# Archisketch — user reviews

> 146 indexed App Store user reviews of Archisketch by Open Screen Limited, rated 4.30/5 from 266 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/archisketch/id725328455/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/archisketch/id725328455.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 172 · 4★ 46 · 3★ 21 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 21

## What do users think of Archisketch?

Overall sentiment: neutral

**Pros**

- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Great for scale drawings
- 💡 Helpful for design ideation
- 👍 Intuitive interface
- 💡 Useful for architects and designers

**Cons**

- 🐛 Crashes and freezes
- 🔒 Limited free trial
- 🔒 Paywall for full features
- 🐛 Inaccurate scaling and measurements
- 🐛 Clumsy erasing and editing

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Compatibility issues with iOS 11 and newer
- Disappearing toolbars and interface elements
- Inability to save or export drawings
- Unreliable performance and stability

**Most requested features**

- Dark mode option
- More export options (vector, higher resolution)
- Improved documentation and tutorials
- Better support for mixed units (feet + inches)
- Freehand drawing tools with less smoothing

## Newest reviews (13 of 146)

### 4/5 — Love it!

*2025-04-09, version 3.5*

Can’t beat it for the money. Does pretty much everything I need. Using it to import scaled site plans and editing/adding structures, pools, etc..

### 3/5 — Not Robust Enough🤷🏽‍♂️

*2023-11-13, version 3.5*

Very nice app.  Intends to do exactly what I need it to do.  The only issue I’m having is that it freezes whenever I’m trying to “duplicate” multiple objects at the same time.  I keep having to close the app and reopen it.  I waited about 20 mins the last time it froze and it never unfroze.  Perhaps it’s bogged down by too many elements??… That is unfortunate since I’m not even halfway done with my drawing.  (I have a fairly new [2022] iPad Pro and I have closed all other apps, I have other more robust apps (SketchUp) that work well on my iPad too so I don’t think it’s an issue with my iPads processing power…) Starting to regret the $18 I spent!!😔

### 4/5 — 実務レベルで使える

*2023-11-13, version 3.5*

PCで作成しpdf化した図面を読み込めるので、上のレイヤーからトレペに書くようにプランニングできます。
レイヤーが使えるのと、何より図に対してスケール設定できるのが良い。似たようなアプリだと図面に合わせてスケール設定するとかなり線が荒くなってしまうのですがこちらは大丈夫でした。
アプリ上で長さ・面積がすぐでるのでヒアリングにも使えそうです。清書までCAD開かなくていい、、、！ 
使い勝手がよくて課金プランも購入しましたが、課金プランが買い切りなのもいいです。
しばらくアプデは行われてないようですが、ぜひ今後も機能追加していってほしい、、、！という期待を込めて★四です。
一つ大きな不満なのが、消しゴムがマスク消しゴムで、オブジェクトを完全削除できない部分。せっかくアップルペンシル使ってるのに消しゴム機能が上記なせいでダブルタップ消しゴム切り替えも作動しません。
マスク消しゴムはそれはそれで便利なので、こっちの機能も残したまま普通の消しゴムも追加してほしいところです。ぜひ早急に…対応を… 
でも他のノート系アプリと比べて、設計者の方は圧倒的な使いやすさだと思います。

### 4/5 — Dark mode please

*2023-04-21, version 3.5*

I like to look at an inverted screen with a dark background and detail in light colors.  I can do that in the drawing, but tool/menu bars at the bottom and top of the screen are annoyingly bright.  If I could toggle those to dark with light detail, 5 stars.

### 3/5 — Good but occasionally frustrating

*2023-01-20, version 3.5*

First off, I use this app primarily for top-down scale drawings. So this review will be primarily focused on that.

Scaling is simple, but has a big caveat. The idea behind scaling is easy; Find two reference points, and set the distance between them. The rest of the drawing is scaled automatically, based on those two points. So if you know the distance between two walls, just set your ruler between them and tell it how far apart they are. The big caveat is that working in mixed units is imprecise. If I choose to work in inches, I can get precise control over the scale. If my reference points are 120 1/4 inches apart, then I can simply type 120.25 inches and I’m golden. But the carpenter side of my brain prefers working in mixed units, and feet only allow for a single decimal point when scaling. Since 1/4 inches is less than 0.1 feet, that same 120 1/4 inches (which is 10.0208333 feet) rounds to a flat 10 feet. Maybe not a big deal if you’re only working on a 10’ piece, but when another wall is 100’ long, it’s now 2.5 inches short on my drawing. The lack of precision adds up quickly. A quarter inch here, a half inch there, and suddenly my entire building is 6 inches too long/short. I know that the app supports fractions of an inch (because it allows for fractions when working in inches) but when working in feet you’re forced to round everything to the nearest 10th of a foot. Either allow me to enter fractions directly, or allow for more than one decimal point when working in feet.

Drawing is fast and easy once you get used to it. The magnet/snap option is great, and allows for easy straight edges. The shape tools are elegant, (although using the polygon tool can be frustrating, as they tend to de-select and close when zooming,) and you can build custom objects to “stamp” on any other drawings/projects. These objects can then be ungrouped into their constituent parts/shapes for modification once they’re in place. For things like tables, chairs, pillars, etc, this is a godsend. I can build a 60” banquet table once, and know that it will be the same scaled size across all of my drawings. But there is a distinct lack of fill/texture options for the shapes. You can fill with solid colors, transparencies, and a gradient. But you can’t fill with crosshatching, tiles, textures, etc… Adding a crosshatch/hexagon fill option would be an amazing improvement, as it would allow you to fill walls quickly and easily without using up all the ink/toner in the printer. There’s also no freehand object tool. The polygon tool is close, but sometimes I just want to make a bubbly round cloud or bush without having to place and move corner points, deal with rounding percentages, etc… 

Importing jpegs and pdfs is possible, but the latter can be a little convoluted. Jpegs are simple enough if they’re saved in your device’s photos, but pdfs require you to “share” the pdf, then open it in Archisketch via the share menu. That one took me a while to figure out, and there’s no clear documentation on it; All of their documentation simply says to import the pdf from your photos. Not exactly intuitive, (especially since you can’t easily save pdfs in your photos) when they could add a browser for your Files app to import them directly.

And my last note was touched on in the prior paragraph: There is a distinct lack of documentation or support. The only documentation is via the built-in Help menu, but that points to a series of video tutorials. If the tutorial doesn’t cover the specific thing you’re looking for, then you’re stuck figuring it out on your own. A written manual with an index/table of contents would go a long way towards solving this issue, as the videos are all very short overviews (usually only a minute or two long) and only scratch the surface of what each tool can do.

All in all, it’s a good app. It has increased my productivity, and I plan to continue using it. But it has some notable missing features, which would elevate the app from “good” to “must have.” If they add some/all of these features in the future, I fully plan on updating my rating to 4 or 5 stars.

### 4/5 — Good Start but Needs More Development

*2023-01-11, version 3.5*

Lots of good and useful tools for architects but needs some more work to make it a truly useful, must-have app for architects. 
1. Documentation of features is very weak, limited to some brief tutorials. I have to figure out how to use some features/tools not covered in tutorial by trial and error. Some tools such as how to get consistently sized text I still haven’t figured out.  
2. Support is non-existent. 
3. Desperately needs a Cut-and-Paste Tool to select a portion of a drawing or a group and copy it to another drawing. That one tool can change this app from pretty good to a “must have” app. There is a duplicate tool, but that doesn’t use the clipboard to copy to another drawing or app.
4. Needs to import PDFs. I don’t understand this shortcoming because the app can export in PDF format. It only can import JPEGs. 
5. It has some built in objects to use in drawings. Personally I wouldn’t use any of them but I’d really like the ability to create my own objects to add my own objects to the menu to use in other drawings. 
6. Finally on the apps website it sounds like you can add the optional extra feature package after purchasing the base app.  This is incorrect, you only have the option in the App Store to purchase the base app or the app with options features. You can’t add the optional features once you purchased the base app. I recommend purchasing the app with optional features.

### 3/5 — It’s Ok

*2022-04-21, version 3.5*

Quite clumsy to use, if your hand touches the screen it loses the area your working in. 

The eraser is not nice to use. 

Drawing straight lines is awkward when switching from sketch mode. It has potential but needs work

### 2/5 — Akward to use in places

*2021-12-04, version 3.1*

This app is great and would be probably be 5 stars but it’s akward to use in places.

1. It seems to have low acuracy say I what a wall at 277cm it wil round to 2.8m and that adds up to inaccurate drawings
2. It also seems to have niot be tested on the latest iPadOS with their multitasking, the bar to change the units and rotation sits in the same places as the new ‘3 dots’ to multi task apps and it makes it impossible or damn near impossible to change units
3. For some reason when you move a object it doesn’t move in real time and moves in the background and shows a line but that line is the center of the object and not the object with the border width so it’s impossible to line up objects without doing it 20 times

### 4/5 — Will not work with iOS 15 on iPAD!

*2021-11-12, version 3.1*

Was loving this app - used many hours per day until Apple rendered unusable with its ridiculous split screen multi view. Someone needs to fix this - either Apple or the developer.

### 2/5 — My High Hopes Were Dashed

*2021-06-22, version 3.1*

One advantage this app has over other iPad drawing apps is the ability to draw to scale. Unfortunately, the one feature that would have helped me the most was the ability to import library items from Adobe’s Creative Cloud. That didn’t work at all. I have an extensive library of images and architectural elements that I use to create shop floor planograms and wall displays. I didn’t want to have to recreate them, and interoperability with Adobe’s CC Libraries would have been a huge help.

I contacted their support email. After about a week, I got a reply. Going back and forth with them didn’t solve the issue. They blamed it on Adobe, and said it worked for them. That wasn’t very helpful, and they couldn’t explain why it wouldn’t work for me. Giving up and requesting a refund from Apple. Maybe it can be fixed, maybe not. 

The interface is kludgy, as pointed out by some of the other reviewers. The app has promise, but charging another $6 for extended color libraries and $8 for extended import/export access seems excessive. Just price it at $19.99 for the full version. 

Can’t recommend at this time.

### 3/5 — Du potentiel

*2021-02-25, version 3.1*

Pas mal de potentiel mais pas aussi intuitif que Procreate et ne vaut pas encore autocad et compagnie, le positionnement de cette app est intéressant et avec plus de développement elle pourrait être incroyable, gardez surtout le même buisness modèle (un seul achat) les abonnements c’est horrible . Bonne chance

### 3/5 — Intuitiva

*2021-02-17, version 3.1*

L’app é molto valida solo avrebbe bisogno di alcune modifiche 
Alcune proposte:
Grip per distorcere gli oggetti, snap che permetta di sciogliere tra oggetti e linee guida, freehand che si trasforma in linea retta alla pressione prolungata 
Per citarne alcuni

### 3/5 — Almost there

*2021-01-17, version 3.1*

It's almost there. It's a great app, but it's missing some feature. It would be great app if they:
1.  Make redo button bigger right now it is incredibly tiny, unless you long press the undo button to redo.. hate the extra steps)
2. Add 2 decimal points to all lines size input. (MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE REQUEST)
3. Ability to input angle on a line.
4. Options for dash line type (now there is only dotted line)
5. Improve on Ruler function 9ideally to match morpholio app)

But on the good note, thank you dev team for finaly making a good drafting app for ipad. Has been trying all app out there morpholio, draft paper, autocad, etc. Nothing has all the feature needed. So kudos for team, please keep updating the app!

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Pas satisfaite de l’achat

*2025-09-19, version 3.5*

J’ai choisi de payer pour pouvoir utiliser et je n’ai pas été satisfaite de l’achat, d’autant d’essai possible.

### 1/5 — Don’t get this

*2024-03-27, version 3.5*

Bad app, it makes you pay after you have added a certain amount of things

### 1/5 — Waste of time

*2024-03-23, version 3.5*

This App proports to be a great digityal design tool. However, it's neither intiuitive nor easy to use. Unfortunately there are more problems. First, despite having an "English" option, support is not offered in English. Second, it does not work with MacOs. Subsequently, your work is not seemless across the many platforms that you might be using. Finally, it is very easy to purchase the in App upgrades, but there are no descritions of the various otions. "What am I paying for?" "WIll this fix the problems that I am having with this App?"

I cannot recommend this App.

### 1/5 — Can’t save as PDF, can’t email, can’t save to photos

*2022-03-28, version 3.5*

I paid for the full version, plus the extra $6.99 to be allowed to save to the iCloud. Nothing works, every-time I try to save, email, or print the app just closes. I’ll be requesting a full refund.

### 1/5 — Didn’t work

*2022-02-05, version 3.5*

Didn’t work. 
Paper moves around but no lines appear

### 1/5 — Trial mode is a joke.

*2021-09-26, version 3.1*

Trial mode doesn’t give you enough freedom to even see if this is a good app. Can’t recommend an app when choices this bad were made for the initial experience.

### 1/5 — Disappointed

*2021-05-28, version 3.1*

I am very disappointed and am going to try to get my money back. This app has the same name as another app that is more high powered, and this one has very limited capabilities and I was only able to really discover that after I purchased it.

### 1/5 — 'Pointless trial mode

*2021-02-12, version 3.1*

Can’t do a thing in trial mode

### 1/5 — Can’t seem to draw anything

*2020-10-11, version 3.1*

Downloaded the free version and I cannot even figure out how to draw a simple rectangle or oval. iPad Pro iOS 14 using Apple Pencil 2.

### 1/5 — Unuseably slow

*2020-09-11, version 3.1*

App lags so much it’s practically useless

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Great app for scale drawings

*2024-12-14, version 3.5*

This is the app I was looking for. It helped me build a concept of how I want to reorientate my bedroom without actually moving everything around.

### 5/5 — Just what I needed.

*2023-12-13, version 3.5*

I use it to make electrical drawings. Conduit paths and device layout in a commercial medical setting.

### 5/5 — Easy even for a novice

*2022-05-24, version 3.5*

I came to find Archisketch whilst trying to put some ideas down for a building project. My intention was to show the professional that I am working with ideas that I already had. He was impressed by them. I don’t believe that this has given me superpowers but it has allowed me to put to paper some of what is in my head

### 5/5 — Excelllent

*2022-03-05, version 3.5*

Working in bespoke glass. Tried many apps before going for full version, Archisketch. Does what I need, simply, uncluttered, uncomplicated, well thought out. I use a graphics program in the office, but find myself using this more and more for site visits. Worth the cost.

### 5/5 — Great app well worth the price

*2021-07-30, version 3.1*

This app is brilliant for my design projects. Works perfectly with the Apple Pencil.

### 5/5 — 💕

*2021-04-14, version 3.1*

I would have the full version, but two year without updates... I just found it, and it has a great potential

### 5/5 — 5 star review

*2021-02-17, version 3.1*

For the money, this program performs exceptionally well.  It’s a good balance between the basic and high end programs.  I nerd out quite regularly on it designing my woodworking projects and laying out rooms.   It’s worth taking the time to write the review.

The app deserves 5 stars, even with it’s imperfections.

 I’ll keep it straight forward with some pros and cons.
Pro:
- Cost to value is exceptional.
- Easier to pick up and use than other architectural programs
- Simple basic interface makes it easy to use.
- Can upload pictures into program
- Easy to scale and change scale of projects
- Quick access to undo button
- Training videos are available from programmer.  Videos are brief and nearly to the point.
- Several print (plotting) formats available
- Easy to add layers
- Easy to turn off and on layers
- Easy to duplicate, name, or delete layers, drawings, and projects
- Has a snap function that is easy to turn off and on.
- Can merge or import layers from other created drawings(with the program).
- Easy to add items to clipboard outside of program.  As simple as if you were going to select something to email or text.
- Works with the Apple Pencil
- Perfect for smaller or simple projects.
- Has 3D drawing capability. 
- Dimensions text can be overwritten.
- Units can be changed between metric and imperial.
- Can group objects
- Can lock items and groups to keep from accitentially moving or changing.
- Set line lengths and angles
- Exports as pictures, PDFs, and to Adobe Creative Cloud
- Easy print function
- Can easily scale drawings when exporting or printing.
- Fun and addicting once you get it figured out.  I’ve probably spent 40 hours playing with it within the two weeks of owning it. 
- Versatile in it use.  I use it for designing and laying out woodworking projects along with developing floor plans.  

Cons:
- Will take some time to figure out how to use it.  (This comment is for people who don’t have experience with architecture programs, all architectural programs at this level or higher require some time to learn.). It’s still much easier than other programs I’ve seen.
- Requires a little patience to figure out the additional abilities.  To understand some of the features you will need to watch a few of the videos. 
- Has multiple little quirks that take getting used to.
- Have to be creative at times to create more complex objects
 
Major areas where improvements that could be made:  
- The scale ruler will not snap to lines when setting scales 
- The magnet function does not recognize intersections outside of end points or mid points.
  
Minor Items for improvements: (No real impact with work arounds) 
- Scale do not show fractions, just decimal points(Very Minor item: I usually change the text in the dimension box.)

### 5/5 — Amazing app

*2021-01-23, version 3.1*

Please, update it. It have a great potential.

### 5/5 — Vraiment indispensable....

*2020-11-29, version 3.1*

Très réactif, très complet ( pour moi !)
Je m'en sers pour croquis professionnels architecture et décoration....
Très satisfait .

### 5/5 — Recommended for checking & revision

*2020-11-23, version 3.1*

Good apps for discussion and revision.  Easy explanations to drafting staff and understanding for clients.

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