ArtPose Pro 12+

This app controls like a**, but it has probably the most detailed and true-to-form models I’ve seen in a poser app to date. The form of the models and muscle definition is solid and provide a good reference for drawing. You cannot pose the fingers besides a few presets, and the figure variety only ranges from “skinny muscled” to “jacked muscled”, so probably not the best app if you’re looking to draw heavier set or less strong people. You can also only add two models in a scene at a time. I do like the app, though. Good for thumbnails and mockups.

I was a little sceptical after reading the other reviews but honestly I’m pleasantly surprised with this app. The UI does take a minute to understand but once you’ve had a play around it becomes fairly easy to navigate, however I would suggest maybe adding an option for tooltips or a tutorial for new users instead of the help section, and actual categories for the preset poses ie sitting, standing, etc would be good. Posing the figures does seem a little challenging at first but once you understand how it operates it becomes pretty simple to use, again though an actual tutorial would go a long way.

Overall it’s a good app, I especially like the way the biceps act as they should, hopefully you can add the same functionality to the rest of the muscles. The ability to save poses is great though it would be good if it also saved the camera position.
The only other things I would like to see is more body shape options, maybe a second slider for fat? And posable hands however I can understand the decision to forgo that and the preset hands work fine anyway.

As others have mentioned, the models are incredibly awkward to pose. The pre-posed figures are good but ultimately unusable due to very poor navigation.

There are a lot of good poses but it’s almost impossible to find the poses you want. They’re not labelled and there’s no catagorisation so finding any specific pose is incredibly inefficient. It really needs either categories, search functionality or, ideally, both.

This app has a lot of potential. It could be an absolute gamechanger but in it’s current form it’s not worth your time. I’d love to see this change some day soon.