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10 free iPad apps for business (photos)

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Citrix Receiver for iPad

Citrix Receiver for iPad

Apple’s iPad is still very much a new category of device but there are already thousands of apps available for download to customize the tablet’s functionality.?

?Consumer iPad apps such as games dominate the App Store but there are dedicated business apps and productivity offerings too. Here we round up 10 free iPad apps that promise to come in handy for the business user.?

?Lovers of remote working take note: the Citrix Receiver for iPad (shown above) enables users to access any XenDesktop or XenApp hosted application from their Apple iPad.?

?Users can then view, edit and interact with Windows applications, documents and data as if they were sitting at their PC – rather than in Starbucks with a grande latte…?

?Screenshot and captions: Natasha Lomas/silicon.com

10 free iPad apps for business (photos)

Cisco's WebEx for iPad

Cisco's WebEx for iPad

Next up: Cisco’s WebEx for iPad app enables tablet users to participate in WebEx meetings on their device, with a full screen view of the online conference and the ability to participate vocally via free VoIP.

?Screenshot and captions: Natasha Lomas/silicon.com

10 free iPad apps for business (photos)

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer for iPhone

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer for iPhone

Visualize business data when out and about with SAP’s BusinessObjects Explorer for iPhone – and now iPad. This ported app benefits from the latter’s more generous screen real-estate.?

?Search business data by keyword and browse data visualisation via graphs and dashboards.

?Screenshot and captions: Natasha Lomas/silicon.com

10 free iPad apps for business (photos)

Easy Books

Easy Books

SMEs and entrepreneurs can turn to this book-keeping app to stay on top of their incomings and outgoings, generate invoices and reports, perform audits and calculate VAT. The Easy Books accounting software offers 100 transactions free with an upgrade to unlimited transactions for a one-off fee.

?Screenshot and captions: Natasha Lomas/silicon.com

10 free iPad apps for business (photos)

Adobe Ideas 1.0 for iPad

Adobe Ideas 1.0 for iPad

Adobe’s app promises to turn your iPad into a digital sketchpad. Want to wow the sales meeting with some particularly impressive PowerPoint slides? Adobe Ideas offers basic drawing tools, separate drawing and photo layers, plus the ability to create colour themes from photographs or other images.

?Screenshot and captions: Natasha Lomas/silicon.com

10 free iPad apps for business (photos)

iThesaurus Plus

iThesaurus Plus

If words not pictures characterise your working day, the iThesaurus Plus app offers to boost your vocabulary at the tap of the screen, with more than 140,000 words on tap and both synonyms and antonyms.

?Screenshot and captions: Natasha Lomas/silicon.com

10 free iPad apps for business (photos)

Popplet Lite

Popplet Lite

Popplet Lite brings a distinct graphical style to the spidergram – and hopefully makes brainstorming sessions a lot more pleasant (and legible) in the process. Plus if your ideas turn out to be a little uninspiring they will at least look great.?

?The Popplet Lite app allows just the one spidergram to be created – the paid-for version of the app enables multiple spidergrams, plus online syncing.

?Screenshot and captions: Natasha Lomas/silicon.com

10 free iPad apps for business (photos)

weekSlider

weekSlider

Tired of getting in a tangle when trying to firm up dates? Swipe the slider and this app displays the dates of each Monday and Sunday in the year. Past and future dates can also be conjured up with ease – going back as far as 1971 and forward to 2026.

?Screenshot and captions: Natasha Lomas/silicon.com

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