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Oct 9, 2023 · In the here and now, this iPad Pro 12.9 is a stunning device for movies (and music) on the move. SCORES. Picture 5; Sound 5; Features 5; MORE: Read our review of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra. Also consider the Apple iPad Air (5th Generation) Best tablets: top tablets for movies and music
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- Free app of the month: Sofa: Downtime Organizer
- The best free entertainment apps for iPad
- Mandalier
- Albums
- ComicTrack
- Serial Reader
- Reading List - Book Tracker
- Sandbox – Physics Simulator
- MusicHarbor
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By Craig Grannell
last updated 13 February 2023
The best free apps for iPad Pro, iPad Air, iPad and iPad mini
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Sofa is an app dedicated to organizing your downtime. That might seem like an odd thing to do, but in providing a centralized space to sort things you’d like to see and play, it leaves far more time for doing the good stuff.
You add new items via search, which are then thrown on to ‘The Pile.’ After that point, you can opt to file items into user-defined lists, and assign media you’ve experienced to an activity log.
Pay and Sofa takes things further, with prioritized aggregation section The Shelf, deeper filtering and customization, and theme editing. But even in its free incarnation, Sofa’s worth checking out – especially in its iPad version, which makes great use of screen space for more rapidly perusing your growing collection of things to do.
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Mandalier is a visual toy of sorts, making it a cinch to create animated and hypnotic geometric patterns. These can be used as an aid to relaxation or meditation – or created just because you fancy putting something dazzling and fun on your iPad’s display.
Creating a new pattern is simple. You define the pattern by setting density, speed and zoom sliders. Several color schemes and a dark mode switch are provided. And there’s an optional timer to use the app as part of a timed meditation session.
Albums is a music player that integrates with your existing Apple Music collection, with the aim of helping you to appreciate albums again. On launch, it presents your albums as a randomized grid of cover art; tapping an album starts playback.
Dig deeper and you find all kinds of useful details. The Search tab quickly gets you to new releases and library additions. In Library, you can browse your music, find forgotten favorites, and check out an artist’s albums and singles that you haven’t yet added to your collection.
ComicTrack helps comic book fans to make sense of their collections across physical and digital media, track what they’re currently reading, and make lists of favorite issues.
You use the app’s search function to import series – or individual graphic novels. With the former, you can handily select any issue and mark all previous ones as read. There’s also a ratings system for flagging issues you particularly enjoyed.
Serial Reader wants you to read the classics. You might argue you don’t have time to wade through The Odyssey or War and Peace, but Serial Reader begs to differ, and cunningly chops up such tomes – and hundreds more you can choose from – into bite-sized chunks you can blaze through on a daily basis.
Each ‘issue’ takes about ten minutes to read and arrives at a user-defined time, along with an optional notification. It’s a clever system that really does get you reading. And the reading experience itself is solid too, with all the usual layout and typography options you’d expect.
Reading List - Book Tracker is ideal if you buy loads of books and then forget about rather than read them. You add books to your virtual library by scanning barcodes or adding them from a web search results list. They then lurk in the sidebar.
A single tap on any entry and you can peruse its various details, along with heading off to Amazon or Google Books. Through adding user-defined categories, you can manage larger collections, or even have Reading List act as a wish list for titles you’ve not yet purchased. Basic progress tracking is in the mix too.
Sandbox – Physics Simulator is an entertainingly noodly mix of creation and wanton destruction. It gives you a blank screen and a bunch of icons, inviting you to select materials and draw components to fill the void. You can build levitating stone structures that can be filled with soil and seeds, at which point flowers will start to grow.
Alternatively, you can explore what will happen when lightning blasts firework powder, or when you drop a bomb on your beautiful creation. Hint: nothing good for the things you’ve made. But Sandbox itself is plenty good. Sure, it’s a long way from real life, and its old-school pixel art aesthetic screams retro. But as a way to experiment and relax – whether you chill by making things grow or blowing them up – this is an excellent iPad freebie.
MusicHarbor deals with a gap in Apple Music and other streaming services: keeping track of your favorite artists, rather than just playing their tracks.
You can import artists from your local library or a streaming service. Imports appear as disc-shaped buttons. Tap on one and the artist/band page will display releases in reverse-chronological order, with a button to zip to a Google News search based on relevant keywords.
- Craig Grannell
Feb 7, 2024 · At the time of writing, the 6th generation iPad Pro (2022) is the best iPad that Apple has ever released, with the largest 12.9-inch model boasting a spec sheet that should make the competition blush: A wicked-fast M2 chip; up to 16GB RAM and 2TB SSD; Apple Pencil 2 compatibility; a Thunderbolt port; and a beautiful Liquid Retina XDR mini-LED display.
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