iDesk HD Review – Awesome diagramming in your iPad… With gestures!
App Type: Uncategorized
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By: Ten Touch Ltd
Version #: 2.1
Date Released: 2011-11-29
Developer: TenTouchApps
Price: 6.99
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This app is truly awesome. No, really. What’s iDesk? Well, putting it simple, it is an app to create diagrams. Yeah, I can think you thinking Diagrams? That’s lame, how’s that awesome?
Well, it is. We can put it more fancy, instead of talking about diagrams, we can talk about flow charts or about mind-mapping. Whatever. I’ve tried most mind-mapping apps, and quite a good bunch of diagramming apps. iDesk beats them all without a blink.
What’s so great about iDesk? It is completely gesture-based. To draw a square, you just draw a square with your fingers (or as close to square as you can), and the app will generate a square. Triangles? Yes. Poligons? Indeed. Circles? Absolutely, and also ellipses. Creating the sketch of the diagram is completely painless in iDesk!
What about linking with arrows? Just drag from one poligon to another, and an arrow will come. Truly brilliant. Double tap to add text… with a wide array of fonts and sizes. You can also get flowing arrows or dashed arrows, and add text to them…
And there’s also a lot of options for outline and fill, in addition to transparency. Perfectly designed, easy to use, with PDF export (in the iPad version). There are two separate apps for iPhone and iPad, iDesk and iDesk HD, with very similar options in both. PDF export is only iPad, but you can export to the camera roll (or as mail attachment) in your iPhone… And if you have the iPad version, you can import the iPhone generated and export a PDF.
iDesk is an app no businessperson can miss. Creating diagrams on the go (plane, train, taxi) can be an invaluable tool for your next meeting… Where you can also doodle the new scheme to fire up sales or fire employees 😀
And if you don’t believe us, you can check the free versions of iDesk. It is truly awesome, go and try it!
Quick Take
Value:Incredible
Would I Buy Again:Absolutely, even if the price tag is high
Learning Curve:Low
Who Is It For:People who use their iPads for work
What I Like:The gesture based interface
What I Don't Like:I can't think of anything: this ap is so good
Final Statement:If you are anything like doing diagrams, you'll love this
diagrams iDesk allows you to do just that. Make flow charts, org charts, Venn diagrams, mind maps, take notes, sketches and do other diagrams with the versatile vector engine of our app.
We believe you can do all these on your iPad with your fingers (or a stylus if you prefer). We have developed a shape recognition algorithm which can detect basic shapes and redraw them. You feel free sketching your idea, as if your iPad is a cocktail napkin but the result is smoother.
Features include:
• Draw schemes of figures, curves and lines in a vector format.
• Export your document in Vector PDF, PNG or JPG
• Shape recognition (recognizes hand drawn basic shapes - rectangles, ellipses, triangles etc.)
• Build diagrams and graphs through connections. (a line between two object centers is recognized as a connection).
• Put labels and text in shapes or free floating. (double tap to add text anywhere)
• Select, move, rotate and scale proportionately.
• Change shape size, colors, opacity and other properties.
• 50+ Fonts, font size, font colors and font alignment.
• 8 Different connection types with adjustable radius
• Bring To Front / Send To back / Lock Shapes
• Undo & Redo
• Zoom and Pan your working note.
• Keep an organizer desktop with your documents.
• VGA Output for presentations.
• Supports AirPrint, Box.Net, Dropbox, iTunes.
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Article By ruben
Ruben Berenguel is finishing his PhD in Mathematics while writing in mostlymaths.net about being a 'geek of all trades'. He also happens to be the senior editor in the What's on iPhone network: any complaints go to him!
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