Astropad Studio

Astropad Studio is a useful tool for my retouching work, but it suffers from frequent dropped connections when connected directly via usb.

Just way better than Sidecar if you are using it for painting.

I got the Astropad Standard for a while for my iPad Pro and it worked fine. I felt cheated when Astropad Studio version was introduced, it said my standard version is for iPhone and i should upgrade to the Studio version. The pricing model follows those of Microsoft, Adobe which requires monthly subscription at price close to the OFFICE. While the App is good but after all it just help connect the IPad to the desktop on my hardwares.

awesome

Best for designers

Without the pesky driver bugs that Wacom introduces into my system, Astropad is my new favorite tablet!!!

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