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Your must have apps for iPad Pro

Jessica08

Jessica08

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I am getting an IPP for Christmas (two days to go :)). I will be off next week so I'll have some time to get it set up and play around a bit with it. I know it's going to be a bit different than my original iPad air. Anyway, what are your must have apps for the IPP (not talking about FB, Twitter, Netflix, etc)? I plan on getting Notability or some other note taking application, but I want to hear about what all is out there or what I should look into. Just a fun discussion this boring work day. :)
 
Duet Display to connect to either your mac or work computer, MS office, Apple Notes has been improved dramatically with the addition of the Apple pencil and "drawing capabilities. Quicken, Turbo tax, Pixalmator for Photoshop needs
 
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Jessica08 said:
I am getting an IPP for Christmas (two days to go :)). I will be off next week so I'll have some time to get it set up and play around a bit with it. I know it's going to be a bit different than my original iPad air. Anyway, what are your must have apps for the IPP (not talking about FB, Twitter, Netflix, etc)? I plan on getting Notability or some other note taking application, but I want to hear about what all is out there or what I should look into. Just a fun discussion this boring work day. :)
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If you get bored, play SimCity buildit it is fun.
 
Since I'm in the Marine Corps and we are heavily invested in Office, Office 365 is my must haves and once I get a card reader for my iPad I'll be able to check my email and other CAC enabled sites from my iPad.
 
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OneNote or Notabilty
Do you write anything, do research? Scrivener
Procreate if you want to play with your possibly unknown creatice side
Star walk hd
I like News360 for my news aggregator
Do you garden? GardenPlan Pro gives you a cool way to organize your plantings. Better if you're rural or suburban of course
Houz if you like looking at living designs, that can suck up a lot of time
 
Microsoft word, PowerPoint, excel- subscription if IPP 12.9
Microsoft outlook- free
Photoshop Fix- free photo editor
OmniGraffle -paid diagram app
Notability-paid
Scrivener -paid Writing creator
PDF Expert- paid
Documents - free document manager
The calculator - free
Enlight - paid photo editor
Snapseed - free photo editor
Skitch - free
YouTube - free
Netflix- free app but subscription service if into it.
1Password - free with in app purchases. Essential password and sensitive info management tool.
Paper -free art and image annotation
Procreate - paid art app.
Graphic- paid graphic vector designer
Kindle - free
PDF Convertor - paid
Dropbox - free
IThoughts - paid mind mapping app
GarageBand - free
Videorama- paid video and fx editor.
 
Thanks for the suggestions. I will check all of these out and see what fits my needs.

What are some games that are good for the IPP? I don't play many on my air, but it may be more fun on a bigger screen so I'd like to hear the best games out there.
 
  • Workflow.(automation to save time)
  • Scrivener or Ulysses (if writing)
  • Office (if needed)
  • Procreate (for drawing)
  • PDF expert (read and annotate PDFs)

Others I love include:
  • iBooks
  • Notes
  • Reeder
  • Duet Disolay
 
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What do you plan on using your iPad for?

For myself,

Overcast - for podcasts

ProTube - 3rd party YouTube client

Tweetbot - 3rd party twitter app

Documents - file manager that integrates dropbox

1Password - password manager. Important because much of your life will be spent in apps, which usually don't support iCloud Keychain

Soulver - I personally prefer this iOS calculator app because of its excel-style layout.

Outlook / Spark - 3rd party email app

Copied - clipboard manager. Makes copying and pasting text snippets on iOS a breeze

Workflow - truth be told, I don't use this app all that much, but at the relatively cheap price, worth a download just to play around with it.

Tapatalk - forum browsing app. I use it for frequenting Macrumours. I just prefer its layout more.

Reeder - my RSS feed app. Newsify is also a possible alternative.

MacHash - for your daily dose of Apple-related news.

Just a few that come to mind.
 
Cinema Box for sure. Too bad it's not still in the App Store. Luckily I got it while it was and can still download it whenever I want.
 
In my one month's use, my essential apps:

Essential:

Newspaper and Magazine Apps (Its really nice to look at a lot of the newspaper and magazine apps on here. Beautiful spreads. I read the Washington Post when I get up and I subscribe to Food & Wine and NewsWeek.)

Notability is good, but I'm probably buying GoodNotes in a few minutes, just because I like the layout of having notebooks for different subjects.

PDF Expert

Pocket Informant (Planner)

TV channel apps (Great if you've got a cable at home. I have HBO, FX, Food Network, Comedy Central apps and more.)

AllRecipes (Gotta eat ;))

Reddit

Podcasts (I was never a podcast guy, but the speakers are so good on this device. Nice to just play one of the many podcasts on a particular topic while browsing.)

Games:

I'm more of a puzzle guy. I really have to hand it to the developers of these LEGO games though. Very addictive gameplay. Just bought The Force Awakens.

I play Miniclip Pool a lot. In fact, I just rage quit out of my Holiday Championship matchup.

There's so many good-looking games it's overwhelming though. I have several, but don't really play them.

Standing by for more game ideas. :D
 
I have often asked here what Surface Pro users are missing by not having access to Apple's larger app ecosystem. So apparently the answer is nothing much. Thanks for making my point!
 
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Jessica08 said:
I am getting an IPP for Christmas (two days to go :)). I will be off next week so I'll have some time to get it set up and play around a bit with it. I know it's going to be a bit different than my original iPad air. Anyway, what are your must have apps for the IPP (not talking about FB, Twitter, Netflix, etc)? I plan on getting Notability or some other note taking application, but I want to hear about what all is out there or what I should look into. Just a fun discussion this boring work day. :)
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Dropbox - for document storage.

FormConnect Pro - for field work and data collection.

Microsoft Word - for creating and editing documents.

Adobe Acrobat - for viewing PDF documents.
 
sactownbwoy said:
Since I'm in the Marine Corps and we are heavily invested in Office, Office 365 is my must haves and once I get a card reader for my iPad I'll be able to check my email and other CAC enabled sites from my iPad.
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Isn't there a security risk in doing this? Does the MC have to approve the device first?
 
ibookg409 said:
Isn't there a security risk in doing this? Does the MC have to approve the device first?
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No, I have a CAC reader that I use for my laptop, and there is an official outlook web access. Back in the day when you needed the actual software to run a CAC reader on your own laptop the Corps provided the software. Now since about Win7, Windows can natively read the certificates. Also my CAC is my ID card and has a pin so unless you have both my ID and pin, you aren't accessing anything that is CAC enabled.

Also I'm not accessing TS or S material, that requires a completely different level of authentication and is not accessible via the regular internet.
 
nPlayer Pro (Use to be Infuse Pro)
Dark Sky
Myradar
Movist
Amazon



Sorry can't think of any others at the moment
 
sactownbwoy said:
No, I have a CAC reader that I use for my laptop, and there is an official outlook web access. Back in the day when you needed the actual software to run a CAC reader on your own laptop the Corps provided the software. Now since about Win7, Windows can natively read the certificates. Also my CAC is my ID card and has a pin so unless you have both my ID and pin, you aren't accessing anything that is CAC enabled.

Also I'm not accessing TS or S material, that requires a completely different level of authentication and is not accessible via the regular internet.
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Do you have to stay off of public networks like the ones at Starbucks?
 
rowspaxe said:
I have often asked here what Surface Pro users are missing by not having access to Apple's larger app ecosystem. So apparently the answer is nothing much. Thanks for making my point!
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I have often asked what MacBook users are missing by not having access to Microsoft's larger app ecosystem. So apparently the answer is nothing much. Thanks for making my point!
 
masotime said:
I have often asked what MacBook users are missing by not having access to Microsoft's larger app ecosystem. So apparently the answer is nothing much. Thanks for making my point!
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The point is often pressed here is that surface pro is "not a tablet" or is a "terrible" tablet due to its smaller app ecosystem. I don't believe anyone has made an analogous complaint about macOs; certainly not in the last 15 years. So its hard to interpret your remark.


Abazigal said:
Surface pro has access to tweetbot and overcast?
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There are twitter clients in the windows store, if i needed analytics i could use the website. I use itunes to play podcasts--i find it works fine with touch
 
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