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Astropad's New 'Slate' App Lets You Control Your Mac With Your iPad and Apple Pencil

After several months of beta testing (https://www.macrumors.com/2023/10/12/astropad-slate-ipad-app/), Astropad is today officially launching its Astropad Slate (https://astropad.com/slate/) app for the iPad (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/ipad/). Slate turns an ‌iPad‌ into a large trackpad for a Mac, complete with Apple Pencil (https://www.macrumors.com/guide/apple-pencil/) control.



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With Slate, you can use an ‌iPad‌ and ‌Apple Pencil‌ to perform several useful tasks. The ‌Apple Pencil‌ serves as a cursor for controlling the desktop mouse, and a tap on the screen is used as a click.



When you write on the ‌iPad‌, it is translated into typed text on the Mac, and there are two-finger gestures for actions like scrolling and zoom. If you have a newer ‌iPad‌ that supports ‌Apple Pencil‌ hover, you can use the hover gestures. For older iPads, Astropad added a simulated hover option.



In Mac apps that support drawing, sketching, and other creative work, you can use the ‌iPad‌ as a drawing tablet. It essentially serves as a no-screen interface for drawing, with the focus on the Mac.



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You'll need an &zwnj;iPad&zwnj; that runs iPadOS 15 or later and a Mac that runs macOS 11 or later to use Astropad Slate. The devices can be connected over Wi-Fi, Peer-to-Peer networking, or an appropriate USB cable.



The Astropad Slate app (https://astropad.com/product/slate/) is priced at $19.99 and can be purchased from the App Store (https://www.macrumors.com/guide/app-store/). [Direct Link (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/astropad-slate-pen-tablet/id6476419462)]<div class="linkback">Tag: Astropad (https://www.macrumors.com/guide/astropad/)</div>
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