MapScribe

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This app is good for a beginning step in making something to show your team when thinking up maps. Unfortunately, it doesn’t let you get as detailed as you may want/need. Also it is a pain to edit the map. A crop, resize, and drag feature would be nice, especially since this app is unforgiving if you make a mistake. I’d have liked to be able to move a perfectly drawn island to another part of the screen instead of having to redraw it. For $5, I’m not upset that I bought this app, but I also don’t know how much I’ll be using it. I’m definitely interested to see if it gets updated in the future.

Small learning curve but eventually I crafted a discernible map that depicted my intent. Then...I could NOT export my map. The app closes every time I attempt to export. So, I used a camera and photographed my childish map. The quality of my finished work was diminished and thus I am sorely disappointed. FLASH UPDATE! The above review initially rated this app 1 star due to the non-export problem. The developer, Daniel Eskridge, solved the issue with an update and now I am a happy map maker who can export his work. Now the only thing to complain about is my underdeveloped artistic ability, but using this app is going to change all of that. 5 STAR RATING means the app does what it purports to do in a non-stressful manner.

I reviewed this app back in January, and since then, my concerns are gone. This app is great if you want to create a detailed map! I use this as an easy way to make a city layout before transferring it to paper, or to get a rough layout of terrain for my current work. That’s not all though, I have a big map and it looks great! This is a great app that I like to use. It use to have a low resolutions, but now you can zoom in really far before it goes blurry. I have an IPhone 7, and it works very well on my phone. Thank you Daniel, and I suggest this app to everyone.

However, it seems good for just overland maps. Would be nice to see more stamps for urban maps. It has a couple minor quirks with the pencil, but otherwise a pretty good quick and dirty app. I will add this. Once you understand how to use it, pinch and zoom, it is intuitive. I will add my request to more precise method, but it still works. However my review will remain at four. It needs a few more things to hit it out of the park. Among them, some more art, and the ability to do an urban map would be nice. Among the art needed, fields, mines, they were used, and for kick and giggles, sea monsters abs sea features. A slight variation in mountains would be nice, with a volcano. Roads, if you’ve done enough maps that one is easy. But it might be a good idea to add that to the lines. Some folks would benefit. Overall, it is a very good app already. To those kvetching, really, no idea how difficult is to do what I already did the old fashioned way. Oh and the Continent Of Z’Dul is coming along nicely.

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1) Description of app claims multiple resolutions but there is no way to control canvas size or export resolution. It seems smaller drawings are supposed to pass for larger resolutions. 2) There is no way to close a menu without making a selection, eg. a cancel button. 3) Undo does not work on the first item drawn when map is zoomed and brush size is set to the smallest level. 4) The help document is both obsolete and woefully insufficient. 5) When using a feature brush, each instance overlaps the last (acting like a stamp instead of a brush). 6) The water brush/stamp is okay for lakes and horizontal rivers but not for diagonal or vertical rivers because of the horizontal design. 7) There is no way to rotate the canvas or the compass. 8) There is no free version to try so one can determine if the app is worth the price. I’m extra disappointed because I thought I would never find an app that would help me draw maps for my RP game so when I saw this I thought my wish came true. After purchasing it and finding the flaws I regret spending the money.