Prodrafts Reviews

I purchased the premium, so I hope I can get help. I have had only one this app file open for about a week, I just clicked on it on my iPad and it refreshed, like it was reloading, and now I cannot find my data anywhere on the canvas, I think it wiped all my data! Poor English in the menus does not help, I probably should not have purchased this.

EDIT: am able to export the file as pdf, thumbnail of pdf shows the data is there still, but it's a huge canvas so now I go hunt to find where it is, could take hours lol

Cons: Syncing and working across multiple devices can be cumbersome and an issue when other apps do it so seamlessly. In Prodrafts, if you’ve had it open on more than one device during work, it will prompt you to select which version to use. Sometimes it also doesn’t update completely in the version you’re working with so you can unknowingly lose data. The Undo features are frustrating to understand as well; it’ll undo the wrong things. Some of the tools or part of the menu are in a different language. I’m not sure why.

Pros: It’s a good infinite canvas to draft, structure, and present your concepts/work.

For months I had notes I couldn’t open because “Apple Drawing Format is from a future version that is too new”. That issue seems to have finally been resolved.

There are still several poor translations in the UI such as “Rechristen” instead of “Rename”, and “In the Synchronous” instead of just “Syncing”. There are often options that are still in Chinese so I have to translate it myself to figure out what it does. And even though they have a link to help contribute to the translation, not a single one has been corrected for almost a year now even though I have mentioned them more than one.

The entire support menu is in Chinese with links to things like Bilibili and QQ which are not used outside of China. At-least start a subreddit or something for English support.

As for features, Prodrafts is packed with em! The only thing missing for me is collaboration. And now that SharePlay can be integrated into any app directly through iCloud, hopefully this is something we can look forward to. A side bar with a folder tree view would be really nice to have too.

Personally I love the idea of unlimited writing paper, especially for studying biology, medicine related subjects. I appreciate the use of apple’s innate writing system, which somehow shows a prettier writing than the ones on apps like notability/GoodNotes. However, the lack of lasso select function is honestly very annoying, almost discouraging. There’re multiple times I want to move a segments of writing to another location for better idea categorizing, but I can’t. I even purchased the premium upgrade, because I thought this function is included based on the description of “expanded pencil tool”, but it’s not.

Speaking of the upgrade, I haven’t experience a major user improvement with the $7 premium upgrade. The shape function, at least for me, is meh. I don’t mind having an imperfect circle or arrow. I don’t really need that much extra pencil setting space on the side. Maybe there’re more functions available, but I haven’t find them as useful nor necessary (which I understand this is why the upgrade is optional).

Overall, it is a great app even without the upgrade. I can see it having lots of potential becoming a more mainstream productivity app. However, I really hope it can implement some sort of cloud backup option (even one way backup to the third party app like google drive could be helpful), and please please include the selection function I mentioned.

I just wanted an open space to doodle while taking notes or taking note while doodling. Your choice of words. I love it. You start working in two taps. I needed that. Having Apple’s pencil toolbar adds a world if you want to color and play with brushes.

Prodrafts has perform well for me. No crashing or hanging. I have found words in other languages in the menu. No biggie, more funny and interesting for me than anything.

I would LOVE to freely rotate the canvas while using Prodrafts , besides being able to do so with the iPad rotation feature.

I love Prodrafts so much and it is such a good addition to my iPad that I recently got, and they have so many features on Prodrafts and it’s really good and helps me keep my notes organized, I just wish that I could write on the feature that’s called “ tape type” so it would be sort of like a bookmark and they have different colors of it too. I just wish I could write on top of it. I am also a premium member, so I have the lifetime subscription thing, so I wish that would be a feature that they would add later on in the future for us existing premium members. The devs can contact me if they want any ideas. Thank you for creating Prodrafts. I love it!

I’m a designer and professor of design. In this capacity I need an application for personal professional practice but also for problem solving with students. Prodrafts seems to have just about everything you’d expect or hope an app to have (I say “expect” because my expectations of Apple have been lowered considerably after years of dashed hopes. Stop being conservative and wimpy, Apple. I’d like Apple to make it possible to run all Adobe apps.) And of particular note Prodrafts seems stable. It’s full of features. Its UI is clean. It makes use of Apples proprietary pencils which, despite one’s feeling about them, is at least stable and robust. I can stylize type, make my own paper, crop images and delete the background. I say, Well Done!
That all said, I would love to have a Layers feature.
Thank you for work on Prodrafts!!!

I’m in college and in way too many classes so I was experimenting with iPad written notes since having a ton of physical notebooks isn’t really convenient. Prodrafts I bought it because I loved it so much, it has a bunch of useful features and you can link things into your document and write how you want (messy or neat) and be able to sort the documents. I like the option for infinite note pages either up and down infinite or completely infinite in any direction since I write like a weirdo and need the space. It did take me a little while to actually understand Prodrafts but after taking some time to learn it I’ve been using it for every class and it’s amazing.

Alright yall… im feeling extra charitable today. I never write reviews. But the thing is that Prodrafts is so superior to every other handwriting note taking app that I just had to let you all know as well. I am a med student who needs an infinite canvas to make connections and draw mind maps after my lectures. The features , the interface, the thoughtfulness of design, like how you view pdfs as 2 sheets and how there’s a tape feature for image occlusion... it’s phenomenal, truly. I moved over from freeform and had goodnotes 5 for the past 3 years. If I had to design a writing tool, it would look like this. Thank u so much for the amazing app.

Hello! I couldn’t find your support contact and this email is my only hope to contact you There is a bug that I can’t zoom out, but if I create a new draft everything's back to normal, but in that draft, I’m stuck at 400% zoom I can not zoom out. I already tried to reinstall Prodrafts , restore my file, export & import and even reboot my device I have seen if I messed up with any settings and everything is set defaultly Please help! I paid for this because this is my ONLY hope and the ONLY app that has EVERYTHING that I require to work, great job! Sincerely From Portugal

I have been a life long user of Notability and Goodnotes 5, until I stumbled across Prodrafts. There are so many features that are useful and I feel like it’s the combination of those two popular options all merged together. There’s the option to have infinite canvas, which is what I need for mind map notes. Then there are traditional linear notes which is really cool as well. You can import your own templates if youd like, but the original one works pretty well too. The tools like lasso, eraser, pens are straight forward and they also have the Apple tool bar as well, just like the notes app. The most important factor for me is I can FINALLY lock the zoom to a certain percent so I could keep my handwriting consistent. After testing out for half an hour, I immediately purchased the unlimited, which is still cheaper than Goodnotes or Notability. There are still phrases that are not completely translated into English from Chinese, but that is very minimal and did not affect the experience at all. Overall, I am so glad to find Prodrafts, and I would highly recommend you try it out!

Don’t get me wrong, I think everything on Prodrafts is amazing thus far, but as someone who just purchased premium there are two things I wish were incorporated.

First, would be a way to bulk export, I have used other note taking apps that allow you to select multiple files and export them all in bulk as PDF’s. If you try to do that with this one it will simply back them up rather than export them as pdfs.

Secondly, I’d like to be able to link back to the source where I lasso’d the document. For example, say that I used the lasso tool to circle a portion of a textbook excerpt and drag it into my notes. I’d like for that circled content link back to where I originally circled it from. As of right now I noticed that there’s a way to add a link to an image, but it doesn’t seem to be easy (if even possible) to link back to where I originally circled the content.

There are probably some other features that I have came across when using other note taking apps that I use a lot and would really like, but for now I think these two are fine, since I would think these aren’t too hard to incorporate especially since most of the functionality is there, just not at that point yet.

already this is an “as good as it gets” high quality, top tier, infinite canvas and note-taking app. there are so many things to love. but here’s three things in particular I want to express my gratitude for:

1. multiple windows open with different this app files at the same time (cant do on concepts and some other similar apps)
2. extension of number 1 you can open the SAME file multiple times too, so you can work on or view two things simultaneously on the SAME board
3. art board sketch pads act like cards (or pages or stickies) that can be written ON and moved around ON the board, like a board on a board. not everything has to be directly on the giant infinite board/page.

(let me be selfish and mention one thing I’d like is a feature to export those art board sketch pads. with many options on how, like whether image or pdf, with different margins, dimensions, etc).

I absolutely love this app. I have test most of the other popular note taking apps and no matter how much I try to like them, I keep coming back to this app. The infinite canvas, page customizations and different brushes are just unbeatable. My only real issue is that it doesn’t work well between desktop and iPad. Even though there is an app for Macs and you can enable iCloud sync, it still doesn’t operate smoothly. Typing on the iPad is quite uncomfortable without a keyboard, so I prefer to do it on my laptop, but many times the file on my laptop is not updated to the one on the iPad so it makes it hard to add anything. I think if there was just a way to update a file intentionally with a button or something, it would fix this problem. Other than that though, it really is the best note taking app for iPads in my opinion.

I was looking for a notes taking app for taking notes in class. I wanted one that wasn't just a normal place of paper but one that I could expand and be creative on! My expectations were exceeded! The only think I would add is maybe a little bit more organization with the pages themselves. For example, I’d love to be able to have folders with each of my classes in it rather then them all on the home page. But other then that I couldn’t be happier! 10/10 😊

Prodrafts is absolutely beautiful and cheap with a one time purchase. I am amazed with the developer. I finally am able to add my own videos from my iPad and resize them and scrub the video. Surprisingly no other popular note taking apps have this ability.

I’m also able to make hyper links to other notes, pages, and websites within Prodrafts which is beautiful if you want to create your own hyperlinked planners.

The UI is beautiful and easily understandable and the ability to customize your paper backgrounds to look like real paper and vintage paper is incredible. It makes me feel like I’m writing in an earlier time period while still living in the modern era.

I can have a timer, and many other of the popular features of other note taking apps.

I give my highest praise and thanks to this developer. THANK YOU!

The only thing I wish it had was some in depth tutorials in English and not Chinese. Luckily, my girlfriend speaks mandarin so I will be getting her help with this. But I would be fine without her help though because Prodrafts is so intuitive and easy to navigate.

My experience has been marvelous so far. I love its multifunction within the canvas itself, and the adoption of the original Apple Pencil drawing features! It opens a whole new world. Though I would say I hate Apple built in highlight pen. It’s so dusty and annoying when highlighting stuffs, thus I have to use other apps when I need to do such app.
A pleasant surprise is that thanks to the prebuilt pencil style, Prodrafts is great for writing Chinese and Japanese words/letters.

This is the ONLY app I’ve found of this caliber in terms of every feature I ever needed and many I didn’t know I wanted. And all at a preposterously reasonable lifetime cost. I hope Prodrafts sticks around for a long time with updates and support because it’s just a dream. If you’ve ever wanted an infinite canvas that actually works and doesn’t break the bank, look no further. One of the best app purchases I’ve ever made. Thank you, developers! <3

I just started using Prodrafts for writing notes to learn another language. Not having the constraints of a normal notes app is hugely helpful (for example, being able to just keep writing notes to the right of a worksheet as long as I want). It’s very simple to use and the exporting feature works perfect. I just paid for the $8 premium version to support, even though I probably don’t need the extra features.

I use this in grad school. I'm able to drag and drop screenshots from my computer. Prodrafts syncs very well across all my devices. Endless canvas for note taking. Pens and markers respond appropriately. Search function makes it easy to search for topics/content across multiple pages. I have tried MANY different apps (nebo, freeform, notability) and this one is currently my favorite by far for endless note taking. It is not a substitute for notability, but it crushes many of the features other apps do not come close with. I also like I can upload video clips to my notes in Prodrafts. The biggest thing i notice is that I add more and more content, I do not see the same amount of LAG and SLOW loading that I see with other apps. This handles large amounts of notes very well. Thanks this app!