Best Productivity iPad Apps - And Their Best Reviews

iDraw is the most feature-packed vector drawing and illustration app available on the iPad! iDraw has all of the tools you need to create everything from detailed technical illustrations to beautiful works of art. Create complex designs quickly and easily, even on the go.

FEATURES

• Brush and Pencil tools for fluid drawing and sketching
• Essential set of shape tools (with customization options)
• Multiple Layers allowing you to create complex designs
• Powerful Pen tool for creating custom shapes
• Color picker wheel / RGB sliders
• Multi-color gradient editor
• Font panel and text support
• Text Gradient and Text path clipping
• Shape, Text and Image Shadows
• Images - rotate, scale, with alpha transparency
• Snap to Grid
• Canvas Styles
• Group / Lock / Lock Aspect ratio

Things is a beautifully focused and amazingly intuitive task manager. Other todo applications either oversimplify or are too difficult to use. Things instead offers the perfect balance between ease of use and powerful features.

Effortlessly manage to-dos, notes, due dates, and projects. A smart today list and the scheduling feature allow you to work as effectively as possible - every day.

You can even sync wirelessly with the desktop version of Things (sold separately) using Wi-Fi.

The most beautiful note taking app ever designed for the iPad. Noteshelf is the handwriting note taker that features super natural digital ink, a stunning UI and a comprehensive toolset that will increase the benefits of owning an iPad by leaps and bounds.

Noteshelf: Write with pleasure on your iPad!

• Experience our natural writing, super-smooth pens.
• Enjoy note taking with our 17 beautiful and practical notebook templates that meet all your note taking needs.
• Stunning graphics for a close-to-reality experience.

Pocket Informant® is an integrated calendaring and GTD®-based tasks solution for the iPad. Our purpose is to fuse together best-of-class calendaring with best-of-class tasks into one great solution.

We love our iPads, but we saw some untapped potential for a full-featured PIM. Pocket Informant fills that gap. To start with, we made navigation very natural - simply swipe between the months, or tap the calendar on the left page. You can assign icons to individual events or tasks or use our original TimeBar style to see a visual description of your day, week, or month. When looking at a day’s activities, we show you your appointments AND tasks together, and we give you nearly the entire screen to see them. We offer a convenient view to quickly see activities going on "today", and we built a great week view as well.

For years, these and numerous other features have made Pocket Informant a must-have application for school teachers, soccer moms, salesmen and executives alike. Pocket Informant won "Best of Show 2011" at MacWorld Expo 2011!

• Today, Month, Week, Column Week, Agenda, Task, and Search views, swipe between Months, Days, and Weeks
• Easily jump to any date in any calendar view
• Timebars to show your free/busy time at a glance or show mini-text on the month cells instead
• Icons for Events and Tasks, Event Location Mapping
• Calendar Filtering: Filter tasks and events by one or more calendars
• Templates for Events and Tasks
• Support for sub-tasks
• Tags and Tag Filtering
• TextExpander support in most text fields
• Expanded detail view to see events and tasks on any day
• Tasks integrated with the Calendar Views
• Task Grouping and QuickSearch/Insert
• Full Search of Contacts, Tasks, and Calendar items
• Send Appointment Meeting Requests
• Getting-Things-Done® (GTD®) management or Franklin Covey ABC/1-99 Prioritization of tasks
• Pre-made filters to quickly find active, due, undated, overdue, and completed tasks
• Today View to show your current appointments, tasks, meeting attendees and alatms
• Starring (flagging) tasks
• Highly customizable views
• Auto-sync will sync changes immediately up to the server and new items from the server sync down every 45 minutes (while PI is running or next time it runs)
• Syncs with Google Calendar and Toodledo.
• Calendar Data is separate from the built-in Calendar (for now)

The best-selling handwriting app for iPad for over a year. You'll get the fast, tactile gratification of writing on paper, with digital power and flexibility. Take notes, keep sketches, or share your next breakthrough idea -- in the office, on the go, or home on the sofa. Penultimate stands with the core productivity apps on your iPad. Every detail of the user interface has been designed and refined to be simple and intuitive - no complicated or cluttered settings.

• Your handwriting and drawing looks spectacular in bold gel ink. Our writing technology is second to none. Use colors or stick with classic inky black. Three different photorealistic paper styles are included, along with a magically effective eraser tool that's always the right size. Want a special paper style? Import any image to create and share your own attractive template, or visit The Paper Shop in the app to see the latest convenient collections available for download.
• Store your thoughts in separate, named notebooks for each topic, project, or category. Penultimate can manage as many notebooks as you can create, each with an infinite number of pages. View your list in a classic notebook carousel -- or sort and scroll in a fast grid view. You can browse quickly through all pages, or insert, delete, duplicate, and reorder them.
• Beneath its graceful exterior Penultimate is a powerful application. Our superior inking technology produces pen strokes that you might think look better-than-real. The pioneering automatic Wrist Protection mode prevents many stray marks from appearing on a page. Penultimate knows the importance of data integrity; you can use a single button to export all of your notebook files to iTunes for backup.
• Send single page images or full notebooks in PDF format to anyone. Collaborate with your colleagues by exporting and importing Penultimate Notebook and Paper files directly via email or iTunes File Sharing. Whether you're in a conference room or classroom, you can use the iPad VGA Adapter to share your notes on a screen or projector, as your audience follows along with your work in real time. Print directly from your iPad with ePrint-compatible printers.

Note Taker HD is a powerful app for writing and organizing handwritten notes, diagrams, etc., on the iPad. It can shrink your writing so you can easily fit a lot of text on a page. You can read the reduced-size "ink" as if you had written those letters with a very fine pen. It gives you solid functionality and control to produce the pages you need. Pages are flexibly organized by tags, date/time last modified, favorites, and more, with a scrolling list of thumbnail images of part of each page to help you find them later. Pages may be grouped together as multiple "sheets". You can email one or more pages as a single PDF file, "Open In" other apps like Evernote and Dropbox, or, if your iPad supports it, print.

Note Taker HD lets you create pages by writing on the screen with your finger or an iPad-compatible stylus. You can either write directly on the page for large drawings, or have the "ink" you write shrunk down. You can write in large letters on the screen rather than trying to make tiny motions like a pencil. You just keep writing and Note Taker HD automatically adds new writing next to the old. To quickly correct mistakes, it has multi-level undo and redo buttons as well as an eraser -- just drag your finger over the page to erase the "ink" under it.

Other features include:

• Typed blocks of text with optional borders
• 60+ highly customizable shapes
• Insert images from Photo Albums, Pasteboard, or the iPad 2 camera
• Custom backgrounds from images or PDF pages
• VGA/HDMI support with zoom and pan
• Wrist guard to avoid inadvertent touches
• Layout variations better suited to some left-handed users
• Optional fields in output footers like in a word processor
• Extensive built-in help
• Smooth and crisp ink on screen and in PDF output

Perfect Browser is the fastest and most advanced fullscreen web browser to date. Experience Better-than-Desktop class web with breakthrough features incl. REAL-Tabs, Desktop Browser Rendering, TOUCH Scroll, TV Video Out, Offline Pages, Private Mode, Precision Scrollbar, Printing, Multi-Touch Gestures, Fast Tab Switching, In-Page Search, Font Size Adjustment, Web Compression & more.

Highlights:

• TOUCH SCROLLING: Automated Smooth Scrolling
• REAL-TABS UNLIMITED
• POWERFUL PRINTING UTILITY
• DESKTOP WEB BROWSER RENDERING
• IMPORT YOUR BOOKMARKS
• FAST TV Video Out
• SEAMLESS WEB SEARCHING
• SAVE FULL WEB PAGES, ACCESSIBLE OFFLINE
• ADVANCED MULTI-TOUCH GESTURES
• NON-RELOADING + FAST TAB SWITCHING
• FONT SIZE ADJUSTMENT
• SAVE IMAGES
• WEB COMPRESSION
• BLOCK IMAGES [OFF by default]
• FREQ-CACHING TECHNOLOGY
• IN-PAGE TEXT SEARCH
• PRIVATE MODE
• FULL SCREEN BROWSING
• LIGHT MEMORY FOOTPRINT
• WEB AUTHENTICATION
• LAUNCH DIRECTLY FROM SAFARI
• SCROLL WITHIN A PAGE
• POPUP BLOCKER / UNBLOCKER
• BOOKMARK SCRIPTS

Your personal planner has arrived for the iPad! Todo® app for iPad includes a stunning choice of paper and binder styles to make your to-do list fun and exciting. Todo® Task Manager for iPad is a powerful set of tools that makes task management simple and fun. Use Todo on your iPad, keep your tasks synchronized using Todo Online, a new cloud sync service for tasks, and even access your tasks on your desktop in iCal or Outlook. Todo helps you focus on what matters most and allows you to integrate the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology or your own. Todo® Task Manager for iPad is the most connected iPad app and makes task management simple and fun. Synchronize with Todo Online, iCal, Outlook, and Toodledo.com.

Incredible Features

• Real Planner-like Interface Built for iPad!
• Multiple Binder and Paper Choices (with in-app upgrades)
• Compatible with Todo™ for iPhone and iPod touch
• Multiple Reminder Alerts
• Projects and Checklists (subtasks)
• Passcode Protection
• Landscape Support
• Repeating Tasks
• Starred Tasks
• Quick Add Task Entry
• Notes on tasks with clickable phone numbers and URLs
• Manage multiple tasks at once with multi-select
• Full Calendar View for choosing Due Dates
• Drag and Drop sorting
• Contact, Email, SMS, Phone integration
• Full Task Searching including notes
• GTD support with Contexts and Tags
• Task Sharing via Email (Import back into Todo)
• Customizable App Badge
• TextExpander™ touch snippet expansion support (SmileOnMyMac, LLC)