Astropad Studio

No linux support

Faster than others ;)

But the claim that it transforms your ipad pro into a graphic tablet is too bombastic. In fact, there is no hover behaviour (because ipad pro has none so you can’t see the cursor moving along as you hove your pencil over the ipad). Pen pressure with the app is far from what a display graphic tablet offers. I tested it on 5 wifi connections, 4 of them with proffesional wireless routers and it lags like there is no tommorow. On cable connection the lagging is reduced but still there. Just as a mention. I paired the ipad with a macbook pro 2018. Another issue is that it can only duplicate your mac screen, and might i say very poorly, given that ipad and macbook pro resolutions don’t match. Apparently a special app to transform your ipad into a second monitor is being developed by the same developer. This being said, for the purpose of underlining words and drawing some doodles i think the app does its thing. For anything else i would not count on it. For now it has potential but i fear there are too many obstacles to overcome to make someone pay a monthly fee to use the app.

It continuously has bugs and the pen doesn’t work

Paired with an iPad Pro 12.9. Works flawlessly.

Why would you pay so much for a subscription when you could just…save that money for a Wacom or Huion? This app isn’t worth it, man

I’ve had Astropad for a while. Ow and with these later Yvette really refined this app. I much prefer hooking my iPad up to the Mac and drawing with it than working on my large Cintiq that takes up so much space.

Years ago I bought the Kickstarter with the USB dongle for my MacBook Pro. It was a high powered computer but it ran super hot when I used it with Astropad Studio. So I quit using it. Yesterday I saw they had released a Windows version without need for a dongle. Great, I thought, let’s give it a go. Sadly, it was the same issue even on a very powerful Dell laptop. When I draw with the Apple Pencil on my iPad Pro, both the GPU and CPU usage spike, which kicks the fans on to high speed. My computer was running very hot, just like the old MacBook Pro. So I cancelled my trial. Also, the price is ridiculously high. Even the special discount of $63.99 a year is awfully high. I appreciate that they got rid of the dongle, but the continuing subscription cost over time isn’t, to me anyway, justified.

Years ago I paid $30 for Astropad, the most I’ve ever spent on an iPad app, after 2 or three years they forced updates that bricked the app for me, at the same time releasing this app where they change the flat fee to a wildly high monthly subscription… forget that… Never using their products again… These people are greedy crooks

Yet another one-time purchase app removed from the App Store, only to be replaced with the “endless subscription” model of app. It’s getting really tiring. I also don’t want to sign up for yet another trial just to try out an app. I have zero interest in juggling a bunch of trials and/or subscriptions/ checking in to make sure they haven’t expired etc. No.