10 Best iPad Apps for Web Designers
If you’re a web designer and own an iPad, I’ve got great news. There are apps out there that will actually help you be productive. So while you’re away from your desk or office, take a break from playing Angy Birds and get some work done. Here are 10 of our favorite iPad apps to help you do just that.
Gusto
Gusto is a full-featured website development environment designed exclusively for the iPad with a focus on workflow and usability.
Punultimate
Penultimate encourages you to take notes, keep sketches, or work through your next breakthrough idea– whether you’re in the office, on the go, or home on the couch.
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.
SketchyPad
SketchyPad is for website sketching and apps interface making, including iPhone and iPad apps. 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 apps interfaces.
Air Display
With Air Display, you can use your iPad as a wireless display for your Mac OS X computer. It lets you position your iPad next to your computer, drag windows onto it, and interact with those windows as you would on any other computer display.
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.
WordPress
WordPress for iPad lets you can moderate comments and create or edit posts and pages. All you need is a WordPress.com blog or a self-hosted blog running WordPress 2.9.2 or higher.
iMockups
iMockups gives you rapid wireframing and app design on your iPad.
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.
Analytics HD
Analytics HD brings Google Analytics to your iPad. Get quick overview reports for at-a-glance data, or more detailed reports for deeper analysis.
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Jul 13, 2010
Very nice and helpful collection, my favorite one is “Adobe Ideas”!
Jul 13, 2010
That is a great list. I haven’t used a lot of these apps but I am keen to try SketchyPad
Jul 13, 2010
Ah, “Draft” is missing!
Jul 13, 2010
Those are excellent apps for designers and developers, thanks for the round up.
Jul 13, 2010
much better than Adobe Ideas is Sketchbook pro, for just 8$
Jul 13, 2010
Great list! I don’t have an iPad so I haven’t tried out any of the sketching/wireframing apps yet, but Draft from 37signals does look quite appealing to me:
http://37signals.com/draft
They’ve made it as simple as possible, but that’s the appeal. Makes it as close to pen and paper as you could get I suppose (Though in their examples at least, it doesn’t look as precise as a lot of these others apps!)
Jul 13, 2010
cheers for the article, never knew about ‘air display’ – will give it a go..
Jul 14, 2010
I don’t actually own an iPad yet but seeing these apps makes me want one even more! I think I may wait for the 2nd/3rd generation to come out… (If i can wait that long!)
It’s amazing just how much you can do, I currently have an iPhone and have the wordpress app which is really useful for keeping up to date with all my clients blogs.
From an iPad point of view the Gusto app and adobe ideas seem like they would be the most useful!
Thanks for sharing
Jul 21, 2010
Cool! Thanx man – very useful!
Jul 21, 2010
Of course, that effect could be created in Photoshop in order to present a geometry we are accustomed to seeing in photos.
Jul 26, 2010
For windows developers, check out http://www.multibrowserviewer.com. They have a great iphone emulator and a ipad emulator in beta.
Jul 30, 2010
Nice article! Will try Analytics HD for my site.
Aug 2, 2010
Great list, just got an iPad and this will be come in handy.
Aug 10, 2010
Cool! Thanx man – very useful!