![]() ![]() And that's why it's nice that Freeform makes all that pretty intuitive - especially if you have the larger screen size of an iPad or Mac to work on, as it's much easier to drag and drop things into Freeform when you can open it side-by-side with another app.Ĭopying assets like a map or icons into a Freeform sketchboard is quick and intuitive, especially on iPad where you can bring up a browser side-by-side. You get a dock of digital art tools that can be pushed aside when you need to focus on the canvas, and each can be customized to fit your needs with sliders for adjusting things like hue, opacity and line width.īut if Freeform is to be an effective whiteboarding app, you need to be able to bring in other assets like images, video, text and links. Once you open a new sketchboard, you're greeted with a suite of digital creation tools that will again look familiar if you've ever sketched a doodle in the Notes app on your iPhone or created a slide in Keynote on any Apple device. The option to quickly share a sketchboard via Apple's sharing tools makes Freeform great for collaborating with your pals in Apple's walled garden. And it has easily-accessible buttons for sharing sketchboards with folks on your contact list. There's no additional account creation or contact syncing required.įreeform sports a simple interface familiar to anyone who's used one of Apple's iWork apps. You just pull the app down from the App Store and go. ![]() The same might prove true with Freeform, but so far, I think it might be the first digital whiteboard app I stick with because it's so easy to access. It's not that they're bad tools - it's just that I had to jump through one too many hoops to access them, and inevitably stopped using them after a few weeks. Apple Freeform app hands-on: Just intuitive enoughįirst up, let me admit that I can't offer you much in the way of a detailed comparison between Freeform and competitors like Google's Jamboard, Miro and Microsoft Whiteboard, because I've never been able to stick with any of those for more than one or two sessions. But if you have both an iPhone and an iPad, you can use the bigger screen of the iPad to do most of your sketching (having an Apple Pencil makes this a lot more fun), then open the same sketchboard on your iPhone to make notes if you have an idea while you're out and about.Ĭurious to see how Freeform works? Let me show you how I used Freeform to prep for an upcoming evening of Dungeons & Dragons, which is no doubt exactly what Tim Cook had in mind when he teased the impending debut of iPadOS 16, the Freeform app and the new iPad Pro 2022 with his mischievous "Take Note" tweet. I especially appreciate how easy it is to drag and drop links, text and images into a sketchboard (which is what Freeform brands each canvas you create). Even if you just own a lone iPad or iPhone, Freeform is a solid tool for quickly outlining projects, sketching ideas or planning trips. ![]()
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