Best iPhone & iPad Document & Office Productivity Apps
Recommended and noteworthy iOS titles in the Documents & Office Productivity category are listed below. Apps are labeled as natively compatible with the iPhone and/or iPad, though all iPhone apps can be used on the iPad in compatibility mode. Most iPhone apps also work well on the iPod touch.
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Apple's own word processor for the iPad and iPhone is pages. This is an iOS, touch-centric version of Pages for Mac OS, which is part of the iWork suite, Apple's alternative to Microsoft Office.
Create, edit, and view documents. Pages works with iCloud, so your documents stay up to date across all your iOS devices — automatically. View and edit Pages '09, Microsoft Word, and plain text files. Easily import files from Mail, the web, a WebDAV service, or your Mac or PC using iTunes File Sharing.
Keynote and Numbers, other iWork apps, are also available for iOS.
A Bluetooth keyboard is recommended for users of this app.
PDF Expert is a powerful solution for PDF files on the iPad. Read and annotate PDF documents, highlight text, make notes, draw with your finger and save these changes being compatible with Preview and Adobe Acrobat. PDF Expert also reads many document types: iWork, MS Office, Power Point, text files, images, even music and video files, etc.
PDF Expert can also fill PDF forms made with Adobe Acrobat; text fields, check boxes, radio buttons and other form elements work as you'd expect and all information entered is saved inside the form.
Download and upload files from/to MobileMe iDisk, Dropbox, GoogleDocs and other services. If you use more than one online storage, PDF Expert will handle them all.
A stylus pen is recommended for users of this app.
Documents to Go for iOS from DataViz is the closest thing there is to an Office Suite for the iPad and iPhone. With Documents to Go you can view, edit and create Microsoft Word and Excel documents (2007+), and view PowerPoint, PDF, iWork and text files. With the free desktop companion application running on your Windows PC or Mac, you can also do 2-way file sync over a Wi-Fi connection.
A pricier version, Documents to Go Premium, adds additional features such as Google Docs, Box.net, Dropbox, MobileMe iDisk or SugarSync file access and PowerPoint file editing.
A Bluetooth keyboard is recommended for users of this app.
GoodReader is another powerful PDF reader for iPad. Ideal for PDF and TXT files large and small including manuals, eBooks, magazines. The ability to mark-up PDFs opens up new doors to GoodReader users who can now use typewriter text boxes, sticky notes, lines, arrows, and freehand drawings on top of a PDF file. This is our favorite app for reading and taking notes with PDF eBooks.
Other features include iDisk, Dropbox, SugarSync and any WebDAV, AFP, and FTP server support, Office and HTML document viewing, file management (create folders, move, copy and rename your files; zip, email, unZIP and unRAR them; plus send files to other apps), zoom, search, and more.
An iPhone version of GoodReader is also available.