Store. It does a good job of it - and has novel features such as being able to stack PDFs to organise them. A few bugs have riddled it of late, but should be ironed out by the time you read this.
Price:£L19
Developer: eNATAL
URL: www.enatal.com
SimpyPDF is another one of the slew of PDF readers on the App Store. It does a good job of it - and has novel features such as being able to stack PDFs to organise them. A few bugs have riddled it of late, but should be ironed out by the time you read this.
SketchyPad
Price: £2.99
Developer: Nick Golovin
URL: http://sketchyapp. com
Price: £2.99
Developer: Nick Golovin
URL: http://sketchyapp. com
Ever wanted to create website and app mockups on your iPad? Well. SketchyPad is the answer, providing a huge amount of stencils to realise your vision for your website or app. Rivals iMockup for functionality and usability.
SketchPad HD
Price: £0.59
Developer: Raizlabs Corp
URL: www.raizlabs.com
Avery simple, very cheap sketching app for iPad that enables you to quickly jot down visual ideas without any kind of complicated interface. Choose between white rules, yellow rules, graph or plain paper. You can also use the on-screen keyboard within the app and share designs via email.
Price: £0.59
Developer: Raizlabs Corp
URL: www.raizlabs.com
Avery simple, very cheap sketching app for iPad that enables you to quickly jot down visual ideas without any kind of complicated interface. Choose between white rules, yellow rules, graph or plain paper. You can also use the on-screen keyboard within the app and share designs via email.
Synth
Price: £0.59
Developer: The Retronyms
URL: www.retronyms.com/synth
At 59p Synth is definitely worth a go - being a polyphonic synthesiser with more than 40 instruments. It also features, a mod wheel, pitch-bend wheel, adjustable delay and distortion and a sampler so you can record and bend your own sounds.
Price: £0.59
Developer: The Retronyms
URL: www.retronyms.com/synth
At 59p Synth is definitely worth a go - being a polyphonic synthesiser with more than 40 instruments. It also features, a mod wheel, pitch-bend wheel, adjustable delay and distortion and a sampler so you can record and bend your own sounds.
Great fun.
Tweetdeck
Price: Free
Developer: Tweetdeck, Inc
URL: www.tweetdeck.com
Seen by many as the pro user's Twitter client. Tweetdeck is a mass of columns that you scroll across to access mentions, tweets and messages from different Twitter accounts. Version 2 will include Facebook and other social media integration, but version 1 is strictly Twitter only.
Price: Free
Developer: Tweetdeck, Inc
URL: www.tweetdeck.com
Seen by many as the pro user's Twitter client. Tweetdeck is a mass of columns that you scroll across to access mentions, tweets and messages from different Twitter accounts. Version 2 will include Facebook and other social media integration, but version 1 is strictly Twitter only.
TaskPaper
Price: £5.99
Developer: Jesse Grosjean
URL: www.hogbaysoftware.com
TaskPaper is a simple but very effective todo list app that gets out of your way - by having no interface clutter - and enabling you to get things done. A great balance of efficiency and features, and good value at under £6.
Price: £5.99
Developer: Jesse Grosjean
URL: www.hogbaysoftware.com
TaskPaper is a simple but very effective todo list app that gets out of your way - by having no interface clutter - and enabling you to get things done. A great balance of efficiency and features, and good value at under £6.
Thicket
Price: £1.19
Developer: Interval Studios
URL: http://intervalstudios.com
An unusual and addictive app enabling you to generate audio and visual black and white patterns. All you do is move your fingers over the interface to experience glowing scrawls and equally as hypnotic audio. It's a toy, sure, but one that can definitely help you relax and generate creative ideas.
Price: £1.19
Developer: Interval Studios
URL: http://intervalstudios.com
An unusual and addictive app enabling you to generate audio and visual black and white patterns. All you do is move your fingers over the interface to experience glowing scrawls and equally as hypnotic audio. It's a toy, sure, but one that can definitely help you relax and generate creative ideas.
TiltShift Generator for iPad
Price: £1.79
Developer: Art & Mobile
URL: www.artandmobile.com
TiltShift Generator for iPad enables you to throw your photos out of focus, adjusting depth of field settings to make your subjects look like they are miniature models or toys. A Japanese craze that is fantastic fun.
Todo for iPad
Price: £2.99
Developer: Appigo
URL: www.appigo.com/todo/
Like Things, Todo for iPad is an advance and slick task manager enabling you to plan your time and hit deadlines (both professional and personal ones!). Easy to use and at only £2.99 it's somewhat of
a bargain.
Price: £2.99
Developer: Appigo
URL: www.appigo.com/todo/
Like Things, Todo for iPad is an advance and slick task manager enabling you to plan your time and hit deadlines (both professional and personal ones!). Easy to use and at only £2.99 it's somewhat of
a bargain.
Toodledo - To Do List
Price: £2.39
Developer. Jake Olefsky
URL: www.toodledo.com
A todo list and task management app in the same vein as Things and Todo. Toodledo is a good solution. It enables you to do all the things you would expect - including setting the priority, start date, due date, lengthy and status of a task.
Price: £2.39
Developer. Jake Olefsky
URL: www.toodledo.com
A todo list and task management app in the same vein as Things and Todo. Toodledo is a good solution. It enables you to do all the things you would expect - including setting the priority, start date, due date, lengthy and status of a task.
Touch FX for iPad
Price: £1.19
Developer: TWA
URL: www.tarcolesfilmarts.com/softivare
Like Masque, Touch FX is a selective editing tool enabling to to work on part of your photo using your finger as a brush.
Black and white, sepia, darkroom and night vision effects are all here, along with the usual brightness, contrast and sharpen. Plus, you can layer effects.
Price: £1.19
Developer: TWA
URL: www.tarcolesfilmarts.com/softivare
Like Masque, Touch FX is a selective editing tool enabling to to work on part of your photo using your finger as a brush.
Black and white, sepia, darkroom and night vision effects are all here, along with the usual brightness, contrast and sharpen. Plus, you can layer effects.
Twitterific
Price: Free
Developer: lconfactory
URL: www.twitterific.com
An app that presents your mentions, friend's Tweets, lists and messages as a very simple list (or with minimal menu items, depending on the orientation), Twitterific is a favourite of creatrives everywhere. If it wasn't for the ads built-in we'd be using it instead of Echofon.
Typedrawing
Price: £1.79
Developer: Hansol Huh
URL: www.flickr.com/groups/
typedrawing Like type? Like drawing? Well, unsurprisingly Typedrawing fuses the two things enabling you to type out a sentence and then using your finger draw using those characters. A simple, fun app with 49 fonts available to choose from.
Price: £1.79
Developer: Hansol Huh
URL: www.flickr.com/groups/
typedrawing Like type? Like drawing? Well, unsurprisingly Typedrawing fuses the two things enabling you to type out a sentence and then using your finger draw using those characters. A simple, fun app with 49 fonts available to choose from.
TypoDesignClock
Price: £0.59
Developer: Katsushi Nakano
URL: www.katsushinakano.com
TypoDesignClock is a full-screen, lovely-designed typography-led clock that features 17 different colour schemes and the ability to view in portrait and landscape mode. Nice if you have a dock and pretty good for £0.59.
Price: £0.59
Developer: Katsushi Nakano
URL: www.katsushinakano.com
TypoDesignClock is a full-screen, lovely-designed typography-led clock that features 17 different colour schemes and the ability to view in portrait and landscape mode. Nice if you have a dock and pretty good for £0.59.
Voice Memos for iPad
Price: £0.59
Developer: KendiTech
URL: www.kenditech.com
This app enables you to record voice notes directly onto your iPad. Unlimited recording time, the ability to add text to memos, tag memos and email them to yourself or a colleague make for an interesting way of recording what was said in a meeting
Price: £0.59
Developer: KendiTech
URL: www.kenditech.com
This app enables you to record voice notes directly onto your iPad. Unlimited recording time, the ability to add text to memos, tag memos and email them to yourself or a colleague make for an interesting way of recording what was said in a meeting
WordPress
Price: £Free
Developer: Aulomattic, Inc
URL: http://iphone.wordpress.org
This free - and official - app gives you a quick and elegant solution for blogging or updating your Wordpress-powered site on the move. A simple interface enables you to create posts, adding location mapping, images and more, as well as manage comments. If you've got a Wordpress site and an iPad, it's essential.
Price: £Free
Developer: Aulomattic, Inc
URL: http://iphone.wordpress.org
This free - and official - app gives you a quick and elegant solution for blogging or updating your Wordpress-powered site on the move. A simple interface enables you to create posts, adding location mapping, images and more, as well as manage comments. If you've got a Wordpress site and an iPad, it's essential.
Zinio
Price: free
Developer: Zinio
URL: www.zinio.com
The Zinio app brings the company's library of digital magazines to the iPad. The ability to purchase in-app and a no-nonsense approach makes it a quick way to get hold of your favourite magazines.
Price: free
Developer: Zinio
URL: www.zinio.com
The Zinio app brings the company's library of digital magazines to the iPad. The ability to purchase in-app and a no-nonsense approach makes it a quick way to get hold of your favourite magazines.
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