Transform your iPad into a video editing studio, workstation, book reader, notepad, music production, or painter’s canvas with our list of expertly curated apps for work or play.
Whether you go for the traditional iPad, iPad mini, iPad Pro or iPad Air, there is an app that lets you work or play with little to no commitment.
Best iPad Apps for 2022
- Capcut
From the creators of TikTok, although you don’t have to have TikTok to use it, CapCut makes it really easy for anyone to edit full videos, add music, and effects on your iPad. With a longer time limit and improved editing options, it’s the perfect free update for TikTok creators looking to level up their videos.
- Procreate
Procreate is an excellent option for digital artists who want to make the most of the iPad Pro’s capabilities, including the Apple Pencil. Procreate gives you all the tools you need to create the sketches, paintings, and illustrations you can image. Rounding out the list of features are continuous autosave, high-resolution canvases, and 136 different types of brushes to try.
- Apple GarageBand
The iPad became a legitimate music composition tool thanks in large part to its own version of GarageBand, Apple’s foundational entry-level digital audio editing app. The GarageBand application contains many functions that are unsurpassed at a professional level, in this app, you can edit notes in the style of a piano roll, an expanded sound palette and additional recording tools. Other really interesting functions that you can perform are to record and edit audio from third-party instrument applications with GarageBand.
- Goodnotes
I have been an environment enthusiast since forever, and I love to switch to digital format wherever possible. Goodnotes 5 offers a variety of tools to make your note-taking experience worth every penny it charges.
In this app for digital notes, we can use digital planner, digital stickers and much more, to also organize our day to day. One of the advantages is to be able to consult everything on our iPhone or iPad anywhere.
Edit everything and customize it as we need. Goodnotes 5 is an incredible option to plan our studies or work. You can find digital stationery to add to Goodnotes 5 here.
- NASA App
There are many good NASA-sponsored and NASA-related apps for the iPad, but none compares with this official NASA App Compiled by NASA’s Ames Research Center, the app combines insightful articles and news stories, dazzling images and videos, and live TV feeds, making it a one-stop portal for most everything NASA.
- Affinity Photo
When it comes to professional photo editors on the iPad, Affinity is fast, powerful, and reliable. With a fantastic UI and all the tools you need to make anything you want.
- Complete Anatomy 2022
An Apple Design Award Winner, this app is prevalent at 250 of the world’s top universities, include 20 of the world’s top 25 ranked medical schools
Your favorites?
There you have it, some of our favorite apps updated for iPad Pro. Lots more are on the way, so we’ll keep updating this list. If we missed your favorite, let us know!
