In this article, we’re going to highlight and review five of the best apps currently available for the iPad, and give some tips on how to get started with them. With any luck, you’ll come away with a better idea of what your options are, and which apps might make your iPad experience more enjoyable!
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Best Apps For Ipad Business
- Microsoft Office
Microsoft’s cloud-based office suite
TODAY’S BEST DEALS
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REASONS TO BUY
+The original and best
+Market leader
+Lots of features
Yes, Microsoft Office gets our top billing, for the simple reason that it’s the best office software platform out there. While alternative office software suites are available, some free and some paid for, none have the breadth of functionality that Microsoft Office has. Additionally, some rival programs struggle to preserve formatting with office documents when converting between file types, which is a headache you really don’t need with your business apps.
Better still, as a cloud-based application all your documents are not just stored in the cloud, but that you can pick up and work with the same documents across multiple iOS and MacOS devices, so long as you’re logged into your Microsoft account.
The suite of apps available for the Mac includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. While Access and Publisher are only for the PC, these aren’t business essentials and stronger alternatives are available.
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Website screenshot for Bitrix24 in the Apple App Store.
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- Bitrix24
An all-in-one business app
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REASONS TO BUY
+Diverse range of tools
+Capable CRM with detailed reports
+Generous free account
Bitrix24 is a unified work space that provides a vast suite of powerful business tools: collaboration, instant messaging, telephony, project management, document handling, scheduling, employee management, and more.
If you prefer to keep things simple then you can concentrate on the excellent CRM, which is a capable system all on its own. Contacts and communications are logged, leads assigned to sales managers, emails sent, calls recorded, quotes and invoices issued. Detailed reports keep you up-to-date and there’s convenient access via the mobile app.
Bitrix24’s unusually generous free account supports 12 users and includes 5GB storage, but if you need more, the Plus account offers more features to up to 6 users and provides 50GB online storage.
While Bitrix24 is primarily designed for teams, it’s also a great platform for a sole-trader to be able to manage many business tasks from one place themselves.
Bitrix24 is available directly as an iPad app or as a cloud-version powered through your browser.
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Website screenshot for Genius Scan in the Apple App Store.
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- Genius Scan
Scan and catalog documents and images
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+Simple to use
+Password protect
+Integrations
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This is a fantastic idea on the face of it. Take pictures of documents with your iPad’s camera, and Genius Scan will turn them into PDFs. In practice, it’s just as effective as that simple explanation suggests. Once you’ve snapped a document, Genius Scan attempts to draw a frame around it, which you can tweak if it’s not quite bang on. Scan the document, and Genius Scan applies a transform to your photo, flattening it out and allowing you to export it as a PDF or JPG.
This is perfect for sending signed contracts on the fly, particularly if you’re not near an actual hardware scanner, and it’s a great idea for cataloging receipts for later expense claims without having to carry an overflowing wallet.
In fact, if you’re looking to reduce any stacks of paper in your office, Genius Scan’s batch scanning function could be the perfect tool – just import all that paper, process it as you go, and have it sent right to Dropbox or OneDrive. You can even protect your PDFs for extra security.
If you want your business to be as paperless as possible, Genius Scan offers a great tool in trying to achieve that.
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Website screenshot for Slack in the Apple App Store.
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- Slack
The team communication platform
TODAY’S BEST DEALS
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REASONS TO BUY
+Intuitive, cross-platform interface
+Packed with plug-ins and extras
REASONS TO AVOID
-Free plan is relatively limited
Believe the hype, or at least part of it – Slack may not have killed off email just yet, and it can turn into a time sink if you’re not disciplined in how it’s deployed, but it’s also fair to say that this communications platform has helped transform the way that a lot of small business teams keep in touch.
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Like all the best software tools, the basic idea is very simple: real-time messaging in web browsers, mobile apps, and desktop clients. Team members can chat one to one, or in groups, or in channels based around topics (sales, finances, products and so on).
What Slack does well though is bring that simple idea to life very intuitively, with a slick and responsive interface, and a host of integrations, plug-ins and shortcuts to keep the conversation flowing. All the functions you think you might need, from file transfers to video calling, are right there for you.
You don’t get much out of Slack for free – with 5GB of total storage, 10,000 recent, searchable conversations and no group calling – but it gives you a feel for the app, and should be fine for smaller teams. At the highest pricing tier, you get round-the-clock support and a guaranteed support response time of four hours, as well as unlimited message archives.
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Website screenshot for 1Password in the Apple App Store.
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- 1Password
Remembering your passwords for you
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REASONS TO BUY
+Strong encryption
+Keeps passwords updated
+Free trial
Every business has a host of systems, and usually these aren’t interconnected, meaning you’ll need to remember a bunch of logins and passwords for every single one. Forget that. 1Password lets you manage all of your access credentials on your iPad, and it even integrates with Touch ID and a master password to ensure that you’re the only one who can gain access to your password vault.
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You can use it with many online services to make your accounts more secure – not having to remember a password means it can literally be a random jumble of characters and punctuation, something 1Password can generate for you. And the app can even automatically update your accounts with new info to avoid duplicates or insecure logins.
Everything is end-to-end encrypted to ensure you’re fully secure, and the iOS app also supports 1Password for Teams, a specific version of the system with differing access levels allowing a central manager to control who can see what. You can give it a try first with a 30-day free trial.
Best paid ipad apps 2021
Procreate
Procreate
Procreate
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Source: iMore
For creating full digital paintings, you’ll want to step into Procreate. It has dozens of highly customizable painting and drawing tools with a wide array of color options. You can paint on top of colors and blend shades for a very realistic art experience. It also has additional digitizing features, like adjustable motion and perspective blur, color balance, and more. The project tracking feature lets you record your progress as a time-lapse video that you can share with others.
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Procreate
Procreate is one of the most powerful sketching, painting, and illustration apps that you can buy for your iPad Pro, and it’s built for professionals and works flawlessly with Apple Pencil.
$10 at App Store
Astropad Studio
Astropad Studio App Store Screenshot
Source: Astro HQ
Astropad lets you use your iPad as a graphics tablet for your Mac and it works supremely well. Now, Astropad will also let you use your iPad Pro as a big graphics tablet. It works with Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Corel Painter, Manga Studio, Pixelmator, and more, so there’s no need to get a separate surface for your computer. Your iPad Pro can serve double duty. And yes, it supports the Apple Pencil as well! Astropad Studio requires a subscription, you can pay $11.99 per month or $79.99 per year.
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Astropad Studio
Turn your iPad Pro into a drawing tablet for your Mac. It works with tons of great drawing apps and when you’re done drawing you can always use Sidecar to make your iPad Pro into a second screen!
Free download at App Store with in-app purchases
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft 365 Future Of 2020 Excel Suggestions
Source: Excel
Microsoft is still king of the Office apps and that’s especially true for spreadsheets. If you’ve ever wanted to pivot a table or do any number of ledger-ly things, you’ve wanted to do it in Excel. What makes Excel for iPad especially great is that Microsoft prioritized it even over the company’s own mobile devices and that head-start has made it not only a good Office app but a good iPad app. Heck, with split-view support, it makes it a great one. And Word, Powerpoint, and OneNote are no slouches either.
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Excel for iPad
Fully featured spreadsheets. Make charts and graphs with ease and display your data however you see fit.
Free download at App Store
Affinity Photo
Affinity Photo
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A photo-editing tool like no other for the iPad Pro, Affinity Photo was front and center at the 2017 WWDC Keynote. All the editing tools you need to turn your photos into works of pristine art are at your fingertips — and Apple Pencil tip. With support for unlimited layers, layer groups, adjustment layers, filter layers, and masks, you’ll never overpower the software running on the iPad Pro’s powerful A10X processor chip. Affinity Photo also has a huge selection of brushes to choose from and use with your Apple Pencil, and you can even make custom brushes on the fly — meaning you’ll always have the tools at your disposal to achieve your desired effect.
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Affinity Photo for iPad
When it comes to professional photo editors on the iPad Pro, Affinity is fast, powerful, and reliable. With a fantastic UI and all the tools you need to make anything you want.
$22 at App Store
Paper
Paper
Paper
Source: iMore
You may recall that former iMore managing editor Serenity Caldwell reviewed the Apple Pencil entirely in sketch. The go-to app she uses for her amazing art is Paper. It is the perfect app for sketching out ideas, creating graphs, doodling, and more. There are also some impressive tools for taking notes and annotating images. It’s an all-around useful app for sparking creativity.
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Paper
With Paper, you can create numerous journals designed to capture your sketches and even notes. There is a nice variety of tools offered in Paper and it’s very intuitive to use.
Free download at App Store
Pixelmator
Pixelmator
Source: Pixelmator Team
With Pixelmator, users can play around with advanced photo settings like single-tap color correction presets, beauty and facial editors that can easily erase imperfections, blemishes, and unwanted objects; the ability to pinch, bump, twirl, or wrap areas of an image; the option to edit images of up to 100 megapixels, and so, so much more.
You can even use Pixelmator to paint images directly onto your iPad, turning your tablet into a digital canvas of sorts. You can pick and choose from over 100 artist-designed brushes, smudge color with your finger to blend as you would IRL, use eyedropper tools to isolate and perfect your colors, and really bring your creativity to the forefront of your digital artwork!
Pixelmator App Store
Pixelmator
Once you’re done editing your images with Pixelmator, or creating and painting your artwork, you can easily save your images with iCloud and instantly publish your final product to your Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts.
$5 at App Store
Codea
Codea Screenshot
Source: Tech Radar
If you’re at all curious about game design, app design, or coding for iPad, Codea lets use your iPad Pro for creating all things iPad apps.
It’s built using the Lua programming language and is specifically made to be a friendly and inviting coding editor. In Codea, you can just tap and drag elements to change how the code interacts and you’ll see those changes in real-time. There’s a great set of reference materials built right into Codea, so you don’t have to worry about getting stuck.
Codea won’t have you making a top-selling game on the App Store immediately, but it’s an amazing tool to help you understand the fundamentals of game design and 3D graphics. And by surfing through the weekly App Store charts, there are many examples you can mess around with, helping you further draw inspiration and nail the fundamentals of a game design and 3D graphics.
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Codea
A beautifully-designed crash course in game design and 3D graphics.
$15 at App Store
iMovie
Source: Apple
On the iPad, iMovie is already amazing. On the iPad Pro, we’re going to need a bigger superlative. That’s because, thanks to the Apple M1 processor, iMovie on the iPad Pro can handle not one, not two, but three streams of 4K video all at once, which is ludicrously great. Apple’s other iPad apps also shine on the larger iPad Pro canvas, including GarageBand for music, and Keynote, Numbers, and Pages for presentations, spreadsheets, and documents.
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iMovie
Apple’s own video editor. With fun effects, easy transitions, and a pretty simple interface, it’s perfect for any home video enthusiast.
Free download at App Store
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GarageBand for iPad
Apple’s simple and easy-to-use interface makes it easy to create tracks. You can even create beats and loops with ease using the built-in instruments.
Free download at App Store
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Pages
Apple’s own word processor. Create documents from scratch or use the built-in templates for resumes, letters, business cards, and more.
Free download at App Store
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Numbers
Crunch the numbers, make tables, and all the other wonderful things spreadsheets can do.
Free download at App Store
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Keynote
Put together the presentation in a series of slides, with plenty of transitions and other features to make your visuals really pop.
Free download at App Store
Complete Anatomy Platform 2022
Complete Anatomy Platform
Source: 3D4Medical.com, LLC
The world’s most accurate, most advanced, and best-selling 3D anatomy platform uses new technology, models, and content. It’s not just an atlas, the app is an anatomy learning platform with unique collaboration and learning tools. On the new iPad Pro, you can now study and take measures with a real human being and use that information to visualize and understand muscle movement and more.
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