Geometrica

I’ve had Geometrica on my IPad Pro for about a year and a half now. The first year I was lucky enough to be able to afford the annual subscription and have continued with the monthly and I can’t express enough how worth while this app is. Whether you’re a seasoned tattoo artist or simply crave symmetry and some sort of order in the chaotic landscape we live in these days; this app is for you, for us. I love having the tools to create sacred geometric patterns and mandalas digitally without having to copy, paste, rotate and place over and over and over again. While Geometrica is a very simple and straightforward app, it boasts the capability of helping you create even the most complex and far from simple creations. Do yourself a favor and subscribe. Thank you to the creators of this wonderfully crafted, very niche app. You’ve positively aided in the development of my craft and my ability to see the world thru a kaleidoscopic lense.

The greedy developer decided to bump up the price to $16.99 a month.

This is an amazing app. Very well done and thought out. Some complain about price which is ridiculous. If you’re using it for any type of professional application and aren’t able to receive multiple times the cost then just don’t buy it. Why complain? I think this is well worth the money. Endless possibilities. Thank you, thank you!

… it looks pretty good, but I give it one star for the exorbitance

Program is unique and useful, but there are problems that can be annoying. For one, once any guide or ruler tool handles are outside your canvas, they can no longer be grabbed or moved… forcing you to delete them entirely. Secondly, the color picker is affected by blends, transparency etc… so color picking 50% transparent black will give you grey, not black. The last issue I have is the price. $16 a month is pretty extreme compared to what that gets you in other disciplines and spaces. Entire cad packages, full art suites, the sum collection of all humanities music etc. The entire adobe app collection is $50 a month and that’s every major creative discipline there is at a professional level. As much as I like this app overall, I’m going to end up cancelling my sub because it’s just too much for the functionality offered. I’ve read the other reviews, I’ve seen the developer responses.. they don’t change the math here.

I’ve only been a subscriber for a week and it crashes an extreme amount and I’ve been losing work I did on it

This saves me a crazy amount of time. I am so grateful to have this program available!

Don’t even bother downloading this unless you are willing to sign up for a trial period. There is absolutely nothing you can do for free. A box pops up asking which plan you want to buy and it doesn’t go away. I personally think this is disgusting. A person should be able to get a sense of what they are getting before they purchase. It may be a great app, but I was not allowed to find out. Therefore I have to base my rating on what I know, which is just greed.

This app seems pretty cool, and I do recognize they provide monthly patterns to add some value to the subscription, but the pricing is just outrageous. It’s also frustrating that the pricing is somewhat hard to see on the App Store page, so you may not realize the cost until you download the app. I like to doodle on my iPad in apps like Procreate and Mandala Maker, so I found Geometrica while looking for an app that provided better symmetry than Procreate, but with more artistic tools than an app like Mandala Maker, which lacks proper Pencil support. I do this in occasional bursts, sometimes not for months at a time. The subscription model isn’t reasonable for casual enjoyers like me. I’d have hesitations paying $5/month, let alone an obscene $17/month. I promptly uninstalled and shortly after, I found Amaziograph, which works incredibly for my use case, and costs 99 cents for a permanent license. I respect the fact that developing software is a lot of work, and if this lets you provide for your family then more power to you, but I want you to know that you’re missing out on a lot of potential customers with the extremely expensive subscription only model. I would’ve happily tried out a free basic version and paid to unlock more patterns and brushes. I would’ve also been happy to buy a permanent license, and I could see myself paying $30 for it, maybe more if I was really in love with the app. Instead there’s no way I will ever use this app again, because you’re competing with 99 cent permanent license apps that also offer great, unique feature sets.

$17/month for some medium quality vector app? The best art application I have ever used period is procreate and that’s a one time fee. I don’t understand who thought this was a good idea