Apps

Beautifully simple – a must for B&Bs and hotels that want to wave goodbye to physical guestbooks.

Everything you need, if perhaps not everything you want for more complex lists, whether you use Evernote or not.

Bardowl has the makings of a fine service, but unless you’re deeply into business, it needs more time in the cooker.

Packed full of practical features, with a genuinely useful colour-coded path editing system, but it does lack some essential creative tools.

OmniPlan has a few flaws, but brings professional-level project management to the iPad, with all the tools you need to manage complex multi-stage projects.

Taposé is an interesting concept, and includes a lot of nice tools for creating notes, but it’s a little buggy and occasionally clumsy to use.

Weak keyboard controls and the lack of Dropbox/iCloud holds it back, but otherwise a stunning performer for any outline you could want.

The look of MyMeetingPro borders on ugly, but lurking under the interface are some really effective tools.