Best iPad Apps

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Lord Pad April 3, 2010 at 6:02 pm

Here are my favorite iPad apps so far in no particular order:

(last updated 5/13/10)

1. Marvel Comics – reading Marvel comics
2. Plants vs. Zombies – Killing zombies is my favorite past time
3. Scrabble for iPad – Scrabble board game iPad style
4. Netflix – Watch streaming movies
5. TweetDeck – iPad Twitter client
6. SoundHound – Shazam on steroids
7. GoodReader – read PDF and txt files
8. NewsRack – RSS reader
9. Brushes – painting
10. ArtStudio – drawing app
11. Pulse – News reader with style

iPaddy April 7, 2010 at 2:51 pm

Nice list, here are mine:

Real Racing HD
Netflix
Marvel Comics
SoundHound
Civilization Revolution
Geometry Wars

news6boston.com May 20, 2010 at 5:41 am

1. Marvel Comics – reading Marvel comics
2. Plants vs. Zombies – Killing zombies is my favorite past time
3. Scrabble for iPad – Scrabble board game iPad style
4. Netflix – Watch streaming movies
5. TweetDeck – iPad Twitter client
6. SoundHound – Shazam on steroids
7. GoodReader – read PDF and txt files
8. NewsRack – RSS reader
9. Brushes – painting
10. ArtStudio – drawing app
+1

Ivan July 8, 2010 at 9:25 am

My list:

Reeder (RSS news reader)
Cloudreaders (Comics, PDF)
Wattpad (online books)
Dropbox (online storage)
Airvideo (Streaming)
iCab Mobile (web browser)

:)

Trudy July 12, 2010 at 12:54 pm

Here are my top 3 :)
1. Brushes – painting
2. ArtStudio – drawing app
3. Marvel Comics – reading Marvel comics

Pablo July 24, 2010 at 9:42 pm

Cool list here are mine top ten apps
1.angry birds HD
2. Touch grind HD
3.brushes
4. Sound hound
5.uzu
6.real racing HD
7. Osomos HD
8.geometry wats
9.smule magic piano
10. Scrabble

Will September 4, 2010 at 11:28 pm

20 cool apps:
1 Angry Birds (Lots of levels!!!)
2 Blocks! (Kinda like legos)
3 Big Buck Hunter Pro (Fun)
4 Jelly Car 2 (Level Maker YAY)
5 Moron Test (Hard but super addictive)
6 Sandwich Maker (Full Version is 2.99 I think)
7 iSpy (Like 200+ cameras around the world!)
8 Pokemaker (Make Pokemon cards with your photos!)
9 Zombie Farm (Grow zombies or crops for FREE)
10 Cat Physics (A fun puzzle game.)
11 FlickFishingHD (Catch fish on your device!)
12 Charadium+ (Play pictonary with people around the world!)
13 Facebook (Facebook Mobile)
14 ABC player (Watch ABC shows from your device)
15 Spider HD (Like the coolest game ever!!!!)
16 Kitten Cannon (Shoot a cat out of a cannon.)
17 Beatwave (Create Music!)
18 Spin 3D (Make cool art!)
19 No, Human (A really cool puzzle game.)
20 RC Heli (Fly a RC Heli in a house)
Hope you enjoy them!

Billy October 22, 2010 at 12:17 pm

Hey I’m getting an iPad soon and was trying to find some good apps and their prices. Some I found, some I didn’t. Anyway, here is the list. Long- don’t have prices for bottom ones.
Wikihood                              Free
Flipboard                              Free
Howcast                              Free
Flickr                                   Free
Backgrounds HD                     Free
Doodle buddy                         Free
BBC news                             Free
Today in History                   Free
Urbanspoon                          Free
Wordseek                             Free
UNO                                    Free
Epicurious                             Free
Evernote                              Free
Dropbox                                Free
ABC News                            Free
iBooks                                  Free
Kindle                                  Free
Accuweather                        Free
NYT Editors’ Choice                Free
USA Today                            Free
NPR                                     Free
Fluent News reader               Free
ABC Player                           Free
Pandora                               Free
NBA Game Time Courtside       Free
Wikipanion                           Free
World Book                          Free
AP                                      Free
Dragon dictation                   Free
Dictionary .Com                    Free
IMDB                                  Free
eBay                                   Free
Nightstand Central for iPad   Free
The weather channel            Free
Yahoo! Entertainment           Free
Netflix                                Free
Reuters News Pro                 Free
Zinio                                   Free
TruPhone                             Free
Harbor master HD                 Free
Mondo solitare                     Free
TED                                     Free
Weather HD                          0.99
Touch hockey extreme            2.99
ScoreCenter XL                     4.99
WeatherBug elite                  4.99
Star Walk                           4.99
Instapaper                           4.99
1Password                           6.99
NOVA/sandstorm HD           9.99/6.99
RealRacing HD                       9.99
Pages                                   9.99
Numbers                               9.99
Keynotes                              9.99
Super monkey ball 2             9.99
Desktop connect                    11.99
MLB At Bat                       14.99
Desktop
Bloomberg
Skype
Sportacular
WolframAlpha
Soundhound/Shazam
Angry Birds HD
Convertbot
Voice memos
Labyrinth lite
Blackboard
Pianist Pro
Flixster movies
Documents to Go
NASA
Hulu plus
Picasa Web albums
NBA Hotshot HD

Nigel Barber December 31, 2010 at 10:33 am

Check out Vectoria for something pretty unique.

JR January 4, 2011 at 4:26 pm

My kids love:
Tap Fish, Tap Birds, etc (free)
Air Hockey Gold (free)
Glow Draw (free)
Adobe Ideas (free)
Toy Story Read-along (free)
TouchTanks Online:FS5 (free) – I played with it a bit too
Rush Hour Free

I like:
Shanghai Mahjong Lite (free)
Virtuoso Piano Free 2 HD
Line2
Clinometer HD (free)
Compass HD (free)
Eye Chart Pro (free)
Labyrinth 2 HD Lite (free – I bought the paid version to design my own)
Keynote ($9.99)
Official Sudoku (free)
Digital Photo Frame HD (free)
PocketBible Free
Free Books – 23,469 classics
Molecules (free)
Fluent Newsreader (free – though some features require a paid version)

SaaJ AcM January 4, 2011 at 7:18 pm

angry birds HD is sick !/

Blackchip January 19, 2011 at 2:04 pm

Goodreader
Dropbox
Atomic Web
Splashtop remote
Air video
Fieldrunners
Nav Free
Pages, Keynote, Numbers
Buzz Player
Djay
Piano man
Pulse News
Flipboard
Angry birds HD

Blackchip January 19, 2011 at 2:31 pm

Oh and I forgot to mention ……..

…BRUSHES.

Maria January 31, 2011 at 3:07 pm

Hi, very interesting lists, thanks.
Mine is:
1.- GoodReader (PDF reader)
2.- Shanghai Mahjong (game)
3.- ArtStudio (drawing)
4.- Free Books (classic books)
5.- iWheel Food&Drink (learning spanish and french… I use it in my trips).

RY February 4, 2011 at 2:24 am

1.X-plane
2.Pages
3.Angry Birds
4.Angry Birds Seasons

Armands February 16, 2011 at 9:07 am

We are happy to announce Delicious Home Meals iPad magazine is available on the AppStore: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/delicious-home-meals/id418794891?mt=8&ls=1
http://www.delicioushomemeals.com/delicious_announcement.pdf

blues March 9, 2011 at 2:15 am

Flipboard- best app for news!
piRAWnha- great for viewing/editing raw images
Splashtop- lets you control your pc from the iPad
Discover- wikipedia viewing
Netflix- convenient
Kindle- great for reading
Twitter- interface is much better than the website
Hungry Shark- fun game!

Nami March 14, 2011 at 4:58 am

Pressreader deserves mentioning as well.

Pressreader is a newspaper app that gives users access to over 1000 full-content digital newspaper from all over the world. I used a few news app but this one has the least amount of loading time (barely any), and auto-downloads my favorite newspapers.

Other apps that I use:

Kobo – for ebook reading from Chapters
Pocket Bible
Air Hockey
Virutoso Piano

Kyle March 25, 2011 at 4:40 pm

My favorite apps for the iPad are listed below:

music – Pandora
ebooks – Kindle
shopping – DealNews
banking – Mint.com
game – Pacman (yes, i’m old school)
movies – Netflix and Hulu
social media – Twitter
social media – Facebook

Cheers,
Kyle

Janet L. Falk April 3, 2011 at 6:19 pm

Note Taker HD for productivity

Lisa April 4, 2011 at 7:33 am

Most beautiful, interactive and fun app for kids:
“Roxie’s a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure”

Morten Dall April 4, 2011 at 11:00 am

My top 5

FreezerView – Freezer organizer
Dropbox
Friendly
VLC
Garageband

Xrockz April 4, 2011 at 9:02 pm

Fieldrunners
Cod zombies
Angry bird
Zombie wonderland
Flight control
FIFA 11

agee April 6, 2011 at 9:18 am

WebApp German Financial Newspaper Börsen-Zeitung

jbytes April 15, 2011 at 5:58 am

Mixtab – follow and share news, even have some analytics on your stories. Must have

Kathleen April 26, 2011 at 5:10 pm

Mostly for productivity:

Informant HD
Popplet Lite
Good Reader
Note Taker HD
Diptic
Color Effects
Flipboard
Musicnotes
Cleartune
Jalbum

Still debating on whether to buy Pages/Keynote…..
And also trying to find a photo album organizer that doesn’t need WiFi connection to view albums. Any one?

Leo May 3, 2011 at 2:52 pm

1) Nano Panda – It’s a new game that I just discovered and I just love it :D
2) Plant vs Zombies – Funny idea, cool graphics, nice soundtrack :)
3) Scrabble – I just love Scrabble… <3
4) Sandwich Maker – I love every cooking apps but this one is my favorite !
5) ArtStudio – I feel like an artist :D
6) Angry Birds – Ok, it's a nice app ^^

I think that's it :)

Maia August 14, 2011 at 1:26 pm

1. iSwap faces
2. Real Racing 2
3. Angry birds seasons
4. Ninjump
5. Garageband
6. Zite
7. Pixlr-o-matic

Maia August 14, 2011 at 4:21 pm

8. Fruit ninja
9. 1000 heroz
10. Tap tap radiation

Jesse Lindsley October 30, 2011 at 11:39 am

1. boomblastica
2. angry birds
3. plants vs zombies
4. words with friends
5. Facebook

all free

Sarah November 17, 2011 at 4:41 pm

Eye Know Everything
FREE until Nov.26! So fun and great to play alone, or with a group!

Ezhil November 22, 2011 at 2:08 pm

My best ipad apps will be

1. outlookreflex – For controlling my Desktop MS Outlook
2. FileReflex – Stay connected to your Desktop/Server documents and files
3. Bugsack – Bugs and Issue Management
4. Angrybirds – for Gaming
5. Facebook – Social Networking

Tristan December 5, 2011 at 10:25 pm

Twitter – for both local and world news.
Scientology Online Courses HD – For life management skills
Pandora – For Music

Zonnebank December 7, 2011 at 9:48 pm

Super 7
TED
Twitter

alZrim January 7, 2012 at 5:01 am

Angry birds HD
Plants VS zombie HD
Flight control HD
Magmaze
Scrabble
Anomaly HD

For me thoses are the best…

nancy February 24, 2012 at 6:28 am

MY favourite list:
1. iPen – an handwriting and note taking app, wonderful app
2. angry bird
3. plants VS zombie

vegas March 10, 2012 at 10:10 pm

My top apps:

1. Dropox
2. VLCStreamer
3. Skype
4.GTA3
5. The Ultimate Jigsaw Puzzle Center

iPod Games March 12, 2012 at 11:58 am

My top 5:
1. Ninjump
2. Angry birds
3. Real Racing 2
4. Zite
5. Garageband

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