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20+ Best Must Have iPad Apps for Designers and Developers

iPad is a wonderful device. While being an amazing piece of hardware, the device also excels in providing the best user experience owing to apple’s operating system. What add more spice to the already amazing iPad are its applications. These are the applications developed by third party developers and are aimed at providing the best user experience you possibly can think of. iPad applications are of different types. Right from productivity to entertainment, the App Store has everything in it. Here, in this post we have summed up 20+ best applications for you if you are a web designer or developer. Using these apps in your iPad, you’ll not only save considerable amount of time but will also enjoy the increased workflow.

WordPress

The name needs no introduction. WordPress is the blogging platform which is used by more than ninety percent of blogs today. And there is a cool app for that too

Brushes

Brushes is an amazing app for iPhone and iPad. You can create various abstract illustrations with the help of Brushes

OmniGraffle

OmniGraffle aims at providing you with a multi-purpose environment where you can do everything from mock ups to sketching work flow diagrams. A must have app for project managers.

Quill

Quill is probably the only app available for drawing vectors. With this app, you can draw vector illustrations without the need of illustrator

SketchBook Pro

Drawing and sketching is always the first step in designing. With SketchBook Pro, drawing and sketching can be much more fun filled and intriguing.

Adobe Ideas

From the makers of Photoshop, Adobe ideas is an interesting app that acts as a digital sketchbook for your iPad

PhotoPad

PhotoPad serves as one of the best apps for photo editing. It is having all the necessary tools that will help you to edit your photographs and make them even more beautiful and appealing.

Cool Hunting

Cool Hunting is an award-winning online publication and video series with a global scope. A daily covering the forefronts of design, culture and technology  to explore the spaces between print and web.

Ideate

A perfect example to let your creativity fly. The app has a limited number of options which in fact is a good thing for beginners so that they don’t get lost in lots of options

Freeform

If you are in a mood of having some fun with doodling around, this app is worth a try. You can even share your self created doodles and illustrations with your friends.

Gusto

Gusto is one of the best app for web workflow. Just open Gusto and you can dive straight into your workflow by auto downloading all the required files over ftp.

iDisplay

Turn your iPad into a side monitor with iDisplay. This gives you a larger “monitor” for keeping things that aren’t a priority off to the side, but still plenty visible.

iBooks

iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest best-selling books or your favorite classics – day or night. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages.

Draw

The new iPad version of this app offers the same great cooperative drawing games as the iPhone version. With Draw for iPad, you’ll be able to play sketching games over Bluetooth and upload your favorite drawings to Twitter.

iPdf Reader

iPDF Reader is the world’s slimmest eBook and PDF reader, now available for the iPad

Masque

Many of the photo editing apps are not having layers as a part of their workflow. But if you can’t live without layers, Masque is the app you need. You can add various layer effects in your photographs with this app

Evernote

Evernote is a popular note taking program for computers and is now available as an iPhone and iPad app. With evernote  on your iPad, you don’t have to worry about forgetting anything. It also synchronized seamlessly with all your other devices.

Stumble Upon

StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. Stumble Upon is a great online user driven community where users discover, like and review the best content available on the internet. With this app, you can make sure you don’t miss any content worth noticing.

Doodle Buddy

DoodleBuddy is a very addictive iPad app mainly because it’s not only productive, but fun to use. You can use your fingers to paint and play with thousands of other things.

Markup

With Markup iPad app, you can download, edit and upload text files such as HTML, CSS, PHP etc. It also gives you the option to preview things before making the final changes.

Phaidon Design Classics

The application offers, at the touch of a finger, access to an encyclopedic, illustrated history of 1,000 timeless design classics by not only renowned designers