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Overcast for iPad
I’ve started to listen to podcasts again, but the first-party Podcasts app from Apple is still a little buggy as of beta 4 of iOS 9. Beta 5 did come out yesterday and it may have fixed the issue,...
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Trying Out OneNote for iPad
I’ve continued to use the Notes app in iOS 9 and it’s been a great, simple scratchpad for ideas and compiling research links. However, the kicker is that it’s just not accessible on my work PC. The...
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Final Fantasy VII Now Available For iPad
Final Fantasy VII arrived earlier this week, and early reviews on the App Store are calling it a pretty good port. The game first debuted in 1997 and sucked up hundreds of hours of my childhood, and...
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2Do with Push Sync is Live!
It took a little longer than the stated two weeks, but 2Do with Push Sync is now live on the App Store. I tested the sync speed earlier this morning at work while I ticked tasks off of my content...
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Dispatch Email App Hits The iPad
I originally bought Dispatch so that I could triage emails on my iPhone a little faster for work. I make heavy use of flags for emails, but I find those often aren’t enough for me, as they don’t have...
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Still Waiting For A Decent Instagram Solution for iPad
[I’ve been meaning to get to this for a little while now, and it’s not news about Hootsuite; it’s really more of a rant about Instagram because I’m having more fun with the service now. I also...
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iPad App of the Week: PDF to Word
Who doesn’t like great iPad apps? At iPad Insight we definitely do. With that in mind, we offer up a quick review of an excellent iPad app, or a few great iPad apps, here each week. Our picks for Best...
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Switching back to 2Do from OmniFocus 2
I can’t help but feel this is a bit of a “me too” move, but I’ve transferred my tasks from OmniFocus 2 back to 2Do. Federico Viticci of MacStories and Ben Brooks of The Brooks Review recently wrote...
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Reconsidering Lightroom Mobile 2.2
I spent a month last Fall trialling Lightroom Mobile as a suitable alternative to Apple’s iCloud Photo Library. Lightroom drew me in because of its advanced editing controls, options to quickly reject...
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Issues with Lightroom Mobile 2.3.1 and Sharing Text
I’d like to make known my displeasure over the latest change to photo sharing in Lightroom mobile. I noticed this over the past few days as I used the share button to help me get pictures from...
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Quick Thoughts on Evernote and the Competition
My Evernote Premium subscription just ran out, so it has come time for me to reconsider whether or not to continue using the service. Evernote hasn’t made any mis-steps recently, and I’ve actually...
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A Few Thoughts On The Upcoming Paper 3.6 Update (and Beyond)
The sidebar in Paper 3.6 FiftyThree announced that Paper 3.6 is coming out soon, and I’m excited to see the upcoming changes. I use Paper on a weekly basis at my job for sketching quick diagrams and...
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A Word Of Caution Before Moving To Apple Notes
Evernote announced a price increase last week, and also told the free tier of users that they’d be limited to syncing a maximum of two devices. Plus subscriptions are $35 USD per year, and Premium...
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A Refreshing Forex Trading App from HotForex
SPONSORED IPAD APP POST Built in-house by HotForex’s team of developers, the innovative HotForex App puts a wealth of information at the fingertips of traders, on-the-go. Multi-award winning online...
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My Cross Platform (and Apple-only) iPad Apps in 2016
Every once in a while I like to take stock of the number of cross-platform apps I’m using. On the one hand, this overview helps me look at how ready I’d be to move platforms, but it’s also a very...
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Recover Deleted Data from iPad and iPhone Without Backup
SPONSORED POST How to recover deleted photos, videos, messages, WhatsApp, notes from iPad without backup Our iPads hold so much data. From Music, photos, videos, contacts, text messages and so much...
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What’s on your iPad Home Screen?
With the start of a new year, I thought I’d take another look at my iPad home screen page the same way I did with my iPhone, and make some decisions on what I “need” and what apps I have simply...
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Going Native- Back to the Notes App
At one time, I had pretty much forsaken the iOS Notes app. Other than taking down to-go orders and a few other random thoughts on the iPhone version, I had pretty much stopped using it a few years...
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Going Native- Back to the Notes App Revisited
I got a few comments on my original article from Flipboard and Twitter that touched on details I thought were interesting and worth bringing back to the site. Before diving in, thank you to all reached...
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Going Native- Back to the Mail App
A couple of weeks ago, we looked at the iOS Notes app and all of the improvements made to it over the last few years that brought me back to it. Now its time to turn our attention to the iOS Mail app,...
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Apple Aquires Workflow, Promptly Makes Existing Users Angry
When I saw the news that Apple had acquired the DeskConnect team and their very popular app Workflow last week, I was excited. This seemed like a perfect move, especially as the early battle for...
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WordPress App Update for iOS Makes the iPad Pro an Even Better Tool for Bloggers
Ive mentioned it before, but I do about 99% of my work on this site using my 12.9” iPad Pro, a Bluetooth keyboard, and the iOS WordPress app. I have been doing this since I resumed writing here back...
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Find My iPhone Seems Trivial Until the Day You Really Need It
I say that Find My iPhone seems trivial until you need thanks to freshly gained experience. Before, it used to be a nice feature that was really handy for tracking down the kids’ devices when they...
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Normal X-Rays and Real Cases
SPONSORED POST Normal X-Rays and Real Cases is a brand new iPhone & iPad app designed for medical students and clinicians. It’s a quick reference app that contains 2000+ high resolution x-rays that...
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Music Notation App StaffPad Brings Pro-Level Composition to iPadOS
In what sometimes seems like another life, I was a music student and then a professional musician (for a little while) and a teacher (for longer). I was a percussionist all through middle and high...
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Apple introduces a new News app in iOS 9; will it replace your favorite RSS...
At the World Wide Developer Conference last week, Apple introduced their all new RSS reader app called News. In all honesty, I see it as a good move on their part–it makes sense. By offering a free...
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Google Maps for iPad Gets Updated Transit Directions
Apple Maps in iOS 9 now grant transit options for users in a select number of cities (inlcuding Toronto, thank goodness!). However, Google isn’t sitting on their laurels in the mean time. Yesterday’s...
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Musixmatch Can Provide Lyrics For Apple Music
Musixmatch is a great case of a new breed of iOS apps that tend to function more as services than outright applications. Musixmatch does have a UI for when you load it up, but it’s really best used...
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2Do for iPad Is Getting Push Sync In The Next Two Weeks
Background App Refresh was introduced with iOS 7 two years ago, but I’ve found that it only seems to work about 50% of the time for me. I still see many of my apps — e.g. Reeder, 2Do, Evernote —...
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Searching for Instagram Apps for iPad…
I’m now responsible for a number of Instagram accounts at my day job, and so I’ve been the lookout for apps that can manage multiple accounts, simultaneously. Given the popularity of the service, I’m...
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