We recently bought the newest iPad Pro 2020 and reviewed it.
Now it’s time to review some apps, that can significantly improve your experience and actually might convince you to buy an iPad yourself if you already haven’t done that.
To get the most of the iPad Pro you need to buy the apple pencil. This Pencil improves the use of applications. It allows various types of apps including note-taking, sketching, and drawing, as well as various other designing apps to be benefited from the capabilities of iPad Pro.
So without further ado, let’s check out the entertainment and productivity apps, that you need to check out.
1. INKredible
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/inkredible/id712303681
According to experts, it is one of the best notes taking apps for iPad users. They further said that it is really an incredible handwriting app for the iPad Pro users. It has amazingly replaced the paper and pen, two incredible things invented several centuries ago to give a unique experience of writing by hand to the iPad users. It has inherited the best feature of inking from a popular app, Notes Plus. It will provide greater experience of writing on an iPad than on paper. To believe this incredible experience you will have to try this app for once.
This app makes it easier to write on an iPad without any distraction as you need not press any buttons or UI controls to get a blank sheet to write on. This beautiful app has been introduced after R&D on inking technology and vector graphics for over 3 years. It will make your handwriting on the paper beautiful by manipulating Bezier curves easily. Moreover, it will make your handwriting look good either while displaying it or for the purpose of printing it. Thus INKredible provides a really incredible experience for the iPad Pro users. You can try this free app anytime.
2. Inspire Pro
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/inspire-pro/id355460798
You can find this thoughtfully and carefully designed powerful, beautiful, and exclusive app for iPad which you can download from the App Store. This app can help you in making realistic drawings, sketches, and paintings faster than whatever you have used ever when you were inspired to draw something striking.
They have taken full advantage of the GPU to create strokes of the brush with 64-bit of brilliant colors precisely at a very fast speed with the help of Sorcery, a proprietary painting engine used in it. The strokes of a dry brush will give the same stunning effects as you experience with a brush dipped in oil paint. To give a slight blur to your painting you will have to scratch your canvas or to create something new you will have to mix the colors on your canvas by applying strong pressure on it.
Everyone, a professional artist or a beginner, can enjoy the power and simplicity of this app while creating artwork.
3. Notability
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notability/id360593530
It is one of the best apps that can be used for taking notes by the users of iPad Pro. It can also help you in explaining important PDFs for you. This app can also allow you to create bullet points on a journal as it uses a stylus or Apple pencil for taking notes.
Some of the important features of this app include:
- Conversion of handwritten notes into text format
- Creating advertisements
- Annotation of PDF
- You can work on two notes side-by-side as it supports multi-note
- A powerful tool to create sketches by drawing shapes and using custom colors
- It can scan both handwritten and text notes with its search function
- You can sync your notes on the devices with Mac OS and iOS as it is compatible with iCloud
- For text, files, GIFs, web pages and photos drag-and-drop function can be used
Notability can also synchronize your notes with the recording as it supports audio files. So, while making notes of lectures or presentations you can listen to the recorded notes.
4. Procreate
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/procreate/id425073498
It is one of the leading creative applications designed for the users of iPad Pro as it is liked not only by the aspiring artists but also by the creative professionals. This app provides a collection of innovative tools used by the artists, hundreds of brushes made by hand, an extremely fast system creating graphics from Valkyrie and an advanced system of layers. In this way, this app provides you everything required to create rich paintings, meaningful sketches, striking animations and stunning illustrations. It allows you to start working anytime and anywhere, whether you are at the beach on the couch, waiting for a cup of coffee or on the train. You can take this complete studio of art with its powerful features anywhere to start creating amazing pieces of art.
5. Airmail
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/airmail-your-mail-with-you/id993160329
This app for iPad Pro is one of the best email apps for the users of the devices of Mac OS as it has a number of powerful features. Though this app has been designed for iOS it can also be used by iPad and iPhone users to get the same amazing experience. In this way, this app allows you to synchronize the preferences of the people using iOS and Mac devices as it can be used on the devices running on both of these operating systems.
This app offers some of the best customization options available these days. You can control the notifications effectively so that you can be notified of the emails that are received from the contacts important to you. In the Settings menu, you can customize the gesture of swipe to move the emails to archive, reminder, to-do list, or snooze or delete them, etc.
6. AstroPad
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/astropad-standard/id934510730
This app for iPad allows you to directly draw into any creative tools of Mac including Illustrator, Photoshop, Affinity, Lightroom, Manga Studio, Corel Painter, Mischief and Pixelmator, etc, just by using your iPad. This app also provides you the best experience of displaying the Wacom pen at a very reasonable cost. You are free to use USB or connect wirelessly to its official website to use this app for free.
7. Moleskine journey
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/moleskine-journey/id1489704689
This app for iPad users is designed for independent workers, creative minds, free spirits, and daring backpackers. In this app, some of the best features like reminders, notes, and calendars along with certain tools for personal growth like habit tracking and diaries are combined to improve productivity. It includes:
- My Day to allow you to set and check your habits and track your goals every day
- Planner to review all of your events and tasks as well as plan and schedule your activities to be executed
- Projects to organize your tasks, complicated notes, media content, reminders, topics of events and links
- Tasks to write down the activities you want to organize or schedule quickly
8. Evernote
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/evernote/id281796108
It is another one of the most popular and best apps for iPad users to take notes. You can use this app with a free tier to record audio, create to-do lists as well as take and format notes as you want. PDF annotation, version history, subscription for multi-person collaboration, and cloud providers for integration are some of the powerful features of this app. However, its free tier can be used only on two devices. Its paid plans include a Premium plan for a monthly price of $8 and a Business plan for a monthly subscription of $15.
9. Dropbox
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dropbox-backup-sync-share/id327630330
This app for iPad Pro allows you to take back-up of videos and photos along with accessing files stored anywhere on any of your mobile devices or computers. Moreover, its advanced feature of sharing allows you to send any small or large file to anyone easily. The main features of this app include:
- Automatic back up in the background of the videos and photos in the roll of your camera
- Access and preview any of the 175 types of files in your account even offline without using any software
- Copying and pasting a link easily to share large or small files to anyone even if he does not have an account with Dropbox.
- Use your camera to scan any document, notes, whiteboard, and receipts to create their PDFs
10. Note Shelf
https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1271086060
This app for the iPad has made it easier to take digital notes for working professionals, journalists, and students. In this way, this app can be used by everyone to make his handwritten notes beautiful like written on a paper in a better way. It can help in annotating PDFs, record audios, and type messages digitally. It can also help you in personalizing your notes by organizing them and covering them with beautiful covers of your choice. Moreover, it can also help you in synchronizing your notes and sharing them with your friends, family, and colleagues.
11. PDF Expert
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pdf-expert-pdf-reader-editor/id743974925
According to experts, this app for iPad can help you in completing the task on any PDF in a powerful and intuitive manner. It is one of the apps that an iPad user and the reader of PDF on a desktop must-have. This app is unbelievably easy to use. It is the best app to edit, read, and manage any PDF on your iPad. You can use it not only to read PDF easily but also to draw with an Apple Pencil or your finger, create notes, work in the cloud, add emotions with stickers, make bookmarks, add and edit PDF text and images as well as sign documents, etc.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/skillshare-creative-classes/id916819843
This app for iPad allows you to explore your creative skills to millions of people joining this online learning community to improve their creative skills. It allows you to choose the topic of your interest like water coloring, drawing, photography, calligraphy illustration, graphic designing, icon designing, hand lettering, and pattern designing, etc. to inspire thousands of curious and creative people to learn. You can also learn to use some of the creative tools like Fresco, Procreate, Photoshop, and Illustrator to improve the level of your skills to teach others as your business or career. It can also improve your productivity, a career in social media marketing.
13. Audible
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/audible-audio-books-stories/id379693831
This iPad Pro app can help you in starting your routine with listening to the largest collection of kid stories, audiobooks, small audios of the world wherever you want including your workplace, during a break, or at home. The audio content available at this app includes compelling stories of various genres that are told in the voices to inspire the listeners. You can listen to the stories talking with you anywhere and anytime. You can safely sign in and download these stories on your account with Amazon.
14. Sketch Club
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/sketch-club/id404414176
This app can be used by the beginners as well as professionals to do various types of tasks like painting, drawing, manipulation, and correcting photos, as well as typography. This app provides the best tools not only for creating things but also inspires and motivates the community to improve their creations. They can improve their skills by joining challenges and winning awards on a daily, weekly, monthly, and annual basis. They can also improve their digital art by learning techniques by following classes and tutorials.
15. Thumb jam
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/thumbjam/id338977566
This powerful app can help in improving the experience in musical performances. This app can provide you multiple samples of high quality 40 real instruments. Whether you are a beginner or a professional musician, you can play any kind of music, classical or rock, easily with the help, of hundreds of scales provided in this app. According to experts, it includes sounds that can attract crowds as they are similar to the music performed by the professional musicians.
16. Canva
This app can help in making attractive designs with your videos and photos very easily even if you are new to it. you can use this app to create graphic designs of any kind whether you have to make a logo, need a story for your Instagram account, or create an invitation for a birthday. You can create these designs anytime and anywhere when you have this app on your computer, iPad, or iPhone. You can use this app by using the designs provided on it or creating your own designs, adding text on your photos, editing pictures, and uploading them perfectly to show them to the entire world.
17. Lumafusion
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lumafusion/id1062022008
This app was popularly used on iOS for editing videos but now it can be used for iPads. It includes new and elegant UI and a number of unique and powerful features. New users can start using it easily due to the instructions and tutorials provided in it. Professionals can use its features to improve their skills. It provides you direct access to the editing experts to provide the users with friendly support.
18. Affinity Designer
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/affinity-designer/id1274090551
This powerful and precise iPad app has been created with the help of the leading designers of the world as well as the award-winning technology of Apple Design for the professional graphic designers using a desktop. It can provide them a wonderful and close to reality experience. It provides you everything required to create branding, icons, UX/UI designs, attractive illustrations, concept art, and typography, etc. In this way, this app can free you from the confinement of your work desk.
19. Lightroom cc
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adobe-lightroom-cc/id878783582
It is a powerful free app for iPad from Adobe Photoshop to edit camera photos. You can use this app to capture attractive images and editing them. It allows you to attain your creative vision by editing photos, learn to build your photography skills, find, organize, and curate your best photos, and share them.
20. Slack
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/slack/id618783545
This iPad Pro app provides you a collaboration and communication team under one roof to improve your productivity whether you work with a small business or a large establishment. It can help you in focusing on your to-do lists and bring in the right workforce to move your project onwards with the help of using the right tools, information, and conversation required for this purpose. This app can be used on any device which allows you to find your work and access your team from anywhere even if you are not on your desk.
This app can be used to:
- Call or message any group or person in your team
- Communicate with your team by organizing conversation on the basis of your projects, topics and other things relating to your task
- Integrate the services and tools you already use into your workflow like Salesforce, Google Drive, Asana, Zendesk, Dropbox, and Twitter, etc.
- Collaborate with the right people and share and edit documents
- Stay focused on the important notifications customized by you
- Search the base of central knowledge easily to archive and indexing the past files and conversations of the team automatically
21. Amazon Prime video
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amazon-prime-video/id545519333
This app for iPad Pro allows you to watch Amazon Original TV shows and movies suggested for you like The Boys, Hunters, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Tumble leaf, a kids series, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, etc.
The features of this app include:
- Buy or rent thousands of titles for popular TV shows, newly released movies not available in your region or country
- Download videos to watch anytime or anywhere offline
- View IMDb information about songs, and actors as well as trivia for videos when you watch them by using X-Ray
- Use Chromecast to cast your programs from your iPad to the big screen of your TV.
- Download a separate app tvOS to watch your shows and movies directly on your Apple TV.
22. Grindstone
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/grindstone/id1357426636
This app allows you to play the game of puzzle battles by slashing swords, Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes and Critter Crunch, created by Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, award-winning creators. Cruel Creeps overrun the Grindstone Mountain and obstruct your way to its disloyal peak where glory, fortune, and death are waiting for you. To obstruct your way through the hordes of blood-sucking Creeps found in the dungeons of Grindstone one needs sharper blades and skills to solve sharp puzzles. To cut your nerves your deadly rivals will use loot resources, battle bosses, and powerful gear by discovering the blueprints lost long back, etc. It includes a puzzle with 150 levels of intense battling madness.
23. Sneaky Sasquatch
https://apps.apple.com/in/app/sneaky-sasquatch/id1098342019
This app allows you to live like a Sasquatch by doing some works regularly like:
- Conceal yourself in human clothes
- Creeping around campsites
- Play at a quick golf course with 9 holes
- Eat from unguarded picnic baskets and coolers
- Use engine block to cook sausages
- Do fishing at the lake
- Dig up treasure buried underground
- Lat the park ranger chase you
- Sprinkle some powder at the ski hill
- Get your driver’s license by taking a test for driving
- Build upgrades for your house with the help of a team of ducks
- Race vehicles at the racetrack after buying and upgrading them
24. Beatmaker 3
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/beatmaker-3/id1060317024
This app for iPad Pro has redefined the production of music by bringing unparalleled depth and efficiency in a MIDI workstation and intuitive audio. It has helped in combining the real hardware and traditional software used on the desktop in one studio for producing music. It allows you to ensure full production of your instruments and play, perform and record the music created by you by using its streamlined workflow. It can help in improving your productivity ten times by using its tools for an inspirational performance like roll, repeat, key cycles, swing, macro controls, and chords. You can use a new smart system of binding and MIDI gear to control the music produced through this app.
25. Tubebuddy
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tubebuddy/id1226080309
For the creators of YouTube videos, this app is the number one browser extension of the world that they can use on the go to make videos. They can use this app to optimize their videos to ensure the growth of organic views and subscribers easily and quickly on your YouTube channel.
Features of this app include:
- Best checks to practice
- Counting of live subscribers
- Moderation of comments
- Research for keywords
- Management and optimization of videos
- Channel Milestones
- Track topics for videos
- News of the industry
- Create tag lists and manage them
Above mentioned a comprehensive list of the best apps for the users of iPad Pro. Now you can choose the ones you need or like among them.
Let us know in the comments below which apps are you using and we will add them to the list.
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