# InVision - Design & Prototype — user reviews > 50 indexed App Store user reviews of InVision by InVisionApp Inc., rated 4.30/5 from 2,582 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/invision-design-and-prototype/id990700027/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/invision-design-and-prototype/id990700027.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,848 · 4★ 261 · 3★ 119 · 2★ 99 · 1★ 255 ## What do users think of InVision? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Great for desktop prototyping - 👍 Clean and intuitive interface - 💡 Freehand addition is a nice feature **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes frequently - 🐛 Buggy and inconsistent behavior - 🐛 Laggy and slow performance - 🔒 Unstable login and session management - 🔒 Difficult to access content on mobile **Commonly reported bugs** - Hotspots and animations not working as expected - Screens not updating with latest changes - Forced portrait mode on iPad - Inability to view projects on mobile web browser **Most requested features** - Allow landscape mode on iPad - Improve mobile app functionality to match desktop - Add ability to manage teams and projects on mobile - Integrate mobile and desktop experiences seamlessly ## Newest reviews (15 of 50) ### 2/5 — App Navigation Makes No Sense *2022-03-26, version 2.10.7* Big fan of desktop experience, navigation and IA. Unfortunately none of that translates to the mobile app. In fact a lot of the hierarchy like spaces/sections do not translate on mobile (at least in an intuitive way) which makes it very difficult to navigate and find the pages you actually want to preview. One example of an unintuitive interaction is returning to your dashboard after you click into a prototype - very unclear and I still find myself randomly tapping/swiping in order to get back - if i don’t just quit the app. Another is how the sections translate on mobile - instead of seeing the section titles, I just see the project name repeated. Why not just show the section titles? Would love to see better integration between desktop and mobile - especially for viewing mobile prototypes. ### 2/5 — Nice concept. Poor execution. *2022-01-21, version 2.10.6* InVision seems like one of so many design/UX app firms that started strong, then ran out of steam, or money, or ambition, or... something. A sub-par deliverable like this only shows they're losing the arms race. Guys (and gals), please make a stable app that doesn't crash (on a new iPad Pro M1), and that displays all info consistently. For example, zooming into content in freehand causes all that content to vanish. ### 3/5 — Needs some work *2021-09-21, version 2.10.6* The overall design is fine. I’ve only had a short time with this app. But you have to login on almost every action you make. iPad falls asleep? login. Wanna work on a different project? login. Everything else is okay. It’s a little awkward with boxes but that’s fine. ### 2/5 — Terrible lag and very slow *2021-07-08, version 2.10.6* Just came on here to say this app hasn’t gotten better after trying to use it for years. There’s a terrible lag trying to load screens, sometimes it won’t load at all. When it tries to, the app would close down completely. I can never access my screens/projects on my phone. May just delete altogether to access in my browser instead. ### 2/5 — No rotation on iPad. Crashes with medium sized projects and larger. *2020-06-29, version 2.10.2* The app is worse than the website by a long shot. You can't even have it in landscape mode—it FORCES you to portrait...what is that about? It also crashes with any project that has too many screens. I deleted it so that I can go back to using the website. (Without uninstalling the app you will be forced to the app.) Frankly I don't know how this app has over 4 stars, it's simply not production ready. If it was an early stage beta I would understand. ### 1/5 — Horrendous iPad Pro support *2020-01-31, version 2.10.1* In the day and age when Affinity is just killing it with their apps for the iPad Pro, I was quite shocked to learn just how poorly supported this is as a platform. 1. The app can only be used in portrait mode. When was the last time you saw someone using a tablet in portrait mode for anything except reading? 2. To use Freehand, the tutorial literally asks you to “hold down the Option key and draw a circle and a rectangle”. Seriously? Hold down the Option key while I’m using my iPad Pro in PORTRAIT mode? 3. The actual Freehand window appears in a pop up light box in the middle of the screen and is about 1/2 the screen’s height and width, meaning you have 1/4 the total real estate to use as a canvas. I’ll be looking elsewhere for my mockup and wireframing needs on the go. ### 2/5 — So much potential *2020-01-15, version 2.10.1* No landscape mode, yet Freehand requires a keyboard to actually accomplish basic functionality. You can’t copy elements nor can you draw straight lines. The ability to draw a shape and hold the pencil at the end to snap to a cleaner shape like in the web app is great, why no support for easily doing this with lines or shapes other than rectangles? Where is the quick undo? Where is the ability to delete a text block without having to manually delete every single character? Feels like I’m just using a straight port of the web version without any thought into the different hardware requirements or the opportunities that come from having a touch screen by default. ### 1/5 — Excited I was. Disappointed I am. *2019-12-06, version 2.9.1* After finally getting an iPad Pro, I was pumped to use InVision on the iPad. I could have my prototypes with me in meetings, take notes as comments remotely, and use Apple Pencil in Freehand! But, the app doesn’t even have landscape mode. I didn’t even know that was possible. Even writing this review I am trying to figure out what _I_ am doing wrong. Not having landscape mode makes the app useless with a keyboard, and at least in my situation, that makes it pretty well useless always. The solution would be to log in to the browser version, but I’ve never been able to log in to the browser version on an iPad. ### 1/5 — Spectacularly bad *2019-11-25, version 2.9.1* You can’t tap links to designs and view them in the app Commenting UI is bizarrely cramped You can switch screens while in comment mode and it breaks commenting (lol) App reliably crashes on a scroll through a 100+ screen design Sessions are nuked every 15 minutes or something, if I’m using this I log in at least 5 times a day. Uses traditional web signin from invision, nothing like setting up face ID. Can’t view activity Can’t share individual screens Bizarrely forces landscape viewing of screens in most recent release but portrait when you enter comment mode Handles session expiry very, very badly. Projects disappear comments get eaten etc. This is the worst quality app I use to get work done. I frequently have to resort to looking at the comp exports in Dropbox from my team instead of invision. It’s also been... years. It’s been awful for years. ### 2/5 — Needs more attention *2019-10-25, version 2.9.0* Working mostly in landscape on my iPad Pro 12.9, forcing portrait is super frustrating. As a manager, I primarily work from my iPad on the go. It would be awesome if this app truly supported how users work on mobile devices. At this point it feels very secondary. Considering that the desktop experience isn’t great (not on v7), secondary is much worse than it sounds. ### 1/5 — Unable to create team *2019-10-17, version 2.9.0* I gave a team name and a domain name. The check marks appear on both fields. “Create team” button is enabled. But once I click it, it stays in the same screen. No error message. Clicked several times. Same result. And it’s not possible to continue with the app if this stage does not pass. Sad!!! Makes me wonder how the rest of the app will be, if this simple thing can’t be done right by the devs. ### 1/5 — iPad orientation *2019-10-08, version 2.8.8* For the love that is UX please allow the app to run in landscape mode. The jarring experience of being forced to landscape on the home page to select a prototype then to be snapped into landscape when opening a landscaped prototype is ridiculous. Our app is landscape only so I never even use the iPad in portrait. ONLY to open InVision. This is unacceptable. And the status bar appears on the left rather than top. What did you do to the app? ### 1/5 — Bugs and Crappy UX *2019-10-03, version 2.8.8* I was literally forced to download this app to view shared content, because mobile web redirects only to download page (and does that only after signing in) So, after downloading, installing and signing in multiple times(twice in app) i still can’t view the content :) you know why? because link shared in the message still goes to the web browser and does not automatically open the app. ### 2/5 — Screens don’t update *2019-09-20, version 2.8.7* Hello, I added some interactions via the InVision webapp but I don’t see that being reflected on the InVision app. For example, I had added some loading behavior to one of my prototype but I don’t see it working. It directly takes me to the screen without any loading behavior patterns happening. Is there any fix for it? Note: I have the new iOS 13 installed on my iPhone XR. ### 1/5 — It doesn’t work, usually when you really need it *2019-08-03, version 2.8.3* -Mirroring doesn’t work. -Prototype does its own thing, doesn’t care what you set home screen to, it just picks a random screen -Studio is a hot mess of bugs and missing features. I just did a project through it and .. my god what a mess after years of dev. Often hotspots just don’t work. Try to imagine that presentation.. -There can’t be a UX designer on InVision’s team because things like their website are laughably bad for a company that is centered around UI/UX. I can’t find things and they’ve violated nearly every heuristic and principle. -Even InVision doesn’t support Studio. Where’s Craft all these years later. Guarantee over half the people work there still design on Sketch first. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Loss Of Support For Hotlinks Is Ridiculous *2021-10-18, version 2.10.6* This app was “good enough” but with in the past year or two it has lost the support for hotlinks. This is frustrating because the support of hotlinks on mobile was the reason I used Sketch with Invision. With out the ability to build a mobile prototype with functioning hotlinks there isn’t anything preventing me from moving over to Sketch Cloud, or Figma, or xD. ### 1/5 — Awful UX *2021-09-13, version 2.10.6* For being a UX app, the iPad app completely contradicts itself. I’m constantly being logged out, the tools switch on me, it does not follow the iPad’s settings for drawing only with the pencil, it doesn’t automatically pull up the keyboard while using the type tool… When I log in, it asks for a business email? I use my personal email. The tool usage is just incredibly buggy. ### 1/5 — Cannot view teams freehand on mobile from slack *2021-06-04, version 2.10.6* I click on a freehand. Your website asks me to login repeatedly. I try and try. I finally get through. You no longer allow viewing on mobile web. I have to download the app. I download the app. I have no way of linking the link I have to the app I downloaded. It’s not stored in my account because it’s someone else on my teams link. I don’t have access to a computer but you won’t let me use your product on mobile. Very frustrating. ### 1/5 — Kind of worthless *2021-02-10, version 2.10.5* I’ve downloaded the app a few times hoping there might be an update to give it parity with the website but optimized for touch. No such luck. It’s fine for looking at things, but that’s never what I need to do. This last time, I downloaded because I wanted to grab some of the color swatches I’d collected for a branding project while I worked in Affinity Designer. It can’t operate as a side panel app, nor will it show me the hex values of colors I add to a board. ### 1/5 — Poor Execution on a Good Idea *2020-10-21, version 2.10.4* I desperately wanted to like InVision, but currently, the experience on my iPad Pro may be one of the worst, inconsistent, and buggy apps in its class. It’s clear that the team has only given the mobile experience a passing consideration as many features, and especially the Freehand section, are so riddled with bugs that it’s almost unusable. For example, trying to change the shape tool in Freehand sometimes offers up the expected menu for another choice, but more often than not, it won’t. Instead, it will end up “selecting” the option below it as if I were trying to copy and paste the icon. Even once I get it to select what I’m looking for, it frequently fails to actually draw anything as if another action is being performed. The only way to “fix” any of these compounding issues is to completely exit the document and come back in to work for a few minutes more and repeat the process. Part of what makes this so frustrating is the amount of potential here. This very well could have been my highlight discovery as in concept, it’s almost everything I could have asked for, but the execution is so bad, I’m considering abandoning the desktop experience as well. How the app ever saw the light of day in this state is beyond my understanding. ### 1/5 — Unusable on Mobile *2020-09-17, version 2.10.3* Let me first start by saying the Desktop Web version of this tool deserves 3-4 stars. It is very useful, however, it does come with many set back. There will be a new version release soon in which many features will be enhanced, but currently the tool is far from “perfect”... or great. Now on to Mobile... never mind, just don’t waste your time using mobile. Login through Safari, or whatever browser app you use and go with the web version. You’ll find really stupid things on the mobile version, like having to turn your iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard to portrait mode to sign in. Then after you’re forced to download THE ENTIRE project from scratch to your device, which is a nightmare if hot fixes are being applied by designers when you’re on the go... the app will just crash a moment later when trying to do anything. Really hope they resolve these issues in the new version being released soon. Will update review if I’m satisfied. ### 1/5 — Poor UX for iPad *2020-08-28, version 2.10.3* 1. Invision doesn’t allow you to use browser if you’re on iPad. 2. In the iPad app the layout is terrible: - comments are tiny and hard to read. - scrolling and reading comments is hard because comment area is tiny - switching between modes by tapping and holding screen takes forever. 3. Also some bugs: e.g. I don’t see the comment I type. I just type it, post it and only then I can see it. 4. Also: when I mention someone: I want to see people form this project FIRST. Not ALL the people from ALL projects. I have hundreds of projects in Invision. And each project has from 3-5 members. Each time I want to mention a participant of this project I need to scroll through hundreds of my previous collaborators. 5. If you use slack and someone posts a link to Invision and you’re on mobile device - you will never be able to open that link. First it sends to to AppStore, then it sends to to ALL projects in Invision. Terrible UX. ### 1/5 — A complete mobile and iPad failure *2020-05-25, version 2.10.2* I’ve seen many other reviews on this and I do not understand how so many voices failed to be recognized. After all, they are just your users.... 1. First and foremost, who decided that locking the rotation was a good idea? I understand the hypothesis, but in actual practice, this is terribly annoying in every way possible. InVision is not merely just a ‘mirror’ app — it doesn’t absolutely *have* to maintain its original design spec environment. When viewing mobile designs on an iPad, its rotated 45º because I’m on a landscape view on the iPad. We have an email thread of 182 employees in my company raving on about how badly this has disrupted our pipeline. Moving to Figma seems like a no-brainer now. 2. NOTHING on iOS platforms reveal the ability to manage your projects or art boards. A large chunk of people are actually moving entirely to iPad and mobile to do 90% of their design ‘management’. I cant invite anyone to a project, modify ‘share’ settings, delete an artboard or project, drag anything around, inspect code...nothing. It’s confusing. It’s been this way for several years and I’ve written about this at least 4x now (that I’ve found emails on). 3. Lastly, I just found out that, even on the iPad (as with mobile), I can’t view projects on the web browser. I’m done with it. I’ve given InVision over 4 yrs to change this stuff and other tools are running laps in front of the improvements you’ve so slowly made. ### 1/5 — Great Promise, extremely buggy *2020-02-26, version 2.10.2* I’ve been using this app paired with InVision studio for several weeks now. At first, it seemed the answer to all our problems. Create a prototype in studio, add complex animations and transitions, and view them on the app! Everything worked great, and then I started seeing massive bugs like hotspots moving around, buttons moving to locations not specified as you navigate through animated screens etc. This means having to constantly “refresh” prototypes, including during user testing sessions. It has immense promise, and after trying 4-5 other tools like Figma is the only one that has this nice ability to easily animate and run prototypes of mobile apps (not websites). If they can fix the bugs my rating would go from a 1 to a 5, but for more complex prototyping it seems not quite ready for prime time. ### 1/5 — Invision a product that could be... *2020-02-19, version 2.10.2* Since it’s inception Invision has been a product that almost does what you wish it would. Its Boards function doesn’t support many file formats and cannot handle bulk uploads. It has few layout formatting options and despite having been in existence for years has still not updated the customization of notes or text. Annotations on single images thread out replies in a single thread making it difficult to know which response is to what note. If you happen to stumble upon a board link on a mobile device that is found elsewhere (say Slack or email) Invision doesn’t recognize that you have their mobile app and by default points you to download it every single time. If you’re not added as an editor to each individual board, you’ll not see all your boards on the app unless you previously commented on them because the mobile app doesn’t seem to know you’re the administrator of the entire team and have access by default. Invision has been this way for years. Actual years. Their products are ripe for disruption not because they’re poor ideas, but because they’re frail and incomplete and the company doesn’t appear to recognize this. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Ability to design and prototype would be great *2020-02-19, version 2.10.2* There is potential to enhance this app with ability create/edit designs and prototypes on mobile devices using this app. Why limit to previewing only? ### 5/5 — Mirroring Problem *2020-01-10, version 2.10.1* This app is wonderful! It really ties the whole experience together between working on your computer and phone. The only problem is that with the most recent update, the mirroring feature displays in Apple’s new card-like modal view (iOS 13) instead of the original modal view (iOS 12 and below). This causes the mirrored view to be cut off at the bottom unless you scroll to reveal it. It doesn’t present a true view of what the design would look like on a phone. ### 5/5 — This mobile app is incredible! *2018-10-05, version 2.6.4* This is such an amazing app extension to desktop. I love taking my projects with me on the go. Freehand addition has been great to jot down notes. Thanks for the work that’s been going into this!! ### 5/5 — Better than before *2018-08-24, version 2.6.4* This app has been getting better and better these past months, before it was almost unusable and horribly buggy. I’m now able to design and do the tests I need to do without being worried that the app is gunna crash. Also the new Freehand addition is nice feature to sketch some ideas that come to mind. It’s still a bit pricey but happy to see improvements being made here. Keep it up! ### 5/5 — Awesome product! *2018-06-07, version 2.5.4* I really can’t say enough good things about InVision. As a first time entrepreneur, IV really helped me take what was in my head and work through the process of how a user would actually interact with our app. It was so easy to pick up how to use InVision and their help/support section is phenomenal for any questions that did arise. No joke, IV is legit! Use it. You won’t be sorry. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2018-04-05, version 2.5* The app and site is awesome. My one request is to provide an image assets folder. And allow mobile devices to upload and share images from photos library. I would love to make a sketch and upload it. Sometimes it’s hard to describe visual changes with text. Thanks for an awesome tool! ### 5/5 — Absolutely love this app!! *2018-03-26, version 2.4.21* I use both the desktop and mobile app for my design flow. Invision has allowed me to get instant feedback on my projects like never before. I can’t imagine not using this app!! Keep up the good work :) ### 4/5 — Great for desktop prototyping *2021-07-27, version 2.10.6* Great for desktop previewing but Mobile app is unstable. Crashes on me just about every time so I can’t preview the mobile option of our site on an actual phone. I do wish you could grab multiple hotspots and reposition them all at once. ### 4/5 — Fix your app keeps crashing *2021-02-28, version 2.10.5* Every time I log in it crashes, my phone is up to date and app is as well but still not working. Please fix this. ### 4/5 — Mood board categories not right *2021-02-13, version 2.10.5* So the app looks good however I minus one star because the mood board I created on my computer is not showing up the same in the app. The screen shots are appearing in random categories and not showing up in the right category. But if you open up the screenshot it is under the right category. 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