The 8th generation of Apple’s iPad tablet has been a long time coming, delayed by production issues and supply chain hurdles. The end result is a tablet Apple hopes will continue to drive the market forward. Increased speed, better cameras, and superior battery life are just some of the improvements over the previous model. It is also the first iPad to support multi-user FaceTime calls.
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Best Apps For Ipad 8th Generation
1Password
Source: iMore
No matter what type of device you own, you are always going to need a way to keep track of the dozens of passwords you collect from apps and websites. 1Password makes it incredibly easy to store information across all of your devices so you only have to remember the one you use to unlock the app. It also works with Touch ID, so you can keep your passwords ultra-secure.
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1Password
Keep all your passwords in one place, and generate strong passwords to prevent your accounts from being breached.
Free Download with IAP at the App Store
iWork
Pages
Numbers
Keynote
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Of course, no iPad would be complete without Apple’s suite of productivity apps. With Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, you can create and edit the best files and documents around. And, if you are sharing your work with Office users, no problem — iWork is compatible with Microsoft’s counterparts.
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Pages
Apple’s own word processors. Create documents from scratch or use the built-in templates for resumes, letters, business cards, and more.
Free Download at the App Store
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Numbers
Crunch the numbers, make tables, and all the other wonderful things spreadsheets can do.
Free Download at the App Store
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Keynote
Put together a presentation in a series of slides, with plenty of transitions and other features to make your visuals really pop.
Free Download at the App Store
Microsoft Office
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Microsoft’s Office line of productivity apps are similar to Apple’s iWork but are better for those still more comfortable with Microsoft’s design. You can view, edit, and create documents on your iPad with these free apps, but with an Office 365 subscription, you’ll get some really nice extras, like 1TB of OneDrive storage, Skype calls from phones, an Outlook.com email account, and more. If you prefer Microsoft to Apple, you’ll want to download these best iPad apps on your new iPad right away.
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Microsoft Word for iPad
The same Microsoft Word you know and love right on your iPad.
Free Download at the App Store
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Microsoft Excel for iPad
Fully featured spreadsheets. Make charts and graphs with ease and display your data however you see fit.
Free Download at the App Store
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Microsoft Powerpoint for iPad
A beautiful and simple presentation creator. POwerpoint has a ton of themes, transitions, and features that make any slide exciting.
Free Download at the App Store
Fantastical for iPad
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Fantastical 2
Source: iMore
You’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone who thinks that Apple’s own Calendar app is one of the best iPads apps, but Fantastical 2 is practically the polar opposite. It’s an incredibly robust app for keeping track of your daily events and keeping track of your reminders. There are three different views, to show you your days, weeks, and months at a glance. Plus the sidebar keeps you on schedule with your events and reminders. That’s right. Fantastical also connects to your Reminders app, so if you’ve set a task to grab some milk on the way home from the store today, it’ll show up in Fantastical.
Fantastical
Fantastical
The only calendar you will ever need. It’s a beautifully-designed app with all the best features for keeping track of your day-to-day life.
Free Download with IAP at App Store
Finance
Mint
Mint
Mint
Mint
Source: iMore
I discovered shortly after I started using Mint that it automatically creates a budget for you. After you connect your credit cards and bank accounts, the app automatically creates a budget based on average spending habits. You can increase or decrease the maximum for each budget and add or remove categories. Income and expenses are automatically added when you make purchases with your credit or bank cards. Cash transactions must be manually added.
If you don’t really need a budget, but like having one, just to see how you are doing, use Mint for the finance tracking and take advantage of the budgeting feature.
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Mint: Budget Planner & Tracker for iPad
Hook up your bank cards, and Mint will make a budget for you based on your spending — its as simple as that.
Free Download with IAP at the App Store
YNAB (You Need A Budget)
YNAB
YNAB
Source: iMore
YNAB is a fantastic app to have on-hand for really understanding how to budget your money. It helps you evaluate your lifestyle and decide what purchases are the most important to you right now or what can be put off so you can save up. You allocate every dollar that you make to some budget. If you’ve gone under budget for the month, your income will roll over to the next month. You can easily and clearly see where you’ve saved and how much you can set aside for a big purchase.
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YNAB (You Need A Budget)
If you don’t know where to start when it comes to making a budget, YNAB does all the heavy lifting for you. It’s a great way to track where all your money goes.
Free Download with IAP at the App Store
Streaming media
Netflix
Netflix
Netflix
Netflix
Source: iMore
If you can’t stream movies and shows on your big screen TV, watching them on your iPad is the next best thing. With a paid subscription to Netflix, you can access thousands of titles. If you are already a subscriber, all of your history, favorites, and queues will be waiting for you on your tablet.
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Netflix
It’s where you want to go to watch awesome original series like Stranger Things, Altered Carbon, The Witcher and more!
Free Download with subscription at the App Store
Hulu
Hulu
Hulu
Hulu
Source: iMore
Similar to Netflix, Hulu gives subscribers access to thousands of TV shows and movies right on their iPad. You can watch current seasons of some of the most popular shows on television the day after they air. Plus, Hulu’s exclusive content makes it worth the monthly price. If you already subscribe to Hulu, your history, favorites, and queues will be available on your iPad.
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Hulu
Not only does Hulu have original series, but it also has a wide selection of awesome tv shows and movies.
Free Download with subscription at the App Store
YouTube
YouTube
YouTube
YouTube
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To round out the media streaming trifecta, add YouTube for hours of homespun fun. Don’t forget to subscribe to iMore to keep up to date on the latest and greatest Apple product reviews. And, of course, there are always cat videos.
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YouTube
The world’s most popular video upload service, there’s everything and anything on YouTube.
Free Download in the App Store
Cloud Storage
Dropbox
Dropbox
Dropbox
Dropbox
Source: iMore
If you’ve made the plunge into the 2TB iPad Pro, you probably don’t need to worry about storage, but for everyone else, there is Dropbox. Dropbox is a cross-platform cloud storage service that lets you keep photos, videos, documents, and more in one place. You can access your account from anywhere you have Internet access, and you can also share content with others without having to give them your personal account information.
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Dropbox: Cloud Storage & Drive
Backup, sync, and share all your files, videos, and documents from your iPad to other devices and people!
Free Download with IAP at the App Store
Google Drive
Google Drive
Google Drive
Google Drive
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If you have a Google account, you may want to look into using the Google Drive cloud service. Similar to Dropbox, you can save all manner of files, including videos and pictures. With Google Docs, you can collaborate in real-time with others, too. The only requirement is that you must be signed up with Google, but if you are, it’s by far one of the best iPad apps we’ve used.
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Google Drive Cloud Storage
Fantastic cloud storage for documents and flies all accessible through your Google account.
Free Download with IAP at the App Store
Microsoft OneDrive
Source: iMore
Microsoft’s cloud storage service is also the best way to transfer data between your iPad and your PC. When you sign up, like iCloud, you get 5GB of free storage. For $2 a month, you can get 50GB, and after that, you can subscribe yearly and also get Office 365 for $70 to $100 per year.
With the OneDrive app for iPad, if you have Office, you can get to work on documents right in the app, with the ability to save right in the app. Photos are automatically tagged so that you can find them easily, and you can share everything. You can even access files offline so that you can get work done when you don’t have an internet connection.
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Best apps for ipad for students
- Todoist
Todoist for iPad – best apps for students
With over 10 million users and a 4.8 rating on App Store, Todoist has earned a reputation for being the simplest, most user-friendly and flexible to-do list app on the market.
Thanks to keyboard shortcuts, language processing and predictive language, adding tasks with dates, comments, priorities, tags and attachments is an extremely quick process – for example, if you type “Essay deadline Tuesday”, Todoist will automatically add the task “Essay deadline” with the next Tuesday set as due date.
What also makes the app stand out is the fact that it can be integrated with other popular apps, such as Google Calendar, Dropbox, or Zapier. Todoist has also been praised for syncing seamlessly across all devices.
However, as most reviewers underline, the free version is a little limited – you can’t access completed to-do lists and there’s a project limit, for example – so if you’re looking for a free substitute, Google Tasks is a great pick.
The good: Simple, user-friendly, and quick-to-use.
The bad: The free version is quite limited.
Compatibility: iPad, iPhone.
Price: Free – with limited features; Premium – targeted at individuals or teams up to 25 people ($3 a month billed annually or $4 a month billed monthly); Business – targeted at teams of 25+ people ($5 per user a month billed annually or $6 per user a month billed monthly).
⇢ TODOIST
- Freedom – Block Distractions
Freedom Block Distractions – best iPad apps for students
Procrastination is a student’s worst enemy – and Freedom might be just the weapon to fight it. Used by over one million people worldwide, the app temporarily blocks time-wasting apps and websites so you can be more focused (and, as the users report, gain an average of 2.5 hours of productive time each day).
Freedom lets you choose a timeframe during which select devices, apps or even the entire Internet will be completely locked for up to 8 hours at a time. It enables you to customize blocklists (you can, for example, choose to mute all chat apps only), schedule distraction-free sessions for later or as recurring events (for example, if you want to avoid Facebook or Twitter between 7AM and noon every day), and even offers a locked mode for extreme procrastinators that brutally prevents you from changing the settings in the middle of the session.
Freedom also syncs across all your devices – no matter if you’re using a computer, tablet, or phone (and there’s no limit to the number of devices you can use!).
However, keep in mind that Freedom has a rather bare-bones approach – it does not reward you for a successful distraction-free session, nor does it come with any incentives or goals – so if you’re looking for a more motivation-based distraction blocker, make sure to check out the app below.
If you want to try it out, Freedom offers a no-obligation, no-credit-card-required free trial with up to 7 distraction-free blocking sessions on all your devices.
The good: Blocks all distractions across chosen devices and offers quite a wide array of customization features.
The bad: Freedom will not motivate or reward you for successful sessions.
Compatibility: iPad, iPhone.
Price: Free – with all Premium features available, up to 7 distraction-free blocking sessions on all your devices; Premium – $6.99 per month or $29.99 per year.
⇢ FREEDOM
- Forest – Stay Focused
Forest Stay Focused – top iPad student apps
If Freedom is a bit too straightforward for you, Forest is a must-have. With its unique approach, the app plants a seed every time you start a new distraction-free session – and as time goes by, this seed will gradually grow into a tree.
If you cannot resist the temptation of using your phone and leave the app, however, your tree will wither. Over time, all your focused moments create a lush forest, reminding you just how easy and rewarding it can be to stay off your phone for a while.
What’s more, you can earn rewards and unlock plenty of different tree species to plant. There are also plenty of small details like alternating messages (Don’t look at me! Hang in there!) that make going off-the-grid even more fun.
And the best part? In collaboration with tree-planting organization Trees for the Future, Forest plants real trees on Earth too.
The good: A unique distraction-blocking app that is not just extremely rewarding, but also has planted over 855,000 real trees (to date).
The bad: None. It’s absolutely incredible.
Compatibility: iPad, iPhone.
Price: With a one-time purchase ($1.99), you can download Forest and use it across all iOS devices.
⇢ FOREST
- Google Calendar
Google Calendar GCal – helpful iPad apps students
With the wide array of calendar apps available, Google Calendar is the undisputed leader. Not only does it work with nearly everything else on the market, but is also almost always compatible with timetable applications that universities use – making it possible to import your timetable into your calendar with the class number, location, professor name, and many more (synced automatically).
Like other Google apps, it’s effortless to get familiar with, and lets you create multiple color-coded calendars in a matter of seconds. Plus, it can automatically create events based on emails you receive – such as flights or concert tickets.
As a cloud-based app, it also syncs through all of your devices once you log in to your Google account – so no matter whether you’re on a desktop or on the go with a smartphone, you can still access the same calendar.
The only downside is that currently there is no macOS desktop version, and so Mac users can only access Google Calendar via browser. It is possible, however, to sync Google Calendar with the built-in Mac Calendar app – and it works flawlessly.
The good: Google Calendar is the standard go-to calendar app that works with nearly everything else on the market, making sticking to a schedule easier than it’s ever been before.
The bad: Does not offer a macOS desktop version.
Compatibility: iPad, iPhone.
Price: Free (with a Google account).
⇢ GOOGLE CALENDAR
…who want to bring note-taking to a whole new level
- Notion
Notion – best iPad apps for students
Whenever I was about to start making notes during a lecture, first thing I’d focus on was the formatting. Should I use Helvetica? Times New Roman? Arial? Smaller? Bigger? In Italics? In Bold?
But just after I’d think I was satisfied with the way my notes look, the lecture would be halfway through, and I’d have absolutely no clue what was going on, and so I’d spent the latter half playing free online games or watching dog videos on mute. But that was before I was introduced to Notion.
Notion’s strength lies in the fact that it does all the formatting for you – with font customization reduced to the absolute minimum, it lets you focus on what matters most – the content.
It’s also an “all-in-one workspace”: what means you can make calendars, task lists, notes, financials, pages and subpages (that you can personalize with emoji icons!), toggle lists, and plenty more – all without having to open multiple tabs or switch windows every time.
So if, for example, you were to make notes for a particular course, you can make separate subpages for each covered topic or lecture under one collective page, add a list of deadlines, and even your timetable. Notion also has some great collaboration features.
And it’s actually free for students – all you have to do is sign up with a school email address.
Notion’s only downside is that it might take a while to get used to, but once you do – it’ll be extremely rewarding and change the way you think about note-taking forever. Oh, and this article was written in Notion, too.
The good: A decluttered and distraction-free all-in-one workspace perfect for note-taking, project management, collaboration and staying organized.
The bad: Takes a while to get used to.
Compatibility: iPad, iPhone.
Price: Personal – with sharing limited to up to 5 guests (free); Personal Pro – with unlimited guests and file uploads (free for students, educators, as well as first responders, researchers, and non-profits fighting COVID-19, and for everyone else – $4 per month billed annually or $5 per month billed monthly); Team – made for teams ($8 per member per month billed annually or $10 per member per month billed monthly); Enterprise – made to control and support your company (for pricing, you need to contact sales).
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