iBooks

Category - Books

Download and read books. Choose from 7 different fonts, three page colors, and three layouts - book, full screen and scroll. Highlight passages and add notes, use the search feature. Has accessibility features.

Rating - 3.5 out of 5 stars

Cost - Free

Kobo

Category - Books

Track reading habits and share your reading choices with your friends. Choose style and size of text, turn pages like a real book, create personal shelves of books magazines and documents and add notes as you read. Has a night mode.

Rating - 4 out of 5 stars

Cost - Free

Kindle

Category - Books

Access to over 900,000 books. Amazon Whispersynch automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes and highlights across all your devices. You can choose margin size, background color and font size. Has a search function.

Rating - 3.5 out of 5 stars

Cost - Free

Wattpad

Category - Books

Discover and share Free books and stories from around the world. Connect driectly with other readers and writers. Manage fonts, brightness and other settings.

Rating - 4 out of 5 stars

Cost - Free

Free Books - 23,469 classic to go

Category - Books

Unlocks the world of public domain content. You can acquire books, letters, collected works, Victorian novels etc. eReader allows for notes, highlighting, bookmarks and dictionary support.

Rating - 4 out of 5 stars

Cost - Free

Dictionary.com & Thesaurus Free

Category - Reference

Two million definitions, synonyms and antonyms. O ffline access, audio pronunciation, example sentences, word origin and history

Rating - 4.5 out of 5 stars

Cost - Free

EasyBib

Category - Education

Create accurate MLA, APA and Chicago style citations by scanning a book bar code or typing the name of the book. Email your citations and export to EasyBib.com.

Rating - ___ out of 5 stars

Cost - Free

Storyist

Category - Productivity

Provides a rich text editor which supports comments, images, footers and style sheets. Comes with manuscript and screenplay templates. Lets you use index cards to sketch out a story.

Rating - 4.5 out of 5 stars

Cost - $9.99

A Novel Idea

Category - Productivity

Plot your story and record bursts of inspiration. Create characters, locations, scenes and novels and link them together. Arrange scenes by dragging and dropping.

Rating - 4 out of 5 stars

Cost - Free

Novel in 30

Category - Productivity

Distraction-free writing environment, support for external keyboards, configurable project settings, project dashboard - tracks progress. Syncs writing project to computer.

Rating - ___ out of 5 stars

Cost - $4.99

Writers App

Category - Productivity

Capture your ideas and organize your thoughts (sticky note type templates). Write a synopsis, premise, plot and notes of your story. Create chapters, characters and edit predefined attributes such as age, personality, etc.

Rating - 3.5 out of 5 stars

Cost - $0.99

Book Creator for iPad

Category - Books

Choose from portrait, landscape or square book. Add pictures from a Photo app or web, import video and music, and record speech. Layout the book with guidelines and snap positioning.

Rating - 4 out of 5 stars

Cost - $4.99

Lists for Writers

Category - Education

Lists of prompts and ideas for brainstorming sessions - names, character traits, plot lines, occupations, obsessions, action verbs, emotions, ....

Rating - ___ out of 5 stars

Cost - $2.99

Vocabulary HD

Category - Education

500 words, 5 levels of difficulty, pronumciation tool, synonyms, sentence examples and quizzes.

Rating - 4 out of 5 stars

Cost - Free

Grammar Up

Category - Education

Multiple choice quiz system with 1800 questions over 20 grammar categories (adjectives, adverbs, conditionals, etc.). Learners improve grammar, word selection and vocabulary. Custom timer.

Rating - 3 out of 5 stars

Cost - $4.99

Grammar Up - Phrasal Verbs

Category - Education

26 topics, 750 multiple-choice questions with explanantion, charts keep track of performance, customize timer settings, questions randomized every time test taken.

Rating - 4 out of 5 stars

Cost - $2.99

Maxjournal

Category - Lifestyle

Simple way to make a journal with extensive photo scrapbooking features. Password protection, quick access to all journal entries, 30 photos per journal entry, keyword tagging, search by text or keyword, various text styles and sizes.

Rating - 3.5 out of 5 stars

Cost - Free

Mind Node

Category - Productivity

Visual representation of your ideas. Create new nodes with the tap of your finger, drag and drop to move or reconnect nodes, create multiple mind maps on one canvas. Save files to Dropbox. Export as PDF, PNG or text files.

Rating - 3.5 out of 5 stars

Cost - $9.99

Paper Helper

Category - Productivity

Seamlessly surf the web for information and transfer it to your document. Keep track of All your sources,spell check, and email your paper.

Rating - ___ out of 5 stars

Cost - $0.99

The Brainstormer

Category - Productivity

An app that spins wheels to randomly combine plots, subjects and styles. Circular "wheel mode" or linear "slot machine" mode provides two views. Fully editable allowing the tweaking of the classic Brainstormer or creation of your wheels. Has a character and world builder wheel.

Rating - 5 out of 5 stars

Cost - $1.99