Lee Peterson recently made the switch back to the iPad from a M1 MacBook Air. In this episode we discuss why he made the switch, how he is using the iPad, and his hopes for future iPad hardware and software. Early episodes with chapter markers are available by supporting the podcast at www.patreon.com/ipadpros. Early episodes are also now available…

Robby Burns is a music educator, freelance percussionist, and technology specialist. He also hosts the Music Ed Tech Talk Podcast. This is his fourth time on the podcast. You can also listen to episode 121 for our deep dive into Dorico and Sibelius on the iPad, episode 130 for our discussion on using the iPad as a music educator, and episode 178 fo…

D. Dames creates tech and lifestyle videos over at YouTube.com/DDames. In this episode we dive deep into his 100th video entitled, “Getting my life together with iPad Pro”. Early episodes with chapter markers are available by supporting the podcast at www.patreon.com/ipadpros. Early episodes are also now available in Apple Podcasts! Subscribe today…

Marcin Wolski is a year into learning Swift. We discuss how he learned Swift using the iPad with Swift Playgrounds and Paul Hudson’s 100 Days of Swift. Bonus content and early episodes with chapter markers are available by supporting the podcast at www.patreon.com/ipadpros. Bonus content and early episodes are also now available in Apple Podcasts! …

Jacob Sam-La Rose was born in London in 1976. He was managing director of a web development studio before becoming a freelance writer and editor. He is the Artistic Director of the London Teenage Poetry SLAM, Editor-in-Chief of Metaroar.com, and an editor for flipped eye press. He also facilitates a range of literature-in-education, creative writin…

Chris Lawley creates videos for his YouTube channel that is all about proving it's possible to work only from an iPad and other iOS devices. He covers everything iPad, automation, and productivity. Final Cut Pro for iPad was released in May of 2023. We dive deep into Final Cut Pro for iPad in this episode; the app he uses to create his videos. Earl…

Eric Bowers is a Mortgage Lender and is also writing a novel in his spare time. In this episode we dive into how he uses the iPad Air 5th generation as his computer to manage his work. Some of the apps discussed include: iA Writer, Tot, Amazon Workspace, Shortcuts, Cardhop, Fantastical, OmniFocus 4, Focus, Linea, OmniOutliner, MindNode, Pcalc, Day …

Wes Hilliard is an Assistant Editor for Apple Insider and the Co-host of the Apple Insider Podcast. Wes began his journey of using the iPad as his primary computer in 2019 and spent two years exclusively relying on the iPad. He gave the 14” M1 MacBook Pro a try but found it to be overkill, opting to return to the iPad as his primary computer. In th…

Matt Birchler is a UI/UX designer at NMI and makes videos over on A Better Computer. Learn more about Matt at www.birchtree.me. Matt joins the podcast once again for our annual non-iPad episode this year diving into a retrospective on the Apple Watch. This episode of iPad Pros is sponsored by Glisten. Glisten is the "Good Listen" podcast app for La…

Ken Case is the CEO of the Omni Group; the creators of OmniFocus, OmniOutliner, OmniGraffle, and OmniPlan. In this episode we dive deep into OmniFocus 4 that launched on December 13th, 2023. This episode is a two-part episode opening with an interview recorded in July of 2021 when the public beta of OmniFocus 4 was released. The second part of the …

Procreate announced earlier this year that they are releasing a new iPad animation app called Procreate Dreams. Well that app is now here and we are joined by John Voorhees from MacStories.net to dive into this brand new app. John had early access to the app and did a great write up on MacStories about his experiences with the app so far. Procreate…

Rob Copeland worked at Microsoft for almost 23 years as an Engineering Manager Executive. He worked on the developer tools from Microsoft including Visual Basic and Visual Studio; he then shifted to working on tablet first features for Windows including the tablet PCs back in 2006 and Windows 8. Rob has used the iPad since it was first released in …

David Sparks is the co-host of Mac Power Users, Focused, and the Automators Podcast. He was on episodes 99 and 126 of this podcast. David is back on to discuss his latest Field Guide for Obsidian. Obsidian can be a scary app for some and in this episode I hope we can make it a bit more approachable. This episode of iPad Pros is sponsored by Agenda,…

A new category of iPad apps now exist with the release of iPadOS 17. The developers of Halide created a new app called Orion that lets you use your iPad as a screen for your Nintendo Switch, PS5, and other gaming consoles. This is an especially fun app with some delightful UI created around this concept of the Orion Operating System. The other huge…

Canis Lupus is the developer of Ferrite Recording Studio and is introducing a brand new app entitled Transcriptionist. Canis was on episodes 34 and 160 of this show to discuss Ferrite Recording Studio. In this episode we are diving deep into Transcriptionist; an on device transcription app that directly integrates with Ferrite. This is an app that …

Matthew Cassinelli is back for our 6th annual catchup on what’s new with Shortcuts! Shortcuts 7 is now available for iPadOS 17, iOS 17, watchOS 10, and macOS Sonoma! If you want to listen to our past episodes; check out episodes 41, 42, 58, 90, 91, 122, 149, and 151. Check out Matthew Cassinelli’s new membership at www.matthewcassinelli.com/members…

In this episode we are joined once again by Matt Birchler of a Better Computer. You can find that along with his other work at www.Birchtree.me. In this episode we will be diving into all of the things announced at Apple’s September 2023 event dubbed by Apple, Wonderlust. This episode of iPad Pros is sponsored by Agenda, the award winning app that …

We are joined once again by Matthew Daley who was on episode 36 of the podcast that aired in October of 2018. He is joined by his brother Michael Daley. They both help run a small family business that you'll hear more about in this episode and we dive into a bunch of different wide ranging topics. They also run the blog iPadProductivity.com and hav…

Robby Burns is a middle school band teacher and host of the Music Ed Tech Talk Podcast. In this episode we take a deep dive into Logic Pro. Bonus content and early episodes with chapter markers are available by supporting the podcast at www.patreon.com/ipadpros. You’ll also be supporting the new Vision Pros Podcast with the single subscription. Bon…

Marc Palmer is the developer of Captionista. He is also the iOS UI Developer of the Concepts app. In this discussion we discuss how he uses Swift Playgrounds, his favorite iPad apps including iA Writer, Working Copy, Notion, LumaFusion, Final Cut Pro, GarageBand, and Logic Pro. We touch on his work at Concepts and dive deep into his awesome caption…

Chance Miller is the Editor-In-Chief at 9to5Mac and with iPadOS 17 is now using the iPad Pro to run 9to5Mac. We discuss his thoughts on iPadOS 17, what it’s like using the Pro Display XDR with the iPad, how he gets work done on the iPad, and some iPad “paper cuts” that are hopefully addressed in future OS updates. We also touch a bit on Apple Visio…

Chris Swaffer is a Product Manager at PreSonus, the creators of the music notation software Notion. Since we last spoke, in episode 4, they’ve had a bunch of software updates including version 3 that launched late last year. In this episode, which was recorded before WWDC, we chat about how he uses the iPad and how Notion has changed since we last …

Milton Davis is a pilot for Hawaiian Airlines. Hawaiian Airlines outfits every pilot with an iPad as their electronic flight bag and has done so for many years now. In this episode, we dive into his background with Apple products, how he got into flying, and his experiences using the iPad as a pilot. Bonus content and early episodes with chapter ma…

Matt Birchler is a UI/UX designer at NMI and makes videos over on A Better Computer. Learn more about Matt at www.birchtree.me. In this episode, you’ll hear our thoughts on all of Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2023. Bonus content and early episodes with chapter markers are available by supporting the podcast at www.patreon.com/ipadpros. Bonus conte…

Apple recently announced the huge news that both Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro are coming to the iPad on May 23rd, 2023. Ashley Xu was one of the few people that got to use Final Cut Pro on the iPad before it was officially announced by Apple, and she was featured in the official introduction video of Final Cut Pro for iPad that you’ll find on Apple’…

Charlie Chapman is the developer of Dark Noise and hosts the Launched podcast. In this episode we discuss how Charlie uses the iPad, his hopes for WWDC 2023, and dive into the latest updates to Dark Noise including the recent update to version 3. Bonus content and early episodes with chapter markers are available by supporting the podcast at www.pa…

Terri Morgan is the Co-Founder and Lead Designer at Luma Touch, the creators of LumaFusion. She was last on episode 3 of this podcast. Since then, a ton of updates have been released for the app, including a huge one just this past week that added the Multicam Studio. In this episode, we dive deep into the Multicam Studio and touch on some of the o…

Zsolt Benke is a developer from Pécs, Hungary; who blogs over at https://decoding.io. We discuss how he uses the iPad Pro and mini including apps like Things, Drafts, DevonThink, and using the iPad with the Apple Studio Display. We close out the discussion by diving into his post from March 16th, “Of course, we need to merge the Mac and the iPad …”…

Agenda takes note taking to the next level, helping you plan projects and prepare for meetings. Setup a note for next week's head-to-head with your biggest client, or begin planning the next phase of a major project. Link your note directly to an event in your calendar, and you'll be fully prepared for anything that comes your way! Agenda 17 brings…

Justin Bianco is the creator of forScore; a sheet music reading app for iPad, iPhone, and the Mac. Version 14 is now available. After a decade of evolution the metadata panel and tuner have been completely replaced, rewritten from scratch to be more flexible, modern, and powerful. Apple Pencil hover detection supercharges the annotation experience,…

DaVinci Resolve is an all in one professional level video editing app that includes color grading, color correction, visual effects, and audio post-production. DaVinci Resolve is available for macOS, Windows, Linux, and now iPadOS. To discuss this brand new version of DaVinci Resolve is Shawn Carlson. Shawn is a Product Specialist at Blackmagic Des…

Devon Dundee is the host of the the Magic Rays of Light podcast all about the Apple TV. In this episode we deep dive into all things iPadOS 16. Bonus content and early episodes with chapter markers are available by supporting the podcast at www.patreon.com/ipadpros. Bonus content and early episodes are also now available in Apple Podcasts! Subscrib…

Ged Maheux is the co-founder of the Iconfactory. In this episode we dive deep into their app Linea Sketch. He was last on the podcast for episode 76 to discuss Tot and was on episode 20 to chat about version 2 of Linea Sketch. In this episode, we discuss all of the updates since version 2 including last week’s update to version 4.2. Learn more abou…

Matt Birchler from BirchTree.me and A Better Computer on YouTube is back on the show. He was previously on episodes 74, 92, 114, 123, 131, 143, and 150. In this episode we touch on a bunch of different topics including Mastodon, RSS, the Sony Inzone M9 monitor, subscriptions, Matt’s move to Todoist, Letterboxd, and Adobe’s AI Voice Enhancement beta…

Stephen Robles joins us from Apple Insider. He was last on for episode 133. In this episode we touch on a bunch of different topics including HomeKit, networking, the M2 iPad Pro, Ferrite 3, Network Attached Storage, DaVinci Resolve versus Final Cut, and Password Management. You can find his videos at YouTube.com/@BeardFM Bonus content and early ep…

Allison Sheridan is the host of the NosillaCast and Chit Chat Across the Pond. We dive into how she uses the iPad Pro, how she struggles to find a use for her iPad mini, and how she uses the Synology. Live Video Recording: https://youtu.be/t_uvxQJKJF0 Bonus content and early episodes with chapter markers are available by supporting the podcast at w…

Ferrite Recording Studio is the app this podcast is edited with. It is an audio editing app available exclusively for iPad and iPhone and focuses on spoken word audio. Canis is the developer behind Ferrite and is back on the podcast to discuss version 3 of the app. Canis was last on for episode 34 in September 2018. Bonus content and early episodes…

Nik Bhatt founded Gentlemen Coders in 2016, As an 18 year veteran of Apple, his roles in the Photo Apps group included Senior Director of Engineering and Chief Technical Officer. He also led the RAW Camera and Core Image teams, as well as the imaging team for the Mac version of Photos. He holds 55 patents in a wide range of disciplines including im…

Serif recently announced version 2 of all of their apps are now available including Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher. This marks the first time Affinity Publisher is available on the iPad. On this episode to discuss these new apps is Denny Henke; who was on episode 30 of this show to discuss the original Affinity apps for iPad. Bonus content…

In this episode, we continue to deep dive into the photography world with Andrius Gailiunas from Pixelmator. In this discussion we cover a lot of ground focusing mainly on Pixelmator Photo. We last spoke for episode 49 when the company had just launched Pixelmator Photo; so a lot to catch up on in this episode. Bonus content and early episodes with…

In this episode, we continue to deep dive into the photography world with the co-founder of Darkroom, Majd Taby. Darkroom is a unique photo editing tool as it can also be used for video color grading, and can non-destructively edit Live Photos. It also has features like Masking that are super hard to implement if you aren’t Adobe or a company of th…

Casey Liss of the Accidental Tech Podcast and Analog(ue) joins me to discuss becoming a Dad. This episode was recorded 9 days after becoming a first time Dad. We dive into general new dad advice, baby tech, baby photography, photo management, uses of the Synology, and why parents might want a GoPro. Bonus content and early episodes with chapter mar…

Brent Clark and Tim Chaten break down all of the announcements Apple made on October 18th, 2022; including the Apple TV 4K (3rd generation), the 10th Generation iPad, and the M2 iPad Pros. Bonus content and early episodes with chapter markers are available by supporting the podcast at www.patreon.com/ipadpros. Bonus content and early episodes are a…

Welcome to a very special episode this episode is being released in celebration of me becoming a first time dad and having one less thing to worry about recording when she does arrive. So this episode is all about baby tech and baby photography and joining me is another expectant first time dad, Andrew O’Hara from Apple Insider. Bonus content and e…

This episode kicks off a new photography and photo editing series for iPad Pros! If you have a photography story to share please reach out to be on a future episode! In this episode is Rishi Ó. He is a photographer in Taiwan and is all in on the iPhone and Pixelmator Photo on the iPad Pro. We dive into his capture and editing style and deep dive in…

Matthew Cassinelli is back for our 5th annual catchup on what’s new with Shortcuts! In this second part we dive deep on what’s new with Shortcuts for iPadOS 16, iOS 16, MacOS Ventura, and watchOS 9. This includes a super awesome tip on how to control your iPad with your Apple Watch! If you want to listen to our past episodes; check out episodes 41,…

Matt Birchler and Tim Chaten dive deep into Apple’s Far Out event where the company announced several Apple Watches including the Series 8, SE 2, and Ultra plus the AirPods Pro 2, and the iPhone 14 lineup. Bonus content and early episodes with chapter markers are available by supporting the podcast at www.patreon.com/ipadpros. Bonus content and ear…

Matthew Cassinelli is back for our 5th annual catchup on what’s new with Shortcuts! In this first part we catchup on how he sees the iPad, all of the updates Apple rolled out after the initial releases for Shortcuts last year, and begin our discussion on what’s new with Shortcuts for iPadOS 16, iOS 16, MacOS Ventura, and watchOS 9. If you want to l…

In this episode Brent Clark and Tim Chaten do a deep dive on Apple’s Reminders app. You can follow Brent on Twitter (@brentacPrime). Bonus content and early episodes with chapter markers are available by supporting the podcast at www.patreon.com/ipadpros. Bonus content and early episodes are also now available in Apple Podcasts! Subscribe today to …

Niall Daly is a business coach and longtime iPad Pro power user. He was last on this podcast for episode 23. We catch up with how his setup has changed in those past four years including discussions on pointer support, the Apple Pencil, Shortcuts, and his usage of Drafts, Concepts, Muse, and Things. Check out BackPocket-CFO.com for more on his coac…