Five star usually, four star update..

I love Assembly. If you know the Pathfinder tool in Illustrator youll get why this app is so useful. Once you get the hang of it you will realize this app is much deeper than it looks at first glace and you can create vector shapes much more agilely and quickly than any other method on the iPad, possibly even desktop. Its not full featured like Graphic so you will likely have to export your work as an SVG to finalize, but thats not unusual if youre used to doing digital art on the iPad where theres a lot of apps that do a few things really well and you have to bounce between them.

However.. The latest update is a bit problematic. I get why the stickers were added, the casual market is probably much more lucrative than designers, but all of the emoji sets add a lot of clutter to a previously streamlined UI. I think its essential that were given the option to turn them off or hide them in a future update (like you can hide shape packs you dont want, if you dont want to have to constantly scroll past Halloween designs etc.)

More distressing, Im getting a lot more lag than I used to have. I use an old iPad Mini 2 and a new 12.9 iPad Pro and its happening on both when a design gets too complicated. Im getting an occasional crash on the mini as well. Im also seeing a problem where Im not getting the shape I select. Its repeatable when it happens (eg you touch a square in the very lower left corner and a half circle will appear). Its repeatable when it happens so its in the app and not user error, and its happening on both devices so its not a screen issue.

Still I would urge any vector art designer to download this ASAP, any issues are minor but I had to say something!

James Kr. about Vector & SVG Maker - Assembly, v1.4