Ambitious iOS Apps list
Ambitious iOS Apps list based on Fraser Speirs's spreadsheet.
App name | iPad price $ | iPhone price $ | Note | Rating/Edit | Updated at | |
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1Password Pro | 6.99 | 6.99 | Full sync of website passwords on Mac, iPhone & iPad. This app keeps everything in sync using Dropbox. Very clever indeed. Great if you use multiple browsers as well. Keychain is mainly banished for website passwords now ! | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 15:48 | |
ActionNotes | 2.99 | Gorgeously looking note taking app. Simple yet super elegant | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 15:58 | ||
Air Display | 9.99 | 9.99 | Turns your iPhone or iPad into an external monitor for your computer over Wi-Fi | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 16:08 | |
Amplitube | 15.99 | 15.99 | Makes vintage amplifier sounds and setting available (with hardware 1/4" jack adapter) for guitar and bass: "Turn your iPhone/iPod Touch into the ultimate mobile guitar and bass multi-effect processor and mobile recording studio! Use the AmpliTube iRig interface adapter (www.amplitube.com/irig) to connect your guitar to your iPhone/iPod/iPad and you are ready to rock! Real time guitar and bass mobile multiFX + recording app | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 16:12 | |
Animoog | 29.99 | Incredible sound synthesis and creation. it is complex - but this is partly due to being a very complete Mac port. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 16:20 | ||
App Cooker | 19.99 | Another in the app prototyping and design genre, this one does a ton. The expected view mockup stuff is there, but it also has rich bitmap and vector drawing tools, an app icon creator, a tool for setting up the many iTunes Connect descriptions you need, an app idea notebook thing, and an interesting "what would be required to make this app profitable" worksheet. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 16:23 | ||
Appshopper | Free | Free | Similar to looking for apps in the App Store, except there is a wish list! Put an app you want on the wish list and wait for a price drop | Rate: 1 | 27 Nov 2011 16:32 | |
ARIS | Free | An open source tool that democratizes augmented reality storytelling to create place-based learning. The app is the engine. The drag-and-drop authoring tool is at http://arisgames.org/alphaeditor, and the project's home page is http://arisgames.org. Over 1700 games and tours created as of 11/11. | Rate: 0 | 02 Dec 2011 10:00 | ||
ArtRage | 6.99 | Express your artistic side with easy to use painting and drawing tools that work just like the real thing! | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 16:36 | ||
Audiogalaxy | Free | Free | Streams music from your home computer over wifi and 3G. Save space by not having to load your music on the device itself | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 16:39 | |
BehaviorLENS | 29.99 | Multi-modal behavior observation tool designed to make it easier for school psychologists to capture data about students in the classroom. Rich reporting, compelling capture interface. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 16:42 | ||
Book Creator | 6.99 | Although it doesn't yet support reflow able books, it's a great start on allowing ePub creation on the iPad. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 16:47 | ||
Brushes | 7.99 | 5.99 | For one main feature, Brushes is killer: real-time playback of the construction of the drawing. You can also export this to the Mac and render a QuickTime movie of the drawing. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 16:45 | |
Carcassonne | 9.99 | 9.99 | Full implementation of the board game classic, extremely refined. The iPad form factor allows for placement between 2-4 people, bridging video games and real games in a way a PC or console game could never do before. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 16:50 | |
Cardboard Castle | 1.99 | 0.99 | Really cute and creative game/storybook. Very refreshing. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 17:04 | |
Cleartune | 3.99 | 3.99 | Chromatic tuner, i used to tune my old piano with this. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 17:08 | |
ClickerSchool Virtual Clicker | Free | Free | A free interactive response system used by instructors in classrooms or meetings for polling audiences with mobile devices. Can be accessed through any web browser or as an App. Detailed reports automatically generated. | Rate: 0 | 02 Dec 2011 09:59 | |
Codify | 7.99 | LUA programming tool, with graphical support. Full of features and good examples. Tutorials and videos are starting to appear on the net. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 17:11 | ||
Collabracam | 5.99 | 5.99 | Collabracam lets you stream video from 4 other iOS devices into your iPad then cut between them to record a live broadcast from multiple angles. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 17:13 | |
Comic Life | 4.99 | Comic Life lets you create astounding comics, beautiful picture albums, how-tos… and more! | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 18:27 | ||
Crackle | Free | Free | Watch a decent selection of movies and shows for free. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 17:16 | |
DirecTV | Free | Stream TV to your iPad and control your receivers. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 17:19 | ||
DocScan | 2.99 - Free | 1.99 - Free | One of many "scanning" apps - lets you take a picture of a piece of paper, automatically edge detects and corrects for perspective, and uploads to dropbox or mails as pdf. Much easier than loading up the scanner, waiting for it to warm up, etc. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 17:23 | |
Dropbox | Free | Free | Simply amazing folder/file sync for multiple platforms. Great for quickly getting content onto iOS devices and many iOS programs use the API to allow for saving & syncing.Simply amazing folder/file sync for multiple platforms. Great for quickly getting content onto iOS devices and many iOS programs use the API to allow for saving & syncing. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 17:30 | |
Epic Citadel | Free | Free | Tech demo for a new graphics engine that created interactive graphics not thought possible at the time. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 17:44 | |
Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore | 4.99 | Interactive book like no other (ex-Pixar designer involved with creating this). | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 17:47 | ||
Find Near Me | Free | Locate restaurants, bathrooms, ATMs, Book Stores, etc. wherever you are. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 17:50 | ||
Free | Not just a pretty RSS and Twitter reader, Flipboard is also pushing for content deals with publishers. This is turning into a complete iPad-optimized reading experience. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 17:54 | |||
Fotopedia Heritage | Free | Free | Created in cooperation with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Fotopedia Heritage allows all world to be explored with high quality photographs of the world heritage sites. The app can be explored in a number of ways, including by a world map or by searching for specific countries or sites. Information is provided for each site from the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and Wikipedia. The photographs are very high quality and the interface uses the iPad to its best advantage. Fotopedia produce a number of other apps - Paris, Burma, France, US National Parks, North Korea - which are also highly recommended. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 17:56 | |
GarageBand | 4.99 | 4.99 | What can one say? | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 17:59 | |
Glee Karaoke | Free | Free | An awesome karoke app. The app enhances your voice with pitch correction and reverb. You can also listen to others sing and share your songs. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 18:02 | |
Good Notes | 3.99 | My current favorite note taking application. IMHO the best way for students who prefer to take handwritten notes. Annotate and highlight PDF files. Good for teachers who are attempting to migrate existing lessons / support materials to a digital format. Exports to Evernote, Dropbox. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 18:04 | ||
Google Earth | Free | Free | It's like the Maps app, but on steroids. Nothing like moving the world with a touch of your finger. Having worked on the product before, I know the codebase is freaking huge and complicated - that they got such performance out of a device is positively stunning. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 18:06 | |
GraphPad | 4.99 - 6.99 - Free | 3.99 | Although the implementation is flawed, GraphPad aims to replace the standard pad of graph paper for quick, rough sketches and dimensioning **in the field**. It's a task I've always found to be a pain in the butt on paper, and even worse on a laptop — they're just not very field-friendly. This is exactly the sort of thing a tablet should excel at. Unfortunately, GraphPad is pretty rough and has a lot of bugs. But the basic idea shows promise. (It's more "Ambitious" than "successful" thus far.) | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 18:09 | |
iAnnotate | 9.99 | Great for PDF markup, total PDF management, annotation, and export for the iPad. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 18:11 | ||
iDOS | A complete DOS emulator, allows access and usage of 95% of all software created between 1982 and 1995 - productivity suites, communication applications, games, programming environments, anything you can imagine. Killed by Apple, very sadly. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 18:13 | |||
iMovie | 4.99 | 4.99 | HD video editing on an iPhone or iPad? | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 20:37 | |
Inkling | Free | More than just a PDF reader for Textbooks. Fully interactive reader with custom content & social notes. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 20:41 | ||
Instapaper | 4.99 | 4.99 | Saves the text from an article (with no pics or ads) for later reading. Syncs among devices | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 21:07 | |
iThoughts | 9.99 | 7.99 | A mind mapping app that takes advantage of the virtual keyboard. Press Return 3 times for a new sibling, 3 spaces for a new child. Syncs with many services (best syncing i've found in an app) Exports to many formats. I wish there was a desktop version of this app! | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 22:03 | |
Keynote | 9.99 | 9.99 | An entire presentation system on the iPad! | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 22:06 | |
KORG iMS-20 | 32.99 | Synthesizer fully simulating a very complex $1500 hardware synth from the 80s. It includes virtual patch cables to connect various elements in new creative ways. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 22:10 | ||
Large Viewer | 9.99 | 9.99 | Seamless, no lag time in scrolling through books of tiff or PDF based engineering blueprints, Handles documents measured in 100's of mega-pixels and a dozens of feet. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 22:14 | |
Leafsnap | Free | Free | Used to identify and geotag trees, has tons of high quality pictures of leaves, flowers, seeds etc. You can use to document the location of trees and help in census tracking. Uploaded photos are used for image identification in various seasons. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 22:16 | |
MadPad | 2.99 | 0.99 | It's a soundboard, comprised of videos. Capture the world around you in short clips, and then play them like you would an instrument. Fascinating way to share/experience an event, group, or location. | Rate: 0 | 02 Dec 2011 10:05 | |
MagicPlan | Free | Free | Enables you to capture a house/room plan with the help of Augmented Reality by just pointing corners of a division. | Rate: 0 | 27 Nov 2011 22:19 | |
Make Way | Free | 0.99 - Free | Clever puzzle game with innovative game play. | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 08:08 | |
Mariner Calc | 5.99 | 4.99 | Incredibly intuitive and no-nonsense spreadsheet. Much more powerful than Apple Numbers. | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 08:11 | |
Mars Globe | Free | Free | Like Google Earth for Mars! | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 08:13 | |
Max and the Magic Marker | 0.99 | 0.99 | Cute game that combines the look of Cardboard Castle and the game innovation of Make Way. | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 08:15 | |
Moving Tales | 6.99 | 5.99 | A publisher of children's books that combine traditional tales as interactive text, movies and audio together. The books can be switched between English, French and Spanish text and audio, as well as the option of recording your own audio. There are three titles at the moment: The Pedlar Lady of Gushing Cross, the Unwanted Guest and This Too Shall Pass. | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 08:19 | |
NanoStudio | 14.99 | 14.99 | A complete synth, drum machine, sequencer, the whole works, an entire digital studio, all in one. More complex than something like Garageband, but for the target audience, its perfect. I can't believe the author coded the app, made all the graphics, and even the sample songs. Stunning work. | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 08:28 | |
NASA app | Free | Free | Packed full of images, charts, videos and other info about our solar system | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 08:24 | |
Naught | Free | Free | Simple, cleverly designed action/puzzle game with a distinctive look. | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 08:26 | |
Note Taker | 4.99 | 1.99 | Great app to capture and organize hand written notes and more. A reason to get an iPad. By Dan Bricklin. Write comfortably large with a finger and the notes are scaled down to "pen on paper" size. | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 08:31 | |
Numbers | 9.99 | 9.99 | Nearly 100% feature complete reimplementation of the spreadsheet application. | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 09:53 | |
OmniFocus | 39.99 | 19.99 | Complex task management in a mobile app. | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 09:56 | |
OmniOutliner | 19.99 | Fantastic outliner which offers great flexibility in creating bullet points and notes. Can be exported in a variety of formats. OPML files (from iThoughts HD can be imported into the app directly on the iPad. | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 10:03 | ||
Osmos | 4.99 | 2.99 | Very innovative game with stunning looks and sound. | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 10:06 | |
Our Choice | 4.99 | 4.99 | eBook and underlying eBook technology that redefined usability and presentation possibilities on the iPad. | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 10:10 | |
PDF Expert | 9.99 | 9.99 | PDF manage and display apps are dime-a-dozen (American expression? (Yes. Means ubiquitous.). PDF Expert takes PDF annotation to the next level. On the Mac, Preview offers annotation capabilities but with the mouse, not so easy to do. Touch on the iPad (or iPhone) allows for very intuitive annotation activities, and, the annotations can be viewed, exactly as it is entered on the iPad, using Preview. Perhaps not earth-shaking, but, utility value is very high. | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 10:12 | |
Penultimate | 0.99 | Handwriting and drawing annotation tool. | Rate: 0 | 01 Dec 2011 10:04 | ||
PhotoForge2 | 1.99 | 1.99 | Powerful Image editing on the iPad | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 10:16 | |
PhotoSynth | Free | Free | Capture a photo panorama by just moving the iPhone or iPad around. | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 10:18 | |
Priority Matrix | 3.99 | 1.99 | An app that "makes its own space" on the iPad by creating resizable quadrants. It's the first to-do app on the iPad that lets users see more of what they have to do without merely making things smaller. Everything is drag-n-drop, and it feels more like something you can do with real post-it notes rather than a traditional to do list. | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 10:21 | |
Procreate | 4.99 | Very thoughtful reimagination of what Photoshop or Painter would be on the iPad. Very CPU efficient, countless details that make it obvious that the makers have spent an inordinate amount of time prototyping and refining it. | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 10:26 | ||
ProPrompter | 9.99 | 9.99 | Easy to use tele prompting software that works on all iOS devices to include using one as a remote for another. | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 10:28 | |
Real Racing 2 | 4.99 | 2.99 | Has consistently pushed the iOS graphics system as hard as it can. Leading on AirPlay support too. | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 10:32 | |
Reprise | 1.99 | 1.99 | A stunning music player which redefines what we currently expect of a music player, both socially and musically. It includes an editable queuing system, for on-the-fly queueing of songs, albums, artists, etc, which makes it one of the most intuitive music players. Even the controls push the limit to what we'd expect, as a slider is used to change track position, and play/pause state. Social integration approaches include last.fm scrobbling and sharing via twitter. | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 10:36 | |
ShutterSnitch | 15.99 | 15.99 | Together with a WiFi-enabled card, such as an Eye-Fi SD Card turns an iPad or iPhone into a live-preview screen for any digital camera. It completely changes the workflow of an amateur or pro photoshoot. | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 10:39 | |
Smoovie | 8.99 | Stop motion movie making app designed exclusively for iPad 2. Fully featured editing tools including image capture, cut, copy, paste, undo and independently adjustable playback speed for each scene. All done in realtime without the need for rendering. | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 10:51 | ||
Snapseed | 4.99 | 4.99 | A comprehensive set of high-quality photo filters from Nik software. This is the kind of thing that would cost you serious money as plugins for Photoshop or Aperture. | Rate: 0 | 28 Nov 2011 19:30 | |
SonicPics | 2.99 - Free | SonicPics is an app that allows you to select photos from your iPod or iPad Photo Library and then record narration to create a simple video. Simply swipe from one photo to the next as you talk and record your thinking. The final product can be e-mailed as an m4v video file; if the file is too large, you can transmit the video directly to the classroom computer over the network using an IP address provided by SonicPics. You can also post directly to YouTube all from within the app. One key advantage that SonicPics has is that all of the recording and processing happen on the iPod or iPad itself (no need to send it to a server for processing). | Rate: 0 | 29 Nov 2011 14:00 | ||
SoundHound | 6.99 - Free | 6.99 - Free | Great for identifying music from audio sound clips, singing the song yourself, or looking via typed lyrics. Amazingly quick and accurate. Picks out music from ambient sounds at a restaurant etc. Can be used along with any music in your ipod music player to also play interactive lyrics or search for lyrics on the web. Brings the power ad storage capacity of remote servers to a user who is close to the problem but has limited processing power and data storage. | Rate: 0 | 29 Nov 2011 14:02 | |
Splashtop Remote Desktop | 2.99 | 0.99 | Remote desktop app that streams video and audio from your PC or Mac, allowing you to interact with your desktop applications. | Rate: 0 | 29 Nov 2011 14:06 | |
Splashtop Whiteboard | 19.99 | Turns iPad into Interactive Whiteboard (IWB)! Brought to you by the developers of the award winning Splashtop Remote Desktop Splashtop Whiteboard allows teachers and students to turn their iPad into an interactive whiteboard. Once connected to their computer over Wifi, they can watch Flash media with fully synchronized video and audio, control favorite applications then annotate over lesson content all from an iPad. Now interact with students at their desk or from all four corners of the classroom! | Rate: 0 | 29 Nov 2011 14:09 | ||
Star Walk | 4.99 | 2.99 | Great app for understanding the night sky! Hold up your device and the constellations, planets and ISS are listed for you--right where they are in the sky! | Rate: 0 | 29 Nov 2011 14:12 | |
StoryKit | Free | Free | Similar to SonicPics, StoryKit lets you create books on your mobile device. A little more feature rich, this one gives the user the ability to add images, text, some basic illustration, and narration to each page. Final products can be viewed on the mobile device or pushed out to the web in a somewhat awkward format. | Rate: 0 | 29 Nov 2011 14:16 | |
Symphony Pro | 14.99 | 4.99 | Ambitious music notation editor for iPad. | Rate: 0 | 29 Nov 2011 14:18 | |
Tabletop | 14.99 | Full music production environment. Includes countless virtual audio devices to that can both produce and affect sound. Allows free routing of all audio data to any device. Basically Propellerhead Reason for the iPad. | Rate: 0 | 29 Nov 2011 14:22 | ||
Tab Toolkit | 9.99 | 9.99 | Completely reimagines how you can display written music. Push music up/down/back forth. View real-time playback on a guitar or piano. Great interface, esp. on iPad. | Rate: 0 | 29 Nov 2011 14:20 | |
TestWizard Mobile | Free | Free | A revolutionary mobile assessment app for students. Access Exams, Quizzes, and Homework on the go without a persistent internet connection, just download go, and sync when you are complete. | Rate: 0 | 02 Dec 2011 10:09 | |
Textastic | 9.99 | The first text editor for programmers that aims to become a real IDE… and is getting things done, step by step, with syntax recognition for more than 80 languages, integration of MobileMe/Dropbox/SFTP and an excellent support on the Website. | Rate: 0 | 29 Nov 2011 14:25 | ||
Tonara | Free | Sheet music app that listens to the user playing and turns the page automatically. Something that has not been done before on any device. | Rate: 0 | 29 Nov 2011 14:27 | ||
Toontastic | Free | Toontastic allows you to create cartoons, with animations and sound, very easily. It teaches key storytelling principles. | Rate: 0 | 29 Nov 2011 14:30 | ||
TouchTunes | Free | Free | Allows for controlling/adding songs to TouchTunes jukeboxes. You can add money to your account, pick songs and have them play next all from the comfort of your seat. Also from nearby. | Rate: 0 | 29 Nov 2011 14:32 | |
UpNext | Free | Free | Searchable, tappable, 3D maps for some major US cities. | Rate: 0 | 29 Nov 2011 14:34 | |
Variables | 9.99 | A powerful data analysis app with a very simple workflow and plenty of statistical methods and visualizations. | Rate: 0 | 29 Nov 2011 20:42 | ||
Visible Body | 29.99 | Fantastic interactive, layerd 3D model of the human body, its systems and with good text definitions/descriptions/search. iPad 2 only I think at the moment due to the model complexity. | Rate: 0 | 29 Nov 2011 20:43 | ||
WindowSeat | 4.99 | 4.99 - Free | Perhaps the only app that is truly designed for Airplane mode, WindowSeat tracks the location of your flight without the use of GPS or network connection by downloading the flight plan of your flight prior to leaving the gate and pinpoints you based on your takeoff time. | Rate: 0 | 29 Nov 2011 20:46 | |
World Lens | 9.99 - Free | 9.99 - Free | Instant translation of text through your iPhone/iPad's camera. A sort of augmented-reality babel fish. Simplifies and solves a problem that required a series of discrete steps before. | Rate: 0 | 29 Nov 2011 20:49 | |
Writing Kit | 1.99 | 1.99 | Advanced Markdown text editor for writers. Comes with an integrated web browser that allows the user to insert quotes, images and links to their documents. Includes Dropbox syncing and a host of researching tools. | Rate: 0 | 29 Nov 2011 20:51 |
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