In the world of web design, it’s important to keep up with the latest tools, trends, and technologies. That’s why we’ve rounded up some of the best web design tools for iPad Pro.
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Best Web Design Tools Ipad Pro
Adobe Ideas
Adobe Ideas is a digital sketchbook app from Adobe that allows you to draw out content on your iPad including finger-drawn wireframes and other planning-oriented drawings. Adobe Ideas is a great app to just sketch on, anywhere you are, doing so naturally with your finger.
Adobe Ideas features all the basic tools including size and opacity sliders for your mark. For an in-app purchase (which is marketed as a “premium feature” even though Adobe now charges for the basic app), you can also get layers functionality to build up your drawings layer-by-layer.
Adobe Ideas is a $5.99 app available in the App Store for iPhone and iPad, although layers require a $0.99 in-app purchase.
iMockups
Where Adobe Ideas is mainly a general sketchbook app, iMockups is something much more specific. Through its apt name, you can likely guess that iMockups is an app for creating mockups and wireframes for websites and iPhomne/iPad apps.
Like many wireframing tools, the main creation process consists of using a bunch of pre-design elements and arranging them on your canvas. When you have them on, modal controls allow you to move them to pixel perfection by using nudges or co-ordinates.
iMockups is great for rapid wireframing, especially when you’re away from your desk. It’s available on the App Store for $6.99.
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Mocking Pad
Mocking Pad is another wireframing app with a similar story to iMockups. The app allows users to pull in a number of elements branded with the Marker Felt-style font that has become synonymous with wireframing apps.
Mocking Pad is $9.99 in the App Store.
OmniGraffle
OmniGraffle is one of the more expensive apps on the App Store, clocking in at $49.99, and it’s all about the planning stage. OmniGraffle is a planning app for creating diagrams, charts, wireframes and other layouts that’s promoted as being highly adaptable to a bunch of different situations including web and graphic design. OmniGraffle uses the multitouch input of your iPad to help you do everything from basic, freehand drawings to extensive, structured charts.
The app is available for $49.99 on the App Store. However, you should note that reviews criticise export limitations and the near-requirement to have a Mac if you want to edit files off the iPad since OmniGraffle is not available for Windows.
SketchyPad
One more wireframing app for iPad is SketchyPad. Like all the others, SketchyPad allows you to create wireframes and plans for your web designs on the go on your iPad. While the concept of what the app does is majorly the same as the others, SketchyPad does so with a little bit more color than the monochromatic-based elements of the others.
SketchyPad is in the App Store for $4.99.
Dropbox
Now we’re moving into the apps you can actually use in the creation stage of web design. Dropbox is more of a behind-the-scenes utility that can be used for syncing content between your multiple devices so a document on your iPad can be fully synced with your computer, and vice versa.
Dropbox is also integrated into some of the other apps on this list which has an almost-silent footprint on your workflow yet facilitates the syncing of your documents between devices.
Dropbox is a free app on the App Store and a free account will get you 2GB of storage space with paid, more spacious plans available.
Evernote
Evernote is a notetaking and archiving app that’s not web design-specific but can be used within a designer’s workflow. In web design, Evernote can be a great way of storing inspirational imagery and ideas to be later recalled across one of your connected devices.
This iPad app has been placed on a ton of honorable lists including the New York Times’ “Top 10 Must-Have Apps”. It is available for free on the App Store, with paid plans available for higher storage and other features, including offline notebooks.
Adobe Photoshop Express
Adobe Photoshop Express is another app from Adobe which is less focused on creating new images (like Adobe Ideas) and more on editing existing ones. That means, should you be using your iPad as a web design device, it’s really simple to do some light image editing including cropping, rotation, exposure/saturation manipulation and applying borders and effects.
Adobe Photoshop Express is available on the App Store for free. There is a $4.99 in-app purchase too which gives you the “Adobe Camera Pack”, a set of tools for your phone/tablet/iPod camera.
Textastic
Textastic is a versatile text editing app for iPad, an app I used to use a lot. Textastic includes all the basic functionality of a good text editor such as syntax highlighting, line numbering, line/character count, previews and more.
Additionally, Textastic is one of those apps I previously mentioned with Dropbox support, allowing you to work on a site on your iPad and have it sync to your other devices (and vice versa).
Textastic is available in the App Store for $9.99.
Gusto
Like Textastic, Gusto is a code editing application that allows the iPad to become a real productivity platform. Many Mac-based web designers choose to use Coda, and Gusto shares many similar features including a “Sites”-esque file system that organizes your files by each of your different products.
Of course, just like Textastic, Gusto includes all the basic traits of a good code editor including syntax highlighting, line numbering etc. Gusto also includes built-in support for file transfer over FTP and SFTP which shares some of the benefits syncing over a service like Dropbox provides.
Gusto is available for $9.99 in the App Store.
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1. Adobe Photoshop Sketch
Think of Adobe Photoshop Sketch as a bigger and better version of your analog sketchbook. The next time you’re away from your computer and your next best design idea strikes, whip out the app and use their assortment of brushes, pens, and shapes to get it all down on a digital piece of paper. You can even use grids to add another level of precision, and insert photos from your personal or Adobe stock library for reference.
When you get home, you have the option of easily importing your sketch into the desktop version of Photoshop to polish it off. The interface is simple enough that it feels intuitive, so we highly recommend you try it out!
2. What The Font
As a graphic designer, you probably notice beautiful typography when you’re out and about in the real world. The next time you stumble upon a nice-looking piece of type on a sign or a billboard, snap a photo of it and upload it to the What The Font. The app almost instantly recognizes the font or presents you with similar alternatives to choose from. This free version of the popular online tool is perfect for font lovers or graphic designers looking to add new typography to their repertoire.
Hopefully, having this app on-hand will also encourage you to get outside more and find inspiration in the old fashioned way.
3. Vectornator X
The Vectornator X app is an intuitive vector graphic software enabling you to create awesome digital work straight from your iPad or iPhone. The design tools offered within the app are very similar in function to those in Adobe Illustrator, so if you’re already familiar with AI, the learning curve here will not be so steep.
In fact, you can even export your Vectornator work directly into Adobe Illustrator to continue working there afterward if you wanted to. Alternatively, import your unfinished work from any Creative Cloud software so you can continue working on it, on the go within Vectornator.
4. Pocket Palette
Color enthusiasts, this one is especially for you. With Pocket Palette, you can create an infinite amount of customizable color palettes from scratch or from a photo, straight from your iPad. Add or remove the number of colors in your palette and fine-tune each color’s hex code to reach your desired shade and tint. Save all of your favorite creations so you have them handy in the app whenever you need to pull them out and use them in your next design.
The next time you’re on the move, snap a photo of something that catches your eye, and try creating a color palette out of it using this app!
5. Adobe Capture
Are you a designer that loves taking photos to fuel your inspiration? If so, Adobe Capture might just become your new favorite design tool and photo editing software. Using the app, harness the power of your smartphone or iPad’s high definition camera to create custom brushes, textures, color schemes, and even scalable vectors from the photos you take. Save all of these to your Creative Cloud account so you can use them the next time you open up Adobe software on your desktop computer.
The editing tools offered in this app are top-notch and will surely encourage you to gather even more inspiration during your daily adventures outside the house!
With technology constantly evolving, graphic design software no longer has to solely live on a bulky desktop computer. If you own an Apple iPad or even an iPhone, try using these mobile graphic design tools the next time you’re out and about. Remember inspiration can strike at any moment, so don’t shy away from letting your creativity run wild during your everyday experiences — you now have the best apps out there to document your best ideas.
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