# Inspiral - Gear Art — user reviews > 29 indexed App Store user reviews of Inspiral by Nathan Friend, rated 4.50/5 from 41 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/inspiral-gear-art/id1558340425/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/inspiral-gear-art/id1558340425.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 31 · 4★ 4 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 2 ## Newest reviews (10 of 29) ### 5/5 — Рад, что есть такие приложения *2021-11-05, version 1.3.0* Не просто времяубивалка. Заставляет думать. ### 5/5 — How’d I miss this for so long? *2021-10-11* Complete childhood nostalgia with every gear part imaginable, every color, endless ink and best of all, absolutely no mess and no having to put it away or parts to lose. Auto draw sure is a nice thing. ### 5/5 — Amazingly fun… and relaxing! *2021-08-21* What a great app. As a kid I never had a Spirograph with so many parts… or so many colors of (working!) pens. What you get for free is extremely generous, but after just a few minutes of making cool designs, I unlocked everything for even more fun and creativity… ### 5/5 — Nice and funny tool. Great job, man *2021-05-09, version 1.0.1* Cool it is ### 5/5 — Wonderful and Beautiful Gear Art designer *2021-05-08* Having spent many hours and reams of paper with the plastic version decades ago, it is a delight to have a very complete and detailed digital version. From gear choices, pen/paper colors/sizes, tools for auto rotate and down to choosing which hole in a gear to use, I can’t think of anything left out. And no wasted paper, broken pens/pencils, broken gears (especially missing teeth). ### 5/5 — Gears *2021-05-08, version 1.0.1* I like very much . I have wild gears and I love them ### 5/5 — Wow! *2021-05-07* I love this app. It really feels like using my old Spirograph! Love it that there are no ads and no nickel-and-dime FTP garbage. I’m just about to pay the $5 to unlock all the supplies and to support the developer, but you can have plenty of fun for free! I have one wish: to be able to quickly switch holes on my gear without needing to go into the tools menu. :) ### 5/5 — Great job! *2021-05-07* I used to play with Inspirograph all the time, and now it’s back and much, much better. There are more features than the website, and it’s just great. The best one is the automatic line drawing — you click a button and watch as the spiral completes one perfect circuit, which is super satisfying (although I wish I could make it go faster). I’d prefer if the “Tools” “Pen” and “Gears” buttons weren’t awkwardly oriented in Landscape Mode on iPad, but it’s not the end of the world. At least landscape mode is there! A redo option would be handy, too. It’s great that the app has full iPad support — it’s even more fun on iPad! It even works with Slide Over and Split View! I do notice though that when using Slide Over or Split View, I can’t seem to type in other applications if Inspiral is open. I just tried it while writing this review and yeah, it commandeers my keyboard. Totally worth the $5 in-app purchase to support this neat app! I’m going to have lots of fun and make some custom wallpapers with Inspiral! :) Oh! One more feature request: it would be AWESOME to be able to select multiple pen holes at once, so you could see a whole pattern get drawn out all at once!! ### 5/5 — Nice *2021-05-07* Very well done. As a fellow flutter developer I think this is fantastic. Good job. ### 5/5 — Fun! *2021-05-07* This is far and away the best Spirograph-type app I’ve tried, both for ease of use and variety of gears (especially with the IAP). A particularly nice feature is that you can change the setting incrementally (forward or back) as well as wherever you like. The colors can be set at different transparencies for special effects. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2023-12-12, version 1.3.1* When I open this app I click on what I want to use then click on screen and just goes blank (white screen and nothing). It’s not even worth a rating. I wouldn’t even give this one star. ### 1/5 — It’s unclear how to get a NEW canvas *2023-02-10* 2/9/23 It’s no longer working on my iPad mini. The gears do not appear on the canvas. ———- . It’s unclear how to get a NEW canvas. I’ve checked the help section. Nothing. No buttons that say new canvas. It seems I can only erase the one canvas. It’s kind of unexpected. I bought the $4.99 paid version because I’ve always love my Spirograph. I still have the one I got as a child. I also have a metal version. Now I couldn’t resist this one. I love it. Except the lack of a new canvas or any instructions addressing this. That’s why it’s not five stars. Also it would be a huge improvement to have a guide to the shapes. Update. I’ve been using this quite a bit over the last few days. I wish I could write on the page with my Apple Pencil. For example Note which gear, wheel, and pen number I’m using. But I cannot so I end up having to take photos and click in and out of the app multiple times. It’d be easier to be able to just makes notes within the app. ### 2/5 — Decent app… Buggy… Could be great… *2026-02-13* Main menu won’t stay open. Often pens leave gaps. Resolution is too small/course. Can’t adjust paper size or scale gears. There should be an option to do things like have color interpolation with the pen strokes, etc. Until some of these things are addressed I don’t see a reason to upgrade or recommend this app. ### 2/5 — Website is better *2021-05-10* I found this app by playing inspirograph, the website version, and downloaded it thinking it would have at least those features. It doesn’t. **Developer response:** Hi! Just curious which features you are missing? ### 3/5 — 7$ for all the gears, way to much *2026-03-02* Just make all the gears free, please ### 3/5 — Sadly not good. *2026-02-15* I really wanted to enjoy this, but it’s way too buggy, and not very user friendly. ### 3/5 — More option *2023-12-30, version 1.3.1* Hello, Good app and easy to use but ….. it would be nice to add a grid and a ruler. Also some more inputs for the resolution and size of the canvas. More tools for the customizing of the frames and gears, like the size, the shape (for abstract construct), the rotation and more. I wish you good luck and I hope that my comments will help you on creating new drawing tools for mobile product. Best to you and your team. M. Sicotte ### 4/5 — Fun worth the purchase *2023-05-28* A lot of fun - Spirograph w/out the paper and more options/colors ### 4/5 — Spirograph Fanatic has left her pens and pins! For this Great App! *2022-11-10* Great selection of gears and colors. Hours of creative fun. Total winner except… where’s the Gallery? I have been working on a project for a couple of hours creating spiro art then saving to Gallery thinking I can access my saved images and download them to photos. I had just saved to Gallery my 10th set of colorful compilations and thought I would check out my work - but where the heck is the Gallery? I followed link to app store knowing there is always a link to developers website in app store… when I locate the Gallry I will come back and give that 5th star🎉 The saving your work is ### 5/5 — Wow! No pins, no pens, no paper, just FUN *2023-10-03* I grew up with this and, eventually, I got pretty good at it, but I ate tons of writing paper, made LOTS of mistakes, and wore out the cardboard backing in the process. And while there was a lot of hand/eye coordination in the process when I was learning it, I’m done with the learning part. This brings all the good and fun aspects of the original Spirograph to the table and leaves the tedium behind. Thank you! ## Most praised reviews (9 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Wow! No pins, no pens, no paper, just FUN *2023-09-26* I grew up with this and, eventually, I got pretty good at it, but I ate tons of writing paper, made LOTS of mistakes, and wore out the cardboard backing in the process. And, while there was a lot of hand/eye coordination in the process that I learned, I’m done with the learning part. This brings all the good and fun aspects of the original Spirograph to the table and leaves the tedium behind. Thank you! ### 5/5 — Fun *2023-08-26* My favorite toys was Spirograph. I love having this version on my iPad. Paid for pro version. Worth the $5 for all the extras ### 5/5 — Brilliant! *2023-03-07, version 1.3.1* Lovely app. Beautiful drawings, very relaxing. To be able to buy the app outright for £4.99 is brilliant, no constant fees like so many other apps. Thank you and well done 👏🏽 ### 5/5 — Suggestion *2023-01-04* It would be nice if you could “SNAP” align the starting point of the moving gear to the centre or end of a fixed gear, so that you get a perfectly symmetrical design. Really enjoying the App! It’s easy to use, and there’s no adverts. The range of STANDARD Pen Colours includes Black, Grey and all the Rainbow Colours, and the variety of FREE GEARS is fairly extensive. Which is very satisfying. If you want you can purchase a Premium Upgrade for a reasonable price. This gives you UNLIMITED COLOURS and an AMAZING choice of GEARS. Great work by the Developers! ### 5/5 — Inspiral for iOS *2022-12-31* So happy to find that this app is available for iPhone/iPad and being updated regularly. I use the web version all the time, it’s relaxing and fun. Not even going to mention any quibbles. Thanks! ### 5/5 — inspiral review *2022-07-17, version 1.3.0* works great, no glitches, easy to use, lots of fun ### 5/5 — brilliant *2022-07-03* A brilliant digital translation of a time-tested “game” which captures the mesmerizing and magic creativity of the original. Have only tried on my phone but can only imagine that on the iPad it’ll be even better and we’ll worth the upgrade cost to open up the full range of tools and colors, etc. ### 5/5 — Review *2022-05-28* I’m 64. I had a spirograph growing up. This app is fantastic. I save very few apps out of the hundreds that I’ve had and played, worked with. This one’s a keeper for me. 🥇🥇🏆🏆. I’m ordering the super spirograph tonight. Do it here then put ink to paper. Love it. Happy Memorial Day 2022 ### 5/5 — Love *2022-03-19* I love this game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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