Overview
From the
iTunes' page: "Jot down your notes, scribble your thoughts and annotate your pictures using only your fingers and your imagination! Illustrate your ideas with simple but colorful diagrams, notes and sketches. Place shapes using multi-touch gestures, zoom in for those accurate little details, save your creations in your personal corkboard or send them to others. Use Sketches for business, creativity or simply share it as a pastime with your friends."
Sketches is not the first drawing app for the iPhone, nor will it be the last. So is there anything that sets this one apart from the others? Or will it leave us still searching for that needle in the haystack?
Functionality
When Sketches launches, you'll see a cork board of sorts, showing you in grid-form all of your sketches. This makes it easy to navigate through all of your different 'drawings'.
At the top, you have a nice nav-bar with two options. 'Edit', which allows you to delete any of your sketches, and a '+' button, which let's you open a new sketch.
When you open up a new sketch, you are warmly greeted by a background and two bars -- one on the top and one on the bottom.
The bar at the top has two more options. The first one is a button that says 'Sketches', and let's you return to the applications home page to see all your sketches and rinse and repeat the sketch creation process.
One really cool feature is that there is a little zoom in and out button on the right side of this bar, which allows you to select where on the image, and zoom into it, so you can draw/stamp shapes with greater detail. This is neat because it can help you add much more detail to your drawings.
One of the most interesting features though, is the feature called 'Shapes'. It's found at the bar on the bottom of the sketch, and using it, you can select from many preset shapes, and pinch, drag, and rotate your fingers to scale, rotate and move the shape into any position on the image and release to place it. This is by far the coolest feature Sketches has to offer.
You can also change the size and color of your drawing brush using another button to the left of the shapes button on the bottom. Use the arrow on the left to undo each last action, change the background to an image, camera capture, background, color, map and more, as well as export the final image to a photo album or twitter it directly from your iPhone!
Review
Like I mentioned at the beginning of this review, Sketches is not alone in the app store as a drawing tool. However, it has answered our question by standing out and being the best hands down in this category.
There are no features that you are left wanting or needing, and it's smooth, has no bugs, and is just an overall great app. Highly reccomended by www.AppleiPhoneApps.com, and that should be enough for you. ;)
Summary
Do you want a great, highly featured, reasonably priced drawing app that leaves you wanting nothing more than a couple of hours to play with it? Sketches is your number one choice, and should be your only choice in my book.
