It took Apple several attempts to get the iPad keyboard right. The first iterations were bulky and PC-like. But the current Smart Keyboard does away with the mushy keys and is for the most part extremely accurate. The built-in trackpad doesn’t hurt either. And, like other accessories designed for the iPad Pro (such as the Magic Keyboard), it’s perfect for work-at-home professionals looking to hide their MacBooks in a drawer.
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Best Apps For Ipad Pro 2020
Procreate
Procreate
Procreate
Progreate
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
Source: Serif Labs
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.
Paper Logo
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.
Best apps for ipad pro for students
- NOTES PLUS
This nifty app enables you to go completely paperless! It allows users to convert handwriting into typed text and has an automatic shape detection, ideal for note taking during lectures. The conversion tool means you can scribble down as much as you can as quickly as possible and not have to worry about retyping it out later. Notes Plus lets you insert images from your photo gallery or directly from the camera, and if you want to import a PDF or DOC file to annotate, it has that function too.
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You’ll never run out of space when writing either, as you can keep scrolling with your finger endlessly as you write more. If you make a mistake, simply scribble it out with your Apple Pencil and it disappears!
- ULYSSES
This particular app is fab for those studying Creative Writing or Journalism, or for those who just simply love to write! The library holds everything you’ll ever write and is equipped for managing writing projects of all sizes whether that be a novel or a poem.
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With iCloud, your whole library syncs back and fourth with the connected devices, so you can work on your writing anywhere whether that be on your Mac or iPhone. What’s really cool about this app, is that it can turn your writing into a beautiful looking PDF, Word document and eBook. You can export the content to HTML ready for you to publish anywhere and can even publish to WordPress if you fancy working on your blog.
- MICROSOFT APPS
You’ll always need access to some form of Microsoft App at uni, whether that be Outlook to check your emails or Microsoft Word to work on that essay you’ve been dreading!
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The iPad Pro also allows you to have a ‘split view’ on your device, so if you want to have your email open whilst working on a project on PowerPoint, you can. Remember though, you will have to have a qualifying Office 365 plan, all being well it should work with your university email address.
- FANTASTICAL 2
This app is brilliant at organizing your events in a list, whether that be a month or week view, all on the same screen. There’s also a reminder feature within the app just in case you need that extra nudge when an assignment is due! You can use it across all your other Apple products too, whether that be your iPhone or Mac.
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It enables you to add your existing calendar accounts directly to the app and keep all your events in sync. Another great feature of Fantastical is that it lets you quickly upload files or images from the app to your iCloud, Google, or Exchange events. When scheduling an event with invitees, the app lets you see their availability to help you find a time that works for everyone, which is very handy for scheduling study time or group work with your uni pals.
- EVERNOTE
We all love a good to-do list! This app is one of the best-known apps for planning tasks and events. It has the ability to add video and attatch Word documents and PDFs to your to-do lists. You can organise tasks and set reminders to share with fellow students.
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Evernote has a great function that allows you to organise notes by different ‘notebooks’, you can choose to either make it private or share it with collaborators or fellow classmates. You could create a new notebook for each of your university modules, that way your university notes won’t get jumbled or confusing, genius!
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