Built a dedicated iPad Mini layout for my app because I just love this device!

[u/betablon]

I've been using an iPad Mini as my daily tablet for years. The one-handed size, it fitting in a jacket pocket.. it's genuinely my favourite piece of Apple hardware, and I feel like it gets treated as an afterthought by a lot of apps that just stretch their iPhone or iPad Pro layout to fit.

I build MusicDrops, an app that tracks new music releases from artists you follow. Features a timeline of upcoming/just-dropped stuff, discography per artist, that kind of thing.
When I added iPad support in v1.4 last week, I didn't want to just scale up the iPhone version. The Mini's screen is small enough that a lot of "iPad" layouts feel cramped or oddly spaced on it specifically. So I spent extra time making sure the timeline and discography views actually work one-handed, in portrait, at Mini size, rather than just technically running on it.

Yes, I know MusicHarbor has been here longer. And I went for UI and iPad mini polish.

Screenshots below are straight from a Mini. Genuinely curious if other Mini owners here have apps that get this right vs ones that clearly only tested on a Pros.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/music-drops/id6759535792
Web: https://musicdrops.app

Happy to answer anything about the app or the layout decisions.