ArtPose Pro

I was a little sceptical after reading the other reviews but honestly I’m pleasantly surprised with this app. The UI does take a minute to understand but once you’ve had a play around it becomes fairly easy to navigate, however I would suggest maybe adding an option for tooltips or a tutorial for new users instead of the help section, and actual categories for the preset poses ie sitting, standing, etc would be good. Posing the figures does seem a little challenging at first but once you understand how it operates it becomes pretty simple to use, again though an actual tutorial would go a long way. Overall it’s a good app, I especially like the way the biceps act as they should, hopefully you can add the same functionality to the rest of the muscles. The ability to save poses is great though it would be good if it also saved the camera position. The only other things I would like to see is more body shape options, maybe a second slider for fat? And posable hands however I can understand the decision to forgo that and the preset hands work fine anyway.

Stiff models, arms only move one way and half the set poses are for superheroes, not great, also if you try to move the wrist around the model twists around itself

As others have mentioned, the models are incredibly awkward to pose. The pre-posed figures are good but ultimately unusable due to very poor navigation. There are a lot of good poses but it’s almost impossible to find the poses you want. They’re not labelled and there’s no catagorisation so finding any specific pose is incredibly inefficient. It really needs either categories, search functionality or, ideally, both. This app has a lot of potential. It could be an absolute gamechanger but in it’s current form it’s not worth your time. I’d love to see this change some day soon.

This app controls like a**, but it has probably the most detailed and true-to-form models I’ve seen in a poser app to date. The form of the models and muscle definition is solid and provide a good reference for drawing. You cannot pose the fingers besides a few presets, and the figure variety only ranges from “skinny muscled” to “jacked muscled”, so probably not the best app if you’re looking to draw heavier set or less strong people. You can also only add two models in a scene at a time. I do like the app, though. Good for thumbnails and mockups.

I’ve had the app for a few years and it’s been great just wish the updates would include some other models and background building things

This app is phenomenal, but it is not user friendly. Honestly, the movement controls are complicated for no reason. It would be much better to just have an X/Y/Z axis wheel to move the joints instead of this weird 1,2, left, left, right, one finger, two finger stuff. It makes posing way too tedious for no reason.

It’s very useful and the pre made poses are nice. I know it hasn’t been updated in a while but could there be an option to extend the perspective grid to the horizon line instead of having it only visible within a limited area?

So many great suggestions are in these reviews. Please take a look and add them!

It is a great tool for quick reference for angles and perspective, it would be great if it could have a grid option to create a square grid on-top of the view so it is easier to draw.

I use this app for a lot and find it very useful for my work, but it's often difficult to adjust fine details because it's very hard to figure out where a touch motion will actually move the selected joint. This could be easily fixed by the addition of a "gizmo" tool like many other 3d posing apps have. I've found myself avoiding it lately for lack of this tool and am looking for an alternative, but would be happy to return if this could be fixed. I also have trouble with the presentation of preset poses. The poses themselves are great, but since there's no numbering or naming I frequently get lost when looking for a specific pose. The UI is... fine. Saving and loading poses is quite esoteric and I'm still not sure how it works. A decent three out of five.