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🎨 Best iPad Creativity Apps
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items This list includes some of my favorite apps to use on my iPad for creativity. From digital drawing and painting, to photo editing and inspiration, you can do a lot on your iPad with these apps! A lot of these apps also offer desktop versions so you c...
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An amazing single-purchase digital drawing and painting app with a beautiful brush library. You can also use it to animate your work!
Procreate
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This is a great app for editing photos, and drawing. I like to use it because it works well with Adobe Fresco because of Cloud Documents. When you work on Photoshop on your iPad, you can open the same files on the desktop app.
Adobe Photoshop for iPad
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I use this to create quick, templated social media posts to promote my videos and artwork. You can use it to schedule your posts as well!
Adobe Express
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This is a free app for digital drawing, painting, animation and more. It's my go-to app for drawing on my iPad for personal and client projects.
Adobe Fresco | Digital Drawing App
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This color palette generator helps you find color inspiration for your work. You can also check out color palettes that other users have generated. It's also available for iPhone and Mac!
‎Coolors | Color Palette Generator
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This app is an all-in-one inspiration and creation tool. You can use it for custom brush creation, color palette generation, and even audio recording. Any assets you create can be used across all your Adobe programs.
Adobe Capture
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This app makes creating fonts more accessible! It allows you to make your own fonts using just your Apple Pencil. If you can draw it, you can make it a font. Start with their references or build your own font from scratch using their easy editing and...
Fontself for iPad
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This is a beautiful library of photos and illustrations powered by easy-to-use search and filters. I've used these photos for blog posts and to incorporate photography into my own artwork.
Unsplash
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I use Are.na like Pinterest, except it's nice that there are no likes, favorites, or ads. You add blocks (content) to channels (groups) for moodboarding, inspiration, or research. You can also connect your blocks and channels to others on the platform. I also li...
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The Files App comes with the iPad and is essential for saving your digital files and organizing them across your Apple devices. I also love to use it to backup my work in Procreate and other apps that don't have cloud document backup.
Files App
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I use the Dropbox Plus plan to archive my client work, and YouTube videos at the end of each year. It gives me 2 TB of cloud storage and can be connected to my iPad. I also use it for sharing public links to files I want subscribers to download.
Dropbox
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The app interface feels great for the iPad and it offers a lot of the most popular features like vector drawing, symmetry, gradients, and more. When I'm ready to move back to the desktop version, my files are ready where I left off.
Illustrator on the iPad
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This is my preferred notetaking app on my iPad. Iuse it to load in my own templates, and mark up PDFs. You can add stickers, draw, or explore the marketplace for different templates to customize your notes. It's also easy to add in your own images an...
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