#best ipad apps

Google Play’s Best of 2025 highlights the apps that defined how people learned, created, stayed healthy, and connected this year. Below is a concise look at the best apps of 2025 and what each brings to the table. I un-boxed the iPad last night and downloaded some free iPad apps as well as the paid apps I bought for my iPhone. The Apps The iPad-specific apps are just amazing as they maximize the screen real estate. As I write this review, iPad-specific apps are still very few and number only in the hundreds. However, Apple says all of the 185,000 iPhone apps on the App Store can also be installed and used on the iPad (there could be a few that's not completely compatible though). More iPad apps are being developed but for the meantime, the iPhone apps can still fill the entire screen using a zoom-in function (the 2x zoom does make the graphics more pixelated). My biggest beef so far is that iPad apps are way more expensive than the regular iPhone apps. Read more in our articles including "Apple announces winners for its 2022 App Store Awards" and "Here are the list of Google Play’s Best Apps of 2025".