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What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R1] Paper 1/5 · US I used to love this app and decided to try it again: Originally in 2021 it was 11ish for a whole year of pro, which was reasonable bc most people will buy physical journals of the same price yearly. I was so disappointed to find out that the app is now 100 for the year. I don’t have that kind of money it’s honestly such a slap to the face as a consumer
2. [R4] Paper 1/5 · US Greedy: I have paid and used this app for years with a single charge and years later they decided to charge monthly… greedy. If I knew I would be able to export years of work, I would have never stored my creations here
3. [R10] Paper 1/5 · US Insane prices: The yearly price increase is crazy for this app. Especially in comparison to the yearly payment 3 years ago. Not much has changed in the app services to be charging this much.. I’ve been paying for this app for 5 years and I probably won’t keep paying for it anymore. I like the app but not convinced it’s worth the increased price.
4. [R19] Paper 1/5 · US evernote corporation should die: the audacity to buy this app and make it 99 dollars per year or 9.99 dollars per week which is 40 A MONTH is insane, especially when it was originally 12 a years with the original developers. istg cant have NOTHING NICE.
5. [R3] Paper 3/5 · US Good but could be better: The app overall is good, but my only thing is that most of the tools require pro or a subscription to certain parts. Most things I can’t use, like adding multiple photos to each page, using art tools, etc. Would be so much better if it didn’t all require pro.
6. [R5] Paper 4/5 · US Amazing but not that great: I love this app so much but it doesn’t make it very fun when you have to get something that cost money just so you can add more photos. I could make something like a journal without it being money. 4 stars
7. [R7] Paper 1/5 · US Cannot use without membership: Will not let me draw unless I purchase anything, requires a membership for some reason I am not sure if this is a user error or if you cannot do anything without a membership, which is insane because it is $100 a year
8. [R16] Paper 2/5 · US Kinda annoying but otherwise OK: I LOVE THIS! But its so annoying i can barely do anything without Pro. I DO NOT WANT TO HAVE TO GET PRO.
9. [R2] Paper 5/5 · US I love this app: I love this app been using it for years!! But it’s so glitchy!! It used to not be so glitchy and I wish it had better features and more tools!
10. [R18] Paper 3/5 · US Cloud, Flow, Syncing Needs a Major Revision: This app is ideal to capture ideas and bring your vision to life, however, syncing is so limited and nudges the EverNote system on you. That’s not a good look. Syncing should be streamline without downloading any other app.
11. [R33] Paper 3/5 · US It was good til it wasn’t: I LOVE this app for collage journals. I use the pro version on my iPad and it is so easy to use. In the past two years, the app crashes so much and often it takes multiple loads to sync all my notebooks. What happened? Please keep updating and fixing these issues. I’m happy to pay for this app, it just needs to be improved
12. [R36] Paper 3/5 · US Once Simple & Great: The app design is great. It is simple. And I LOVE skeuomorphic design. Since the first sellout from the original developer, though, we got things like pay-for-tools and sync, etc. But what is really killing the app is the sync feature. I am glad there is cloud backup, but journals constantly have to re-download, requiring a wait time and internet connection for what used to b
13. [R12] Paper 3/5 · US That’s crazy: You have to pay money just to have more than one picture on the paper. And they should add any update where you can actually type in this so I don’t always have to write everything. it gets a little irritating.😅
14. [R15] Paper 3/5 · US Where’s the monthly subscription?: I love using this app for journaling but having to choose between $5 a week or $70 a year when I’ve only been given a week for free to explore all the functions and so on. Their journaling options are very limited when it comes to writing utensils as well. There’s only about 5 options to choose from and within those five options, there are set sizes to each pen.
15. [R24] Paper 3/5 · US Can‘t export pdf: Hope can be fixed fast
16. [R44] Paper 4/5 · US I really love this app. I just wish there was a cheaper plan or options for monthly.: I wish there was a cheaper plan or monthly payment plans or like a free trial than a monthly and add text box where you had text to it
17. [R13] Paper 2/5 · US No one maintains it: This was one of the greatest apps for iPad. But since it was sold to Evernote they charge $100/year and have zero engineers or designers on the Paper team. A complete hustle.
18. [R31] Paper 1/5 · US Need an EVERNOTE account to use anything?!: Why Evernote? I have no interest in Evernote. How is it related to this app? Also, at $10 a WEEK(!) it’s ridiculously overpriced. I can’t believe the high(ish) ratings this app garners. Hard pass. Deleted.
19. [R51] Simply Draw 1/5 · US Me: I hate it when it makes you pay and doesn’t let you draw without paying
20. [R52] Simply Draw 5/5 · US I loved it: It is so amazing when you start playing it. It’s like the best like I’ve been collecting these for like a whole week. It’s so fun like when you first get it it’s like boring and stuff but when you like start using it a lot it’s like comes up and it’s really fun. I was just interested because I saw a lot of my on my YouTube so it’s so fun. Like start using it a lot
21. [R53] Simply Draw 3/5 · US Idk: It cost money and I like it, but it cost money and I literally like who would do that and it says it was for free but nope, it cost money
22. [R54] Simply Draw 1/5 · US >:(: It said that it would be free, but once you’re done with the intro you have to pay so it is a lie don’t get it (trust)
23. [R65] Drawing Desk:Learn How to Draw 1/5 · US U HAVE TO GET PRO: I try to pick a picture but every single picture has to have pro…WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OLD DRAWING DESK
24. [R66] Drawing Desk:Learn How to Draw 5/5 · US I don’t like this game: I don’t like this game bc you have to pay to draw worst game ever 1 star but there is another game that is called art workout ind art work out is better than this trash but I put five stars so it could show so don’t buy this game please don’t play this game play art work out it is sooooo fun 🤩 but this game is trash one star I hate this game
25. [R67] Drawing Desk:Learn How to Draw 3/5 · US Little drawings: There are too little drawings and for the others you need to buy premium which some people don’t want to buy. Furthermore many categories which include how to draw anime for example needs premium, so you aren’t learning anything.
26. [R68] Drawing Desk:Learn How to Draw 1/5 · US 1 stars you know why?: So here’s the thing I’ve seen a lot of drawing apps and they have been fake! Fake I tell u and I feel like finally something that is normal so I look and I say “here it comes just one sec” and zero dollars then I click the button and it says for me to subscribe to them I’m like well here I hope you guys can understand me
27. [R79] Sketchbook® 1/5 · US no.: I spent over an hour for it to turn out that i cant fill in paint when i use the fill bucket on something and i made the stuff divided and guess what? STILL NO FILLING, IT FILLS THE ENTIRE THING INSTEAD.
28. [R80] Sketchbook® 5/5 · US Best app ever: If you're looking for a good app for drawing and writing i would recommend this app, it doesn't need you to watch an ad or anything like that to draw and if you want you can create an album and there are so many other stuffs that are so good! I can't recommend this app enough!
29. [R81] Sketchbook® 3/5 · US Idk: I like this app but I can’t use shapes to help and shapes are VITAL for me as a person who cant draw😭
30. [R82] Sketchbook® 1/5 · US deleting half my drawing: can u actually make it stop deleting half of my work ? fix it. pls n thank u
31. [R93] ArtWorkout 1/5 · US This app sucks: Sucks really bad I tired to cancel a free trial and it didn’t let me and now I can’t a get refund
32. [R94] ArtWorkout 5/5 · US Good but: The goal needs to be set higher for people who have passed 14
33. [R95] ArtWorkout 3/5 · US Disappointed: I am really disappointed. The game is a wonderful game I must say and the creator must have wonderful talent to do something as wonderful as this. The problem is that when I open the app and did one lesson ,I loved it so much that I wanted to do another one but then I realized to do it I had get something called an energy point . So I found out how to get one I had to watch 3 adds no
34. [R96] ArtWorkout 2/5 · US "pay to win" totally not worth it: the inly thing good about this app is that the drawings are cute. i dont want to have to PAY to draw something by myself, i dont want to PAY to get rid of ads, and i dont want to PAY for this app when there are others that are identical without the paywalls. the 'energy' requirements are stupid, when i come home from my day at my 5-5 i want to just sit down and d
35. [R107] Drawing Pad - 1/5 · US IT IS A SCAM do not download 😡: I am just looking for a free app to draw on is that so much to ask? Either the apps I download are way too complicated and I cannot figure out what all the buttons dog OR it's like this one. A "free" app that will make your drawing skills so much better! NO when you go in it asks you to tell it about yourself to personalize the app for you so I did it right,and then
36. [R108] Drawing Pad - 5/5 · US This is sooo good: This is helping me so much to draw and it is so helpful and it doesn’t have ads and it saves your art. If you like drawing you should download this app the end
37. [R109] Drawing Pad - 3/5 · US Dear maker: Dear make of Draw.ing pad stuff s work with this app so please fix it 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 ,and I’m sorry about everyone being rude but please fix the app
38. [R110] Drawing Pad - 1/5 · US I don’t recommend ☹️: So i set up my account and everything and then when i was going into it,it kept pulling this one thing up.It was like up and down and allaround my screen and when i tried to click the X at the top,it did not work at all.its like some type of bug. Developers if you see this,please fix it. ☹️
39. [R85] Sketchbook® 1/5 · US Sucks: Everything used to be free like, BACK IN 2016, but now, y’all have just followed the current, greedy trend and made EVERYTHING paid now. Bye.
40. [R92] Sketchbook® 5/5 · US Omg buy nowww: Sketchbook is literally amazing. First time. I tried it. It blew my mind of how many brushes there are for free. I mean, you don’t even have to pay for a certain amount of time and it’s just you can do whatever you want. There’s a lot of things that you can do, and you can make, however many, like untitled things you want. So amazing. You should totally buy it. Thank you for not mak
41. [R57] Simply Draw 1/5 · US “Simply draw completely free” that’s fake: Why do I need to pay to learn to draw? Dumb. I was exited for a while until that happened. Great. I’m going to be a bad artist forever. Thanks