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All iPads Your most coolest and most used iOS app you bought or just downloaded because it was free ?
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Not the most used but my favourite app is GoSkyWatch
I've had so much fun with my kids at night looking at the stars.
You see a star, hold up the screen so it's over it and it tells you what it is sometimes with a picture or loads of info.
Better than a telescope frankly because the images are far better and looking through a lens or on a screen isn't so very different. It's a really excellent app.
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(I also love Realracing2 but not 3)
I've had so much fun with my kids at night looking at the stars.
You see a star, hold up the screen so it's over it and it tells you what it is sometimes with a picture or loads of info.
Better than a telescope frankly because the images are far better and looking through a lens or on a screen isn't so very different. It's a really excellent app.
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GoSkyWatch | About | User’s Guide | Releases | FAQs | Support GoSkyWatch Planetarium Displays the sky view at the correct orientation when held at any angle not just landscape or portrait. Simple operation, no buttons to press or modes to select, just point to the sky to start exploring. Unique...
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On this iPad Tapatalk and Kijiji are heavily used. Are they cool? Not sure. Tapatalk is certainly nice once you paid to get rid of the ads and nicer than most web interfaces, but then not many forums support it and the dev team is terrible to deal with. Kijiji is certainly less terrible than its regular website.
1. LumaFusion - Hands down the best pro video editing app on the market for iPad.
2. Procreate - Most popular drawing app, very intuitive and packs lots of features for its price.
3. FileBrowser - Best file management app that should inspires whoever responsible for Files app.
4. Among Us - Silly game to annoy others, fun!
5. iWork (Keynote, Pages, Numbers) - Free compared to MS Office subscription plan.
That’ll be number 1 and 5 if I play by the question.
2. Procreate - Most popular drawing app, very intuitive and packs lots of features for its price.
3. FileBrowser - Best file management app that should inspires whoever responsible for Files app.
4. Among Us - Silly game to annoy others, fun!
5. iWork (Keynote, Pages, Numbers) - Free compared to MS Office subscription plan.
That’ll be number 1 and 5 if I play by the question.
Its a matter of what forum software is being used. In this case, MacRumors uses XenForo, but more and more forums are either switching to Discourse or just shutting down and migrating to social media.
The app? No. Not at all.
Yeah, no 4k, no external monitor, no news from them on what & when.
It sure is. It’s also not making any advances in supporting other software providers.
Albums - album focused player
Welcome to Albums, the app that cares about your music library as much as you do. Albums is a third-party Apple Music player and library management tool that puts the focus on full albums. Whether you just want to casually throw on album shuffle or spend hours meticulously organizing your...
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Couple favorites: Vectornator Pro, a vector art/drawing program, which for some completely inexplicable reason is FREE. There is a learning curve to using it, but man, what capability.
The Photographer's Ephemeris (also known as TPE)... ever wonder how a pro photographer set up that sunset shot where the orange sun was just perfectly poised between two peaks in the valley? She or he didn't camp out in the valley for months waiting; they used TPE to know the day and the hour when the sun was going to be at that position for the photo. (not free, though you can use their web site to some free planning).
Gaia (topographical map / hiking app, now sadly replaced with a subscription app): this works on iPad, but I use it more on my iPhone. To me it is just magical that you can pre-download maps for an area that you're visiting and then go hiking and know exactly where you are at all times. We recently used this app near Mt Rainer in a situation where the trail was intermittently obscured by snow, and we were able to find the trail at every snow expanse - couldn't have done the hike without it. In retrospect not our smartest decision to even do the hike, given the conditions, but that's another discussion. The subscription app is all social and all, but all I've ever wanted is to know where I am and what the topo of the area looks like; I think the subscription version has some free features.
The Photographer's Ephemeris (also known as TPE)... ever wonder how a pro photographer set up that sunset shot where the orange sun was just perfectly poised between two peaks in the valley? She or he didn't camp out in the valley for months waiting; they used TPE to know the day and the hour when the sun was going to be at that position for the photo. (not free, though you can use their web site to some free planning).
Gaia (topographical map / hiking app, now sadly replaced with a subscription app): this works on iPad, but I use it more on my iPhone. To me it is just magical that you can pre-download maps for an area that you're visiting and then go hiking and know exactly where you are at all times. We recently used this app near Mt Rainer in a situation where the trail was intermittently obscured by snow, and we were able to find the trail at every snow expanse - couldn't have done the hike without it. In retrospect not our smartest decision to even do the hike, given the conditions, but that's another discussion. The subscription app is all social and all, but all I've ever wanted is to know where I am and what the topo of the area looks like; I think the subscription version has some free features.
Agree - Gaia is my favorite topo map app and I use it on my XS Max. My favorite topos on it - Rainier!
From a pure time point of view I am sure Safari comes out top for me, but that aside there are a handful of apps I find invaluable:
iThoughts is a fantastic mind-mapping tool that I use for all my note taking and any kind of creative thinking. I have meeting notes going back ten years on my iPad as this was one of the first apps I bought when I got an iPad 1.
TouchDraw is a fairly simple technical drawing app, but it’s super easy to use. In a meeting I can sketch a diagram in TouchDraw as quickly as you could draw with pen on paper, but it is clearer and easier to work with, you can (again) keep stacks of drawings to hand and also share them as PDF with other parties when needed.
iThoughts and TouchDraw in combination are my go-to notebook for work and personal projects.
New contender for most used app is ProCreate - wow, what a powerful art tool. I have found it fairly easy to learn and there is a wealth of ‘how to’ information on YouTube. Photo clean up, scan clean up and also creating new stuff is super easy and fun. Under lockdown ProCreate has become one of my soothing pastimes and you get amazing results out the other side even as a ‘non-artist’ in the traditional sense.
iThoughts is a fantastic mind-mapping tool that I use for all my note taking and any kind of creative thinking. I have meeting notes going back ten years on my iPad as this was one of the first apps I bought when I got an iPad 1.
TouchDraw is a fairly simple technical drawing app, but it’s super easy to use. In a meeting I can sketch a diagram in TouchDraw as quickly as you could draw with pen on paper, but it is clearer and easier to work with, you can (again) keep stacks of drawings to hand and also share them as PDF with other parties when needed.
iThoughts and TouchDraw in combination are my go-to notebook for work and personal projects.
New contender for most used app is ProCreate - wow, what a powerful art tool. I have found it fairly easy to learn and there is a wealth of ‘how to’ information on YouTube. Photo clean up, scan clean up and also creating new stuff is super easy and fun. Under lockdown ProCreate has become one of my soothing pastimes and you get amazing results out the other side even as a ‘non-artist’ in the traditional sense.
