Last week I was at the ABA TechShow in Chicago where I presented the ever popular 60 Apps in 60 Minutes with Jeff Richardson of iPhone J.D. and Brett Burney of Macs in Law. As in past years, our giant room was filled to the brim with people standing in the back – a true testiment to the popularity of the iPad amongst legal professionals.
This was the best 60 Apps presentatation in the two years that I’ve been involved. To make it a little easier to find what you need, I’ve reorganized things into a few categories. We have a great roundup of new apps, old favorites, utilities and a few just for fun. So check out the list below and pick up some of your favorites!
Legal Specific
- TranscriptPad – transcript viewer and annotation tool
- Picture it Settled Lite – settlement negotiation monitor and predictor
- WestLaw Next – Legal research for those who subscribe to Westlaw
- Lexis Advance HD – legal research for those who subscribe to Lexis
- Fastcase – free legal research for cases and statutes
- Days From – date calculator
- OfficeTime – time tracking application
Word Processing and Note Taking
- CloudOn – use full versions of Microsoft Word, Excel PowerPoint through the cloud
- SoundNote – note taker and audio recorder, links notes to audio
- Notability – note taking app with audio recordings, PDF annotation, word processing and handwriting support
- Notes Plus – note taking app with typing, voice recording and powerful functions to organize your notes
- Documents to Go – Microsoft Office suite compatible file editor
- WPD Viewer for iPad – viewer for WordPerfect files
- Phraseology – text editor with writing analysis and text rearrangingbtools
PDF Management, Creation and Annotation
- GoodReader – file manager and PFF annotation tool
- PDF Pen – PDF annotation tool with iCloud support
- Adobe Reader – PDF viewer
- PDF Provider – Create PDFs from other files all on the ads
- PDF Expert – powerful PDF annotation with forms and page management
Presentations
- ConferencePad – present PDF presentations to up other iPads in the room
- GoToMeeting – attend video conferences via iPad
- Keynote – powerful presentation builder, exports to PowerPoint (if you must)
- Keynote Remote – control your Mac or iPad Keynote presentation from your iPhone
General Productivity
- Agenda Calendar – gorgeously designed calendar replacement
- ScannerPro – photograph documents and convert to PDF
- DocScanner – photograph documents and convert to PDF, with OCR
- PrintCentral Pro – print from your iPad to almost any printer
- Toodledo – task management application
- Timeli – Gantt chart based project manager
- LogMeIn Ignition – access your desktop computer from anywhere
- CardMunch – biz card scanner with human transcription and LinkedIn integration
- ABBYY Biz Card – biz card scanner with OCR
- Klammer – view .msg and .eml files on iPad
- PST Mail – view PST files on iPad
- Google Translate – translate text or speech and have read back to you
- Sparrow – high design mail application
- OmniFocus for iPad and iPhone – super powerful task management based on GTD
RSS / News / Social
- Mr. Reader – RSS client
- Instacast HD – podcast manager, iCloud enabled
- TweetBot – Twitter client with terrific interface
Lifestyle / Games / Photo / Entertainment
- Paper by Fifty Three – beautiful and simple drawing app with lifelike drawing tools
- iPhoto – photo editor
- PhotoShop Touch – photo editor~
- PaperKarma – eliminate unwanted junk mail / catalogs
- AutoStitch – build panoramic photos
- GroupShot – replace faces in photos
- PhotoSync – wirelessly move and sync photos between your iDevices and computers
- Infinity Blade II – dungeon crawl adventure with cutting edge graphics
- Action Movie FX – add special effects to home movies
Utilities
- AirDisplay – extend your desktop onto your iPad
- Reminders – task manager on iPhone and iPad, Siri aware, built into iOS 5
- LaunchCenter – create shortcuts for common tasks
- Voice Brief – reads the weather,your calendar, the news and more
Travel / Location
- GateGuru – get advice on terminal resources while traveling
- HipMunk – search for airfares, hotels and cars; avoid agony
- Sit or Squat- public restroom locator with ratings
- AppStart – beautifully desgned magazine of app recommendations
Hope to do it again next year at ABA TechShow April 4–6, 2013!
You forgot 2 great apps. REEDER for viewing your RSS feeds, and Flipboard (a quick way to view news and even RSS feeds)
Jerry
Both those apps were featured in last year’s 60 apps roundups! Good apps, both.
Cloudon has saved my bacon a few times. Really enjoy having the documents handy wherever I go, regardless of whether or not one of my devices is being temperamental.
Josh,
Enjoyed the presentation and appreciate the mention. Keep up the good work.
Don Philbin
Picture It Settled
Other presentation apps I have used successsfully are SlideShark (for PowerPoint presentations, some limitations) and Presentation Link (PDF format with ability to embed links and video).
Linda