Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are Apple’s answer to Microsoft Word, Excel, and Power Point. Apple has designed these apps from the ground up for use on the iPhone and iPad. And the result is fantastic! In fact, it’s so good that after the mobile versions of Apple’s productivity suite were released, the company went back and redesigned their desktop apps to match. If you’re a heavy iCloud user, these apps will provide the perfect syncing solution for you. But if you use Dropbox, you might be better off using Microsoft Office.

Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are just three of our favorite document creation apps for iPhone and iPad. We’ve collected all of our favorites here. And if you’d like to see more of our top app selections in different categories, just head on over to our Best Apps Series.

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Here are a couple of our other picks of the best document creation apps for iPhone and iPad:

PDF Office – Create PDF documents and forms right on your iPad

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Microsoft’s Office Suite – Word, PowerPoint, and Excel

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