What is going on, everybody?
I am, Mike, welcome back to Tech 24/7 TV, I am so glad that
you are with me today because we're talking about apps for
the iPad Mini six.
Now, if you're like me and you love the size and portability
of this device, but you're really having trouble finding
apps that accentuate those features, you are in the
right place because I'm going to talk about apps that make
the iPad Mini worth it, and they really play into
using this device.
Now, if that sounds like it's something for you,
let's get started.
All the apps I talk about in today's video will be linked in
the video description below.
Today's video is broken out into different sections
covering productivity,
creativity, and really just for fun or entertainment.
For full transparency, I've either paid for the app or
the subscription to the app myself, and none of this
content is sponsored.
Now, on that note, I would like to make this a recurring
series for you.
So if you want to see my favorite apps, I'm going on
a monthly basis, let me know down in the comments below.
Let's talk about what my thought process is about, how I
determine whether this app is going to stay on
my device permanently.
I download and try a lot of different apps.
Some of those apps are free.
Some of those apps have a cost component, whether it's a
one-time purchase or whether it's a recurring purchase.
And when I look for an app, I'm looking to excel and really
take away the friction with one part of my workflow,
whatever that may be.
Now, since I'm using my iPad Mini, this device is
always with me, and if I'm at home, I'm carrying it with
me from room to room.
If I'm out and about, it's going in my day bag and
I'm carrying with me there.
So I'm using this as a proxy device to my iPhone.
Now, if I can find an app that can simplify my workflow and
get me or net me more free time to do something else or to do
another task that is right up my alley, that's what I
like to see.
First up, is going to be craft for the iPad.
This is really one of my favorite apps that I've really
gotten into over the past four or five months.
Craft is a cross-platform document management application
that's available for the Mac, iPad, iPhone, and it even has a
web component that's going to be available in beta
right now.
Now, if you're like me, you might want to use crack if
you ever want to create like a repository for anything that
you'd want to reference later on, such as notes,
best practices, operating procedures this is
the app you should consider checking out.
I use this really as a single source of truth for everything
that I do in my personal and professional life.
Now, the top three features are going to be first.
It is highly flexible, allowing you to structure your
content in a number of different ways,
including something resembling a wiki.
Second, you can create backlinks to any existing
documents or existing blocks that you have inside
of your library.
And third, it supports integration with several
different apps like drafts and OmniFocus, while also
supporting sharing and collaboration.
As for how much it costs, it is free to download.
There is a free plan that gives you limited functionality with
how much information that you could store in there, and there
is a paid subscription that is 44 99 per year.
Now, next up is going to be an app that I use
for brainstorming, for collection organizing,
and it's mine.
Now I am a very visual thinker, as I mentioned
in my 90-day review of the iPad Pro, and I really use my
note as a way to document ideas and then flesh them out in such
a way where it makes sense to me.
Now I know it works well on the iPad Mini one because the iPad
Mini is just so small, but two because it supports
the Apple Pencil.
You can write in with my note you can use the Apple Pencil
to organize, and it really just feels natural using it
on this device.
Now, in terms of how much it cost is two dollars and forty
nine cents per month for the subscription, or you can
pay annually and it's $20 a month.
I think we're Excel's is going to be the widgets that you can
put on your home screen, for instance.
I have a widget here on the home screen, which is going to
show me all my different mine maps, and I can have quick
links into those my mama, if I wanted to edit one or even
create a new one.
My node for this device really is going to make sense because
of the size, the portability in the form factor.
Now the next step we are going to talk through is going
to be notion.
Notion is a cross-platform app as well, and it's in
the same vein.
That craft is where it's a document management system.
But you can use it for so much, so much more than
just document management.
You can create databases.
You can have really short relationship databases
or relational databases.
Excuse me where between things that you reference inside of
want different content?
I use it to keep track of all of the different videos that I
put in here, both just here on YouTube,
but also from Instagram.
And then also for my podcast as well.
So it really is very, very robust and I am only
scratching the surface.
But what makes it so great on the iPad again, is because of
the size of the iPad and the way that you can interact
with the content.
Now here, what I can tell you is that there are several
different plans that are available.
It is certainly free to try if you want to get more storage.
There's a plane, that sort of thing at four bucks a month
when you do annual subscription and then they have other plans
where you do monthly subscription as well.
But it is very, very robust.
I will link to Thomas Frank's YouTube channel, where he
really goes in-depth.
That's where I've found this app, and I suggest if you
want to learn more about that, that is where I would start.
Now we're going to shift gears from productivity.
We're going to go into creativity in the first app I
want to talk about in creativity is going to
be pixel cut.
Pixel Cut its subscription app.
It is $59 a year, so it is not necessarily cheap.
But really, what pixel cut does so effectively is able to
remove backgrounds from any photo with a swipe.
And when I tell you it is really good, it's really good.
Now I'm using this as a replacement for
two different products.
I'm using it for one, for a replacement of this feature
inside of Photoshop and then two am using it for a
replacement of this feature.
Inside of clipping magic, which is a web service, the web
service itself costs a 399 month.
So when you look at that, you know, at 12 months,
when you pay monthly, it's about 45 dollars a year.
So this is a little bit more expensive, but it
is very, very good and it's an app, and they also have some
branding tools that are in there.
So if you wanted to make the thumbnails or you want
to make content.
For Instagram, this will be an app that I would use here
for it, it is available both on your iPad natively
and your iPhone.
And let's do one live right now.
I'm going to go into pixel cut.
Now, let me know if you're like me and you like writing with
your Apple Pencil and all these different places.
I really think this was a great feature, and I'm going to
choose my Nintendo Switch here, and we're all
going to choose from a slider move.
Background it, remove the background.
It's pretty damn impressive.
And you look here, it actually remove the background
pretty easily, so it does work really well.
You can export to Instagram, you can export it to
even new Shopify.
That's interesting.
But pixel cuts for the iPad and the iPhone, it is $59
per year.
That's really cheap, but it does have a lot of value
because it works so quickly here.
You can do it within a matter of seconds.
So it's money well spent, in my opinion.
If you have a different app that you're using,
that cost less.
Let me know down in the comments below.
But next, we're going to talk about pastel, and pastel is an
app that's available cross-platform as well,
but pesto allows you to identify different color
palettes and save those colors for later use.
So let's just say I wanted to make a graphic and I wanted to
use these colors in here.
So what I would do, I create a new palette.
I would name it something.
It wouldn't matter.
And what am I do is I'm going to go out and take a photo,
and it's going to allow me to use or identify all the colors
that are in this photo.
And it identifies all the colors that are in this color
palette very easily.
And then you could say, OK, I'm I won't accept this, and it
gives a listing of what the colors are.
It tells you what their color code is.
So I can then use this palette in another graphic, like the
graphic that I'm showing you right here on the
screen right now.
I use this all the time.
I take pictures of shirts, take pictures of clothing,
I take pictures of skateboards, and I really
use it really as a way to be creative and capture what those
color palettes are because there's so many different color
palettes that look good together.
And, you know, it's just a way of capturing them and using
them for later use.
This is pastel.
It's five ninety nine on the App Store now.
Next up, we are going to talk about just press record now.
This is a sleeper app, in my opinion.
Just press record is available on all your devices and it
really is a voice notes, but it's much, much more than
that because it does transcription.
So here I have a widget on my homescreen for
just press record.
I'm going to here on my home screen and it's going to open
up here and now along the bottom.
There are some buttons.
I'm going to hit record and I'm going to say, Hi,
this is Mike.
Welcome to 24-7 TV.
It's great to have you back here today.
We're talking about apps and we are talking about
just press record.
So now it recorded the audio and now we did record
the audio.
It transcribe the audio using the Siri natural language and
you can play it.
You could send the recording, you send the transcript,
you can send the transcript and the recording, and it's about
what's going on.
All your devices where I think it really wins out here is that
I can use this for idea.
Jump out of my brain.
If I don't have my iPad Mini, I can activate on my Apple
Watch and it will stay active for I think the time out is
going to be 60 seconds, where on Siri, it's like
30 seconds, so you can really talk as much as you want and
then you still have that timeout period.
But just press record.
It is two ninety nine for that app and I think this app is got
a great amount of utility in it.
I use it again for my for my notes with no way I use it is
that I like to record audio notes to my wife while we're
putting my son to sleep.
We're telling him a story and he'll come through Babylon.
It's really cute and it stores and iCloud.
So depending on how much I call search you have, these notes
really don't take up that much space.
Again, this is just a really great app, and I do use it a
lot for recording just press record 299 on the App Store and
to be able on all of your devices.
Now we're going to shift gears from creativity, and we're
going to talk about just for fun or entertainment apps.
First half we're going to talk about is paprika and paprika is
a recipe management system.
So you can see the theme here of things talking about
management of documents, management of information,
because that's really big on in terms of recipe management,
paprika is a way to organize and collect and tag recipes
that you have and to give you really the instructions how
to cook that.
Now, I'm not a great cook.
I do need to follow instructions.
Why I, like most people do.
I don't have these recipes just coming out my ears like
my mom does.
Paprika shows me what I need to cook for a specific recipe.
All the ingredients, the measurements for
those ingredients, and it will go ahead and outline the
instructions in a linear fashion.
So it's very easy to follow.
Now, paprika is $2 in 99 cents, and it shows that
it's a universal app on the App Store.
I purchase a very, very long time ago.
It's got to be at least five or six years ago and I've been
using ever since.
And what's cool is that you also have a web clipping
functionality where if you were to find a recipe online,
you can clip the ingredients and then put them in there.
If you want to cook something, you can create a schedule
or a planner.
And then once you have that planner, you can add those
ingredients to a grocery list.
And then when you go to the grocery store, you can see that
on the list.
It works really well.
Paprika on the iPad Mini is great because while
you're cooking, you know you can show this and
split screen.
You can maybe watch a video on it if the video was
available for that.
It's just a really good size anything.
It's a really good form factor for this type of information,
especially during this time of the year when you have family,
because the holidays everyone's coming over, you could drink
recipes and hear good stuff.
Now, this next app that we're gonna talk about is me,
for those of you who either have either Hue bulbs or light
bulbs and you want to level up your lighting game because
this is serious.
This is really next level stuff.
Now this app is called on switch, and it's available
for all your different devices now available for the Mac.
And it is an app that will allow you now a to set colors
or set themes for rooms or for locations.
But you can also set dynamic scenes, and those
anemic scenes can be tied to music provided by the
on Switch app.
But what I want to do here is show you what it looks
like in action.
Let's go to the other room.
All right, so we are in my living room where my Christmas
tree is now.
You can see there that that bulb over there, that's just
that's just static.
And the bulbs on that side as well are static.
Now I'm going to go into the on switch app.
And I'm going to choose Christmas, and now I'm
going to say Sandy's jukebox.
And you can see that the lights are changing based on
what's on here.
It's going to rotate these lights.
That was pretty cool.
Now, at 35 dollars, this certainly is not
for everyone, one, because you have to have life vests or
hue bulbs, which are certainly not cheap by any means, and you
have to pay in top for this half.
There's many different plans that are available within the
on Switch app, not initially, just the $3000 plan that gives
you access to all the scenes.
And they always do add new scenes, whether it's sports
related themes for games that are going on or
their football, their holiday seasons.
So there's a wide selection of stuff I suggest checking out
because it's pretty cool.
Now, hopefully you were able to glean something from today's
video and if you were, I want to know what it is down in
the comments below.
Now I have another video coming out very soon regarding some
cases and some accessories for the iPad Mini six, so make sure
you are subscribed if you want to see that.
My name is Mike.
This is tech 24-7 TV, folks.
It was great seeing you again today.
I'll talk to you the next one.