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

We will keep all options from current brush system and abr import

And i'm going to add few more, like color brush stamps
Color brush stamps gives a lot of options - like great looking 3d strokes.

How long will it take to port Artstudio?

Notestudio seems good so far, does it also have iCloud support? Maybe having a text tool option would be good? Also a way to detect and correct grammar 🤔

I think it may take about a year.

Notestudio - we are working on synchronization through iCloud, and iCloud backup. They will be available in version 1.0.

Text tool - yes, it is the main missing feature in Notestudio, we will add it in version 1.1.

Grammar correction - today we need a kind of AI to do it well. As we are in the time of AI revolution we will rather not spend too much time on that. Fortunately Apple added "Apple Intelligence" in iOS 18.1 with tools like "Writing Tools" which allow to fix written texts. It is support on any "text field" in any app, so we will make it work in Notestudio text tool too.

The beta version of our new iOS app, Notestudio, is now available to everyone! Notestudio is a minimalist note-taking app built on our cutting-edge ArtKit graphics engine and ArtUI UI library. We’re planning to port Artstudio Pro to ArtKit/ArtUI soon.
https://testflight.apple.com/join/adzHmR32

Waiting for your feedback! I promise to reply to all questions here immediately!

It will be available on Mac probably few weeks after iOS release. We have it working on Mac, but we will have to tweak UI a bit.

Is the new notes app available on MacOS as well?