Forge User Reviews

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Used to be great

Forge immediately crashes on my iPad mini. I used to love it for taking notes. But not only can I not use it I have no access to existing notes!

Incredible garbage

Why is this still here? Create a drawing, never get access again. This app guarantees you waste your time. Please, don’t bother.

Thank You for returning Adonit Bluetooth stylii support to Forge!

Thank You for reinstating Adonit Bluetooth stylus support to Forge.
I have waited a long time for this stylus maker support to return to the Forge App!
A VERY Looooong time!
Very, VERY much appreciated!!!

I LOVE your app and missed using it with a much better and precise third party Bluetooth stylus.
A love my Adonit stylii and still use mine to this day!

Thank You, THANK YOU VERY MUCH for doing this!!

Forge is one of my “Go To” apps for ANY art/design ideation!

I can truly appreciate this app, once again!

MANY THANKS!
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Update required

This was a great app however, it now crashes upon opening

APP STILL CRASHES - NEED UPDATE

Please update the App. It was brilliant but keeps crashing now. I tried leaving a message on your site but no update?

Use it all the time

This app is a pleasure to use, and the tools feel easy and intuitive to use, even though there isn't a straightedge. If you're stuck between this and paper 53, think about what you hope to get out of them. This is better for organization and, beacause of the layers, illustrations. If you're looking for something more focused on free form drawing, look at paper 53 (it's on the App Store).
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Don't get this app

I have had this app for 3 weeks and in that amount of time it has closed unexpectedly 15 times, erasing my most recent sketches and work and putting me behind schedule on assignments. It's not worth getting.

Apple pencil jitter

Lots of potential but a huge amount of jitter with the Apple Pencil on the Pro 10.5 running iOS 11.2

Perfect for Ideation and Storyboards!

I’ve experimented with a lot of apps on my iPad Pro when it comes to sketching and storyboarding ideas. Forge is perfect when it comes to getting those quick sketches to well-thought out storyboards! The UI is a pleasure to work in and the functionality is great! Recommend this to anyone who is thinking about downloading

The only thing that I do wish was better was the support for the Apple Pencil; sometimes I notice there is a lag when the iPad registers that my palm is on the screen. Maybe could be fixed with an option to only draw with the Apple Pencil when one is connected?
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too bad brushe quality

lines are wiggle when using apple pencil, very disappointed.

Not sure...

I have an iPad Air 2 and won't buy a pro...
I don't need the Pro with thePencil because I use my Adonit Touch.
But... Versions go toward the iPad Pro, and support less of the iPad Air 2 (multiscreen)
I don't get it ???
Update: I bought a Pro, but I also bought a Jot Pixel to replace the Touch.
The funny thing? Forge does not support the Jot Pixel...
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Stuck on second screen

Opened it, swiped second screen as directed, stuck there, can not proceed, useless app.

Does not rotate to portrait view.

Not a realistic tool for many thinking environments

Lots of potential, but crashy

This is a great app for jotting ideas down and keeping them loosely organized. The UI is nice and mostly intuitive and the organizational structure using cards to represent each page works pretty well — the way you can store cards in the corner of the screen is cool.

Unfortunately it is too buggy. It crashes about half the time I use it. Not what you want when you're trying to get your thoughts down!
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Response from developer

Hello and regards, Forge has not received much love and care in several years. That has changed. Over the last few months we have been working hard to make it rock-solid. If you encounter trouble with the latest version, please let us know and we will be happy to get fixes out promptly.

Ideal

Wonderful app...just perfect for what I need to develop ideas. You can take an image off the net, write comments on another layer and the sketch out other ideas on a fresh 'sheet' and save in the same project folder. Simple, effective, ideal for brainstorming.

Very useful & enjoyable to use, but needs sync

Very useful tool for brainstorming without becoming bogged down or distracted by too many formatting options. It's great to have to work within the confines of only 5 layers, and I love being able to see my thumbnails all together. Importing reference pictures works well, and duplicating specified layers to another iteration is fantastic. Exporting pictures was easy and fast.

I would very much like to have the ability to sync projects between devices, and to duplicate projects. Being able to change the size of the displayed thumbnails would be good - I'd like the option to have them a little bigger.
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more tool please !!!!

great app and i need water color tool please

Great for arranging sketches

Great to be able to work simply, arranging drawings, and have just found can make own small palettes (review edited to reflect that). Nice to be able to set up a range of colours. Nice set of pens/brushes too. One small request about an undo/redo button, as I keep accidentally erasing a mark now and then.
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Keeps losing all work

App automatically turns off. I haven't been able to finish a single project because it keeps turning off, and losing all of my progress

Comic drawing

I'm in the process of Storyboard making for my graphic novel, and this app is so helpful.