With over 187,000 users, Mural.ly is a way to virtually collaborate, creatively. Designed with creative professionals in mind, this software allows users to gather images, websites, audio and other multimedia to place together on a scrollable workspace that, like Prezi, expands both vertically and horizontally. It breeds beautiful brainstorming, creative organization, and group collaboration. Pricing ranges from free to $5/month for a Pro Subscription to $10/user/month for a Organization subscription.
A winner of this year’s Evernote DevCup for “best technical integration,” Hop.in is a free app exclusive for iPad and iPad Mini that lets users clip any digital inspiration from the web to their private or public profile– which is integrated with Evernote, Twitter, and Facebook. Saving anything from GIFs, to videos, to text from Hop.in’s built-in browser is as simple and quick as a double click, thus providing the most effective way to save any and all inspirational, web-based content from an iPad.
Designed by artists, this iPad app allows its users to find and develop their inner creativity with Tayasui Sketches’ seemingly real responsive canvas for drawing, watercolor-like painting, and handwriting. Strokes are nearly identical to that of a brush, adapting to the pressure, angle, and width of one’s movements. The app allows its users to import images to draw over, and lets one draw layer upon layer, undoing or redoing anything until the drawing is done.
Flowboard is a beautiful mix between a photo gallery and a power point software that allows its users to create flowboards, scrapbooks, or presentations that result in visually compelling works that are incredibly simple to create. With prefabricated templates and integration with cloud-based services like Dropbox and Google Drive, Flowboard provides the user a natural sense of control that makes it dead easy to arrange each word and image with “pixel-perfect precision.
For younger students, Hopskotch is an iPad app that allows kids to program their own games and animations, letting their creativity run wild while learning the basics of programming. The programming language Hopskotch uses works with drag and drop scripts that activate when “play” is pressed. As the students advance, they can add more features and custom events to run their code. Inspired by MIT’s Scratch, the app is ranked #6 in the AppStore’s Education section and is recommended for students aged eight and up.
Written by Brenna who works with Hop.in, a SFO-based software company that builds apps for iPad.
