I’m in Working Copy many times a week to deal with content, and it’s great. I have a Shortcut that pulls my content down, then asks me to pick a new file to post to the site and gets it up there for me. What I do use Working Copy for is interacting with my Statamic site. I don’t actually use Working Copy much for Git in my development workflow because I connect to a remote server and operate Git via the command line there, but its’ a developer tool so it’s grouped there. One tab would be jQuery, another for PHPUnit, another for WordPress…Again this is something that the macOS version has, and is a feature I miss on iPadOS. Second, I wish I could have tabbed documentation browsing. This is a problem I have yet to find a good solution for on iPadOS. First, I wish I could store code snippets in it and that they’d be shared across platforms. I do wish it had 2 features from it’s macOS counterpart. Dash is what helps me look through documentation as it downloads local copies of the docs I want so I can reference them as needed, even without internet connection. One thing I’ve learned after coding for 10 years is that in many ways experienced developers are simply better at asking Google questions and searching through documentation. Not a deal breaker, but room for improvement.

Where desktop browsers will show you the source of a line of CSS in your files, Inspect only sends you to the rendered output file. The only thing I fault it on is the CSS browsing if you’re using any type of processing system like SASS. It provides you with competent developer tools for your projects. This is where Inspect steps in to fill a gap. No viewing source, or inspecting the results of console output, just view the page and guess why something isn’t working. Yes you can view any sites you want with the built in Safari web browser, there are no development tools to speak of. This is the key app I need if I want to keep building websites for clients because without this the rest of the apps listed aren’t really needed since I wouldn’t be able to do my work on my iPad. I’ve been a Vim user for years, and Blink Shell lets you connect to a remote server and use your regular old Vim setup easily. Shortcuts is the glue that holds many of my workflows together. I use Shortcuts multiple times a day to convert text into the formats I want, create task lists in Things, format content and files for my site, and many other things. I’m not crazy having hundreds of shortcuts like some people, but this is the biggest thing I miss when I head back to my Mac. The first app, which gets a category of it’s own is (). In most cases, I feel handicapped by not having them when I have to use macOS.

Today is a look at all the apps that I love on my iPad.

Blink reminder app mac