Note Widget - Love Drawing 4+

me and my best friend use this app, and I love it because of all the features. you can draw, take pictures, take photos out of your camera role, or make videos. they automatically appear on your friend/partner’s widgets, so you can easily see them. we always send each other cute things, and I love seeing what’s she’s up to. I recommend this app 100%. the only thing I don’t like are the occasional ads, but they don’t show up a lot. just saying that there are some in app purchases, which are super annoying, but it’s still really fun either way.

The only enjoyable part about this app is the end product- exchanging cute photos with your partner. However every step along the way is excruciating. First off, the user interface is (ironically) not user friendly. It lacks many basic iPhone shortcuts that users have become accustomed to (ex: swiping right to go backwards a page, etc). There is a massive lack of camera options when taking a photo in-app; you can’t even adjust the orientation of the camera, it automatically converts the photo to inverted and you cannot change it back. The ads are not long, but they are extremely annoying. Without fail, every time you press the ‘+’ button to start a new message, when you press ‘send’ on a message, and when you choose a page (on the bottom hotbar) an ad pops up. Many force you to interact with the ad in order to even have the option to close it. The last (main) issue is the messaging system- it is not instant. When in-app, you must exit and re-open the app in order to load new messages. The refresh feature rarely works, and new messages also take a long time to display in the widget feature. All of these issues make it feel extremely clunky, poorly developed and very enticing to delete. I feel the developer(s) rushed many of these concepts without thinking things through first.

I love it. I make cute drawings for my boyfriend and he sends back his stick figures. it makes expressing my love, through art, a lot easier.

However, there are big problems. If i draw for more than 10 min my phone (iphone 12 pro max) literally becomes an oven. I have to exit the app and let my phone cooldown and in just 3 min it’ll heat right back up again.

Another issue is it crashes. Now, it crashes only after 15+ min of drawing which is a lot and most people won’t spend that much time drawing because they’re not making detailed drawings and it does it saves! BUT, it saves a drawing from 3 days ago that has literally nothing to do with what you were initially drawing. Another issue with the weird self saving is when you exit out of the drawing sometimes it saves the drawing you were working on, or sometimes it doesn’t and instead it reloads a sketch from the previous day. If i exited out while i was drawing, manually, why wouldn’t it automatically save that drawing?

All said and done, i love this app. the tools they give to draw are great, the idea of it is great, being able to post your art for others too see is also cool, but there are still some things that need to be fixed. Id recommend this app for any person who just wants to do cute doodles and notes. other than that, it can be a bit of a hassle and tedious to work with, but you can still make great art.