Keith Ahern

I’ve started and dismissed Apple Freeform as an underpowered drawing app. But I gave it another go today, I need to spec up some VR UX work. I’m now a convert, 3 things did it for me:

1 - infinite canvas that just works. No page size, just get in there and start diagramming.

2 - iPad/Mac Sync. I was able to swap between the iPad with my Apple Pencil for sketching and my Mac for more text based stuff. It just worked. The syncing is nearly real-time.

3. But the winner was….

Jun 13, 2023 at 5:06pmWeb
Show threadKeith AhernJun 13, 2023
Initiating my iPhone camera from the Freeform Mac app with “take photo”. Taking a photo of my hand with a VR controller. Then in Freeform doing an instant alpha/remove background and leaving just my hand and controller 👩‍🍳💋. That was 5 mins work done in 30 seconds, with complete harmony between iPhone, iPad and macOS. Not sure if the #visionpro demo ensured all this stuff was up to scratch. Either way, I’m all in on Freeform now.