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!
Great app
Sharepoint synchronization very usefully
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。
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。
Better than adobe
I find both reading as well as editing options way better in Drawboard than adobe reader (comparing both in their free versions). This has become my primary reading and annotation app on ipad.
I wonder how its not more popular!
I love how drawboard manages my large heavily annotated medschool pdfs so seamlessly making my life 10x easier! There’s a <10s lag while you open the app but that’s it. It lets you zoom in all you want, annotate all you want and makes it such a smooth experience. Kudos to the developers! Thanks for Drawboard! ❤️
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Overall, great
However, it likes to sign me out fairly consistently. While not exactly breaking, it’s really annoying.
Other than that, I do enjoy the Mac version of this.
Other than that, I do enjoy the Mac version of this.
Good app but pricing too high
A smooth app for PDF reading and annotations. But the premium pricing is too high. No lifetime plans. Need student friendly pricing for India. I'm studying in a govt. institution thus I don't have any student mail ID. So, I can't use student offer. It's better to reduce your plans according to the countries. (Ignore grammatical errors)
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Quick
I have to markup multiple map PDFs everyday. Drawboard is definitely the most stable and quickest program I have found to do this so far. Very easy to use once you get used to it. There a few features I wish it had, like original text editing , Form Creation, etc. But very good overall for annotations and markups.
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Been using it for 3 years
Just a really easy to use PDF editor which has all the features i want to use for a good price
Terrible interface
I’m not sure I’ve ever canceled a trial subscription so fast. The icons are incredibly tiny and they don’t even have alt tags when you hover over them. You can’t tell what anything does until you click on it. The app won’t stay maximized and the pdfs open in a new window rather than tabs. Did I mention everything is incredibly tiny? Eat your carrots before using this one.
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急に画面がチラつくようになった
気がついたらクラウドにアップロードしたファイルを開くと高頻度でチラつくようになった。
集中して作業ができず困っています。対応お願いいたします。
それ以外は文句のつけようがない最高のアプリです。
集中して作業ができず困っています。対応お願いいたします。
それ以外は文句のつけようがない最高のアプリです。
Response from developer
Thank you for your feedback, and sorry to hear about the issue you are seeing. Could you please contact our support team (support@drawboard.com) directly with more information so that they can help troubleshoot this for you?
Always Getting Worse
I started using this app around 2022. It started off great. I don’t need a lot of features, and it still has the right amount. I open PDF sheet music to mark up for my students, and it does this job.
Now let me get into how it has increasingly got worse…
When I first got the app, it remembered I liked it snapped to the left of my screen. It also let me exit books without relaunching the window. This was soon changed in an update. It always goes center screen at an undesired resolution. I have to constantly put it back to where I went it, and resize it.
Later they also had an update that kept the app crashing. I ended up briefly switching to a different app. I came back when another update fixed the crashing, but now it can’t remember my pages 50% of the time. Which is super frustrating when I have 50 students per week, working on books with hundreds of pages. Luckily I write down the pages for each student, but I still have to scroll to them.
This app used to make my workflow better, but lately it hasn’t been holding up. I wouldn’t be upset if this is how it always was, but I’m not sure how they are continuously making the app worse.
I wish I could go back and use the first version I had, it was perfect. Alas, I’m stuck with the newest lemon they’ve produced.
Now let me get into how it has increasingly got worse…
When I first got the app, it remembered I liked it snapped to the left of my screen. It also let me exit books without relaunching the window. This was soon changed in an update. It always goes center screen at an undesired resolution. I have to constantly put it back to where I went it, and resize it.
Later they also had an update that kept the app crashing. I ended up briefly switching to a different app. I came back when another update fixed the crashing, but now it can’t remember my pages 50% of the time. Which is super frustrating when I have 50 students per week, working on books with hundreds of pages. Luckily I write down the pages for each student, but I still have to scroll to them.
This app used to make my workflow better, but lately it hasn’t been holding up. I wouldn’t be upset if this is how it always was, but I’m not sure how they are continuously making the app worse.
I wish I could go back and use the first version I had, it was perfect. Alas, I’m stuck with the newest lemon they’ve produced.
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