- #BEST MAC APPLICATIONS 2018 PRO#
- #BEST MAC APPLICATIONS 2018 SOFTWARE#
- #BEST MAC APPLICATIONS 2018 PROFESSIONAL#
Podcast addicts deserve better than Apple’s built-in Podcasts app, and Castro is the ideal upgrade. It also works wonderfully with Apple Pencil.īuy Affinity Designer from the App Store over the holidays to enjoy 20 percent off the usual price.ĭownload: Affinity Designer Castro 3 Castro makes podcasts even better.
It’s the app I used to create all our 2018 Year in Review graphics.Īffinity Designer supports all the file types you’ll need - including PSD, PNG, JPEG, and GIF - and is compatible with iPad Air 2 and later.
#BEST MAC APPLICATIONS 2018 PROFESSIONAL#
It’s by far the best graphic design app you can get for the iPad.īuilt with input from leading designers and offering a complete professional vector toolset, Affinity Photo gives you everything you need to create beautiful posters, logos, comics, and more. Serif made waves when it launched Affinity Photo on iOS last year, and in 2018, it followed it up with the spectacular Affinity Designer. Its developer calls 1Blocker X an “essential app for anyone who uses Safari” - and we couldn’t agree more.ĭownload: 1Blocker X Affinity Designer You’ll be amazed by what Affinity Designer can do. Not only does this make browsing the web better, but it also improves websites loading times and battery life. This terrific content blocker lets you control what you see when you use Safari.ġBlocker X lets you eliminate ads entirely, protects your privacy by crushing trackers, and filters out annoyances like subscription boxes. No one likes to see their favorite websites littered with ads and popups, but you don’t have to with 1Blocker X.
#BEST MAC APPLICATIONS 2018 PRO#
By this time next year, I expect iOS for iPad to sport drastic improvements to file management and multitasking it’ll be interesting to see the effect a more powerful iOS will have on the third-party app ecosystem, and if I’ll find myself using fewer apps, more pro tools, or perhaps new and different apps that are impossible to imagine right now.Download: Shortcuts 1Blocker X You shouldn’t use Safari without 1Blocker X.
#BEST MAC APPLICATIONS 2018 SOFTWARE#
As far as the iPad Pro is concerned, it is abundantly clear that the latest hardware is one step ahead of its underlying software platform. What I got wrong last year, and which I’m therefore deferring until iOS 13, was the lack of meaningful software enhancements for iPad and iOS productivity in general.īy and large, iOS 12 was a consumer-oriented release, one focused around improvements to photography, communications apps, and stability – with the exception of the Shortcuts framework. Looking ahead at 2019 and the next WWDC, I fully expect Shortcuts to continue growing and assimilate more functionalities that are still part of apps included in this collection today. That wish paid off with Shortcuts, which, as has been clear from my coverage since September, has allowed me to incorporate more utility apps into Shortcuts as features. I concluded last year’s roundup with an optimistic take on Apple’s then-unknown rethinking of Workflow. I’m glad I switched to Keep It before the summer, and I’m looking forward to major updates in 2019. One of my favorite surprises this year.Ī reimagined Evernote with support for iCloud, iOS automation, rich text and Markdown notes and, more importantly, desktop features such as saved searches and full-text search. iA Writer is a full-featured Markdown text editor with beautiful (and painstakingly crafted) typographic choices and integration with native iOS APIs that are often ignored by other apps, such as ‘Open in Place’ and iCloud versions. Working Copy continues to be one of my essential apps to get work done on iOS.ĭon’t overlook what iA has accomplished with this text editor. Runners-UpĪ remarkable example of what third-party developers can create with the right idea for a pro iOS app, a sustainable business model, and respect for modern iOS technologies and conventions. For these reasons, and thanks to its superb integration with Reminders on iOS, GoodTask is my 2018 App of the Year. GoodTask has helped me make sense of the busiest moments of the past year, and it’s the kind of ingenious app that reminds us (no pun intended) why it’s important to support and celebrate indie developers and their wild, risky, useful ideas. Created with the goal to offer a better Reminders app to iOS users, GoodTask strikes a rare balance of combining power-user functionalities (such as smart lists, themes, and customizable Siri shortcuts) with deep system integration provided by the Reminders framework and background iCloud sync. Fortunately, I came across GoodTask, a masterful blend of power-user task management features and the inherent simplicity of Reminders. When I decided to move back to Apple’s Reminders as my task manager earlier this year, I quickly realized the stock Reminders app wasn’t going to scale to bigger projects such as my iOS 12 review and iPad Diaries series.
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