Paper Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience43.7% of reviews
Neutral11.1% of reviews
Negative experience45.2% of reviews

~ Based on 1,025 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Paper

Is Paper Safe?

Paper: Sketch, Draw & Create appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Paper is 91/100.

This assessment is based on 73,095 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

89.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
6.2% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 72,370 App Store ratings for Paper.

Is Paper Legit?

Paper: Sketch, Draw & Create appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Paper is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Wouldn't even load

The app wouldn't even load. I tapped on it to open it and it would open to this loading screen of endlessly turning pages and stay on that screen but never move passed that screen to the actual application. I was on a wireless internet connection with full bars and even tried closing the app, disconnecting from the WiFi and reopening the app on full bars of 5G+ but it still wouldn't load. Finally just gave up.
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Greatest drawing app ever!

Gives you many drawing tool options and gives you unlimited pages.

Обидно

Помню года два назад это продолжение было абсолютно бесплатно теперь любое действие здесь платное ужас
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Not free

Thought it was goingto be free but Sam mislead

Make a cheaper subscription

Love this app just wish it was cheaper

Requires money to buy everything

You have to buy money to get everything in this bag so that’s why I hate Paper

DISEÑOS:3

We can do diseños. You know the stuff we can talk. I can make it so much stuff and do my homework something like that. I can’t speak. You know that thing. I love you so much.: D

Not worth paying for..like at all

The subscription is hella insistent on you purchasing it and you cannot use a lot of features in the demo honestly really disappointing I wouldn’t bother

Cool I guess

It’s a good app, but please add more buttons like a button to add texts. Also, please make it free. I really want to cut my images, but I don’t want to pay just to use it.

Requires connectivity

Was my favorite note taking app. Now that it requires you to be connected to the internet, it’s almost useless. Can’t be guessing when I’m going to access to key business notes or other information. Terrible design choice to not let it work offline.

Great app, awful subscription model.

I really like Paper, which honestly makes the pricing even more frustrating. The app is simple, nice to use, and I’d happily pay for it once. But $9.99 a week is insane for a basic e-journal. Just let people buy the app.

Gutted

I used to be able to use this without Evernote and do remarkable work. Now…

App features buggy after iPad OS 27

Pencil is no longer working like before. Now only shows very light and has no shading. Disappointing that this is not a QA catch and quick fix…not worth my subscription amy more

APP IS AWESOME

This allows me to create anything I imagine into something great. I love this app very much

Siempre tenemos que pagar

Yo quería poner mas fotos y me dice

Tienes que pagar? 😡😡😡😡😡😡

No offline, struggles to even draw

This used to be my favorite app on the iPad, and it has gotten so bad since WeTransfer bought it. Here’s a shortlist of what has changed:

1. This app no longer works offline. If you open the app without a connection, you’ll be stuck on the loading screen until you connect to the internet. No creative app should work this way. What is the point of being able to download your sketchbooks locally if you can’t even access them without being online? This was never a problem until the acquisition.

2. Sometimes you will be greeted with a full-screen add promoting Evernote upon opening the app. I almost feel like this goes without saying, but when I’m opening my sketching app — especially when I *pay for that sketching app* — the LAST thing I want to see is an ad for some other note-taking app that I have 0 interest in. Absolutely trashy behavior from the WeTransfer.

3. Worst of all, YOU CAN NO LONGER RELIABLY MAKE MARKS WHEN DRAWING. That’s right, the app whose whole point is to draw does not reliably keep the marks you make. You’ll see your line come out of the pencil as you draw, but whether that line actually stays is a complete gamble. Again, this should go without saying, but that’s totally unacceptable.

All in all, this app used to be awesome and was a central part of my creative flow for years. After being bought, this app is a shell of its former self and is borderline useless. It’s a shame because to this day, there are no other apps on the market like it. All I want is a dead simple sketchbook-like app, but since WeTransfer bought it, all they want is to funnel you over to some other app that is not even close to doing the same thing. There is no care for what this app is supposed to be, and absolutely zero regard for their users.

UPDATE: it’s been 2 years and this app still has the same problems. you can tell they don’t care about this app because the last update was nearly a year ago and none of this has been addressed, but they’re glad to take $5 a week for this abandonware! Shoutout to evernote for ruining something amazing.
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Overpriced subscribtion

They raised the price from 17 dollars a year too 99. Absurd.

ITS FUN

this is a fun and cool digital art pad! You’ll find cool settings and journal covers!

Alright.

Pretty good but it doesn’t feel like I’m actually drawing. However, it does do a lot of cool things and the scissors are a pretty great touch.

Too expensive

If I pay $100 for a journaling app, it should be usable for a lifetime.