We have finally released the Notestudio - note taking app for iPad / iPhone.

We wanted it to look and feel like an Apple-made app. We went all in on draggable panels, so you can customize the UI however you like. Spent months making sure the strokes are super smooth, sharp, and crazy fast – it feels amazing to use!

Notestudio is built on our new graphics engine and UI library, which we plan to use in the future for Artstudio.
So I’m really looking forward to your feedback!

Check it out on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/notestudio-note-taking/id6737322636.
Grab a sub or one-time lifetime buy to remove the drawing limits.

We will consider improving that in the major updated.

I fixed that, it will be released in the next update.

I will try to find a solution for existing users.

Quote from: Lucky Clan on January 07, 2025, 03:39:48 AM

The open problem is how to make a transition from iCloud Documents to custom gallery... Maybe we will have to release new version as a separate app however i'm not sure if it is possible to keep full version for users who have already bought Artstudio Pro.

That will be quite sad if this happens as I just paid for the app! Do you think it will be possible to have a discount for existing lifetime license owners if it comes to buying the app anew?

Bug has been fixed in version 5.2.4

It was fixed in ver 5.2.3, do you use that version?

Could you give more details (iOS version etc)?

Generative tools / AI are not planned. However you should know that current Edit > Inpaint is a very basic of generative fill - the difference is that it is searching for content in current image only, and AI generative fill is searching in mulitple images...

Draggable panels - of course we want to keep option to add custom tools, and we will have to make panels not only draggable, but also resizable. Panel system will be extended for new artstudio. And resizing option is on the first place of planned improvements.

Using groups as clipping mask - it is rather not possible to make such option directly because there would be unexpected results for Group using "Passthrough" blending mode. Besides we don't want to break PS compatibility. The plan is implementing "Smart Object" option, so you can convert group to smart object and then use it as Clipping Mask. Smart Object doesn't support "Passthrough" blending, it is treated rather like normal Layer with option to edit it content.

We want to work on all changes together to save time - i mean the big update will have both new UI, new engine and new features.

One more thing we want to change is the file system. Now we use iCloud Documents (like Pages / Numbers). Unfortunately it has very old system bug and sometimes you can see "Saving Problem" alert, mainly when working on large files. I reported that to Apple, but it was ignored. I'm sure the bug comes from system because i can easily repeat it in Pages / Numbers, i even repeated the during live conversation with Apple, with iPad screen sharing. Of course the only advice I had was "please reported the bug in our bug reporting tool - feedbackassistant.apple.com". I did that on March 2023 and have never receive any feedback. I'm not sure if anybody from Apple has ever read it...
So the only solution is to resign from iCloud Document and implement custom gallery, probably with option to synchronize using CloudKit. Documents will be stored on local disk, and will not be visible in Files anymore.
The open problem is how to make a transition from iCloud Documents to custom gallery... Maybe we will have to release new version as a separate app however i'm not sure if it is possible to keep full version for users who have already bought Artstudio Pro.

I suppose you turned on “Hard Edge” option in tool options panel