There’s plenty of drawing apps out there for iOS - the iPad has the particularly great one in Penultimate, which I tried at launch on the office iPad -but over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been using Adobe Ideas to draw mockups on my iPhone. Very simply, it’s a well-designed (and free) drawing app. There’s not a great deal to it: you create ideas and start sketching - there’s adjustable stroke widths, a complete colour picker, and the essential eraser.
Adobe also in the most recent update added layer support as an in-app purchase ($4.99). Whilst it certainly adds a bit of complexity to the app, the ability to layer different elements (and adjust the relevant transparency) is well thought out.
For all the stick I find myself giving Adobe over Flash, Adobe Ideas is a really slick and well-thought-out app. Your ideas can be emailed as a PDF, or saved to the device’s Camera Roll for export - and given that the basic app is free you’d be mad not to give it a go.
This post is part of my weekly app reviews. You can read more reviews from the series here.
Posted on Wednesday February 9th, 2011
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