Unfulfilled Potential for its Price
Love it, except for the ‘journal page view’ size-to-screen ratio issue, and no portrait or rotation mode. A high price to pay for such absences.
When editing a page, they keep automatically rotating to double-page landscape, despite being in portrait mode; Then when you go back to view the journal pages, the writing is all sideways. This feels ridiculous and frustrating. Even if you create a portrait page in the thumbnail view, it still displays sideways in the journal page view. Such a waste, because the journal page view is the best thing about this app. Though it also has its issues of under-utilised screen space…
The interface buttons above and below the journal page view don’t need to take up so much valuable screen space, when it would be so much better if it were bigger and filling more of the screen for better readability. Or just have a full-screen journal page view; The page-turning is beautiful, but sadly displays the content much smaller than what the screen estate actually allows for. Such a pity, because this feature is what makes this app stand out from all the other journaling apps. It makes me actually want to go back and view, read, and reflect on what has been recorded.
The pens and tools are wonderfully simple, though putting the ‘cut’ tool behind a paywall is very tactical, as $10 a WEEK is far steeper than any other app subscription I’ve come across. However, the free version is adequately useful with its well-designed simplicity.
The extremely steep subscription price might feel more justified if the app was designed to its full potential, utilising the devices’ native screen rotation for optimal input, and properly filling the screen space for better viewing (arguably its best feature). It seems silly that the journal page view only fills about 60% of an iPad screen, and around 20% on an iPhone, with its lack of native rotation integration. (It forces a landscape rotation in portrait mode editing, yet won’t let me view the journal landscape when I’m actually in landscape mode.)
I’ll see how long I continue to use this app for, and keep a hopeful eye out for any updates.
When editing a page, they keep automatically rotating to double-page landscape, despite being in portrait mode; Then when you go back to view the journal pages, the writing is all sideways. This feels ridiculous and frustrating. Even if you create a portrait page in the thumbnail view, it still displays sideways in the journal page view. Such a waste, because the journal page view is the best thing about this app. Though it also has its issues of under-utilised screen space…
The interface buttons above and below the journal page view don’t need to take up so much valuable screen space, when it would be so much better if it were bigger and filling more of the screen for better readability. Or just have a full-screen journal page view; The page-turning is beautiful, but sadly displays the content much smaller than what the screen estate actually allows for. Such a pity, because this feature is what makes this app stand out from all the other journaling apps. It makes me actually want to go back and view, read, and reflect on what has been recorded.
The pens and tools are wonderfully simple, though putting the ‘cut’ tool behind a paywall is very tactical, as $10 a WEEK is far steeper than any other app subscription I’ve come across. However, the free version is adequately useful with its well-designed simplicity.
The extremely steep subscription price might feel more justified if the app was designed to its full potential, utilising the devices’ native screen rotation for optimal input, and properly filling the screen space for better viewing (arguably its best feature). It seems silly that the journal page view only fills about 60% of an iPad screen, and around 20% on an iPhone, with its lack of native rotation integration. (It forces a landscape rotation in portrait mode editing, yet won’t let me view the journal landscape when I’m actually in landscape mode.)
I’ll see how long I continue to use this app for, and keep a hopeful eye out for any updates.
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I can’t draw
I’m 8 and I like to draw but you can’t even do something with it or me or the app 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤯🤯🤯🤯
That smudge stick!
As a children’s book illustrator, I’ve tried several drawing apps. Paper is by far my favorite. It’s all because of the smudge tool, which allows me to blend and make the subjects in my drawings come to life.
I also appreciate its intuitive tool bars, which allowed me to learn quickly and become proficient. FIVE stars!
I also appreciate its intuitive tool bars, which allowed me to learn quickly and become proficient. FIVE stars!
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Paywalled
The constant pop ups asking to upgrade made it basically unusable as a free program. I wouldn’t waste a download on it
An Almost Perfect App
This app is absolutely amazing! I love basically everything about it HOWEVER this would be a 5/5 stars for me if it only had text tools. I have horrible handwriting and i am super picky with brushes/pens for writing and I’m not the biggest fan of them for writing (shaky hands so i wish there was more stabilisation for pens) so ultimately text tools would be best. Also i wish there were more colour pallets but that doesn’t affect my rating really.
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