I've had iDraw for over a year and it's my go to for doing a quick logo or simple drawing. I have Adobe CS5.5 Web & Design Premium-was required for school. Meanwhile, I'd recommend ArtBoard to anyone looking for a fun, simple, easy to use drawing app.Thanks for a great list! And you might consider updating this article, now that Serif has Affinity Photos available for beta-testing. While NeoDraw doesn't come close to being FreeHand, it will do until something better comes along. And I can recommend NeoDraw to anyone looking for a serious vector draw program. I'm a veteran FreeHand user, (the legendary professional vector drawing program that put Illustrator to shame - which is why Adobe bought it & killed it). It has many advanced features, like envelope-warping, auto-trace, 3D & animations, none of which iDraw does. It is very easy to learn & use, infinitely customizable, reasonably stable on OS 10.8, and it's absolutely free because it open-source. Then I discovered that the NeoOffice suite (the open-source app that rivals MS Office) includes a vector draw program that does WAY more than iDraw. It has a very rigid, unintuitive interface that can't be customized at all & has very few shortcuts, making even simple jobs tedious. However, I was very disappointed in iDraw, since it is extremely limited, with only basic draw functions. I eventually bought iDraw because it exports to SVG. Which is great for kids & dabblers, but not for any serious design work. It is obviously made to be fun & creative, and I really liked it as a simple design tool.īut I was looking for something a bit more robust, that would output to SVG files, and ArtBoard only outputs to bitmap files. It seems like it's designed to appeal to kids & dabblers, and it does a great job at that.
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