Vector & SVG Maker - Assembly

I’ve always been into art and design. I love creating but have struggled with learning major and advanced softwares such as adobe. Then I came across this app one day. I made some stupid robot collages with shapes and eventually got super good at creates logos on here. It’s helped my resume dramatically and given me so much confidence in what I’m able to accomplish. It’s a puzzle Bc not every shape fits and I have to layer upon layer to get the outcome I want. I really just want this to become acceptable in future work for the industry Bc it works well for me and helps me make stuff on the fly. My only complaint about this is the quality of exporting my work. Maybe I’m wrong but it feels like it’s not fully finished. I once sent my logo to a client and it went through but they weren’t able to save it or put it in their cover page. I had to go through a hassle of steps just to make it work which I think lead me to just screenshotting it on my phone, which will lead to problems down the line. All in all I love the app. I’ve designed numerous amounts of logos on here and am excited for what more I can learn with it. Thank you

So I would say it’s a “my device thing” but now I’m fully convinced it’s an app thing. First off I’m using a brand new iPad Pro and when I use the app on my phone I’m using an iPhone 11. The app from the beginning, I thought, this is amazing! Especially if you are staring off in the design world or just want a different creative outlet other than freehand drawing. Here’s where the issues arise... yes sometimes your work gets deleted as some other reviews have said. it happened more before (a couple months ago) than it does now but it will show up on the preview page and when you open it the meltdown inside of you starts because you have lost potentially hours of work. But recently the worst thing happened. I spent 6 hours on a project.. and on that 6th hour the app crashed, ok.. weird, no problem just reboot it. Keeps crashing every time I try to open that project. I have tried everything to get this project back but it’s unreachable. IT WONT STOP CRASHING. I’m so devastated because I forgivingly started another project today thinking it was just a glitch on that one thing I was doing and it did it again, another project that I can’t touch. I paid for a whole year for an app that I can’t even use. So disappointed and heartbroken. I was using this to create art for my business and now I have to find something else.

I’m stopping to write this out of some frustration I’ve run into that I can’t blame entirely on Assembly, but I also can’t not blame them for allowing things to end up in their current state without some safeguards in place. My issue is with the fact that my iPad Pro has been crawling and struggling just to open anything in this app - it reminds me of working publications/graphic design back before 2k with PowerMac 8500s that had 80 megabytes of RAM and 4 GB HDs. It was sloooowww. Even Adobe Illustrator, which assembly is a practical alternative version of, with its vectors and lack of dense rasterized images would have performance issues. But those days should be in the past. I believe it is mainly because my documents are all in my cloud. And because there is a lot of them it seems to get traffic jammed. Sometimes I can’t open anything while other times it takes so long to get something opened only to have a error message telling me I can’t edit the document. Maybe the vectors are by and large too complex ? I have been using the imaengine app to .svg photos into assembly which could be the culprit also. iCloud can be slow, but not operational Death slow ... *im also using test flight for new versions - it would be great to hear from the dev to give me some hint as to which of these things could be responsible for the maddening crawl. Had to subtract a star until I figure this out.

This app is super helpful for me, especially because I do freelance logo design here and there. This has a lot more features than one would expect from a phone application. Absolutely killer! I’ve had this app for a while and I can’t help but notice that the “save video” option has changed. Now you get four different options for how the video will get played back. While those transitions do look pretty cool, I miss the video playback style where it was just a time lapse of every change that was made from the blank canvas to the final product. It was always super satisfying to watch my projects come together and it helped me a lot to see which shapes and methods I ditched and which ones I used along the way. It was also funny to show my friends and see their reaction to my almost-creepy desire for every little thing to be perfect😂 also if you could create an option to erase parts of shapes in the shape editor, that’d be cool! With a hardness adjuster and all the other standard things that an erase/fill brush should come with! Just a thought. My main thing is that I really miss the timelapse-style playback! PLEASE BRING THAT BACK!!! Thank you! :)

First off let me say that the app is so amazing. However there are many crucial things I think it needs. -First of all a proper layering system like in Procreate or Pixelmator. -We need tons of more snapping features within the editing of individual shapes. Currently when you go to edit an individual shale it removes almost all snapping points. This make it incredibly hard to transform shapes into exactly how you want them. -Ability to import regular JPG files for reference. This would be really helpful and just for reference to overall shapes on actual pictures. -Ability to Erase parts of the shapes in the app. -Ability to have transparent background (checkerboard pattern) within the editing canvas. -Also one last thing that would be so amazing is adding some type of animation/gif creator. I make video games and there is huge potential for this app to be super useful for game designers. If there was simply a sort of story board on the bottom that had multiple images within an animation and then you could rotate and image slightly and move to the next image to rotate it again or adjust it to create simple animations. Then have the ability to export as .gif and as a file with all .png in it to then move over to the game engine. It seems like the app has all the ground work for that and it would be such an amazing addition. I hope you’ll take my feedback into consideration, thank you!