# Myvinchy: AR Trace & Sketch — user reviews > 57 indexed App Store user reviews of Myvinchy by Julian Praest, rated 3.70/5 from 99 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/myvinchy-ar-trace-and-sketch/id1196364673/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/myvinchy-ar-trace-and-sketch/id1196364673.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 53 · 4★ 11 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 18 ## What do users think of Myvinchy? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 💡 Innovative idea for artists - 👍 Helps with drawing proportions - 🚀 Efficient for laying out drawings - 👍 Useful for gridding photos - 💡 "Tracing Mode" is innovative - 👍 Great for transferring images - 👍 Makes drawing easier - 👍 Good for beginners and professionals - 👍 Helps draw to scale - 👍 Clever concept - 👍 Useful for planning illustrations **Cons** - 💰 Expensive subscription model - 🐛 Frequent crashing - 🐛 App crashes on image load - 🐛 Difficult to navigate - 🐛 Not intuitive - 🐛 Poor user support/guidance - 🐛 Limited stencils - 🐛 Tracing mode needs refinement - 🐛 Awkward to hold phone while drawing - 🐛 Only works in portrait mode - 🐛 Cannot draw on the screen - 🐛 Demands payment after years of use - 🐛 False advertising regarding payment - 🐛 Requires payment twice - 🐛 Cannot use on photos in gallery - 🐛 No menu - 🐛 No button to take photo - 🐛 Cannot access assistance mode - 🐛 User interface not easily understandable - 🐛 Sound interference (volume turns down) - 🐛 Does not work in landscape mode - 🐛 Tiny on iPad screen - 🐛 Does not project image - 🐛 Buggy and useless app - 🐛 Cannot get past the first page **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes when loading images - App crashes frequently - Sound interference (volume turns down) - Cannot use on photos in gallery - No menu - No button to take photo - Cannot access assistance mode - App only works in portrait mode - App does not work in landscape mode - App is tiny on iPad screen - App does not project image - App crashes on first page - Image shifts away - Grid drawing option crashes app **Most requested features** - Add numbered grids - Improve user manual/instructions - Add width and height for canvas - More drawing options - Ability to review picture before saving grid lines - More functions ## Newest reviews (15 of 57) ### 3/5 — Crashes when I try to upload an image *2023-05-23* Crashes when I try to upload an image My Device: iPhone 14 Pro Max (latest iOS) Note: I regularly update my review/rating for this application ### 1/5 — I do not like this app *2020-04-03* Absolutely terrible I spent two dollars on this and I thought it was actually going to be a drawing app but apparently that’s all terrible I don’t even understand this you take a photo and you draw something I thought you would actually be able to draw on your phone not to actually draw on a piece of paper aargh this is so annoying and disappointing that’s why people you got a check what it is first I do not like this this is a terrible idea just don’t waste your money people ### 1/5 — WORST APP EVER !!! *2020-02-27, version 1.2* THIS APP IS A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY I WANT MY $2.79 BACK Aza ### 3/5 — Mostly Amazing! *2019-07-29* This app is extremely useful to me. The things I wish would be fixed are (1) frequent crashing and (2) sound interference. For some reason, if you are listening to music or a podcast and then open this app, the volume automatically turns down. Once you close this app, the volume returns to the level it was. ### 4/5 — Grreaaat! *2019-07-25, version 1.2* Love it. It would be even better if the grids could be numbered. ### 1/5 — Fail *2019-01-01* Why is it so hard to get these drawing grid apps right? We just need a square grid over our photos that will work in both portrait and landscape positions. Once we have a photo set up with a grid over it, we'd like to be able to save it that way. Personally, I don’t want to draw on the screen. I just want to draw from my reference photo that is on my iPad. This app won’t work in landscape mode and it’s tiny on my iPad screen. I’m sorry I paid for it. ### 1/5 — Looks great but *2018-12-18* Impossible to navigate because there's no menu! I purchased for help with a perspective drawing but literally have no access to other drawing options besides the grid. I'm able to apply a grid to an existing photo only. If I opt to take a photo, the app opens my camera but there's no button to take the photo. Refund please! ### 4/5 — Helpful app *2018-06-12, version 1.2* I struggle with drawing to scale on my canvases, and this app really helps! ### 1/5 — Disappointed *2018-03-17, version 1.2* I was keen to use this app with my iPadPro but after several failed attempts to get started, combined with a dire lack of guidance, I have decided to simply consider it a waste of time and effort. ### 3/5 — Intriguing but needs work *2018-02-18* LOVE the concept but this app definitely needs work/adjustments. It’s a little difficult to navigate, the stencils are extremely limited, and the tracing mode needs to be refined. I would LOVE to see this intriguing app tweaked and improved! ### 2/5 — Interesting but Interface is not easily understanable. *2018-02-15, version 1.2* Need a better user manual. ### 2/5 — A concern *2018-02-02, version 1.2* Cant find any way to access assistance mode. :( ### 1/5 — Not happy *2017-11-25, version 1.2* Not intuitive does not do what it promises could be good and really useful but needs loads of work. ### 4/5 — How to use *2017-09-20, version 1.2* This app desperately need instructions. But for those getting frustrated, you have to literally draw on pen and paper. You take a picture, and the app turns this image into a stencil that You can hopefully use as a guide for when the camera view shows up, use the screen as a ‘live view’ to draw with on paper. The camera has to be held extremely still somehow or your results will be off. Maybe if you rig it up to be perfectly stationary somehow. Not very easy to do.That’s the main issue here. Maybe clear acrylic on some stacked books. ### 3/5 — Simple and easy to use. *2017-09-11* User friendly and to the point. Very happy with the app. I wish I could review the picture before I save it with the grid lines. Maybe I just haven't found that feature yet. Does freeze up and crash sometimes but still very useable. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Doesn't work *2024-02-08, version 1.3* The image just shifts away ### 1/5 — What? *2023-12-14, version 1.3* Might be useful. Might be good. I’ll never know. £25 A YEAR for a simple grid app? Pass. ### 1/5 — Used to be good *2023-11-27* This app used to be good until they went to subscription. I now can’t even use the grid drawing option as it will crash the app. Before the AI was introduced this was my favorite and go to app to use. Now I’ll be on the hunt for another one. I’m very disappointed. ### 1/5 — Used to be great *2023-11-06, version 1.3* Used be super useful, now I can’t get it to work. Everytime I try to load a picture it crashes. Time to look for a replacement app. ### 1/5 — Demands payment now?! *2023-10-01* I have had this app for YEARS and it has worked just fine. However today it suddenly started to demand payment, saying I only have 3 days of free usage even though I HAVE HAD THIS APP FOR YEARS! Why is the app I have used for years suddenly demanding I pay for it?! ### 1/5 — Usual bait n switch *2023-05-26* WAS Listed as free, called MyVichy, then immediately switched name and to paid subscription. Could be better if there was a button added that snaps the devs leg in an alley full of hungry pit bulls, maybe. And they have to adopt and feed all the dogs and go bankrupt. ### 1/5 — You have to pay twice. False advertising *2023-05-24, version 1.3* You first have to buy the app….. then you can’t even use it. You have to give them your credit card number first. Also this app requires a monthly subscription. I don’t like paying twice just to enjoy an app. Extremely deceptive. Not cool. ### 1/5 — Didn’t work *2023-05-01, version 1.2* I downloaded the app after purchasing and it didn’t work at all ### 1/5 — Waste of money *2023-04-14, version 1.2* I’ve given almost a week to using this... very poor support on how to use. Tracing app requires a stand at the least. Grids could be clever but you can’t use on photos in gallery. ### 1/5 — Not so much *2021-01-02, version 1.2* .pretty disappointed not easy to use ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Very cool *2020-12-09* I just love the idea of this app. And so far the app is great. I have not actually started to draw with it yet but it’s pretty straightforward and seems to function just as it should. Very excited ### 5/5 — Amazing App! *2020-06-12* For such an obvious way to learn something you’d think there would be a slew of apps similar to this for PCs, phone’s, etc., but I’ve only found this one. I’ve never been able to draw my way out of a wet paper sack. It’s like my perception of space is skewed when trying to reproduce an image via hand, onto paper. With this app, it’s easy for me to transfer an image I’ve taken a photo of or downloaded, and transfer it to paper! I do use a program that takes photographs and turns them into a sketch which helps considerably, and I also threw together a couple of thick walled paper tubes that one fits into the other and it has clamps on both ends. One end is clamped to my phone, the opposing end is clamped to my clipboard, spiral, etc., and this keeps me at the same area/distance so things don’t get outta whack. This keeps everything in the same perspective and allows me to work much faster and more efficiently. I was literally crippled when it came to sketching until I found this app and I’ve noticed the more I use the app, the better I do without it because it’s teaching my brain to be more proficient at spatialization. I highly recommend this app for the artistically challenged. It’s given me the ability to do something that I’ve always envied. I’m definitely not a DaVinci but at least people recognize when I draw a portrait it’s of the person I was drawing, and don’t say, “awww that’s an interesting sketch of a brick... What inspired you?”. ### 5/5 — Great help in getting proportions correct *2018-09-16* You have a huge advantage using this app as it helps you to draw the essential relationships between key parts of an image. Well done. ### 5/5 — Worth it *2017-11-29* Great app but hard to understand exactly how to use it. After you have the “stencil” on the screen, put phone on a cup, look at screen and “trace” the drawing on a sheet of paper. I sketch houses and this helps big time with proportions. I mark the key points and then freehand from there. ### 5/5 — Does what I want *2017-11-05, version 1.2* Using it to grid photographs, I haven't used any other features but this works well. ### 5/5 — Love it *2017-08-28, version 1.2* Great app. ### 5/5 — Great App *2017-08-04, version 1.2* Found it by accident. All accidents should be this cool. Thanks ### 5/5 — Very clever app *2017-07-24, version 1.2* Not sure the previous reviewer understood that you are supposed to be helped to draw on paper or such in the real world not on the app. As an app to be able to look through and line up the lines I am drawing on my canvas with those of a photo on my screen, well, to me personally, I think that this is an extremely clever and groundbreaking idea for an app. What a time saver and such an original idea, wish I'd been the one to think of it lol, brilliant, thank you, am very, very impressed. ### 5/5 — Increases the joy of sketching. *2017-07-19* I would truly recommend this apt to a casual sketched or even a professional. Good job. ### 5/5 — Great!! *2017-07-17, version 1.2* This app really helped me to draw!! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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