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Music
one. Magic Piano
This is an app from the developer Smule, known for interesting music plugins. Magic Piano lets you play popular songs with a simplified version of the piano. Mozart or Lady Gaga, it doesn't matter. The list is very long.
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2. Piano
A traditional piano to play when there is no real instrument.
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3. Auxy
Auxy allows you to create melodies of any complexity with just a few taps on your iPad screen. You can export the result and continue working on your creation in another program.
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4. Tonebridge
Application that allows you to connect your guitar to your iPhone or iPad using an adapter. Play by changing effects presets like in famous songs or creating your own.
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5. KORG Gadget
One of the best virtual synthesizers from the company that makes the most famous keyboard instruments. It is important to understand that this is a professional tool, as evidenced by its price.
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6. Djay
Djay will give you the opportunity to try yourself as a DJ. You can combine multiple tracks, apply effects and create mixes.
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7. Music Maker Jam
Contains many loops and beats for creating dubstep or drum and bass tracks.
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8. GarageBand
Apple's proprietary combiner for creating music with a variety of instruments: drums, guitar, strings and keys, as well as a large base of loops.
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9. FL Studio
A powerful sequencer for creating electronic music with everything you need.
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Video
1. Splice
A handy app for creating professional-quality videos with just a few taps.
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2. Clips
Apple's signature app for creating fun videos where you can use art styles, Memoji, and add music, animation, and captions.
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3. Magisto
Smart video editor for creating music slideshows, collages and social media videos with templates for all occasions.
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4. FiLMiC Pro
An advanced camera with a huge number of settings and useful features for shooting professional-quality video.
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5. Nception
Application for creating surreal videos with various spatial distortions in the spirit of Nolan's Inception.
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6. iMovie
iMovie, like GarageBand, is an Apple app that comes very close to ingenious simplicity. With it, you can edit videos and mount really high-quality videos, especially for mobile devices.
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7. LumaFusion
A professional multi-track video editor that lets you edit studio-quality movies right on your smartphone.
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8. Hyperlapse
Hyperlapse allows you to shoot cool time-lapse videos. This app is from the creators of Instagram, and it's top notch.
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Photography
1. Pixelmator
contains all the necessary features, including full-fledged work with layers, realistic brushes and PSD support.
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2. VSCO Cam
Of all the filter apps in VSCO Cam, these are truly the best. There are dozens of different topics and a whole photo community that shares their photos and tips.
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3. Facetune
Facetune allows you to remove small imperfections from a face in a photo. It can also be used to change skin tone or whiten teeth.
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4. 500px
A community app for beginners and practitioners to get inspired and share their incredible shots.
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5. Oilist
An interesting application with a choice of settings that turns your photos into oil paintings.
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6. Trigraphy
Use Trigraphy to turn everyday shots into extraordinary art. The application has limitless possibilities for creativity.
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7. Slow Shutter Cam
Slow Shutter Cam for amazing moving photos.
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8. Helios
This app tracks the movement of the sun throughout the day and suggests the best time for natural light portraits and landscapes.
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9. Typorama
With Typorama you can create cool posters by putting text on your photos and applying various typography templates to it.
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Drawing
1. Procreate
The most popular illustration app used by beginners and professional artists alike.
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2. Paper
A handy sketching app with an intuitive 3D notepad interface. Offers a lot of tools, including a pen, pencil, brush, scissors and others.
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3. SketchBook
A powerful application for anyone who loves to draw. SketchBook allows you to create different images: from quick sketches to finished works of art.
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4. Tayasui Sketches
One of the most realistic applications with a large set of drawing tools, support for layers, a built-in brush editor and other useful features.
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5. Vectornator
A flexible and powerful vector graphics tool that allows you to create illustrations, interface prototypes, website designs, toaster typography, and more.
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6. Lake
Entertaining coloring pages for adults that will help you get a dose of inspiration, distract from problems and cheer you up.
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7. Adobe Fresco
A solid digital painting app for both amateurs and professionals.
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Writing
1. iA Writer
A text editor with a concise interface that is stripped of everything superfluous and contains only what helps you write.
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2. Bear
A popular Markdown-ready notepad with easy-to-sort content that can be used to collect texture, store ideas, and write drafts.
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3. Ulysses
A powerful tool for writers and editors with a user-friendly interface, advanced document organization and export capabilities.
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4. Wattpad
A community app for writers from all over the world to get inspired and share your own creations.
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5. Scrivener
One of the most powerful and comprehensive tools for working on complex texts, with which you can easily write a script or a book.
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Programming, creating games and virtual worlds
1. Minecraft
Minecraft is one of the best creative games out there. By mining and using various blocks, you can build anything you can imagine.
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2. Roblox
Another virtual universe for creativity, where you can build entire worlds and play the ones created by other users.
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3. Tynker
Tynker is an app that teaches programming in a fun way and is suitable for kids. With it, you can create your first small game.
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4. Programming Hero
An interesting application that uses gamification with which you will learn or develop programming skills and be able to create your own game.
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This material was first published in March 2015. In November 2021, we updated the text.