MediBang Pro：Paint・Art・Create 4+

Good, but needs some Fixes

Medibang Pro has the potential to be a great drawing app, but as it stands it’s really just worse, but ad free version of the original medibang.

It’s been about a month since my free trial ran out so my review is from my first impressions:

Some Pros compared to the original: The effects options are great and there’s lots of new textures. The interface is a lot like procreate but it has features for fill and selection that procreate desperately needs. The new brushes are also nice. Otherwise, pretty much all of the features from the old medibang. However, there are some that are missing.

The cons:
1. Tools often close themselves when selecting other tools. For example, the selection tool will stop selecting if trying to switch to the layers to turn on another layer. You cannot have both open at the same time. Very annoying for complex selections that need layers turned on and off. You can do this in medibang no problem. Same thing with the other tools, (ruler/guides, shapes, etc) meaning you have to constantly turn them back on when switching layers. If I also remember correctly from using it, you can’t undo individual selections without releasing the entire canvas, though you may have been able to get around this with undo gestures turned on.

2. The comic panel tool. Given medibang is very much a manga creation app, you’d expect this to be a big selling point if they want their users to move. However, I can’t seem to figure out how to customize the shape of any panels beyond what’s drawn in. Maybe the tool exists but because of limited documentation, I can’t find it.

3. Custom brushes. Don’t know if this exists, couldn’t find any way to do it.

4. Moving text is very annoying and requires you to select the text on the panel instead of the layer. Because editing the text also requires you to select the text on the page, sometimes you’ll try to move it and it will open the options. The original text interface in medibang is far easier to use.

There may be some problems I’m forgetting but those are the big ones that stood out to me.

As it stands, I cannot recommend this app over the original medibang despite how annoying the subscription service ads are. Until Medibang pro is at the very least up to the standard of the original, it’s really not worth the switch however I find it, overall, better than other drawing apps I’ve used. I’d give it 3.5/5 stars.

Feature it should add, or expand on.

The transform tool makes things a little grainy. Pin light, and glow add would be nice blending modes to add. The blending modes are a little desaturated and don't work as well as they do on other apps. Colour history would be nice, maybe a complementary colour system like procreate could expand it, but some people might just call that copying. Adding a material to the canvas should create a new layer. Adding a better brush editor would make you app more accessible to more people, also add a new side to the community that uses the app.

I love the way the brushes feel, I also like the UI. This program is pretty good right now, but doesn't have a lot of things to put it against other apps, this has so much potential, and the recommendations above are somethings you could add to make it better.

Réponse du développeur ,

Hi MediBang Pro User, we appreciate the feedback! We have made improvement to the transformation tool, and keeping the Finishing on Sharp (Bicubic) should prevent any graininess. We'll keep working hard on improving our app, and thanks again for the review -The MediBang Pro Team

please fix

there is a bug where when you click the color pallete section it locks you out of all other sections and crashes the app, upon re opening the app it does not default back to color wheel causing the app to crash again and again due to the square color pallate please fix it!!