Common-sense implementation lacking
Installed this app earlier today to try it out. First thing I noticed: in-your-face banner message on my canvas that reads: You’ve used 2/8 of your free Curve files. Here’s the OBVIOUS problem with that: your stupid banner is blocking my view of my art board. I can’t scale up my canvas as I’m drawing, to focus on detail work, because the banner is in my way and I see no ability to remove that perpetually present strip. I get it: you want🤑money. What you don’t seem to get is that before we spend our money on software/apps, we typically like to test the user-experience first, and that experience is what drives our purchasing decisions.
Second issue: You would think that the number of icons throughout this app’s UI would have prompted the builders of it to add text-upon-hover so that we see a small pop-out blurb explanation of what the tool is/does. I’ve hovered over most of the icons and not a single one shows text-upon-hover to identify the tool.
Right now I’m trying to figure out how to adjust the opacity of an image layer I imported so it can serve as my drawing reference. Checking the Linearity documentation yields zero results when I type-in: layer opacity. And yeah, I went through the little visual intro steps, but you do understand how memory retention works in humans, I’m sure? Action->Short-term memory->Repetition->Long-term memory. I’m not watching that visual presentation again; I want to actively get actual work done. Anyway, the product should be intuitive right out of the box. smh 🤦🏽♀️ My experience so far with this app? Not as bad as the new—as of Nov. 2, 2026–Affinity for iPad’s vector studio, but still not great (although Linearity is not the worst). At this point the experience with Linearity Curve is not inspiring me to pay a monthly fee to use it.
Second issue: You would think that the number of icons throughout this app’s UI would have prompted the builders of it to add text-upon-hover so that we see a small pop-out blurb explanation of what the tool is/does. I’ve hovered over most of the icons and not a single one shows text-upon-hover to identify the tool.
Right now I’m trying to figure out how to adjust the opacity of an image layer I imported so it can serve as my drawing reference. Checking the Linearity documentation yields zero results when I type-in: layer opacity. And yeah, I went through the little visual intro steps, but you do understand how memory retention works in humans, I’m sure? Action->Short-term memory->Repetition->Long-term memory. I’m not watching that visual presentation again; I want to actively get actual work done. Anyway, the product should be intuitive right out of the box. smh 🤦🏽♀️ My experience so far with this app? Not as bad as the new—as of Nov. 2, 2026–Affinity for iPad’s vector studio, but still not great (although Linearity is not the worst). At this point the experience with Linearity Curve is not inspiring me to pay a monthly fee to use it.
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Great App
This is a fantastic app with a great mobile UI that works incredibly well on iPads. The devs used to require a cloud subscription in order to actually use the product and have since reversed course, which is really awesome to see. Great job!
Love It
It’s great. Easy to understand tools, convenient side-by-side art boards—it’s everything I want in a vector program. I’m not super familiar with vector tools, so I was pleased with how shallow the learning curve was when I first picked up this app. I look forward to getting back into using it soon. 🙂↕️
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Slop
Exactly what you’re looking for if you spent hours on artwork in procreate, and then wanted to turn it into AI slop.
Im creating posters and books
Illustrations and love curve.
I love designing on the go.
This made it possible , especially with the pencil this makes my work really easy
Linearity has wowed me
I'm a new designer and this is so easy to use that it's actually fun. Before I had to watch tutorials to even understand how the basics work in other apps
The background removal is really great
I also enjoy the Auto Trace feature a lot. Being able to prompt design changes is really cool too!
It Will Make You Cry
My dominatrix has never made me cry. The death of my dog after 15 years did not make me cry.
This extraordinary exercise in frustration, without actual tech support (ai generic bot responses), and an interphase that crashes constantly, made me cry.
It is October 26, 2026. Review has been up since August. Just received a promise to make things better, after more than two months.
This extraordinary exercise in frustration, without actual tech support (ai generic bot responses), and an interphase that crashes constantly, made me cry.
It is October 26, 2026. Review has been up since August. Just received a promise to make things better, after more than two months.
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Crooks
At any time all your files can become useless without paying money. Get away from these crooks.
Great app, too much push for purchases
Linearity Curve is a delightful vector drawing software. I found it especially useful when transitioning off scratch’s costume editor. I having been drawing a graphic novel and it has helped tons. Has all the great features and then some, but some important things are locked behind a paywall, like having more than 8 files or exporting jpeg. I do understand the need for money to stay afloat, but in app purchases should be completely extra. They should be look at this new feature, not we locked this behind a paywall. Otherwise awesome app!
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Transparent background
I was able to export a transparent background PNG on the free plan as recently as last week. The latest update apparently moved that most basic of features behind a paywall, despite no mention of it (or any other features now requiring payment) in the update notes.
Great app.
Awesome support and incredible design experience.
My feeling with Linearity CGD
I"m very happy with your app.
Awesome app for sure!
I really enjoy how Curve is easy to use and now that they added AI features it's insane how much time it saves me.
Linearity has wowed me.
I'm a new designer and this is so easy to use that it's actually fun. Before I had to watch tutorials to even understand how the basics work in other apps.
I've been using this to create illustrations and it's so simple to use.
Really fun to design, almost feels like Apple designed this app
Was better before the greed set in.
Back in the olden days you would get a piece of software and you had it. Linearity bought Vectornator, or Vectornator became linearity and they ruined it. Now you need to pay monthly to use it even for personal non commercial projects. This leaves no app like Vectornator left to acquire and worst of all when you stop it from updating to this expensive half-version of Vectornator, the company finds a way to change the file on you Mac so that you have to pay. If I wanted semi-ware I’d just use Adobe, at least they didn’t release their software for free for years only to paywall it.
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you need to pay a subscription to export
I used this app when it was Vectornator. It was a great beginner friendly app and now that it has changed to full subscription, I can’t access my old files to export them to another vector program. I need to pay the subscription to access the function to export MY files. There was no warning or notification that this will happen - just turned it on after an update to see that I need to pay. If it was a one-time payment, I would’ve paid it in a heartbeat but a subscription based model to have my old files is predatory and extortion.
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After update , it’s unusable
Was a nice program. Now it’s subscription. Bye bye, garbage. Delete
