Best 100 Apps For iPad

Twitter
Free and fresh new tweets may prove irritating due to an overcrowded screen, but Twitter for iPad is the best mobile Twitter client around. Tweet, send messages, share photos, videos, and links with your friends and the world.

StumbleUpon
Tired of visiting the same pages over and over again? The Stumbleupon app lets you leaping from one article of interest to another article of interest. You can also check out the specific links that have been submitted by fellow tumblers whom you follow if you aren't in the mood for randomness.

Facebook
With high-res photos, games, chat and more, now you can get the best of Facebook -on your iPad. With improved search and browsing, the facebook.com features you use are now just a touch away.

Yelp
Looking for a burrito joint open now? An Irish pub nearby? Yelp's iOS app brings the Web site's reviews and recommendations to the iPad, but diehard Yelpers will miss a handful of features that didn't get ported to Apple's tablet. And yes, it's free.

HootSuite
Simple, elegant and powerful, HootSuite allows you to send and schedule Twitter and Facebook updates in a beautiful interface specificlaly built for iPads. It helps you spread messages and track the results.

TweetDeck
TweetDeck allows you to monitor, manage and engage in your social world. It is a respectable Twitter reader with an intuitive interface and accurate geo-tagging.

Air Display
Ever wish you had an extra display for your Mac or Windows computer? There's an app for that! With Air Display, you can use your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch as a wireless display, to extend your computer desktop. A second monitor can be a boon to productivity, as you can keep Outlook, Twitter, or other potentially distracting work elements on a second screen. This is a great app at a great price. It works great and makes you more productive.

Calculator
Need to crunch some numbers? Features: calculate with degrees or radials, basic calculation buttons in portrait view and many more. It gives you a large, easy-to-read, attractive basic and scientific calculator for solving problems. Multitouch support lets you swipe away numbers.

Bento
Bento is an extremely flexible organizational app. Organize contacts, track projects, plan events, and manage things - all in one easy to use iPad personal database! Bento for iPad is one of the top iPad apps and the most popular personal database for iPad.

Citrix GoToMyPC
GoToMyPC gives you the freedom to go anywhere you choose and connect right to your Mac or PC. Features: instant access to all your files, programs and network, works seamlessly with your existing firewalls, precision mouse control and many more.

Dragon Dictation
Featuring very accurate voice transcription and the ability to share messages via e-mail, Facebook and Twitter, Dragon Dictation app is both fun to use and helpful as long as your connected to the internet. In fact, it's up to five times faster than typing on the keyboard.

GoodReader
With GoodReader on your iPad, you can read virtually anything, anywhere: books, movies, maps, pictures. Use it once and you'll be hooked. Soon you'll be wondering how you ever managed to use your iPad without GoodReader. Besides reading, you can also sync your files with remote servers.

iThoughts HD
iThoughts is a mind-mapping tool that uses colorful graphics to let users brainstorm, project planning, set goals, take meeting notes and more. Also, import and export to and from many of the most popular desktop applications.

FileMaker Go
FileMaker Go is a useful tool for business people who want to access FileMaker databases on the go. Tackle any task on your iPad with FileMaker Go. Close sales deals on the road, manage project status while traveling, organize research notes in the field or check inventory in the warehouse.

iWork
Apple's iWork productivity suite has been redesigned for the iPad, with Keynote, Pages, and Numbers available in the App Store for $9.99 each. These apps let you create documents that can be synced to your Macs and shared via iWork.com

Monster.com Jobs
You can search and apply for jobs anytime, anywhere. Best of all, the Monster app makes it easy to keep up with the latest job opportunities when you're on the go. The app is automatically synced with your online account: resumes, job applications, cover letters, saved searches, saved jobs, etc.

Notability
Handwriting is happiness! With this addition, Notability continues to provide the tools to capture ideas and information at school, work, or anywhere. Pour your thoughts, ideas, and notes onto a personal canvas. Write wherever you desire with amazingly smooth digital ink.

Note Taker HD
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.

PhotoSync
Do you have images on your computer that you'd like to transfer to your iPad, but don't like the idea of ruining the mobile experience be being tethered to a Mac or PC? It's the first app that makes wireless transfer of your photos/videos from or to your computer and other devices.

Splashtop Remote Desktop
This is a remote desktop app that streams video and audio from your PC or Mac, allowing you to interact with your PowerPoint, Keynote, Word, Excel, Outlook, Quicken, IE, Firefox, Safari, World of Warcraft, and other PC / MAC applications.

Save2Pdf
Create professional, great looking PDFs simply and easily right on your iPad without having to go near a computer! Save2PDF will convert most file formats into a PDF including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Photos, Web Pages, Contacts and many more formats.

Wordpress
One of the world's biggest blogging platform has arrived on iPad with many of the features that made it such a hit on the desktop intact. Bloggers can create, save, publish, and schedule posts and pages. You can even upload images directly from the iPad.

Priority Matrix
Priority Matrix is a well designed time-management tool that lets business-minded users visually organize lists, agendas and priorities by color and labels. You can also set target dates, keep pros and cons lists, and perform many other valuable productivity tasks.

BeejivelM
Want to chat with friends, but don't feel like installing a dozen different instant messengers? BeejivelM consolidates your IMing into one client that lets you stay in touch with friends who use AIM, Facebook, Google, Jabber, MSN/Windows Live, and Yahoo IM.Push notifications keep you in the swing of things by alerting you when you're no longer within the app.

LiveChat
LiveChat customers who want to take the real-time Web site visitor communication tool on the road would do well to check out this handy iPad app. It brings customer support and live chat to a whole new level by allowing informed, proactive and personalized interaction with website visitors.

TextNow
You can send as many texts and picture messages as you want - FREE! This app is easy to use and works on your iPod Touch, iPad, and iPhone.

TextPlus
Prolific texters who want to save money on SMS messages will find this a solid solution to dipping into their mobile budgets. Text for free on textPlus anywhere in the world and save money.

9MM
This third-person shooter puts gamers in the shoes of John "Loose" Kannon, a hard-nosed cop who has no qualms with putting slugs deep inside criminals. The shooter is a small arsenal of high-powered weaponry and slow motion effects that let you accurately dodge bullets.

Game Center
Game Center lets friends - and soon-to-be-friends - in on the action. Invite someone to join, then get a game going. Or go up against people you don't know, from anywhere around the world, in a multiplayer game. It's your world. Everyone else is just playing in it.

Angry Birds
Consider it the most addictive game to come along in a long, long time. Whether you are a hard core gamer into first-person shooters or more of a Solitaire player, Angry Birds is essential downloading. There are walkthroughs of every level on YouTube if you get stuck.

Battleheart
Easily one of the most entertaining, time consuming games on any platform, this cute 2D dungeon-crawler lets you manage your rogue, knight, witch, or other fantasy character through an intuitive multi-touch control scheme.

Dead Space
Electronic Arts' sci-fi survival-horror title has leapt to the iPad, losing very little in translation. Featuring hardcore gameplay with enhanced graphics for iPad 2 and a rich audio experience, immerse yourself in events that unleash the Necromorph horde.

Eternal Legacy HD
A world in danger? Check. An emo protagonist? Check. Spiky hair? Check. Big swords? Check. Enter a huge world made of cinematic environments in this intense role-playing game, a worthy heir of its Japanese predecessors, now optimized for your iPad!

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars HD
The portable version of Rockstar Games hit crime game has appeared on iPad. With new control layouts optimized for the iPad, higher polygon-count models and all new lighting and effects, this is your chance to get behind the wheel of the best looking Chinatown Wars ever.

Infinity Blade
Powered by the Unreal Tournament 3 engine, Epic Games beautiful and intense action-RPG has proven that iOS gaming can rival traditional
console offerings.Infinity Blade takes handheld gaming to new heights with gorgeous visuals and adrenaline fueled battles.

Geometry Wars: Touch
This fast-paced action game feels like a jacked-up hybrid of Robotron and Tempest that uses the multitouch screen as a giant dual controller; your left finger controls the ship, while your right finger aims the rapid-fire laser cannon.

Lane Splitter
Ride your motorcycle at insane speeds through ever changing traffic. Your reflexes will mean the difference between surviving or crashing in spectacular fashion. Do you have what it takes to reach top speed? Lane Splitter may involve cars, speed bikes, and the open road, but it isn't your typical racing game.

NBA Jam
Play it with a friend in Local Multiplayer and rock your iPad with all the over-the-top, high-flying, 2-on-2 arcade basketball action just like you remember it - and like you've never seen before! Go to the hole. Go strong. Go for the monster jam.

Mirror's Edge
This game takes advantage of the iPad by featuring fast animation, precise multitouch gestures, and a very smooth frame rate. The single-player campaign features 14 levels, a head-to-head mode, and more.

N.O.V.A. 2 - Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance HD
6 years have passed since the events depicted in the first episode. Humanity is now thrown into a bloody civil war fought on one side by the central government of the Terran Orbitals and the self-appointed Human-Alien Alliance. But war never spares even the most peaceful places...

Order & Chaos Online
MMORPG action comes to the iPad in the form of Order and Chaos Online, Gameloft's spin on World of Warcraft. After selecting a race, gender, and character class, you venture out into a thriving fantasy world to slay evil. Explore a vast heroic fantasy world and join thousands of players.

Plants vs. Zombies HD
A mob of fun-loving zombies is about to invade your home. Plants vs. Zombies HD should be your next download. Colorful HD graphics, a delightfully creepy soundtrack, fun sound effects, and 50 levels including day, night, swimming pool, and rooftop boards makes this title a must-buy.

Real Racing 2 HD
Are you ready for the ultimate racing experience for iOS? Optimized specifically for iPad and iPad 2, Real Racing 2 HD is a heart-pounding, visually astounding 3D racer that puts the steering wheel directly in your hands.

Pro Zombie Soccer Apocalypse Edition
No one ever needed an excuse to go out and kill zombies, or to kick a soccer ball around. But if you want an excuse to kick a soccer ball into space, realign an orbital weapons platform and launch a death-ray to explode the heads of the zombies sneaking into your soccer field - then this is it!

Robot Unicorn Attack HD
The goal of Adult Swim's Robot Unicorn Attack is to gallop, leap and dash through the sky in pursuit of your dreams, all to the tune of "Always" by Erasure. Once the magic of Robot Unicorn Attack takes hold of your heart, you'll never want it to let go. Make your dreams come true!

RAGE HD
This intense first-person rail shooter casts you in the starring role of a post-apocalyptic game show where you'll be stalked by hungry mutants while you scour pulse-pounding levels for ammo and cash pick-ups.

Scrabble
Scrabble offers multiple play modes, including online over Facebook, pass-and-play for up to four players and a unique party mode that uses companion iPhone and iPod touch apps to let owners of those devices use them as letter trays.

Smurfs' Village
Gargamel found the Smurfs' village and scattered the Smurfs far and wide. With Papa Smurf's guidance, it's up to you to build a new village for the Smurfs to call home. It combines elements of Sim City to create an engaging iPad game.

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
This point-and-click adventure deftly combines visuals and music that make it not just a game, but an audio-visual experience that delights on nearly every level. Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP was chosen as the iPad Game of the Year Runner-Up in App Store Rewind 2011!

YOU DON'T KNOW JACK HD
It's the game where high culture and pop culture collide. Covering everything from Bigfoot to bigamy, YOU DON'T KNOW JACK is the only trivia game that makes you laugh and think at the same time. The pop culture-filled trivia game features over 20 episodes. The bombastic nnouncer returns, giving the game a touch of the wacky. Coming soon: more episodes and mu|tip|ayer play.

Cracked.com
The Cracked iPad app provides you with everything you need to make you happy in life except for rent money or mortgage payments. And of course, the app still features all of the mind blowing facts (Did you know a zombie apocalypse is scientifically possible?) or pop culture analysis (Who's the greatest Batman of all time?).

Crackle
Crackle is one of the fastest growing digital entertainment networks, offering quality movies and TV series from Columbia Pictures, Tri-Star, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Classics and more. Crackle is available via web, mobile, gaming systems and set-top boxes.

ESPN ScoreCenter XL
ESPN ScoreCenter brings you scores, news, and standings from hundreds of sports leagues around the world. Never miss another goal, pitch, basket, try, touchdown or wicket. Staying on top of the latest sports scores is breeze with ESPN ScoreCenter XL

Hulu Plus
Stream thousands of episodes from hundreds of current and classic TV shows to your iPad, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, 3rd generation iPod Touch, computer, TV, and other devices with a Hulu Plus subscription.

Marvel Comics
A revolutionary new way to experience the Marvel Universe on your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, featuring the world's most popular super heroes! Download hundreds of comic books featuring your favorite characters.

KORG iELECTRIBE
With the iELECTRIBE, sound creation is easy, fun and intuitive - just as on a vintage analog synthesizer. This easy-to-use interface combines forces with the iPad's multi touch display to offer an intuitive "hardware" feel, sure to inspire and captivate the imagination of any user.

MoMA AB EX NY
Use the free MoMA Ab Ex NY iPad App to view superb high-resolution images of selected Abstract Expressionist works. Learn more about the artists and NYC history with a multimedia map of studios, galleries, bars, and other points of interest.

Netflix
This app enhances the value of a Netflix subscription by letting you watch movies directly on your mobile device, with excellent streaming. In the latest version, Netflix has made a number of improvements, like adding star recommendations and removing the status bar while titles are playing.

Planetary
Planetary is an all-new, stunningly beautiful way to explore your music collection, available only on iPad. Fly through a 3D universe dynamically created by information about the recording artists you love. Planetary is just the sort of science fiction experience you expect when using an object from the future like iPad.

Showyou
Hailed by critics and users as one of the best video apps for the iPad and iPhone, Showyou puts the videos shared by people you know and like at your fingertips. Put Showyou in your pocket and take it on the road with your iPad.

Slacker Radio
This app gives you access to the entire Slacker music library featuring millions of songs from thousands of artists. Listen to over 150 expert-programmed radio stations or create your own custom stations.

TiVo
Turn your iPad or iPhone into command central for your TiVo DVR. Now you can search, browse, discover and share without ever interrupting the show you're watching. Quickly surface new content, view guides, schedule and manage recordings, get recommendations, or dig deeper into a particular actor's entire resume.

TuneIn Radio Pro
TuneIn is a new way to listen to the world through live local and global radio from wherever you are. Whether you want music, sports, news or current events, TuneIn offers over 50,000 stations and 120,000 shows for you to choose from.

Adobe Color Lava for Photoshop
Photoshop users can now put their iPads to use as a palette to interactively blend colors as if they were paint, and save them to swatches to use in Photoshop. It could be more responsive, but still it's a good companion to the leading digital-art software package.

djay By algoriddim
djay transforms your iPad into a full fledged DJ system and seamlessly integrates with your iPod library, giving you direct access to all your favorite tracks and playlists. A hyper-realistic touchscreen interface and ultra low-latency converge to offer you a true professional mixing experience..

ArtRage
Express your artistic side with easy to use painting and drawing tools that work just like the real thing! ArtRage packs a powerful physical paint simulation into a creative experience tailor-made for your iPad. Explore a powerful and intuitive environment that lets users of all levels work with a wide range of natural painting and sketching tools.

GarageBand
Whether you're a musical prodigy or just love creating your own walls of sound, GarageBand for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch gives you all the tools you need to lay down fresh tracks and record music anywhere you go.

OmniSketch
OmniSketch is a procedural drawing tool that allows you to create stunning sketches with very little effort. A procedural brush is a brush that uses a mathematical algorithm to draw patterns. These patterns can interact with lines that have already been drawn to produce amazing effects.

Adobe Photoshop Express
The iPad is perfect for viewing photos, but what if you want to make changes to those pictures? Adobe's Photoshop Express lets you crop, straighten, rotate and flip images, as well as add a variety of filters and effects. For fine editing you will still need to work on a PC, but for basic fixes, this app is fantastic.

Pianist Pro
Pianist Pro is a virtual piano designed specifically for the iPad, with the same great interface and style that has made Pianist the best known piano on the iPhone, and a whole host of new features too.

SketchBook Pro
SketchBook Pro is a professional level paint and drawing app withe staggering number of tools. It features 75 preset brushes, pencils, and pens, plus synthetic pressure sensitivity, numerous fill and draw tools, and support for up to six layers. The app also exports to Photo Library and even as layered PSD files, for further work in Photoshop or other processing.

NYPL Biblion: World's Fair
With Biblion, you can jump from stack to stack, story to story, as you move through the infoscape of the World's Fair. It has something for everyone, covering a range of topics from technological innovation, music, and pop culture, to a world dealing with the crises of war and economic hardship.

Bing
Bing is a decision engine that's been designed to work beautifully with your iPad. Bing for iPad brings you closer to what you're looking for by delivering a visually rich, touch-enabled way to search and browse news, movies, images, businesses and much more.

Encyclopaedia Britannica
The complete Encyclopaedia Britannica - the world's most trusted reference source, enhanced for your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. Especially for students, or anyone who values what Britannica has to offer, it's easy to use and to navigate through a large body of knowledge.

CNN
Watch LIVE CNN TV, video coverage of live events and video clips. Go beyond breaking news with international, politics, tech and entertainment headlines. Choose your view from different navigation options and quickly scan the headlines or immerse yourself in a slideshow.

Fox News
Love it or hate it, Fox News has an impressive iPad app. With it you can watch videos from Smith, Hannity, and O'Reilly, read timely articles, and check out a scrolling ticker with the latest news tidbits. View Happening Now for a quick snapshot of all the latest news in politics, entertainment, health and more!

The Elements: A Visual Exploration
If you think you've seen the periodic table, think again. The Elements: A Visual Exploration lets you experience the beauty and fascination of the building blocks of our universe in a way you've never seen before. Beside that is a column of facts and figures, each of which can be tapped to bring up rich detail and current information.

Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List
Recipes from the award-winning food site Epicurious.com are now available on your iPhone and your iPad. Search more than 30,000 delicious, professionally created recipes from Bon Appetit, Gourmet, Self, and renowned chefs and cookbooks.

Google Earth
Hold the world in the palm of your hand. With Google Earth for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, you can fly to far corners of the planet with just the swipe of a finger. Traveling is expensive. The free Google Earth app most certainly is not.

IMDb Movies & TV
Find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your must-see list and rate your favorite movies and TV shows! IMDb is the world's largest collection of movie, TV and celebrity info. This iPad app is a must-have for movie buffs who want the latest Hollywood news.

LIFE
LIFE for iPad is a spectacular experience: LIFE's legendary photo collection at a never-before-seen resolution. Download the free app to explore LIFE's vast archives, up-to-the-minute news photos, and special features not available anywhere else.

NASA App HD
Consider it the next best thing to being an astronaut or astronomer. NASA App HD features thousands of NASA photos, streaming video, shuttle launch information, and countdown clocks. Come explore with NASA. Now on your iPad.

HowStuffWorks
With the new HowStuffWorks App, you will finally have access to over 30,000 articles, podcasts and videos all in one place! It is thumbnail laden grid contains links to text, video, and podcasts that are short, punchy and full of information.

Guinness World Records: At Your Fingertips
Read the book? Now, with this companion app, go deeper into a selection of classic records and have a go at breaking one yourself. Experience the ups, downs, thrills and chills of your favourite world records in the interactive iPad app Guinness World Records: At Your Fingertips!

National Geographic Magazine
How twins could unlock the secret to how genes and the environment? Classy and weighty, National Geographic presents global topics in a slick, subscription-based package. Before you dive in, you can download a free sample issue filled with compelling articles and exceptional photography.

NPR
Experience NPR in magazine style with a focus on News, Arts & Life, and Music content that's broad, deep, and timely. It's NPR like you've never seen us before. The app delivers hundreds of NPR live station and on-demand streams.

Reuters News Pro
Access professional-grade news and market data from Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source for intelligent information for businesses and professionals. The app features dozens of customizable categories, a personalized watch list and geographic specific news views.

Star Walk
Star Walk enables you to point your iPad at the sky and see what stars, constellations, and satellites you are looking at in real-time. Hold the iPad at the sky and move it around, and the app shows you exactly what stars, galaxies, planets, and other objects you're looking at.

TED
TED's official app presents talks from some of the world's most fascinating people: education radicals, tech geniuses, medical mavericks, business gurus and music legends. Not only can you stream videos over 3G or Wi-Fi, but you can download them to your iPad for offline playback.

Thrillist
Unlike other city guides that indiscriminately list millions of questionable businesses, Thrillist for iPad is powered only by high-quality, professionally selected recommendations to meet your eating, drinking, and shopping needs.

Weather HD
Recommended by The New York Times: "Weather HD elevates the user, placing her at cloud level for a hushed real-time weather tableau that puts the web's goofy sunshine-rain-cloud icons to shame."

Wikipanion
Accessing Wikipedia has never been faster and easier than with Wikipanion, designed for easy, search, navigation and display of Wikipedia entries. The overall experience is tremendously better on iPad than on the handheld iDevices.

World Atlas HD
Sure, most smart phones will let you see maps of where you are and where you are going. But what if you want to also study maps of the world, of continents, of countries, in only a way that you can with an atlas? National Geographic World Atlas helps you do just that.

Zite
Zite is a free personalized magazine for your iPad that automatically learns what you like and gets smarter every time you use it. Zite delivers all the great news, articles, blogs, and videos you want - and helps you discover new stuff that you'll love.

Atomix Mag
Gamers with a thirst for hobby-related content that extends beyond repetitive news headlines and link-bait will find a lot to like in this app. Atomix Magazine is the first video game magazine conceived and developed for the iPad. It features exclusive multimedia content covering the spectrum of video game culture, from AAA titles to the smallest indie games.

The Daily
The Daily is the first daily news, entertainment and sports publication created and designed from scratch for your iPad. A US-based publication that covers events around the world, The Daily combines the best of print, web, and broadcast, giving you what you need to know in a uniquely interactive format and striking presentation.

Flipboard
Connect Flipboard to all your social networks, and you'll have a single place to enjoy, browse, comment on and share all the news, photos and updates that matter to you. Fill Flipboard with the things you like to read, from the smallest blogs to publications and use Read It Later to save articles to read later.

Zinio
Zinio, a better way than ever to explore, read and shop for the world's best magazines on your iPad. Zinio now has more magazines than ever, and a new app built to make it easier to read your favorites anytime and anywhere.

SkyGrid
SkyGrid is a beautiful and captivating way to stay up to date on your news. Follow all the sources and topics you want, and effortlessly receive updates on the interests you care about. Read your favorite news, people, blogs, and topics in a customized Photo Grid

Instapaper
Great for long articles and blog posts that you find during the day and would like to read, but don't have the time when you find them. Save with Instapaper, then read later when you're commuting, in a meeting, or waiting in line.