Ipad Apps reviews from Reddit

Summary

We analyzed 249 Reddit reviews across 37 subreddits and 52 posts to rank the best Ipad Apps brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/ipad, r/indianmedschool, r/sahm, r/DigitalPainting, r/Mommit. Top-rated brands include GoodNotes (4.6/5), Procreate (5.0/5), Notability (4.5/5).

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Reviews249
Subreddits37
Posts52
Brands99
Products7
Top communities
r/ipad76r/indianmedschool31r/sahm21r/DigitalPainting14r/Mommit13
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#1

GoodNotes

4.6
(27)
"Definitely goodnotes"
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"Goodnotes is my fave!"
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"Goodnotes"
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"Goodnotes is really amazing."
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"Good notes, notion , forest"
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"Goodnotes, Keynote"
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"Goodnotes (for notes taking)"
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"Goodnotes"
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"Goodnotes. Feyn. YPT. Forest."
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"Goodnotes is my favourite till now Has all the features and a nice interface too"
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#2

Procreate

5.0
(18)
"If you draw at all, procreate is a must."
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"Procreate"
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"Procreate is a great drawing app for ipad! One upfront payment and you have access for life."
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"Very worth the cost, especially compared to other widely used art programs."
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"I agree with Procreate, I love it so much"
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"Procreate, ArtRage"
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"Procreate"
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"Either procreate or ibispaint were my go tos."
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"Procreate is the best option I can think of."
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"Procreate is the best and most enjoyable to use for sketching and general art"
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#3

Notability

4.5
(16)
"NOTABILITY"
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"I use Notability and have done for several years now. I really like it and the updates seem to make it better and open up new things all the time."
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"Today I live mainly in Notability because I have the most history there, I’m grandfathered under the Classic plan, and it fits the workflow for how I want to create notes the “best”."
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"Notability app is free now and you can pay for some features."
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"Notablility - The only note taking app I need."
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"Notability!!!! It's $2.99 and worth every penny!"
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"I use Notability and I like it a lot."
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"For notes, Notability is pretty nice."
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"I like notability !"
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"Either way notability has been great for me!"
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#4

Khan Academy

5.0
(8)
"Khan Academy are all good options!"
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"I love Khan Academy and Teach your Monster to Read."
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"Favorite apps are khan academy, pbs kids, and teach your monster to read."
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"Khan Academy Kids and Super Simple Songs are our favs!"
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"My 5 and 2 year old take turns using ABC Mouse, Khan Academy, Reading IQ, and Lucas & Friends games/apps."
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"I’ve enjoyed letting them use Kahn academy kids and duo abc."
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"We like kahn academy kids and moose math"
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"For math, Khan Academy and Front Row are awesome apps."
#5

CollaNote

4.3
(8)
"Collanote app. Many free templates and pages are available, and I think the paid version is kinda cheap, too."
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"CollaNote is dope"
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"I use collanotes or freenote"
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"Been using Collanote since 3 years, and I agree"
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"I like CollaNote"
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"I use Collanote every day as a teacher, and the free version became unusable because ads would pop up every 20 minutes. So I paid $15 one time to get the premium version forever."
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"CollaNotes and Concepts are basically free apps. They both worth the pro versions while also being quite usable on the free tier."
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"Collanote"
#6

Nebo

4.7
(6)
"Nebo is perfect for my needs. Almost every other app is overcomplicated and requires a subscription."
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"Nebo! Simple but great 😃 best writing feel imo"
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"Swear Nebo is so slept on. $15 for life!!! And now you can have two tabs open from the app which is super helpful"
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"Nebo app is my favorite. Great written to text convertion (even my bad czech handwriting), math formulas to text, syncing with my iPhone and Windows."
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"Nebo is great if you need to transcribe and convert handwriting to text in real time."
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"I don’t know why Nebo doesn’t get more love"
#7

Apple Notes

3.6
(7)
"Apple Notes is probably the best, depending on how crazy you want to get."
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"Use the Apple s own notes app with that you can use the AI features"
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"Apple notes (for rough work, revising stuff)"
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"Coming back to Apple Notes every time. Yep, not perfect. but fast, integrated, useful and reliable."
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"Apple note"
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"The default Notes app is mostly fine."
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"Don’t get Goodnotes … use apple notes"
#8

Noteful

4.0
(6)
"I quite like all the features, all my needs are covered and I never feel like I'm missing something."
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"Currently am using Noteful, much much better."
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"Noteful by far, no stupid recurring payments, not bloated with useless features, simple and easy to use"
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"I use Noteful. Great app and a nice pay once price."
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"A lifetime subscription only for ~6-ish. And almost have every features of Goodnotes"
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"Notefull. unfortunately huge ommission in iOS is lack of scribble for polish."
#9

Sago Mini

4.8
(5)
"Favorite apps are Sago mini and Pok Pok."
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"My son loved the sago mini app."
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"Sago mini apps are nice. Our kids liked Forest flyer and Trucks and Diggers."
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"Both Endless Numbers and Endless Letters. The Sago Mini apps are also good."
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"Sago Mini recently launched a preschool app bundle that is a pretty good deal for families."
#10

PBS Kids

4.4
(5)
"Favorite apps are khan academy, pbs kids, and teach your monster to read."
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"PBS kids is great and free, we also have Homer which he likes and does reading, math and writing."
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"PBS kids (free)"
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"Play pbs kids for about a half hour twice a week. I think many of the games are pretty educational, as long as they’re used in moderation, I think it serves well."
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"Pbs kids, and pbs games app."
#11

Notion

4.2
(5)
"Notion, Goodnotes"
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"Goodnotes and Notion are my favorite."
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"Notion (Only best for task planning), To Do List, Collanote, Goodnotes."
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"Notion is free, if you'd like to see some pre-made templates check out: [notionplates.com](https://notionplates.com)"
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"Notion and good note"
#12

Microsoft OneNote

4.0
(5)
"OneNote is that it’s a no nonsense tool. The interface is clean and straightforward."
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"That’s why I use Microsoft OneNote. 3rd parties tool are highly unreliable."
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"For the quick on the fly note taking with lots of photos, nothing comes close. I use OneNote to take field notes and do progress reports for industrial construction projects."
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"Lots of pictures (from camera or screenshots, with text or pen markup) - OneNote"
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"Microsoft OneNote is pretty good"
#13

FreeNotes

5.0
(4)
"Freenotes can do These things also and better if not best"
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"Freenotes goated"
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"Get freenotes"
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"Freenotes Best free note taking app"
#14

Notes+

3.8
(5)
"Notes+"
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"I use NOTES+"
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"Notes+ is the best if u want it to be completely free"
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"Notes + simple, good and doesn’t heat up when using apple pencil on iPad mini."
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"I like using notes+. It’s free and pretty much the same with other note taking apps."
#15

Noteshelf

4.5
(4)
"No subscription, feels great, has a great little tutorial you can try with the free trial. $20 and no subscription is what sold me on it - but feels better and can do a lot more than free ones."
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"Noteshelf (my favorite app for highlighting and writing in textbooks!)"
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"NoteShelf (or GoodNotes) for handwritten notes, notebooks."
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"Noteshelf has been very good for me"
#16

ibis Paint

4.3
(4)
"Ibis Paint is highly praised by a lot of people."
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"I think its a great choice."
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"For a free one i recommend ibisx paint!"
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"Im using ibis x paint. Its pretty nice for beginners."
#17

Concepts

4.3
(4)
"Concepts perfect for mind maps"
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"Best , but lags badly and the content isn't visible when the note gets quite long/large. Gotta say concepts is my go to , the infinite canvas is bliss"
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"I use concepts"
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"Concepts for quick/rough drawing, sketching, illustrations, visualizations."
#18

YouTube

4.3
(4)
"-youtube"
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"Apps: Youtube"
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"Maybe try downloading Cocomelon from YouTube."
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"Youtube"
#19

Affinity Designer

4.3
(4)
"I should get Affinity designer before it goes sub!"
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"Affinity designer"
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"I started to use affinity designer and happy with it."
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"Affinity Designer is also solid and is a pay once/use forever kind of deal."
#20

Nomad Sculpt

5.0
(3)
"Nomad Sculpt"
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"I also *highly* recommend checking out Nomad Sculpt."
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"I highly recommend nomad sculpt."
#21

GoodReader

4.7
(3)
"Goodreader to annotate pdf, definitely worth the $5."
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"It allows you to open a PDF document and highlight, underline, and notate directly onto the page."
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"I like GoodReader for PDFs."
#22

PDF Expert

5.0
(2)
"Pdf expert. It also has an option of resizing the margins so that you can take notes in the margins"
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"Pdf expert, notability, human anatomy atlas, anki, procreate/sketchbook and your preferred educational app willl get you sorted for most of your needs as a med student."
#23

Korg Gadget

5.0
(2)
"Korg gadget is awesome. its all you need."
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"Korg gadget"
#24

Google

5.0
(2)
"* Google Keep (great for lists, and sharable)"
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"* Google Keep (notes/lists)"
#25

Teach Your Monster

5.0
(2)
"I love Khan Academy and Teach your Monster to Read."
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"Favorite apps are khan academy, pbs kids, and teach your monster to read."
#26

Evernote

5.0
(2)
"I've recently gotten into using evernote to keep track of all my to-do lists, notes, etc."
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#27

Microsoft

4.5
(2)
"One note! syncs easily between my mac & ipad, easy to sort/organize, & just super user friendly"
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"Onenote and Collanote are both free"
#28

Obsidian

4.5
(2)
"Obsitian with excalidraw is awesome, and it’ll be useful for the rest of your time"
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"Obsidian for note-taking (markdown, text), linking, tagging, organization."
#29

Ibis Paint X

4.5
(2)
"I’d recommend Ibis Paint X for drawing"
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"I like it, but I have tried out others that people are mentioning."
#30

Pages

4.5
(2)
"Pages is an excellent word processor that is compatible with Microsoft Word."
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"Preinstalled Pages app is very very easy to use for note taking too"
#31

Samplr

4.5
(2)
"Samplr, Moog Model 15, iMPC Pro 2."
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"Samplr and TriqTraq."
#32

Duck Duck Moose

4.5
(2)
"Anything by Duck Duck Moose."
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"The kid apps by Duck Duck Moose are all pretty good and polished nicely."
#33

Lucas & Friends

4.5
(2)
"My 5 and 2 year old take turns using ABC Mouse, Khan Academy, Reading IQ, and Lucas & Friends games/apps."
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"Lucas & Friends"
#34

Sketchbook

4.0
(2)
"I use it for sketching mostly but has pretty good lineart options."
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"I prefer Sketchbook over Procreate."
#35

ILovePDF

4.0
(2)
"I use ilovepdf for a very specific use case of highlighting text"
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"Ilovepdf for reading pdf and highlighting them"
#36

Lingo Kids

4.0
(2)
"Lingo kids"
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"I have a 4 year old and he uses lingo kids and YouTube kids."
#37

Apple Freeform

4.0
(2)
"Freeform can be great for mind mapping."
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"Freeform comes with the ipad but i think that works perfectly for me! and it’s free"
#38

Flipboard

4.0
(2)
"Flipboard"
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"Two separate news/feeds apps that you can configure for her tastes."
#39

Autodesk Sketchbook

4.0
(2)
"Autodesk sketchbook isn't bad if it's still free."
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"Autodesk sketchbook is pretty good and also free."
#40

Flexcil

4.0
(2)
"Try flexil…. 600 ish & it is really good I didn’t feel any features lacking"
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"FLEXCIL is VERY similar but its free! (sure there's a paid version, but im going through a full year on the free version...)"
#41

Adobe Fresco

3.5
(2)
"Fresco sounds perfect for this!"
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"As for free apps, the only one I know that's somewhat worth it would be Adobe Fresco."
#42

Drambo

5.0
(1)
"Drambo"
#43

Google Docs

5.0
(1)
"Honestly, I use GoogleDocs exclusively on my iPad."
#44

Djay

5.0
(1)
"Djay Pro"
#45

FTL

5.0
(1)
"Game - FTL (Faster Than Light)"
#46

The Room

5.0
(1)
"The Room and it’s sequels."
#47

Kindle

5.0
(1)
"Kindle. She can read whatever she wants without having a tower of books to deal with."
#48

Tetris

5.0
(1)
"Tetris, everybody loves it."
#49

Happy Color

5.0
(1)
"Completely free (just a little ad heavy but it’s worth it), but I just color by number my heart away."
#50

Cinema Forms

5.0
(1)
"[Cinema Forms] - A full list of templatized forms that can."
#51

Arturia iProphet Synthesizer

5.0
(1)
"I personally have this one: Arturia iProphet Synthesizer"
#52

Animoog

5.0
(1)
"Animoog Z"
#53

Moose Math

5.0
(1)
"We like kahn academy kids and moose math"
#54

Smart Tot Rattle

5.0
(1)
"So far my daughter loves the 'smart tot rattle.' It is nicely displayed and has cool sounds."
#55

Bimi Boo

5.0
(1)
"He plays a series of games from the App Store, if you search “bimi boo” there’s a bunch of them. They’re educational and go through letters and numbers, colors, puzzles, my kid really enjoys it and he is learning a lot."
#56

Reading IQ

5.0
(1)
"My 5 and 2 year old take turns using ABC Mouse, Khan Academy, Reading IQ, and Lucas & Friends games/apps."
#57

Medscape

5.0
(1)
"One App to rule them all :Medscape."
#58

Chess.com

5.0
(1)
"I'd recommend chess.com and the chess.com mobile app."
#59

ABCmouse

5.0
(1)
"My 5 and 2 year old take turns using ABC Mouse, Khan Academy, Reading IQ, and Lucas & Friends games/apps."
#60

WerkBench

5.0
(1)
"Lemme know when you get it and I'll send you a code for a copy of my app WerkBench."
#61

Aparillo

5.0
(1)
"Aparillo (mega FM synth) and Quanta (granular synth) are must haves to add to your list."
#62

Various Educational iPad Apps

5.0
(1)
"Here are some of my favorites: ABC Alphabet, ABC Food, ABC Pocket Phonics, Gopher Finding, iWrite Words, Starfall ABCs, Build a Word, Word Wagon, Magnetic ABC, ABC Phonics Sight Words."
#63

Sesame Street Elmo Calls

5.0
(1)
"He loves it http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/elmo-calls/id467703220?mt=8"
#64

Monster Reader

5.0
(1)
"It has Monster Reader (my fave), Bluey Let's Play, and Lego Duplo Marvel."
#65

TalkPath

5.0
(1)
"Talk Path and Constant Therapy are two of my go-to’s!"
#66

Super Simple Songs

5.0
(1)
"Khan Academy Kids and Super Simple Songs are our favs!"
#67

Prepladder

5.0
(1)
"Prepladder (god save you if you don’t know this)"
#68

Essential Anatomy

5.0
(1)
"An app called Essential Anatomy ($24) that's amazing."
#69

Shot Designer

5.0
(1)
"[Shot Designer] - block out scenes with moving subjects and camera angles."
#70

LVRUSA

5.0
(1)
"[LVRUSA] - A full list of the industry's top camera's manuals."
#71

Trace Table

4.0
(1)
"I use the app Trace Table - light box to make my iPad like a shadow box"
#72

Documents

4.0
(1)
"The Free version also have A LOT of features, without even buying any subscription"
#73

YPT

4.0
(1)
"YPT (study group)"
#74

Apple Music

4.0
(1)
"Apple Music (background sounds)"
#75

ABC Mouse

4.0
(1)
"ABC Mouse are all good options!"
#76

FitSW

4.0
(1)
"I like to run www.FitSW.com on my iPad (its a web app)."
#77

Coffeeshopped

4.0
(1)
"Patch base from coffeeshopped and the Volca FM module is a nice add for a new iPad."
#78

Starfall

4.0
(1)
"Starfall"
#79

Celestron

4.0
(1)
"Celestron sky portal is a free version of Sky Safari."
#80

Skate City

4.0
(1)
"Games: Skate City"
#81

Teamfight Tactics

4.0
(1)
"Games: Teamfight Tactics"
#82

Part-Time UFO

4.0
(1)
"Part time ufo (pay)"
#83

iTorrent

4.0
(1)
"Sideload itorrent and use infuse to play it"
#84

MovieBox Pro

4.0
(1)
"Sideload Movieboxpro"
#85

Infuse

4.0
(1)
"Use infuse to play it"
#86

Homer

4.0
(1)
"We also have Homer which he likes and does reading, math and writing."
#87

MyPlayHome

4.0
(1)
"MyPlayHome"
#88

Dr. Panda

4.0
(1)
"Dr. Panda"
#89

Pandora

4.0
(1)
"- Pandora."
#90

Kidlo Land

4.0
(1)
"Kidlo Land"
#91

iVCS3

4.0
(1)
"IVCS3 Nave iSEM Mersenne and the company's other apps"
#92

Fish School

4.0
(1)
"Fish School"
#93

ibisPaint

4.0
(1)
"Ibis paint"
#94

Digital D1

4.0
(1)
"Digital D1, Zeeon, mood, volt, ripplemaker are great and easy to get around in."
#95

Impaktor

4.0
(1)
"- Impaktor - SpaceCraft - Synth One - Model 15 - iSEM - Waldorf Nave - iWavestation - DXi or FM4 (only 4op, but their GUIs make FM as easy as it gets) - iVCS3 - Virtual ANS for drums: FunkBox"
#96

Notedrafts

4.0
(1)
"Catch notedrafts while it's free. It has templates for journalin (in English)."
#97

gFlash+

4.0
(1)
"For wards, I've found the combination of the Google Drive app and a flashcard app called gFlash+ very useful."
#98

PDF Viewer

4.0
(1)
"I use pdf viewer with blue fan icon thingy Works for annotating pdfs and it's free"
#99

Clip Studio

4.0
(1)
"Options: Clip Studio, Krita, Medibang (I THINK THIS IS on ipad i dont know), Procreate."

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