Review: Animation Creator for iPhone and iPad

Regardless of whether you're using the iPhone version of this app or the iPad edition, Animation Creator provides a great way to try your hand at putting your drawings into motion.

Review: SketchBook Pro for iPad

The iPad is a natural for sketching and doodling, and this app is one of the most advanced painting offerings you'll find on the App Store.

Review: Modern Conflict HD for iPad

Modern Conflict HD has the basic elements you would expect from any RTS game— resource management, the need for a sound strategy and the goal of domination over your enemy— but unfortunately, Modern Conflict offers little else to distinguish itself.

Review: Color Splash for iPad

Having brought desaturation to the iPhone with a version of Color Splash for that device, Pocket Pixels turns its attention to the iPad, and the resulting app is quite impressive.

Review: Uface for iPhone

With a slick interface that makes it a breeze to use this app, Uface offers a fun way to create your own social networking avatar on your iPhone or iPod touch.

Review: Baby Decks DJ for iPad

This virtual turntable app isn't inexpensive. But it produces realistic scratching sounds and effectively mimics the look and feel of using real turntables.

Review: Layers for iPad

The iPad version of this drawing app comes in two editions -- a Pro offering and a Standard one. The Pro version of Layers for the iPad is a tool for serious artists, while the Standard app gives you a good introduction to what Layers can do.

Review: Korg iElectribe for iPad

This awesome virtual synth machine for the iPad comes loaded with features. There's certainly a learning curve for the app, but it's still a solid offering that's sure to impress music makers.

Review: Photogene for iPad

With a wonderful interface that's easy to use, Photogene makes it as pleasurable to edit photos on your iPad as it is to view them.

Review: HoloSnaps for iPhone

This app features an attractive and easy to use interface, and the holo-cards it creates are pretty cool. Be warned, though, that it suffers from a minor-though-annoying bug.

Review: Talking Carl for iPhone

Clever animations and interactivity make this app a nice diversion -- especially for kids.

Review: Doodle Buddy for iPhone and iPad

Whether you use the iPhone or iPad version, this app is a fun way to doodle away without all the trappings and higher learning curves of more sophisticated painting applications in the App Store.

Review: Camera For iPad mobile app

If you wish the iPad came with its own camera, this app offers a bit of a work-around. Running on both your iPad and your iPhone, Camera For iPad lets the former device control the latter's camera via a Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connection.

Review: Penultimate for iPad

This note-taker for the iPad makes it easy to scrawl out quick notes or sketches with your finger. But a lack of options makes it hard to consider Penultimate a great note-taking or drawing app.

Review: Penultimate for iPad

This note-taker for the iPad makes it easy to scrawl out quick notes or sketches with your finger. But a lack of options makes it hard to consider Penultimate a great note-taking or drawing app.

Review: Brushes iPad Edition

The iPhone version of this painting app was outstanding, and the iPad offering lives up to its predecessor. This app is one of the most intuitive and exciting ways to paint or draw and a must-have for anyone with a creative bent.

Review: ToonPaint for iPhone

For turning photos into cartoon-like portraits, there's no better option than this app, which makes the process both easy and fun.

Review: My Spot Pro for iPhone

This app, which allows you to e-mail your precise location to friends and contacts, can come in handy for easily letting people know where you are.

Review: Fishing Kings for iPhone

With over 33 species of fish to catch, beautiful graphics, and an intuitive control system, Fishing Kings will keep you coming back to your favorite fishing spots time and time again.

Review: James Cameron’s Avatar for iPhone

With the release of the Avatar game for the iPhone, Gameloft brings us back to the world of Pandora for yet another adventure.