



Thankfully the iPad is well catered-for when it comes to the sort of productivity apps you'll need. Fact is, you're going to need to take care of the business side too that admin won't do itself and those clients will still need chasing up for payment. You may well have the creative side sorted, but there's more to running a creative business than that. IWork Numbers makes spreadsheets fun! Well, as close to fun as you get with spreadsheets Serif's Affinity Photo (opens in new tab) and Designer (opens in new tab) can comfortably stand in for Photoshop and Illustrator, and at a fraction of the price. The good news is that Photoshop CC is coming to the iPad (opens in new tab) at some point, and it'll be the full Photoshop experience, not a cut-down version like Illustrator Draw when that arrives it could change everything, and if Adobe could follow up with the rest of everyone's go-to CC apps then that would be lovely.įor now, though, you'll have to do your best with what's available, and there's a very good selection of iPad apps for designers (opens in new tab) available to fill the Adobe CC gap. The real sticking point when it comes to the iPad ecosystem is that you can't get the full Adobe Creative Cloud apps for it if you're absolutely wedded to Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and the rest then you're stuck with a PC or Mac, or perhaps you could try the Surface Pro. Affinity Designer gives Illustrator more than a run for its money
