But it’s also an excellent, easy-to-use desktop publishing tool for the iPad – and, for those with supremely nimble fingers, the iPhone. (It may not surprise you to hear that design apps haven’t taken off on smartphones, thanks in large part to their smaller screens.) Here’s the lowdown on the apps we tested.Īpple Pages make it easy to create slick-looking flyers and brochures.Īpple itself describes its Pages app as a word processing tool. And while publishing and design apps for mobile devices remain rare, a decent selection of design apps is available for the iPad, and a few for Android tablets.
Today’s mobile devices are more powerful than ever. It’s because these resource-intensive applications often require the kind of processing horsepower and Internet bandwidth that mobile devices, like phones and tablets, simply don’t have-or didn’t have in the not-too-distant past.
There’s a reason that desktop publishing software is called, well, “desktop” publishing software.
