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If you aren't into drawing, what about music? You can download GarageBand for free and it's pretty great once you figure it out.

Or if you aren't a music person, are you into making movies? Final Cut Pro does have a subscription, but it's only $5 / month and the subscription is easy to start and stop. If your needs are simple, the free iMovie is pretty good.

Or maybe video isn't your thing. Are you a writer or poet? There are a lot of great choices for writing apps and the battery life of the iPad means you can work away from your desk all day.

Or if you like writing software, Swift Playground is fun. I found this to be a great resource:

https://github.com/uraimo/Awesome-Swift-Playgrounds

If you are into photography, Affinity Photo is fun. It doesn't have the AI features that Photoshop has, but for amateurs, it can get you pretty far. Plug in an external drive to your iPad and you can use it with a huge photo library.



All of this is cool...but you can do them all on a laptop and you'll probably have a better time.

And those cheap/free things are only available after dropping $1000 on a new iPad


The person I replied to already has the iPad.

As for having a better time on the laptop, YMMV. My iPad is my most used computer by a mile.




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