Movies
Air Video - Watch your videos anywhere!
Stream movies stored on your PC or Mac in any format.Download $2.99
Showyou
Innovative video browser with tons of free content, pulls from various channels and social sources.Download
Audio
GarageBand
Apple's own superb music making software, now on iPad with full suite of interactive and intuitive instruments.Download $4.99
SoundHound ∞
Live music identification through the microphone, and lyrics for you to sing along!Download $6.99
Browsers and Internet
eBay for iPad
A great way to view this popular auction site, with clear visuals and notifications of auctions ending soon.Download
AppShopper
Keep up to date with new free apps and price drops / app sales with this useful app.Download
Opera Mini Web browser
An alternative web browser that compresses pages for faster browsing.Download
Drawing
Adobe Ideas
Gorgeous vector-based auto-smoothing drawing tool from the makers of Photoshop.Download $5.99
Draw for iPad
Fabulously simple and feels just like a drawing pad with pencils, perfect for kids.Download
SketchBook Pro for iPad
The ultimate drawing app for professional artists, with a wide variety of brushes. Results can be stunning.Download $4.99
Photography
The Guardian Eyewitness
A stunning new image everyday that showcases photography talent and events the world over. A visual smorgasbord.Download
Photobucket for iPad
Great way to browse and upload to the Photobucket service, focusing on the photos as it should.Download
Finance
XE Currency for iPad
Currency conversion, stats and graphs for anyone into playing the exchange rates.Download
News / Reading
Reeder for iPad
Hands-down best Google feed-reader on the iPad, so simple yet feature packed.Download $4.99
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Zite Personalized Magazine
Another personalized news reader that learns your preferences the more you use it.Download
Kindle – Read Books, Magazines & More – Over 1 Million eBooks & Newspapers
A must-have for Kindle owners, but otherwise lacklustre.Download
iBooks
An essential for all iPad owners. Store your MakeUseOf PDF guides in this app easily!Download
Educational / Reference
Qwiki
Like a sci-fi movie - search for anything, and it will read a description to you, including images if it finds some. Wikipedia on steroids.Download
Productivity
Evernote
The de-facto standard for note-taking and organisation. Hundreds of amazing features too numerous to list.Download
PlainText - Dropbox text editing
Pure plain text editor that does what it says on the can. Also, can edit directly from your Dropbox.Download
Dragon Dictation
Top quality speech recognition from the industry leaders, at a price you cannot beat.Download
Nebulous Notes (for Dropbox)
Simple text writer that edits straight from your Dropbox.Download $3.99
GoodNotes - Take Notes & Annotate PDF docs w/ Dropbox
Perfect for taking handwritten notes and annotating PDFs during class. Lacking voice recording, if that's essentialDownload $3.99
Remote Control / Remote Access
Parallels Mobile
Free for registered desktop users, this lets you access your virtual machines anywhere.Download $4.99
TeamViewer HD for Remote Control
The choice of technical support professionals everywhere due to ease of use on both ends of the connection.Download
Splashtop Remote Desktop for iPad
Performance so good you can stream graphically intense games from your PC, no problem.Download $4.99
Mocha VNC Lite
Free, cross-platform standard client for open-source VNC-based connections. Reliable, but slow.Download
Social
Skype for iPad
Take advantage of that Facetime camera with free video chat over Wifi and 3GDownload
Vtok - Google talk video and voice calls, text chat, phone and SMS
Another free video caller, the one works with GTalk.Download
MyPad - for Facebook & Twitter
The best combined Facebook and Twitter client, with both games and chat chat too.Download
FriendCaster for Facebook
Innovative friend-stream mode gives you live updates in a photoframe style.Download
Gorgeous location sharing app with nice clear maps of check-ins.
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AIM for iPad
The swiss-army of social apps: chat on multiple networks, checkin with FourSquare, and status updates all over. Phew!Download
GetGlue for iPad
Social check-in for movies, tv and books. Collect badges and discover new content.Download
Travel
FlightTrack Pro – Live Flight Status Tracker by Mobiata
Fly a lot? Use this to track your flights and keep informed with helpful notifications.Download $9.99
London Cycle Deluxe
Map of London's cycle hire scheme with stations and live updates. UK-only.Download
Thrillist for iPad
Hand-picked restaurant and bar reviews for London and various US cities. Innovative carousel interface.Download
Health
Diet & Fitness Tracker by SparkPeople for iPad
Fantastically visual version of the popular health tracking website.Download
iPeriod Free for iPad (Period Calendar)
Period and fertility tracker with community site access.Download
Games
Flight Control HD
An addictive game that sees you landing aircraft in an ever increasingly packed airspace.Download $4.99
Hunters: Episode One HD
Top-down turn-based action/RPG. If you liked X-Com, you'll love this.Download $6.99
Pocket Legends (3D MMO)
Free to play massively multiplayer online RPG for when you fancy a break from World of Warcraft.Download
Angry Birds Rio HD Free
Catapult birds at the pigs and try to topple their house. What doesn't sound fantastic about this game?Download
Peggle
This game sees you release a flurry of metal balls to hit all the pegs. Supremely satisfying.Download $2.99
Labyrinth 2 HD Lite
Tilt and rotate your way out of the maze. Great for kids and adults alike, and free.Download
Cut the Rope Lite
Cut the rope to deliver candy to the little monster. Not as easy as it sounds!Download
