20 is perhaps the most valuable mobile app for web designers

This article will be of use to you if you often need to go out and therefore need mobile apps to help you do your work, not just to spend time on a long journey. And we've summed up the top 20 apps in the industry.

Since the launch of the first ipad, the device has been hit by a loyal PC fan, who claims it is only a consumer product. Anyone who uses an ipad (or a similar smartphone or tablet) knows it's pointless nonsense. Of course, there are also few designers who want to burn their PCs or Macs and only use mobile devices, but when users go out, you may still be able to use these modern apps to continue working, and even if you can use your PC, these apps are still useful. With the help of designers and developers, we've summed up 20 of the best apps.

1. Adobe Ideas

price:£6.99/$9.99
Platform:iphone/ipad/android

As we all know, Adobe's desktop applications have always been very complex and heavy, so it is gratifying to see the company create such a user-friendly, Easy-to-use mobile app. Adobe ideas has an almost identical interface in the iOS and Android User Toolbars section, which allows designers to jot down some ideas at any time and can be opened in Illustrator or Photoshop later. "It feels great when you use the tablet's capacitive touch pen to draw on it, especially the ipad version," says designer and writer Stephanie Rieger.

2. Adobe Shadow

Price:free (during beta)
Platform:iphone/ipad/android

Adobe shadow doesn't seem to know where it came from, but developers love it. This free software allows you to test your site on a Mac or PC and can display sites on multiple devices at the same time. "This has greatly improved the efficiency of testing on mobile devices," said Christian Oliff, a passionate front-end developer, "Just install the app on Chrome, and your ipad, iphone and Android devices will sync up the content in Chrome." Shadow is considered part of Adobe Creative Cloud (Adobe's cloud service).

3. Byword

price:£1.99/$2.99
Platform:iphone/ipad

A decent writing tool is necessary for those who spend as much time in writing as they do in designing visuals or coding. Although there are many variants of the Office suite now, there are still a lot of simple apps for writing. Paul Boag, a blogger, writer and speaker, is a big fan of byword, saying: "This is a great app, it's easy to blog and provides a clean, neat interface and markdown support." The app also has versions of Macs, iphones and ipads that can be synchronized through icloud and Dropbox.

4. Dropbox

Price:free (requires Dropbox account)
Platform:iphone/ipad/android/blackberry

The people we interviewed think Dropbox is the second most popular file synchronization and sharing service app. Developer Andrew Dean thinks it's epoch-making, but only a few people realize it. "The next generation of creative and productive app development boom will focus on services like Dropbox," he said. But in addition to being the foundation of other apps, Dropbox is primarily used to share files and store documents in the "walled garden" of iOS. "I use it to the client transfer model on my ipad (transferring mock-ups)," Oliff said. Elemental Director Tim Gibbon is simpler to use Dropbox: "It allows me to share files with other users, and to update devices faster." It's compatible with the ipad and Mac, so I can access those files anytime, anywhere. "

5. Evernote

Price:free (requires Evernote account)
Platform:iphone/ipad/android/blackberry/windows Phone 7

Evernote is a digital scrapbook and archiving tool that allows you to store a wide variety of files and ideas and transfer your information to the cloud. Web designers often produce a variety of ideas and inspirations, so it is not surprising that they are so popular among these people. "This is my only widely used mobile app," said Christopher Imrie, a developer. He sees this as an indispensable tool for managing and saving notes: "I use it in a number of ways, such as the description of client projects, roadmap and ideas for product development, product support inquiries, and meeting minutes." I'll use it on the ipad during the meeting and I'll use it on my iphone when I'm out, and I'll use it on my Mac at the office. "Tash Wong (as a student and interactive designer) is also inseparable from the app:" I can use it to take notes, to record ideas, to edit articles and to compose emails. "

6. Flipboard

Price:free
Platform:iphone/ipad

Flipboard converts subscriptions that are of interest to iOS users into the form of digital magazine output. Metakinetic's main designer, Daniel Ruffle, thinks it's a great app: "With so many inspirational sites and subscriptions available today, I find that Flipboard integrates these things perfectly to form a manageable, beautifully-looking, easy-to-read application." It is similar to the style of the newspaper to make it easy for users to filter, skip the things that are not interested, and you can get a deeper understanding of some of the more exciting content. "

7. Harvest

Price:free (requires Harvest subscription)
Platform:iphone/android

As an online scheduling software, harvest is popular among free web developers, so the company's other mobile apps are also becoming popular (dog). But Harvest's app also shows that you need more than just a useful service, but something that is actually valuable and efficient. Free web Developer Stephen Fulljames explains: "Harvest's mobile app takes a lot of effort in the important task interface--recording time and expense--you can take photos of receipts and sync them later." When I buy a train ticket, I can write it down immediately lest I forget it. "

8. Imockups

price:£4.99/$6.99
Platform:ipad

Perhaps the biggest advantage of the ipad is its focus: "When an application is running, the device is just like running the application." This means you can accomplish your current tasks efficiently and quickly without distractions. User Experience designer Aral Balkan that imockups "in the creation of the lowest-fidelity wire frame performance." This interface features simple multi-touch and drag-and-drop functionality, which allows you to focus on the implementation of the feature rather than the appearance. Documents can be sent by mail in their own way, or exported as PNG and BMML format pictures.

9. Instagram

Price:free
Platform:iphone/android (imminent)

Instagram is a picture-sharing tool running on iOS that provides filter functionality that now has tens of thousands of users and will be ported to the Android platform. Designer Tom Muller told us it was "not for daily work, and I used it mainly to upload job-related photos to Twitter and blogs." "Web strategist Jason Pamental says this is the main tool he has found in life:" We don't necessarily love every design, but I like to take interesting photos when I walk my dog in the morning as the beginning of every day. I have been doing this since the advent of Instagram, which has become a natural habit. I put these photos on my website and named ' Inspiration Gallery (inspiration Gallery) '.

LiveView

Price:free
Platform:iphone/ipad

More and more designers and developers are engaged in mobile development, but they are not developing on mobile devices. This leads to disconnection because what you see on your computer does not necessarily equate to what you eventually see on your mobile device. Web Standard expert Oli Studholme recommends real-time viewing to "get instant feedback when designing graphics for mobile devices."

Nebulous Notes

price:£2.49/$3.99
Platform:iphone/ipad

With some of Dean's comments on Dropbox, he thinks Dropbox is the basis for those very useful apps, Dropbox text-editing software nebulous notes is one of his favorite apps: " It provides markdown previews and can customize many shortcuts, and you can edit files in any Dropbox folder, which makes it unique. It also provides a synchronized local file store. This is the closest thing to Notational Velocity/nvalt on a mobile device: A lightweight notepad on a desktop. "You can also change the theme as well as the full screen.

Opera Mini

Price:free
Platform:iphone/ipad/android/blackberry/windows Mobile/symbian

There has long been a debate about WebKit singleness in mobile development, but as we have said before, these views are inaccurate. iphone and Android Web designers and developers can download the Opera Mini and test it on it. Adrian Roselli, a senior usability engineer, adds that if you can, you should go further: "Install opera Mobile, Firefox, and Dolphin to do more browser testing." "

Penultimate

price:£0.69/$0.99
Platform:ipad

Designers tend to like graffiti: notes, ideas, sketches, wireframe, and so on. They also like to collaborate, but if your graffiti is on a handy piece of paper, it's not going to be easy. The arrival of penultimate solved the problem. "When I need to take notes or write something quickly, I use it." "Free web designer John Alex Jacob said," In addition, it is very easy to use, almost omnipotent, and supports Dropbox and Evernote. Oliff a lot of ideas on it: "It looks very beautiful, there is a large canvas, you can choose different textures and background patterns." "

Remember the Milk

Price:free (requires Remember the Milk account; ' Pro ' is $25/year)
Platform:iphone/ipad/android/blackberry

"I'm remember the Milk on the iphone," Econsultancy's news editor Vikki Chowney said: "The ability to create dynamic lists is very useful to me, and the ability to sync updates at any time is even more admirable." "The Simple to-do list management has also attracted user experience designer Mark Forscher, but it is more appealing to the app's profile:" I'm using the iOS version, but I prefer the interface that the app presents as a Web site. "

Sketchshare

price:£2.49/$3.99
Platform:ipad

Although we mentioned the graffiti app, digital creative Michael Heald still recommended that we focus on the ipad app Sketchshare. "There's a lot of great graffiti apps on the market, but Sketchshare has a unique place where you share sketches with other ipad users in real time," he says. "You can use it to draw when the news on the conference call has not been communicated." And because it's a truly shared tool, you can scribble at the same time. It's faster than Internet telephony or mail. "

Teuxdeux

price:£1.99/$2.99 (IPhone)/free (web)
Platform:iphone/web

Teuxdeux is also a developer-favorite to-do application, which is extremely simple but visually compelling. It's free on the web, but it's profitable on iOS. Allison Shaw, a student and interactive designer, is a big fan of it, saying: "It's too easy, so it's easy to crack." But it also has a lot of practical details. Its date function will remind you before something is going to happen; an unfinished project will automatically go to the next day; it's 4 o'clock in the morning as the end of the day, which works well for night owls like me. "

TED.

Price:free
Platform:iphone/ipad/android

Some apps are not meant to make things, but to inspire your thinking. Ted lectures are the best brain food imaginable: TED is the acronym for Marvell Technology, Entertainment entertainment, design, which aims to "change the world with the power of thought". This app allows you to access these lectures and download them to the device for a slow look. "It's just addictive," Gibbon said, "Ted has a lot of wonderful stuff that I can indulge in for hours." It's a great application, and through it I can browse through wonderful speeches from all sorts of interesting geniuses. "

Textastic

price:£6.99/$9.99
Platform:ipad

Although many people think of tablets as productivity rather than consumer goods, few suggest using the ipad as a replacement for desktops, but Morgan Adams thinks Textastic makes the idea seem feasible. "Even if I'm not carrying a notebook, I can use the text editor on this ipad to do almost all the non-image work." Textastic can be connected directly to the FTP service, Dropbox, and can use local storage when working offline. This is a great code editor that features syntax highlighting, search substitution, and a neat strip of extra programming word keys. "

What the Font

Price:free
Platform:iphone/android

When it works, Whatthefont is like magic. You can snap a photo or send it directly to a picture on your device, and it will identify the fonts that appear on that image. Muller says this is one of the few apps he uses in the office because it's a useful tool for Macs: "It allows me to focus on files without having to switch between browsers and files to check for fonts." In addition, it is also very handy when checking menu fonts in restaurants. "

Wunderlist

Price:free
Platform:iphone/ipad/android/blackberry/web

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Wunderlist is another task management software that is easy to use and has an orderly interface appealing to many designers. "It keeps me organized. Flash game developer Iain Lobb said, "I can make a separate list for each project, sort out what I'm doing, and mark the things that really matter, which means I'll prioritize the most important things." "The designer and user experience expert D Keith Robinson is also a supporter of Wunderlist," he said. "This is a great service on mobile devices, and it keeps me in an orderly state like my backup brain." "