Mockup - Sketch UI & UX 4+

This is the best app for UX designers, UI designers, PMs, small business owners, etc.

I have tried Procreate, Invision Freehand, (will try Figma Whiteboard which was in beta last I saw months ago), and others but it is always something: no Apple Pencil support, buggy / laggy, only works if using the parent SaaS, dev abandoned the project, no structure like projects, folders, linked canvases, or a combination of these.

There is nothing like this app for iPad plus it has a Mac App and iPhone app. Buy it, support the dev(s).

Mr. Hassan Kassel,

I sense there is huge potential to market this to UX designers, LO-FI tool for UI designers, and as a general "must have" for anyone interested in mocking up a design fluidly and quickly with projects, folders, and prebuilt canvases.

I’ve subscribed to support development but I truly fear that you will stop developing this project eventually pushing out updates every so often throughout the year until it is abandoned due to not enough revenue or the rise of another passion project, if you will.

Please let me know if we can collaborate and I can plug this app into my University where I am a student with tons of other students and teachers at an international scale.

Secondly, I’m a program instructor for my platform, and this is something I’d love to highlight in my courses.

I’ll do my best to support if I with your commitment. Please let me know and I can email you.

First off, we want to thank you for this review!! We're very pleased that your experience with Mockup has been top notch. More so, thank you for this support and for taking a moment to recommend us to others!
So far we're committed to our app and we have long term vision to its course and its purpose. But we'd be happy to converse. You can reach us over contact@getmockup.app .

There are plenty of great sketching apps out there but Mockup has earned its place as my go-to for UX ideation. It’s simple and fast because it does away with all the unnecessary clutter - just what I need for putting early design concepts together.

A couple of small thoughts (none of them dealbreakers):
- sync can sometimes still be a bit off when using across multiple devices
- three finger swipe down to hide canvases is way too hard to get right. Perhaps consider changing the gesture or allowing gestures to be user configured (and/or add an option to contextual menu)
- wish there was an easy way (a mode?) to move canvases around. Sometimes I get deep into a project and realize I need to reorganize things a bit
- drag to the edge to create new canvases is handy, but actually I wish when I dragged to the edge I just saw a bunch of ‘+’ buttons so I can create only specific canvases (ie creates a row/column but other canvases are hidden). Note this might not be a big deal if it was easier to hide canvases
- elements library is great but it should allow me to drag and position things before releasing them on canvas. Also I think it would feel more natural to position objects by center point instead of top left
- might want to consider reusing the existing selection tool to define elements rather than using a second selection tool just for elements which is rectangular only

Keep up the great work Hasan!

Thank you very much for your review! Really glad to hear that.

Some of them are already planned for future updates like sync, and gestures.
Few others can’t be implemented now due to system limitations (like using the same selection tool for elements).
I have to experiment to see what’s possible with the rest. Really useful notes, thank you again!

Copy and paste would be good so that you can copy from one file to another. Why? Because sometimes - or all of the time - you don't want to be redrawing an app and recreating things every time you have a new project for the same application. The elements feature looks like it is meant to solve this removal of copy/paste BUT the catch is that once you add an "element" that you've created from another file, you cannot edit it at all - no option to delete or iterate the element for your new use case. This is a huge pain point.

Anothe note: How does one move the toolbar on the left hand side? I've had friends try to do it as well, so I know that it's not just me...

Something else that would be great would be great is adjustable phone screens - lengthwise. Pages don't end at the bottom of the physical phone. I have been using the blank canvas for nearly every project due to this issue of fixed phone templates.

I like that you've added resizing of items...that definitely helps A LOT!

I don't want to criticize constantly but I think from a UX standpoint, it's really important to create a good basic MVP...you were on the right track but it feels liks features and "community" have taken over and a lot of basics are being overlooked. How can the workflow be easy and seamless? This is a sketching tool - from my perspecitive - and it was Almost perfect before recent updates. It seems like it's trying to get too big and be something more.

Thank you for this detailed and candid review!! It is highly considered.
Regarding the tool picker's position as well as the color palette's : turn on the option found in "view preferences", on the sidebar, to place them on the right.
We'd like to bring to your attention that the elements can be edited, but first they must be "ungrouped."
With respect to the copy/paste option you mentioned and suggested in your review, we'll take that into consideration and add it to our agenda.