The best iPad apps to increase productivity and make your life easier

Apple’s iPads come with built-in productivity tools like Notes, Calendar, and Reminders, but if you want to explore new ways to improve productivity and organize your life, there are plenty of apps to help you.

Although the iPad started out as a device that could be used to stream content or surf the web, Apple has essentially turned its iPads into multitasking computers for personal, work, and school use. As a result, there are a number of apps available to help you focus on daily tasks by creating a single place to organize your life or by blocking out distractions.

Below, we have compiled a list of some of the best available on the App Store.

Good notes

Good notes is one of the most popular iPad appsand for good reason. Great for people who like to take notes using the app Apple Pencil; you can enter both handwritten and typed text on a page, and add things like pictures, stickers, and even doodles.

You can use notes, checklists, planners and more. you can create a digital notebook of blank or regular paper for The program allows you to export all digital notebooks or specific pages to PDF and other files.

Goodnotes is also great for drawing and sketching. While not as advanced as some creative apps like Procreate, Goodnotes is easy to use and perfect for quick sketches or diagrams.

If you’re attending a class or meeting, you can also record audio notes that sync as you record. Plus, you can use artificial intelligence to summarize your notes and help you write.

You can create three digital notebooks for free. If you want unlimited laptops, you’ll have to pay $9.99 a year or $29.99 one time.

TickTick

If you’re not a fan of the iPad’s built-in Reminders app, or you just want a more advanced to-do list and task management app, TickTick may be a good choice. You can use it for both professional and personal work.

The app lets you sync tasks across all your devices and integrate your favorite calendar app. You can create checklists, assign recurring tasks, upload task attachments, share task lists to collaborate with others, and more. you can

If you want to develop a habit like meditating before bed, you can set goals and track your progress in the app. If you receive an email but don’t have time to respond to it, you can turn it into a task to remind yourself not to forget to respond to it.

You can also add tags to your tasks to manage them better and mark tasks based on their priority.

If you want to focus on a specific task, you can turn on the “pomo timer,” an app based on the Pomodoro Technique that breaks work into focused intervals to increase productivity.

TickTick is free to use, but if you want additional features like up to five reminders per task or adding more lists and tasks, then you’ll pay $3.99 per month or $35.99 per year.

Forest

Forest is an exciting app that gamifies productivity while helping the environment. If you’re someone who has trouble staying on task or is easily distracted, this app might be good for you.

When you need to focus on something, you can open the app and plant a tree. As you focus and complete your work, your tree will grow. If you exit the program before the timer runs out, your tree will wither and die.

You can set Allow Lists for different programs you use to be productive, such as an email program or Microsoft Word. The app also lets you track your productivity.

You create a digital forest that visualizes your productivity over time. If you’re competitive, you can share your forest with others to see how it compares to theirs. As you focus and grow virtual trees, you can earn money that you can use to help plant actual trees around the world through a tree planting organization. Trees for the future.

Forest costs $3.99 to download and you can buy in-app boosters to grow your forest and plant real trees faster.

Understanding

Understanding a great program take notes, manage tasks and workflows, organize lists and habits, collaborate with others, and more. for. Instead of having to switch to different apps to manage your calendar, tasks, and notes, you can do it all right inside Notion.

You can integrate the different apps you use, like Slack and Dropbox, to bring all your workflows together in one place. One of the best things about Notion is its flexibility and customization options. Whether it’s organizing your personal or business life, schoolwork, or passion projects, you can customize it to fit your needs.

If you’re not sure where to start, you can use templates to create things like a travel planner or a product roadmap. Notion also has an AI feature that helps you write ideas and brainstorm. Notion AI can help you get answers about your content and turn large volumes of data into digestible action items.

Notion offers a free plan for personal use. The company also offers an $8 per month Plus plan for small groups and a $15 per month Business plan for companies. You get 20 AI answers for free; after that you pay $10 per member per month.

Croutons

Sometimes planning what to eat can take a lot of time, leaving less time for other things, so it can be nice to have an app to help with that. Croutonsdesigned to help make cooking and meal planning easier, great for organizing recipes and planning grocery lists.

You can import recipes from online websites or even scan them from a physical cookbook. So instead of relying on bookmarks or physical recipes, you can keep them in one place.

You can plan your meals for a week, and if you think about what to do one day, the app can create a meal plan for you. Once you’ve planned your meals for the week, you can create a grocery list that includes all the ingredients you’ll need.

Crouton also has an in-app timer, so you don’t need to use another app when a recipe has timed steps. Plus, you can tell your family what’s for dinner or share your recipes with others if you come across a recipe you know a friend will love.

Crouton offers basic features for free, but if you want unlimited recipes and additional features, there is a $14.99 annual subscription.

Freedom

Freedom is a great app to focus on your work and avoid distractions to be more productive. You can start a Freedom session to block out distractions on all your devices for a selected period of time.

You can choose which websites and apps you want to block during that time. So if you’re working on your iPad, but then try to open TikTok on your phone, you won’t be able to, and instead you’ll see a green screen.

The app lets you start a session immediately, schedule an upcoming one, or set a recurring one. If you know you need to be free of distractions at a certain time each day, you can set up a Freedom session to start at that time each day.

If you’re someone who listens to specific sounds to help you focus, Freedom offers a variety to listen to. For example, in a city like New York or Berlin, you can hear the sounds of a coffee shop, birds chirping, soothing instrumentals, etc. you can listen.

The app, which costs $3.99 a month, is extremely easy to use and also includes a diverse series of articles with tips on how to increase productivity and better understand digital health.

Visibility

Visibility is a great note-taking app that lets you jot down ideas, import and annotate tutorials, record audio, and sketch ideas. The app is useful for students, professionals and amateurs alike.

You can choose to take notes with Apple Pencil, text, or audio. If you’re trying to find something specific, the app lets you search your notes, including handwritten and uploaded documents.

Notability also features AI-generated note summaries and the ability to work on two different notes side-by-side. Plus, you can test your knowledge with personalized quizzes based on the content in your notes.

If you need a place to start, Notability offers planners, work notes, to-do lists, and more. contains a template gallery for things like

Popularity is free, but math conversion, automatic audio transcription, unlimited notes, and more are included. offers a $4.99 monthly subscription to access additional features such as

Update: This story originally ran on September 28 and was updated on December 27 with the new program.