There is no doubt that Apple Pencil is an impressive tool for design and digital art, but in order to make it maximize it, you need the right iPad Pro applications - those that really use its strength and flexibility.

Fortunately, as this list shows, there is already a strong list of iPad Pro applications from large and small companies that really allow pencil shine. All you need is talent! (And Apple Pencil). iPad Pro.)

Here are 13 excellent applications that make most of the Apple Pencil - and from iOS 12 around the corner, they will probably soon become better than ever.

01.

Affinity Designer for iPad quickly becomes a new tool for designers and artists on the go

• Requirements: iOS 11.0 or newer
• Price: $ 19.99 / £ 19.99

The last offer from Serif, Affinity Designer for iPad quickly becomes a new Ool output for designers and artists on the go. And it comes with full support for the capabilities of Apple Pencil drawing in terms of accuracy, sensitivity to pressure and tilt functions.

It includes all the basic tools for creating on the go and with a very user-friendly interface for the iPad. Available one-time cost less than $ 20/20 pounds of sterling, it will be difficult for you to find the best iPad Pro application to improve the quality and price - for busy ads.

02. Adobe Illustrator Draw

An app for drawing in Adobe for iPad removes directly to the top of the class

• Requirements: iOS 11.0 or newer
• Price: Is free

As designers, you will be well-aware of the talents offered in Adobe Illustrator CC, but you may not be familiar with Illustrator to attract. Illustrator Draw is more than just a vector digital album - this drawing application for your iPad has all the popular and most useful AI functions wrapped in a simple user interface designed to quickly create ideas and concepts when you are on

Features include simple vector drawing tools with separate levels of drawing and photography, as well as the ability to synchronize with Creative Cloud. With this feature, you can also download Adobe Illustrator-compatible files and work with them on the iPad using your Apple Pencil.

The application allows you to draw completely straight lines and geometric shapes, rename layers and use figures from Adobe Capture CC. Improved promising grid also means that you can display shapes into a promising plane. Everything is said that this is an important application for the iPad, which owns AI users.

03. Autodesk Sketchbook.

3D Specialists Autodesk created an application for drawing in Sketchbook

• Requirements: iOS 10.0 or newer
• Price: Is free

Autodesk can be known mainly for pro-Spec 3D applications, such as 3DS Max and Maya, but in Sketchbook it has a powerful application for creating sketches with incredibly natural drawing experience - something that is excellent exploited by the latest technology Promotion from iPad Pro And, of course, Apple Pencil.

Thanks to 170 customizable brushes, a full PSD layer and mixing support and a switchable prognostic stroke, which converts your drawing lines and figures into clear, accurate shapes, Sketchbook is probably the best free app for drawing - and incredibly it is not worth a penny, nor Shopping in the application.

04. ProCreate.

ProCreate is the king of applications for natural media on the iPad

• Requirements: iOS 11.1 or newer
• Price: $ 9.99 / £ 9.99

This is a king of applications for natural media on the iPad, and it is fully converted to adding a pencil. Of course, you can use your finger along with it, a simple stylus, or even one of the increasingly complex and expensive third-party stylus from such ADONIT, but none of them gives you fluidity and similar impressions that Apple Pencil does.

Partially it is not so on a thin tip of the pencil, partly a low delay and discretization frequency with a double rate, and partly because the peeling of the fingers is almost flawless. But all these technical stuffs simply disappear in the background when you encounter the joy of sketches using a pencil 6b, turning it into a flat to be blocked in large areas of the shadow or dump paints.

the last major release was ProCreate 4, having a significant technological revision, as well as many improvements, including the introduction of wet paint and an intuitive recycled menu. Read our full review Procreate 4.

05.

• Requirements: iOS 10.3 or newer
• Price: $ 19.99 / £ 19.99

Another serift, affinity photo - a fantastic Photoshop alternative on Mac and Windows computers thanks to the built-in toolkit, stunning performance and one-time price instead of the subscription fee, as well as its iPad version used to demonstrate iPad Pro and Pencil - no less impressive.

Although it is compatible with earlier iPad models when you connect it with iPad Pro and Pencil, Affinity Photo really comes to life. Already designed to maximize the use of hardware and sensory functions of the iPad, on the iPad Pro it is also built to fully use the sensitivity and angle of the pencil.

It is designed for a professional workflow with support for raw and PSD files, as well as full cross-platform performance and file compatibility in case you feel necessary to add some final shine to your desktop. But the fact is that you probably do not need.

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It was released almost two years ago, and since then it is improved not by day, but by the hour. By itself, the stylus has not changed any changes, but Cuppertinov has significantly expanded its scope of its application throughout the IOS, and the developers have created a number of great applications for working with "apple pencil". In particular, there have been many drawing applications that turn iPad Pro into a real sketch-beech for true artists.

Pixelmator.

Linea.

Linea offers a more straightforward, but no less powerful approach than Pixelmator. Developers are positioning the program as a light and easy-to-use, not overloading the artist with hundreds of possibilities.

Linea was released this year and regularly improved. For example, the application received support for Apple Pencil and presentation mode, and quite recently developers made it compatible.

Linea offers a wide color palette and allows you to easily manage layers and templates. Thanks to ICloud Sync, you can work on a project on all your Apple devices. What else distinguishes Linea from other drawing applications, it is a very simple and convenient interface that allows even technically inappropriate users to fully use the program capabilities.

From the description of Linea:

"Modern drawing applications are very powerful, but they can overload you with an abundance of choice. The constant change of brushes, the change in colors and layers occupies a huge amount of time and is fraught with roughness and inhomogeneity. Linea offers a completely different approach and provides the perfect balance between functionality and control for maximum performance. The center of attention is what should have your ideas, not tools. "

ProCreate.

Procreate is one of the most multifunctional drawing applications using Apple Pencil and iPad Pro. If you are an illustrator and want to squeeze a maximum of your tablet, without procreate you just do not do. The application is marked by Apple Design Award and enters the list of the best applications in the App Store.

Procreate boasts the fastest 64-bit engine for drawing and optimizing under multi-core iPad. Due to this, you can achieve great accuracy even in small details. Procreate provides a 64-bit color, 250 levels "apply" and "cancel", as well as the constant self-stopping of the project. The appendix provides 128 brushes, each with 35 settings. You can also create your own brushes and collect the personal set of them.

This year, developers promise to release the largest update for the application, thanks to which it will work four times faster.

Autodesk Sketchbook.

Another popular iOS-application for drawing is Sketchbook from Autodesk - developer of a number of well-known applications for iOS and Mac. The program offers more than 170 brushes and is intended "for those who are mandatory daily on sketches."

SketchBook supports Photoshop documents, and also allows you to work with layers and configure the interface to simplify the drawing process.

From the description of the application:

"Sketchbook provides access to functional art facilities without closing the workplace. Sketchbook provides a full-screen mode called Rapid UI, which allows you to hide all interface elements in order to release as much workplace as possible on the iPad or iPhone. Working in Rapid UI mode, you can remove the brushes, layers and color editors, only shuting them with your finger towards the edge of the screen. Select the desired tool in the menu, and then lift the thumb, and the interface will disappear. "

Sketchbook can be downloaded from the App Store completely free of charge (the full version is also available for a fee).

Sketch Club.

Sketch Club introduces a unique social element in drawing. The application offers all standard functions (brushes, blur, eraser, fill, pen, pixelization, text, etc.), as well as support for 54 layers and ICLOUD DRIVE. However, truly unique Sketch Club makes a social aspect. Every day the application offers artists a new task, and also allows you to use the library of common brushes.

• Every day a new task and every week Competition!
• Extensive library of common brushes, templates and textures.
• "Live" broadcasts and chats in the process of drawing.
• Study using special benefits, video and master classes.
• Subscribe to your favorite artists and make your own admirers for the exchange of creativity.
• Public board for tasks for collective work on the project.
• Annual awarding of the best art projects.

Astropad.

Apple's representatives assure us that the iPad Pro is able to fully replace the stationary computer or laptop. But we are sure: this tablet will be an even more decent tool for work, if you fill it with standing applications.

We decided not to include in this list of applications that first come to mind. But they are ready to offer you those programs that show themselves well in work.

GoodNotes 4.

This application allows you to recognize the notes written by hand - using Apple Pencil Stylus. Due to the fact that the program understands handwritten text, and the search function on the text of the document is also available.

Scanner documents

Use the camera in the iPad Pro is needed by the full program. In particular, in order to scan documents. This application can recognize the text in the scanned files and search for keyword.

Canva.

Convenient application for creating beautiful graphic slides and pictures. You can enter the text, save the result and then demonstrate it in high resolution.

Numerics.

A comfortable desktop will track all key indicators of your media. You can display data from those services that use - both for sites and social networks.

iPad is one of the main technological advances Apple. Tablet computer worthy of alternative to which is not yet. The perfect device does not only a beautiful iron (excellent IPS screen, battery, which holds 10 hours of watching video, powerful dual-core processor), but also a wonderful software. Very often on the forums and on social networks you can meet the question "Bought Apad, what to put?". Below you will find useful iPad applications that we recommend. The list is not complete, complement your suggestions.

Reading news

I have a basic way to use the iPad is reading news. RSS clients (both traditional and not very) in Epstor a little more than enough. And they all look like each other. This is what I choose:

In my opinion, now it is the best RSS reader. It is transparently integrated from Google Reader, synchronizes read and unread news, supports almost all the Google Reader functionality (you can share articles, celebrate an asterisk, etc., but it does not allow unsubscribe from RSS flow from iPad), allows you to save long and especially valuable Texts in InstaPaper for postponed reading. It is possible to send a link to Delicious, email, etc. Services. Reeder is a visual proof that google is not very good with user interfaces: when you read the news in Reeder, you read 2-3 times more notes, compared to reading through the web interface. [Overview | Download ($ 4.99)]

. Flipboard is a colorful magazine for iPad. You specify Twitter and Facebook data, the program "sucks" all links that you publish your Friends / Friends / Follovers and forms the attractive magazine from these links. Recently, Flipboard has developed great. Here "Channels" of publishers appeared here: the best newspapers of the world give content in the already decorated form. Google Reader support appeared: now read RSS is in the form of a magazine. [Overview | Free download)]

Zite.. Ambitious startup set a complicated task: to offer the reader only those articles that are interesting to him personally. Zite carefully keeps track of what you read that you note as you like. The mass of parameters is taken into account: the themes you give preference, your activity in social networks. Taking into account these "signals" ZITE "Movements" for you. If you are the reader Gizmodo, Engadger, Lifehacker, then probably noticed that every day blogs write about the same thing. As a result, you have to read one news several times. Zite actually solved this problem. Minus Zite - does not support Russian. [Overview | Free download)]

The problem of lack of time is confronted. It happens that in the midst of the working day they send a reference to an interesting, but long article, read which is now impossible. In this case, it is better to add it to the readitlater service (you can do it in one click). ReaditLater is not the only similar service. Many use InstaPaper. The following points can be attributed in favor of ReaditLater: the availability of the free version (the InstaPaper developer has removed the free version from the App Store), the lower cost of the paid version ($ 2.99 against $ 4.99), the ability to save multi-page articles (InstaPaper does not do on fundamental considerations), more rainbow perspectives (Readitlater received financing and form a star programmer team). [| ($ 2.99)]

The second in popularity of the Pattern of using Apad is a communication with friends. Here everything is quite simple and predictable:

There is still no official Facebook for iPad application. Therefore, the choice is reduced to two things. Or use the browser, or one of the unofficial customers. Friendly is one of the most successful applications for active Facebook users. The program offers basic features: reading news feed, status change, download photos from iPad to social network, chat. Friendly is available in two versions - paid ($ 0.99) and free. The latter demonstrates advertising. [| ]

Twitter.. Twitter is a very popular microblogging service and a social network. Customers for working with it created a lot. The official application is improlatent with an interesting interface, third-party developments offer other possibilities. For example, Echofon Pro ($ 4.99) automatically synchronizes unread messages between different devices (iPad, iPhone, Mac - you will never read the same twice).

IMO.IM.. Customer exchange instant messages a lot. I use different, no sharp preferences. Recently, often launching IMO.im. This messenger supports not only MSN, Jabber / GoogleTalk, Skype, Facebook, ICQ, but even exotic Steam (Communication with gamers) and popular in Russia "in contact". [Free download)]

Skype. - Official customer to the Internet telephony service of the same name. Pretty limited in the possibilities, but glad and such. You can call and communicate in the chat now with the iPad. [Overview | Free download)]

Odnoklassniki.. There is an official iPad application and Odnoklassniki. However, it is far from the ideal. It remains to hope that the developers will develop the program. [Free download)]

Reading books and magazines

Mainly for reading books I use the standard Epplovskaya reader. Books I download (already immediately in Epub), I buy. The Apple IBookStore bookstore in Russia does not work yet, so I use American accounts (account replenish the gif-cards). [Free download)]

Unfortunately, the IBooks Store library is weaker, Amazonovskaya. Sometimes I buy books and there. The best thing is that the book turns out to be in Apad after a minute after purchase. These electronic books are beneficial from paper (hello, Russian Post!). [Free download)]

Zinio.. Customer to the service of the same name. Allows you to buy / subscribe to glossy magazines. Recently, I do not use it, but I turned on the selection - the service is useful. [Free download)]

Education

the iPad is perfect for self-education. I use the following applications:

Ted. TED (deciphered as Technology Entertainment and Design - technology, entertainment and design) - the most vivid example of the edument, form of entertainment, which seeks to form and teach. Among the rapporteurs of Conference TED - Nobel laureates, well-known politicians, stars. They say about common issues, offer their decisions. For the right to listen to TED lectures, many pay thousands of dollars. However, over time, video is postponed for free. The official TED for iPad application offers access to a huge archive. You can even download the video in advance to see it, for example, on the road. Also worth paying attention to the TED + SUB application. This program allows you to watch video with subtitles.

Star Walk. and Solar Walk.. Novosibirsk company Vito Technology is engaged in the development of electronic "cosmic encyclopedias". Star Walk is a digital planetary. This is the best director for astronomy among those available for iPad. Solar Walk is dedicated to the planets of the solar system. Both programs are highlighted. For their developments, Novosibirsk won even Apple Design Award. [Star Walk ($ 4.99) | Solar Walk ($ 2.99)]

MOMA AB EX NY. I am far from art (I'm not proud of this), but the app downloaded. I wanted to see what the program released by one of the leading museums of the world looks like. Moma offers access to a small part of its collection of artists of the school of abstract expressionism. Pictures of paintings are given in high resolution. They can be "closer", considering the details. Many paintings are equipped with a museum curator audio encodimizers. There are several videos that explain the basics of art, drawing techniques, explain the main terms. [Free download)]

In childhood, chemistry do not love, giving preference to physics. However, if I then have such an application, everything could work out otherwise. The Elements are a rethinking periodic table of elements. Interactive textbook on chemical elements. Colorful illustrations, a huge amount of valuable information is somewhat fused against the background that there is no Russian language. [Download ($ 13.99]

You can read Wikipedia, of course without any applications. But with the aesthetic side of the article in Wikipedia, it looks not very good. All these endless footnotes are useful to researchers. And when you want to just read the articles from the encyclopedia, a little sense from them. Articles turns the wiki in the encyclopedia, which is pleasant to read. The application at one time won the Apple Design Award, and is quite deserved. [Download ($ 4.99)]

Skeleton System Pro II. 3D4Medical company is engaged in the release of applications that help to better understand the structure of a person. The programs of this company use 3D visualization. As a result, each organ, every vertebra can be considered. [Download ($ 19.99)]

Work

Simple application to write texts. Home "Fishka" - synchronization of documents between devices using the Dropbox service. The support of the Russian language and the free of charge makes the program and at all attractive. [Free download)]

iWork.. For those, you need more text editing opportunities, who needs instruments for paperwork, it is worth paying attention to the IWork Application Set. Numbers, Keynote and Pages are available in the App Store on $ 10 for the application. [Numbers | Pages | KeyNote]

For iPad / Wunderlist. It is impossible to go around the topic of task managers. Their for iPad is presented by many. The most advanced, in my opinion, is an OmniFocus. The main advantage of the application is the Forecast mode, which shows your employment for the next week. Parted from $ 40 for the Task Manager is not easy. As a free alternative, you can recommend Wunderlist, which is available for iPad, iPhone, OS X, Windows and Android (note the presence of "cloud" synchronization). [($ 39.99) | WunderList (free)]

Evernote has pretty good versions for iPad. You can make text and audio lights, all data is synchronized between different devices. [Free download)]

View video

Oplayer HD.. With watching video on Ipad, everything is not quite simple. If you want to watch a video encoded not in H.264, then the files will have to recode. But there is a second option - to use such a player on the iPad, which understands different file formats and codecs. Players that promise to reproduce absolutely everything in the App Store is really a lot. Most of them either have a monstrous interface (directly trouble) or do not have any important functionality. As a result, if you need to throw a video file with one track and without subtitles on the iPad, it is worth paying attention to Azul ($ 1.99). You will not spend time on recoding. If you are important to be able to switch between tracks and subtitles on the fly, then you should purchase Oplayer HD ($ 4.99).

Air Video. If the computer (no matter, Mac or PC) works constantly, then you can transmit video from it straight on the iPad. It is convenient that it is not necessary to convert video. Let's say, at breakfast you can see a new series of the theory of the Big Bang. You can organize such a broadcast using AIR VIDEO. The program is installed on the computer and on the iPad. There is a free version. Very convenient application. [Air Video Free | Air Video]

IMDB for iPad.. I love movies, I evaluate viewed movies on IMDB, there is a Watchlist - a list of pictures that I would like to see. The IMDB application is one of the reasons to love the service. Simple, comfortable, functional, free. [

To limit ourselves using only the standard interface on the iPad AIR is unlikely possible, and no need. On the appstore, you can find many applications for every taste and functionality. If you like to draw, graphic programs are available. Your hobby photo, download the application for editing pictures. For any of your hobby, you will find a decent app, it is worth just searching for.

Useful programs for work, communication, training suitable for your hobby will be considered here. Among them you can find an acceptable for yourself by functions and price categories. There are both paid applications for iPad and free.

The best apps to keep up to date

This category includes programs aimed at reading news. Being aware of events an important component of social life. If your activity is connected with the news, these programs are perfect. Even if you do not work with the news directly, know what happens in the world is useful and need for a common outlook.

Reader.

This is one of the popular RSS readers today. Transparently conjugate with Google Reader. Makes synchronization of read and not read articles, and has wide functionality. You will be able to marry articles stars, study and much more. But it will not be possible to unsubscribe from RSS-flow from the tablet. Also you can save separately selected texts (long or special value) in InstaPaper and get acquainted with them later. You can send links to e-mail and other services. Subscription fee.

Flipboard.

This is a kind of magazine for Apad. His work is that he collects publishing your friends from social networks as Facebook or Twitter , and creates something of a colorful magazine from these news. This application supports Google Reader And gives you the opportunity to read news by means of displaying them as a magazine. There are also publishing "Channels". These are newspapers that transmit their material ready for familiarization. Download the program you can free.

Zite.

The task of this application give you not all in a row information, but only the one that will be interesting to you. So in the course of use, the program notes the articles you like and further forms material based on these preferences. Here the subject of information is taken into account, your attendance of social networks and activity in them. Solved the problem of reading the same news. The minus is that there is no support for the Russian language. But download Zite you can free.

Readitlater.

A frequent problem of a modern man, a lack of a free minute. During the working day, you can send an interesting article or news, but you can not read it at once because of the fact that it is big. This problem and decides readitlater. You can easily send the resulting link to the app and get acquainted with it later. On the Internet, there is an analogue of this service InstaPaper But it does not have a free version and has a big price for a paid subscription. Also, you have the opportunity to make the conservation of multi-page news.

Social communication programs

Communicate with interesting people, maintaining relations with former classmates, colleagues or classmates are also important and necessary. In order to do it easily and quickly invented special apps for communication and communication.

Friendly.

Many of us have page on Facebook. But yet there is no Special Application for iPad. Use the usual browser page is inconvenient. Therefore, for those who have a page there are friendly. You have all the standard functions: you can turn the tape, put "likes", upload photos or comment on other people's news. There is both paid and free subscription to the choice. The disadvantage of the free version is frequent advertising, at the expense of which monetization is underway.

Twitter.

Twitter is a very common social network today and microblogging base. Customers allowing you to work with it on the Internet. The official client offers an interesting interface design, other developers offer additional use. So Echofon Pro makes automatic synchronization of all coming messages. This will solve the problem of reading the same text on different gadgets.

IMO.IM.

This client from the discharge of "messengers". On the Internet, you can find such clients a lot. Choose to taste. This messenger has recently has its popularity. It has support for ICQ, Facebook, Skype, Jabber / GoogleTalk, MSN and Steam (this for communicating between gamers). There is also support to VKontakte which is very popular in the territory of the Russian Federation. You can download Messenger for free.

Skype.

You will certainly please the possibility of communication with close people through Skype. Many of our relatives live far from us in other cities and even countries. An important component of warm family relations is communication. Speak with your sister, which is in another city, is sometimes very important. This feature gives Skype. If you do not have a 1st iPad, all you need this camera, an installed application and a good Internet signal. You can not only make calls, but also correspond in chat. Although the client functions are limited, but you can use it for free.

Odnoklassniki.

Although there is this application for tablets, it is difficult to call it functionally developed. It performs basic functions, but great joy in use is unlikely to deliver. But still, it is better to use such "classmates" than to use the browser. It remains to hope that in the future the client will be developed, because the social network is quite popular.

"Readers"

Another popular category are "readers". Read in the subway on the way to work or study a cute business. For this, specialized applications will be perfectly suitable allowing you to download free, buy paid books and subscribe to magazines.

iBooks.

This is a standard software application for Apple Gadget. Here you can download in Epub books or buy them. Unfortunately, in the territory of the Russian Federation, use iBooks Store It will not work, you will have to use American. Top up an account for buying books you can through gift cards. If you accidentally deleted iBooks You can download it for free in the AppStore.

Kindle.

Good iBooks alternative. Unfortunately, iBooks Store the library is not so extensive as Amazonskaya. Therefore, if you did not find something, you can search here. The great advantage of e-books before paper is that you do not need to wait until the book comes by mail. After clicking, the book instantly turns out to be on your device (taking into account the speed of your Internet, of course). Download this reader is free.

Zinio.

This client appeared for conveniently using the service of the same name. Allows not only to make purchases of books, but also issue log subscriptions. If you like to extract glossy magazines, then this client is for you. Downloaded for free.

For education

Ted

Deciphering this Abbreviation Technology Entertainment and Design. Translated from English this technology, entertainment and design . This is a very good bright example of game learning. Rapporteurs are famous laureates of Nobel Prizes, famous political figures. Ordinary topical topics rise, options for solving them are proposed.

To listen to such lectures, many people lay out large amounts of money. After some time, the video enters the Internet for free. Using this application you can access a large repository. You can pre-download the video and view on the way. Also video files with subtitles are available.

Star Walk.

In fact, this is a digital planetarium. You can use this program as a high-level astronomical guide. There is one more similar application associated with space - Solar Walk. The setting is a solar system. Both applications are developed by Vito Technology (Novosibirsk). It develops encyclopedia in electronic form dedicated to space. For their achievements in the development area, she won Apple Design Award . Both programs can be downloaded.

Moma.

The release of this application is the merit of one of the world's leading museums. Presented area - art. It offers familiarization with the works of artists who worked in the direction of abstract expressionism. Pictures of the canvas are offered in extension with high quality. You can easily change the scale of the image and view the details of the picture. Many pictures have an addition in the form of an audio complement, which is voiced by the curator of the museum. You can view videos in which you can get acquainted with the basics of art, drawing techniques and the main terms. Downloads with AppStore for free.

Articles.

Wikipedia is interested and useful, but it's not always convenient to do it in the browser. This program is designed to scraper the study process. So you got the encyclopedia that you want to read. For which the Apple Design Award premium was received. You can download for use for a fee, but it is worth it.