Think, plan & create – Concepts is a flexible vector-based sketchbook where you can take your ideas from concept to reality.
Concepts reimagines the ideation process – offering a safe and dynamic workspace to iterate and explore your ideas, organize your thoughts, and experiment with designs.
With our infinite canvas, you can:
• Sketch plans and whiteboard ideas
• Make notes, doodles, and mindmaps
• Draw storyboards, product sketches and designs
Concepts is vector-based, making every stroke editable and scalable. With our Nudge, Slice and Select tools, you can easily change any element of your sketch without redrawing it.
Talented creators at Disney, Playstation, Philips, HP, Apple, Google, Unity and Illumination Entertainment use Concepts to develop and realize extraordinary ideas. Join us!
Concepts has:
• An infinite canvas with optional paper types and grids
• Realistic pens, pencils and brushes that flow with pressure, tilt and velocity or create your own
• A tool wheel or bar you can personalize
• HSL, RGB and COPIC color wheels
• Editable vector-based sketching – move, organize and edit the tool, color, size, scale, smoothing, opacity; transform or nudge lines to shape them
• Unlimited layers
• Scale and measurement tools that calculate real-world dimensions
With Concepts, you can:
• Drag + drop images + PDF files
• Create, store and share vector Object libraries
• Export images, vector SVG + PDFs to scale for printing or efficient flow between apps (including Procreate, Sketchbook, AutoCAD and Adobe)
• Share directly to email, text, Files, cloud, photos, or your favorite social apps and present with AirPlay or a second screen
• Store your work safely in your personal iCloud Drive
FREE FEATURES
• Infinite canvas
• A selection of paper, grid types & tools to get you started
• The full COPIC color spectrum, RGB and HSL color wheels
• Five layers
• Unlimited drawings
• JPG exports
PAID FEATURES
Subscription:
• 200+ brush and Object libraries, features, and services
• Enjoy Team Sharing for smooth collaboration, including live-sharing of object libraries, color palettes & brushes, with new updates arriving all the time
• Unlocks everything across platforms
• TRY PREMIUM FREE FOR 7 DAYS
One-time-purchases:
• Buy the Essentials for life and unlock selection & editing tools, infinite layers, shape guides, custom brushes, custom grids, and exports to PNG / PSD / SVG / DXF.
• Pay for advanced features as you need them – object packs, professional brushes & PDF workflows are sold separately
• Limited to the platform you purchase on
Terms & Conditions:
• Monthly and yearly subscription payments are charged to your iTunes account at the time of purchase.
• Your plan will renew automatically at the end of the billing period unless canceled 24 hours before the billing period ends.
• You can cancel or make changes to your subscription at any time in your iTunes Account settings.
• Unused portions of any free trial period are forfeited if you make changes to your subscription.
We’re dedicated to quality and update frequently based on your feedback. Your experience matters to us. Chat with us in-app via Ask Us Anything, email us at concepts@tophatch.com, or find us anywhere with @ConceptsApp.
COPIC is the trademark of Too Corporation. Many thanks to Lasse Pekkala and Osama Elfar for the cover art!
Virtually limitless in its potential, Concepts is the perfect home for ideas big and small. Its infinite canvas is as capable for doodling as it is for diagramming, and support for layers and custom objects can transform a basic brainstorm into a detailed document.
Amazing app, one request on new update?
SketcherX
Concepts team, I am constantly stunned at how you just keep making this app better and better. It literally qualifies under “such a joy to use that it actually inspires me to want to go into it, and make things.” THANK YOU. I do have one request in regards to the newest update, which is amazing: when I pull a drawing into a different “section”, I cannot pull that drawing out of that “section,“ (and then it is stuck there), and put it into a different section, the way you used to be able to grab any drawing/file and just hold to the left or right, and it would go into the differently swiped section when they were on separate pages.It would be oh, so nice if I could take a drawing from any group, from any section, hold, and drag it up to “on this iPad,” and place it into a different section, or perhaps, long, pressing a drawing/file, and within that little drop-down menu, not unlike, say, Goodnotes, they would also be the word “move,” aside from just copy, allowing you to move it anywhere you..Or is there a way to do this and I am somehow missing it?Thank you again so much, I hope you are able to respond to this question, is the only thing that has been hanging me up just a little bit with the new update, but it is otherwise, so absolutely amazing. It is usurping Procreate for me in my professional capacity in many ways, particularly on the creative process flow, to be sure.
Great app for productivity
Rowills
I have been using this app religiously for the last 6 months while I have been in my masters program. It has been really useful to import slides from lectures and have such a large space to work, take notes, make shapes (actually just anatomy drawings that I store in there to use in different drawing pages) etc. There are only 3 things that I can criticize about the app. 1. Probably the most annoying issue I have dealt with is that you need to import slides one by one. Typically this isn’t a big deal but in a time crunch it can take away from study time just to import them all. 2. While I am actively using a drawing I like to keep the grid on and once that unit is complete I turn the grid off. There is something satisfying about it I can’t explain but lately when I do this it crashes the app and whatever changes I made to the drawing just before turning off the grid gets wiped. 3. Probably the most unreasonable gripe I have is that there is a cap on how much you can use one drawing. I totally get that this is due to the vectors and technological constraints. I am aware there are workarounds but I would rather just adjust how I use it than go down that rabbit hole. Overall it has been a great app that makes studying enjoyable and generally very easy. If there could be a way to import an entire pdf at once that would be awesome and if the grid issue could be fixed that would save some of my sanity.
This app can represent my brain
YourLocalIndigo
Concepts is the app that i have been looking for my whole life. A simple, modern, feature rich, and clean notetaking and drawing app. It’s been a struggle my whole life taking notes just because i would always run out of room, or i write everything in an un-organized way and realize later that i need to reorder everything to make it make sense. As an engineering student, the graph and snap function is literally my biggest lifesaver AND IT HAS ISOMETRIC!! If you’ve ever looked online for isometric graph notebooks you’ll find that all the options are subpar. Not only does this solve that issue, it gives you an infinite sheet of it. I only have a few requests and this app would be the most perfect thing to exist. 1. Please implement syncing between windows and iPadOS. Even if it’s just allowing me to export and import a file between systems manually, it would be so useful. I came from windows and bought an iPad specifically for concepts. 2. Please allow me to either double tap or squeeze my apple pencil pro to undo a stroke. It’s kind of a niche but it’s something i became super used to and am really missing on iPad. And finally 3. I don’t know if it’s even within the reign of possibility’s but if you could somehow integrate the math functions from the Apple notes app into Concepts, it would probably break the market. In all, even if you can’t grant any of my requests, i still thank you. You have honestly changed my life with this app and i don’t think i could ever be more grateful.
Developer Response
Hello, thank you so much for your amazing feedback! We truly appreciate it. 1. At the moment, Concepts uses two separate native file types across the platforms: .concept (for iOS) and .concepts (for Windows and Android). You can transfer native files between Concepts for Windows and Concepts for Android, but native files created in iOS cannot be transferred to the other platforms. We are working to bring full parity across platforms, so look out for future updates. 2. From Apple's Developer Guidelines (and why we don't have Undo available for double-tap)... Avoid using the double-tap gesture to perform an action that modifies content. In rare cases, it’s possible for people to double-tap accidentally, which means that they may not even be aware that your app has performed the action. Prefer using double tap to perform actions that are easy for people to undo. In particular, avoid using double tap to perform a potentially destructive action that might result in data loss. I have passed no.3 on to our development team for consideration in a future update. Have a good one!
6.32 - Hover Improvements
This release improves the hover preview experience when using a trackpad or mouse.
Read more at https://concepts.app/ios/roadmap. If you appreciate what we’re doing, send us feedback or leave a review!
Version 6.32
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Information
Seller
TopHatch, Inc.
Size
234.7 MB
Category
Graphics & Design
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Languages
English and 11 more
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