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Best Business Apps for the iPad Pro

The iPad Pro with its processing power and giant screen can now be seen as a good alternative to working on a standard laptop. To maximize productivity and use it to its full potential, you need to use business apps. This article showcases a few of our favourite business apps for iPad Pro that let you increase productivity, improve workflows, and manage time effectively.
Microsoft-365-updated-Computing Australia Group
It’s the best Office suite out there, with wide functionality. It allows you to preserve the formatting while converting between file types, which is important while working with office documents. Being a cloud-based application, Microsoft 365 stores all your documents in the cloud, and you can access and work on documents across multiple devices. All you need is to login to your Microsoft account and you are good to go.
Type Price Subscription
Microsoft 365 Personal AUD $109.00 12-Month Subscription
Microsoft 365 Family AUD $139.00 12-Month Subscription; up to 6 People
Microsoft 365 Business Standard AUD $224.40(Approx) One-Year Subscription
Dragon Dictation-Computing Australia Group
The most accurate professional-grade dictation service available on the market. Create templates, add custom words, and instantly dictate your documents – Dragon Anywhere will automatically adapt to how you speak. Tired of typing out documents or emails? Use this app to convert your spoken words into text on your iPad screen. It is a great productivity tool as it is faster than typing out on your keyboard. And what’s more, you can easily multitask; speak while your hands are busy on another task. Handy for all the multi-taskers out there!

Features

Type Price Subscription
Dragon Anywhere AUD $22.99 Monthly
Dragon Anywhere AUD $229.99 Annual
Drop box-Computing Australia Group

Dropbox is a popular cloud application to store your files and documents. One of the reasons why it’s so popular is the easy syncing that it allows between devices. This is great if you work on multiple devices.

Features

Type Price Subscription
Dropbox Plus AUD $18.69 Monthly
Dropbox Plus AUD $184.67 Annual
Dropbox Family AUD $31.89 Monthly
Dropbox Family AUD $323.27 Annual
Dropbox Professional AUD $30.79 Monthly
Dropbox Professional AUD $306.90 Annual
Bitrix24-Computing Australia Group
Bitrix24 is an online workspace with a suite of business tools, is primarily designed for teams. This is especially helpful in the current lockdown situation. It has tools for collaboration, project management, document handling, employee management, instant messaging, an excellent CRM and more. This app provides convenient access via the mobile app.
Type
Free App
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Genius Scan is a document scanner app in your pocket. Quickly scan your paper documents on the go and export them as multi-page PDF files.

This app lets you convert pictures of documents into PDFs. You can take pictures of documents with the iPad camera and the app converts into PDF by drawing a frame around it. It also lets you modify the frame to suit your need and export it as a PDF or JPG. An extremely useful app for sending documents if you are not near a scanner; or for reducing paper documents. Scan, import, convert and save to Dropbox. Done.

Place any document in front of your device’s camera: our scanner app automatically recognizes the paper against the background, crops it, and cleans up the result. You obtain a crisp, legible scan. Batch scanning lets you scan dozens of pages in a matter of seconds. Powerful tools help you organize, share, or archive your documents.

Type Price
Genius Scan Ultra AUD $7.99 (Monthly)
Genius Scan Ultra AUD $59.99 (Yearly)
Genius Scan+ AUD $14.99
Genius Scan Plus AUD $1.49 (Monthly)
Genius Scan Plus AUD $15.49 (Yearly)
Small Tip AUD $1.99
Generous Tip AUD $4.99
Super Large Tip AUD $14.99

6. Evernote

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Evernote is a popular project management and organisation app. This app helps to organise projects efficiently and make team collaboration easy. Evernote lets you manage information and store all information in one place. The greatest advantage of this app is that it can be used across platforms so, anything done on your iPad gets automatically reflected wherever you access this app.

Type Price
Evernote Personal AUD $17.99 (Monthly)
Evernote Personal AUD $159.99 (Yearly)
Evernote Professional AUD $22.49 (Monthly)
Evernote Professional AUD $209.99 (Yearly)

7. 1Password

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1Password remembers all your passwords for you, and keeps them safe and secure behind the one password that only you know.

1Password: the password manager that’s as beautiful and simple as it is secure. Just add your passwords and let 1Password do the rest. Sign in to websites and apps with just a few taps, and use the password generator to change your passwords and make them stronger.

Type Price
Individual Monthly Subscription AUD $5.99
Individual Annual Subscription AUD $51.99
Family Monthly Subscription AUD $10.49
Family Annual Subscription AUD $86.99
Teams Monthly Subscription AUD $30.99
Teams Annual Subscription AUD $369.99
splashtop-Computing Australia Group

Remotely access your desktop computer from anywhere to enjoy games, movies, and music on the go.

Enjoy high-definition audio and 4K video streaming in real-time by remotely accessing your powerful main computer from your mobile device. Simple to set up and use, you’ll be able to access games, videos, and music just as you were sitting in front of your computer. Built with performance and security in mind, you’ll have a seamless, secure experience every time.

Features

Type Price Subscription
Productivity Pack AUD $2.99 Single time
Anywhere Access Pack AUD $6.99 Monthly
Anywhere Access Pack AUD $26.99 Yearly

9. TripIt

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If you travel for business purposes, organizing your travel plans is important to ensure that you have not missed anything. It is time-consuming, and many people find it cumbersome. If that is you, then TripIt is the app for you. It helps organize your travel plans by keeping all information in one place and letting you see a summary in one glance. You just need to forward your travel confirmation emails, and TripIt will create a custom itinerary.
Type Price Subscription
TripIt Pro AUD $77.99 1 Year

10. Photoleap

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Photoleap is an excellent app for busy e-commerce entrepreneurs, bloggers orbusiness owners who take a lot of pictures to be used on websites or socialmedia. This app lets you touch up your images to make them high-quality.

The app has a host of features that let you work on your images like a pro –convert images to street art, doodle on image, reshape objects, create photocollages and, remove defects, and much more.Endless options to create stunningpictures! Enhance and adjust, blend or animate your photos, or use AI to makeart and create other worldy scenes.Transform your images with Photoleap, themost powerful photo editing app on the market!

Type Price
Unlimited access AUD $9.99
Photofox unlimited access AUD $13.49

11. Shortcuts

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Siri Shortcuts deliver a quick way to get things done with your apps with just a tap or by asking Siri. The Shortcuts app enables you to create personal shortcuts with multiple steps from your favorite apps. Start from hundreds of examples in the Gallery or drag and drop to create your own.

Shortcuts includes over 300 built-in actions and works with many of your favorite apps including Contacts, Calendar, Maps, Music, Photos, Camera, Reminders, Safari, Health as well as any app that supports Siri Shortcuts.

Type
Free App

12. FileMaster

FileMaster is a file manager, document viewer, video/audio player, text editor,and more for iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch.Transfer files from your computer, carrythem around with you, and share them with your friends.

Using FileMaster is easy. Just long-press on a file or folder icon to display a popupmenu. Simply tap your selection and you’re ready to go. You can tap on thescreen to copy, paste, create folders and so on.There’s no need to worry aboutthe security of FileMaster, either Your files can be accessed remotely with apassword or locally with a master passcode. No one but you will see what’s inyour FileMaster.

Type Price
ADS free AUD $3.97 (Approx)
OfficeTime is an amazingly intuitive time tracker. Where other time keepers are clumsy or oversimplified, OfficeTime balances features and ease of use, allowing you to easily track exactly what you do each day. Effortlessly capture your hours and expenses. Easily track your projects and life. Designed for freelancers and small teams.Wirelessly sync with OfficeTime for Mac or PC (sold separately) for easy invoicing and much more.

Features

Type Price
OfficeTime Keeper Pro AUD $12.99

TunnelBear is a simple VPN app that helps you browse the Internet privately and securely. TunnelBear changes your IP and protects your browsing data from online threats, letting you access your favourite websites and apps worldwide.

If you travel a lot, chances are that you end up using public Wi-Fi hotspots or unsecured networks and security is a concern. TunnelBear VPN solves this problem; it provides adequate protection, and it’s quite simple to install and use. The user interface is clean, and even people who are not tech-savvy can use this app with ease. One useful feature is that this app allows you to choose the country which you want to browse from the app’s list. This lets you work around the restrictions that the country you are visiting may have on some sites.

Type Price
Monthly AUD $14.49
Giant AUD $11.99
Unlimited data for any 5 devices AUD $10.99
Grizzly Tunnelbear AUD $87.99
Grizzly AUD $72.99
Unlimited data for any 5 devices AUD $79.99

15. Instapaper

Instapaper is the simplest way to save and store articles for reading: offline, on-the-go, anytime, anywhere, perfectly formatted.

Instapaper for macOS provides an optimized text view that makes reading Internet content a clean and uncluttered experience. Instapaper also enhances the standard reading experience with features like text-to-speech

Instapaper has been inducted into the iPhone and iPad Hall of Fame, received Macworld Editor’s Choice Award, and has also been featured in publications including Wired, TIME, Daring Fireball, and The Verge, among others.

Features

Type Price Subscription
Instapaper Premium AUD $9.99 Monthly
Instapaper Premium AUD $99.99 Yearly

16. iA Writer

If you are looking for a minimalistic and distraction-free writing app, then iA Writer is the best option for you. It is perfect for short-form writers and for those who use plain text or Markdown to write. You can also activate focus mode to help concentrate on the work at hand. This app supports Markdown and lets you export content to Medium and WordPress directly. You can also store and access documents in iCloud or Dropbox.

Type Price
iA Writer AUD AUD $79.99

Fantastical is the award-winning calendar app with powerful features including intuitive natural language text parsing, beautiful full calendar day, week, month, quarter and year views, tasks, time zone support, and much much more.It allows you to view your day, week, and month schedule at once.

The sidebar will keep you updated on your events and reminders. It also lets you connect to the Reminders app. You can upload files or images directly from Fantastical Calendar to iCloud, Google, or Exchange events making it easier for accessing it.

Type Price Subscription
Flexibits Premium AUD $9.99 Monthly
Flexibits Premium AUD $99.99 Yearly
Premium for Families AUD $17.99 Monthly
Premium for Families AUD $149.99 Yearly

18. Mailchimp

Mailchimp is one of the most widespread email marketing apps out there. It allows you to promote your business across email, social, landing pages, postcards, and more. The app includes a landing page builder, list segmentation, retargeting ads, customer journey mapping, marketing automation, and even A/B testing – all available in their free plan. Access the tools you need wherever your work takes you and get up and running in minutes – no experience needed. With Mailchimp, you’ll never miss an opportunity to make a sale, bring customers back, find new subscribers, or share your brand’s mission.

Use Mailchimp for:

Type Price Subscription
Premium Starts at AUD $513.22 Monthly for 10,000 contacts
Standard Starts at AUD $29.99 Monthly for 500 contacts
Essentials Starts at AUD $19.06 Monthly for 500 contacts
Free AUD $0 For 500 contacts

19. iWork

iWork is Apple’s suite of productivity apps that include three apps – Pages,Numbers, and Keynote. Pages is a word processor, Numbers a spreadsheet app,and Keynote is for slideshows, you can create and edit files and documents withthese apps. iWork also has collaborative features allowing you to work on adocument, spreadsheet or presentation with others remotely. In addition, it isavailable on all Apple devices and the web.
Type Price
iWork Free

HotSchedules is the industry’s leading employee scheduling app because it’s thefastest and easiest way to manage your schedule and communicate with yourteam. Team members love it because they can swap, pick-up or release shiftswith one click. Work-life balance is easily managed with automatic shift pick-upswhen you want more hours and time off requests for when you don’t. Calendarsync and notifications keep your Schedules, and the roster automatically updatedto your phone with any manager-approved changes.

NOTE: The HotSchedules application requires a valid HotSchedules user accountthrough your employer

Type Price
HotSchedules AUD $4.99
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Leave your laptop behind. Enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere.

Jump Desktop is a remote desktop application that lets you securely connect to anycomputer in the world. Compatible with both RDP and VNC, Jump Desktop is secure,reliable and very easy to set up. Jump Desktop also supports our own, highperformance, next generation remote desktop protocol called Fluid Remote Desktop.

Type Price Subscription
Jump Desktop App AUD $22.99 Monthly
Jump Desktop Teams Pro AUD $12.49 per user Monthly
AUD $119.88 per user Annual
Jump Desktop Teams Enterprise AUD $24.49 per user Monthly
AUD $233.88 per user Annual
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FTPManager Pro is a fully featured FTP client that allows you to access files onFTP servers. Directly access and manage remote files, edit text files. Streamvideos and music to your iPhone/iPad. Transfer files between iPhone/iPad andFTP server.

Features

Type Price
FTPManager Pro AUD $4.99

23.  MyBlindCO

MyBlindCO-Computing Australia Group
MyBlindCo is an all in one calendar and quoting software designed for WindowCovering professionals. Allows users to manage their schedule and To Dos, createquotes and receive signed off orders in the field quickly and accurately,it alsoprocesses credit card payments. MyBlindCo has a workflow manager, itmaintains customer database, appointments, mapping to customer location andimports orders/estimates into QuickBooks Online and Desktop, it Integrates withGoogle calendar.
Type Price
MyBlindCO AUD $17.99
PrintCentral-Pro-Computing Australia Group
The Ultimate File Management, Transfer and Print solution for the iPad. Print toALL printers (Not just AirPrint Printers). View, store & print email, documents &PDFs, all major cloud servers, attachments, photos, contacts & web pages.Convert documents and images to PDF files. Also print from inside other app e.g.Safari, Photos & more
Type Price
PrintCentral Pro AUD $7.99

25. Slack

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Slack is a powerful communication and collaboration tool that helps teams stayconnected and organized. With features like direct messaging, channel-basedcommunication, file sharing, and integrations with various apps like Google Driveand Zoom, Slack allows teams to streamline their workflows. It’s ideal for remoteteams and businesses of all sizes to stay on the same page, even when spreadacross different time zones
Type Price Subscription
Slack Pro AUD $9.50 Monthly
Slack Business AUD $17.25 Monthly
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Notability is one of the most versatile note-taking apps available, perfect for iPadPro users who use the Apple Pencil. It allows you to combine handwriting,photos, and typing in one place, making it an ideal tool for business meetings,brainstorming sessions, and personal organisation. You can also import andannotate PDFs, making it an excellent app for reviewing documents.
Type Price Subscription
Notability Plus AUD $7.99 Monthly
AUD $22.99 Annual
Notability Plus Family AUD $14.99 Monthly
AUD $79.99 Annual
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QuickBooks is an essential app for businesses, offering easy-to-use tools formanaging finances. With the QuickBooks app, you can track expenses, createinvoices, and monitor cash flow right from your iPad. The app syncs withQuickBooks Online, making it easy to manage your business’s accountinganytime, anywhere.

Type Price Subscription
QuickBooks Online AUD $29.99 Monthly
Simple Start AUD $19.99 Monthly

28. Trello

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Trello is a visual project management tool that uses boards, lists, and cards tohelp you manage projects and tasks. Whether working on a solo project orcollaborating with a team, Trello lets you organise tasks, set due dates, and integrate with apps like Slack, Google Drive, and more. Trello’s flexibility makesit great for everything from project management to personal productivity. Trello is a visual project management tool that uses boards, lists, and cards tohelp you manage projects and tasks. Whether working on a solo project orcollaborating with a team, Trello lets you organise tasks, set due dates, and integrate with apps like Slack, Google Drive, and more. Trello’s flexibility makesit great for everything from project management to personal productivity.
Type Price Subscription
Trello Premium AUD $17.99 Monthly

29. Asana

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Asana is a task management and project tracking app that helps teamscoordinate and manage their work effectively. With features like taskassignments, deadlines, and integrations with other tools such as Slack andGoogle Drive, Asana helps businesses streamline their workflows and improveteam collaboration. Ideal for managing both personal tasks and large-scaleprojects
Type Price Subscription
Asana Premium AUD $13.99 Monthly
Asana Business AUD $30.99 Monthly
GoodNotes 5 is an excellent note-taking app designed for the iPad Pro and worksseamlessly with the Apple Pencil. You can create and organise handwritten notes,annotate PDFs, and convert handwriting into text. It’s especially useful forbusiness users who need to organise meetings, create to-do lists, and managedocuments in a digital format.
Type Price Subscription
Goodnotes 6 AUD $44.99 One-Time Payment
AUD $14.99 Annual
These are our picks for the best business apps for your iPad Pro to utilise it at its full potential. You can consider using the iPad Pencil to enhance the experience.
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Article originally published on 03/07/2020
Updated on 09/07/2021 – added apps and revised pricing
Updated on 20/02/2024 – added apps and revised pricing
Updated on 15/10/2024 – added apps and revised pricing

Jargon Buster

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