There's even an internal 'Split View', for simultaneously smashing out a screenplay while peering at research. You get a powerful 'binder' sidebar for organizing notes and documents, while the main view area enables you to write and structure text, or to work with index cards on a cork board. Bar some simplification regarding view and export options, it's essentially the same app. On iPad, Scrivener is, astonishingly, almost identical to its desktop cousin. Everything's always within reach, and your work can constantly be rethought, reorganised, and reworked. The feature-rich app provides all kinds of ways to write, even incorporating research documents directly into projects. On the desktop, Scrivener is widely acclaimed as the writer's tool of choice. Our favorite iPad apps for writing, email, editing PDFs, spreadsheets, coding and file management.
The best office and writing apps for iPad And if you do mostly use an iPhone for listening, Overcast automatically syncs your podcasts and progress, so you can always pick up where you left off. Playlists can be straightforward in nature, or quite intricate, automatically boosting favourites to the top of the list, and excluding specific episodes. It's the one podcast app we've used that retains plenty of clarity when playback is sped up and there are clever effects for removing dead air and boosting vocals in podcasts with lower production values. The big plusses with Overcast, though, remain playback and podcast management. On the left, episodes are listed, and the current podcast loads into the larger space on the right. We're big fans of Overcast on Apple's smaller devices, but the app makes good use of the iPad's extra screen space, with a smart two-column display. But that doesn't mean you should ignore your favourite shows when armed with an iPad rather than an iPhone. Podcasts are mostly associated with small portable devices - after all, the very name is a mash-up of 'iPod' and 'broadcast'.