Best iPad apps for unleashing and exploring your creativity

There are a number of iPad applications that can help you explore and express your creativity. Although the iPad has started as a simple device that could be used to broadcast content or browse the web on the go, Apple has essentially transformed its iPad into powerful machines that can be used to do things like creating digital art and modify videos.

We have compiled a list of some of the best iPad applications for creativity available on the App Store.

Before entering the list, it should be noted that although Adobe’s creative applications are often the best creativity choices on the iPad, this list will not include them because they are already well known. The list will rather focus on slightly less known applications.

Procreate

Procreate is one of Most popular drawing applications For the iPad, and for a good reason. The application allows you to create paintings, sketches and digital illustrations using dozens of different types of brushes. Procreate is easy to use and has integrated gestures commands, as well as a simple interface.

The application allows high resolution canvases up to 16K by 8K on compatible pros iPads. It also allows you to create storyboards, gifs, animatics and simple animations. In addition, you can import image files such as JPG, PNG and TIFF. Procreate includes several features designed to help you during the creative process on your iPad, such as Quickshape, Streamline, Drawing Assist and Colordrop.

Once you have finished creating your room, you can relive your creative course with the accelerated “replay” function of the application and share a 30 -second accelerated video on social networks.

You can access Procreatate with a single payment of $ 12.99.

Lumafusion

Lumafusion is an excellent application to modify videos if you are ready to get your Imovie diploma. The application offers many user -friendly features that make it perfect for budding videographers or independent filmmakers with a budget.

With Lumafusion, you can create several layer changes with 4K Prores and HDR Media. You can add different effects, choose from dozens of transitions and save votes. The application allows you to create multilayer titles and import fonts and graphics. In addition, you can refine the audio with a graphic equalizer, a parametric equalizer, voice insulation, etc.

The application allows you to create projects with a variety of aspect ratios, including a landscape 16: 9, a portrait 9:16, a square, a large screen, anamorphic film, etc.

Lumafusion is available for a single payment of $ 29.99. You can also buy additional features, such as multicam editing and the possibility of sending your project to Final Cut Pro for Mac.

Cloth

Cloth offers A friendly platform This allows anyone to create visual content, even without graphic design experience. You can use it to create presentations, infographics, videos, websites, publications on social networks and more with more than 250,000 models.

Canva offers tools to edit photos, personalize content with logos and images, adding audio and cropping and accelerating video.

The platform also has a series of AI features which are designed to facilitate the creation process. For example, you can extend an image using “Magic Switch” or transform ideas into images with “Magic Media”.

Canva is free but offers a monthly subscription of $ 12.99 if you want unlimited access to its AI features, premium models, etc.

Affinity Designer 2

Affinity Designer 2 is a graphic design application that combines vector design, textures based on pixels and retouching in a single platform. It’s great for professional illustrators, website designers, game developers and other creatives.

The application allows you to create illustrations, brand, logos, icons, user / UX interface conceptions, typography, posters, labels, lengths, stickers, conceptual art, digital art, etc. It supports accuracy, sensitivity to Apple Crayer pressure and inclination functionality.

Affinity Designer 2 offers gestures to speed up your workflow, and it allows you to personalize keyboard shortcuts. You can also do things like creating your own personalized font and zooming over 1,000,000% for absolute precision.

You can access the application via a single payment of $ 18.49.

Concepts

Concepts is an excellent application to explore your ideas and experiment with conceptions. You can use the application to draw plans, take notes and spirit tickets and draw storyboards and conceptions.

The application offers NUDGE, SLICE tools and select that allow you to easily modify any item of your sketch without redrawing it. The application includes realistic pens, pencils and brushes flowing with pressure and inclination.

The concepts give you access to ladder and measurement tools that calculate the dimensions of the real world, and also has a wheel or toolbar that you can customize to your taste.

The basic features of the application are free. Concepts offers a monthly subscription of $ 4.99 if you want to access additional features, such as the possibility of creating your own premium brushes and tools.

Tayasui sketch

Tayasui sketch is a good application of sketch and friendly drawing. It has several different features such as a realistic watercolor brush, digital acrylic brushes, the possibility of mixing two colors to obtain the perfect shade, gradient and depth tools, etc.

The application allows you to transmit tasks by opening another application and dragging lawyers and documents between the two. There is also a “Zen mode” which allows you to create without distractions.

You can also download your images to integrate them into your creations. Tayasui Sketches allows you to store your creations in personalized folders.

The basic features of Tayasui Sketches are free. The application offers a monthly subscription of $ 2.99 which unlocks unlimited layers, new brushes and markers, an extended brush editor, the possibility of saving your drawings, and more.

This story originally published in December 2024 and is updated regularly with new information.