The iPad pencil is a hassle-free tool that can be used in a variety of ways. When you’re cruising down the virtual highway of the internet, use it to scribble notes, make sketches and take photos. Its bluetooth capability means you can connect with other devices, such as laptops and cameras so you don’t have to worry about missing out on some of life’s social media moments. Ever been stuck in a boring tutorial at school when all you want to do is play a game? Use the smooth touch screen on the pencil to keep yourself entertained without getting into trouble.
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Best Apps For Ipad Pencil
- Nebo: Take notes
Nebo: take notes iPad Pro app
(Image credit: Nebo)
Requirements: iOS 13.0 or later
Double-tap support: Yes
Price: Free (with in-app purchases)
Download Nebo: Take Notes from the App Store
Nebo is the go-to app for digital note-taking as it’s praised highly for its handwriting recognition. Nebo has the ability to understand a whopping 66 languages and can even translate your handwritten notes into a format that can be sent as an email – how nifty is that? Using your Apple pencil, you can also create a range of shapes and sketches, making your digital notes feel just like the real thing.
On Nebo, you can also insert images and diagrams, and also annotate external media. Then once you’ve finished all your hard work, you can save/export your notes as HTML, PDF and text formats that are compatible with Microsoft or Powerpoint and iCloud. This means that you have so much flexibility with the Nebo app, but if you ever find yourself stuck or need some guidance, there’s a whole community of Nebo users ready to help you over on the Nebo tips and tricks videos.
- Noteshelf
Best iPad Pro apps: Noteshelf
Noteshelf is a great notetaking app that’s improved on its original functionality
Requirements: iOS 13.0 or later
Double-tap support: Yes
Price: $9.99/£8.99
Download Noteshelf from the App Store
Noteshelf is jam-packed with features like pressure sensitivity, double-tap support and integrated Siri to make sure it’s the best note-taking app it can be. With Noteshelf, you can record audio notes, mark up PDFs or images as well as accurate handwriting recognition and autoshapes.
- Notability
Best iPad Pro app: Notability
Notability is so good you might want to ditch the Moleskine
Requirements: iOS 14.0 or later
Double-tap support: Yes
Price: Free (with in-app purchases)
Download Notability from the App Store
Notability is so much more than a note-taking app with its combination of handwriting, photos, typing and drawing tools. Meaning that you don’t have to hop to a totally separate app to get your sketch on. One of the coolest features of the Notability app is the palm rejection feature. This means you can rest your hand on the screen without having to worry about it affecting your work. Notability will also straighten any lines you’d like to be ruled, so all your notes will look as neat as neat can be.
- Evernote
Best iPad Pro apps: Evernote
Evernote is a rich, capable iPad Pro app
Requirements: iOS 13.2 or later
Double-tap support: Yes
Price: Free (with in-app purchases)
Download Evernote from the App Store
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Evernote is a notetaking iPad Pro app but it’s a little like marmite because some people love it and others, well, not so much. It’s a great app for collecting sketches, notes, to-do lists and websites, but some users find it a little difficult to navigate.
One of the cool things about Evernote is that you can record audio while sketching, meaning that you can work as you listen. But the fun doesn’t stop there, the Evernote app also offers automatic palm rejection, as well as pressure sensitivity, meaning that you can really fill your notes with expressive lines strokes.
- LiquidText
Best iPad Pro apps: LiquidText for iPad
This PDF document reader enables you to annotate and excerpt texts
Requirements: iOS 14.1 or later
Double-tap support: Yes
Price: Free (with in-app purchases)
Download LiquidText from the App Store
LiquidText is the perfect app for reading and annotating. The app allows users to annotate PDFs, Word or Powerpoint documents and even web pages. LiquidText prides itself on its ability to support active reading, which means that you can highlight sections of what you’re reading to come back to later, or collapse parts and sections of the document so you can refer to different parts at once.
Again, having the Apple Pencil will benefit you greatly when it comes to using these iPad Pro apps. The Apple Pencil will make it faster to use the app with its pressure and tilt sensitivity features, making LiquidText feel similar to the real thing. And if you’ve bagged yourself the Apple Pencil 2 then you can also use LiquidText’s adjustable double-tap compatibility.
THE BEST IPAD PRO APPS FOR DIGITAL ART
- Illustrator for iPad
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Adobe’s vector drawing app for the iPad shoots straight to the top of the class (Image credit: Ben Brady)
Requirements: iOS 14.0 or later
Double-tap support: Yes
Price: Free (with in-app purchases)
Download Illustrator for iPad from the App Store
Adobe’s Illustrator CC is one of the industry-standard programmes for digital art, so it stands to reason that the vector art iPad Pro app is a great addition for the Apple Pencil, allowing you to design on the go with your Apple device. We tried it out it in our Illustrator for iPad review and found, though it is a streamlined version, it still works brilliantly as a standalone program (note: we tested a full version of Illustrator for iPad on the 11-inch iPad Pro (M1, 2021), using an Apple Pencil 2.)
We especially love how the Apple Pencil works seamlessly with the software and the fact it is way more accessible and simple to navigate than the desktop version. Illustrator for iPad lets you create lines, shapes, type, gradients, and effects, and you can use your Apple Pencil to merge and cut graphics with quick gestures, removing unwanted areas.
You can add effects such as point gradients, radial repeats, patterns, and symmetry, and invite others to edit your projects, too. There are over 18,000 fonts, as well as seamless cloud integration so you can work across your Creative Cloud apps. There’s also a large community accessible via live streams on the app, including tutorials and inspirations from creative professionals. For the best current prices on an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, which includes Illustrator in all its versions, see the details below.
Best apps for apple pencil coloring
Pigment
Pigment
Pigment
Pigment offers the most versatile coloring experience. You can color with a variety of tools, including pencils, markers, airbrushes, watercolors, oil paints, and more. You can blend colors, including lighter on top of dark, and press light or hard to produce a different thickness of strokes. There are hundreds of colors to choose from, each with a shading gradient so you can customize your hues.
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There are three ways to color with Pigment. You can use Automatic, which will allow you to color wildly, but you will still stay within the lines, Freehand, which is like real-life coloring where you will go outside of the lines if you aren’t careful, and Advanced, which lets you select multiple spots on an illustration to color in at once. This last option allows you to color across different sections, while only coloring the objects you want.
There are also a few tools that are not at all realistic but can be loads of fun to work with. The Fade and Broom brushes create a unique shading on your illustrations and the Fill brush lets you simply tap to add color to an object.
The best part is that Pigment works beautifully with Apple Pencil to create shades and depth to each page you color.
There are dozens of free pages and plenty of great tools, but if you are a coloring fanatic, you can subscribe to Pigment’s premium service for hundreds of illustrations, additional brushes, and new coloring books each week.
If you color in real life and are looking to recreate that experience on your iPad, Pigment is the best app in the App Store.
Free with in-app purchases – Download now
Lake
Lake
Lake
Lake has the unique feature of being a coloring book for artists, by artists. Well, you don’t actually have to be an artist, but if you are, you’ll really appreciate the time and effort that each of these Instagram illustrators put into their work, work that you can make even more interesting with your own color creations.
The color palette is vast, with varying shades conveniently connected on a rotating wheel. You can start with red and switch to the lightest shade of pink or a deep reddish brown. Each page also comes with a pre-made color palate suggestion, curated by the artist who illustrated it.
You can pick from five different artist tools to work with, and you have the ability to adjust the brush size of each. You can also choose whether to restrict or free up coloring outside the line.
If you feel good about supporting working artists, you won’t want to skip this coloring book app. It’s full of great illustrations and gets updated all of the time.
Free with in-app purchases – Download now
Colorfy
Colorfy
Colorfy
Colorfy offers a simple fill-in-the-object style of coloring so that you don’t have to work as hard to get a beautiful illustration. You can choose from a few dozen hues or upgrade to a monthly subscription to unlock more than 100 different shades. Plus, you can create your own shades using the pigment shading tools.
When you are finished coloring, you’re definitely not done creating. The next step is to add a filter. These fun overlays will make your page look like an oil painting, graffiti on a brick wall, or even a knitted swatch. Your finished artwork can be shared to various social networking sites. You can also publish pages to the Colorfy feed for others to comment on, or even add their own colors, too.
You can also create your own illustrations to color by creating artwork from pre-made stickers and backgrounds, or by taking a picture of something you’ve drawn in real life.
If coloring can sometimes stress you out because of all of that movement you have to use with your hands, Colorfy will give you a pleasant experience without all of the scribbling action.
Free with in-app purchases – Download now
Recolor
Recolor
Recolor
Recolor takes the whole digital coloring thing to the next level with 3D objects that you can actually color all sides of. Grab a soda can or ceramic vase and turn it into a virtual work of art. There are more than a dozen categories with hundreds of illustrations.
Recolor uses the tap-to-fill style of coloring, which can be very helpful when you are trying to fill in those tiny objects. In addition to the flat color gamut, you can upgrade to gradients and “Live” colors, which make things have a sort of swirling effect.
You can submit your artwork to the Recolor gallery where others in the community can “Like” your stuff.
My favorite tool in Recolor, though, is the scanner. You can scan in illustrations and color them digitally. I have a couple of vintage Star Wars comic books that I’ve been afraid to jump into because I don’t want to ruin their value. Recolor’s scanner lets me color the pages without affecting the original book
If you like fill-in style coloring, but want a lot of hue options, give Recolor a try.
Free with in-app purchases – Download now
Colorest
Colorest iPad
If you’re looking for an adult coloring book app that will let you fully express yourself with different colors and effects, then Colorest is a good choice.
With Colorest, you get a large variety of different coloring pencil sets, including rainbow and even glitter pencils that actually sparkle when they’re used. The rainbow pencil features about six colors at once, and it definitely offers a unique effect. There are also multiple ways to color, including different brushes, and full Apple Pencil support.
Colorest also features different canvas types, which will alter the end result. The app includes wood, carpet, and even underwater. There are also plenty of different coloring books available in Colorest, from mandala to entangle to girl’s life to middle earth, and more. Once you’re done coloring, you can put your art in an AR frame to share it with friends and family.
Free with in-app purchases – Download Now
Colorgram
Colorgram iPad
Colorgram is jam-packed with thousands of pictures for you to color, including mandalas, patterns, animals, florals, and other beautiful pieces of artwork.
If the initial download isn’t enough to satisfy you, there are always images being added daily, which you’ll be able to access with a premium subscription. Colorgram also has a ton of colors to choose from, and while the app is designed with adults in mind, it’s still great for younger boys and girls thanks to the variety of images. Once you’re done coloring, you can watch a time-lapse video of your coloring from start to finish, and there are even cool effects that you can add to finalize the art’s beauty.
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