The Best iPad Apps
News and Social
iPad is a great device for consuming news content and communicating with your friends whether through chat or the various social networking sites. Here are some of the best iPad Apps for social networking and news.
NYT Editors’ Choice
Get the latest news, features in business, technology and more. You can sync or download your fav articles to your iPad and read it later. Has a classic newspaper-like view. Price: Free.
USA Today
Beside the hottest stories from the News, Money, Life and Sports sections, the app offers real time weather conditions and sport scores…it comes handy. Price:Free
NPR
Browse and read popular stories while listening to radio stations, streams, interviews.Allows you to share, bookmark content, even create playlists. Price:Free.
Bloomberg
Need financial information? Here is Bloomberg with up-to-date news, stock quotes, trends, professional market analysis and more. Price: Free
The Early Edition
Early Edition takes the news sources (via their RSS feeds) and presents their content in a format which is familiar, stylish and intuitive. It can be a website, blog, Twitter, Forum.
Price: $4.99
Fluent News
Read the latest news from multiple sources with one app. Fluent News does a great job aggregating and organizing the top news sources, including CNN, WSJ, ESPN, TMZ, USA Today, TIME and more. You can create 3 custom sections based on your preferences, which is pretty nice. Price: Free
InstaPaper
Save any article, blog post while browsing and read it offline later.
It comes with adjustable font size, pagination, bookmark organizer, dictionary lookups and even dark mode with gray backgcround, perfect for night reading. Price: $4.99.
Social Networking
With Flipboard you can easily flip through the updates, news and photos your friends are sharing on Twiter and Facebook. It shows your social media in a beautiful magazine layout that is easy to scan and fun to read. You are able to share articles and photos, comment,like or favorite anything.
Price:Free
Sobees Social Networking
Sobees for iPad easily manages the top leading social networks, Facebook and Twitter.
It combines both services into one nicely designed application.
Price:Free
AIM for iPad
Get the latest updates from your friends on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Digg and more.
Connect and update your status on up to 3 services simultaneously. Price: Free
IM+ Lite
Covers all major chat clients from Skype to Facebook to Gtalk or AIM.
It is a simple and yet a great looking app. Price: Free
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Really nice list, thanks for putting in the effort! Job well done.
Great collection of gems! Thanks
Awesome list of apps, thanks for piecing this together. Both evernote and desktop connect are great apps for me.
Great list. I’ve been mainly interested in the iPad as a device for music creation, but it has loads of potential beyond what the iPhone or iTouch could do for us…
What an amazing compilation of some absolutely amazing apps and reviews. This is one site I will be bookmarking this site and checking back frequently.
cool and amazing!
so many! and classify clear!
I come aross this “Top 10 Best Free iPad Apps” in iFunia ipad column, also not bad, though there are some are covered above.
wow trapster looks interesting..thanks
Do you know if i can watch iTunes videos with the AirVideo app?
@Minno, Unfortunately, the app doesn’t support DRM (all iTunes videos have DRM), but it will play almost every video format
Great collection…i will definitely by Sketchbook
Wow…great list
I am a med student and MediMath is a huge addition for me. For some reason the left bar breaks, but it works great