Applications for the iPad Pro that will make it a full-fledged workstation. Apps Every iPad Pro Owner Must Try Cool Apps for iPad

The iPad is one of Apple's major technological advances. A tablet computer that has no worthy alternative yet. The perfect device is made not only by excellent hardware (an excellent IPS screen, a battery that lasts 10 hours of video viewing, a powerful dual-core processor), but also by wonderful software. Very often on forums and social networks you can find the question “I bought an iPad, what to put?”. Below you will find useful iPad apps that we recommend. The list is not complete, please add your suggestions.

Reading the news

My main way of using the iPad is reading the news. There are a little more than enough RSS clients (both traditional and not so) in the eppstore. And they all look alike. Here's what I chose:

In my opinion, this is the best RSS reader right now. It seamlessly integrates with Google Reader, syncs read and unread news, supports almost all Google Reader functionality (you can share articles, mark with an asterisk, etc., but does not allow you to unsubscribe from the RSS feed from your iPad), allows you to save long and especially valuable texts in Instapaper for delayed reading. It is possible to send a link to Delicious, email, and other services. Reeder is clear evidence that Google is not doing very well with user interfaces: when you read news in Reeder, you read 2-3 times more notes, compared to reading through the web interface. [Overview | Download ($4.99)]

. Flipboard is a colorful journal for the iPad. You enter your Twitter and Facebook data, the program "sucks" all the links that your friends / friends / followers post and forms a damn attractive magazine out of these links. Flipboard has evolved a lot lately. Publishers' "channels" appeared here: the best newspapers in the world give out content in an already formatted form. Support for Google Reader has appeared: now you can read RSS in the form of a magazine. [Overview | Download for free)]

Zite. An ambitious startup has set itself a difficult task: to offer the reader only those articles that are of interest to him personally. Zite keeps a close eye on what you read and what you like. A lot of parameters are taken into account: topics that you prefer, your activity in social networks. Based on these "signals", Zite "layouts" the magazine for you. If you are a reader of Gizmodo, Engadger, Lifehacker, then you probably noticed that blogs write about the same thing every day. As a result, you have to read the same news several times. Zite actually solved this problem. Minus Zite - does not support Russian. [Overview | Download for free)]

Everyone faces the problem of lack of time. It happens that in the middle of the working day they send a link to an interesting, but long article, which cannot be read now. In this case, it is better to add it to the ReadItLater service (you can do this in one click). ReadItLater is not the only such service. Many people use Instapaper. In favor of ReadItLater, the following points can be attributed: the presence of a free version (the developer of Instapaper removed the free version from the App Store), lower cost of the paid version ($2.99 vs. $4.99), the ability to save multi-page articles (Instapaper does not do this for reasons of principle), brighter prospects (ReadItLater has received funding and is building a stellar team of programmers.) [ | ($2.99)]

The second most popular iPad usage pattern is chatting with friends. Everything here is quite simple and predictable:

There is still no official Facebook for iPad app. So the choice comes down to two things. Or use a browser, or one of the unofficial clients. Friendly is one of the most successful applications for active Facebook users. The program offers basic features: reading the news feed, changing the status, uploading photos from the iPad to a social network, chat. Friendly is available in two versions - paid ($0.99) and free. The last one shows ads. [ | ]

Twitter. Twitter is a very popular microblogging service and social network. Many clients have been created to work with him. The official application flaunts an interesting interface, third-party developments offer other features. For example, Echofon Pro ($4.99) automatically syncs unread messages between different devices (iPad, iPhone, Mac - never read the same tweet twice).

IMO.im. There are many instant messaging clients. I use different ones, there are no sharp preferences. I've been running IMO.im more often lately. This messenger supports not only MSN, Jabber/GoogleTalk, Skype, Facebook, ICQ, but even the exotic Steam (communication with gamers) and Vkontakte, popular in Russia. [Download for free)]

Skype- the official client to the Internet telephony service of the same name. Quite limited in capabilities, but happy with this. You can now make calls and chat with your iPad. [Overview | Download for free)]

Classmates. Odnoklassniki also has an official iPad app. However, it is far from ideal. It remains to be hoped that the developers will develop the program. [Download for free)]

Reading books and magazines

Basically, I use the standard Apple reader to read books. I download books (already immediately in epub), and I buy them. The Apple iBookstore bookstore in Russia is not yet working, so I use American accounts (I replenish my account with gift cards). [Download for free)]

Unfortunately, the iBooks Store library is weaker than Amazon's. Sometimes I buy books there. The coolest thing is that the book is in the iPad within a minute after purchase. In this way, e-books compare favorably with paper ones (hello, Russian Post!). [Download for free)]

Zinio. Client to the service of the same name. Allows you to buy/subscribe to glossy magazines. I haven’t been using it lately, but I included it in the selection - the service is useful. [Download for free)]

Education

The iPad is great for self-education. I use the following apps:

TED. TED (stands for Technology Entertainment and Design) is the most prominent example of edutainment, a form of entertainment that seeks to educate and educate. Among the speakers of the TED conference are Nobel laureates, famous politicians, stars. They talk about common problems, offer their own solutions. Many people pay thousands of dollars for the right to listen to TED lectures. However, over time, videos are posted online for free. The official TED for iPad app offers access to a huge archive. You can even download the video in advance to watch it on the go, for example. It is also worth paying attention to the TED+SUB application. This program allows you to watch videos with subtitles.

Star Walk And solar walk. The Novosibirsk company VITO Technology is developing electronic "space encyclopedias". The Star Walk program is a digital planetarium. This is the best astronomy guide available for iPad. Solar Walk is dedicated to the planets of the solar system. Both programs are performed at a high level. Novosibirsk even won an Apple Design Award for their developments. [Star Walk ($4.99) | Solar Walk ($2.99)]

MoMA AB EX NY. I am far from art (I'm not proud of it at all), but I downloaded the application. I wanted to see what a program released by one of the leading museums in the world looks like. MoMA offers access to a small part of its collection of works by artists of the Abstract Expressionist school. Photos of paintings are given in high resolution. They can be "approximated" by looking at the details. Many of the paintings are accompanied by audio commentary by the museum's curator. There are several videos that explain the basics of art, drawing techniques, basic terms. [Download for free)]

As a child, we do not like chemistry, preferring physics. However, if I had such an application then, everything could have turned out differently. The Elements is a reimagined periodic table of elements. Interactive textbook about chemical elements. Colorful illustrations, a huge amount of valuable information fade somewhat against the background of the fact that there is no Russian language. [Download ($13.99])

You can read Wikipedia, of course, without any applications. But aesthetically, Wikipedia articles don't look very good. All these endless footnotes are useful to researchers. And when you just want to read articles from the encyclopedia, there is little sense from them. Articles turns the wiki into an encyclopedia that is a pleasure to read. The application once won the Apple Design Award, and deservedly so. [Download ($4.99)]

Skeleton System Pro II. The 3D4Medical company is engaged in the release of applications that help to better understand the human structure. The programs of this company use 3D visualization. As a result, every organ, every vertebra can be examined. [Download ($19.99)]

Job

A simple application for writing texts. The main "trick" is the synchronization of documents between devices using the Dropbox service. Support for the Russian language and free of charge make the program attractive at all. [Download for free)]

iWork. For those who need more text editing options, who need documenting tools, the iWork suite of applications is worth checking out. Numbers, Keynote, and Pages are available on the App Store for $10 per app. [numbers | Pages | Keynote]

For iPad/Wunderlist. You can not ignore the topic of task managers. There are many of them for the iPad. The most advanced, in my opinion, is Omnifocus. The main advantage of the application is the Forecast mode, which shows your employment for the next week. Parting with $40 for a task manager is not easy. As a free alternative, I can recommend Wunderlist, which is available for iPad, iPhone, OS X, Windows and Android (note the presence of "cloud" synchronization). [ ($39.99) | Wunderlist (Free)]

Evernote has a pretty good iPad version. You can make text and audio notes, all data is synchronized between different devices. [Download for free)]

Video viewing

OPlayer HD. Watching videos on an iPad isn't exactly easy. If you want to watch a video that is not encoded in H.264, then the files will have to be re-encoded. But there is a second option - to use a player on the iPad that understands different file formats and codecs. There are really a lot of players that promise to play absolutely everything in the App Store. Most of them either have a monstrous interface (just a disaster), or do not have some important functionality. As a result, if you need to upload some video file with one track and no subtitles to your iPad, then you should pay attention to Azul ($1.99). You won't waste time recoding. If you want to be able to switch between tracks and subtitles on the fly, then you should purchase OPlayer HD ($4.99).

air video. If the computer (it doesn't matter, Mac or PC) is constantly running, then you can broadcast video from it directly to the iPad. This is convenient because you do not need to convert the video. For example, at breakfast you can watch a new episode of The Big Bang Theory. You can organize such a broadcast using Air Video. The program is installed on the computer and on the iPad. There is a free version. A very handy app. [Air Video Free | air video]

IMDb for iPad. I love cinema, I rate the films I have watched on IMDb, there is also a watchlist - a list of films that I would like to see. The IMDb app is one reason to love the service. Simple, convenient, functional, free. [

We got acquainted with the hardware of the Apple iPad Pro. We found out that this is the most productive tablet based on an ARM processor, equipped with a great screen and a capacious battery. But we also said that because of its size, the iPad Pro has a different use case than the iPad Air. In the second part of the article, we will analyze these scenarios in detail on the example of specific applications, as well as examine branded accessories for the iPad Pro - the Apple Pencil stylus, case and cover.

Accessories

At the presentation of the iPad Pro, along with the tablet itself, two very interesting accessories were presented: the Apple Pencil stylus and the Smart Keyboard cover. In the US, they went on sale at the same time as the iPad Pro itself, but here the Apple Pencil was delayed for about a week and a half, and the Smart Keyboard cover still hasn’t arrived (and definitely won’t be until the New Year).

For this reason, we were only able to briefly get acquainted with the Smart Keyboard. In general, this is a hybrid cover and keyboard, that is, it can be closed so that it completely covers the screen, like a cover, or you can open and place the iPad Pro on it at an angle - to make it look like an open laptop. It is for connecting the keyboard on the tablet that there are contacts on the left side.

There is one more position: in it, the keyboard part is at the back, holding the tablet at an angle convenient for watching videos.

Thus, the Smart Keyboard completely replaces the regular cover, although it does make the tablet a little thicker. As for the convenience of the keys themselves, during the few minutes that we held the Smart Keyboard in our hands, the key travel seemed very comfortable to us, as well as the coating material. However, the keys themselves are still a little smaller than standard notebook ones, although the distance between them is quite sufficient, reducing the likelihood of touching the adjacent key.

Again, the Smart Keyboard is not yet on sale, but any Bluetooth keyboard, including the Magic Keyboard, can be used as an external keyboard with the iPad Pro. In addition, there are already third-party solutions similar to the Smart Keyboard (for example, Logitech).

If you still want a branded accessory, then you can take a regular cover (without a keyboard). It costs about 5,000 rubles and protects the screen of the device, unlocks it when opened, and also allows you to conveniently set the tablet on the table at various angles.

The cover is only available in two colors - dark gray and white. The same colors are available for the silicone case. It costs more - almost 6600 rubles.

The cover can be used in conjunction with the cover, as in the photo below. However, one must be prepared for the fact that in this embodiment, the device will become significantly more bulky and will no longer be perceived as thin.

However, of all branded accessories, of course, the Apple Pencil is of the greatest interest. And we will focus on it.

The news that Apple would release a stylus was perceived by the company's fans ambiguously: everyone remembered how Steve Jobs did not like styluses and how he mocked them at the presentation of the first iPhone. However, unlike the iPhone and previous iPads, the new iPad Pro is positioned as a professional device, including those intended for designers, artists, etc. And here you can’t do without a stylus.

The stylus is sold separately, for 7790 rubles. Not cheap? Yes indeed. However, of all the tablet styluses we've come across (we don't use professional Wacom tablets these days), this one is the most comfortable. Therefore, it deserves to be considered as a separate product (which, in fact, it is).

The stylus is packaged in a white oblong box, inside which, in addition to it, there are information leaflets and a spare cap and tip.

The stylus itself is quite thin (maybe a little thicker than a regular ballpoint pen), its body is made of white glossy plastic except for the tip of the rod, the rim around the base of the cap and the plug for connecting to the iPad. The plastic is quite pleasant to the touch, it is comfortable to hold the stylus in your hand.

If we open the cap, we will find a Lightning plug under it. This plug is needed to connect the stylus to the iPad Pro. Just insert the stylus into the Lightning connector on the iPad Pro and it starts charging (there is a battery inside the stylus). Moreover, in order to be able to work for several hours, it is enough to hold the stylus connected to the iPad for only half a minute.

In addition to recharging, connecting the stylus to the iPad Pro is necessary for them to “make friends”. That is, when you pull out the stylus you just bought, you need to insert it into the iPad Pro in order to establish a connection between them.

At the other end of the stylus is a metal rod covered with a plastic tip. And here we come to very important things. The fact is that the stylus recognizes not only the force of pressing, but also the angle of contact with the tablet. In addition to this, you can hold it not only near the rod, as we usually hold a pen, but also closer to the cap, like a pencil when hatching. This is a valuable moment for artists.

Let's give some examples. For simplicity and clarity, all of them will be done in Notes, a preinstalled application that, starting with iOS 9, also received drawing capabilities.

It's just handwriting. Yes, the author's handwriting is sloppy. But believe me, it is no better with a regular ballpoint or gel pen :) In fact, writing by hand with the Apple Pencil is quite convenient - there is almost no delay between the touch of the stylus on the screen and the appearance of a line (at least it is not felt) . The only not very pleasant feeling is the rather “slippery” glass surface. That is, there is no that characteristic "clutch" as in the case of ordinary paper. But, I repeat, this does not cause much discomfort, and, most importantly, even despite this feeling of slipping, you still manage to write in almost the same handwriting as on paper (although at first it is unusual, and sometimes you have to make some efforts to make the letters were readable).

Another example: pencil shading. Instead of a tool imitating a pen, we chose a “pencil”, took the stylus higher and made these wide translucent lines with a wide brush gesture. And then, taking the pencil closer to the rod and working with smaller gestures, they drew the usual thin lines on top.

Now we take a "felt pen" and draw a regular line first, and then make a very small angle between the stylus and the screen, thickening the line.

This whole line was drawn without taking the stylus off the screen, it is continuous.

Despite its convenience and visibility in terms of demonstrating new features, Notes is certainly not a professional tool. But the iPad Pro already has apps that artists, illustrators, and designers can use. We will talk about them in the next part of the article.

Apps for iPad Pro

So, we smoothly moved on to the topic of applications for the iPad Pro. We immediately note two points. First of all, all the apps that worked fine on other iPads will work correctly on the iPad Pro. That is, the creators of applications do not have to optimize them somehow. During the use of the iPad Pro (several weeks), we were not able to find a single application that would crash or somehow display incorrectly. However, since the screen area of the iPad Pro is much larger than that of the iPad Air, the question arises of changing the application interface so that the elements do not look too large and auxiliary icons, menus, etc. do not take up much space from the main content. And this is the problem so far (this is the second point that is worth considering). For some reason, even the largest developers, for the most part, have not moved yet and have not optimized the interface for the iPad Pro. As a result, for example, extremely inconvenient Facebook and Vkontakte clients, terrible YouTube, etc. That is, all this is tolerable, but you get less pleasure from using them. So, when buying an iPad Pro, be prepared for the fact that many familiar applications will not look as good as we would like. However, there will be no ladders and other artifacts that could be observed with an increase in resolution. What's more, Apple has achieved perfect font scaling, meaning text always looks smooth even if the app isn't optimized for the iPad Pro.

In this section of the article, we'll provide examples of successful apps that not only look good on the iPad Pro screen, but also allow you to unlock its potential and see the benefits of the big screen.

Procreate and Adobe Sketch

Perhaps the most powerful drawing package for the iPad Pro is Procreate. The application is paid, but its capabilities are very wide. Even working with layers is supported.

Less functional, but free and very convenient sketch application - .

We will not talk about these applications in detail and will give the floor to professional 2D illustrator Yuri ’Yarrow’ Vishnyakov, whom we invited to our studio, gave an iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil stylus and asked to work in Adobe Sketch and Procreate. His impressions, the process of work and the final result - on the video!

However, iPad Pro will be of interest not only to those who create, but also to those who study art or talk about it. Here are just two of the most impressive examples.

Second Canvas Museo del Prado

Last year, the Prado Museum of Fine Arts in Madrid released the Second Canvas application, which featured selected masterpieces from the museum's collection (paintings by Dürer, Leonardo, Bosch, etc.). The main difference between this application and many other collections of art reproductions (of which there are many in the App Store) is that all the paintings here were presented in huge resolution.

The app also looks great on a regular iPad, but there you have to choose: either you see only a fragment of the image (but in all details), or the whole picture (but without details). On iPad Pro, you can open an image in full screen and see plenty of detail without sacrificing the overall experience.

Artsy

An excellent free application for connoisseurs of contemporary art - . This is a constantly updated catalog of auctions, with the help of which collectors can place bids or request information about paintings of interest, and art lovers of the XX-XXI centuries can track works of their favorite artists from small galleries and private collections (that is, something that you simply cannot find on the Internet , because things are little known).

Like the Prado Museum app, Artsy allows you to see paintings in a fairly good resolution, significantly higher than the resolution of the iPad Air. Therefore, iPad Pro will be the most convenient and enjoyable way to explore the Artsy catalog and immerse yourself in the world of contemporary art.

In general, if you love fine arts or, moreover, work in a field related to it (for example, you give lectures about art, you are engaged in dealer activities, you are related to galleries, etc.), then iPad Pro will be the most convenient for you. tool. In fact, it is the first mobile tablet to approach the size of A4, the most common format for art albums.

Solar Walk 2

Of course, not only applications related to painting, but also any applications in which visual material plays a dominant role (provided that this material is presented in the application itself in a sufficiently high resolution) will benefit from the increased screen size. For example, in Complete Anatomy, medical students will be able to most clearly familiarize themselves with the structure of the human body (including individual muscles, bones, etc.), and those who are involved in astronomy or are simply interested in space will certainly be delighted with Solar Walk 2.

Here we can see 3D models of space bodies (planets, stars, comets, etc.) based on real photographs, as well as learn all sorts of details about them.

Of course, you need to understand that all of the listed applications are great on the iPad Air. But it is on the iPad Pro that they look optimal and allow you to study the content presented in them with maximum convenience and pleasure.

To end the conversation about apps, the benefits of the iPad Pro are clear in regular Microsoft Office as well - especially in Excel, where you can see a lot more data on one screen, but also in Word. In addition, the dual-window mode introduced in iOS 9 is the most reasonable and useful on the iPad Pro (we can assume that few used it on previous iPads).

Games

A somewhat less unambiguous situation with games. It seems that this is an area that, at first glance, should also definitely benefit from a larger screen, but in practice, not everything turns out to be so simple.

Let's start with the most obvious examples. Of course, board games look great on the iPad Pro: chess, backgammon, checkers, solitaire. This is especially valuable if you want to play the game with someone together (i.e. use the tablet just as a convenient replacement for traditional inventory). So, iPad Air was still too small compared to a regular chessboard to be perceived in such a role. iPad Pro is another matter.

The second genre, which is also definitely more convenient and beautiful on the iPad Pro, is Tower Defense. Since the basis of this genre is small turrets, cannons and the like, with an increase in the size of the display, all this becomes clearer, more expressive, and, in the end, easier to manage. A good example is Anomaly Defenders.

Do you have a small child? Do you play tablet games with him? Then the iPad Pro is also worth a closer look. For example, there is an excellent project Botanicula, which children are delighted with (and many adults too).

It can be played with a child, and for such a pastime, the iPad Pro is optimally sized, while the iPad Air is small. Any small objects, as in the mentioned game (there are a lot of spider bugs, goats and other elements that are not even immediately noticeable), are better visible on the iPad Pro, and since they are larger, the eyes get tired less.

In the puzzle genre, the iPad Pro is generally very comfortable to use. But there is not always a noticeable difference with the iPad Air. For example, in Botanicula - there is, in Room Three, where there are a lot of details (all sorts of gears, bolts, levers, etc.) - too, in Monument Valley on the iPad Pro you can see the whole building, which is also great. But in Shadowmatic - does it matter if you rotate the object on the screen more or less? Although the iPad Pro has no drawbacks here either.

We have listed several game genres. Notice what they all have in common? The fact that during the game process the tablet lies on your table or on your lap. You do not need to hold it in your hands while hanging, these games do not use the accelerometer and gyroscope. Much more difficult - with those games where these hardware elements are involved, and, therefore, the tablet must be kept on weight. Let's say racing.

Specifically in the case of the iPad Pro, this will be useful, for example, when using professional applications available only on Mac. For example, you can open full-fledged Adobe Photoshop on your iPad Pro through your Mac. But here you should immediately be prepared for several problems. For starters, the picture on the iPad Pro for some reason turns out to be not clear enough, unclear - this is clearly visible in the fragments of two screenshots. The first screenshot is a site opened in Safari on a Mac (and the screenshot was taken there), and the second is the same page, but opened through an iPad Pro connected to a Mac remotely. Click to see the originals.

Apparently, the application does not yet use the large resolution of the iPad Pro (or does not use it quite as it should). But, according to company representatives, the developers are aware of this and are working to solve the problem.

The second problem with Parallels Access is the lack of stability and smoothness. But this is already a general problem, not only for the iPad Pro. Of course, the iPad Pro solves another major problem: those parts of Mac programs that looked too small on the iPad Air look almost the same here as they did on the 13-inch MacBook Pro or MacBook Air. But it is probably premature to expect that you will run Adobe Photoshop on a Mac and have a full-fledged working tool on your iPad Pro, although no one bothers to experiment in this direction.

conclusions

Of course, within the framework of one article it is impossible to consider at least most of the categories of applications. As well as it is impossible to give recommendations for all professions and specialties. That is, this is not a holistic guide, but rather touches and specific examples that are designed to show you the possible advantages and disadvantages of the iPad Pro. And only by supplementing this review with reflections on your forms of working with a tablet, you can conclude whether you need an iPad Pro and why.

If we briefly summarize the above, we get the following picture: for artists / illustrators / designers, the iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil stylus is an excellent mobile platform, but by no means the main working tool; for those who are interested in the fine arts as a consumer, not a creator - yes, this is a great gadget; for gamers, this is a good option only if they like certain game genres that do not require holding the tablet on weight.

In terms of hardware, this is a great device, but when buying it, you should clearly understand why you need such a large tablet. If you don't know which option to prefer - iPad Air 2 or iPad Pro, take the iPad Air. It is more versatile, more mobile and often more convenient even when using it at home (not to mention going out with it somewhere). If you have a clear understanding of exactly how you will use the iPad Pro and why you need the largest possible screen size, then another matter.

That is, the iPad Pro must be bought meaningfully, consciously. And this is its fundamental difference from the usual iPad, which was purchased by most people on the basis of “this one has it, this one has it, but I don’t have it yet” or “I’ll try, what kind of miracle is this.” Steve Jobs was right: 10 inches is really the optimal size in terms of this kind of consumer use. And you don't need a stylus either. But with the release of the iPad Pro, Apple is stepping into a different territory, trying to attract professionals and people who make informed choices and use the tablet as a tool for solving specific problems (not necessarily professional, but well-defined nonetheless).

It's great that Apple has made iPad apps that aren't optimized for the iPad Pro run very smoothly and correctly. Fonts are especially good - the text always looks perfect (with the exception of virtualization tools, of course). But Apple has not yet managed to encourage developers to refine the application interface exactly to the size of the iPad Pro screen, and this is important for the further development of this direction, which will undoubtedly be.

One can argue for a long time whether Apple's current strategy is wrong or not, recall the numerous violations of Jobs' precepts, etc. But with all the shortcomings and features noted, the iPad Pro as such was a success. One can hardly argue with this. And now it depends not only on Apple whether new formats for using tablets will appear and become widespread, aimed specifically at devices with a large screen. Here much will be determined by the steps of competitors (for sure they will try to release something similar to the iPad Pro - but how successful and how soon?), developers, iPad Pro sales. However, Apple wouldn’t be Apple if it didn’t take bold and controversial steps - and here Jobs’s former comrades follow the line he outlined very clearly: not to come to an already existing territory, but to create their own sphere, form a new market, new user requests. Will it work or not? Let's see. But what I would definitely hope for is that the iPad Pro will shake up the swamp that the tablet market has become, and we will see a lot of new and interesting things.

To conclude, here is our video review, where we share our main impressions of the iPad Pro and show you some of the apps mentioned in the article.

P.S. For the perfect combination of looks and hardware features, we give the iPad Pro our Editorial Original Design Award:

Apple representatives assure us that the iPad Pro is able to completely replace a desktop computer or laptop. But we are sure that this tablet will be an even more worthy tool for work if it is filled with worthwhile applications.

We've decided not to include apps that come to mind first. But we are ready to offer you those programs that show themselves well in work.

Good Notes 4

This application allows you to recognize handwritten notes - using the Apple Pencil stylus. Due to the fact that the program understands handwritten text, the search function in the text of the document is also available.

Document Scanner

You need to use the camera in the iPad Pro to the fullest. In particular, and in order to scan documents. This application can recognize text in scanned files and search by keyword.

Canva

A handy application for creating beautiful graphic slides and pictures. You can overlay text on photos, save the result and then show it in high resolution.

Numerics

A handy desktop will keep track of all the key metrics of your media. You can display data from the services you use, both for websites and social networks.

It was released almost two years ago, and since then it has been improving by leaps and bounds. The stylus itself hasn't changed, but the Cupertinos have significantly expanded the scope of its use throughout iOS, and the developers have created a number of wonderful applications for working with the "apple pencil". In particular, many drawing applications have appeared that turn the iPad Pro into a real sketchbook for true artists.

Pixelmator

linea

Linea offers a more direct but no less powerful approach than Pixelmator. The developers position the program as light and easy to use, without overwhelming the artist with hundreds of possibilities.

Linea was released this year and is regularly improved. For example, the application received Apple Pencil support and presentation mode, and more recently, developers have made it compatible.

Linea offers a wide palette of colors and makes it easy to manage layers and patterns. With iCloud Sync, you can work on your project across all your Apple devices. What sets Linea apart from other drawing applications the most is its very simple and user-friendly interface, allowing even non-technical users to take full advantage of the program's features.

From Linea's description:

“Modern drawing apps are very powerful, but they can overwhelm you with too many choices. The constant change of brushes, changing colors and layers takes a huge amount of time and is fraught with roughness and heterogeneity. Linea takes a completely different approach and strikes the perfect balance between functionality and control for maximum productivity. The focus is on what should be – your ideas, not the tools.”

Procreate

Procreate is one of the most feature rich drawing apps for Apple Pencil and iPad Pro. If you're an illustrator and want to get the most out of your tablet, Procreate is the way to go. The app has received an Apple Design Award and is one of the best apps on the App Store.

Procreate boasts the fastest 64-bit drawing engine and is optimized for multi-core iPad. Thanks to this, you can achieve great accuracy even in small details. Procreate provides 64-bit color, 250 apply and undo levels, and permanent project self-save. The application provides 128 brushes, each with 35 settings. You can also create your own brushes and assemble them into a personal set.

This year, the developers promise to release the largest update for the application, thanks to which it will work four times faster.

Autodesk SketchBook

Another popular iOS drawing app is SketchBook by Autodesk, the developer of a number of well-known apps for iOS and Mac. The program offers more than 170 brushes and is intended "for those who without fail make sketches on a daily basis."

SketchBook supports Photoshop documents, and also allows you to work with layers and customize the interface to make the drawing process as easy as possible.

From the app description:

“SketchBook gives you access to functional art supplies without cluttering your workspace. SketchBook has a full-screen mode called Rapid UI that allows you to hide all interface elements in order to free up as much desktop space as possible on your iPad or iPhone. Working in Rapid UI mode, you can remove brushes, layers, and color editors with just a swipe to the edge of the screen. Select the desired tool from the menu, then raise your thumb and the interface will disappear.”

SketchBook can be downloaded from the App Store for free (the full version is also available for a fee).

Sketch Club

Sketch Club brings a unique social element to drawing. The application offers all the standard features (brushes, blur, eraser, fill, pen, pixelation, text, etc.), as well as support for 54 layers and iCloud Drive. What makes Sketch Club truly unique, though, is the social aspect. Every day, the app offers artists a new challenge and also allows you to use a library of shared brushes.

Every day a new task and every week a competition!
Extensive library of common brushes, patterns and textures.
"Live" broadcasts and chats in the process of drawing.
Learn with the help of special manuals, videos and master classes.
Follow your favorite artists and get your own fans to share your art.
A public whiteboard for writing tasks when working on a project collectively.
Annual awards for the best art projects.

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