If you are looking to improve your productivity you should definitely consider getting apps for your ipad as a helpful supplement. If you use the pad for work purposes, you can have apps that can control the tasks you need to do and monitor your online time.
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Best Apps For Ipad Productivity
Fantastical
Fantastical iPad
The second thing you may think about when being productive is your schedule. After all, how are you supposed to get things done if you don’t have a calendar to put down all of your important events and such?
Fantastical is my favorite calendar app on iPad, as well as my iPhone and Macs. With Fantastical, you get a beautiful and streamlined interface that is as easy on the eyes as it is to use. You can view the weekly ticker, the entire month, as well as your upcoming agenda all at once on the iPad. Creating new events or reminders (integrates with Apple’s Reminders app) is super easy thanks to the natural language input system that it uses. And if you ever need to search for something, the handy search feature lets you go through all of your events, whether past, current, or future.
$10 – Download Now
Spark
Spark iPad
Email can be a pain, but Spark is an app that helps make managing your inbox easier.
With Spark, you can add multiple email accounts and manage them all at once with Spark’s Smart Inbox system. This organizes all of your emails into separate categories: Personal, Notifications, and Newsletters. You can also turn on Smart Notifications per account, which will only alert you to messages from senders that you may not want to miss out on, rather than being bombarded with notifications for everything. It also has other useful features like scheduling emails for later, snoozing, pinning important messages, search, integrations with many third-party apps and services, and much more.
I’ve been using Spark for years, and it definitely helps me with managing my mess of an inbox.
Free – Download Now
Scanbot
Scanbot iPad
Scanning important documents to have a digital copy should be something that all of us are doing. But having a physical scanner may not be something that all of us have. Fortunately, there’s Scanbot.
With Scanbot, you can launch the app and use your iPad’s camera right away to scan a document. It’s very good at detecting sheets of paper and will get the edges right and all that in a matter of moments. If not, the app tells you to get closer and to not move so that it can capture the scan nicely. Scanbot supports multiple page documents, has filters that you can apply that affect the scan quality (if you want it like a color photo or just black and white, etc.), and works with various third-party cloud storage solutions for uploading. You can organize all of your scans into folders right in Scanbot itself, and there is also a faxing functionality if you need it.
Free with in-app purchases – Download Now
Bear
Bear
If you intend on being productive, you can’t go without some kind of writing or text editing app, right? And Bear is a great option to consider.
Bear gives you a stunningly beautiful and simple interface that won’t interfere with your writing. In fact, it’ll help you focus more on the words, rather than tinkering around with various settings as you write. You can even drop in images directly into your documents, as well as web clips, files, sketches and drawings, and more. Bear also makes use of tags for organization, and the search functionality helps you find exactly what you need.
Bear is free to download and use, with some limitations. If you want to get the most out of Bear, including access to different themes, full iCloud syncing, advanced Export options, and more, you’ll need to get Bear Pro. Pro costs $1.49 a month, or $15 a year.
Free with in-app purchases – Download Now
Documents
Documents
While Apple includes Files in iPadOS now, you may still need something that’s more robust and powerful than the default option. That’s when you need Documents by Readdle.
This all-in-one file hub can replace your document viewer, PDF reader, “read it later,” music and video player, file downloader, cloud integrator, and more. You can pull in your files stored on a variety of third-party services, including iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, and more. Documents does everything you would need it to with your files, including zipping and unzipping, editing and creating, viewing, sharing, storing, and more. All of your stuff can also be protected with a password too, in case you don’t want others getting into your files.
Free – Download Now
Yoink
Yoink
If you’re on an iPad, you may be working with multiple apps at once. And when you need to get some items from one app to another, there is no better app for the job than Yoink.
Yoink is essentially a place to temporarily store items that you want to use later in another app. It helps eliminate the need to go back-and-forth so much and streamlines the process. The best way to use Yoink is to have it as a Slide Over app on top of two other apps that you’re working in with Split View mode. Drag items like photos and video clips, text, files, web snippets, URLs, emails, and other items into Yoink to store them temporarily. Then move Yoink over and drag those items into your destination app.
To make things even easier, Yoink also has a keyboard so you can move items stored in Yoink into other apps without having to launch Yoink. There’s even iCloud syncing for all of your items, Handoff support, an action extension, and more. Yoink is one of those apps that you’ll wonder how you did without.
$6 – Download Now
Best ipad productivity apps free
Tiny Tools
The iPad comes with dozens of built-in and bundled apps—but it still doesn’t include a calculator, among other tiny utilities you might miss. When you wish it were easier to move files around, or a quicker way to crunch numbers than asking Siri, here are tools to help.
PCalc (iOS, macOS)
To add a powerful calculator to iPad
Pcalc
iPad surprisingly doesn’t come with a calculator app. If you want the iPhone’s calculator on iPad, the free PCalc Lite is perfect. Or, get the full PCalc for an advanced, customizable calculator that makes the most of your iPad screen.
It’s much like an oversized scientific calculator when you first open it. You can then open a sidebar on the left with quick unit conversions, a running history of everything you’ve calculated, and standard functions and constants for advanced calculations. PCalc includes several retro calculator themes, along with a Notification Center widget to crunch numbers without opening an app. It’s everything you need in a calculator.
PCalc Price: Free Lite version for basic calculator; $9.99 for full version
Scanbot
To easily scan or fax documents from your iPad
Scanbot
The camera feels a bit out of place on an iPad, as it’s unwieldy to take photos with a 10″ device. But Scanbot puts it to good use. It can scan almost anything, automatically detecting the edges of your page (especially if you have the page on a dark background for strong contrast) and snapping a straight shot even if you’re not holding your iPad level.
You can then save and export your scanned documents, or with its in-app purchases use optical character recognition to copy text from your scans, annotate scanned documents, and more. It can even send a scanned document as a fax from $0.99/page. It’s an easy way to take your remaining documents paperless.
Scanbot Price: Free for core scanning tools; $4.99 in-app purchase for OCR and search; $6.99 in-app purchase for Scanbot Pro with full features including annotation and signatures
Check out our roundup of scanning and fax apps for other scanning tools for Android, Macs, and PCs.
Gladys
To drag-and-drop text and files between apps easily
Gladys iPad
iPads today make multitasking rather easy. Open two apps side by side, and you can drag text, images, links, and more between them. Only, often the app you want to drag something to isn’t the one you have open right now. Gladys solves that with a popover app where you can drag files and more to store. Then open your other app, open Gladys’ popover, and drag out the items you want to use.
Gladys can even pull more details out from the items you copy. Copy text, and it could paste the plain or rich text version of the text—or even the HTML formatted text if you copied it online. It remembers the original link from images, so you can easily credit them. It’s a handy way to move things around on your iPad and get more done without switching between apps.
Gladys Price: Free to hold up to 10 items; $0.99 in-app purchase for unlimited items
Things (iOS, macOS)
To manage projects from your iPad’s keyboard
Things for iPad
Things is one of the original iOS to-do list apps, and its latest version has quickly become one of the most popular ways to get things done from anywhere. It’s a rare to-do list app that includes nearly the same features in its iPad and Mac apps. You can organize tasks in lists, organize those lists with sub-headings and notes, and drag tasks into the order you want—something perfect for planning on the iPad’s screen.
Then, if you have a keyboard connected, you can manage your projects even faster with Things’ detailed iPad keyboard shortcuts. You can make new projects and tasks, move tasks around, search through tasks, complete them, and more without ever touching your screen. It’s a beautiful and productive way to get things done.
Things Price: $19.99
→ There are tons of to-do list apps for the iPad, so compare the best in our roundup of the 40 best to-do list apps for more options that work on Windows and Android as well.
Focus Keeper
To make the most of every minute with a Pomodoro timer
Focus Keeper
iPad full-screen apps make it easy to focus. But distractions are only a notification away, and if you work on the same thing too long, you might end up burning out before finishing the project. Focus Keeper is a pomodoro timer for iPad to help.
Start a timer, and Focus Keeper will count down for 25 minutes before reminding you to stop for a break. By default it has a ticking clock sound in the background; you can turn that off if you find it distracting. Once the time is up, take your short break, then restart the timer and start on the next task, and repeat through the rest of your workday. iPad apps can’t track everything you do, as tools like RescueTime do on Macs and PCs, but Focus Keeper will count how many of your pomodoro periods you worked through along with how quickly you started work again. As long as you’re honest with yourself and don’t get distracted during a timed session, it can be a great way to keep track of how productive you’ve been each day.
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