Fundamental Feature Missing on iOS
Zoom lock. It’s there on windows but not on iOS. Can this be solved? Very fundamental.
Best PDF for cross platform
Ever since I gave away and bought a windows laptop for work and university. I was looking for an app that supported cross platform. My new windows laptop has stylus support and I use an iPad for taking notes. I used to use goodnotes before and although it was good, it didn’t allow me to edit with a pen on my laptop. Drawboard solved that problem for me and I’ve been using it 100% of the time ever since I switched. It really is practical to be able to modify something on my ipad and see it update live on my laptop. On top of that with their student discount this was a NO-BRAINER. Awesome app.
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Great tool!
This is a great BB Alternative for ipad and phone. Has a lot of markup options great for field use
Insane.
I have never, ever written a software review. But this app is so good. I was breathless using it for the first time - SO MUCH BETTER THAN ACROBAT or PREVIEW. It’s extremely precise and fast to work with. I am working on heavy architectural plans and there is zero lag, I can print or export my pdfs with little to no rasterization even on small text. This is a dream. Thank you dev!
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Good, but far from perfect on Mac.
There are a ton of things this software does right, and a bunch of details that it misses the bar on.
For example: 1).The measurement feature, it took me quite some time to finally figure out the order of operations to set the drawing scale. It’s not intuitive at all, and I think it’s overly complicated. The only thing you should have to do is enter the correct measurement after taking the calibration measurement and possibly the units. Doing a unit conversion at the same makes things twice as complicated. 2).Next would be the lack of consistency between the windows and mac versions. I shouldn’t pay for a subscription and have two different sets of features depending on what type of machine i am working on. 3).The biggest one for me is on Mac, the window size memory is non-existent. Every time i open a window it’s the same small size, and there is no way to reset this. Not even using the window memory trick on MacOS, as well as the document zoom. Since it’s always a small window, I make the window the correct size and then have to zoom in the document to be able to read it. It’s CUMBERSOME. 4).Text formatting in a text box could use some work as well. I should be able to have different formatting between different words or letters in a text box. For example, if you use bold the entire paragraph is bold, not just a few select words. 5).Tabbed windows, It has the ability, but should have a way to set this as the default behavior for new windows. This would help with the window size management. 6).Text recognition and selection could use some work but I can’t completely fault Drawboard for that. Some documents especially that have been scanned just are hard to read. I love the app, but the few things add up when you are opening many documents throughout the day. I hate Adobe as it’s slow and buggy, and Drawboard is the app I am drawn to due to it’s feature set.
For example: 1).The measurement feature, it took me quite some time to finally figure out the order of operations to set the drawing scale. It’s not intuitive at all, and I think it’s overly complicated. The only thing you should have to do is enter the correct measurement after taking the calibration measurement and possibly the units. Doing a unit conversion at the same makes things twice as complicated. 2).Next would be the lack of consistency between the windows and mac versions. I shouldn’t pay for a subscription and have two different sets of features depending on what type of machine i am working on. 3).The biggest one for me is on Mac, the window size memory is non-existent. Every time i open a window it’s the same small size, and there is no way to reset this. Not even using the window memory trick on MacOS, as well as the document zoom. Since it’s always a small window, I make the window the correct size and then have to zoom in the document to be able to read it. It’s CUMBERSOME. 4).Text formatting in a text box could use some work as well. I should be able to have different formatting between different words or letters in a text box. For example, if you use bold the entire paragraph is bold, not just a few select words. 5).Tabbed windows, It has the ability, but should have a way to set this as the default behavior for new windows. This would help with the window size management. 6).Text recognition and selection could use some work but I can’t completely fault Drawboard for that. Some documents especially that have been scanned just are hard to read. I love the app, but the few things add up when you are opening many documents throughout the day. I hate Adobe as it’s slow and buggy, and Drawboard is the app I am drawn to due to it’s feature set.
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Response from developer
Hi there, thank you for taking the time to share such detailed feedback, this is exactly the kind of input that helps us improve. You've raised some really valid points, particularly around the measurement workflow, window size memory, and feature consistency between Mac and Windows. We hear you. We'd love to dig into these with you further and make sure your experience is as smooth as possible. Please reach out to our support team directly at https://support.drawboard.com/hc/requests/new so we can follow up on the specifics. We're glad Drawboard is your go-to over Adobe, and we want to make sure it stays that way!
Affordable alternative to Adobe
Drawboard PDF Annotate offers an affordable alternative to Adobe acrobat. It enables you to markup documents, something that can’t be easily done with Apple Preview.
Sadly the page swiping is awful on iPad
Love the ink to line feature and the clean UI and the ability to hide most of the controls when annotating. However, the page swiping is really really awful and breaks the continuous reading experience especially when the page fit settings / zoom percentage cannot be locked.
Great app
Sharepoint synchronization very usefully
Snapshot missing?
Why isn’t there a snapshot tool on the iPad or Mac. This seems like a big omission for architects
Works well for markups
Much better than Adobe. Has some quirks but overall a good PDF app.
アプリ名の修正希望
インストール後のアプリ名が「選択」というおかしな日本語になっています。Drawboardという英語表記のままで良いので、次回のアップデートで修正をお願いします。
Even the free version requires creating an account
Why do I need a downloadable app for a web-based solution?
A Solid, Precise App
I cannot notice any pixellation in brush strokes when drawing or while zooming. And, I think Drawboard achieves this without using the native apple pencilkit, as I’m able to freely configure the brush size to any degree, and the default brush has a unique pen pressure weight response that I really quite like. I also really like that there’s a fullscreen view that hides the rest of the screen. I haven’t experienced any lagging while writing or scrolling, even on scanned pdfs with hundreds of pages. The only small issue I’ve noticed is that when initially zooming while pinching, there’s just a slight pause. But it’s a very minor thing and not noticeable most of the time. It also does heat up the bottom edge of my particular iPad a tad. But for how amazing it performs and looks, and how stable it is — and most of that for free… it’s absolutely amazing. Thank you devs.
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Hangs on large files
Quite good UI but it struggles handling large files
Can’t email the file.
Can’t email the file.
Bug fix
Also edit the sort button on the mobile app as the pc app, and allow to download the files from the cloud probably as the current is awful.
Amazing support.
I was struggle ing with making an account so I reached out and there support team was great! They helped me solve the issues and get my account setup.
App is not working after recent update
Drawboard app got updated to latest version on my iPad and after that app stopped working. When I open the app it got freeze on blank page and nothing happens and after some time app get killed
Response from developer
Hi, we're really sorry to hear the latest update has caused this for you. This is not the experience we want for our users at all. Our team treats any crashing and freezing issues with the highest priority and we'd love to get this sorted out for you as soon as possible. Could you please reach out to our support team and share any relevant documents with us so we can investigate further? You can contact us at https://support.drawboard.com/hc/requests/new and we'll get on it right away.
Well…..
Good but it has a lot of things locked by payed mode
縦書きPDF非対応
縦書きには対応してないようで、検索なども１文字でしか検索できない。縦の繋がりは認識してないようだ。
かなり理想的なアプリと思ったが、その点が致命的だった。
かなり理想的なアプリと思ったが、その点が致命的だった。
