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page you'll find the app of the week - our top new selection to try out, and check back every seven days where you'll find a new option to
After that, it's the best entertainment apps (surely the best reason to own an iPad) and a variety of categories on the following pages to
tickle your fancy.Free app of the week: Sago Mini FriendsSago Mini Friends is a sweet-natured collection of adorable mini-games, ideal for
After selecting a character to play, you visit a neighborhood of colorful houses
Our favorite, though, is a cleverly conceived snack time that finds two friends sitting side-by-side
Feed one and the other looks a bit glum, which encourages the young player to learn to share.Entirely lacking IAP and advertising, Sago Mini
Friends is a no-brainer for any parent who wants a safe, free, fun, educational app for their youngster to spend a bit of quality time
with.The best free entertainment apps for iPadOur favorite free iPad apps for having fun with your iPad, whether shopping, coloring,
reading, watching TV or using Twitter.LetterboxdLetterboxd is an iPad take on a social network for film lovers
Beyond that, you can add tags, a review, and the date when you last watched the film
big-toothed sharks to tiny penguins skittering about
Clips can be saved as favorites, or grouped into custom collections to later peruse or share with friends.Some of the footage is noticeably
readers on the App Store are tied to online stores, and any emphasis on quality in the actual apps isn't always placed on the reading
part.But with many more publishers embracing DRM-free downloads, having a really great reading app is essential if you're into digital
Chunky Comic Reader is the best available on iOS.The interface is smart, simple and boasts plenty of settings, including the means to
eradicate animation entirely when flipping pages.Rendering is top-notch, even for relatively low-res fare
And you get the option of one- or two-up page views
For free, you can access web storage to upload comics
device proves to be the best way to search
You can quickly drill down into categories, and explore individual listings, swiping between photos.If you need to keep track of things, the
app offers automated notifications, and can flag searches, making it easy to see whenever new matching listings appear
And if you want to sell yourself, you can do that in-app, with eBay providing shortcuts to get your listing started (through barcode
scanning or matching your item to publicly available information about it).Fingerpaint MagicThe iPad and App Store combine to create an
extremely strong ecosystem when it comes to art apps, but that's not terribly helpful if you don't have an artistic bone in your
body.Fortunately, there are apps like Fingerpaint Magic that enable a much wider range of people to create something visually stunning.As
you draw, feathers of color explode from your fingertip, bleeding into the background in a manner that feels like you're drawing with an
alien material atop viscous liquid
mirrors or background filters prior to export
Fingerpaint Magic's free incarnation has more than enough to unleash your inner artist, regardless of your skill
level.InstapaperInstapaper acts as a time-shifting service for the web
You can send pages to it from any browser (PC, Mac or mobile), whereupon Instapaper strips away everything bar the content
commuters wanting to catch up on saved pages while belting along on a train
tool, part sleep aid, Melodist is all about creating melodies from imagery
All you have to do is load something from your Camera Roll, and the app does the rest.On analyzing your photo or screen grab for changes in
hues, saturation and brightness, a music loop is generated
You can adjust the playback speed, instrument and visual effect (which starts off as a lazily scrolling piano roll), along with setting a
timer.Although occasionally discordant, the app mostly creates very pleasing sounds
blurred as a background), you can export each tune as audio or a video that shows the picture alongside the animation.These free exports are
export.Notes on Blindness VRAfter years of eyesight deterioration, John Hull became blind in 1983
Notes on Blindness VR has six chapters taken from his journal of the time
moving the screen about to scan your surroundings
screen-based experience beyond the confines of television.PigmentAdult colouring books are all the rage, proponents claiming bringing colour
to intricate abstract shapes helps reduce stress - at least until you realise you've got pen on your shirt and ground oil pastels into the
sofa.You'd think the process of colouring would be ideal for iPad, but most relevant apps are awful, some even forcing tap-to-fill
That is to colouring what using a motorbike is to running a marathon - a big cheat
Pigment is an exception, marrying a love for colouring with serious digital smarts.On selecting an illustration, there's a range of
palettes and tools to explore
You can use pencils and markers, adjusting opacity and brush sizes, and work with subtle gradients
Colouring can be 'freestyle', or you can tap to select an area and ensure you don't go over the lines while furiously scribbling
With a finger, Pigment works well, but it's better with a stylus; with an iPad Pro and a Pencil, you'll lob your real books in the bin.The
one niggle: printing and accessing the larger library requires a subscription in-app purchase
It's a pity there's no one-off payment for individual books, but you do get plenty of free illustrations, and so it's hard to
grumble.SandboxSandbox offers an interesting take on coloring apps
Instead of virtual paper and pens (as per the excellent Pigment), Sandbox gives you a quirky combination of painting by numbers and
old-school pixel art.Select an image and it appears in grayscale
A tap zooms you in to a grid of numbers
Select a palette color and tap relevant grid squares to start coloring things in
to tap every single square, Sandbox might for some feel tedious
a better bet for the more discerning Twitter user
It has a beautifully designed interface that's a delight to use, helpfully merging mentions and messages into a unified timeline, saving
you mucking about switching tabs.Customization options give you the means to adjust the app's visual appearance (and the app can
optionally automatically switch to a dark theme at night), and powerful mute and muffle features block users and hashtags you want no part
TogetherWith a noodly soundtrack playing in the background, WWF Together invites you to spin a papercraft world and tap points of interest
to learn more about endangered species
16 creatures get fuller treatment - a navigable presentation of sorts that hangs on a key characteristic, such as a panda's charisma, or
an elephant's intelligence.These sections are arranged as a three-by-three grid, each screen of which gives you something different, be it
statistics, gorgeous photography, or a 'facetime' movie that gives you a chance to get up close and personal.Apps that mix charity and
education can often come across as dry and worthy, but WWF Together is neither
It's informative but charming, and emotive but fun.Rather neatly, stories can be shared by email, and this screen further rewards you with
origami instructions to make your own paper animal; once constructed, it can sit on the desk next to all your technology, reminding you of
the more fragile things that exist in our world.YouTubeYouTube is the best way to watch YouTube videos on your iPad
On the dynamic Home tab, you can quickly get at interesting stuff
The more you watch, the better they get.On selecting something to watch, the video itself sits at the top-left of the screen, allowing you
to scroll through comments other viewers have left, and peruse an up-next feed
Watch our guide video below!For a mix of free and paid apps, check out our amazing Best iPad apps chart
If you're more into a smaller form-factor or have your eye on the iPhone X check out our list of the best free iPhone apps.Haven't bought an
iPad yet and not sure which is best We've got them listed on our best iPad ranking - or you can check out the best tablets list to see the
full range available now.Are you a professional Then our pick of the 10 best business apps should have something for
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