ProtoSketch – Graphic Design

This app is not useful at all. It could not be considered as tool for 'desktop-class' work.

Very nice app! Could be real alternative to Sketch. But missing some must have features at the moment. Such as custom fonts, libraries, multiple strokes and shadows, layer groups, pager and artboards, plugins, etc. App couldn't be used for real work without these features.

idk what such a developers who give up on app like this for me to be honest since they stopped updating this app i give up on all my works what kind of dev are you guys so many designers pay for this app just to you give up on it. hope you’ll considering my review as a reminder for this great beautiful app. peace and love

Essential.

There’s a bug or two with selecting colors, but otherwise they have pretty much nailed UI with respect to how I was to sketch on the iPad: tolerance is front and center, so details can be made with no auto smoothing, and long lines can be made with more smoothing. The virtual keys also mean I can work with expected shortcuts. I use it for sketching only though, not sure how it works for other things. Wish they would update

JPEG option downloads as png and it takes a lot of waiting and many tries to get any of the file versions to save to Google Drive. I’m using a 2019 iPad Pro...

Importing photos in Protosketch no longer works for iPad IOS 13 the latest. Says it can't finf them although i have permissions turned on in settings. This is crucial for me, can you please do an update? Some of the other things about importing symbols does not work but only oartially & often selects the wrong image either. Although the layers menu is there, the navigation doesn't fully work, visible invisible only works once & then freezes. Sorry about my posting here but there seems no other way to contact you. Please fix - otherwise a fantastic app. i fdo see i can save but first you have to allow photo to access - but it still doen't work for importing.

I adore this app for one thing, it is the ONLY one I have found that has the functions I need to use it for line art. I have found any vector apps that either allow you to draw paths with a pen and then add strokes/effect in such way to use for line art or let you draw with different brushes but then edit the paths. I would love to see the feature added that would allow adding different brushstrokes to paths, but at least with this program I can use the pressure sensitive brush and then edit the path. Biggest flaw is that the export or “open in”/“open with” process almost never works. I’ve done every format and method of exporting and i have to do it about ten times to get one file successfully exported and so far the only method that has worked was putting in Dropbox as a png. Everything else goes through the flow as if it’s completed but the file never actually shows up. Certainly makes using it for my line art a lot harder. And it seems like this has been a problem since it’s inception and has yet to be addressed. I really REALLY hope this gets fixed.

Thought maybe this app which was on sale had fixed issues but trying to select and drag icons into design space would bring a random icon, not the one you selected. The interface lacks some quick always ready tool icons that would improve the speed so that users don’t have to wade through menus. The shift and alt button idea feels like a cludgy hold over from some pc design. On plus sign, it does work with the Apple Pencil and unlike some apps, is not charging you a monthly fee.

This is an app you pay for, but it falls into the typical category of crappy iPad vector drawing apps that don’t get fixed or updated by their developers.