Apps set the iPad apart from other tablets, whether you need to work on office tasks, learn something new, make music, watch a movie or become a digital artist.<\/p>\n
But which apps are worth your cash and time? We’ve tested thousands to come up with our definitive list of the best apps for iPad right now.<\/p>\n
You’ll find them split into categories on the following pages, but first see below for our favorite iPad app of the last two weeks.<\/p>\n
Fantastical<\/u><\/a>’s developer reasons that a calendar is most helpful when it saves you time, rather than merely keeping track of where your time goes. Therefore, although this iPad app works with your existing calendar data (be that iCloud, Exchange or Google), it also offers various clever features to help speed things along.<\/p>\n In the main view, a scrolling ticker quickly gets you to events, past and present. Integrated weather forecasts ensure you won’t be caught unawares by a sudden shower – at your current locale or wherever an event is taking place.<\/p>\n There are also very ‘human’ touches – the way Fantastical can quickly interpret natural language while you create events; the means to offer event participants multiple time slots, and have the app figure out scheduling based on responses. In all, it amounts to a calendar that’s just as usable as Apple’s, but that helps you become far more productive.<\/p>\n Our favorite iPad apps for painting, sketching, drawing, CAD, pixel art, graphic design and animation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Procreate<\/a> is a painting app that marries the kind of clout pros need with an immediacy that makes it approachable for newcomers. The interface is stripped back, with tools accessed from a bar at the top of the screen, and brush size\/opacity from sliders on the left. Two-, three- and four-finger taps trigger undo, redo, and full-screen respectively.<\/p>\n Beyond the basics, Procreate has a range of tools for all kinds of creative endeavors. Animation Assistant converts layers to frames in a GIF. Quickline snaps strokes to straight lines and shapes. Powerful transform and adjustment tools allow you to warp a selection and tweak colors.<\/p>\n For artists, Brush Studio will be the real prize. It can import Photoshop brushes (and run them faster than Photoshop), or you can fashion custom creations from a dizzying array of settings and sliders. So whether you’re an old master or a budding artist, this is a superb, affordable, powerful, usable app.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Imaengine Vector<\/u><\/a> is two apps in one. In its most basic form, it’s a photo filter app. Load a picture or use your iPad to take a photo, and you can select from a number of filters. Most of them are eye-popping, transforming your image to anything from ink sketch to abstract art.<\/p>\n That alone is worth the outlay, but tap the ‘editor’ button and Imaengine Vector transforms into a full editing package, enabling you to adjust every stroke, and add to the image with lines and shapes of your own.<\/p>\n The app’s interface is a touch esoteric, and would do better if it avoided shoving all the buttons right at the edge of the iPad’s display. But that’s the only major shortfall in this powerful app, which can produce some seriously arresting visuals.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Live Home 3D<\/u><\/a> is for people who fancy partaking in some interior design. Whether you want to experiment with your own home, or design an entirely new one, there are plenty of tools here for doing so – in 2D and 3D alike.<\/p>\n Even for free, there’s loads to delve into, from creating bespoke floor plans to projecting your finished masterwork on to real-world surroundings in AR. Thousands of materials and models are available to deck your virtual home out so that it resembles the real thing.<\/p>\n There are two paid tiers: Standard ($9.99\/£9.99\/AU$14.99) removes watermarks and is flexible regarding import\/export; Pro ($19.99\/£19.99\/AU$30.99) gives you more customization in terms of drawing, output quality, and light editing. In all versions, the app is powerful, usable, and entertaining.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Linea Sketch<\/u><\/a> carefully balances power, ease of use and control to help you capture visual ideas.<\/p>\n Rather than drowning you in features and toolbars, tools sit in slimline strips at the side of the screen.This makes it a cinch to select colors, work across five layers (into which you can import photos), choose backgrounds and grids, and get on with sketching. You can adjust the thickness of pen lines, block in areas with a fill tool, use a blend tool to make your work feel less digital, and convert rough scribbles to adjustable geometric polygons by way of ZipShapes.<\/p>\n This still isn’t a full-fledged artist package – you’d need Procreate for that – but as a base for visual notes, quick design sketches, and drawing without fuss, there’s nothing better on iPad.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Affinity Designer<\/u><\/a> brings desktop-grade vector illustration to iPad. Its huge range of tools are ideally suited to anything from high-end illustrations through to interface design. Every stroke always remains editable, and you can zoom to an absurd degree, and never lose detail.<\/p>\n The app works nicely with Apple Pencil or your own digits, and has a smart gestural system where holding fingers on the screen mirrors desktop keyboard modifiers. Elsewhere, you can pinch layers to group them, or drag one layer on to another to create a mask.<\/p>\n This is an app you can get lost in – but in a good way. The more you use it, the more you realize its sheer scope. And it even shares a file format with Affinity Photo, so you can bounce documents between the two without losing anything.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Core Animator<\/u><\/a> is an app for creating motion graphics on your iPad. If you’ve ever seen Adobe Animate (formerly Flash), you’ll feel at home. If not, the app might take longer to get to grips with, but you’re helped along by built-in tutorials and Core Animator’s usable, logical interface.<\/p>\n The basics involve adding objects to a canvas and manipulating them at various ‘keyframes’ on the timeline. You can adjust each one’s position, rotation, scale, and opacity, and Core Animator deals with all the frames in between.<\/p>\n It’s worth noting there are no drawing tools, so you must import elements created elsewhere. The app also demands time and patience, but give it both and you can end up with superb results.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Concepts<\/u><\/a> is an advanced vector-based sketching and design app. Every stroke remains editable, and similar flexibility is evident elsewhere, with varied grids (dot; lined; isometric), definable gestures, and an adjustable interface.<\/p>\n With version 5, Concepts’ design revamp transformed the main toolbar into a space-efficient tool wheel, from which Copic swatches pleasingly explode when you switch colors. As such, the app’s a touch alien at first, and can be fiddly if you don’t have a Pencil.<\/p>\n But Concepts soon becomes natural and fluid in use, and it’s apparent the app’s been designed for touch, rather than a developer hammering desktop concepts into your iPad.<\/p>\n If you’re not a professional architect, illustrator or the like it might be overkill, but if you’re unsure, you can get a feel for the app for free. IAPs subsequently allow you to unlock shape guides, SVG and PDF export, infinite layers, and object packs.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Clip Studio Paint Ex for manga<\/u><\/a> brings the popular PC desktop app for digital artists to the iPad. And we mean that almost literally – Clip Studio looks pretty much identical to the desktop release.<\/p>\n In one sense, this isn’t great news – menus, for example, are fiddly to access, but it does mean you get a feature-rich, powerful app. There are loads of brushes and tools, vector capabilities, effect lines and tones for comic art, and onion skinning for animations. It also takes full advantage of Pencil, so pro artists can be freed from the desktop, and work wherever they like.<\/p>\n The app could do with better export and desktop workflow integration, and even some fans might be irked by the subscription model. But Clip Studio’s features and quality mean most will muddle through the former issues and pay for the latter.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With visible pixels essentially eradicated from modern mobile device screens, it’s amusing to see retro-style pixel art stubbornly clinging on.<\/p>\n But chunky pixels are a pleasing aesthetic, evoking nostalgia, and you know thought’s gone into the placement of every dot. Pixaki<\/u><\/a> is an iPad pixel art ‘studio’, ideal for illustrators, games designers, and animators.<\/p>\n At its most minimal, the interface shows your canvas and some tool icons: pencil; eraser; fill; shapes; select; color picker. But there are also slide-in panels for layers\/palettes, and the frame-based animation system.<\/p>\n Bar a slightly awkward selection\/move process, workflow is sleek and efficient (not least with the superb fill tool, which optionally works non-contiguously across multiple layers), and the app has robust, flexible import and export options.<\/p>\n Perhaps most importantly, Pixaki’s just really nice to use – more so than crafting similar art on a PC or Mac, and although pricey it’s worth the money for anyone serious about pixel art.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Animation can be painstaking, whether doing it for your career or just for fun. Fortunately, Stop Motion Studio Pro<\/u><\/a> streamlines the process, providing a sleek and efficient app for your next animated masterpiece.<\/p>\n It caters to various kinds of animation: you can use your iPad’s camera to capture a scene, import images or videos (which are broken down into stills), or use a remote app installed on an iPhone. Although most people will export raw footage to the likes of iMovie, Stop Motion Pro shoots for a full animation suite by including audio and title capabilities.<\/p>\n There are some snags. Moving frames requires an awkward copy\/paste\/delete workaround. Also, drawing tools are clumsy, making the app’s claim of being capable of rotoscoping a tad suspect. But as an affordable and broadly usable app for crafting animation, it fits the bill.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There are plenty of apps that enable you to add comic-like filters and the odd speech balloon to your photos, but Comic Life 3<\/u><\/a> goes the whole hog regarding comic creation. You select from pre-defined templates or basic page layouts, and can then begin working on a Marvel-worrying masterpiece.<\/p>\n Importing images is straightforward, and you get plenty of control over sound effects and speech balloons. For people who are perhaps taking things a bit too seriously (or actual comic creators, who can use this app for quick mock-ups), there’s a bundled script editor as well.<\/p>\n Oddly, Comic Life 3’s filters aren’t that impressive, not making your photos look especially hand-drawn. But otherwise the app is an excellent means of crafting stories on an iPad, and you can export your work in a range of formats to share with friends – and Stan Lee.<\/p>\n Our favorite iPad apps for learning something new – from astronomy to human history.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Codea<\/a> wants you to use your iPad for creating things – specifically other iPad apps and games. Built around the Lua programming language, Codea is a code editor with a friendlier face than most – to change a color, you just tap and drag; if you get stuck, reference materials are built in. Once you’re done, press play and you can watch your code run, and interact with what you’ve made.<\/p>\n Although you can’t expect to fire up Codea and be troubling the App Store charts within a week, there are many examples you can mess around with, which help you understand the fundamentals of a game or 3D graphics.<\/p>\n If you’re still a bit suspicious that an app exists for creating other apps, do be mindful that there are already apps<\/a> and games<\/a> made with Codea available for download. So why not make one yourself?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Brian Cox’s Wonders of Life<\/a> hints at the future of consumable media. At its core, this is an educational journey into over 30 creatures and their habitats. You learn how living things on Earth are interlinked, and the way in which everything is constructed from the same fundamental building blocks.<\/p>\n It’s the presentation, though, that sets the app apart. The main interface comprises sets of 3D scenes you can twirl and explore. Embedded within, you’ll find over a thousand high-res images, short videos narrated by Brian Cox and engaging essays.<\/p>\n The result is something that borrows from magazines, books, television and apps, successfully merging them all into something new. Especially on the larger screen of the iPad, the dazzling visuals and text alike all get a chance to shine.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Solar Walk 2<\/a> is a digital orrery. It offers a stylized 3D view of the solar system, and tapping on any planet or moon whisks you toward it within seconds, like you’re piloting a rocket from NASA’s dreams.<\/p>\n The view can be manipulated by standard iOS gestures, although this app is also really nice to just leave in a docked iPad so you can watch moons and planets orbit their parents.<\/p>\n When you want to science things up a bit, though, the app’s ready and willing. An interactive facts panel provides stats, graphs, and the means to crack open a planet to see what’s inside. Add some IAP and you can travel with famous space missions like Voyager 1. In all, it’s a cracking alternative to a real-world orrery – and a lot more portable and interactive, too!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Human Anatomy Atlas 2018<\/u><\/a> represents a leap forward for iPad education apps and digital textbooks alike. In short, it turns your iPad into an anatomy lab – and augmented reality extends this to nearby flat surfaces.<\/p>\n You can explore your virtual cadaver by region or system. Additionally, you can examine cross-sections, micro-anatomy (eyes; bone layers; touch receptors, and so on), and muscle actions. If you want to learn what makes you tick, it’s fascinating to spin a virtual body beneath your finger, and ‘dissect’ it by removing sections.<\/p>\n But the AR element is a real prize, giving you a captivating, slightly unnerving virtual body to explore. Ideal fodder for medical students, then, but great even for the simply curious. And although it’s pricey for the latter audience, the app’s often on sale, and has dropped as low as $0.99\/£0.99\/AU$1.49. Snap it up if you see it cheap.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There are quite a few dictionary apps on iPad, and most of them don’t tend to stray much from paper-based tomes, save adding a search function. LookUp<\/u><\/a> has a more colorful way of thinking, primarily with its entry screen. This features rows of illustrated cards, each of which houses an interesting word you can discover more about with a tap.<\/p>\n The app is elsewhere a mite more conventional – you can type in a word to confirm a spelling, and access its meaning, etymology, and Wikipedia entry.<\/p>\n The app’s lack of speed and customization means it likely won’t be a writer’s first port of call when working – but it is an interesting app for anyone fascinated by language, allowing you to explore words and their histories in rather more relaxed circumstances.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The ‘pro’ bit in Redshift Pro<\/u><\/a>’s name is rather important, because this astronomy app is very much geared at the enthusiast. It dispenses with the gimmickry seen in some competing apps, and is instead packed with a ton of features, including an explorable planetarium, an observation planner and sky diary, 3D models of the planetary bodies, simulations, and even the means to control a telescope.<\/p>\n Although more workmanlike than pretty, the app does the business when you’re zooming through the heavens, on a 3D journey to a body of choice, or just lazily browsing whatever you’d be staring at in the night sky if your ceiling wasn’t in the way.<\/p>\n And if it all feels a bit rich, the developer has you covered with the slightly cut down – but still impressive – Redshift<\/u><\/a>, for half the outlay.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There are quite a few apps for virtual stargazing, but Sky Guide<\/u><\/a> is the best of them on iPad. Like its rivals, the app allows you to search the heavens in real-time, providing details of constellations and satellites in your field of view (or, if you fancy, on the other side of the world).<\/p>\n Also, when outside during the daytime (at which point stars are inconveniently invisible to the naked eye), you can use augmented reality to map constellations on to a blue sky.<\/p>\n Indoors, it transforms into a kind of reference guide, offering further insight into distant heavenly bodies, and the means to view the sky at different points in history. What sets Sky Guide apart, though, is an effortless elegance. It’s simply the nicest app of its kind to use, with a polish and refinement that cements its essential nature.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When you’re told you can control the forces of nature with your fingertips that probably puts you more in mind of a game than a book. And, in a sense, Earth Primer<\/u><\/a> does gamify learning about our planet. You get a series of engaging and interactive explanatory pages, and a free-for-all sandbox that cleverly only unlocks its full riches when you’ve read the rest of the book.<\/p>\n Although ultimately designed for children, it’s a treat for all ages, likely to plaster a grin across the face of anyone from 9 to 90 when a volcano erupts from their fingertips.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Touch Press somewhat cornered the market in amazing iOS books with The Elements, but Journeys of Invention<\/u><\/a> takes things a step further. In partnership with the Science Museum, it leads you through many of science’s greatest discoveries, weaving them into a compelling mesh of stories.<\/p>\n Many objects can be explored in detail, and some are more fully interactive, such as the Enigma machine, which you can use to share coded messages with friends.<\/p>\n What’s especially great is that none of this feels gimmicky. Instead, this app points towards the future of books, strong content being married to useful and engaging interactivity.<\/p>\n Our favorite iPad apps for having fun with your iPad, whether reading, watching TV, using Twitter or delving into interactive art.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n EōN by Jean-Michel Jarre<\/a> exists in a similar territory to the algorithmically generated audio apps released on iPad by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers. Only instead of an endless river of generative ambient audio, you get something akin to an infinite Jarre remix.<\/p>\n This all works better than you might think, with Jarre’s trademark synth washes, electronic beats, and flickering riffs dancing about in a mix that never repeats itself. Although there are quite clearly defined ‘tracks’ of sorts, they’re different every time you fire up the app.<\/p>\n On iPad in particular, the visual component gets a chance to shine. On the larger display, the resulting effect is a little like a desktop Jarre concert – and unlimited iterations for the price of a single new album seems like quite the bargain.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tayasui Color 2<\/a> is a rare iPad coloring app, in that it’s properly premium and doesn’t delve into the murky world of subscriptions. That means it’s more limited than its contemporaries – you get just 18 illustrations – but you’re not forking out for something you may only dip into on occasion.<\/p>\n The app has other benefits, too, not least a beautiful design that makes it feel like the most tactile offering on the platform. The illustrations sit within a flip book of virtual stiff card pages. As you color, sound effects mimic real-world tools, which is especially mesmerizing if you’re using a stylus. <\/p>\n There is one minor issue, in the illustrations not scaling as well as they might when you zoom in – they get a bit blurry. But otherwise, this is a wonderful premium take on iPad coloring.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Infuse Pro 6<\/u><\/a> is a video player for people who prefer hoarding over streaming. If you’ve curated a collection of favorites, Infuse can get them on your iPad, wherever they happen to be stored.<\/p>\n Unlike equivalent apps, Infuse doesn’t need a server running. Point it at a local network drive, a PC\/Mac, or cloud storage, and it will browse folders, load cover art, and – on a tap – stream whatever you choose. There’s support for a wide range of formats, subtitles can be downloaded in an instant, and iCloud syncs your library and playback progress across devices (including Apple TV).<\/p>\n If you’re unsure, a free version<\/u><\/a> exists. Unless you upgrade via subscription, it has fewer features, although remains extremely capable. But if you’re really serious about video on your iPad, this pay-once edition is well worth the outlay.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Reeder 4<\/u><\/a> is a premium RSS client. You subscribe to website feeds, which can be browsed individually or as a whole, ensuring you never miss an article from favorite sources.<\/p>\n Although you can opt to view the original web pages, you’re better off with Reeder’s own reader, which removes cruft, leaving you with just text and images. For sites that only provide synopses, entire articles can be loaded with a touch of a button. There’s also a ‘Bionic Reading’ mode can also be invoked, emboldening specific letters in words to slow you down, so you take in more of the text.<\/p>\n Despite the odd flub (a default theme that very much needs the ‘increase contrast’ option on; finicky animations), Reeder remains ahead of the pack. It’s a must-buy if you want a better way to take in news and other articles on your iPad.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n David Bowie is…<\/u><\/a> takes 2013’s blockbuster Bowie exhibition and stuffs it inside of your iPad as an AR experience.<\/p>\n Curated by theme rather than chronologically, the exhibition is a set of interactive scenes, ‘projected’ onto your desktop. Optional narration by Gary Oldman adds backstory as you examine lyrics, costumes and videos, exploring the life of a music icon.<\/p>\n On iPad, David Bowie is… works especially well. The screen’s squarer aspect ratio makes examining content less awkward than on iPhone, and the larger display lets everything shine. The only thing that might give you pause is the price, but for far less than a ticket to the original exhibition, you get unlimited access to all the goodies – including dozens of songs and videos – without having to peer over other people’s shoulders.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bloom: 10 Worlds<\/u><\/a> is the follow-up to 2008’s Bloom, which never made it to iPad. That app had you tap the screen to simultaneously play notes and create spots of color. The former looped and slowly evolved; the latter disappeared into the background like ripples in a pond.<\/p>\n 10 Worlds expands this premise out from a ‘single’ into a full album. There are 10 takes on the format to enjoy, each with its own visuals and audio. The visuals in particular have been significantly improved from the original Bloom, replacing that app’s hard geometric forms with a more painterly approach.<\/p>\n However, it’s the intriguing mix of instrument, album, and art that still shines through. The result is an essential addition to iPad, perfectly complementing existing Eno\/Chilvers collaborations Scape<\/u><\/a> and Reflection<\/u><\/a>. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Shepard Fairey AR – Damaged<\/u><\/a> takes a warehouse-sized art exhibit and transforms it into a virtual space. This means instead of getting a digital book, where you swipe between stills, you instead experience the context and atmospherics of the original show, dragging the screen to move, or actually walking around in AR, adjusting your view on the basis of where you hold your iPad.<\/p>\n Fairey – creator of the iconic ‘Hope’ image of Barack Obama – is on fine form here, exploring issues relating to social media, celebrity, and the notion of constructing your own reality. Optionally, his narrative can accompany your journey around his work, adding extra insight. But however you check out Damaged, it proves itself to be the finest example of a virtual gallery on mobile, looking to the future rather than the past.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tweetbot 5<\/u><\/a> is a premium Twitter client. Unlike Twitter’s own client, which is determined to present tweets as it sees fit, Tweetbot lists tweets in order, omits ads, and doesn’t clutter up your mentions feed with notifications about retweets and likes. There’s a night mode, for tweeting in the dark, iCloud sync across devices for keeping your place, and nice sound effects that make the app feel alive.<\/p>\n On iPad, the app of course supports Split View and Slide Over, but it also has its own built-in column view. This means if you’re the kind of person who lives on Twitter, you can, for example, simultaneously scroll through your feed in the main pane, while chatting with people via direct messages in another. Top stuff for power users – or anyone who wants to avoid social network noise.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There’s a miniature revolution taking place in digital comics. Echoing the music industry some years ago, more publishers are cottoning on to readers very much liking DRM-free content. With that in mind, you now need a decent iPad reader for your PDFs and CBRs, rather than whatever iffy reading experience is welded to a storefront.<\/p>\n Chunky<\/u><\/a> is the best comic-reader on iPad. The interface is simple but customisable. If you want rid of transitions, they’re gone. Tinted pages can be brightened. And smart upscaling makes low-res comics look good.<\/p>\n Paying the one-off ‘pro’ IAP enables you to connect to Mac or Windows shared folders or FTP. Downloading comics then takes seconds, and the app will happily bring over folders full of images and convert them on-the-fly into readable digital publications.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pop music is about getting what you expect. Ambient music has always felt subtly different, almost like anything could happen. With generative audio, this line of thinking became reality. Scape<\/u><\/a> gives you a combined album\/playground in this nascent genre, from the minds of Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers.<\/p>\n Each track is formed by way of adding musical elements to a canvas, which then interact in sometimes unforeseen ways. Described as music that “thinks for itself”, Scape becomes a pleasing, fresh and infinitely replayable slice of chillout bliss. And if you’re feeling particularly lazy, you can sit back and listen to an album composed by the app’s creators.<\/p>\n Our favorite iPad apps for cooking, relaxing, de-stressing and keeping fit.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Streaks Workout<\/a> is a personal trainer squeezed into your iPad. But unlike many of its contemporaries, Streaks doesn’t make assumptions about your skill level and environment. You don’t need any equipment, and the app is flexible enough to fit around your capabilities and interests.<\/p>\n To rapidly kick things off, you can select exercises to use within random workouts, and choose from one of four timers. These range from the reasonable six-minute Quick to the arduous half-hour Extreme. As you exercise, the app records how you do, building up a log of your efforts.<\/p>\n At any point, you can create your own custom exercises, making the app truly yours. And with data syncing across the cloud, there’s no excuse for not working up a sweat, since Streaks can always be with you on iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, and Apple Watch.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cosm<\/a> is a mash-up of mental wellness aid and ambient instrument. Fire up a new session, prod the screen, and a calming note will play. Tap a few more times, and you’ll soon realize you’ve composed a custom loop to serenade you into the infinite.<\/p>\n So far, so Brian Eno’s Bloom – but Cosm takes things further. You get control over tuning, volume, and instrumentation. Most importantly, your compositions can be saved, whereupon the app encourages you to add a written note about how you feel.<\/p>\n The idea is to create a kind of journal that’s driven in part by the compositions you make – or at least to make compositions that give you a boost when you later return to them. Whether or not you’re a fan of Eno’s iPad apps, Cosm is well worth investigating.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Paprika<\/u><\/a> is ideal for people who live in the kitchen. Whereas other cooking apps are content to serve up some recipes and a shopping list, Paprika is a full-fledged scrapbook and meal planner you can use for every aspect of your culinary world.<\/p>\n Recipes can be added manually or snipped from favorite websites. Anything added to the app can be adjusted, if you decide you’ve figured out a way to improve the dish or preparation methods, or fancy adding some photos. Beyond that, there’s an ingredients tracker, meal planner (with Calendar integration), menu creator, and the means to print recipes.<\/p>\n It’s not as visually flashy as the likes of Kitchen Stories and Tasty, but Paprika feels like the best bet for anyone whose iPad spends almost as much time in the kitchen as they do.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Streaks<\/u><\/a> is habit-forming – in a good way. It’s effectively a to-do manager that focuses on what you want to do in your life – and bad habits you want to eradicate.<\/p>\n To get started, you create tasks, assign icons, and define durations. The app’s flexible regarding how often tasks should be done; and you can create time-based ones (whereupon the app temporarily becomes a timer), those that interact with Apple’s Health app, and ‘negative’ ones you don’t<\/em> want to ‘complete’. Streaks then tracks your progress in handy graph form.<\/p>\n The app’s iPhone origins are obvious, not least in the main display that’s optimized for six tasks and therefore looks comical on iPad. But it’s nonetheless great to have this superb app in native form on Apple’s tablet, and iCloud sync ensures any changes you make are accessible across all your Apple gear.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CARROT Fit<\/u><\/a> is the answer if a more sensible exercise app just isn’t doing it for you. Like CARROT Weather, this fitness tool is helmed by a snarky, sarcastic AI. Here, she comes across like the deranged offspring of HAL 9000 and a personal trainer. To wit, she’ll threaten, ridicule and bribe you, in order to “prevent your body from blimping up.”<\/p>\n The actual exercise bit is, broadly speaking, conventional, in that you partake in recognizable routines. But even there, CARROT Fit has a very distinct character, referring to push-ups as ‘Kowtows to Cthulhu,’ and subtly renaming the seven-minute workout ‘7 Minutes in Hell.’ Still, you’ll likely need some humor when sitting on the floor in a sweaty heap after a few minutes of exercise, and CARROT Fit has that over its straight-laced contemporaries.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n White Noise+<\/u><\/a> is a sound machine designed to reduce distractions by way of ambient noise. Many apps in this space are a bit new age and flowery, and quite a few are, frankly, rubbish. Fortunately, White Noise+ is none of those things, instead providing a thoroughly modern, tactile take on noise generation.<\/p>\n The app’s based around a grid akin to smart drums in GarageBand. Here, you get 16 slots, into which you drag icons that represent different sounds. Those toward the top play more loudly, and those toward the right have more complex loops. Your mixes can be saved, and sleep timers and alarms are available if you want to use White Noise+ for meditation sessions – or for waking you up should you doze off.<\/p>\n You get a handful of sounds to play with for free, but the full set requires a one-off IAP. Given the quality of the app, it’s well worth the outlay.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We’re not sure what makes this edition of the famous mockney chef’s recipe book ‘ultimate’, bar that word being very clearly written on the icon.<\/p>\n Still, Jamie Oliver’s Ultimate Recipes<\/u><\/a> is certainly a very tasty app. The 600 recipes should satisfy any given mood, whether you’re after a sickeningly healthy salad or fancy binging on ALL THE SUGAR until your teeth scream for mercy.<\/p>\n Smartly, every recipe offers step-by-step photos, so you can see how badly you’re going wrong at any point. And when you’ve nearly burned down the kitchen, given up and ordered a pizza, you can watch the two hours of videos that reportedly tell you how to “become a real kitchen ninja”.<\/p>\n Note: this doesn’t involve wearing lots of black and hurling sharp objects at walls, sadly.<\/p>\n Our favorite iPad apps, learning tools and games for toddlers and children.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nThe best iPad art and design apps<\/h3>\n
Procreate ($9.99\/£9.99\/AU$14.99)<\/h3>\n
Imaengine Vector (free + $2.99\/£2.99\/AU$4.99)<\/h3>\n
Live Home 3D (free + IAP)<\/h3>\n
Linea Sketch ($4.99\/£4.99\/AU$7.99)<\/h3>\n
Affinity Designer (US$19.99\/£19.99\/AU$30.99)<\/h3>\n
Core Animator ($5.99\/£5.99\/AU$9.99)<\/h3>\n
Concepts (free + various IAP)<\/h3>\n
Clip Studio Paint Ex for manga ($8.99\/£6.99\/AU$11.49 monthly)<\/h3>\n
Pixaki ($24.99\/£23.99\/AU$38.99)<\/h3>\n
Stop Motion Studio Pro ($4.99\/£4.99\/AU$7.99)<\/h3>\n
Comic Life 3 ($4.99\/£4.99\/AU$7.99)<\/h3>\n
The best education apps for iPad<\/h3>\n
Codea ($14.99\/£14.99\/AU$22.99)<\/h3>\n
Brian Cox’s Wonders of Life ($0.99\/£0.99\/AU$1.49)<\/h3>\n
Solar Walk 2 – Planet Explorer ($2.99\/£2.99\/AU$4.99)<\/h3>\n
Human Anatomy Atlas 2018 ($24.99\/£23.99\/AU$38.99)<\/h3>\n
LookUp ($2.99\/£2.99\/AU$4.49)<\/h3>\n
Redshift Pro (($17.99\/£17.99\/AU$27.99)<\/h3>\n
Sky Guide ($2.99\/£2.99\/AU$4.49)<\/h3>\n
Earth Primer ($9.99\/£9.99\/AU$14.99)<\/h3>\n
Journeys of Invention ($9.99\/£9.99\/AU$14.99)<\/h3>\n
The best movie and entertainment apps for iPad<\/h3>\n
EōN by Jean-Michel Jarre ($8.99\/£8.99\/AU$13.99)<\/h3>\n
Tayasui Color 2 ($1.99\/£1.99\/AU$2.99)<\/h3>\n
Infuse Pro 6 ($24.99\/£23.99\/AU$38.99)<\/h3>\n
Reeder 4 ($4.99\/£4.99\/AU$7.99)<\/h3>\n
David Bowie is… ($9.99\/£9.99\/AU$14.99)<\/h3>\n
Bloom: 10 Worlds ($7.99\/£7.99\/AU$12.99)<\/h3>\n
Shepard Fairey AR – Damaged (US$4.99\/£4.99\/AU$7.99)<\/h3>\n
Tweetbot 5 (US$4.99\/£4.99\/AU$7.99)<\/h3>\n
Chunky Comic Reader (free or $3.99\/£3.99\/AU$4.49)<\/h3>\n
Scape ($11.99\/£11.99\/AU$17.99)<\/h3>\n
The best health, diet, and exercise apps for iPad<\/h3>\n
Streaks Workout ($3.99\/£3.99\/AU$5.99)<\/h3>\n
Cosm ($1.99\/£1.99\/AU$2.99)<\/h3>\n
Paprika ($4.99\/£4.99\/AU$7.99)<\/h3>\n
Streaks (US$4.99\/£4.99\/AU$7.99)<\/h3>\n
CARROT Fit ($3.99\/£3.99\/AU$4.49)<\/h3>\n
White Noise+ (free + US$2.99\/£2.99\/AU$4.49 IAP)<\/h3>\n
Jamie Oliver’s Ultimate Recipes ($6.99\/£6.99\/AU$10.99)<\/h3>\n
The best kids apps for iPad<\/h3>\n
Thinkrolls Space ($3.99\/£3.99\/AU$5.99)<\/h3>\n