There are a ton of cool apps for Surface devices available to download from the Microsoft Store and elsewhere online. From various Windows 11/10 apps for stocks and cryptocurrency prices to countless photo and video editors, it can be a hassle to sift through the software lists and find the best Surface app for every job. You don’t have to. Here are 12 of the best apps for Surface Laptop, Surface Pro, Surface Go, and other Microsoft Surface devices that are worth downloading and checking out.

Thanks to a renewed effort by Instagram to update its Windows app with a better UI and more functionality, the official app is now one of the best ways to consume Instagram posts on a Microsoft Surface. The app lets you like, comment on, and share posts from others. You can also search the social network for more content and access your posts.

The highlight of the Windows Instagram app is its support for Instagram Stories, which look noticeably better on a Surface screen than they do on a smaller mobile device. In addition to the video being larger, multiple stories are now displayed at once, giving you more control over what you watch next instead of just blindly swiping like before.

Affinity Publisher is a fully featured app designed for creating, editing and publishing content, both in print and on the web. It can be used to create simple pamphlets and posters, but it also has a huge range of professional tools for producing truly stunning book covers and magazine layouts.