Tracing Buddy User Reviews

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Fantastic!

This app will is so helpful for my drawings and paintings. I’d be lost without it!

Love it

This is a great app

Zoom

What happen to being able to click on a square that it becomes enlarged? Can you fix that please.

Response from developer

It should still keep working... Can you send more information to appfeedback@lafappbrica.com ? There was a new update to avoid any interactions with the grid while the "lock" feature is enabled, but moving to the enlarged section was never possible, even before the update. Please contact me with more information, I worry it might be something that could be device-specific

Grid

Not clear at all how to apply grid over photo. I hit grid and basicaly 2 lines went over the photo NOT a grid made of multiple lines horizontal and vertical which is what i want

Response from developer

Hi There’s video tutorials on how to set a grid in the settings screen (gear icon in the first screen after opening the app).

Versatile and easy to use

Excellent app, flexible grids and sub-grids. Love the value finder feature also.

Image alignment

In the final image, the grids, mostly vertical, (sometimes both vertical and horizontal), don’t get aligned to the edges, half grid lines appear at both vertical ends; eg. if 10 verticals are chosen, always 2 halves appear at both ends , the image alignment function does not have any effect. Sometimes same happens on horizontal lines also. While setting the lines, all seems ok in that screen, but shows UNaligned in the next page screen.
Do check and correct this .
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Response from developer

I'll investigate, if you have any screenshots of the issue please send them to appfeedback@lafappbrica.com

Fabs

Good tool for drawing

Love this app

I never leave reviews. But I actually am so excited about this app.

Best app ever

This app gave me the urge to impregnate someone’s wife

Most unprofessional customer service ever experienced

This company fraudulently charged my credit card after I tried using the app. When I contacted the company through FB after emailing them, the person was rude, unprofessional, flat out lied multiple times, was confrontational to the point that I had to ultimately block them. Then, they texted me to harass me further. DO NOT USE THIS APP! The creator vile.
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Response from developer

I assume this user had its account hacked It treated me to "report me to authorities" for a supposed credit card charge that my app made, apparently asking for money in any form I informed the user that the app has all the transactions approved by Apple, and the highest price point of the app isn't even a third of the amount it demanded I offered the user to join a video call to clarify any issues, but it refused, still demanding money. User refused to send me any screenshots with proof of the so called credit card fraud, and refused to send me any screenshots of the app. Then the user started to send me extremely contradictory claims, claiming it signed up to the app (Tracing Buddy has no sign ups whatsoever), claiming the app was completely non-responsive so it couldn't send me any sort of screenshots, but still, user apparently was able to go to the setting screen and use the feedback button to send me an email demanding money The breaking point happened when I asked the user to describe what sort of app it was using, the description matched another app I have published, when I confronted it about it, it seemed to have realized the mistake and started describing the functionality of Tracing Buddy User sent me plenty of information about its identity, I sent one of the numbers attached the message "Hi. Did you recently contacted me via facebook with a problem concerning an app?" just to be able to clarify if the user was legit, got no response and it doesn't seems the user was even able to see it Maybe the user has a legitimate problem, but it didn't came from my app, and the way it was worded matches other scam mails that other indie developers have received Considering user claimed it downloaded the app from a "website recommending it" but refused to send me any links, and when confronted about what sort of app user downloaded it started to describe another app of mine, then I suspect it just has a lists of developer it harasses for money

Best app around for artists

Cheap and has just the perfect amount of help: grid and transfer pictures into tones which are incredibly useful. AR i did not try yet but i treat that only as a shiny bonus to the already worthy features.

Sorry

Sorry

Lifetime?

Can’t find anywhere to buy lifetime plan. Says it’s available…

Response from developer

It should definitely be available, please send an email to appfeedback@lafappbrica.com or better yet, use the feedback button in the setting screen. Try to include an screenshot from the purchases screen so I can diagnose what might be going on

WHY is the lock feature SO BAD

Finally!! A tracing app with a lock so my fingers don’t move the image every two seconds! NOPE. One finger is okay, but as soon as it senses two, your image slides around, you tap out of the screen, etc. how hard is it to make a true lock, where NOTHING will move the image until the lock is tapped again?? Honestly so aggravating… time to keep searching for another app or just use my laptop screen. So disappointed.

Update- looking forward to the next app update! I will try again then. Thank you so much for your response!
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Response from developer

No problem. It will be changed in the next update. With a toggle to keep the old behavior in case anyone finds it useful But please just wait a little. The next OS release is in September and I don’t plan to release new updates until then to avoid any hiccups

WHY is the lock feature SO BAD

Finally!! A tracing app with a lock so my fingers don’t move the image every two seconds! NOPE. One finger is okay, but as soon as it senses two, your image slides around, you tap out of the screen, etc. how hard is it to make a true lock, where NOTHING will move the image until the lock is tapped again?? Honestly so aggregating… time to keep searching for another app or just use my laptop screen. So disappointed.
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I love this

This app is fantastic. I’ve had it on my phone for five minutes and i absolutely love it. If you’re looking for state-of-the-art, crazy modern, complex, super sophisticated, then it might not be for you. What I love about it is that it’s so well-designed — the concept is brilliant. I’ve been doing the grid technique, old-school, by hand, for four decades … And in one fell swoop this app has enabled me to skip all that and do it directly, digitally, right on the photo on my phone. Bravo!!
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Grid painter

This is the worst app I ever got. The instructions to use it are almost non-existent, and when I tried to get help they sent me videos that were not based on the screens I had. Terrible.

Great app for watercolor

This is an awesome app for pencil drawing for watercolor…and the price is awesome. I would actually pay a little more for the lifetime ($20?), but really appreciate that is affordable.

My favorite feature is the ability to tap of a square and isolate it for drawing. THIS IS AWESOME and sets the app apart from all the rest. I think my mind tries to fill in if I’m looking at the whole picture. For a long time I didn’t understand how to get back to the whole grid, so I thing a back arrow would be helpful. I finally figured out you just swipe.

I would like the ability to crop the photo inside the app so I don’t have to go into Photos and crop the original. That would be a great feature.

I do think getting a photo into the program and starting a new drawing is more difficult than it could be. Look at how Sketchbook and Procreate handle this with a gallery (and all other drawing programs). Maybe use icons instead of the words and plus sign…they run together and it’s hard to tap the right one on a phone. Maybe add a quick tutorial on that for now? I just wiped out a previous drawing by importing a photo over it.

That said, this is hands-down the best app out there.
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Restore account on new iPhone

I lost my old iPhone, and just got a new one, so had to manually download all my old apps and subscriptions. I’m paid up for a year so I just am looking to sign in, but the only prompts I can find involve me buying again. Is there a way I can just sign in on my new phone that has the same number as the old?
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Response from developer

Hi, can you sen an email to soporte@lafappbrica.com or better yet, using the suggestions button in the settings screen of Tracing Buddy? You should have all your subscriptions still valid, keep in mind, they are linked to your apple id account (not your phone number)

Bad

It’s bad