Pencil Games User Reviews

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I Enjoy It

Love the idea; very original, I can see huge potential in this app.

Great app

Can’t beat the price. It’s a simple app and does all it needs to. Great app!!!!!!

Not good

This game is bad because…1. on some places that you need to write you can’t 2.it is so packed you can’t even see what the words are 3.they give you the boards but you need 2 people

Nope

Using an iPad. Can’t see the words or clues or game boards they go past the screen. Womp womp. Nice try, sorry guys.

Terrible!

Does not fit on screen and cannot make smaller, what good is word search without the words or a crossword with no clues.

Doesn’t work on iPad Pro 12.9”

This app doesn’t display well on iPad Pro … problems include 1] text on tod of other text (example: the word ‘sudoku’ makes entering top row of upper-center square impossible), 2] doesn’t support landscape (horizontal) screen orientation. Maybe good for other iPads with pencil, but not here!

Too sensitive

Picks up palm pressure and draws straight lines from pencil tip to palm, very frustrating

Could be better

Nice idea but it is obvious this apps main goal is to deliver ads. The title blocks the top row of sudoku, palm recognition is not an option as well making the app annoying to use. Your basically just drawing on an image, no game logic to make you follow the rules. I would give the app a pass, unless you need more advertising.
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Love it

I don’t know why everyone is hating on this app it does what it says it does. The word searches are fun because I love writing the answers. Also it's great for two people and its a good app.

I was not happy with it

I was not happy with the game because it was not playable the words like sodoku were in the way and it would not let me write in the actual places where I should write

Not bad

I was Looking for an app for crossword puzzle where I am able to use my Apple Pencil this is a nice app simple like in the 90s very nice I would like to see maybe bigger boards in the crossword puzzle word finder it be nice to see that and please fix the line issue when I write with my palm rested ,it randomly creates a line otherwise great app
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Lazy

Hi your game is Boring and I thought it would be fan

Poorly implemented

Strange long lines come out of nowhere, so you can’t rest your hand on your iPad as you write with your Apple Pencil. It also doesn’t make any sense that the games aren’t interactive at all. You could just as easily mark up over a screenshot of a crossword puzzle. There’s no interaction with the game that would tell you whether or not you got the answer right or wrong. You are just scribbling on top of a picture of a crossword puzzle. I don’t really get the point of that.
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Great idea bad execution

I was very excited then immediately let down. The sizes are wrong the games are not interactive. A lot of potential but not useable.

Great idea but doesn’t work good

The pencil does not work good with the app but I like the app idea. The pencil creates long lines out of no where and does not write great. I would also like the option of writing in different strokes or maybe different colors

doesn’t work for what i want

i downloaded this for sudoku, bc i liked being able to just write the numbers in. i haven't gotten a single solvable puzzle yet. i get most of the way in, and then nothing lines up, because the way the puzzles generate make them impossible to solve.

crossword is ok, sometimes frustrating when the definitions are unnecessarily long and confusing, but word search is pretty decent. i haven’t played the 2-player games yet. chances are i’m only keeping this app for that, but the sudoku issue is a huge disappointment, so i’m just gonna keep looking for a different, correctly generated puzzle app.
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Lazy

I didn’t experience crashes, but this app seems useless. You could just as easily screenshot a word search or sudoku puzzle and solve it with mark up. With the exception of crossword puzzles, there are no hints or answers so if you get stuck, too bad. And the 2-player games don’t have multiplayer. There is also no customizing your pen or the environment. I know the goal is a paper and pen feel (hence 2 instead of 1 stars), but there’s no point in moving it to an app if there are no other features. Just print out some puzzles and actually do them on paper, the experience will be identical.
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Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback. It is true that you could print out puzzles and do them on paper for a similar experience. Part of the intent of this app is to recreate the pencil/paper experience without the hassle. You may be on an airplane, or in a hotel room where a printer isn't available. The app generates random puzzles infinitely on demand, so you don't need to go searching for another puzzle every time you'd like to do another one. Two player games are intended to share the same device, and take turns drawing on it as you would on a regular piece of paper. There are many planned features and enhancements for this app, but I apologize for the slow pace of implementation due to limited time constraints. I feel that the description and screenshots give a good indication of the app functionality, but I'm sorry to hear that you were expecting something different. Please feel to reach out to the support link if you have further suggestions or comments.

Horrible

I just downloaded The game and unable to see them....all the words are overlapping on all games

Response from developer

Sorry to hear about your experience. Please feel free to email the support link with further details such as device model, iOS version, and screenshots to track this down.

Not optimized for pencil

Good selection of games. You can’t disable finger input for drawing, which means you can’t rest your hand on the iPad while using the pencil, making playing uncomfortable

Worked great until new iOS came out.

Great app. Love getting to use the Apple Pencil And have the feel of the real thing.

Response from developer

Sorry about that. This should be fixed if you update to the latest version.