Astropad turns your iPad Pro into a real design tablet

I am sure that a large sector of "prosumer" users, and above all designers, have you thought about using the iPad Pro not like a PC killer proper, but as a complement to the PC itself. In this sense, we can find several alternatives in the market, and oddly enough for its high price,

iPad Pro, one of the cheapest alternatives to "designer tablets"

There is a whole range of this type of tablet on the market, but above all, the brand Wacom It is the one that due to its precision, its "backward compatibility", its adaptation to environments such as Apple or Windows and its wide range of products, is currently the leading brand in this sector.

Astropad joins iPad Pro and Mac

Without going any further, and to compare prices and benefits: the design tablet that Wacom presents, which could rival the iPad Pro, is the Cintiq, which can range between € 1000 and € 3000. At iPad Pro, we can find great factors to take into account in terms of creative work, such as a clearer workspace, since the Cintiq is a very bulky equipment, which also requires being connected to the power supply, which adds cables, etc. A touch scrolling, the excellent response of the iPad, its high resolution and all this added to the great asset of Apple: the precision of the Apple Pencil.

The iPad Pro, a "half" design tablet

Obviously, those of us who have spent around € 1000 on the iPad ProIt is because we had a very clear vision of it, beyond its leisure function, that we already know that it fulfills it like few others. But one professional function at the time of design. One of the big buts when it comes to using the iPad ProAt least when it comes to work is undoubtedly using iOS. And this is where I come to emphasize. And is that Its role as a designer tablet, the iPad Pro on its own, half fulfilled it. And I say it was compliant, because searching through the Apple apps market, I have found myself pleasantly surprised that there is an application that allows working with OS X. Despite the wide variety of applications that Apple has, such as those of Adobe, to work on the iOS interface in the world of design.

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Astropad

The application in question is called astropad. A project by some former Apple engineers that is on the market and that we can use to transform our iPad into a 100% design tablet, working side by side with our OS X team. That is, we can connect our iPad, either via Wi-Fi or by cable to our computer Mac and power work on the desktop of our iPad Pro with the entire suite of programs on our computer, seeing in real time and without any delay what we are working on on the two screens. All this thanks to the technology that these former Apple engineers have developed, called Liquid, for Astropad. A real gem with which we can work at 60 fps, with the color space of your Mac, in any program, without cables in between and with the great battery life of our iPad Pro.

As you can imagine, such a waste of productivity will not be free. But it won't be expensive either: 19,99€ is the price of Astropad, as of today, in the App Store. It is not a cheap application, but it is not the most expensive either. What is certain is that for me, to this day, it is one of the best applications I have used to be able to develop my work as a designer in a productive way and thus make the most of all the potential that my iPad Pro.

We can connect our iPad to our Mac computer and be able to work on the desktop of our iPad Pro with the entire suite of programs on our computer

For those of you who have doubts, with Astropad I have been able to work fluently in software such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Blender or Zbrush. All of them, programs that require our team to give 100% of themselves.

SOURCE | ASTROPAD


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  1.   Diego De Barca Carretta said

    works with any ipad? or only available for ipad pro?