App Shopper: KeyPad Plus (Utilities)

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KeyPad Plus

iOS Universal

Some quotes from reviews of KeyPad Pro (predecessor of KeyPad +): 

"Really useful. I use this app with final cut pro to do some of my keystrokes. It speeds some processes up quite a bit."
"Simply great. This app challenges the imagination. It has countless possibilities not discussed such as game boards etc…"
"Very powerful app with endless possibilities."

The ultimate wireless remote for your computer. Create and edit elaborate control panels with buttons, sliders, dials, panners, and circular menus that control any application on your Mac or Windows or Linux box using your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. Work like a pro in Photoshop, Illustrator, SketchUp, Aperture, Cinema4D, Final Cut, and ANY application. Swipe to rotate a 3D model, or dial to adjust brush size, or pan with your fingers to navigate a canvas, and access any tool with simple taps without moving your mouse and drilling down menus.

Comes with a free basic keypad and functionality to turn the iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch into a wireless trackpad and keyboard for your computer.

Controls can be colored and tagged with icons or text for easy access. They can be resized, rotated, and even made transparent. Images from your Photo Library can be used as backgrounds or icon images for the controls. Layout transparent controls over an image of an airplane dashboard, or on top of a picture of a Klingon vessel's control panel, and use it to control Photoshop or Microsoft Word or World of Warcraft!

You can purchase, from within the app, already made KeyPad layouts with a professional touch. And copy/modify any KeyPad layout you purchase to suit your particular needs. Layouts for various productivity apps added regularly to the KeyPad in-app Store.   Current list includes keypads for: Photoshop, Illustrator, SketchUp, Aperture, Final Cut, Premiere, Mac OSX, iPhoto, iMovie, Word, Powerpoint, Excel.

You can share any of your keypad creations with other KeyPad Pro users through the in-app KeyPad Forum or via email. All keypads in the KeyPad Forum are freely downloadable, can be reviewed by the user base, duplicated and refined, and can include custom artwork. Currently, the KeyPad Forum hosts 40+ free keypads.

Full iCloud support to backup your keypads and share them across devices, be they iPads, iPhones, or iPod Touch. Universal app works on all iDevices seamlessly.

Check out: http://keypadplus.dopplerthepom.com for more details and video tutorials.  

NOTE: Editing functionalities and access to the free KeyPad Forum requires upgrade to Pro version. Free version gives access to trackpad/keyboard modes, a basic keypad, and purchasing from the KeyPad Store.

Features:

 - Powerful control panel editor, visual and versatile, copy/paste support, document creation via templates. 
- Buttons, sliders, dials, panners, menus, sequencers; scalable and rotatable; transparent controls.
- Use built-in artwork or your own photos for backgrounds and icon imagery.
- Turns your iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch into a wireless trackpad or keyboard for your computer, or even use it as a tablet for drawing.
- iCloud syncing and backup.
- Purchase professionally made keypads from the in-app KeyPad Store.
- Download free keypads shared by other users through the in-app KeyPad Forum. 
- Share your control panel creations via email.
- Bonjour automatic network communication over WiFi, or manual mode to bypass some firewalls.
- Tunable delay for hold and double tap; sound effects for feedback.
- Support for keystrokes through unicodes for non-latin and special characters.
- Device memorization and pairing with securely stored passwords.
- Video tutorials on Vimeo and extensive in-app documentation.
- Keypads shared across devices: iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
- Mac, Windows, and Linux support.

 Requirements: 

- Mac OS X 10.4-10.7 or Windows XP, Vista, or 7 or Linux box.
- Some pre-made layouts require plugins that are freely downloadable from app website.

What's new

- All new look for all controls.
- Sequencer control can now send a sequence of 21 keystrokes with one tap.
- Control label font can now be customized.
- Control icon fills the entire control area when no label is attached.
- Fixed bug where custom artwork for a keypad stored in iCloud would not sometimes show.
- Editing grid size can now be made smaller.
- Interface tweaks and feedback for more time consuming operations.
- A showcase keypad added to demonstrate the new visual customization features.