Mural Maker by Da Vinci Eye

This is a great idea. It needs a lot of finesse before justifying the subscription. The interface and set up are way too complicated. iPhone icons are too small and the iPad app starts in portrait mode then seems to change to landscape… which is clunky and… weird. It’s prone to crashing, as other reviews point out, and then you have to set up all over again. This will be great with a design and setup overhaul and crashes fixed.

Tried it and followed instructions to the tee. Even when right next to each other on low res this lags too much. They say they have Insanely good support but I emailed and heard nothing back. Sub cancelled. Shame as good idea but either the tech isn’t ready or something fundamentally wrong with the apps.

Really great idea and wanted it to work but don’t waste your time, it’s too glitchy and laggy.

I really wanted this app to work for me but it is a waste of time until they implement the big upgrade they’re mentioning. As it is, the app is a bit amateur, as it’s really easy to lose where you were working and have to start again. I can deal with the slightly slow or laggy response and lack of detail, but completely losing the precise projection is too much.

Why don’t you do a one off lifetime payment?

I’m short, don’t waste your time. I was 30 minutes into a complex drawing outline and the app crashed multiple times, luckily the photo was in the same spot when I re loaded, (You have to pay to have this feature though, the free one only gives you 10 minutes) Then mid way through (this was when I eventually gave up) I noticed the image (despite being locked) had moved. Because of the design having no ‘back’ button, this meant it was near impossible to move the image back to the exact same spot. Glad I only got the free trail. To note it is also a very slow process to draw from looking at the projected image on your tablet, versus drawing whilst looking at the canvas. Far easier to use a digital projector (cheaper than the apps yearly subscription fee) or other more traditional methods!

This app is such a useful tool for murals but also with learning to draw. Only thing is there can be a bit a lag sometimes but I’m unsure whether this is the app or one of the devices I’m using

You only get 10 minutes to draw before you get locked out and the told you have to upgrade to the pro version. Moronic idea because by the time you set your drawing up, 5 minutes have elapsed leaving you only 5minutes to draw making it a waste of your time. It does offer a one week free trial, but the features are so limited it made me wonder why they charge a £4.99 per month fee to access it. The feature list is very poor making the monthly fee questionable to say the least. In the limited time I used it, it nagged and popped up, frequently dropped connection with the other device it still keeps counting down. When you consider camera lucida is a one time payment and you can do big drawings using a workaround, it saves you a £4.99 fee. Very poor

I don’t know what happened to this app but it used to make much much better before. I’m not liking it anymore

Before I pay for the pro version I need to see how well it works. I cannot figure this out in 15 minutes, so can’t they increase it to at least 20 or 25? the learning curve isn’t as easy as you might think. For the free version the app stops working at 15 minutes which is.