![]() OmniOutliner 2 (a solo app for $29.99) is a powerful outlining tool for anyone who needs to organize notes by hierarchy and columns, and would like to style them to look great. That’s something we haven’t seen much of since the days of the Apple Newton MessagePad! OmniPlan 2 (available separately for $49.99) is the perfect tool for project managers who need to keep track of tasks, resources, calendars, and costs. With the newest version and Apple Pencil, drawing shapes like triangles, circles and rectangles turns them into precise geometric shapes using shape recognition. OmniGraffle 2 (see image above, available on its own for $99.99) is made to create diagrams, process charts, do quick page layouts or wireframes, using a bunch of styling tools and snap-to lines to make everything easy to do. ![]() The company’s full Omni Productivity Pack ($149) is made up of four component pieces, each of which stand on their own as powerful and productive apps. When I think of productivity on iOS or OS X devices, I always think of one company - OmniGroup. But with the iPad Pro’s A9X processor, it’s possible for it to handle three 4K video streams simultaneously for editing, then export it to YouTube in 4K or 1080p60.Īsymco analyst Horace Dediu made a video the other day in which he posited that the iPad Pro could be more than just a laptop replacement, but the next-generation desktop computer. On the iPad Pro, iMovie ($4.99, free for most iOS users) gains new life, and you won’t believe what it can do for you.įor the past several years, iMovie has been able to import video and create either movies or trailers in a snap. Need to mark up a photo to point something out to someone else? Import photos from your Photos library, then spotlight items of interest and annotate with handwritten notes.īesides being a great free iPad Pro app that will make full use of the Apple Pencil when it finally arrives in mid-December, Paper also works on all of your other iOS devices as well. In the most recent versions of Paper, you can type in lists, then style them as checklists or bullet lists with a swipe. They’ve completely updated the ink engine so that it makes full use of the Apple Pencil along with other types of stylus. The developers, 53, have done a lot to prepare Paper for the iPad Pro. The developers describe Paper as a “wall of sticky notes for everything that inspires you,” and that’s a very apt description. It’s basically the best paper notebook/sketchbook available for iPad, with a number of pens, pencils, and paintbrushes available to capture your work. I’ve used Paper (free) since the first day it was available for the iPad, and it’s been around for a while. The app is free for viewing spreadsheets to edit, you can use it free for 30 days and then purchase a qualifying Office 365 subscription to continue. Excel on iPad Pro is honestly better than it is on Microsoft’s mobile devices, which says a lot for the company’s commitment to iOS. For getting even more done, Excel works in Split View mode (and with Slide Over, as seen above) so you can work on a spreadsheet while viewing source data. Spreadsheets can be stored on iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, or SharePoint. Everything that you expect on the desktop version of Excel - formulas, charts, tables, data analysis, comments, PivotTables, sparklines and conditional formatting - is there, so it’s possible to work on any spreadsheet you’ve developed on a Mac or PC on the big 12.9-inch screen of the iPad Pro. Sure, Apple has Numbers ($9.99) as part of the iWorks suite, but Excel has been the leader in spreadsheets for almost 30 years. Microsoft has done an incredible job of moving the entire Office suite to iOS, and Excel is the shining jewel of the bunch. Related: The Rocket Yard Goes Hands-On with Apple’s New iPad Pro What? The first app on my list is a Microsoft app? Well, if you have a need to do spreadsheets and you’re looking at making the iPad Pro your go-to portable productivity device, then you really have no choice other than Microsoft Excel (free with in-app purchases). Take a look at my list, then add your suggestions to the comments at the bottom of this article. In my first few days of using the iPad Pro, I’ve found a handful of apps that are pretty much indispensable on it. Like any other iOS device or Mac, though, it’s the software that defines what the iPad Pro can do and what makes it useful. The iPad Pro: bigger, faster, and more usable than any iPad before it. Each week, the Friday Five takes a quick look at a Mac OS X or iOS app to point out five things you may have overlooked before. It’s the end of the week, but that doesn’t mean an end to learning more about your favorite Apple devices.
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