Astropad Studio

Great app. I use it everyday with my Dental Design software 3Shape.

As a digital artist who travels a lot and can’t entirely ditch my Windows laptop for my work, Astropad brings another element of versatility to the iPad. Using it on the 6th gen iPad Pro and supporting pencil hover means I can still easily record and livestream art demos and have my cursor visible for viewers. The app is highly customizable. You can set up a range of shortcut buttons for each app in the same way that you can with the express keys along the side of an Intuos Pro for example. Unfortunately you will need the Luna Display dongle if you want to extend your display. Astropad alone only mirrors and this is the only reason I find myself using a different app more frequently.

This is not really free. This app leads you to a subscription page that then leads you to 2 different paying options.

I’m impressed. Been using the demo with Toon Boom Harmony Premium for animation. Very cool.

Definitely worth the investment for professionals. It's amazingly responsive, the added controls are really useful - with per-app customization it becomes so versatile. Great work guys!

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.