What iPad Apps Are You Using?

I’ve had my iPad for a week now and I’m slowly figuring out what apps are actually useful as opposed to eye candy apps to show off the features of the iPad. I’m always curious to see what apps others are recommending. Let me know what works for you.

Here are some of the apps that I couldn’t do without:

1Password

I use this app to manage all of my passwords and logins on my Macintosh, iPhone and now my iPad. I can synch my iPhone and iPad via Wi-Fi with the Macintosh version of 1Password and keep everything up to date. This is one app I can’t live without.

My version of 1Password Pro for iPhone works on the iPad and the interface is stunning. I’ve read a lot of negative things on iTunes App Store about the iPad version being really buggy but so far so good.

Twitterific

Next to Safari, I use Twiiterific the most on my iPad. This is a gorgeous app that makes using Twitter a great experience. I still use Tweetie 2 Twitter on my iPhone but given a choice I would always be using Twitterific.

The best thing about Twitterific is that it is FREE althought I would gladly pay to use this app.

Dropbox

Online backup, file sync and sharing made easy. If you want access to your files from your Macintosh, iPhone and iPad then Dropbox is your best bet. I backup files to my account, share larger files with clients and store working files so that I have access to them wherever I am.

I have a basic account that doesn’t cost a thing and provides me with 2.5 GB of storage. How amazing is that?

CloudReaders

CloudReaders is a free book/comic viewer, fully optimized for iPad. It supports PDF, CBZ, ZIP, CBR and RAR format.

Until iBooks gets upgraded later this month to read PDF files, this is the best PDF reader on the iPad in my opinion - fast, ad-free, and doesn’t cost a thing. I like that it also provides a Two-Up display for reading and based on the reviews it performs better than some of the paid apps out there.

Instapaper

I purchased the pro version of Instapaper for iPad ($4.99) which lets me read save web pages offline. I have a Wi-Fi version of the iPad. If I know that I’m going to be in a dead zone like the subway then I can read web pages that I stored earlier.

Other Apps

I purchased Moto X Mayhem for 99¢ - a great little motorbike side scrolling game that can be addictive.

The Marvel Comics app is very cool. Check out the free comics to get a feel for the app and then choose from paid comics for just $1.99.

The Weather Channel Max has great graphics, 5 day forecast, weather radar and more. Free app.

The Epicurious Recipes and Shopping List is another beautiful app with a lot of recipes from epicurious.com. The tab interface is really well done. I also have this for the iPhone but almost never use it.

The WSJ and New York Times Editors’ Choice are decent apps but I prefer to read the web versions of these newspapers in Safari. Same goes with the IMDB app. The website is much better than the actual app.

EW’s Must List is an interesting app for the simple approach it takes with the interface. PCalc Lite is another app I actually use quite a bit. I can’t understand why Apple wouldn’t include a simple port of the calculator app for iPhone.

So what am I missing?

Posted in iPad at 11:46 PM