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10 useful iPad apps that could make your daily life easier
Put your iPad to good use with apps for journaling, discovering art and much more.
Your iPad should make every day easier. Whether you want to build new habits or improve your routines, we've rounded up apps that put the best iPads to work in your daily life.
We found these by digging a bit deeper. These aren't first-party Apple apps or subscription-only Adobe staples. It's free to get started with each, though most charge for extra features, which we've noted where applicable.
Our favorite apps are elegant and well-designed, taking advantage of the entire iPad display. They also keep AI to a bare minimum. There may be machine learning to help with search and transcriptions, but you won't find fake images or bogus text generators here.
If you're a voracious consumer of media, you need Sofa to help keep track of it all. Start with books, TV shows and movies, then add whatever other categories you'd like. Sofa has a clean interface that grabs title images and info to give you an overview of everything you watch (or read).
Sofa's tracking feature is especially useful for remembering which episodes you've seen. Mark them off as you watch them and add notes if you like, or rely on the included summaries. Sofa tracks two different series at once for free, while paid subscribers can track unlimited titles.
Sofa's free tier offers all its best features without advertisements or pop-ups begging for more. If you want to fine-tune your media tracking with custom ratings that you create and smart lists that populate based on your filters, Sofa offers a subscription for $5.99 per month, $49.99 per year or $249.99 for a lifetime membership. Unless you're a professional TV critic, you'll likely be fine with the free features.
Instead of Apple Notes or Google Keep, try Bear, an app for capturing thoughts. Bear has become a productivity favorite by keeping its interface deceptively simple; it's a large notepad app without a glut of buttons and menus. While it's powerful, you don't have to use advanced features you don't need.
Bear is built around smooth Markdown styling and supports tags to organize your thoughts. For example, if you find yourself often complaining about your job, tag that post with #job. You can add links, tags or even to-do tasks that are easily searchable. If that sounds complicated, ignore what you don't need and you're left with an elegant, attractive note-taking and journaling app.
Bear has a reasonably-priced subscription tier ($3/month or $30/year) that offers a few extra features if you're hardcore about your notes. With it, you can sync your Bear notes between devices, as well as publish your notes using HTML or ePub to use the app as a blogging tool.