20 Creative iPad Apps For Web Developers And Designers
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Now that the iPad has been released, web developers and designers alike want to know which apps are worthy of their fingerprints.
Apple’s coolest new toy has finally arrived and for those who haven’t had a chance to put their fingers on it, it’s pretty awesome. As with the iPhone, it will no doubt change the way we interact with the web, even when we’re not on the go. Looking past the cool factor of the iPad, you’ll probably want to know what apps are available that will actually be useful in the realm of the design world.
I’ve compiled a collection of 20 creative iPad apps that will prove quite useful for web designers, graphic designers and anyone with creative juices. We’ll take a look at applications that will help you get your sketch on, interact with your sites, check stats, brainstorm and even a game or two. Here are 20 creative iPad apps for web developers and designers.
Adobe Ideas
Adobe Ideas is your digital sketchbook, letting you capture and explore ideas anywhere you go. It’s an ideal companion for the professional design applications from Adobe, including Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop software.
Analytics HD
The premier app for Google Analytics, Analytics App, now debuts on the iPad as Analytics HD. See charts and reports like you’ve never seen them before, and share them in a meeting with full screen charts.
iThoughtsHD (mindmapping)
iThoughtsHD is a mind mapping tool for the iPad. Mindmapping enables you to visually organize your thoughts, ideas and information in an easy to use interface. It is based on and compatible with iThought for the iPhone.
Freeform
Freeform is a simple vector drawing tool for sketching quick doodles, creating fun drawings or designing simple diagrams and illustrations. You can save the images you create to your photos library or email them to yourself.
The Font Game
From I Love Typography comes the long-awaited, definitive Font Game for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Guaranteed to be absolutely the most fun you’ll have with fonts anywhere, any time, any place. Over 600 font specimens included.
Things for iPad
Things is a beautifully focused and amazingly intuitive task manager. Effortlessly manage to-dos, notes, due dates and projects. A smart today list and the scheduling feature allow you to work as effectively as possible every day.
Gusto
Gusto was created to embrace the workflow of web development on the iPad. Open your project and download multiple files and folders at the same time from your FTP server. After editing, preview your document locally to quickly see your updates.
Markup
Markup for iPad lets you connect to your websites and edit the text files within them. Download, edit and upload text files such as HTML, CSS, PHP etc. Preview the pages you edit and test them without ever leaving the app.
Penultimate
Stylish, powerful and easy to use. Penultimate encourages you to take notes, keep sketches or work through your next breakthrough idea. Seperate notebooks for each topic, project or category. Three different photorealistic paper styles are included.
Twitterrific
Twitterrific is the friendly, award-winning Twitter client that’s beautiful to look at, easy to use and full of elegant features. Effortlessly read and compose tweets, search Twitter.com, filter message types and much more.
FlickStackr
FlickStackr brings Flickr photo sharing to the iPad. It allows you to browse photos in the Flickr universe, whether you are a Flickr member or not. Includes full screen browsing, in depth search, sharing photos via email and more.
Desktop Connect
Desktop Connect is a fast, full-featured desktop viewer. View and control Windows, Mac OSX and Linux computers as if you were sitting in front of them, or observe others as if you were watching over their shoulder.
WordPress
It’s easy to manage your WordPress blog from your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. With the WordPress OS, you can moderate comments and create or edit posts and pages. All you need is a WordPress blog or a self-hosted blog running WordPress 2.9.2 or higher.
Phaidon Design Classics
This authoritative and meticulously researched collection charts the story of product design over the past 200 years. It was years in the making and was compiled via a rigorous selection process by an international panel of design-world insiders.
SketchBook Pro
Autodesk SketchBook Pro for iPad is a professional-grade paint and drawing application. Using the same paint engine as its desktop counterpart, Sketchbook Pro Delivers a complete set of sketching and painting tools through an intuitive user interface.
FTP On The Go PRO
An FTP client for the iPad. All the features of a desktop FTP client and more, all in an easy to use powerful package. Pro features enhanced iPad support, letting you fully take advantage of the iPad’s large touchscreen. Works on your iPhone or iPod touch too.
Evernote
Evernote turns the iPad into an extension of your brain, helping you remember anything and everything that happens in your life. From notes to ideas to snapshots to recordings, put it all into Evernote and sync to your Mac or Windows desktop.
Ego for iPad
Ego for iPad builds on everyone’s favorite web stats application and adds a new detail view that lets you dive even deeper into your stats. Services supported are Feedburner, Ember, Google Analytics, Mint2, Squarespace, Tumblr, Twitter and Vimeo.
OmniGraffle
Need to create a quick diagram, process chart, page layout, website wireframe or graphic design? With OmniGraffle, your iPad touch screen is your canvas (or graph paper, or whiteboard, or cocktail napkin…).
Plants vs. Zombies HD
Wait, this is a game that has nothing to do with web development or design. Exactly! We all need to step away from our work a bit and have a little fun. Plants vs. Zombies HD is the perfect game to escape the design world and enjoy ourselves a bit.
What did I miss?
It seems like every time I swing by the app store, there are a handful of new apps just released for the iPad. Developers are scurrying to get a piece of the pie and to our advantage. Have you found a new iPad app that should have made this list? Let others know in the comment section below.
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