The iPad comes with a slew of helpful out-of-the-box tools, including Notes, Pages, and Numbers. If you’re looking for other handy tools to enhance the way you work or organize your life on your Apple tablet, these are our picks for the best productivity apps for iPad.
Adobe
What We Like
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Loaded with photo-editing features.
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Compatible with other Adobe products.
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Supports multi-touch gestures.
The iPad’s camera has come a long way, with the newest Pro model sporting a camera that could rival most smartphones.
But even with a great camera, you may need a little editing to get the best picture.
Photoshop Express gives you a number of cool tools to boost the quality of your photos and features a collage tool to help layout your photos.
Microsoft
What We Like
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No Office 365 subscription required.
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Supports most email accounts.
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Customizable swipe gestures.
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Integrates with Dropbox.
Before Outlook received a major revamp, the service required a Microsoft 365 subscription to use. Now Outlook for iOS is available to anyone for free, and it works with most email services.
Outlook offers convenient OneDrive and Dropbox integrations for file attachments, and easy editing in other Microsoft apps like Word or Excel.
And the smart inbox offers priority organizing for the most important messages.
Apple
What We Like
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Save articles for offline access.
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Highlight feature is useful for research.
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Listen feature that reads articles.
Ever come across an interesting article or website but didn’t have time to really enjoy it?
Pocket is the best way to save these websites for later because with Pocket, you don’t need an internet connection to read a website.
When you pocket an article or video, it saves it across all of your devices, making it easy to find again no matter where you are or which device you have on you.
Remember the Milk
What We Like
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Notifications by email, text, or X (formerly Twitter).
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Organize by due date, lists, or tags.
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Integrate with Gmail, Evernote, and more.
If you need a full-fledged task manager capable of creating to-do lists, Remember the Milk is the app for you.
The easy-to-use interface makes note-taking simple, and the cloud-based design means you can type up the note on your PC and then view it on your iPad.
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If you’re going to be productive with your iPad, you’ll probably need to get some files from your PC or Mac onto your tablet.
Dropbox offers perhaps the easiest way to gain access to spreadsheets or word processing documents on iPad.
Dropbox gives you up to 2GB of free space before you need to upgrade to a premium account.
LiquidText
What We Like
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Collect, retain, and create new information.
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Animations and chats provide helpful hints.
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Good way to understand related documents.
What We Don’t Like
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In-app purchase for multiple documents in one project.
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Workspace becomes crowded.
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Designed for right-handers.
You can use LiquidText to view documents from PDFs and PowerPoint presentations to web pages and then pull out bits and pieces to form a unique document.
This functionality makes it great for working on presentations or research projects on the go. You can also save your work in a variety of cloud-based storage options like Dropbox or iCloud Drive.
And the pro version allows you to work on multiple documents at a time.
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Evernote
What We Don’t Like
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250MB max monthly uploads with free plan.
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Free plan syncs with only 1 device.
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Notifications require a paid plan.
Easily the best note-taking app in the App Store, Evernote will not only store the notes you tap onto the onscreen keyboard but also the ones you record with your voice.
You can even store photos and synchronize your notes with your Mac or Windows-based PC.
Evernote will also use your iPad’s GPS functionality to geotag notes to make them location-based.
What We Like
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Monitor credit score and get tips to improve it.
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View all linked accounts.
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Two-factor authentication for security.
What We Don’t Like
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No longer includes a budget feature.
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No detailed information from accounts.
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Doesn’t generate reports.
Intuit Credit Karma has become a bit more useful since it absorbed Mint. While you can’t set up a budget anymore, you can track your credit score, and the app will give you tips on improving it.
You can also track and grow your money. Best of all, the credit monitoring service is free.
The app also helps you find credit card and loan offers that are right for you.
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