Getting excited about getting my first iPad. What apps do I need?

[Rafalski24]

Hey all you early adopters here is the list I have so far. Am I missing anything?
Thanks!

Kindle
Netflix
Hulu
Engadget
Dropbox
Twitter
Flipboard
Pandora
NYT
WSJ
Popsci
NPR
Bloomberg
Epicurious
Wikipanion
Imdb
Plex
TED

 

[deeddawg]

What apps you need depends on what you intend to do with it.

Eleven of your list hold no interest for me; and if I were to list the apps I use, many would be useless to you.

I recommend first checking out the iPad Apps forum here; https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/144/
Not only is it the best place for ipad apps discussion, but a quick search there as well as on Google should turn up any of a number of must-have or top-ten app threads.

Oh -- also check out appshopper.com for lots of info on top apps by sales and popularity and category.

 

[Dr Kevorkian94]

goodreader, imovie, garageband, find my iphone

 

[iMattcotv]

My personal favourites:

Classics:
- Fragger
- Angry Birds
- Flight Control
- ShapeShape
- Cut the Rope
- JellyCar 3
- Geared

Ultimate Racing game:
- GT Racing (This is the closest to Gran Turismo, legit)

Ultimate Shooting game:
- Modern Combat 2 (This is the closest to MW2/BOPS)

Top Apps:
- PC Monitor (Remotely shut down the computer fast and easily)
- LogMeIn Ignition (Completely control the computer on your devices screen)
- Mobile Mouse Pro (Use the screen as a track pad / keyboard to control PC
- GarageBand (Ultimate music maker)
- iMovie (Ultimate movie maker)
- Whats On? (TV Guide ;D)
- DropBox (Local Storage through WiFi)
- Find My iPhone (To find your stolen or lost iDevice, this is great if you cant remember where you put it in your house, it can play a sound until you find it lol)

 

[M87]

Apps I found to be essential:
GoodReader
Evernote
1Password
iUnarchive
Kindle
Filterstorm
VLC (not sure if this is still available, but there are other apps that do the job)

Need for Speed: Shift is the best game I've played and I'm most looking forward to GarageBand.

 

[newdeal]

...

icab mobile web browser is far better than safari, it would be my first purchase

 

[Erkenntnis]

I vote for Evernote, personally. Ubiquitous capture, ubiquitous access, powerful search, and optical character recognition for pictures is hard to argue with.

I like Simplenote on iOS devices plus Notational Velocity on the Mac a lot, but I wanted to save all different types of media and Simplenote wasn't cutting it.

 

[jvmxtra]

Air Video
Stream to me(music)
slingbox app (if you have slingbox that is) for tv
some sort of remote desktop
P vs Z
ibook and kindle
Youtube

Will check out hulu (never checked it out)

 

[vrillusions]

iPad specific ones I'm looking at getting:

• Notes Plus Appears to be a highly rated note taking app. I'll wait till they have one of their price drops, looks like they're constantly playing with the price. And on their twitter page it looks like they purposely do one day .99 sales every so often. I'll just use some free sketch app for the time being.
• Speaking of sketching, definitely going to get a stylus. Either the Targus one or boxwave. My parents have the popular pogo stylus and that thing sucks.
• Netflix is the other one I'm looking forward to for ipad
• LogMeIn although not sure if it would be worth the price tag
• Some ssh terminal app

Ones I have on iphone and looking forward to using on ipad are Simplenote and Evernote (Been gravitating towards Simplenote for most things but still use Evernote occasionally) and I made sure to grab up VLC while it was in app store so I can play mkv files. Twitter and a couple others I'm forgetting at the moment.