Also, I mentioned this in passing, but if you have Nomad Sculpt or Valence (or both which I think is the ideal combo), I’m testing another newer app called Morphin! This app is designed for 3D rigging and animation, which makes it very useful if you want to either repose a character, or if you want to do some 3D animation on an iPad! So far I’ve been really impressed!
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iPad as a laptop replacement
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And more big news for the iPad, Blender is coming to the iPad! It will be a full port, not a “Blender Lite” but a tablet UI built on top of a normal Blender build. So it will eventually have full support for all desktop features, I think a few are currently needing to be reworked a bit, so may not be available in the first version. But Blender has made it very clear they plan on treating this iPad version equal to the Mac version. The new UI looks like it will make major usability improvements. They did say though that the UI may change before launch. And they also said many of the UI improvements they implement in the iPad version will also make their way to the desktop version as well, which would be great! The current desktop UI is atrocious in my opinion, so hopefully the UI improvements will make it much nicer. I don’t think it will likely completely replace any of the apps I’m currently using, but it will be a nice additional option, and will be great for those who already have a workflow based in Blender! If a more niche app like Blender is getting behind the iPad, I think that could be more good news for apps on the iPad! 👍🏻
11” M4 iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard is such a nifty device, especially with iPadOS26.
Everyone keeps bringing up things that iPads can’t do and MacBooks can, but for me, the opposite is just as, if not even more, important. Being able to read ebooks on a portrait mode, comfortably using touch-first apps natively, having GPS and 5G, not to mention writing notes with the Pencil. And for my (more casual) purposes, I can do the laptopy stuff with MK just as well as on a MacBook.
Everyone keeps bringing up things that iPads can’t do and MacBooks can, but for me, the opposite is just as, if not even more, important. Being able to read ebooks on a portrait mode, comfortably using touch-first apps natively, having GPS and 5G, not to mention writing notes with the Pencil. And for my (more casual) purposes, I can do the laptopy stuff with MK just as well as on a MacBook.
Awesome! Totally agree with you on that, I’ve been using my iPad as my primary computer for about the past 4-5 years. The iPad is such a great device! 👍🏻