

OneNote - head over to /r/onenote for a more thorough review than you ever wanted.It's popular on the iPad, and being rebuilt from the ground up as UWP, not a lazy port Concepts - Innovative infinite canvas vector based drawing app, with the feel of a raster app, kinda like Mischief.Leonardo - Infinite canvas raster based drawing app, with nice UI features, but doesn't support pen tilt yet.Mischief - apparently dies 12-31-2019, sketching app that can upscale and downscale drawings without degredation.Autodesk Sketchbook - now free, innovative pie menu interface and natural media drawing and sketching with additional features.Clip Studio - often recommended, goes on sale frequently.Adobe Fresco - Great UWP raster & vector based drawing & painting app, with convincing watercolor and oil paint live brushes (tip: disable CC services from start-up if not in use as they are always reading/writing to disk).Adobe Creative Cloud - Industry standard for a variety of uses, expensive if you aren't using it professionally.Mozilla Firefox - more recommended these days but not sure why, please help me out! May eat battery on Surface devices.Google Chrome - A must have for streaming Google proprietary services, also heavily recommended if using the Google ecosystem.Microsoft Edge - your best bet when running off battery but struggles with streaming Google services (Play Movies, YouTube).I want you to know what you are downloading. Where possible I'm supplying the link to the main page, not the download page. Thanks to everyone for contributing! There are TONS of nuances I don't understand about several of these, please help me where I'm wrong. *(Program name) - unique features or perksĮDIT: Keep 'em coming! This is just a partial update to get moving. digital art, photo editor, document editor, game, etc) If things go well maybe the mods will sticky a new thread annually.Ĭategory (i.e. Post away and I'll edit everything back into an easy to use master list in a couple of days. These threads have been super helpful to me over the years but I think the last major thread like this was a couple years ago.

With the year coming to an end let's make a list of the best apps, tools, and plugins or features available for the Surface Family as of December 2019.
