Leave a Review Paper by WeTransfer
Daily Journal and visual thinking tool
This app was a slow burn for me, I’ve had it for a while and gradually it has become my favorite sketching/drawing app.
Whenever I need to figure something out or an interesting thought comes to mind, I start here 🙂. I’ve begun to use it as my daily journal, for visual note taking (a.k.a. Sketchnoting) and for planning. I used to use Leuchtturm notebooks, but they cost $20 each at 3 a year. Additionally, they were piling up and I couldn’t get the useful sketches out of the notebook without taking a picture and redrawing. Not to mention the pens. I’ve converted to digital.
I like the minimal approach of this app. The tools have a tiny learning curve, but once you understand them, it’s great 👍🏽. I love that you can add your own color palettes, I love the color mixer and the copy/paste drawer. Thanks for your hard work on this app. I’ll stay a subscriber to help to keep this app updated.Show lessShalimart
Glitched update? All pens are extremely pixelated on ipad pro 11in
I’ve been a loyal supporter since this app was Paper 53 around 2012. Even Proceate never dethroned it in my heart in terms of the natural feeling of the pens that makes it exactly like writing on paper. I went through college with it, taking notes for every class, relying consistently for it to capture my quick art ideas within seconds. I always feel ecstatic whenever I use the ink pen especially.
That said, today I signed into it and suddenly all the pens are extremely pixelated, no zooming, no anything. Every size and every pen, except for the pencil. I’ve been using the drawings from this app on iPad Pro 11in to extract lines in Illustrator before without any significant pixelation at all.
Is there a possible recent glitch in one of the updates? Am I missing out on some subscription-only uopdates? Please tell me I’m not the only one getting this issue :( This is to this day the only app that gives me joy, and I really want to see it maintaining as the working horse it’s been. I hope you hear me, dear devs :(Show lessMi Lùn
Developer Response
We're sorry to hear that you're experiencing issues with pixelation in Paper. If you’d like to open a ticket for assistance, please send us your Diagnostic Report. In Paper, tap on the Settings icon top right then “Support”. On the next screen, tap on “Send Diagnostic Report”. An email window will pop up. Please add a detailed description of what’s going wrong in the body of the email. Once we’ve received your email, we’ll be able to dig in. Thank you for your patience.Frustrating Opacity Issues, But Awesome
The marker, pen, fountain pen, and diagram thingy are all not fully opaque. This makes it hard to draw solid footage, especially against a completely black background. I beg you to at least add a transparency slider somewhere easily accessible or remove the transparency completely because I’m tired of getting this weird scribble texture when I fill in a large area.
Don’t suggest I use the fill tool because it’s a lie. It has these tiny holes in it that are a waste of time trying to fill them in. Also when I accidentally merge two fills together it makes the intersecting part much darker than the actual color. I know you’re trying to be realistic about it but it just makes it harder to make a solid image.
I’ve tried using the scissors tool to duplicate something onto itself but for some reason it doesn’t work, the image itself is not very transparent, but the scribbly texture is just as visible.
Other than that, it’s my #1 recommended doodling software for ios devices, including children (by the way I’m a child as well)Show lessLoveSpaceAlot
Used Everyday: Journaling, Note Taking, Sketching
I purchased the premium version of paper mostly to have virtual notebooks since I use the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. I love that I can also type notes or add a sticky note onto a drawing journal page. Pages are able to moved around, photo media inserted onto pages, and due to the sketch features, if I write something in the wrong place, I can cut it out of the page and “paste it somewhere else. The templates help keep my handwriting nice and neat, though I do wish there were better writing utensil options. It’s very easy to make and note custom palettes as well. I tried to use Moleskin, but didn’t enjoy it as much as Paper.
The typing options weren’t very intuitive, but I figured out how to make it work. I’m not a big fan of the pencil because it seems too light compared to a real pencil’s markings. *If more writing templates could be added, like for brainstorming or outlining, that would be great! Maybe allowing for pre-drawn shapes to be added to the template would help with this!* I wish the typing font colors could be changed, but besides that, I don’t have any other suggestions or complaints.Show lessDejamonetxo
Improved version
EDIT: Lost journal has been restored. Useful app
I tried using the cloud sync feature to access journals on phone from iPad. Journals didn’t want to upload and couldn’t get them to show up on iPhone. The following day they were still trying to upload. I deleted the first journal because I didn’t need it anymore, I force close the app because they were all still trying to upload and it automatically deleted the 2nd journal which is the most important one I had with information I cannot recover. Extremely dissatisfied and not wanting to even continue to use the app now because of everything lost in that journal. I use first aid feature and it recovers the journal I deleted with nothing in it. Try to submit a support ticket and they don’t even have a button to submit it, try and send a report log and there’s no email.Show lessIaintu
Violates Apple App Store Rules
3.1.2(a) Permissible Uses: "If you are changing your existing app to a subscription-based business model, you should not take away the primary functionality existing users have already paid for." I already paid for multiple brush sizes, yet the publisher took away from me that key function when they switched to a subscription-based business model. It's ridiculous that Apple refuses to enforce their own Store rules. And it’s disgusting that Apple goes out of their way to promote publishers who blatantly break Apple’s own rules. NOTE: not one of the Diagram tool, or the Fill tool, or the Cut tool implement the five brush sizes (ink pen, pencil, thick marker, thin marker) I already paid for when I bought the “Essentials toolbox”. That’s why it is false to claim that nobody paid for multiple brush sizes before the publisher switched to a subscription business model and why so-called “Legacy Status” still VIOLATES THE STORE RULES.Show lessJohns769
The New Update is Problematic
I love Paper and have loved using it for years. However, the new unexpected update has brought some issues. First of all when I go from page to page or from journal to journal the flow of the swiping becomes very rigid, like if it experienced friction. This also applies to the actions of entering and exiting pages. Secondly, the eye drop tool no longer seems to work. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t, sometimes only on the color of background images.
Overall this has strained my current experience with Paper which is an app that I faithfully love and use daily. I hope these issues can be mended or reversed soon. Thank you
-LazarusShow lessVtron/Lazarus
Creative drawing app that inspires with unique approach
This app is simple and convenient to use. And yet I find myself drawing radically different than I do with paper and pen or other digital mediums. This brings out an entirely new style and perspective in the art I produce. I absolutely love it.
For someone who is terrible at drawing this app has tools that let me draw funky and stylistic pieces that others really seem to get and love.
There really isn’t much to this app other than an intuitive and unique tool approach to getting images out of your head and onto paper, even images you didn’t know where up there or don’t recognize in my case. I have also seen people draw stunningly accurate sketches and more traditional art with this app.
For a free app this thing really does not come up short. Of course there are extras I would love to have with layering and editing images but I haven’t paid for anything and I get syncing between devices, cloud storage and backup, and a tool for quickly sketching out ideas or exploring the depths of my subconscious all intuitively and immediately.
Great work on the developers behalf. Definitely makes me look into their other applicationsShow lessirJerad
Paper is also GREAT for Work!
I have been using Paper for years! I have over 1,000 Journals as I use it to sketch for clients and to annotate photos. I also use it personally to organize projects, concepts & ideas. I tell people that Paper, along with the IPad Pro & Pencil, is responsible for the largest productivity leap that I have made since I started using a PC. Prior to Paper I would have to come back to the office and scan actual paper, import pictures from my phone & DSLR, and then input someone’s Business card. Now it is all in one journal before I leave the client. Finally, on (2) occasions, I have needed to contact the App’s Developer. On both times, I found them to be responsive, concerned, helpful & professional in addressing my issues/concerns. On one of those interactions, I had discovered a glitch for which they created & issued an update just a few days later. Quite simply, I could not work as efficiently and productively without Paper!Show lessHonda S2000 & 2010 Mustang GT
Love it!
I love to journal and having this app has taken it to the next level. I absolutely love the freedom of writing on a tablet and having all the colors and tools I will need to journal right on the app. I love the additional journals that you can purchase from their library too. The only thing I would change from this already awesome app is the typing option. I wish I could type onto the journal page itself instead of adding a note that can only be viewed partially. It’s a virtual journal, why not have other virtual options? Either way, I absolutely love this app.
Note: I purchased this app and am paying the monthly fee. This app shows its best features once you make that purchase. The free version is still good, but if you’re serious about journaling or keeping notes in one place, then just make the purchase. You can view journals throughout all your devices. Editing is difficult on your phone though. This app is best suited for the iPad Pro and pencil combination.Show lessMu5ikaddict_15
