Vector & SVG Maker - Assembly

I teach Vector art to high school students and I loved using this app as an introduction. It comes with a wide variety of basic shapes so they don’t feel so overwhelmed and you can edit the points easily...if you have the paid for version. Which my school had for a bit but we can’t justify a subscription based app. If it were a straight up payment I could make it work for the budget but sadly it’s not. Without the ability to edit the points, it’s basically a sticker making app and no longer useful for an introduction to vectors. I wish you could pay a flat fee to be able to adjust the points. When I say it’s not worth a subscription it’s because there hasn’t seemed to be any ‘new additions’ to it in the past few years I’ve used it. No new shapes, no added features that we need, nothing that makes it justifiable to keep paying for it over and over again for the class. A flat fee, even of $10 like procreate, would be fine and I would willing work that into the budget for an app like this. Heck I’d even pay it myself for use at home, using the basic shapes as a jumping off point for clip art and other things I need for class is an awesome time saver. All this being said, if you need a program that allows for simplified vector creation that can get complex if you want and are willing to pay the fee I’d highly suggest this app. I used to all the time for my art teacher colleagues, but I just can’t anymore knowing budgeting for a subscription is a pain in all teacher’s lives.

So I would say it’s a “my device thing” but now I’m fully convinced it’s an app thing. First off I’m using a brand new iPad Pro and when I use the app on my phone I’m using an iPhone 11. The app from the beginning, I thought, this is amazing! Especially if you are staring off in the design world or just want a different creative outlet other than freehand drawing. Here’s where the issues arise... yes sometimes your work gets deleted as some other reviews have said. it happened more before (a couple months ago) than it does now but it will show up on the preview page and when you open it the meltdown inside of you starts because you have lost potentially hours of work. But recently the worst thing happened. I spent 6 hours on a project.. and on that 6th hour the app crashed, ok.. weird, no problem just reboot it. Keeps crashing every time I try to open that project. I have tried everything to get this project back but it’s unreachable. IT WONT STOP CRASHING. I’m so devastated because I forgivingly started another project today thinking it was just a glitch on that one thing I was doing and it did it again, another project that I can’t touch. I paid for a whole year for an app that I can’t even use. So disappointed and heartbroken. I was using this to create art for my business and now I have to find something else.

I’ve always been into art and design. I love creating but have struggled with learning major and advanced softwares such as adobe. Then I came across this app one day. I made some stupid robot collages with shapes and eventually got super good at creates logos on here. It’s helped my resume dramatically and given me so much confidence in what I’m able to accomplish. It’s a puzzle Bc not every shape fits and I have to layer upon layer to get the outcome I want. I really just want this to become acceptable in future work for the industry Bc it works well for me and helps me make stuff on the fly. My only complaint about this is the quality of exporting my work. Maybe I’m wrong but it feels like it’s not fully finished. I once sent my logo to a client and it went through but they weren’t able to save it or put it in their cover page. I had to go through a hassle of steps just to make it work which I think lead me to just screenshotting it on my phone, which will lead to problems down the line. All in all I love the app. I’ve designed numerous amounts of logos on here and am excited for what more I can learn with it. Thank you