Time once more for us to share with you the best iPad apps we’ve come across this week: the software that’s been setting our tablet’s 9.7-inch screen on fire. Not literally – the iPad is a very well engineered device on that front, thank you very much. This week we have something to enhance news and tweets, something to help you gain an edge over friends in word games and a couple of apps that’ll suit creative types to a t (whether they’re into music or devouring raw fish).
Check out the list to the right
GarageBand
£2.99 | iTunes
One of the apps debuted at the iPad 2 launch a couple of weeks ago, GarageBand feels like some real envelope-pushing stuff. Putting to bed the myth that “the iPad is for consuming content, not creating it”, it lets you craft music through a wide variety of instruments, all playable via touch. It even uses the iPad’s accelerometer to gauge the force with which you strike a piano key or snare drum, reflecting that in the sound. And don’t worry if you’re about as musically inclined as the average boy band member: GarageBand can play loops for you: in the guitar mode, just can simply hit the chord you want and the app will do the fiddly strumming itself. It’s fully compatible with the Mac version of GarageBand too, so you can craft your “club banger” on both devices.
Teach Me Sushi
£5.49 | iTunes
Fancy some sushi? Well, resist the temptation to pop down to your local Waitrose for the ready made stuff – this app will train you in the art of rolling your own. There are no fewer than 15 tutorial videos and over 300 photos to take you step by step through the process, plus a rice timer feature, a shopping list calculator and a map that uses your iPad’s GPS skills to show you the location of the closest Japanese supermarket. The bad side is its size: because the videos are stored locally rather than streamed from the cloud, it’s a whopping 913MB…
W_rds!
£Free | iTunes
Ooh, this is a sneaky one, designed to help players of games such as Words with Friends find potential words with which to beat their opponents. It tells you how many points you’ll get for a particular word, and also works as a “lite” dictionary by providing definitions and usage examples. But yeah, mainly it’s just designed to give you an advantage over your rivals in iOS and Facebook word games. Evil.
Spout
£0.59 | iTunes
Sick of seeing tweets, Facebook status updates and RSS feeds presented in the same old boring way? Spout turns these cold, lifeless pieces of text into gorgeous animated sequences, each one dominating your iPad’s screen while it appears. Give it a prod and you’re taken to the source by the app’s built-in web browser. You can try out a range of different themes. Check the video for some examples.
convertMyURL
£0.59 | iTunes
Its makers may have little respect for the conventional uses of upper and lower case letters, but they’ve made quite a useful little app. convertMyURL takes a web page (yes, you enter the URL into the app) and creates a PDF file from it – removing any ads in the process. You can then share this PDF via email or Dropbox.
Check out the list to the right
GarageBand
£2.99 | iTunes
One of the apps debuted at the iPad 2 launch a couple of weeks ago, GarageBand feels like some real envelope-pushing stuff. Putting to bed the myth that “the iPad is for consuming content, not creating it”, it lets you craft music through a wide variety of instruments, all playable via touch. It even uses the iPad’s accelerometer to gauge the force with which you strike a piano key or snare drum, reflecting that in the sound. And don’t worry if you’re about as musically inclined as the average boy band member: GarageBand can play loops for you: in the guitar mode, just can simply hit the chord you want and the app will do the fiddly strumming itself. It’s fully compatible with the Mac version of GarageBand too, so you can craft your “club banger” on both devices.
Teach Me Sushi
£5.49 | iTunes
Fancy some sushi? Well, resist the temptation to pop down to your local Waitrose for the ready made stuff – this app will train you in the art of rolling your own. There are no fewer than 15 tutorial videos and over 300 photos to take you step by step through the process, plus a rice timer feature, a shopping list calculator and a map that uses your iPad’s GPS skills to show you the location of the closest Japanese supermarket. The bad side is its size: because the videos are stored locally rather than streamed from the cloud, it’s a whopping 913MB…
W_rds!
£Free | iTunes
Ooh, this is a sneaky one, designed to help players of games such as Words with Friends find potential words with which to beat their opponents. It tells you how many points you’ll get for a particular word, and also works as a “lite” dictionary by providing definitions and usage examples. But yeah, mainly it’s just designed to give you an advantage over your rivals in iOS and Facebook word games. Evil.
Spout
£0.59 | iTunes
Sick of seeing tweets, Facebook status updates and RSS feeds presented in the same old boring way? Spout turns these cold, lifeless pieces of text into gorgeous animated sequences, each one dominating your iPad’s screen while it appears. Give it a prod and you’re taken to the source by the app’s built-in web browser. You can try out a range of different themes. Check the video for some examples.
convertMyURL
£0.59 | iTunes
Its makers may have little respect for the conventional uses of upper and lower case letters, but they’ve made quite a useful little app. convertMyURL takes a web page (yes, you enter the URL into the app) and creates a PDF file from it – removing any ads in the process. You can then share this PDF via email or Dropbox.
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