MACSTORIES COLLECTIONS

iPad Apps Wanted on the Mac 

• Ryan

Following this week’s potentially controversial episode of Adapt, I’ve been spending more time thinking about and even using the Mac. As part of that process I’ve been evaluating where the platform stands now relative to where it was half a decade ago when I last used a Mac as my primary computer. One main drawback that became immediately obvious is that there are quite a few iPad apps I rely on that aren’t available on the Mac. Hopefully this app deficit will start shrinking as developers take advantage of Mac Catalyst or SwiftUI, or perhaps many of the apps I love on iPad will become instantly available on the Mac App Store when Apple Silicon Macs ship (a question I consider in this week’s Extension column). In any case though, if I start using a Mac more often in the future, I’m going to sorely miss the following apps.