CREATE: Graphic Design + Fonts Reviews

by Katusvh2343

What a waste of my time and money! I probably have about 40 other, different graphic design apps for smart phones and font editing, video editing applications on my phone and I have successfully created hundreds if not thousands of graphics, trailers, videos, photos etc on my iPhone since 2012.

CREATE is complete junk — I spent 45 minutes and over $20 signing up for all the different features they have and I got nowhere, other than again and again by all kinds of buttons being prompted to email myself my own photo. Every button I pushed, whether it was vector or PDF or geotag, they all lead me to email myself and my own photo. This is idiotic.

This was one of the most frustrating experiences in a long time. I’ve never failed at an app like this. This is a first —and this is why they got one star.

I’m certainly not technology or app impaired and I can work with all my other 40 apps but this one is junk. Period.

by Tetshi

The actual user interface makes no sense. Ironically an app based on design has a terrible UI/UX. The icons mean nothing. They’ve got no hints as to what they actually do. There is no flow. CREATE itself is obviously very powerful, but learning to use it isn’t worth the effort. Not sure what the developer was going for, but if it was a confusing mess of icons that mean nothing... they accomplished that.

by Bdp1233

I’ve been using this app for about 3 years and it’s the closest thing to photoshop for iPhone. Intuitive, slick UI and very capable of producing excellent content.

You recently switched to a subscription model and have now relegated the people who helped support you to this point to second class citizens. I know all apps have the cookie cutter third party agreeement, but every other app has respected previous purchase and gotten us covered. You didn’t even announce the change via push notification, which you’re totally capable of. A bit disappoint by the lack of customer appreciation...

by Voidofcourse

I'm not even sure why I keep this installed; I guess I keep hoping that an update will improve the UX. Using CREATE makes me feel dumb, tbh, until I remember that I usually can pick up pretty much any good software very quickly. It's not me, it's CREATE .
Minimalism is beautiful, but not when all the options are hidden. There are little tutorials in CREATE , but I believe that a well designed app can be easily figured out without the need for a tutorial. And I just can't enjoy playing around with CREATE, cause it's unwieldy.

Better alternatives are Bez, which is like Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape, but stripped down. And also Assembly by Pixite, which is just a joy to use. If CREATE could somehow combine the best parts of those aforementioned apps, it would be awesome, but I'm not holding my breath, unfortunately.

CREATE is very beautifully designed, though!

by Cole Landy

This design/logo maker is good. You can customize a lot and they have preset shapes and icons and cool things. But you can’t arch you’r words. That bugs me a lot. And they also don’t have banners. I can’t arch my words on a circle which is a big deal when it comes to making logos. But CREATE can this app very cool logos. And CREATE makes it easy to line everything up. So I give it a four but it needs more. But it’s good.

by Wacky Dawg

This is by far my favorite app for creating graphics and editing thumbnails and more. I spend a lot of time on CREATE just messing around and creating random designs. The only things I wish I could add/change are
1. The drawing feature is confusing to me. For simple lines it’s great but I want to draw images for logos and I’m not seeing how I can.
2. There are some fonts I wish were there. There are a ton of options but I would love to see a brush font, Disney looking font, and just some more others added because I’ve used most of them at some point already.
Thanks!

by Butthead123456789

I’ve used CREATE for about a year now and wow it is amazing. I use it mostly to mess around and make wallpapers for my phone but it needs gradients when adding shapes and text! I would’ve rated 5 stars but it’s missing only 1 thing. If it’s already in there then it is not obvious how to apply gradients but if it’s not please add it! CREATE needs it!

by Jtsistinas

This is a great little program that does some things i cant accomplish in other apps. They fixed the compatibility with apple pencil and now its awesome. The snap to grid and line segment work flow is one if the best I've seen yet. I bought the add on pack and I'm super happy! Only suggestions now is the GUI, its a little unintuitive and would benefit from some tweaks, such as icon usage and sub menus. And ways to add or remove line segments/points after drawing a shape and a way to close a shape when start and end points overlap. Otherwise its an outstanding app.

by Derekthedude

Dear Mark, can you please support video export, it would be nice if there were pre-selected lengths to choose from say 5, 10, 15 seconds etc. to choose from, also it would be nice if you supported multiple video codecs as well, thanks.

by Olbiggums

this app has a slight learning curve, but it’s easy to get used to.

- Elegant and streamlined design.
Every function is a tap or swipe away!

- Great font selection, perfect font options for logo or ad designing.

(!!!) Decent shape selection, needs to be expanded upon imo.
For example, the only ‘plant’ shape i saw was a pine tree.

More images for different design topics should be added. (Though you can import images from external sources to get around this)

- Very good project Save/Export menu.

*Overall, this app is a very simple, but powerful app that allows for the making of simple, crisp and clean, shape based designs. It can be used for logos, posters, vector style art, and just about anything. It is not meant for complex designs or drawing at all. But for making simple art, it delivers the perfect experience!

***** (5 stars!)

by IMamma

I am a complete beginner and just wanted to make a little score board to add to my son’s baseball highlight videos (like On ESPN). It took me a couple hours to design and perfect. It was super easy once I got the hang of finding the tools I needed. Now I just go in and change the info and layer it into my highlight footage.

by Lianett1980

This is the best and easiest design app out there. It’s simple and fun to use. I am an art teacher and I tell my students to download it bc it’s something that everyone can learn to use. I had a project that I couldn’t transfer to vector and the programmers made the project for me and took care of the problem. Everyone needs CREATE!

by CityBoy375

Very user friendly, while also being a quality program. CREATE has an individual layering system, with transparency and opacity control on each layer. However, it is very easy to use. I, personally, have no professional graphic design experience, yet my results look neat and clean.

by Vasquezhector39

CREATE rivals a professional design program, and the basic version is FREE! I’ve created my entire small business identity using CREATE and one other, including business cards. It’s easy to move objects around, edit text, and re-layer, and it comes with a lot of re-sizable shapes that’ll really spruce up your design. Highly recommend, and I’ll definitely be purchasing the paid version, which lets you have more than two saves.

Had an earlier question about transparent PNG’s, and the developer had a great response. Please see it if you’re struggling to get transparent images to work!

by AntonioStella81

CREATE is amazing! It has a lot of things you could use for free and everything about it is beautiful, colors, fonts, everything! I love it! It’s a great app to use and it’s so easy to use too! The bets part about it is that it has so many options! This is truly an amazing app. It’s what I’ve been looking for!!💗💗✨✨✨

by Horrible And Untruthful

CREATE is absolutely perfect especially with the updates. Well worth the price. I this app beautiful, professional looking, crisp product labels, logos, flyers, and social media posts. Thank you. This is one of the few apps that I make sure is downloaded on every phone I have and purchase over and over again. It’s been 2 years and I’m completely satisfied.

by ClashOfClansLover89

Great app, but the export quality on the save Photo feature for me went down. No longer saves in 2048x2048, now only saves in 768x1024. Don't understand why the decrease in quality. Also the 1:1 ratio was removed, which was one of my favorite features.

EDIT: Developer replied (thanks so much for the help!) And the problems I listed are soon to be fixed in an update.

by Joi F.

I love CREATE a lot! It most of the criteria in a design app that I am looking for but one thing I wish it had was being able to merge objects together. Also when I want to send a svg vector image it opens my email but there is nothing there besides a link to CREATE in CREATE Store. So maybe I’m missing something or did something wrong. I don’t know. But overall I really enjoy CREATE and definitely recommend!

by Sam Tupy

I’m all about CREATE! Everything works great and looks amazing. I just wish there was a way to transfer in different fonts from a pdf file.

I do the social media for a company that has its own specific fonts for branding, but there’s no way for me to add them to CREATE . A good example of an app that does this is CREATE “over”. It allows me to open the file in that app and it sticks in the library!

Is that a possible update?

by Klcastleberry23

I have only been using CREATE for a few hours now to develop my T-shirt business and it’s logos. Within these past few hours I was more than happy to pay the $7 for all of the other add ons. I have been able to build at least 6 new T-shirt designs with just the free version though, so it’s definitely a good start up app. DEFINITELY WOULD RECOMMEND TO ANYONE!

by Cameron0208

I love minimalist design, but this is more like bare bones than minimalist. The whole point of Minimalism is to convey more by using less. It only works in apps if the buttons/icons convey to the user exactly what can be done by clicking that specific button. After umpteen times using this app, it still takes me 5 clicks to find what I need to. The concept and design lack all intuitiveness and logic, causing an extremely frustrating experience. this app has some great features, but I deleted CREATE and won’t be looking back.

by JoeyCastellon

I LOVE CREATE, though I found it far from intuitive. At least for me, it was really hard to get used to the interface, but now that I’ve done about 5 projects, I keep getting better and faster. So just bear in mind that at the beginning things MIGHT not be as easy (probably just me 😆)
The ONE thing I find missing is the ability to have a custom canvas size, set in pixels, or at least add the 4:5 (or 1080x1350) aspect ratio for Instagram. THIS IS A GREAT APP!