Love using Concepts for sketching and making drawings as well.
How are you finding Freeform? It’s not an app I’ve given particular attention to yet.
Loving it so far, but I need to test a while longer with p.e. larger sketch notes, mind maps...
Like I noted in my list, I also use Concepts for these specific tasks. Obviously I start comparing the two apps.
Freeform is nicely integrated in the Apple ecosystem, sporting the objects palette from Keynote, the toolbar from Notes etc. Of course we're looking at the first released version, so I trust that Apple will improve it in the future. A few additions would be nice IMHO, like a support for
double-tap-to-undo, an exact copy of the Notes toolbar (with
Marker, Calligraphy pen, Pencil), an
artboard to define a page setup. But overall, I can live with the minimalism of a free and lightweight app. Indeed, minimalism is not just running a solid black wallpaper on one's device - but more about getting the most of a limited set of functionalities. Not only can this can trigger one's creativity, but also prevent distraction. Freeform is the kind of app you launch and start doing the work.
A bit hard to describe, but
Concepts somehow feels more robust, more like a professional heavy weight app (it takes a fair bit larger amount of MB indeed, compared to Freeform). The learning curve is quite steep, no denying. But then again, there's a lot more going on in the app. Like, besides sketch noting, I can draw architectural (vector) drawings with it. Using one app for many purposes has its advantages, right?
The developer is working on a
full iCloud compatibility/integration, which for me is the biggest thing missing at this moment.
I will continue to use both apps in parallel, probably doing the same sketch notes in each one and compare.
Only time will tell me which to pick, if not to keep both. In which case, Freeform may probably serve for preliminary designs and Concepts for the final versions.
