FROM flipboard.com Also on iPhone
If you want your news stories delivered in a more visually arresting style than a scrolling page, this app’s flipping pages hits the spot. Moreover, its social layer lets you collaborate with friends to curate your own digital ‘magazines’.
VNC Viewer
FROM realvnc.com Also on Mac, iPhone
The Files app provides a way to get at documents on your Mac’s desktop, but VNC Viewer enables you to control your computer remotely – ideal for when you need to do more ambitious things on your computer but it’s not in front of you.
Documents
FROM readdle.com
Also on iPhone Once, Documents was a vital thing to install on your iPad due to being something like iOS’s equivalent to macOS’s Finder. Today, Files takes that spot, and Documents integrates with it. But it has other tricks up its sleeve that make it worth downloading.
You can save pages from the web, grab content from local computers and remote file servers, create two-way syncs to folders, and open or make Zip archives. When viewing documents, you can annotate PDFs, listen to music offline in a swish player, and peruse movies. And if beady eyes are nearby, you can lock everything behind Face ID/Touch ID.
Brushes Redux
FROM bit.ly/mfbrshsrdx
Also on iPhone The original Brushes was thrust into the public eye when Jorge Colombo used it to paint a cover for the New Yorker on his iPhone. That version has long since vanished from the App Store, but it was fortunately – and generously – reborn as opensource project Brushes Redux.
There’s experimental support for Apple Pencil, but the app’s virtual brushes work very nicely as you paint with a finger. There’s plenty of power here as well: hugely flexible custom brushes, a layers system, and the means to record and share your efforts to fashion a digital masterpiece.