But the app is really unstable, I've using it for an hour and it's the first iPad app I have that crashes every single time (I have around 40 iPad apps and 100+ iPhone apps). And to make things worse it doesn't save anything, so, if in the middle of your work you want to delete something, be prepared to lose all of your nodes.
If you want to use this for Process drawing be warned that the app doesn't appropriately handle multiple arrows between two shapes, this is annoying if you're trying to use a Diamond as a conditional to return to the previous step.
And its looks and edit style is so iPhone-ish that you can easily tell that it's the same application with a bigger canvas, developers didn't even try to take advantage of the bigger screen and to define a smoother way to rename nodes.
I give Instaviz two stars just for the way it recognizes what you draw, and that's all about this app.
-- Desde Mi iPad
2 comments:
Instaviz developer here.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience with Instaviz.
The crash typically happens when you're scrolling through the settings and tap the Delete button. I've fixed it for 1.8 which has just been submitted to the App Store for approval. For now, you can simply wait until the scrolling stops in the settings before you tap the Delete button.
http://trac.pixelglow.com/instaviz/ticket/118
As for the iPad look-and-feel, we're working on it for version 2.0, including inline editing of node/edge labels. It's hard to get a good feel for the platform when all you have is an iPad Simulator, so I'm trying to get the actual iPad as soon as it hits Australia. E.g. I want to see how the document interaction works in the iWorks apps, but there's no way to do that for now. Alternatively, one could always donate an iPad to a worthy developer :-).
Cheers
Glen Low
Pixelglow Software
Glen,
Thanks for your clarifications,
As I wrote in the post, I really wanted it to work, I'll wait for the new version and update this post and my review in the App Store.
- Juan
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