Apple Team under the leadership of Steve Jobs has again grabbed world’s attention towards their new device. The familiar iPhone OS united with powerful hardware is pushing the boundaries of app development. It has been a few days since the availability of iPad but a bunch of novel and remarkable apps are appearing in iTunes app store. A list of best free apps for iPad is being rolled out. The apps have been organized in separate categories for easy selection.
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iPad Apps for Books
Books Reading is one of the primary functions for which iPad has been designed. Due to this it has been compared with Amazon’s Kindle. After building the hardware, Apple didn’t let go and they developed own app ‘iBooks’ to provide a convenient and quality book reading experience. The app lets the users read books in a real life format. The user can flip the pages buy swapping or tipping. Using library feature in iBooks, the user can organize book’s collection effortlessly. You can easily adjust screen’s brightness, change text size, and find word, character, or phrase. The app also incorporates a book store which offers a huge database of free and premium books. It is currently available for only US residents.
Kindle by Amazon is another amazing app for eBook readers using iPad. Its intuitive interface lets users find and read books from a collection of 0.45 million books in Kindle Store. The users can synch last page read, notes, bookmarks, and highlights across popular devices like MAC, PC, Blackberry, Kindle, iPhone and many others. Thus, Amazon Whispersync enables users to start reading the book on any other device from where they left off. It also offers different customizations like altering background color, text color and size, and brightness. The pages can be turned by tapping either side of the screen.
Wattpad is a popular eBook community where the readers and writers have been brought together. The app for iPad is a nice effort by the team for eBook readers. Everything which is being shared by community is free and the user can submit his own writing with fellows. The submissions are well organized and can be search easily for a genre or author.
iPad Apps for Socail Networking
This app provides an ultimate interaction with Twitter, like other versions available for different platforms. Replies, re-tweets, direct messages, mentions & more are present in an integrated display. Other users can be followed, un-followed or blocked.
The completely redesigned app for iPad may blow your head. The visual interface is so neat and explicit. The user can easily interact with friends of other social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and My Space. It is also possible to chat with Facebook friends directly. Depending upon country, you can also send free text sms over existing data plan.
This is a must have app for a SMS addict who is also using iPad. It lets you text for free to any other mobile number with some regional constraints. It synchronizes user’s chat and can be accessed on iPhone or iPod touch from where you left off. As a free member, you can start group conversations with friends, relatives or colleagues.
iPad Apps for News
If you don’t like reading print edition of a newspaper then try this iPad app developed by USA Today. The user can read news about politics, entertainment, and sports and easily share on facebook or twitter. The news items can be fetched for offline reading as well.
Zinio Magazine Newsstand & Reader for iPad
This app lets users explore some articles from popular magazines without any subscription. Zinio’s app for iPad provides an interactive solution to browse through popular magazines with better editions of selected titles containing audio and video. The user can build a library which can be synched across multiple devices.
The user can read, listen, or view news from a selected region. News can be read according to category. Some languages other than English are supported. It is also possible to read news items offline.
iPad Apps for Music
Pandora Radio is a popular service for music lovers in US and they have built an iPad version. This app offers similar services like Internet app but with an insightful interface. The user inputs a song or artist and the service will start streaming similar music identified by their innovative technology. If you like a song then it can be marked as favorite or can be bought on iTunes.
This app provides a relishing experience while browsing through Radio.com service. It offers you to listen podcasts, get updates about favorite artists, and find new music. You can do this all while listening to radio station of required genre like music, news, or sports. It streams above 600 of the best music, news and sports radio stations which are complemented by Last.fm Scrobbling, photo galleries, and music information.
Sometimes you get a tune or piece of song and want to find out the complete information related the audio. Shazam does the job for you and they have released a free app for limited time. It is an awesome app for music lovers, which also gives you access to Shazam Charts to see what is popular. The app can also recommend similar music.
iPad Apps for Entertainment
If you are addicted to TV plays, this app will let you watch some popular TV shows by ABC entertainment right on your iPad. The user can easily search episodes and seasons. It also displays a viewing history. This app is only available for US residents.
Netflix is one of the popular online services in US and iPad has pushed them to develop an app for the platform. It is free for members and they can easily start watching streaming videos from where they left off on computer or TV. The account can be managed as well from this app on iPad.
The popular app on iPhone and iPod Touch has been ported to iPad by IMDB. It lets you explore one of the largest informational databases related to Celebrities, Movies, and TV. They provide handsome information regarding the movies produced till date. For US residents, it is also possible to find movie times at local theatre and TV show times.
iPad Apps for Productivity
Sometimes it is difficult to find a Wi-Fi connection during travel or due to some other reason user may not be able to access internet. This app can save web pages for offline reading to utilize the time when no internet connection is available.
This app on iPad acts as a news aggregator for the specified category. The user does not need to find source of information on specific topic and go through every single bit rather it streams the popular content around the Internet.
One of the popular apps for productivity is also available for iPad. The user can synchronize the notes in form of text, voice, and web snapshots between multiple devices like iPhone, PC, and. MAC.
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Nice list, I was searching for iPad applications then I found your site…extremely useful..thanks for sharing it
Thnx for sharing
Good detailes, I am looking for a long time, thanks, have a nice day.
The i-pad is no doubt a sleek piece of kit regardless of its short comings and I am sure these will be sorted out in future incarnations.For me I'll wait until they have put in the web cam for face to face video conferencing and made the paltry 64gb memory a little more reasonable size or have some where I can add storage like SD or mini sd card slot.As my music collection is already twice the capacity of the largest I pad before you add apps and games.visit my blog…&hellip http://ridakami.blogspot.com/” rel=”nofollow”>;http://ridakami.blogspot.com/
Nice List of application, thanks!
I grudge paying money to download an app only to find out that it is useless and much prefer wading through lots of free apps to find a good one. I use some of the ones you list here, thanks for compiling this list.
great collection for iPad,
i hope there are some apps for iPhone also which are free in ipad..
cheers..
great work admin.
keep it up
great collection for ipads and do you have any collection with the latest apps as well it would help us…