Endless creative possibilities, and some uninspired additions

Update for the addition of text and stickers:

I personally could have done without either. Now the interface feels crowded (iPhone screen) and clunky.

There are some great apps that are designed specifically to add text to images (I use "Over") and I think this app should have left that to them. An app designed to add text will always out preform an app for creating shapes that also lets you add text.

IMHO I think the stickers look tacky and take away from how creative this app used to feel. I came to create my own shapes/"stickers" and these feel...lazy. Uninspired.

Overall I dislike this update. It went from feeling like all ages were welcome to create, to feeling like all ages welcome but really this is to shut kids up while patents are driving.

Which (in addition to disliking pushy "Rate this app" interruptions that appear the instant I open an updated app I havent even had a chance to look at, asking ("") for a 5 star review to keep updates coming) is why I dropped to 3 stars.

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This app lets you do SO MUCH (especially with the addition of creating your own shapes), even with only the basic packs.

I love that you can make your own color pallets (and save them!), the color wheel is pretty easy to use, and there is an eye-dropper to pick colors directly from your Artboard (if youve uploaded your own). I suggest looking up HEX color pallets, saving the images, and selecting those images as your artboard. Create your in-app pallets from the HEX/artboard using the eye-dropper, save that custom pallet and voilà! New pallet(s!) to use in the app. I havent found a limit to the number of custom pallets the app allows, but I also wasnt looking. I have enough that I can scroll a bit before I arrive at the default pallets.

Sometimes the app crashes, but only if Im "going crazy" - adding a LOT (about 100 total) of copied/pasted stars, with various transparencies, in several different sizes, rotated in many alternate directions, at a fairly rapid pace and including multiple changes-of-heart. *Then* the app behaves a bit jittery, but since I was too, the blame seems equal to me :).

Union is also a great app, but once you export your project to Union to edit, everything will be locked as-is. In the event you export your project back into Assembly, your project is, essentially, the artboard. Anything new you add will be separate, and I think may be a new project in your library, though I cant remember and am too lazy to check for an iTunes review ;)

Why 4 stars?

• On the iPod/Phone size screen, the workspace is a bit cramped.

• Objects anchor/align by the corners, but resize from the center.
Sounds like no big deal, but it can be really frustrating when everything snaps together incorrectly because the sizes are slightly off, multiplied by the number of objects used, regardless of how many are locked together.

• Turning off the snap to grid feature also unlocks rotating the object while resizing. It would be incredibly helpful if these were separate, toggle-able features.

• Turning on the snap to grid feature will re-align any object that was carefully placed when the grid was off, back to the grid, but only if that object is selected at any time while the grid is on. If you dont accidentally select it like I keep doing, youll be fine. Probably.

• Locking objects together does not also combine the points where those objects align to the grid. New objects added can/will snap/align to each individual object within the locked group.
The create your own object feature is a great work-around for this, just not all the time.

AutumnMoon about Vector & SVG Maker - Assembly, v1.4