Ultimate List of Tools and Resources for IPAD Developers and Designers
August 4th, 2010 by Tweet
It seems like everything Apple creates turns to gold, and the release of the new IPAD is no expection. Even though the IPAD has only been out a few months, many amazing applications are already available, with many of the applications being very useful for Web Developers, Web Designers, and Graphic Designers. Below is a selection of IPAD tools, applications, and resources which I found to be very useful. This round-up list features almost 30 IPAD tools and applications, as well as a list of IPAD resources, that I know web designers, web developers and all those with creatives minds will find very handy! I hope you enjoy this post and find it useful! Feel free to add any additional tools or resources I may have forgotten!
SketchyPad
This app will make designers, programmers, interface designers life much easier. Easy-to-use interface and a lot of various stencils will help you to mockup any web sites and soft interfaces.
COCOA BOX DESIGN
The bestselling notes app for iPad®. Write, sketch, imagine and remember. Your touch creates beautiful ink. Organize your ideas into infinite notebooks, and share by email with your coworkers, classmates, and friends.
Things
Task management has never been this easy. Simplicity, however, is not achieved at the expense of powerful features. Download your free trial today and start getting more things done with less effort.
HelvetiNote
We all take notes – somewhere. The iPad is the perfect device to collect our thoughts and organize our notes, but the apps available all leave something to be desired. HelvetiNote™ is here to simplify and improve your note taking experience. HelvetiNote™ was designed and built specifically to fill a void in the iPad app market, and offer us all a purist and more enjoyable means of collecting our thoughts – in Helvetica.
CourseNotes
Let CourseNotes be your guide! CourseNotes lets you take notes during your classes and keep them organized by subject and class meeting. Review your notes later and search through multiple class meetings and notes all at once. You can also keep a ToDo list by marking notes as ToDo items, or track them as assignments by providing a due date.
Granimator
iPad app is a freeform iPad & iPhone wallpaper creator.
Gusto
Gusto is a full-featured website development environment designed exclusively for the iPad with a focus on workflow and usability.
Ego
Ego gives you one central—and lovely—location to check web statistics that matter to you. You can quickly view the number of visits to your website (including daily, hourly and monthly numbers), feed subscription totals and changes, how many people are following you on Twitter and more.
Twitterrific
Twitterrific: Making Twitter Extra Terrific.
TweetDeck
TweetDeck is your personal real-time browser, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Google Buzz and more.
Brushes
Brushes is a painting application designed from scratch for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Featuring an advanced color picker, several realistic brushes, multiple layers, extreme zooming, and a simple yet deep interface, it is a powerful tool for creating original artwork on your mobile device.
Desktop Connect
Desktop Connect is a fast, full-featured desktop viewer, optimized specifically for the iPad. View and control Windows, Mac OSX and Linux computers as if you were sitting in front of them, or observe others as if you were watching over their shoulder. Desktop Connect is the only iPad app that will automatically discover all of your computers on your local network. We uniquely offer support for both VNC and Microsoft Remote Desktop (RDP) where others charge for each standard protocol.
OmniGraffle
With OmniGraffle, your iPad touch screen is your canvas. Using simple multitouch gestures, draw shapes, drag in objects, and style everything until it’s just right. Share your creations via PDF export, or open them in OmniGraffle for Mac. When you need a clear understanding of how information needs to be presented or how processes are carried out. OmniGraffle for iPad is the tool to help you organize your thoughts visually, document them beautifully, and communicate them to the world.
Masque
Masque for iPad brings powerful photo editing to your fingertips! Add striking effects to your photos through simple touch interactions. Create your “Masque-r-piece” and then show it off to the world through convenient in-app sharing!
Quill
A vector art editor for the iPhone/iPod Touch (and soon the iPad!) Draw smooth bezier curves, zoom and scale with perfect clarity. Each curve can be selected, moved, rotated, resized, and recolored. Round brush and calligraphy brush included. Save, load, and email your artwork in a variety of formats.
FTP On The Go PRO
An FTP client for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. View and edit HTML/CSS/JS/PHP/ASP, or other files on your server with its built in editor to change your website from anywhere. View images and documents (JPG, PDF, DOC, XLS, PPT, etc) too.
Adobe Ideas
Adobe Ideas is your digital sketchbook, letting you capture and explore ideas anywhere you go. Adobe Ideas is an ideal companion for the professional design applications from Adobe, including Adobe Illustrator® and Adobe Photoshop® software.
Reeder
When using Reeder, all changes will be synced with Google Reader. This means if (for example) you read an article in Reeder it will also be marked as read in Google Reader. The same is true if you read in Google Reader. When syncing the next time, Reeder will just pick up the changes.
SketchBook Pro
Autodesk SketchBook® Pro for iPad is a professional-grade paint and drawing application. Using the same paint engine as its desktop counterpart, SketchBook Pro delivers a complete set of sketching & painting tools through a streamlined and intuitive user interface designed exclusively for the iPad experience.
Web Page Developer
This application is design to easily be able to develop web pages mobile, and be able to upload to your ftp server while you are on the go. It comes with some great features. You can open up to 10 pages off your server or on the IPad locally and be able to navigate through them easily. You also have Page Previewing that enables you to see your web page layout quick and easily. Their is also a syntax bar to make the code writing go faster and smoother. This is a wonderful app for all web developers that wish to develop mobile.
Dropbox for iPad
ll the contents of your Dropbox are available for viewing. You can even stream music and movies in your Dropbox straight to your iPad.
MindNode
MindNode (touch) is a very easy and intuitive application for collecting, organizing and outlining your thoughts and ideas as mind maps.
Font Displayer
FontViewer is a developer utility used to test fonts in different sizes, layouts and settings. The application allows the user to modify font family, size, background color, alignment and columns in order to see how text in rendered in both portrait and landscape mode.
Photogene
Photogene is the ultimate editing tool for your photos on Apple mobile devices. With Photogene, it’s easier than ever to edit, improve and decorate your photos right on your iPhone, iPodTouch or iPad. This unique application allows you to get the most out of your photos, even if you are not a professional photographer.
iMockups
Mockup your app ideas in seconds and iterate on them faster than ever.
Air Display
Ever wish you had an extra display for your computer? There’s an app for that! With Air Display, you can use your iPad as a wireless display for your Mac OS X computer.
Freeform
Freeform is a vector drawing tool for your iPad. Create quick sketches, mockups, or diagrams with this powerful tool. Export your drawings via email in JPG, PNG, or PDF formats, or save to your photo library. Create new designs whenever or wherever inspiration strikes!
SketchPad HD
SketchPad is a simple drawing and note taking application for the iPad. SketchPad allows you to draw in a variety of colors, collect and browse through notes and share notes that you create on the iPad over email.
Resources
- Web Development For The iPhone And iPad: Getting Started
- iPad Stencil for Omnigraffle
- ipad vector GUI elements: tabs buttons menus icons
- iPad GUI Kit in PSD Format is Here!
- What Is Cocoa?
- iPad Detection Using JavaScript or PHP
- Starting Your Project
- 52Framework html5/css3
- Sencha Touch, The First HTML5 Mobile App Framework
- jQTouch, jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices.
- 18 iPad icons
- A Collection of Free iPad Icons, Tutorials and PSDs
- 50 Best Wallpapers For Your New iPad
- How To Create a Detailed Apple iPad Icon in Photoshop
- IPad Development Tutorials
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Teylor Feliz is a well-known XHTML/CSS/JavaScript enthusiast from Dominican Republic. He has more than 10 years experience in the computer programming, graphic design, and web development world, including 2 years teaching computer science. Teylor has a degree in Applied Sciences from the University of Louisiana and is completing a Master’s degree in IT with a concentration in Web Design and Development, at the University of Denver.
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wow this is the ultimate list, this is great
I dont have an I Pad but you may have just convinced me to get one hehe
Great list.
MaxiVista for windows good if you don’t have a Mac and need to extra display.
Great list, exactly what i was looking for !
Great, Glad you liked it! Come back soon!
wow this is the ultimate list, this is great
Hi Teylor, great article.
I just published an app called SiteSpeed that is a useful tool for web developers and may be a useful addition to this list
Email me back if you want a promo code to check it out (I didn’t want to post it publicly)
Cheers!
Reading about all these different apps keeps pushing me closer to getting an ipad!