Paper by WeTransfer Software

Something happened to this app, my favorite drawing app, because it used to draw completely on one’s intuitive sense, without cluttering up one’s mind with having to make decisions about the size of the brush etc. etc. It used to be simple and it worked well. Something happened, and it’s getting more complicated. Developers always feel that they have to give you more options. Sometimes I feel in America we have too many options. So many that they get in the way of creativity. Now, sometimes the brush doesn’t work, or the roller to automatically fill shapes. The photos on the front of the journals arrive cattywampus. My recommendation would be to STOP with the added options, and make what you have work every time. Also, please move the “go back” button to the tool tray, and make the tools look more different so as to easily distinguish one from another.

Once I played around with it, I was able to see it’s a lot better than it seems at first glance. I am SO organized with this app: I have a journal for monthly goals, chore charts to keep track of my kids and housework in daily/weekly/monthly/3-6month intervals, daily planner, routines, etc. I can input pictures for monthly challenges I’m working on, and I have a journal of template pages I made so all I have to do is duplicate it and move it to the appropriate journal. I love it! I wish I could input more than one picture on a page, however. And the app shuts down a lot. (Luckily, the work saves beforehand) It’s also hard to pinch the journals closed, and you can’t swipe through pages when they’re open to work on. I wish adding text was available with the other pen options, as well as having different brush sizes. Looking forward to improvements, but I still really enjoy this app!

I really enjoy drawing with this app and decided to upgrade to the pro version. I had quite a few drawings in my notebook and decided to use the iCloud backup. What a mistake. I chose the option to sync my files with iCloud. Every time I opened the app I had to wait for the program to re-download all my files before I could do any work. It doesn’t just check if any of your files have changed and sync them. It actually deletes all your work and downloads the latest version even if your files are unchanged. If you don’t have an internet connection, NONE of your work is available. Because some of my notebooks had hundreds of files, I also had problems with not all the files downloading and even becoming corrupted. I have had to split them so that each album only has 100 pages. In the end I lost weeks of productivity.