PAGES
Free Made for iPhone, iPadThe most versatile app for laying out
almost any kind of book is free with your
iPad. You can use Pages just for writing
text or to style text and add images in
advanced layouts, and add elements such
as footnotes and tables of contents. You
can export in various formats, including
ebook–ready EPUB, with support for stuff
like a reflowing layout or live hyperlinks.
Pages is perfect for familiar book types.BOOK CREATOR FOR iPAD
$4.99 Made for iPadThis app is designed around building
interactive ebooks and filling them with
carefully laid–out text, images, video,
audio files, and more. It’s closer to using
Keynote than Pages, and is great for
visually focused ideas. Kids’ books,
interactive guides and technical manuals
can be built and exported to ebooks. The
App Store describes it as an educational
app, but it’s great for everyone.EVERNOTE
Free (IAPs) Made for iPhone, iPadA stalwart of iOS productivity, this is still
one of the best ways to keep complex
multimedia notes. You can take down
quick thoughts, scan in written notes and
convert them to copyable text, capture
photos or images and attach them to
ideas, dictate thoughts and have them
transcribed to text. With the flexible
Evernote it’s easy to organize your
thoughts and find them again.Everyone has a book in them that
people would love, we just don’t all
know how to get it out, and these
apps will help. Note that we didn’t
say everyone has a novel in them, but
we’re talking about all kinds of books:
recipes, local restaurants, obscure–
but–crucial methodology speciĽc to
your job, kids’ stories... and, yes, alsonovels. You don’t have to get into
making books in the hope of being
the next James Patterson, just like
you don’t have to expect to be this
century’s Picasso just because you
like painting. Most of us know stuļ
that would be useful or fascinating to
other people if we wrote it down, so
why not get started?6 apps to write
a book
ROUNDUPGet creative before spring hits and
unleash the book within you66 MAR 2020 maclife.com Image rights from left: Apple, Tools for Schools Limited, Evernote.