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Todoist: Simply the Best To-do App
Todoist is a fantastic and gorgeous to-do list or task management app for the iPad and iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows, and web browsers. Its iPad app just came out a little over a week ago and I...
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Parallels Access: Run Mac and Windows Apps Like They Were Made for iPad
Parallels Access is a new iPad app launching tonight – that promises to let you experience Mac and Windows applications as is they were made for the iPad. It ‘applifies’ your Windows and Mac apps to...
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Speaky for iPad: Review
Speaky is an app which highlights why the iPad is so cool. Very simply, all the app does is read webpages and text to you. However, the way the app is designed, makes the whole process completely...
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AABBY FineScanner iPad Review & The great scan off vs Scanner Pro
Back in the good old days of my very early teaching career, I had this wild idea that teachers could digitise text from worksheets and link them to a Word Document via the hyperlink option. Students...
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Fantastical 2 for iPad Review
A lot of iPad apps falsely tout that they’ve been re-imagined for the tablet form factor, when they’re really just reconfigured versions of their iPhone counterparts. Fantastical 2 for iPad is...
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Review: 30/30 Simple Task Manager for iPad
30/30, a task management app by Binary Hammer LLC, is built around the ’30/30 work cycle’ concept, which advocates a balanced approach to performance. More specifically, 30/30 refers to alternating...
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PazteUp – Document Layout and Design tool for iPad
PazteUp is an iPad app that serves as a page layout design tool for creating flyers, posters, invitations, etc. You can use the sample templates that come with the app or design your own layout. The...
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Review – Concepts: Smarter Sketching for iPad
Concepts: Smarter Sketching for iPad I am someone who likes to sketch, but my skills need refining. Concepts: Smarter Sketching app appealed to me; the descriptions and images on the developer...
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GoodReader 4 review: The iPad utility belt?
When I was 9 years old, I got an amazing birthday present; a Swiss Army knife. In this day and age it is rather frowned upon to give a child a knife, but in the 80s that was how we rolled. 26 years...
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Quick Look: Writer Pro for iPad
I’ve now spent a few days with Writer Pro on my iPad and it’s feeling more like a puzzle than a tool. Writer Pro is built to brute-force a certain approach to writing. There are four modes to the app:...
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Screens VNC for iPad review: Ideal for Productivity and Pranking!
Mac on your iPad In my first teaching job, my school at the time had a remote desktop system going where I could use my dodgy old computer at home to remotely connect to a desktop at school which gave...
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Explain Everything for iPad Review: The 21st Century way to present
We’ve all done it before. Sitting in a classroom on a hot, hazy afternoon, the teacher explaining something to the class in great depth, only for your mind to wander to the latest cricket score, what...
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Graduation time from your favourite notes app? Notes Plus iPad Review
As some of you may know if you have read my articles before (thanks Mum!), I love productivity apps and the app which constantly does the business for me is Notability. Ginger Labs, the creators of...
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Back to School with an iPad? 5 ways to go paperless this term.
Back to School. The phrase that strikes horror into students (and teachers) of all ages up and down the land. Back in the day, there was the excitement of writing neatly on the first page of your new...
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Handwriting Recognition on the iPad: 3 Way Shootout
One of my friends has just become a head teacher for the first time and she asked me if there were any decent handwriting recognition apps on the iPad which would enable her to turn her handwriting...
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Quick Look: Evernote’s Scannable App
As much as I love using Evernote, I’m often a little wary when I try out one of their new apps. Penultimate has never worked well for me, and other apps like Evernote Food and Evernote Hello are good...
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Review: Due 2.0 for iPad
In the world of increasingly cross-platform services, there are very few apps that really tether me to iOS. If I left for Android land (or perhaps Windows 10? Hah!), I know that my 2000+ Evernote...
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Koder for iPad: Take the Hell out of HTML
One of the computing classes that I teach at school is HTML, and being a 1:1 iPad school I wanted to refresh my scheme of work to take advantage of using the iPad. Now, let’s get one thing out of the...
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Review: OmniFocus 2 for iPad
After concluding that Evernote wasn’t the task management solution for me, I decided to check out OmniFocus 2 for task and project management. I’d heard a lot about OmniFocus as a productivity suite...
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Wunderlist for iPad receiving big overhaul in 2015
I love To-Do lists and Productivity apps in general. Some may say I love them to a fault. See if this sounds familiar–you want to find the perfect To-Do / Productivity list app. You try so hard,...
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