The iOS apps listed below are simply the best currently available for the iPad and they are all highly rated. Some of these iPad apps are not well known—a few under-appreciated and or rare iOS gems are included in this list. the iPad apps presented here are in no order of importance.

Repost of a blog written in April of 2009. New-found relevancy with the launch of the iPad just days away… Cannot afford Apple’s new iPad? Well, Apple also has a lower-powered, pocketable, iPad Mini available for less than $200. If you thought an iPod Touch was just for music, its time you take another look [...]