Touch Portal 4+

I love this app, bought the pro version almost immediately, even though it’s still sort of in its infancy, the developers are working hard to implement feature requests and fix bugs from their users, there is an extremely helpful discord page for the app with rapid responses from developers and lots of tips, ideas, UI icons and macros for accessing and using different programs, I even found a minor bug myself and have been extremely impressed with how quickly it’s been checked and cued for fixing.
It’s also a lot of fun coming up with workflow streamlining operations, and symbols and icons to use or make in your own personalised user interface, I’m not even into live streaming video which is why a lot of people choose to use this as a free/cheap yet powerful alternative to the Elgato Stream Deck or similar, I just like the extra functionality I can have instantly at my finger tips alongside the midi controller I use for video, audio and image editing programs.

As a power user of Adobe Applications, I’ve grown tired of remembering absolutely every keyboard shortcut, with many of them requiring finger gymnastics. Across the different applications, there are hundreds. These shortcuts are essential for optimising usage of the applications. Touch portal has removed the pain of keyboard shortcuts by allowing me to move whichever shortcuts I choose, to an icon on my iPad screen placed next to my keyboard. This has been a lifesaver. Additionally, I’ve created little Automator scripts that allow me to rate music in Apple Music by tapping an icon on my iPad and add tracks to specific playlists, all through Touch Portal. I absolutely love Touch Portal, and know that my usage of using it for keyboard shortcuts is just scratching the surface of what it can do. Am surprised this gem of a tool isn’t more widely known as I couldn’t recommend it any higher. It’s easily in my top 3 apps on my iPad Pro, that I use daily.

I won’t waste you time, the app works 110%, I am a developer and rarely I get impressed from other developers. This one is not only well thought but also obvious it has taken in lots of feedback and made it excellent. A user claimed the app uses an old installer that needs to reboot blah blah. Nothing could be more uninformed like that comment. The reboot has to do with security of windows as the app uses certain API for network access. I stream and do a rather complex work with online and offline (music composition) and I can assure you this is a diamond app that you can use with ANY software, jump from pc app to app, and do EVERYTHING! Buy it.